They say words are a powerful thing? People are influenced everyday by words. A salesperson, an elected official, an attorney, and countless other professionals use words to convince people of whatever it is that they want to convince them of. As someone who has spent most of my life in sales or front facing customer support, I can assure you that some people are more susceptible than others to the use of fancy wording.
When it came to the 2016 election, Democrats made use of the term "collusion" as their bread and butter. Hillary Clinton and most every Democrat in Congress demanded that Trump's victory was illegitimate based on "collusion" and pretty much everyone who votes Democrat fell in line. After challenging the election in court, having Congress members challenge and vote against the Electoral College vote, having three separate Congressional investigations, an FBI investigation, and a two year special counsel, it turned out that the only evidence of collusion was a made up dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton.
Now after spending over two years demanding that the 2016 election was illegitimate because of "collusion" that never existed, the Democrats upset that many people feel that the 2020 election had issues with election fraud. Specifically five states (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona) have been singled out as having results affected by potential fraud. Already an Arizona audit found over 50,000 questionable ballots, in Wisconsin lawsuits attempting to garner information on whether 9 million dollars was spent on illegal vote drives in heavy Democratic areas, Election officials in Pennsylvania have been caught on tape destroying election documents for fear of an audit there. Huge unexplained counting anomalies took place in Michigan and Georgia and nobody had provide any explanations. Lawsuits in every states have been filed attempting to prevent audits and second looks.
But just as the perfectly legal Trump victory in 2016 was marred with the term "collusion" the questions about the 2020 election have been discounted by the terms "big lie" and "insurrection". The logic is lacking, but the pretense appears that anyone who believes either that there was fraud or refuses to accept the charges that 500 unarmed Americans were trying to take over the US Government is part of some evil cult and should likely be sent to jail and have the key thrown away.
There is no evidence or any logic involved here. Just as people were entitled to believe in the fantasicle election collusion where Trump stole the election with the help of Vladimir Putin, people have the same first amendment right to believe that 2020 was riddled with fraud. Just as it was not illegal to challenge the 2016 results in court (as happened), not illegal to challenge the electoral college vote in 2016 (as many Democrats in Congress did in 2016), it was perfectly legal to do the same in 2020.
While it is illegal to storm the Capitol grounds for any reason, it is not illegal to believe that it was not an attempt at a coup or insurrection. It is also not illegal for others not associated with it to believe it was somewhat justified, nor is it illegal for a President to have "not done more to stop it". It is not a lie to say it was a riot, not unlike the Kavanaugh riots which saw hundreds of angry Democrats filtering through the capital compound attempting to find the Senate committee and prevent their vote.
The reality here folks, is that the bigger lie is coming from Democrats and others who once again are just "defining" their own reality... where doing the exact same thing they did in 2016 is now treason or somehow against the integrity of the US constitution. Where they want you to believe that somehow 500 unarmed and unorganized people were involved with an attempt to overthrow the United States Government.
None of this stuff makes any sense from the outside looking in. Had you asked people two years ago if 500 unarmed people breaking into the Capitol compound to protest election results was an attempt to overthrow the Government, almost nobody would have agreed it was. But give politicians a forum and the ability to use their "words" and their sheep will follow.
203 comments:
1 – 200 of 203 Newer› Newest»Roger AmickJanuary 3, 2022 at 1:56 PM
You (RRB) have zero knowledge about economics. All you have are right wing nutcase websites and you don't understand Keynesian economics
Roger, Please explain, in your own words what you *think* " Keynesian economics" is?
In a matter of years, the United States' deeply flawed and increasingly fragile democratic system could collapse under the weight of a long-running reactionary onslaught and be replaced by a right-wing dictatorship—one for which former President Donald Trump was "just a warm-up act."
Ch says,
While it is illegal to storm the Capitol grounds for any reason, it is not illegal to believe that it was not an attempt at a coup or insurrection.
decent truthteller says,
No, it is not illegal to BELIEVE that. But it IS illegal to DO that. And it is also illegal for Trump to have encouraged that in an attempt to overthrow the result of a legitmate election. THAT is both illegal and criminal and prosecutable.
Ch says:
It is not illegal for others not associated with it to believe it was somewhat justified, nor is it illegal for a President to have "not done more to stop it".
truthteller says:
But it IS illegal for Trump to have instigated it and then tried to use it to overthrow a legitimate election, and if that becomes clear, as I think it will, he can be indicted and put on trial.
Ch says
None of this stuff makes any sense from the outside looking in. Had you asked people two years ago if 500 unarmed people breaking into the Capitol compound to protest election results was an attempt to overthrow the Government, almost nobody would have agreed it was.
truthteller says
They were not merely trying to "protest" the counting of the votes, they were trying violently to STOP the counting of the votes.
THAT is both illegal and criminally prosecutable.
