Right Wing Extremism
No Big, FBI Just Worried About ‘Insider Attack’ During Biden Inauguration
Let’s just Zoom this shit, please.
January 18, 2021 10:07 AM
We are two days away from the end of Donald Trump's presidency. Now we just need to make sure Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stay alive. According to the Associated Press, US defense officials are concerned that MAGA goons might've infiltrated Biden's inauguration. Yes, they're actually worried about an “insider attack" against the president-elect from servicemembers assigned to secure the event. The FBI is in the process of vetting all 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington. That doesn't seem like a lot of time. Sarah Palin had a lengthier vetting process and we saw how that turned out.
This does not look like a party or a peaceful transition. It stands out as more than just petty now that the outgoing president won't attend his successor's inauguration for the first time since 1869. Trump's just been impeached for raising a lynch mob against Congress and his own vice president. Leaving Washington DC early Wednesday morning seems to draw a big honking target on the event, which should really be virtual for the safety of all involved. The situation calls for a nice, comfy bunny slippers inauguration from secure locations.
It only takes one Trump true believer to make a tragedy.
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</p><p>Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy revealed on Sunday that his team is aware of the potential threat, but there's no evidence so far of any issues. That's still not reassuring. <br></p><blockquote>"We're continually going through the process, and taking second, third looks at every one of the individuals assigned to this operation," McCarthy said in an interview after he and other military leaders went through an exhaustive, three-hour security drill in preparation for Wednesday's inauguration. He said Guard members are also getting training on how to identify potential insider threats.</blockquote><p>Presumably, the vetting process is more extensive than seeing who responds positively to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD6S2_KV2vw" target="_blank">“Hail, Hydra."</a> </p><p>How did we get to this point? No one was seriously worried about al Qaeda sympathizers infiltrating George W. Bush's second inauguration in 2004. Now we're on high alert for servicemembers who were radicalized by QAnon or just maybe by watching too much Tucker Carlson. This is all on Trump.</p><p>Not all of the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol were <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/eric-munchel-capitol-rioter-zip-ties-his-mother-charged-conspiracy-1562175" target="_blank">losers bonding with their equally disturbed mothers.</a> There were also <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-15/capitol-riot-police-veterans-extremists" target="_blank">ex-members of the military and police</a> and way too many active employees of the armed services and law enforcement. </p><p>The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-15/capitol-riot-police-veterans-extremists" target="_blank">reports:</a></p><blockquote>"It's an incredibly disturbing trend," retired U.S. Army Col. Jeffrey D. McCausland, a professor of national security at Dickinson College and former dean at the U.S. Army War College, said in an interview. "These are people who are supposed to uphold the Constitution and the law, yet they were doing the exact opposite.</blockquote><p>McCarthy points out that while servicemembers from all branches of the military were at the January 6 rally, they don't know how many in total attended or actually breached the Capitol. That's a lot of uncertainty. This also wasn't simply a conservative cookout. The so-called <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/sponsors-of-the-pre-attack-rally-have-taken-down-their-websites-dont-forget-who-they-were/" target="_blank">“Save America Rally,"</a> also known as “Stop the Steal," promoted the fascist Big Lie that Trump's "landslide" election victory was stolen from him. </p><p>The existing threat against Biden's inauguration includes devoted Trump supporters, far-right militants, white supremacists and other radical groups. This Venn diagram appears to look a lot like a circle.</p><p>Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, is meeting with troops as they arrive in DC.</p><blockquote>"If there's any indication that any of our soldiers or airmen are expressing things that are extremist views, it's either handed over to law enforcement or dealt with the chain of command immediately," he said.</blockquote><p>The normal FBI vetting process involves running names through databases and watchlists, but it's not clear if affiliation with QAnon or MAGA in general would raise flags. It might seem extreme to exclude Trump supporters, but very few <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/09/944685514/most-americans-believe-the-election-results-some-dont" target="_blank">trust</a> the election results. Assuming they'd do their best to defend an incoming president they believe is illegitimate is asking a lot of their ability to compartmentalize. Personally, the best bet is to just recruit a few thousand Black aunts with switches and call it good. We know they won't let anything happen to Joe and Kamala.</p><p>[<a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-inauguration-joe-biden-capitol-siege-ap-top-news-857bacc273e16ff82dc9fefed1242ae8" target="_blank">Associated Press</a>]<br></p><p>Follow Stephen Robinson on <em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and supported entirely by reader donations. Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p>
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Pillow Salesman Invited To White House To Advise President On Enacting Martial Law
Can't wait for this to be an abnormal thing again.
