EDITORIAL: Don't let Trump subvert Colorado justice, elections
‘At worst, the stunt is a corrupt intrigue meant to actually find a way to get Peters off from her rightfully imposed prison sentence or even work some new election corruption into Colorado, and possibly other states’
https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/editorial-dont-let-trump-subvert-colorado-justice-elections/
EDITORIAL: Don't let Trump subvert Colorado justice, elections
‘At worst, the stunt is a corrupt intrigue meant to actually find a way to get Peters off from her rightfully imposed prison sentence or even work some new election corruption into Colorado, and possibly other states’
https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/editorial-dont-let-trump-subvert-colorado-justice-elections/
EDITORIAL: Don't let Trump subvert Colorado justice, elections
‘At worst, the stunt is a corrupt intrigue meant to actually find a way to get Peters off from her rightfully imposed prison sentence or even work some new election corruption into Colorado, and possibly other states’
https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/editorial-dont-let-trump-subvert-colorado-justice-elections/
EDITORIAL: Don't let Trump subvert Colorado justice, elections
‘At worst, the stunt is a corrupt intrigue meant to actually find a way to get Peters off from her rightfully imposed prison sentence or even work some new election corruption into Colorado, and possibly other states’
https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/editorial-dont-let-trump-subvert-colorado-justice-elections/
Cratering in the polls, and losing left right and center in court, the Trump regime spent this week scrambling to install a permanent fascist order before the peasants show up on the National Mall with pitchforks; and we wrote about it all in this week's The Skinny.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/07/the-skinny-may-1st-7th/2/
The Skinny: Building A Patchwork Enabling Act
"I confess that on some level it’s probably amusing to picture Trump sitting in front of a TV and getting big mad when it tells him Black and trans people exist, he shouldn’t bully overweight people, and the abortion bans he facilitated are hurting American women. The reality here however is that in signaling what the president doesn’t want to see in publicly-funded media, he’s effectively articulating a Christian Nationalist agenda. As we’ve discussed numerous times on this blog, the regime is not just fighting a material war to install a fascist dictatorship in our society; they’re also fighting an authoritarian cultural war on our discourse, our history, and who is allowed to matter in our media entertainment complex. The ideological headcage Trump is trying to use state power to enforce here, is just as important to the Trumpenrich project to create a white ethnostate dictatorship under the Kelpto Kaiser, as its material expansion of the American fascist police state is."
#Fascism #Trump #KariLake #LindaMcMahon #TransRights #USPol #StephenMiller #NPR #OAN #WhiteNationalism #BigTech #PBS #TheMindset #Media #Harvard #IdeologicalPolicing #Censorship #VOA #TinaPeters #TheBigLie #Nazis
I must confess that I do not like a modern political media environment where every deranged thing Trump posts on Truth Social has to be considered relevant news, but when Downmarket Mussolini uses openly fascist propaganda to push his 2020 Election conspiracy, aka "The Big Lie,' while simultaneously demanding the Department of Justice free a convicted co-conspirator in the pro-Trump far right's plot to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election, you kind of have to pay attention to that one.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tina-peters-trump-phil-weiser_n_681a3876e4b0981671adc3bf
Trump Demands Release Of Election Denier ‘Hostage’ Convicted By Colorado Jury
"In a Truth Social post Monday night, Trump referred to Peters’ prosecution as “a Communist persecution by the Radical Left Democrats to cover up their Election crimes and misdeeds in 2020.” He attacked Colorado’s Democratic attorney general, Phil Weiser, and demanded the Justice Department “take all necessary action to help secure the release of this ‘hostage’ being held in a Colorado prison by the Democrats, for political reasons.”
Trump said Peters, who he called an “innocent Political Prisoner,” had “worked to expose and document Democrat Election Fraud” — repeating his yearslong lie that he didn’t actually lose the 2020 election but, rather, was the victim of an impossibly complex, nationwide fraud scheme.
What Peters actually did — while working as the elected county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado — was allow a computer analyst associated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell into a secure in-person software update for the county’s election machines, in yet another unsuccessful effort to sow doubt about Joe Biden’s 2020 win.
The analyst, former pro surfer and RVCA founder Conan Hayes, attended the software update, using the name and recently issued office badge of a Mesa County local. Images of the update process, known as a trusted build, were later shared online and at a 2021 “symposium” on the 2020 election results hosted by Lindell — around the same time state officials arrived at the Mesa County clerk’s office to investigate."