Politico let the cat out of the bag on this:
“A small group of Senate Democrats have met quietly with Manchin to gauge his openness to changing Senate rules. While an outright elimination is off the table, Democrats are trying to see whether Manchin and Sinema are open to other proposals, like bringing back the talking filibuster.
Schumer and Senate dems are panicked because they know that their only shot at winning in the mid-terms is passing H.R.1.
In order to win THEY MUST change the rules of the game to secure the steal.
Roger, Please explain, in your own words what you *think* " Keynesian economics" is?
To me, Keynesian Economics can be distilled down to having John dig a hole and having Bob fill the hole with the government paying both of them for the pleasure.
Kinda like blowing $817 BILLION for shovel ready jobs that were never ready and required no shovels.
Even 0linsky himself cracked up laughing over THAT line of bullshit.
Trump has endorsed the right wing nutcase in in Hungary...Because
Trump has endorsed him for the same reasons he wants to do if he is elected as the First Dictator in America history.
And if he wins, he will not be the last Dictator of the United States of America.
Trump supporters are rewriting election laws to favor the Republican's party, it's happening in 32 states, Jim Crow 3.0, changing school textbooks,CRT overhauling the country’s Constitution and changing the composition of the judiciary. He already did that!
Former President Donald J. Trump endorsed Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, on Monday, formally pledging his “complete support” to a far-right foreign leader who has touted turning Hungary into an “illiberal democracy.”
Mr. Orban and his party have steadily consolidated power in Hungary by weakening the country’s independent and democratic institutions —rewriting election laws to favor his Fidesz party, changing school textbooks, curbing press freedoms, overhauling the country’s Constitution and changing the composition of the judiciary.
But it escapes your mind.
The fascist movement is spreading across Europe.
Unless the President finally grow testicles our wonderful but flawed system eventually die. Because millions of people like you don't care.
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
Democrats don't give two damns about January 6. They care about exploiting January 6 in order to push forward an agenda to kill the filibuster and mandate corruption-ridden voting practices nationwide. This, from Politico, is the whole ballgame.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1478021145806974995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1478021145806974995%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsarahd-313035%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fben-shapiro-spots-politico-zeroing-in-on-democrats-whole-ballgame-when-it-comes-to-january-6%2F
Corrections
Unless the Republicans finally grow testicles our wonderful but flawed system eventually die. Because millions of people like you don't care.
the weight of a long-running reactionary onslaught and be replaced by a right-wing dictatorship—one for which former President Donald Trump was "just a warm-up act."
This man needs help.
Suffice to say Roger's rants are in decline.
Mr. Orban and his party have steadily consolidated power in Hungary by weakening the country’s independent and democratic institutions —rewriting election laws to favor his Fidesz party, changing school textbooks, curbing press freedoms, overhauling the country’s Constitution and changing the composition of the judiciary.
What a coincidence, alky.
Orban is doing the exact same thing over there that American leftists are doing over here.
rewriting election laws to favor his Fidesz party
See: H.R.1
changing school textbooks
See: the introduction of child pornography and CRT into public school curriculum's across the nation.
overhauling the country’s Constitution and changing the composition of the judiciary.
See: Proposing elimination of the filibuster (not constitutional but a centuries-old senate rule), advocating for packing the USSC, and remanding Jan 6. prisoners to de facto life sentences, suspending their right to a speedy trial, a crystal clear violation of the protestors 6th Amendment rights.
In fact, it's DEMOCRATS who most closely resemble the measures Orban proposes.
Char-Lee the Tran-Nee must've refreshed you psychological projection account for Christmas.
In case anyone missed the Fantasy update by Roger.
He is dating two hot woman.
He is marrying one in July, 2022.
Moving to Bonney Lake, Washington .
Suffice to say Roger's rants are in decline.
He's fucked.
Now it's so obvious you don't have to be a blog regular to see it. It's THAT obvious.
The alky and Slow Joe are in a race to the grave.
Scott another reason why he endorsed him.
No Mooslimbs
Mr. Orban’s party adopted the new Constitution and a new media law that curbed press freedom. It overhauled the country’s justice system, removed the head of its Supreme Court and created an office to oversee the courts led by the wife of a prominent member of the governing party, Fidesz. Election laws were changed to favor the party.
External factors strengthened Mr. Orban as well, including in 2015 when a record number of migrants made their way to Europe and when the right-wing Law and Justice party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski came to power in Poland. He suddenly had an ally there, and his tough stance against migrants won him support elsewhere, too. By racist rodent bastards. And unfortunately you
They were not merely trying to "protest" the counting of the votes, they were trying violently to STOP the counting of the votes
And the rioters who stormed the capitol complex looking for the Senate commitee week were looking to stop that commitee from completing that process. Just as they entered the USSC building looking to prevent the swearing in.
I hate to treat you like a child, but the reality that any adult would understand is that had any of those attenpts had succeeded, it would not have changed anything. Kavanough would have been confirmed and Biden would have been sworn in. These attempts would have at best delayed the inevitable.