January 16, 2021 11:30 AM
In January of 897 C.E., Pope Stephen VI had the corpse of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, dug up and put on trial. Because the corpse could not speak, Pope Steve sat him on a throne but had a deacon stand behind him, throw his voice and admit to doing all of the crimes and to not even really being a legit pope. As punishment, Pope Formosus's blessing fingers were chopped off and he was thrown into the Tiber, which probably didn't bother him much given that he had been dead for seven months.
There was once a time when we could look at stories like this from the past and go "Wow, that is totally bonkers, can you believe something like that actually happened?"
No more! Not really. Because a freaking pillow salesmen was photographed yesterday walking into the White House to share his plan on how to go about enacting martial law.
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<p>Here is a transcript of the readable parts notes he was carrying with him.</p><blockquote>… BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE THE<br>...THE CONSTITUTION<br>...Colon NOW as Acting National Security<br>...him with getting the evidence of ALL the<br>...in the election and all information regarding<br>...using people he knows who already have security<br>...done massive research on these issues<br>...at Fort Mead [sic]. He is an attorney with cyber-<br>...expertise and is up to speed on election issues<br>....Insurrection Act <em>now</em> as a result of the assault on the<br>...martial law if necessary upon the first hint of any[STRIKETHROUGH]<br>...Sidney Powell, Bill Olsen, Kurt Olsen,<br>...DOD. Move Kash Patel to CIA Acting<br>....on Foreign Interference in the election. Trigger<br>...powers. Make clear this is China/Iran<br>...also used domestic actors. Instruct Frank<br>...evidence on<br>...the more broad<br>...likely amount<br>......line<br>...evidence<br></blockquote><p>What we can get from this is that Lindell wants to install Frank Colon, an attorney with experience in cybersecurity issues based out of Fort Meade, as acting head of National Security, so that he can gather all of the evidence. This has come as <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/frank-colon-who-mike-lindell-wants-for-a-coup-is-confused.html" target="_blank">quite a surprise to Frank Colon</a> himself. Then he wants Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare Martial Law at the first hint of something, we don't know, but it's probably not good. Somehow, Sidney Powell is supposed to be involved with all of this, as well as Bill Olsen and Kurt Olsen — who are reportedly attorneys that have been involved in efforts to undermine the election. </p><p>Honestly at this point I am surprised that this plan did not also involve Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as well. </p><p>The next step is installing Kash Patel as CIA Acting Director. Curiously, Patel had also been mentioned by right-wing activist James Sullivan in a text that Rudy Giuliani shared on Friday morning, part of which read "I'll see what I can do with Kash."</p><p><br></p>
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<p>The final part of the notes suggest that Trump needs to claim foreign interference in the election from China/Iran. In 2018, Trump <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-signs-order-impose-sanctions-election-interference/story?id=57770888" target="_blank">signed an executive order</a> that would allow him to impose sanctions on other countries for interfering with our elections, and it is possible that Lindell is looking to use this somehow to keep Trump in office — a thing he has been promising his Facebook followers would happen. </p><p>A pillow salesman, who smoked crack for about thirty years and thus probably has a <em>significant</em> amount of brain damage, was invited to the White House to share his thoughts and ideas about how to keep an unelected despot in power for the next four years (or for life). That is, frankly, no less weird than putting a corpse on trial and sentencing it to death by drowning. It is in the exact same ballpark as that. </p><p>We've got four days left until that kind of thing becomes absurd again — and it can't come too soon. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/15/pillow-salesman-apparently-has-some-ideas-about-declaring-martial-law/" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Wonkette is independent and fully funded by readers like you. Click below to tip us!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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QAnon Shaman Was Just Following Orders, He Can Have Pardon?
The banality of ... treason?
