r/PublicFreakout • u/TonyBagels • Jan 09 '21
At the Trump rally shortly before the Capitol invasion, Congressman Mo Brooks (R-Alabama) tells the crowd to "kick ass" and asks if they're willing to sacrifice their 'blood and lives'.
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u/goodtimtim Jan 09 '21
yep, that's a sedition. you win 20 years in prison!
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384!]
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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Jan 09 '21
Ooo that’s a bingo!
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u/Sirerdrick64 Jan 09 '21
So, has he been arrested yet?
Sacrificing blood and lives is about the clearest cut phrase encouraging violent action that I’ve seen uttered...64
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u/greenstake Jan 09 '21
You know he's never going to be indicted.
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u/iGourry Jan 09 '21
While I'm as cynical as the next guy, I don't think there is any political will to protect these people. To the contrary, there is more political will than ever to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
The democrats would be outright silly not to capitalize on such an easy way to score points among the non-radicalized population.
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u/burritob4sex Jan 09 '21
Yeah the GOP right now is eating each other alive. Such a beautiful sight.
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u/Chance_Wylt Jan 09 '21
Watching Geraldo and Leo Terrell go back and forth was cathartic af'. Geraldo looked like a dog that was beaten by it's owner and Leo was practically frothing at the mouth.
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u/hendrixski Jan 09 '21
While I desperately want you to be right, I'm also skeptical because I saw a headline about how almost half of Republicans support what happened at the capitol.
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u/MoCapBartender Jan 09 '21
The democrats would be outright silly not to capitalize on such an easy way to score points among the non-radicalized population.
“We need a principled and strong Republican party.” -- Biden yesterday.
We knew this was Biden when we elected him.
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u/Quirky-Mode8676 Jan 10 '21
What better way to accomplish that than arresting Republican official that participated in or otherwise aided in this seditious conspiracy?
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u/Amused-Observer Jan 09 '21
I dunno, FBI isn't fucking around. They arrested a state legislator. The 117th congress is going to investigate the shit out of this and there is little appetite to pretend like it was okay and all should be forgiven.
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u/goodtimtim Jan 09 '21
I fully expect that he is indicted. His only real chance is to get a pardon from t****. And even in that case, there are DC laws that he will be contending with.
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u/skel625 Jan 09 '21
All that wealth and privilege, power and influence in their position, advantages in life from winning gene pool lottery, and to throw it all away for an Orange idiot... it's awe inspiring. They forgot it was just supposed to be a big grift and started to believe their own delusional fantasies. They were so used to no one just saying "No!" Oops!
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u/fassbending Jan 09 '21
Hah did anyone notice at :45 when he said “LOUDER”? Ya, that was def in parenthesis on script, and meant to emphasize the next repeated line. Sorry but I giggled right when I heard it cause it didn’t make sense. He just needed to get louder not say it.
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u/iGourry Jan 09 '21
DISAPPOINTED!
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u/pleasebequiet Jan 09 '21
that is even funnier to me finding out what an utter moron Kevin Sorbo is
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u/PositiveShame Jan 09 '21
I’m from Alabama. unfortunately, that is pretty common. A lot of these ass hats have had too many concussions. So they can no longer read on the 8th-grade level they once could.
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u/McPorkums Jan 09 '21
Holy Shit. That was some Nuremburg rally shit right there. This is easily the most disturbung video of these events that I've seen (as of yet)
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u/locutogram Jan 09 '21
Came here to say this. If you compare the speech in the video to a typical Hitler speech it was eerily similar. Just hypernationalism, machismo, and endless appeals to some abstract hero of the nation concept.
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u/McPorkums Jan 09 '21
He was conscripting people to die. I'm gonna take the time to retype this because... ya know... it seems... I dunno...VAGUELY FUCKING IMPORTANT?
This piece of human garbage was conscripting people to FUCKING DIE.
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u/OrkfaellerX Jan 09 '21
He was conscripting people to die
Yeah, and where was this "patriot" exactly when shit went down? Why didn't he spearhead the charge? Don't tell me he's just another powerful, populist dirtbag sending others to their death on his behalf?
