Rep. Mikie Sherrill says Congress members gave 'reconnaissance' tours day before Capitol raid

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  1. HockeyDad

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    With them as poll workers, how do you expect to win? I would encourage all conservatives to take their eyes off the products of Silicon Valley and their eyes on alternative media. That represents billions of dollars that you are denying big tech and giving to alt tech. Let them have their culture and create your own eco system. Alt tech is now a legit competitor to big tech. Dave Cullen (Computing Forever) got kicked off youtube and then they asked him to come back. Dave looked at his views on alt tech and noticed that they were roughly equal to his views on youtube. He told youtube and I quote "STICK IT UP YOUR A$$". The liberal idiots don't realize that the tech is not hard and the market they are casting off is mammoth. I was upset about users getting kicked off youtube until I discovered you could follow them elsewhere. Better yet, you can financially support them so that advertisers will never be able to put a muzzle on them.

    This is where the power resides. Our ideas are better, are true and will win, they just need exposure. As we build our systems, people will naturally flood their. The majority of Americans dislike censors and when given the opportunity will migrate to freer platforms.
     
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    Maybe she did...

    Sounds almost like some Trump 3-D chess moves there...
     
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    Right. A number of years ago, the IRS discovered a tax evasion scheme run by a Swiss bank. They knew of the scheme, but not the U.S. participant's names, which were protected by Swiss banking laws. They negotiated with the Swiss bank (and the Swiss government) and the bank finally agreed to give them the names of 5,000 of the estimated 50,000 U.S. participants. The IRS then publicly announced the deal, without announcing ANY of the 5,000 names. They also offered a program whereby participants could come forward voluntarily, pay back taxes and a small fine, and NOT be prosecuted. Since none of the 50,000 knew if their name was among the 5,000, most admitted participation and took the deal, rather than risk prosecution.
    Sounds like her not announcing the names of colleagues she may have recognized could be similar.
     
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  4. Egoboy

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    I imagine it will be 15 minutes or less until some ill-informed alt-righter on here incorrectly uses the word "entrapment"....

    Don't want to deflect too much from the topic, but I wonder how the Swiss determined which 5,000 names to provide?
     
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    Good point. Don't know how the 5,000 names were chosen...maybe randomly, although perhaps for a small banking fee you could keep your name off the list. I don't remember any notable prosecutions, although the IRS did follow through with prosecutions of relatively small participants who didn't come forward voluntarily (I believe I read about several tax payers in Florida being prosecuted).
     
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    Here's another article with some new facts

    https://www.northjersey.com/story/n...rs-aided-their-capitol-reconnaiss/4144529001/

    1. She has sent a letter to various policing agencies with the deets, co-signed by @ 3 dozen other Congresspeople... Full letter is at the bottom of this link...
    2. The tours were reported to the Sergeant at Arms on THAT day.... 1/5
     
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    Your "but" and "may" tell it all. All of a sudden the left are going to believe and trust in those who entered the Capitol on January 6th. Simple amazing!
     
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    It never fails to amaze me that you guys don't understand the simple concept of getting the small fish to turn on the big fish...

    That technique has probably been around since Babylon....
     
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    Not necessarily...but, it's a start in the investigation, right?
     
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    I sincerely hope that “but” and “maybe” tell “it all”.

    But I know people who were there (Trumpsters, BTW).

    And there was so much casual irresponsibility and self promotion at Trump’s half assed insurrection that it will be almost no problem identifying the links.
     
  11. Egoboy

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    That's old news... is there something more on it today? I posted the audio in one of the Electoral threads on that day...

    Did they ever find out who Rudy DID call (who then released the audio)??

    On the grand scale of what happened that day, I thought trying to get a Senator to slow things down was relatively small potatoes..
     
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    Simple. I don't buy into the mudslinging and political grand standing.

    I don't believe the dossier
    I don't believe Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist
    I don't believe the election was stolen - either time
    And I do believe Epstein killed himself
    Etc.

    This is exactly the same thing as Stop the Steal or the mountain of evidence of Russia collusion Adam Schiff supposedly had. She has no idea if these were even the same people much less if her colleagues were in a conspiracy to help insurrectionists case the joint. To suggest such without any evidence is a tactic designed to do nothing but smear the opposition and influence public opinion. The fact it is even being discussed is proof her tactic worked. If she really cared and thought she had credible evidence she would have quietly handed it over and skipped the grand standing on Maddow.
     
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    1. I called it relatively small potatoes, compared to riots and deaths...
    2. It was Rudy, unless you have some proven link to Trump
    3. Neither of them cared about the riot, except where it added to the delay and chaos. Once it was announced the certification would restart later that evening, they needed another delay tactic.

    Sorry, just can't get excited about that story, except that Rudy is stupid enough to leave that message on another Senators voicemail...
     
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    In the recording, he introduces himself as President Trump's lawyer.

    I agree - it isn't the biggest story going. But it is a shameful example of his priorities that night. And could show some Rep senators just what kind of man his is when voting.
     
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    You want the scaled drawing in 2D or 3D?

    Just Google "Capital Building Layout"

    I don't know why people think the layout of these PUBLIC buildings is a state secret.

    https://www.core77.com/posts/91479/...fice-is-Not-Actually-Inside-the-Main-Building upload_2021-1-15_9-46-39.png
     
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    LOL... I admire your optimism, but if they haven't figured it out by now..........................
     
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    That was the White House I posted, there isn't an oval office at the Capital Building.

    That "s" at the end of the word "building" means something...

    Point is none of those building"S" are secret mazes that need casing before hand.
     
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    Can you post a link to the map that shows me how to get to Pelosi's office?
     
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    Now don't do nothing naughty with that ;)

    But seriously people needing to "case the place" would have long sense just used Google. Well, I say that, these were some really stupid people.
     
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    Well, the FBI is "one" of those people. They are confirming that there was inside help.
     

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