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> Show me where exactly in the Eastman memo, the so called "coup plot", it calls for a group of protesters to go into the Capitol?

Really cynical stuff. The Eastman memo was the blueprint on how to actually stop Biden's certification. That was the paperwork, the legal attack. January 6th was the kinetic attack.

Just because both actions were not detailed in the same piece of paper does not mean they weren't both part of a clearly coordinated action (of which the special counsel agreed).

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/images/09/20/eastman.memo.pdf

> You mean the cases that were thrown out by the courts?

Wrong again. His findings were not thrown out. He ended the case himself because he knew Trump would shut him down anyway once back in office.

Look, I get it. This is a narrative that is very important to you. You can't believe that your side are the violent ones or your president is the lawless one. So much of this is a waste of time.

Just know that this is your narrative and it has no connection to reality.

> this sounds like a failure of the legal system, not of the defendant

100%. He found a flaw and exploited it to escape justice, which is different than not being guilty of the crimes he clearly committed.

Yes. Aside from Trump the United States and Europe share overwhelming interests and values. When Trump is gone they should work hard to repair what he has destroyed

I genuinely don't understand why Trump doing whatever Putin says, every time, is not a bigger deal in American politics.

I've never seen one human being own another human being so completely yet it seems to be a complete non-story.

> J6 was some kind of insurrection, but the BLM riots were peaceful protests

I'm not a fan of shameless whataboutisms, but this one is particularly bad. The attempted insurrection on January 6th had nothing to do with Black Lives Matter riots (Funny, you can never say those words. It's always an abbreviation).

It was a premeditated attack on the Capitol at the exact time and place the new president was being certified.

It is the most cut and dry example of an attempted coup this country has seen in decades, and it was organized and executed by the sitting, and current President.

There's no reason for you to try to remake history. Your guy got back into power and made all of his legal problems disappear.

He has not avoided prison because he was somehow not guilty. He avoided prison by overcoming the legal system.

Arguing that it was a poor insurrection attempt does not negate what it was. Arguing that it could have been worse doesn't change the fact that five people died. The unarmed lady was shot climbing through a window you didn't say what window it was the window dividing a violent mob from congress people sheltering in place.

And making excuses for political violence guarantees that there will be more in the future. It should never be tolerated.

> I'm guessing there was not any actual evidence to support even a prosection?

You don't have to guess, there was.

So much so that the special counsel that was shut down when Trump won re-election took the extraordinary step of declaring publicly that he had more than enough evidence to secure conviction of Donald Trump for Jan 6th.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/g-s1-42358/trump-jack-smith-e...

the vast majority of people rooting for this outcome want to see a more powerful china or russia

> To say that Trump isn't trusted by EU intelligence services would be a vast understatement.

Trump isn't trusted by any intelligence service, but seems to only publicly distrust his own ones.

Yes, Americans made the mistake of electing somebody that doesn't believe in stepping down peacefully if he loses an election, among other things.

and burn, bury, and store the remains in the basement.

No it's a summary of repeated pro-Russia statements and actions. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away.

Isn't Netflix pretty good at detecting VPNs at this point?

How were they able to convince anyone that that matters?

> Hell, you can inject ads and surveys if you want!

So am I right in saying that the data that's encrypted by VPNS is only in transit? It then sits on a server in plain text, ready to be queried by third parties for money.

That's a different point than what I'm making.

"I am not left wing or right wing" means you are right wing.

Don't know why, but this is never not accurate.

"If you're everywhere, you're nowhere."

No, he'll just do or say anything for more power and control, which I guess is the same thing. At least for the person at the top of MAGA.

> test near one’s Myers-Briggs type

He's saying that Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis. So if there's another test that does, you wouldn't be able to compare those results anyway.

Yes, mostly to avoid paying taxes on their revenue.

> I said no such thing, I've never claimed the USA carried out the killings of ISIS.

> US killed far more in Iraq, so might be unrelated.

Of course the United States is to blame for the Civil War, but it did not carry out the killings. If you think that's only a rhetorical difference, I don't know what to tell you.

> And apparently, it's wrong to just question if the USA might have culpability for the aftermath of that.

No, but that's a fundamentally different question than answering who was actually fighting and who actually carried out the killings.

A very simple distinction if you care to make it. You don't.

US did not kill those people, a civil war did. Flippantly conflating the two things does not do your argument any good.

The U.S. killed less than 6,000 people in their invasion. What you are referring to is a civil war and a terrible comparison for Israel's ongoing war against Gaza.

It's a tax on people that don't understand math.

I won't bother asking how this is legal because it's clear there are no rules to any of this stuff right now. But it's absolutely insane that as a business you can just take your 20 most unprofitable customers and then just ban them.

Not any more than your average janitor is today.

aka Corruption.

Literally everyone can do what they do. Their superpower has always been inside sales.