Only a fool would think you can overturn a confirmation or election by delaying part of the process.
That is why these people are charged with obtructing a Congressional act, rather than insurrection.
You do understand this, right?
Democrats "exploiting" Jan 6.
If Obama had sent people storming the Capitol in an attempt to stop the counting of votes in an election he lost, does anyone think for a moment that the Republicans would not have been "exploiting" his doing that?
You can't comprehend.
If enough States had decided to turn the electoral vote in the house of Representatives, where each state was one vote. They would have declared him the winner of the electoral college votes. If even single state refused Trump's demands, he would be the President of the United States of America.
Each state has one vote.
Reverend
Trump stated that the protesters should march peacefully, provided multiple statements telling them to stop and go home.
There is no evidence that any of this was planned, no coordination from within the protesters, no evidence that Trump or anyone else knew before hand about any of it.
You need the participants to have been coordinated to suggest that someone else was pulling those strings.
Why did the House of Representatives decide the election of 1800?
In the election of 1800, the Federalist incumbent John Adams ran against the rising Republican Thomas Jefferson. ... Unfortunately，Jefferson and his vice-presidential running mate Aaron Burr both received the identical number of electoral votes, and the House of Representatives voted to break the tie.
Hate to treat Ch like a child, but his attempt to equate the Kavanaugh demonstrations with what took place at the Capitol were debunked way back in February.
Fact check: Post comparing Capitol riot to 2018 Kavanaugh protests lacks context
Rick Rouan
USA TODAY
The claim: In 2018, liberals and Democrats protesting against Judge Brett Kavanaugh stormed the Capitol and Supreme Court, disrupting and desecrating them
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FACTS: In the weeks since rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol apparently attempting to stop Congress from counting electoral votes that would confirm President Joe Biden’s election victory, some social media users have compared the Jan. 6 insurrection to other recent demonstrations.
One such post uses images of protesters demonstrating in late 2018, during the confirmation hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault as a teenager – an allegation he denied. An array of photos on the post shows protesters being removed by U.S. Capitol Police, pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court and occupying the Capitol steps.
It reads:
“No this was not yesterday. This was in 2018 when the liberals and Democrats stormed the Capitol building and the Supreme Court building and disrupted and desecrated them over Judge Kavanaugh, or did we all forget about that.”
The screenshot of that post has been viewed thousands of times on Facebook after being shared by dozens of individual users. The earliest identifiable individual who shared the post could not be reached for comment.
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Protests erupt during Kavanaugh hearings
While Kavanaugh answered questions from senators during his confirmation hearings, protesters demonstrated both inside and outside the U.S. Capitol and at the Supreme Court.
They were demonstrating after California professor Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh, initially in an anonymous letter and then in testimony during the confirmation hearings, of sexually assaulting her when the two were teenagers decades earlier. Kavanaugh, then a federal appeals court judge, vehemently denied the allegation.
While some people protested outside, others waited in line for tickets to the confirmation hearing, where they stood to disrupt senators' questioning of Kavanaugh, according to Reuters.
Inside the Hart Senate Office Building, protesters unfurled banners and even directly confronted Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., according to USA TODAY. Several were taken out of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in plastic cuffs.
While protesters did push past a police barricade in front of the steps of the Supreme Court to pound on its doors, according to NBC News, USA TODAY could find no reference to protesters entering the Supreme Court building.
Capitol Police said in a press release they arrested more than 100 people for infractions that ranged from crowding and obstructing to unlawful conduct on Oct. 5, 2018, but The Washington Post reported that nearly 300 protesters had been arrested.
That followed hundreds of protesters arrested during earlier hearings, including about 200 in early September 2018, mostly for disorderly conduct, according to Reuters.
USA TODAY could find no reference to those protesters damaging the Supreme Court or Capitol, which was open to the public in 2018. During the Jan. 6 riot, though, the Capitol and its visitors center were closed to the public, including tours led by members of Congress and their staff, according to a security notice sent to all members of Congress.
The six photos used in the viral post are cropped and sourced from Reuters, the Associated Press and Getty Images, which covered the events.
Alky, your ignorance of the electoral process is only exceeded by your ignorance of economics.
How I wish you were counsel to the Jan. 6 clown car committee.
Fact check:
What's true about the Capitol riot
Capitol riot turns violent
Although both demonstrations brought thousands of people to the Capitol, the Jan. 6 insurrection that followed a speech from then-President Donald Trump left both demonstrators and police injured or, in some cases, dead.
Video and images from the riot show demonstrators beating a police officer with objects, including a hockey stick; assaulting a photographer; carrying zip-tie handcuffs, and breaking out windows in the Capitol.
U.S. Capitol Police also reported that two pipe bombs were discovered nearby during the demonstrations.
