Josh Hawley is many things, and many of the adjectives I could use to describe him would leave me in violation of the AUP. But he isn't stupid. And that makes his post all the more despicable. He's well aware of what he's saying. And well aware of what Simon & Schuster's decision is or isn't in relation to the 1st Amendment. But he's a very clever, political animal. And he's playing to his base. It's like waving a bucket of fresh fish in front of a group of seals at the zoo.
In other news...
I should probably post this in the conspiracy thread as right now it remains a series of loosely connected dots and stories that are starting to form a picture. But I suspect by the weekend we’ll know more and if there really is something to all of this...
Let’s start here:
That off-duty police officers or members of the military took part in right wing protests is not hard to believe. But then there’s this...
https://www.latimes.com/world-natio...riticizes-cooperation-from-pentagon?_amp=true
Biden‘s transition team claims they were not getting cooperation from the Pentagon since mid December. And why? Might it have something to do with this?
https://apnews.com/article/election...s-mark-esper-58adf1d272afe333562c54daba541e84
There are some pretty clear allegations in this article that Trump tried to purge people in positions of power at the Pentagon and put his own loyalists in those positions, effectively meaning that certain information would have to go through Trump’s people.
And then we get here...
https://www.businessinsider.com/pen...esponse-to-insurrection-attempt-report-2021-1
and even here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...b-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html?outputType=amp
I realize the word coup has been used very liberally in the press over actions Trump has taken. But if we really find out that much of these Q anon conspiracy theories were purposely directed propaganda trying to wind up the masses, there could be a very clear case that what happened in Washington was indeed an attempted coup by the President using his mass of deluded followers with many insiders in the mix. Put together, the series of articles indicate:
- Trump put a series of loyalists in positions of power at the Pentagon shortly after he lost the election and his attempts at overthrowing the election in court weren’t going well.
- those officials, possibly, disrupted the transition team from passing any information over to Biden as to what was going on.
- Those same officials at the Pentagon stopped additional forces coming to aid and from turning away protesters from storming the capital.
What I’m not sure, even if all of this is true, it’s what they were truly hoping to accomplish? Taking members of Congress or the Senate prisoner? Forcing them to count ballots in their favor? How could they ever have hoped to legitimize such an action? So I’m not completely convinced that all of this really is connected. However, as incompetent as Trump is and as half-baked as most of his ideas are, perhaps this really was his plan and his line of reasoning simply stopped there. Perhaps there was more that he was trying to put in place and just couldn't.
That so many in positions of power are now abandoning him like rats from a sinking ship leads me to believe that they themselves are putting this together and realizing just how serious this was.
