TWGB: Fraud and Sedition

 

Photograph of *Roger Stone* on *JANUARY 6th* with Joshua James, who just pled to SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY and obstructing an official proceeding and is facing 7-9 years in prison as part of a full cooperation agreement.

This is going to get quite interesting. pic.twitter.com/5LpeHDLTVY

— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (@SpiroAgnewGhost) March 3, 2022

That's right: a member of the Oath Keepers just copped to seditious conspiracy, and allowed that the intent of the riot that day was to obstruct the official proceedings of Congress in certifying the 2020 election. The information about the Oath Keepers' part in this conspiracy suggests a lot of planned armed violence.  

But in addition to that bit of news, the January 6th committee has determined that John Eastman hasn't any reason to claim attorney/client privilege because he conspired with Trump to defraud the US people by fabricating a fraud to steal an election. Trump was advised he lost, Eastman also understood what the vote meant, but maybe there was a legal strategy to overcome the facts? 

I don't hate lawyers, but this sort of shit is why lawyers get a bad rap, you know. Trying to steal whole elections, Circumventing democracy. Basically undermining the entire jist of our American experiment because some rich dude said it was okay to get funky with your bad theoretical self and imagine facts weren't so. 

The election-theft lie was always specious and kind of stupid: Italian satellites, German servers, Chinese thermostats and Venezuelan voting machines is just conspiracy theory Mad-Libs: references to odd, random fictional data points to have conspiracy theorists play connect-the dots with shit that isn't even part of the same puzzle book, let alone the same page, as the problem of why Trump didn't win. 

But the fucked up COVID-19 response, the unemployment, and the first impeachment really suggest a hobbled candidate who incidentally ran a campaign to stimulate his base and ultimately alienated anyone who might be persuaded to vote for Biden. He fucked up the presidency, he fucked up the 2020 campaign by not actually being a good president, and then he fucked up by trying to steal the election post-facto. It doesn't take a super stable genius to understand how this putz lost without assuming any kind of voter fraud at all. 

He was a Putinist stooge and nothing he did in four damn years made him ok to do another four-year, horrible, society-undermining, US reputation-damaging term. He tried to finagle another term despite the will of the people, and he coopted government lawyers and militias to do his dirty work. I would like to see him criminally punished for trying to subvert the election by fraud, and for working against US interests. I want his policy towards Russia scrutinized very exactingly. 

He committed a fraud on the US, while claiming others defrauded him. He needs a penalty that lets everyone know he stays a loser. He even planned violence to try and secure himself a win against the legal odds. How shameful. How not exactly surprising for such as he, though. 

UPDATE: Just to hammer this one home:

Here’s the smoking gun email, where Eastman actually says to Pence’s lawyer that he’s aware he’s asking Pence to violate the law. “I implore you to consider on more minor violation [of the electoral count act]” pic.twitter.com/1lB1WJdHgN

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) March 3, 2022

Just a wee little tiny bit of breaking the law? It's only one election, right? Like a kid taking a candy bar from a store? Like blowing a stoplight? Like undermining the entirety of our democracy for the sake of...Trump? A person whose faults can be seen from space? What whole can of brainworms does this Eastman guy have going on between his ears?