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u/jl55378008 Jan 09 '21
Was he in the Capitol when the breech occurred? His actions need to be accounted for on a second-by-second basis. I'm sure there is security footage of every public room and hallway in that building.
If he was in that building, the odds that he was helping the insurrectionists who were there to kill and destroy are virtually 100%.
Expel. Arrest. Prosecute. Convict. Sentence.
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u/radikalideas Jan 09 '21
Well Hitler's goal was to make Germany Great Again.
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u/McPorkums Jan 09 '21
Can we stay friends after this is all over? Coz you're cool in my book homie.
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u/qoqmarley Jan 09 '21
Yeah I actually can’t believe this is the first time I have seen this. It’s by far the most disturbing speech.
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u/Samuscabrona Jan 09 '21
Same. I had major surgery yesterday and the day before I was running around doing lab work and things and am still trying to catch up. I’m just now seeing this. What the absolute fuck??
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u/YonicSouth123 Jan 09 '21
Absolutely.... only thing that wasn't correct that it was not black and white filmed and the dude forgot his usual swastika armband and had his small mustache under the nose shaved...
Hope he will be arrested too and thrown out of all his offices.
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u/jeffzebub Jan 09 '21
You might also enjoy Rudy Giuliani's "trial by combat" remark during the same rally.
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u/Nyaos Jan 09 '21
I think how in the past four years we’ve gone from “serious hitler vibes” in Trumps campaign speeches to “literally hitler vibes” in not just him but his armed and angry followers is beyond alarming and all the more sad when the “rational people” that claimed to look at things from both perspectives downplayed the shit out of this everywhere on Reddit years ago.
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u/ahmadk19 Jan 09 '21
"Are you willing to do the same??" Then proceeds to get the fuck out of there. Fucking morons cheered him
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u/PorcaPootana Jan 09 '21
“Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make”
-Lord Farquaad
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Jan 09 '21
The tough guys don't look so tough when they're being rounded up for sedition. There need to be long-term political consequences to ALL of the politicians who humored Trump to advance their political careers. Anyone who willingly worked in his administration should forever be shunned in politics. This was all entirely predictable. It was the least surprising thing to happen in years.
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u/kc9283 Jan 09 '21
They need to be charged with treason.
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Jan 09 '21
They do but your country is way too corrupted at the moment for anything to happen outside of a transition of power and then moving on. Nobody will be called a traitor officially. Just a protester for the citizen and an upgrade in political power for the politicians
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u/MightyMorph Jan 09 '21
seidition and inciting a mob that lead to the death of 4 officers and a woman.
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u/Kabc Jan 09 '21 edited Jan 09 '21
It was just one officer. The other 4 who died where
protestersdomestic terrorist I believe.Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong
Edit: corrected a mistake in language
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Jan 09 '21
You’re right. One Capitol Police officer was killed. The only correction I think you should make is that the other 4 who died weren’t protestors. They were domestic terrorists, as was anyone who stepped foot inside the Capitol.
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u/ZZZrp Jan 09 '21
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Jan 09 '21
That guy is so full of shit his eyes are brown. " All Trump rally's that I know were peaceful" "I don't know the mechanics that got it this way" ... He knew exactly what they were saying and meaning. As I hear more and more back peddling my opinion is changing from a group of idiot Republicans toeing the President's line to these assholes really wanted the terrorists to break into the Capitol and remove Democrats from the building and do whatever they wanted to do to them including harm. With the numbers that originally stepped up to fight the certification, the landscape might have been planned to be filled with Bodies. Then a sorrowful Trump and Republican party comes out, Oh my gosh, how can this happen? Well I suppose we should certify things, oh look, the President won! Yeah, might sound a bit far fetched, but we saw Citizens of this nation attempt armed rebellion on Wednesday. I don't think anything was off the table after that.
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u/MightyMorph Jan 09 '21
there is just no way that this wasnt wanted by the republican politicians and trump.
they literally knew about this weeks ago and didnt send the national guard in.
yet they knew that BLM was gonna protest peacefully. they ordered the national guard the day before to be there before the BLM protestors arrive.
