She is 34 years old, has four children, and with her husband owns the Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado.

The picture to the left shows her at work. She recommends her employees to openly carry arms.

She didn’t graduate from high school, because she had her first child during that time, but later got her GED. She is in favor of eliminating the United States Department of Education.

During the riots at the Capitol in January 6, she was live-tweeting the location of the Speaker of the House to her followers.

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This morning in the San Diego Union-Tribune there is a front-page article titled Roots of Extremism Securely Planted in San Diego, which talks about some of the people involved in the Capitol Riots of January 6, 2021, including Ashli Babbitt, the Ocean Beach woman who was shot dead. Here is an excerpt from page 4:

Many of the same themes emerged in a civil defense movement that arose following the riot in La Mesa on May 30. Vigilante groups such as Defend East County (DEC) have characterized themselves as pro-police, pro-law and order and anti-Black Lives Matter. Some members have posted racist comments and advocated for violence on the group’s social media accounts.

While a small contingent from DEC – made up mostly of White men – has patrolled numerous peaceful racial justice protests from afar, its members have also intimidated and threatened protesters, including teenagers, and incited violence at events that were otherwise calm.

DEC’s founder, Justin Haskins, was among those who traveled to Washington for the vote certification.

According to Haskins’ statement, he did not enter the Capitol and was conflicted about what was going on. Then he said:

It’s our constitutional duty to overthrow a tyrannical government. At what point do you stop waving your dumbass flags and yelling your stupid chants and start taking this country back just like the patriots of 1776 did?

I have a lot of problems with some of the statements here.

First, I don’t know a single person in this country who is not “pro-police.” What’s the big deal about being pro-police?

Second, I don’t know a single person in this country who is not “pro-law and order.” Our current president has called himself the law and order president and I just happen to think that he has been governing opposite to that ideal, as opposite as you can get. How then can you be pro-law and order and at the same time support Trump?

Third, how can you be pro-law and order and anti-Black Lives Matter? BLM is about bringing change to a system to reduce the killings of unarmed, innocent Black men by police. I would lump that under law and order.

Fourth, Haskins compares himself to the patriots of 1776. No, Mr. Haskins, you are no Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. The situation in 1776 was entirely different from what is going on right now, and the comparison is as dumbass as the Trump flag-waving and as stupid as his chants.

Then, Haskins says it’s his duty to overthrow a tyrannical government? Huh, the government has been Trump for the last four years. This current situation of chaos and mayhem is the result of four years of governing by a man who proclaims to be the law and order president. We are currently living in Trump’s America that is great again.

Yes, many people wanted to overthrow it. I did too. And we did it by the means given to us by the Constitution, by voting. And we voted using voting systems and processes in 50 different states based on the local laws, as dictated in the Constitution. And we did it in an electoral environment where the Trump administration had four years to make sure that elections can be secure and legal. And we did it while being monitored and watched by our law enforcement agencies, under Trump, as stated by Trump’s CISA Director Christopher Krebs. Our 2020 elections were the most secure in modern history. And we did it so well that 70 different law suits by the Trump campaign after the election resulted in zero cases won.

In the United States of America, we “overthrow” our government by the will of the people – by voting. We voted.

I urge Haskins to go out and mobilize his constituents, convince us with cogent arguments, and we’ll vote for his candidates in 2022. If he needs guidance on how this is done, he can always call a woman in Georgia by the name of Stacey Abrams. She knows a thing or two about how to mobilize voters.

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed….and we will deserve it.

When Trump was elected in November 2016, the Republican Party controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress.

I see that there is a claim of 66,248 underage teenagers having voted in Georgia.

There are 10.6 million people living in Georgia. 211,522 are between the ages of 15 and 17 (not yet 18). This would mean that one third of all teenagers between 15 and 17 somehow managed to vote illegally.

I remember when I was a teenager. Voting was all the rage. Forget about fake IDs to get into bars or to buy booze (when the drinking age in New York was 18), forget about parties, dances and girls. All we wanted was to cast our votes in presidential elections, and all of us only wanted to vote for the Democratic candidates!

Seriously.

As the national uproar confirms, Trump’s attempt to subvert and overturn the election now has a handful of members of the Senate and Congress bought into the scheme. They are actively trying just that: Invalidate a proper election, according to Trump’s own officials, the most secure election in history. Here are the facts:

Trump won 2016 with 306 electoral votes and he lost the popular vote.

Biden won 2020 with 306 electoral votes and he won the popular vote by over seven million votes.

Trump called his own election in 2016 a landslide. Biden won by the same “landslide” and largest popular vote difference ever.

I don’t think the rogue GOP members will this off, and our democracy will prevail. However, we just happen to have the House of Representatives under control of the Democratic Party. I shudder to think what would be taking place right now if the House were under Republican control. They might just have succeeded.

There are now elected senators and congressmen who are actively trying to stage a coup. I don’t have a better word for what’s going on right now. If it were to succeed this time, there would never again be normal elections in the United States. There’d be sham elections, like they have them in Russia, or they used to in Iraq, when we laughed about them. We would have a one-party system, with strongmen at the top, running things like mob bosses, running the country like Trump has in the last four years.

Look at 2020, and you see Trump’s America. It is not “great” to say the least. It’s a dumpster fire out there.

I believe the activities of the president and key members of Congress cannot be swept under the rug of history. These activities need to be exposed for all to see, and we need new laws in place so they can never happen again. Elections in America have always been sacred. Every transition of power has occurred peacefully after the people have spoken – until now. I believe this has been extremely dangerous to our democracy or country. This is NOT patriotic. This is seditious.

Officials finally found a case of voter fraud, where a dead person actually voted. According to Business Insider, Bruce Bartman, a 70-year-old resident of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, registered his dead mother as a voter and voted on her behalf for Donald Trump. Prosecutors say this is the only confirmed voter fraud they found in their county, after looking into hundreds of leads. The penalty, if convicted, could be as much as 19 years in prison.

Voter fraud is found to be rare in the US. A database maintained by the conservative Heritage Foundation identified 193 criminal convictions, civil penalties, diversions, or other official findings for fraudulent use of mail ballots between 2000 and 2020, a time period during which approximately 250 million mail ballots were cast.

Let’s remember this when Republicans claim having to rein in massive voter fraud when they try to make it harder for people, particularly the poor and minorities, to vote.