“These individuals actively attacked United States Capitol Police Officers and other uniformed law enforcement officers with metal pipes, discharged chemical irritants, and took up other weapons against our officers. They were determined to enter into the Capitol Building by causing great damage,” now-former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said in a prepared statement.
A Capitol police officer died from injuries sustained during the riot, according to the department, and a Capitol police officer shot and killed a woman who was trying to enter the Speaker’s Lobby through a broken window.
Three other people died from medical emergencies during the demonstration.
As of Feb. 1, the Department of Justice has announced federal charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection against 160 people from across the country. THAT NUMBER HAS NOW DRAMATCIALLY INCREASED. Charges include assault of a federal officer, carrying a gun or ammunition on Capitol grounds, violent entry on Capitol grounds and theft of government property, among others.
Our ruling: Missing context
A post equating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to 2018 demonstrations against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is MISSING CONTEXT, based on our research, because without additional information it could be misleading. Photos in the post authentically represent the 2018 protests, but the text leaves out key differences between the demonstrations, including violence during the Jan. 6 riot that resulted in the death of a U.S. Capitol Police officer and a demonstrator. Protesters also did not enter the Supreme Court in 2018, as the post claims. The Capitol was open to the public in 2018, but closed during the Jan. 6 riot.
SO HANG IT UP, CH.
If Obama had sent people storming the Capitol in an attempt to stop the counting of votes in an election he lost, does anyone think for a moment that the Republicans would not have been "exploiting" his doing that?
We had that happen with Democrats encouraging protesters to riot over the Kavanough confirmation. We had Democrats cheer their actions and claim they were justified
Can you tell which Republicans exploited that?
Well that settles it.
A USA Today "Fact Check" (LOL), especially in bold is the ultimate mic drop.
LMAO at the knee-slapping-est knee slapper since human beings started slapping knees when they laughed at something so knee-slappingly funny they just involuntarily started slapping their knee when they heard a funny.
Ch said:
Reverend
Trump stated that the protesters should march peacefully, provided multiple statements telling them to stop and go home.
HA HA HA HA
Those few "multiple statements" came only after hours of Trump supporters, including his own daughter and son, repeatedly begging and begging him to make them.
Epic fail, Ch. Hang it up.
Still pushing the FLAT OUT LIE that a police officer died, when the Dr and department eventually admitted it was a stroke that took place the next day.
Anyone willing TO LIE ABOUT MURDER is to be ignored. Nobody was charged with murder because nobody was murdered. Just like nobody was charged with insurrection because there was no insurrection.
Pretty simple when you stick to the truth Reverend.
Sorry if the truth clashes with those dishonest lies pushed as opinion.
🇨🇳The article is saying port bottle necks are driving inflation.....get them flowing and open again and you can control inflation😃
Scott, the house of representatives investigation into the January 6th inciden, already have considerable evidence that when he knew and what he did.
If they find credible evidence that when he knew and what he did, the Department of Justice can hold Grand Jury hearing. He could actually be held in contempt. And if the Supreme Court decision doesn't allow executive privilege, the FBI could have him arrested, and because 5th of rights don't apply in a Grand Jury hearing, he would be indicted for sedition, or Obstruction of congressional proceedings like the attempted coup on January 6th.
Well Reverend.
What time did he actually tell anyone to storm the capitol.
I'll wait
Distrusting hearings on Supreme Court justices is not the same thing as the Insurrection on January 6th last year and nobody died.
Roger , supported by Dennis , stated the Dems are practicing " Keynesian Economics"
Ok, what bill contains the Tax Cuts?
Ivanka Asked Her Father to ‘Stop the Violence’
January 2, 2022 at 11:19 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 146 Comments
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that the House committee investigating Jan. 6 has received testimony that then-President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, repeatedly asked her father to intervene to stop the attack on the Capitol, The Hill reports.
Said Cheney:
“We know his daughter — we have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to ‘please stop this violence.”
She added:
“The committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television as the assault on the Capitol occurred.”
________
Hours passed before Trump finally made his "multiple (HA!) statements."
We had that happen with Democrats encouraging protesters to riot over the Kavanough confirmation. We had Democrats cheer their actions and claim they were justified
All encouraged by no less than the Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer who received a written public rebuke from CJ Roberts admonishing his asshole behavior.
Maybe 'pastor' pederast the liar can point us to the member of the GOP who did the same on Jan. 6.
.
CHT, Roger said, Trump didn't need to actually tell the Republican Peaceful Protestors to do anything, that they "knew".
Just stop it alky.
You're beyond embarrassing yourself.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
CHT, Roger said, Trump didn't need to actually tell the Republican Peaceful Protestors to do anything, that they "knew".
All of the protestors had ESPN or something...
LOL.
Roger is two timing to former models.
Wow, the fantasy life in his head grows each day.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Why did the House of Representatives decide the election of 1800?
In the election of 1800, the Federalist incumbent John Adams ran against the rising Republican Thomas Jefferson. ... Unfortunately，Jefferson and his vice-presidential running mate Aaron Burr both received the identical number of electoral votes, and the House of Representatives voted to break the tie.