January 15, 2021 11:55 AM
This past Saturday, Jacob Anthony Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, aka the QAnon Shaman, was taken into police custody and charged with "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds." Since then, he briefly went on a hunger strike demanding to be fed organic food, which his mother claims he will be physically ill without — though it has not been specified if this is a religious or physical requirement. Despite reports to the contrary, Chansley has not, in fact, been granted an "organic diet."
Chansley's lawyer, Albert Watkins, is now pushing the line that either the charges against him should be dropped or that Trump should pardon him, because of how he was just following orders.
Capitol riot suspect Jacob Chansley, known as the "Qanon shaman," is asking for a pardon from President Trump, sayi… https://t.co/VIDKVI18Dp— Cuomo Prime Time (@Cuomo Prime Time)1610679170.0
In an interview with Chris Cuomo on CNN last night, Watkins explained that Chansley basically worshiped Trump and listened to everything he said and therefore, when Trump told them to go down to the Capitol, he thought doing that was totally fine.
<p>Via <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/15/attorney-qanon-shaman-trump-pardon-459608" target="_blank">Politico:</a></p><blockquote>Watkins, Chansley's attorney, said on Thursday that his client, "like a lot of other disenfranchised people in our country, felt very, very, very solidly in sync" with the president — suggesting Chansley was incited to storm the Capitol in Trump's name.<br><br>"He felt like his voice was, for the first time, being heard," Watkins said. "And what ended up happening, over the course of the lead-up to the election, over the course of the period from the election to Jan. 6 — it was a driving force by a man he hung his hat on, he hitched his wagon to. He loved Trump. Every word, he listens to him."</blockquote><p>Cuomo seemed skeptical that Chansley or anyone else would actually believe the things Trump said and take him at his word, but I think it's beyond clear that a whole lot of people did just that. They absolutely believed every single thing Trump said and thought that everyone <em>but</em> him was lying. And like I've mentioned 87,000 times before ... these people have <em>also</em> been told, repeatedly, for decades, that the Second Amendment gives them the <em>right</em> to overthrow the government if things don't go their way. This is not a defense of these people or their actions, but the fact is, there are consequences to telling people that, just like there are consequences to electing someone like Trump. </p><p>There are people who knew better, who knew he was full of shit, who voted for him anyway just because they really hated Mexican people or women. There are people who know that people who try to assassinate world leaders or overthrow the government will end up in prison, but tell people that it's totally fine and okay for them to do that so long as they are "patriots" — because there is a <em>lot</em> of money in telling those people that. </p><p>Trump is absolutely responsible for all of this. He incited it. He knew those people would do anything for him and they did. It is very possible that, because of that, many of them truly didn't think they were doing anything criminal. That doesn't mean it was actually legal. </p><p>This is not the first time a defense attorney has tried the "Trump made me do it" defense. MAGA bomber <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/looks-like-bomb-thing-suspect-is-trump-maga-idiot-of-our-dreams" target="_blank">Cesar Sayoc's</a> lawyers tried the same thing — and the judge did buy it. A little. He reduced his sentence from 50 years to 20 as a result. Lawyers for Patrick Stein, who was arrested and convicted of a conspiracy to bomb Somali immigrants, argued that he had <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/lawyers-argue-militia-dude-only-following-trumps-orders-to-blow-up-muslims" target="_blank">sincerely believed Trump</a> when he said that the immigrants were all terrorists and rapists.</p><p>As ridiculous as it seems to believe anything Trump says, it's naïve to assume that no one will. This was one of the dangers of his presidency to begin with, one of the things people warned about — that people would believe him and act on his incendiary lies. It's almost surprising that it wasn't worse than this. </p><p>Watkins admitted that a pardon was likely, but that as Chanley's attorney, it was his job to give it a shot. </p><blockquote>Watkins acknowledged, however, that his plea was unlikely to succeed. "Am I holding my breath thinking that Donald Trump is going to be sitting around going, 'You know what? … What's the name of that guy with the horns? Yeah … let's give him a pardon.'"<br><br>But "with Trump, you never know," Watkins said. "He may say, 'I want the guy with the horns.' Next thing you know, maybe he's represented by the shaman instead of Rudy Giuliani."