In the following video David Pakman considers the question: Will August bring us Trump Riots Part 2?
As has been reported by Maggie Haberman Trump has been saying lately that he's going to be "reinstated” in the White House in August. Most of us consider this to be patently ridiculous and impossible under the Constitution but just consider for a moment that Trump doesn't mean or intend for this to happen using Constitutional means. Just consider the possibility that he was dissatisfied with his attempted Insurrection on Jan 6th because it didn't work. I think he thought he had a chance. The votes for Joe Biden were ultimately certified and he was inaugurated as President.
Would it be past Trump to try again? Would he suggest this time that his “soldiers" come fully armed and ready for bear? Could he stage another violent coup targeting the White House and President Biden directly?
First, we have to consider as has a former Harvard Psychiatrist that Trump is a Malignant Narcissist.
Based on Trump's public behavior and other available information, these experts warned that he appears to be a malignant narcissist, a pathological liar who is obsessed with violence, easily manipulated by praise and other ego-stroking behavior, indifferent to the suffering of other human beings, anti-social and anti-human in his values and behavior, irresponsible and impulsive and in total quite likely a sociopath or perhaps a psychopath.
Collectively, these mental health experts predicted that Trump's many apparent pathologies would lead to destruction and suffering for the American people and the world.
They were almost entirely correct: Donald Trump undermined and destabilized American society and democracy. He made negligent and irresponsible choices, bordering on outright sabotage, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. These choices may have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and shortened the average lifespan of the American people by several years. He colluded with a hostile foreign power to subvert a presidential election. He attempted a coup which included an attack by his followers on the U.S. Capitol. He very nearly destroyed the American economy and presided over a regime of profound corruption. He inspired and encouraged right-wing terrorism and other political violence. He leads a political cult. He was impeached twice — which is unprecedented in American history — for his various crimes against the Constitution and the country.
We already know that he will stop at nothing, he would never think anything is stooping too low.
Add onto this that still, even now 6 months later, over 60% of the GOP don't think the 2020 election was "free and fair" and that Trump actually won.
Almost two-thirds of Republicans believe that President Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election, even as more than six-in-ten Americans overall believe he won fair and square, according to a new Monmouth University poll.
The survey, conducted February 25 – March 1, found that 65 percent of Republicans believe that Biden’s win was solely the result of voter fraud. What’s more, 29 percent of Republicans say they will never accept Biden as president.
Since they already believe that Trump is the "legitimate” White House resident all they would need to do, in their minds, is physically remove Biden. [I know, I know - my brain doesn't really do “MAGA" so I'm using supposition.]
How exactly would this work?
Well, once the Arizona #Fraudit essentially declares that they’ve "found" thousand of missing votes for Trump and declared thousands of "Invalid” vote Biden to be fraudulent, this will attempt to sue. They will call for more #Faudits in other states while asking for their suit to be expedited to the Supreme Court.
Naturally, this suit will be rejected as their previous 62 suits were.
That's when they’ll resort to "desperate measures." Armed with the certainty provided by the #Fraudit they will schedule a “protest rally” outside the White House as they did before.
The question will be, how alert will Secret Service, MPD and the National Guard be this time?
Last time there were Intelligence failures. Online warnings went unheaded. A report of potential violence from the FBI remained internal. The National Guard was assigned to traffic duty. MPD was not deployed until hours into the violence. Will Troops and police be deployed surrounding the White House and Capitol pre-emptively?
It remains to be seen especially since the majority of the mob, will still be White.
In Black America, critics contend, largely peaceful demonstrations are aggressively policed, like the clashes BLM protesters had with police in Washington, Minneapolis and Portland last year. At one point in Washington, protesters confronted law enforcement officers whose identification patches and name plates were stripped from their uniforms. In Portland, some BLM demonstrators were arrested on the spot, swept into unmarked vans and whisked to secret detention sites.
In White America, they say, far-right demonstrators seem to face far less law-enforcement muscle, even though some participating groups, like the Proud Boys, have violent reputations and others seem to embrace intimidation as part of their protest strategy.
"No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they would have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol," President-Elect Joe Biden said in a video statement Thursday. "We all know that's true. And it's unacceptable. Totally unacceptable."
Let's assume there will be some police reparation and response at the very least.
