One key to the second Trump insurrection is his return to Twitter and Facebook, with something, something about Google because “Big Tech” is the latest Trump demon meme.
Because GOP traitors like Chip Roy have called for 18 more months of chaos, there’s more Trumpian lawfare nonsense and nuisance, that serve as a delaying action while the actual prosecution lumbers on in other areas.
More dangerous is the attempt by trumpians to consolidate enough military force to make another futile attempt to overthrow the elected government. Trump’s delusion is that the National Guard in the US operates like national guards in other nations more susceptible to military coups. This is a delusion fueled by some vets especially Oath Keepers and other trumpists in some police forces.
Trump believes that the token efforts of GOP governors to send law enforcement to the southern border in Texas will signal a quasi-military force pre-positioned to execute a coup. He likely thinks that every anti-vaxxing member of the military counts toward his anti-democratic, unconstitutional, ‘revolutionary’ army.
Another element of that is Trump trying to get back on Facebook and Twitter to mobilize RW public opinion. The problem is that using “Section 230... a section of the United States Communications Decency Act that generally provides immunity for website platforms from third-party content.” is looking for a technicality going back to 1996 that likely could not be ruled on by SCOTUS immediately, if at all.
It's an instrument to control the press that might be more easily enforceable under martial law, bringing us back to attempts to subvert the constitution with seditious military force. It only works if there’s enough chaos, and an understanding of Putin’s hybrid war principles. Press suppression comes after vote suppression, and comes after seizing power.
Since 1/6, we’ve been lucky that with all the moving parts, that the trumpist insurrectionists failed because they were incompetent. Had they taken hostages, killed more people, and set off their pipe bombs, things might have been different
Trump spoke in “code” again. He wanted 10,000 troops on 6 January, he just didn’t want to save any Democrats, hence those deployment delays, and a blame-shifting lie about telling Pelosi anything.
Trump said he requested "10,000 National Guardsmen" for his Jan. 6 rally, but Pelosi "rejected it."
A news article reported that Trump told the acting defense secretary the night before the rally that he thought 10,000 National Guard troops would be needed, but he did not make any clear request for 10,000 troops.
Pelosi’s spokesman said she was not consulted about the National Guard before Jan. 6. And the former House sergeant-at-arms, who reported to Pelosi, testified that he had no discussions about National Guard troops with any congressional leaders before Jan. 6.
Without evidence to back it, we rate Trump’s statement False.
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The Complaint amazingly asserts (1) Section 230 is unconstitutional and (2) it is wrongful for legislators to discuss repealing Section 230.
- It’s stupid on so many levels it’s head-spinning.
- It’s insane enough that he’s claiming Facebook’s a state actor. Yes, in extreme cases, if otherwise non-state actors are acting in cahoots with the government, they can become state actors. But that’s an absurdly hard thing to show, and nothing like that occurred here.
- But what makes this meta-insane is that he’s claiming that the Facebook was a FEDERAL state actor because it was entangled with the FEDERAL government at a time when HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
- The defendants need to file a Rule 11 motion with their motion to dismiss.
Not only that, and this is just another hypocrisy point, not a real legal point since the case is frivolous no matter what, his state-action argument is based upon Democratic legislators threatening to repeal 230–which was something *former guy* also did on multiple occasions.