</blockquote><p>He's not wrong there. </p><p>Where he is wrong, however, is in the fact that he describes Chanley as like ... some peaceful, organic food eating, hippie shaman guy, which he's not. You can't really be that person and <em>also</em> be into Donald Trump, QAnon, and storming the Capitol with a giant spear. If you think Donald Trump, shady ass billionaire and professional bigot, is "giving you a voice," if you are marching with dudes wearing "Camp Auschwitz" t-shirts, you are not a freaking flower child. </p><p>Also rather difficult to jibe with "flower child" is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/15/qanon-shaman-trump-kill-pardon/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage" target="_blank">a note Chanley reportedly left</a> on Mike Pence's desk reading "It's only a matter of time, justice is coming," which prosecutors are saying is evidence that he planned on capturing and assassinating government officials. I don't know that one can really read into the mind or intentions of this kind of guy without the assistance of a lot of PCP, but it certainly doesn't sound great. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/15/attorney-qanon-shaman-trump-pardon-459608" target="_blank">Politico</a> | <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/15/qanon-shaman-trump-kill-pardon/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Wonkette is independent and fully funded by readers like you. 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We Need 20,000 National Guard Troops For Trump's 'Peaceful' Transfer Of Power
Because that's about where we are now.
January 14, 2021 02:54 PM
How many deadly invasions of the US Capitol does it take to get Washington officials to take the threat of rightwing terrorism seriously? Just the one, apparently, because the security arrangements for Joe Biden's inauguration next Wednesday will include deployment of more than 20,000 National Guard members to the DC area, including the perfectly normal sight of Guard troops sacked out on rest breaks on the floors of the Capitol itself, while the House of Representatives voted yesterday to impeach Donald Trump a second time.
Rep Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts) called attention to the weird irony during the hearing:
Rep. Moulton, who was decorated for his service in the Iraq War, could probably identify with the Guard troops resting in the Capitol, like any soldiers might when on a mission to protect an endangered US ally. Particularly since Politico and other outlets are reporting that the National Guard members sent to DC received briefings telling them to watch out for improvised explosive devices that might be used by Trumpers in the nation's capital.
Also, we should add that the Guard isn't actual doing a Bel Bivouac Devoe in the Capitol, as the Washington Post helpfully explains:
The guardsmen were resting between shifts, D.C. Guard officials said in a statement, stressing that they were not sleeping on the floor because of a lack of sleeping arrangements. Local hotels are accommodating the service members, officials said.
We suppose the brass decided something had to be done to politely let people know they can stop offering to send cots and yoga mats to the Capitol. Also, coverage of the Guard in DC has been careful to note that virtually all the soldiers are careful to wear masks, which is more than we can say for roughly half the legislators they're supposed to be protecting.
<p>So here we are, following an attempted coup by followers of a defeated "president" who refused to accept that another candidate won the election. The seat of our legislature looks like a government ministry occupied by invaders, or more accurately, by peacekeepers sent to ensure the orderly transition of power under the recent election — and to protect it from heavily armed insurgents. The real invaders were driven off a week ago, but we have to bring in a show of force, to make sure they don't show up again in an improvised war caravan. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><p>What a country! </p><p>This isn't the first time troops have been inside the Capitol; during the Civil War, Union troops were actually using the building, whose dome was still under construction, as a barracks. The sight of those uncouth volunteers <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/13/troops-in-capitol/" target="_blank">shocked </a>some of the more genteel members of the House and Senate. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>The troops back then had discipline problems that sound more like some of the vandalism the Trumpers got up to: </p><blockquote>Emotions ran high. At one point, they boiled over when soldiers discovered the desk of Jefferson Davis, the former Mississippi senator and newly elected president of the Confederacy.<br><br>The men took their bayonets to the wooden workspace of the Southerner, but were stopped by Senate doorkeeper Isaac Bassett, he recalled in his memoir.<br><br>"I ran in among them and told them it was not his desk, that it belonged to the government," he wrote.<br><br>"You were put here to protect, and not to destroy!" he shouted at the troops. "They stopped immediately and said I was right, they thought it belonged to Jefferson Davis."