Alky the R’s weren’t founded until 1854. Jefferson was a Democratic-Republican. I’d think a history buff would know this
Newsweek: The Acting Attorney General of the DOJ Unilaterally Deployed Secret Commandos to the Capitol on January 6 with Shoot-to-Kill Orders
Supposedly, they were deployed to "protect Trump and Pence."
Anyone believe that?
Also note that the DOJ decided to do this themselves, without anyone asking them to.
I believe that Barr had left by this time, leaving Jeffrey Rosen as Acting AG.
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-secret-commandos-shoot-kill-authority-were-capitol-1661330
Exclusive: Secret Commandos with Shoot-to-Kill Authority Were at the Capitol
On Sunday, January 3, the heads of a half-dozen elite government special operations teams met in Quantico, Virginia, to go over potential threats, contingencies, and plans for the upcoming Joint Session of Congress. The meeting, and the subsequent deployment of these shadowy commandos on January 6, has never before been revealed.
Right after the New Year, Jeffrey A. Rosen, the acting Attorney General on January 6, approved implementation of long-standing contingency plans dealing with the most extreme possibilities: an attack on President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence, a terrorist attack involving a weapon of mass destruction, and a declaration of measures to implement continuity of government, requiring protection and movement of presidential successors.
Rosen made a unilateral decision to take the preparatory steps to deploy Justice Department and so-called "national" forces. There was no formal request from the U.S. Capitol Police, the Secret Service, or the Metropolitan Police Department--in fact, no external request from any agency. The leadership in Justice and the FBI anticipated the worst and decided to act independently, the special operations forces lurking behind the scenes.
The media is pushing every January 6th story they can. It's a full-court press. Flood-the-zone treatment.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/397212.php
Alky the R’s weren’t founded until 1854. Jefferson was a Democratic-Republican. I’d think a history buff would know this
I tried telling him to stick to economics...
LOL.
Said Cheney:
“We know his daughter — we have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to ‘please stop this violence.”
We'll just never know WHO provided the "firsthand"(LOL) "testimony."
With 99.8% of the MSM very clearly on your side, there's no end to the claims you can make that they'll surely print/broadcast.
Winter is Winter crushing the US . With 1 million people with out power in sub freezing temps.
Good news odds are there are a few thousand that heat with wood and will be just fine.
Self Reliance is power.
"I tried telling him to stick to economics...
LOL."
Yeah, now that is funny shit
The timeline.
Trump rallies his supporters as Congress convenes
Crowds began forming early in the morning on the White House Ellipse for Trump’s “Save America” rally. During his speech, Trump reiterated multiple falsehoods, claiming the election was rigged and that Democrats had committed voter fraud. By midday, the Capitol was buzzing as Congress convened in a joint session and pro-Trump protesters began to gather around the building’s perimeter.
2:10 a.m. on Jan. 6
Georgia Senate runoff is called for Raphael Warnock (D), who will be the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from a former Confederate state. Read more →
Alison Bates, left, and Wendy Ahrenkiel pray before the results come in for the Georgia Senate runoffs.
Alison Bates, left, and Wendy Ahrenkiel pray before the results come in for the Georgia Senate runoffs. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
8:17 a.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
Early morning
Trump supporters amass on the Ellipse near the White House. By 11 a.m. the mostly maskless crowd filled the area. Read more →
Supporters of President Trump gather in Washington on Wednesday.
Supporters of President Trump gather in Washington on Wednesday. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)
Noon
Trump begins his more than one-hour speech, repeating false claims about a stolen election and telling the crowd to “never give up” and “never concede.” Read more →
Trump gestures as he delivers a more than one-hour speech on Wednesday. The speech was filled with falsehoods.
Trump gestures as he delivers a more than one-hour speech on Wednesday. The speech was filled with falsehoods. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)
Noon
Trump supporters, some armed with guns and riot shields, gather in front of the Arkansas Capitol in Little Rock, while protesters at the Idaho Capitol in Boise remain peaceful. Read more →
12:30 p.m.
Crowds from the pro-Trump rally gather outside the U.S. Capitol building.
Trump supporters assemble outside the U.S. Capitol building.
Trump supporters assemble outside the U.S. Capitol building. (Amanda Voisard for The Washington Post)
1 p.m.
An initial wave of protesters storms the outer barricade west of the Capitol building as senators and Vice President Pence walk to the House chamber. Read more →
0:26
Rioters topple barricades in front of the Capitol on the west side. (Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful)
1:05 p.m.
Congress meets in a joint session to confirm Joe Biden’s win, over the objections of some Republicans. Shortly before he opens the session, Pence releases a letter, saying he won’t intervene in Congress’s electoral count. “My oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority,” he says. Read more →
Congress holds a joint session to count and formally certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Congress holds a joint session to count and formally certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
1:10 p.m.
