Federal prosecutors are considering felony murder charges for many of the terrorist attackers. It's typically used for violent gangs who murder people where all gang members even if they didn't themselves murder someone are charged as murderers. It's serious. A guy on death row was just executed for it. https://wtop.com/dc/2021/01/prosecu...murder-for-rioters-in-capitol-officers-death/
During is divorce case, Alex Jones basically admitted in court that he's not crazy. He plays a character that entertains crazy people. I feel like that is an accurate portrayal of the entire alt-right. Fox News, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder they don't really believe in anything, but they make millions riling up crazies that do. I wonder if there will be real consequences or they will all just double down since it's so profitable.
I think that's been obvious to anyone with a functioning brain for awhile now. They give subtle hints all the time that they don't really believe in it and that it's just a grift to get money from crazy people. I think most of these people are going to find that no respectable company will give them a platform after what happened. Alex Jones had already been deplatformed. I think once this Trump/White Nationalist/alt-right/QAnon/whatever (basically Nazi) stuff is off of mainstream platforms like Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook, it will lose a lot of its ability to radicalize otherwise sane, normal people. That it was on the same platforms that people use to share photos of their kids and dogs with grandma was a big part of why this got so out of hand. Most people aren't that resistant to indoctrination and brainwashing. And I think once they're no longer being bombarded with it they will just forget about it. People don't usually follow this stuff to the fringes of the internet.
Fox News needs to get deplatformed next. They played a massive role in inciting this attack, spreading deranged conspiracy theories, and radicalizing MAGA cultists. I think the best way to do that is for cable and satellite networks to drop them. Of course that won't ever happen. Racist old people whose brains have turned to mush from too much Fox News are some of the only people still paying for cable or satellite tv.
The time has come. Will Lord Sidious successfully execute Order 66 and establish the Empire, or will the Jedi Order rescue the Republic?
It looks more like massive tech corporations are going to be executing some sort of plan. They've become way too powerful and are probably enjoying the distraction of throwing out the Orange Man while they "keep us safe" from hurtful words and hold a massive amount of control of the communications of the country without any loyalty to anything but profit.
They're doing what's popular, which is what they have always done. If they cared about preventing people from getting radicalized they would have dumped extremist stuff from their platforms years ago. Trump made them a lot of money, but now he's too dangerous and a potential liability to them so he's gone.
Ironically if twitter banned trump last January he’d probably have won re-election lol. The tech sector is a problem. They are leaving a trail of collateral damage in many different industries because they operate at a loss without anyone batting an eye. I don’t know what the solution is but I do know the incompetent govt won’t be able to solve it.
I'm very impressed with the level of brainwashing of the MAGA cultists who attacked the Capitol. Those were some seriously washed brains. Brains that have been on the sanitize setting. Fox News, right wing pundits, and conspiracy theory nuts have gotten brainwashing down to a science where they can get a brain squeaky clean with no capacity for independent thought. These people were so brainwashed they thought they could just attack the US government without any consequences. I think even Charles Manson or Jim Jones would be impressed. And they had that dead look in their eyes. Like zombies.
Yeah and I don't buy that argument at all. The Fox News audience takes what they say 100% literally and seriously. The delivery is serious. There's nothing to suggest it's satire. The pundits are disingenuous as fuck, and probably don't even believe 95% of the shit they say. But that's not the same thing as satire. Just opportunists preying on gullible people for money.
He's super devious and is definitely using this as an opportunity to take back control of the party. I think secretly a lot of Republicans felt like Trump hijacked their party but went along with it while it was popular. After the Capitol attack only the most deranged MAGA nuts still support Trump. If it gets Trump out of office whatever. Trump is dangerous and needs to be removed as soon as possible. It's looking like there could be a violent showdown between the MAGA cultists and the National Guard. I'd stay away from DC or any state capitals for awhile. The NG will win of course, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that if it goes down.
Trump is now part of an elite club that consists of just him of presidents who have been impeached twice
He's also the only president in almost 200 years with no pets. Something is wrong with a person when even dogs and cats think they suck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets
He really is the worst ever. Lost popular vote twice. Impeached twice. Lost House and Senate in one term. Elected to only one term. Terrible judiciary track record. Incited insurrection against the government he leads. Banned from all relevant media platforms. Never built a wall. Never banned tiktok. He’s not a president, he is a Twitter account.
He also sickened and killed massive numbers of people by lying about a pandemic and holding huge maskless rallies where he even got sick himself Our first internet troll president ended about as well as you would expect.
Rudy isn't even going to get paid. lol https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-legal-fees-white-house/index.html You become a lawyer for a guy with terrible credit who doesn't pay his bills what do you think is going to happen?