CSPOA

[Baidn]

I wonder if the Oathkeeper sentence is going to put a bit more fear into these idiots. I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of them slink back under rocks. Will be a big blow to donny boy too since he couldn't save them as they were counting on. I would expect to see him making "iron clad" (in quotes because you trust s**t from him) promises to pardon the lot in an attempt to blow on the embers of their hopes.

[Dave from down under]

I thought it was junior who was into blow..

[pipistrelle]

I dig how it's called "political discourse."

[Ben-Prime]

I dig how it's called "political discourse."

Well, they can't call it "political intercourse." It might offend the evangelicals among them.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

I would expect to see him making "iron clad" (in quotes because you trust s**t from him) promises to pardon the lot in an attempt to blow on the embers of their hopes.

Excellent description!!!!!!!!

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

I dig how it's called "political discourse."

Well, they can't call it "political intercourse." It might offend the evangelicals among them.

You have been on a roll!

[Ben-Prime]

I dig how it's called "political discourse."

Well, they can't call it "political intercourse." It might offend the evangelicals among them.

You have been on a roll!

I blame home leave. Since a week ago Thursday, I'm on my obligatory 20-40 business day leave between assignments, spent in the U.S. (like, literally I can't even go to Canada or Mexico during home leave under federal law), so I'm without a car (I rent for a few days at a time and otherwise use foot or pedal power) and enjoying having only minimal responsibilities at the moment. Other than gathering the info to bid on the next assignment after this coming one-year gig I start in July, and doing some stuff on my own honey-do list, I'm free to relax, recuperate, and be a wit.

[Slim Cognito]

[John Thomas8]

Little reichsfurher in Cherokee County, NC, is dragging the CSPOA to North Carolina:

https://www.bpr.org/bpr-news/2023-09-05 ... -in-murphy

[raison de arizona]

At #CSPOAVegas, Richard Mack goes off on the far-right Republic vs Democracy lie fused with election denialism - "We want to turn back, and make America the Constitutional Republic she was meant to be."

Last time I checked a constitutional republic is a form of democracy

The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot. It is a republic because the Government derives its power from the people.

https://clyburn.house.gov/fun-youth/us-government

[raison de arizona]

#CSPOAVegas now going full-on white nationalist Great Replacement Theory. Wayne Allyn Root adds a teachers' union twist.

[raison de arizona]

A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They’re there for the same conference.
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is urging lawmen to form posses, seize voting machines and investigate baseless claims of voter fraud.

A conference for a far-right sheriffs group this week drew a parade of felons, disgraced politicians, election deniers, conspiracy theorists and, in the end, a few sheriffs.

The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, or CSPOA, met in Las Vegas’ Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel conference center to publicly counter reports of extremism within the group and set a course for the coming election — one that involves sheriffs’ investigating what they claim, despite a lack of evidence, is rampant voter fraud.

The group sees sheriffs as the highest authority in the U.S., more powerful than the federal government, and it wants these county officers to form posses to patrol polling places, seize voting machines and investigate the Democrats and foreign nations behind what they claim is a criminal effort to rig the vote by flooding the country with immigrants who vote illegally.

Critics of the group — including voting rights advocates and extremism researchers — fear the CSPOA’s new focus will amount to interference and legitimize disinformation about U.S. elections.

But the event Wednesday, which starred MAGA celebrities speaking to a half-empty audience made up of few actual sheriffs, pointed to just how fringe the group’s ideas are — and how what once seemed like a movement on its way into the mainstream has lost political pull.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/co ... rcna147487