Trump ends his speech by urging his followers to march down Pennsylvania Avenue. “We’re going to the Capitol,” he said. “We’re going to try and give them [Republicans] the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.” Read more →
1:10
“If you don't fight ... you're not going to have a country anymore,” President Trump told supporters in D.C. Jan. 6, before rioters breached the U.S. Capitol. (The Washington Post)
Pro-Trump mob breaches Capitol, forces Congress to adjourn
Soon after Trump ended his speech, violence broke out as a mob forced its way into the Capitol building. They broke down doors and shattered windows to enter, forcing Congress to adjourn and take shelter. Smaller demonstrations began around the country.
1:12 p.m.
Republicans, led by Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), object to certifying Arizona’s electoral college votes. The joint session then separates into House and Senate chambers to debate the objection. Read more →
Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) objects to the certification of his state’s election results.
Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) objects to the certification of his state’s election results. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
1:30 p.m.
Hundreds rally in front of the Michigan Capitol. Armed protesters had previously stormed the building on April 30 protesting against coronavirus restrictions. Read more →
1:30 p.m.
After Trump’s speech, supporters begin marching toward the U.S. Capitol. Read more →
Trump supporters make their way up Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol.
Trump supporters make their way up Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)
1:30 p.m.
The crowd outside the building grows larger, eventually overtaking Capitol Police and making their way up the steps. Read more →
Supporters of President Trump crossed barricades and began marching toward the back of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (The Washington Post)
1:35 p.m.
During debate in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warns that overturning Biden’s election would push democracy into a “death spiral.” Read more →
8:38
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called for senators to reject the effort to “overturn" the election during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. (The Washington Post)
Shortly after 1:30 p.m.
Suspicious packages, later confirmed to be pipe bombs, are found at Republican National Committee headquarters and Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. Nearby buildings are evacuated. Read more →
A map shows the locations of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee.
A map shows the locations of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee. (Tim Meko/The Washington Post)
Sorry to keep you waiting, Ch.
After repeatedly lying about how the election had been stolen, Trump sent the crowds marching down Pennsyvania avenue, telling them, "we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore."
He then concluded by admonishing the crowds he was sending to the Capitol to give the Republicans what they needed "to take back our country."
__________
Still more important, perhaps, will be evidence that is now being amassed about what else went on that day, especially in conversations Trump was having with others as he tried to persuade them to commit anarchy.
Schumer says the quiet part out loud -
“Let me be clear: January 6th was a symptom of a broader illness — an effort to delegitimize our election process," Schumer wrote, “and the Senate must advance systemic democracy reforms to repair our republic or else the events of that day will not be an aberration — they will be the new norm.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/schumer-senate-vote-filibuster-change-voting-bill-82052370?cid=social_twitter_abcnp
These thieving cocksuckers are using Jan. 6 to change the rules so they can steal elections and remain in power forever.
And the alky insisted that it was MJ Greene who was pining for a hot civil war.
Around 2:15 p.m.
The pro-Trump mob breaches the Capitol, breaking windows and climbing inside the building, then opening doors for others to follow. Read more →
A pro-Trump mob breaks into the Capitol building.
A pro-Trump mob breaks into the Capitol building. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
By 2:20 p.m.
Both houses of Congress adjourn and start to evacuate as rioters force their way farther into the Capitol. Read more →
People shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House chamber.
People shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House chamber. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
2:24 p.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
2:38 p.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”
3-3:40 p.m.
Protesters gather at the Louisiana Capitol, Florida Capitol and Ohio Statehouse. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) — who had rebuffed Trump’s attempts to alter election results in the state in the president’s favor and who has been repeatedly attacked for it — evacuates his office, along with his staff. The Utah and New Mexico capitols are also evacuated. Read more →
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) exits the Georgia Capitol after hearing reports of threats in Atlanta.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) exits the Georgia Capitol after hearing reports of threats in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP)
Before 3:15 p.m.
Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and avid Trump supporter, is shot by Capitol Police while trying to get into the Speaker’s Lobby. Read more →
3:13 p.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
8:17 AM until 3:13 PM on January 6th
He told them to quit the coup 7 hours and 58 minutes after .
Here it comes.
Defeated in the economic debate.
Alky spam.
Around 2:15 p.m.
The pro-Trump mob breaches the Capitol, breaking windows and climbing inside the building, then opening doors for others to follow. Read more →
A pro-Trump mob breaks into the Capitol building.
A pro-Trump mob breaks into the Capitol building. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
By 2:20 p.m.
Both houses of Congress adjourn and start to evacuate as rioters force their way farther into the Capitol. Read more →
People shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House chamber.
People shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House chamber. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
2:24 p.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
2:38 p.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”
3-3:40 p.m.