Now, the key question. Will the rioters this time be armed with pistols and long guns? Will they bring flashbangs and AR-15s? Will some of them be fully auto? We’ve seen this before during armed protests at various State Capitols and with the double murder by Kyle Rittehouse.
Consider if you will, how much there's been an increase in gun violence this year, particularly by angry anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers?
Data from the Gun Violence Archive shows that the number of multiple-victim shootings first spiked in April 2020 and has stayed high since. The most recent wave of shootings around the country, including the April 15 attack in Indianapolis where eight people were killed at a FedEx facility, is just the latest symptom of that trend.
The deadly pattern has continued this year. There have been 160 shootings from Jan. 1 to April 26 in which four or more people were injured or killed, compared to just over 90 during the same period in 2020. And this year’s total is nearly double the average for the same time period for every year since 2014.
There is no federal definition of a mass shooting. The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group based in Washington, defines it as a shooting incident in which four or more people are injured or killed, excluding the shooter.
But experts say the focus on high-profile mass shootings, in which a shooter opens fire in a crowded public space, has obscured the rise in lower-profile incidents of gun violence, such as interpersonal disputes or domestic violence incidents.
“If we're talking about mass shootings, those tend to be left out because they're seen as private events,” said Lisa Geller, state affairs manager at the nonprofit Coalition to Stop Gun Violence in Washington. “Some of these high-lethality events are inherently random, but if you include some of the events in private spaces, the role of domestic violence in mass shootings is large.”
is it possible that there could be 5, 10, 20 or possibly even 100 heavily armed gunmen in amongst the MAGA crowd? It's happened before.
What happens if it breaks into a shooting battle in the street between police and protestors?
Would the crowd disperse, would they give up as soon as one of them goes down? Or would they double-down and charge?
There's no way to know.
Could some of them scale the White House gate? Could they get on the grounds?
In 2015 a fence jumper breached the grounds of the White House with the Obama's inside.
In 2014 a man jumped the fence and made it inside the White House building.
The man who jumped the White House fence this month and sprinted through the front door made it much farther into the building than previously known, overpowering one Secret Service officer and running through much of the main floor, according to three people familiar with the incident.
An alarm box near the front entrance of the White House designed to alert guards to an intruder had been muted at what officers believed was a request of the usher’s office, said a Secret Service official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The officer posted inside the front door appeared to be delayed in learning that the intruder, Omar Gonzalez, was about to burst through. Officers are trained that, upon learning of an intruder on the grounds — often through the alarm boxes posted around the property — they must immediately lock the front door.
Imagine if there were 50 armed mobsters running across the White House lawn, charging for the door? Would the sharp-shooters on the White House roof get them all?
Would they get the doors locked in time?
Suppose some of them got inside and took a touring group hostage or some of the West wing staff?
Seriously, this could go down as something worse than the Pulse Nightclub massacre. It could be worse than the ISIS attack at the Bataclan club in Paris.
I have serious doubts it could possily get much farther than this. I don't believe for a second that they could actually reach Biden or any of his family. I don't think they could succeed in their efforts.
But they could, potentially, do a hell of a lot of damage. They could kill for more than one or two officers, it could be a bloodbath.
And I don't believe that they, or Trump, would give a shit.
Before this year I would have never assumed that Americans would take up arms against their fellow citizens and the government in a shooting battle. We can no longer afford that assumption.
Monday, Jun 14, 2021 · 8:52:21 PM +00:00
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Frank Vyan Walton
Just for the record the FBI now states the Qanon "digital warriors" just may start taking their battle(s) to the real world.
The FBI says that since many of the predictions disseminated by "Q" have not come to pass, followers may decide that being just "digital soldiers" may no longer suffice and take it upon themselves to carry out acts of violence against "perceived members of the 'cabal' such as Democrats and other political opposition -- instead of continually awaiting Q's promised actions which have not occurred."
"Other QAnon adherents likely will disengage from the movement or reduce their involvement in the wake of the administration change," the FBI's assessment adds.
"The participation of some domestic violent extremists (DVE) who are also self-identified QAnon adherents in the violent siege of the US Capitol on 6 January underscores how the current environment likely will continue to act as a catalyst for some to begin accepting the legitimacy of violent action," the unclassified FBI assessment obtained by CNN continues.
So that's bad. All they need now is for someone to give them a target.