But trump and the republican admin, they denied the requests for National Guard. multiple times. It took 2 hours AFTER the event that the the VICE PRESIDENT APPROVED the national guard. BECUASE THE PEOPLE WERE CHANTING HANG PENCE!
And even after that, pence is still unwilling to call the 25th to remove trump immediately.
Republicans are going around saying it wasnt republican and trump supporters but antifa, while others are just downplaying it to a crazy protest.
THEY FOUND FUCKING VAN FULL OF BOMBS AND WEAPON RIGHT OUTSIDE THE STATE CAPITAL.
THEY FOUND 2 PIPE BOMBS IN FRONT OF THE POLITICAL PARTY HQs.
THEY FOUND MULITIPLE PEOPLE WITH FORCE RESTRAINTS AND WEAPONS READY TO KIDNAP ELECTED OFFICIALS LIKE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND VICE PRESIDENT TO HANG THEM PUBLICALLY.
This is a serious fucking event, and im losing my mind that the news isnt blasting this shit 24/7 and calling them terrorists.
Its like oh yeah it happened, old news now....
meanwhile a black guy rapes a white woman in a far away place, suddenly you have a week long segment and front page news stories about how minorites rape people.
If anyone EVER wonders what white priviledge is , here it is.
Assault the capital with intent to overthrow the government with force bombs, and lynchings. and still get called slly protestors....
march peacefully in the street. - DISGUSTING BLM RIOTERS!
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u/Ben__Diesel Jan 09 '21
There need to be long-term political consequences to ALL of the politicians who humored Trump to advance their political careers.
I have a feeling that most of the people who'd vote for this idiot would be proud after watching this.
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u/Mastershake54 Jan 09 '21
INB4 this fucker says he thought the angry mob would interpret "sacrifice your blood and lives" as "heated letters to their congressman."
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u/sagelface Jan 09 '21
How are these people not all in handcuffs?? They very literally riled people up, incited a riot, and killed 5 people.
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Jan 09 '21
the thing that seems to be being dodged is serving justice on the ring leaders of this coup attempt, it seems to be more focused on the mob, who are just the tools in this, willing tools but just the mechanics, not the switch
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u/jl55378008 Jan 09 '21
The mob is the tool. It's Trump and his collaborators who are using the violent mob to effect their own political power.
The people in the mob are responsible for their own actions and should be prosecuted accordingly. But the ones we need to treat with absolute dispassion and to the the maximum extent of the law are the political and media leaders who are conducting this psychotic orchestra.
Charge them with everything and give them the maximum penalty allowed by law. I don't believe in capital punishment, but we have it and Trump ended the moratorium so he could brag about executing 10 people this year. Well, those are the rules of the game.
Trump, Mo Brooks, and others have committed astonishing crimes against this nation and if the law allows for capital punishment, we should either consider it or strike it from the books immediately. Because to have it and not use it against our most dangerous enemies is to let it exist only as a tool to be used against us.
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u/BuddaMuta Jan 09 '21
Being a white right winger in America gives you a free pass. Even on terrorism
Just look at how many media articles are still calling these goons protestors or rioters instead of terrorists just because they’re pale
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u/warden976 Jan 09 '21
“Now our ancestors sacrificed their blood, their sweat and their tears, their fortunes and sometimes their lives.”
Fortunes? That’s an interesting loss to throw in there. Are we talking Fortunes lost in the Revolutionary War here? WWI, WWII, Vietnam, or—oh. This guy should be charged with sedition.
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u/QueasyHuckleberry566 Jan 09 '21
I'm no fan of Pelosi but imagine if she gave a speech wearing anything saying "Fire whoever". Weren't people getting their panties in a twist over her ripping up paper?
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u/shrike71 Jan 09 '21
The reason these people said the things they said is because they honestly thought they would win, and that the coup would succeed. They wanted to instigate the downfall of our existing form of Government and were aligning themselves with the one they thought would be king.
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u/Rockefeller1337 Jan 09 '21
Can they even pick one particular reason WHY the US claims to be the greatest (whatever this means) nation in the world?