</blockquote><p>Far more civilized than the people looking to lynch Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi. </p><p>Oddly, I'm not especially freaked out by the sight of soldiers in the Capitol, and not simply because I'd rather see actual Guard members there than paramilitaries and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Moroni" target="_blank">Captain Moroni</a> cosplayers, like <a href="https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1349597635733118976" target="_blank">Shartacus here,</a> who think they're part of God's plan: </p><div id="b57b9" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fd42766b725c2dc452c711befb3b0a05"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1349597635733118976" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">How have I not seen this guy before? https://t.co/qlmMMSW4bm</div> — Schooley (@Schooley)<a href="https://twitter.com/Rschooley/statuses/1349597635733118976">1610604125.0</a></blockquote></div><p>I understand the case for unease over all this: America <em>shouldn't </em>be a place where the <em>Guardia Nacional</em> is needed to make sure the election isn't overturned by a bunch of armed thugs. And especially not when those armed thugs have been called to DC by the candidate who refuses to accept the results of the vote. That stuff belongs in Graham Greene novels, not on the cable news. (Also, yes, I recognize just how absurd it is to use terms evoking "banana republics," most of which came into being with the help of US imperialism in the first place.)</p><p>I guess part of my lack of freaking out is the sense that Donald Trump's dreams of becoming a strongman — like his pals Rodrigo Duterte and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — were thwarted, and because there's at least some certainty the National Guard will pick up and go home once Joe Biden is sworn in. </p><p>At least, assuming those IED briefings were only preventative measures, and we don't see something even more horrible than the January 6 invasion happen next Wednesday, or this weekend. The whole idea here is to have plans in place, like road closures and all those National Guard people, to discourage domestic terrorists who were able to waltz right into the Capitol last week. (Those guys are <em>terrible </em>dancers.)</p><p>The <em>Washington Post </em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/01/13/national-guard-inauguration-security/" target="_blank">offers </a>some encouraging evidence that the Trumpistas, for all their talk of coming back to DC to stop Joe Biden from taking office, may be paying attention to the presence of the Guard troops: </p><blockquote>Officials and analysts monitoring online posts and message threads said some far-right groups appeared to be backing down from plans to come to Washington in coming days, at least in part owing to the National Guard and law enforcement presence.</blockquote><p>Some rightwing groups are even using their most potent improvised bullshit rhetoric to warn followers away from DC next week, the <em>Post</em> says, by claiming that "protests planned for Sunday in D.C. and in state capitals are part of a 'false flag' operation meant to lure them into the hands of law enforcement." The <em>Post </em>helpfully adds that that's not really true. </p><p>Still, let's hope that represents some kind of trend, and that the same people who went from bragging about how they were going to defeat communism by overthrowing the election will now think twice, without having to actually face federal charges, or, now, National Guard troops with loaded weapons. And let's hope none of those weapons are needed for anything but being there as a last resort. </p><p>Ultimately, cheesily patriotic though it sounds, I'm also glad the Guard is in Washington because its members are on America's side. Look at <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/01/13/national-guard-inauguration-security/" target="_blank">these </a>fine young Americans! </p><blockquote>Other guardsmen marveled at the decor and munched on pizza delivered by lawmakers. Some Black troops posed for a photo in front of a statue of Rosa Parks in the Capitol Rotunda.</blockquote><p>Just <em>look </em>at them, in <a href="https://twitter.com/ESCochrane/status/1349371666481217544" target="_blank">this photo</a> posted to Twitter by the New York Times's Emily Cochrane.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><p>That's pretty good shorthand for the <em>exact opposite</em> of what last week's traitors wanted.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/13/national-guardsmen-capitol-threats-459002" target="_blank">Politico </a>/ <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/13/troops-in-capitol/" target="_blank">WaPo </a>/ <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/01/13/national-guard-inauguration-security/" target="_blank">WaPo</a>]<br></p><p>Yr Wonkette is supported entirely by reader donations. If you can, please donate $5 to $10 a month so mama can keep the housecar running and charge up the laptop after the wind knocked out all the electricity for miles. Yes, even with solar. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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