I don't want to rehash the Trump cult's 2020 election denial schemes, but Tina Peters is the former clerk in Mesa County, Colorado who engineered an elaborate plot to let some yahoo connected to billionaire Trump-humping conspiracy crank Mike Lindell have access to voting machines during a software update meeting; she wasn't charged for he political beliefs, or even election denial, she's literally in jail for helping some fashy rando access voting machines illegally by impersonating an employee with clearance to access the machines, and lying about it to get him inside. Naturally, the Trump regime fucking loves this lady and I'm assuming the only reason she wasn't already pardoned by Trump is that she was convicted under Colorado state law and thus a federal pardon does her no good. As the article notes, the Department of Justice *has* gone as far as inserting itself in a highly political and partisan way in Peters' ongoing appeals process.
What's more interesting to me here however, is examining Trump's Truth Social post in the proper context; specifically as a piece of fascist propaganda that is disturbingly reminiscent of narratives manufactured by the German Nazi Party during Hitler's rise to power.
The depiction of Peters as a courageous political prisoner unjustly being punished for merely stating her belief that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, which is in and of itself a piece of false fascist propaganda often referred to in the media as "the big lie" in a nod to statements by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, is extremely reminiscent of interwar period Nazi propaganda about the purported persecution of violent Nazi street activists convicted of breaking German laws to further Hitler's cause. The portrayal of Peters' prosecution as a vast political conspiracy, and the conflation of Trump's milquetoast center right opposition with a "radical" (and presumably dangerous) left is also pretty much exactly how the Nazis portrayed efforts to hold them accountable on their way to absolute power. Finally, while I'm sure the inclusion of "Communist" will be shrugged off by most observers as Trump doing drunk grandpa Bircher things, I think it's much more likely given the context of the rest of the message, that this is a fascist dog-whistle to the nazi conspiracy theory known as "cultural marxism" - in which pretty much everyone opposed to them from equality activists, to "liberal" capitalist political figures, are all part of a gigantic Marxist (read: Jewish) plot to undermine America, capitalism, and "the white race."
Look, I get that Trump is absolutely not a student of Joey Goebbels and Nazi propaganda techniques; it's obvious that someone in the regime is feeding him these ideas. And since these ideas are objectively Nazi shit, I'm going to assume its Stephen Miller.
#Fascism #Trump #StephenMiller #TheBigLie #TinaPeters #Nazis #Hitler #Propaganda
Unlike Trump and his administration, the People of Colorado had credible, indisputable proof of criminal allegations against #TinaPeters. Like Trump, she's a convicted felon. Unlike him, she is serving time for her crime. No one, but Trump is above the law.
#Trump and #DOJ try to spring former county clerk #TinaPeters from prison
President #DonaldTrump is demanding the release of Tina Peters, a former #election official who parroted Trump's 2020 election #conspiracy theories and is serving nine years in prison for compromising the #security of election equipment.
Trump and DOJ try to spring former county clerk Tina Peters from prison https://arstechni.ca/VqjXf #tinapeters #Policy #Trump
@coloradosun #Trump doesn't know innocence from dog shit, or #TinaPeters 🙄
#TinaPetersIsGuilty #FelonOnFelon #Felon47 #TrumpForPrison #NoTrump
Colorado fights Trump administration bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters
“This cannot become a new norm,” she said as two prosecutors from Peters’ trial sat behind her.
Colorado fights Trump administration bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters
“This cannot become a new norm,” she said as two prosecutors from Peters’ trial sat behind her.
DOJ reviewing case of convicted clerk Tina Peters who supported Trump's election lies
Peters has become a celebrity in the world of those who embrace Trump’s lies that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud
Threatening a judge is grounds for a contempt of court charge, as well as obstruction of justice. Arrest #DarcyShoening.
A “Stop the Steal” Conspirator Is Headed to Prison. But What About Her Accomplices?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/stop-the-steal-tina-peters-2020-prison-trump.html?via=rss
Denver7: 'You're a charlatan': Judge sentences defiant #TinaPeters to 9 years | Full video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXqkOM5Vbbw
Worth a virtual chair in the gallery to hear the sentencing.
#TinaPeters
https://youtu.be/uXqkOM5Vbbw?si=r6m8_PEaMi-O40fA
Colorado judge who sentenced election denier #TinaPeters to prison receives threats
https://apnews.com/article/tina-peters-election-clerk-sentenced-threats-d565bd42bc566d4d178491a258238765
Courthouse staff in Grand Junction, Colorado, received multiple threats
My questions:
1) Why do death threats keep happening?
Because:
The people making them WANT to intimidate
They believe they won't be caught
They believe they've done nothing wrong
They think they won't be caught & PROSECUTED & if tried, they think they won't be jailed.
2) How do we change their behavior?
1/2
Mesa County judge who sentenced election denier Tina Peters to prison receives threats
“Every effort to undermine the integrity of our elections and public’s trust in our institutions has been made by you.”