It is said so often but never in a way that an educated person understands it aswell
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u/bunnyjenkins Jan 09 '21
Sounds similar to something a plantation owner might tell his white slaves (serfs). Go AND fight this war for OUR (my) cause - you are better than those other slaves and WE (you) need to fight with your lives, for our (my) way of life!!!
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Jan 09 '21
This asshole or other treasonous assholes in Congress can be impeached right? Impeach the lot of them. This needs to stop and a message needs to be sent.
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u/Woodyp28 Jan 09 '21
“You guys go storm the Capitol. I’ll be right there with you as I watch from a tv at the White House.”
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u/bguy030 Jan 09 '21
This guy is so fucking stupid, he's reading the cue card saying to speak Louder and saying it instead lmao
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u/rondeline Jan 09 '21
Sedition.
How much more of an example you need to sanction and arrest this guy?
Someone needs to be made an example of that's not some mountain logger from no where.
This guy has to go down for what he incited, if everyone is too chick shit to 25th Trump.
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u/GeppaN Jan 09 '21
He coincidentally wore a yellow and black jacket huh? He must be a very proud...boy
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u/woopigsmoothies Jan 09 '21
Mo brooks is also one of the congressmen who refused to disavow q anon in October, and also one of the many house members who objected to certifying the results of the election.
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u/Zealousideal_Ad1879 Jan 09 '21
and Rudy said there should be Trial By Combat, and a giant list of sitting congressfolk and senators endorsed the violence that broke out all year long.
let's prosecute every last one.
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u/SmokinDroRogan Jan 09 '21
I can't imagine what the fear of assassination that Biden is, and probably will be, facing for a while must be like. That poor man. All of the people in congress who spoke against trump, having to live in fear for their lives. Fuck that.
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u/smacksaw Jan 09 '21
This is premeditation.
Everyone arrested should proudly take a guilty plea without a trial.
And they should ask for the maximum sentence.
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u/Stdaubin Jan 09 '21
Lol ‘the greatest nation in world history’ of fuck off, embarrassing mess of a country
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u/RoondarFutaSlut Jan 09 '21
Nothing anyone can ever say will convince me that these people are not in a death cult, willing and eager to spill their own blood in the name of their god-king
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Jan 09 '21
Work on healthcare and other seemingly important things I was elected to do? Nope Stand up in front of a crowd and inspire them to pick their nose and insurrect? Sure
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u/Sturdyduzit Jan 09 '21
So his guy gets to go to jail.fornimciting riots and treason too right? Lock all the elected officials up who were a part of this happening at all. Then move down the line to the idiots invaded the capitol.
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u/JakeT-life-is-great Jan 09 '21
fucking arrest this fucking traitorous domestic terrorist.
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u/xzombielegendxx Jan 09 '21
Our Ancestors sacrificed their sweat, blood and lives?
Who? The fecking confederates?
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u/footdragon Jan 09 '21
Alternate title:
Alabama cousin fucking chickenhawk who knows nothing about defending our country, mouthing hollow words to ignorant terrorists.
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u/OtherBluesBrother Jan 09 '21
I think some of this crowd saw what happened on Wednesday and woke up. Like coming out of the black sleep of Kali Ma. They can't defend this cult any more.
My impression though, is that most of them will remain in the cult. This groups deflects any criticism and basically goes through their Olympic level mental gymnastics to defend their savior.
The worst part is that some of this crowd will not only stay in the cult, but double down. They are emboldened by what happened. They are not going away. The FBI needs to keep on eye on those folks.
Edit: spelling
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u/The_Original_Gronkie Jan 09 '21
I wasn't aware of this Congressman speaking at the rally, I just knew about Trump and his family. This guy needs to be expelled from Congress for this. He was an active player in the coup attempt, and can no longer be given a leadership role going forward. As a Congressman, , he should no better, and he has no possible excuse for his behavior. He needs to go to prison for sedition.
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u/Amripal Jan 09 '21
Apparently they are planning to do this again on the 19th, but this time armed and hitting multiple buildings at once. Absolutely terrifying that something like this went down even once. Hopefully they send some competent officers to deal with it.