Protesters gather at the Louisiana Capitol, Florida Capitol and Ohio Statehouse. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) — who had rebuffed Trump’s attempts to alter election results in the state in the president’s favor and who has been repeatedly attacked for it — evacuates his office, along with his staff. The Utah and New Mexico capitols are also evacuated. Read more →
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) exits the Georgia Capitol after hearing reports of threats in Atlanta.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) exits the Georgia Capitol after hearing reports of threats in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP)
Before 3:15 p.m.
Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and avid Trump supporter, is shot by Capitol Police while trying to get into the Speaker’s Lobby. Read more →
3:13 p.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
8:17 AM until 3:13 PM on January 6th
He told them to quit the coup 7 hours and 58 minutes after .
Lots of words Reverend...
Nothing from Trump telling anyone to riot or storm the capital.
Do you understand the request?
I'll wait...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/capitol-insurrection-visual-timeline/
You are a traitor Scott Johnson schizophrenia
8:17 a.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
3:13 p.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
8:17 AM until 3:13 PM on January 6th
He told them to quit the coup 7 hours and 58 minutes after .
KansasDemocrat said...
Here it comes.
Defeated in the economic debate.
Alky spam.
Yep.
Every time he get's his ass dragged/kicked on a topic we get an alky-lanche of irrelevant bullshit.
@realDonaldTrump
“States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
3:13 p.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
So...
show us the illegal actions in those tweets, alky.
Like CH, I'll wait.
All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States
The house of Representatives States have one vote per state.
But more states have Republican majorities, the house of representatives could have declared Trump as the President elect. Until January 20th.
Where they want you to believe that somehow 500 unarmed and unorganized people were involved with an attempt to overthrow the United States Government.
AND YOU WANT TO BELIEVE TRUMP REALLY WON BY A LANDSLIDE!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You and your minions must think 100% of the population is as fucking dumb as you are!!!!!!
Ot super Bowl games since I watched Green Bay instead of the Rams..
favorites
Green Bay Packers: The Green Bay Packers have clinched the number one seed in the NFC. Aaron Rodgers is a huge favorite to repeat as league MVP. The NFC playoffs will go through Lambeau and this team looks to be firing on all cylinders. Green Bay is currently +400 to win the Super Bowl, the best odds of any team.
GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN - JANUARY 02: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers celebrates after a touchdown during the 3rd quarter of the game against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on January 02, 2022 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers are favorites to win the Super Bowl. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
Kansas City Chiefs: Despite losing a shootout against the Bengals, the Chiefs are still the favorites to come out of the AFC. The defense was exposed for the first time in a while in Week 17, but the offense looks to be returning to their expected form. Kansas City is +500 to win the Super Bowl.
After repeatedly lying about how the election had been stolen, Trump sent the crowds marching down Pennsyvania avenue, telling them, "we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore."
He then concluded by admonishing the crowds he was sending to the Capitol to give the Republicans what they needed "to take back our country."
I provided the timeline and the Constitutional rights, Scott will ignore me or the usual nursing home old TDS infected liberal Democrat
8:17 AM Twitter tirade until 3:13 PM on January 6th
He told them to quit the coup 7 hours and 58 minutes after he gave them orders by the President!
All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States
Alky enlighten yourself on the verbiage “contingent election”. First there can’t be a majority of EC for either.
8:17 AM Twitter tirade until 3:13 PM on January 6th
He told them to quit the coup 7 hours and 58 minutes after he gave them orders by the President!
I'm repeatedly pointing out, not because I am demented. To shove your lies into your ass.
Alky even your example explains this you sot
In the election of 1800, the Federalist incumbent John Adams ran against the rising Republican Thomas Jefferson. ... Unfortunately，Jefferson and his vice-presidential running mate Aaron Burr both received the identical number of electoral votes, and the House of Representatives voted to break the tie.
Whomever was/is VP couldn’t Willy Nilly send it to the states
Hey shorty......glad to see you to are believer of the big lie.....sad what little brain you have is now wasted by a demented party trying to keep power by letting the states decide who won!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA@!!!
Alky enlighten yourself on the verbiage “contingent election”. First there can’t be a majority of EC for either.
The alky has absolutely no knowledge of the process or what he's even arguing.
Hey alky -
How many folks have been charged with "insurrection" "sedition" and/or "treason?"
THWAP!!!
No fatboi I don’t believe Roger’s lie, you stupid fuck
Now inhale a pie and get that last word
I'm repeatedly pointing out, not because I am demented.
Uh yeah alky... you're fucking demented.
Let the 5th Beatle comment for a while and you can go jerk off to the photos of your "girlfriend." California probably pays for your viagra anyway
You were triggered by the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, that triggered your adrenal glands.
More words in bold Reverend.
No statements from Trump telling anyone to storm the capitol.
Are you giving up.
If neither candidate gets a majority of the 538 electoral votes, the election for President is decided in the House of Representatives, with each state delegation having one vote.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
You were triggered by the Brett Kavanaugh hearings...
