Dear MAGA: Open Topic 20231124

This was the ‘Dress Rehearsal’
Almost 400 cities in EVERY US state join wave of protest over George Floyd death

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TIME: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

…There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions…

𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜 𝕥𝕠𝕦𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕕 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕒𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕘𝕠𝕥 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕧𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕞𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕝𝕒𝕨𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕡𝕖𝕕 𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕙𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕡𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕔 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕗𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕗𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕗𝕗 𝕧𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕣-𝕤𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕝𝕒𝕨𝕤𝕦𝕚𝕥𝕤, 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕣𝕦𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕣𝕞𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕝 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕠𝕥 𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕡𝕖𝕠𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕥𝕖 𝕓𝕪 𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕝 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕗𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕕 𝕤𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕞𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕒 𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕒𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕒-𝕕𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕘𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕗𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕝 𝕤𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤.

…Activists began preparing to reprise the demonstrations if Trump tried to steal the election. “Americans plan widespread protests if Trump interferes with election,” Reuters reported in October, one of many such stories. More than 150 liberal groups, from the Women’s March to the Sierra Club to Color of Change, from Democrats.com to the Democratic Socialists of America, joined the “Protect the Results” coalition.

  The group’s now defunct website had a map listing 400 planned postelection demonstrations, to be activated via text message as soon as Nov. 4. To stop the coup they feared, the left was ready to flood the streets….

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In breakthrough, Congress obtains footage of undercover cops conducting surveillance on Jan. 6Footage captures DC officers talking Antifa, exhorting rioters to run into Capitol and may provide roadmap to future security reforms to avoid “blue-on-blue tragedy.”

Just the News obtained footage from official sources and confirmed it has not been altered. The footage showed the officer in plainclothes with a grey jacket. Spotted in the video and identifying him as a police officer is a badge hanging around his neck.

The footage obtained by Just the News is embedded in the player above. It was turned over recently to investigators for the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee who are investigating the official police response on Jan. 6. A snippet of the video began appearing on social media a few weeks ago. Just the News obtained the complete footage and verified its authenticity.

Traditional body-worn cameras and portable surveillance cameras carried by uniformed and undercover officers alike have both provided footage that Congressional investigators are using to evaluate the police response to Jan. 6. A third type of footage, closed circuit camera videos are being made publicly available by newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, with the first batch released just last week….

Before he left for a job inside the FBI, former DC Police Chief Robert J. Contee Jr. told the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight and its chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., in a May 2023 letter reviewed by Just the News that his department deployed nearly 1,500 officers and personnel from more than a dozen components to the Jan. 6 scene. Contee provided a list of every officer who responded, their rank and their normal assignment.

Contee explained in the letter that the undercover surveillance team units “responded to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to film ongoing criminal activity.” Former Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund told Just the News on Tuesday he was unaware that MPD had deployed undercover surveillance officers.

Loudermilk told Just the News his subcommittee is prepared, if necessary, to summon officers from the surveillance units to get answers to critical questions….

This summer Just the News reported on a video circulating the online platform Rumble that seemed to show a group of plainclothes MPD officers exhorting the crowd gathered in front of the Capitol to climb scaffolding. The MPD officers are seen gathering just outside of the crowd and then infiltrating the protest.

As the officers approached the Capitol steps, one MPD officer can be heard shouting “Go! Go! Go!” and “Help him up!” encouraging those around him to climb the scaffolding outside the Capitol.

Loudermilk, R-Ga., confirmed to Just the News in June that MPD told Congress that the department had plainclothes officers in the crowd that day.

“We know that it is one of their officers, and at one point he is encouraging, and it appears he’s encouraging, he’s definitely helping people climb the scaffolding, and he’s telling them ‘go, go, go,’” Loudermilk told the Just the News, No Noise television show in June.

“Why is an officer encouraging people to climb the scaffolding and go into the Capitol? And secondly, why did the MPD Metropolitan Police support department decide to put undercover officers in the crowd? …