16 false Trump electors face felony charges in Michigan - eviltoast
  • Squorlple@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Since I expect I’ll have to suffer several members of the conservative hive-mind moaning about this tomorrow, I did some quick research beforehand:

    Here is a list of those who are charged.

    This video shows the Republicans trying to enter the MI Capitol.

    At ~35 seconds in, several people claim to be the state’s electors.

    In no particular order, I think I have identified the following:

    The woman between the orange beanie and red mitts at 60 seconds looks to me like MI GOP Chair Meshawn Maddock, who is among the charged.

    The woman in the bottom left corner of the screen at 3 minutes and 19 seconds in looks to me like Michele Lundgren, a GOP former nominee for a House seat in Detroit which she lost in a major landslide, who is among the charged.

    The woman near the bottom right of the screen at 3 minutes and 7 seconds in looks to me like MI GOP Vice chairperson Marian Sheridan, who is among the charged.

    Papa Smurf on the left at 1 minute and 1 second looks to me like GOP member Ken Thompson, who is among the charged.

    The woman in the bottom left at 1 second in looks to me like GOP member Rose Rook, who is among the charged.

    My source for the individuals’ roles within the MI GOP

    The actual state electors are listed here

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      1 year ago

      At what point should we declare the MI Republican party to be insurrectionists and disband that organization? It’s not like it was some low ranking officials.

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        If it makes you feel better, the Michigan republican party is effectively dead. They lost every branch of government, their funding is pretty much dried up, they had abandon their longstanding headquarters and are now based out of a PO box.

        Their former leadership is gone, and now they’re run by an actual crazy person with a degree in Christian apologetics who insists the majority of voters are murderers for codifying the right to an abortion via ballot. They were an anti-vaxxer before covid, they think abortion is a “satanic ritual” and that yoga is a “demonic ceremony”.

        Just a week or two ago they made the news when two members got into a fistfight during a meeting, they’re a circus.

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          1 year ago

          To be fair, The Satanic Temple does claim abortion to be a religious right and has an actual ritual members can perform before they undergo the procedure.

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        1 year ago

        After we talk about bOtH SiDEs for awhile and then completely forget about it.

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        Which “we” are you talking about? I’ve already declared the whole Republican party a terrorist organization, but my declarations don’t carry much weight.