No alky. Not triggered. I'm not a leftist. Shit doesn't trigger me.
But it is ironic that you would contrast those hearings to Jan. 6, since Chuck Schumer DID IN FACT openly threaten the USSC to a point that Roberts had to issue a public response. And a riotous mob DID storm the USSC with the intent of causing physical harm to the justices INSPIRED by Schumer.
So everything you claimed to have happened on Jan. 6 DID happen re: Kavanaugh.
Ironic, no?
LOL.
THWAP!!!
An overt threat from Schumer -
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts publicly chastised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday over comments Schumer made outside the Supreme Court as the justices were hearing a case on abortion rights.
Schumer, D-N.Y., suggested that President Donald Trump's court appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, "won't know what hit" them if they vote to uphold abortion restrictions. He spoke during a rally on the sidewalk in front of the court building.
"I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," Schumer said.
In a highly unusual written statement issued late Wednesday, Roberts said, "Statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous."
"All members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter," Roberts said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/rare-rebuke-chief-justice-roberts-slams-schumer-threatening-comments-n1150036
It was over abortion, not Kavanaugh specifically, but targeting him specifically.
8:17 a.m.
@realDonaldTrump
“States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States,AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
If neither candidate gets a majority of the 538 electoral votes, the election for President is decided in the House of Representatives, with each state delegation having one vote.
So it’s now your claim Mike Pence could Willy Nilly ignore the EC.
Stupid fuck quit while you are behind and thanks for proving my point
And I note you are basing your claim on something Bad Orange man said rather than relying on your incredible knowledge of history and the Constitution
You know less about the process than Trump
LOL
All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States!
The Republicans and Mike Pence could have gotten 269 electoral votes in the Senate.
If neither candidate gets a majority of the 538 electoral votes, the election for President is decided in the House of Representatives, with each state delegation having one vote.
Scott the coup failed because Mike Pence is not a cultist like you.
Trump ordered "All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States!"
The Republicans and Mike Pence could have gotten 269 electoral votes in the Senate.
If neither candidate gets a majority of the 538 electoral votes, the election for President is decided in the House of Representatives, with each state delegation having one vote. Trump would have been declared the President elect by the house of Representatives.
Mike Pence will go down as the greatest American in history, if Trump doesn't win again.
Where in the fuck does Mike Pence have the authority to forgo the EC and send it to the states..
That’s your claim
The fever swamp your mind exists in is banal
Because he was the Chairman of the Senate hearing. He could have worked with the other Republican senators, he could have gotten a 269 vote tie.
But you don't understand the Constitution. I do .
He could have worked with the other Republican senators, he could have gotten a 269 vote tie.
Because he was the Chairman of the Senate hearing. He could have worked with the other Republican senators, he could have gotten a 269 vote tie.
Please enlighten us, as to how this magically could occur
I’ll wait
He knew that. I respect him despite being a liberal
Because they had the majority of Senators.
So the Senators could ignore the state electors?
The fervid swamp of what’s left of your mind Trump owns.
LMAO
Hey Alky your belief in this conspiracy theory is a beaut
Used cars up 39% since Biden took office. Average price 29k. More of that great economy Roger loves so much.
Yes
This is how you got Brainwashed!
A new Washington Post/University of Maryland poll finds that Republicans who watch Fox News are 15 points more likely to say the January 6 rioters at the U.S. Capitol were “mostly peaceful,” while Republicans who don’t watch Fox News were 16 points more likely to say the rioters were “mostly violent.”
Another shit poll pushed by the board horse's ass. 999 out of 1101 respondents were online. It's a fuckin online poll. And only 300 of the 1100 were Republican.
CH said:
No statements from Trump telling anyone to storm the capitol.
Decent Truth teller says:
There are videos in which the rioters were telling the police "President Trump sent us."
"You're outnumbered," one of the rioters in the video says to a Capitol police officer during the January 6 attack. "There's a f****** million of us out there and we are listening to Trump—your boss."
WHAT CRUZ SAID ABOUT CH'S "PEACEFUL PROTESTS'
"No one should be surprised to see Democrats playing politics and to see them try to attach strong conservative leaders. That's something Democrats have done for a long time. I do think it's really cynical for them to be trying to take advantage of what was a tragic event that occurred yesterday in Washington–the terrorist attack on the Capitol," Cruz said in a January 7 interview with Texas television station KTRK.
"It was despicable, those criminals who attacked the citadel of democracy. That was a horrific thing for our nation," Cruz added. "Every one of those terrorists who committed that attack needs to be prosecuted, fully prosecuted. They need to go to jail for a very long time."
A spokesperson for the Texas senator said in an emailed statement to Newsweek on Sunday: "As Senator Cruz has said repeatedly, the terrorist attack on the Capitol was reprehensible, and the criminals who carried out the attack should be fully prosecuted. He has been clear, consistent, and unequivocal: violence is always wrong—whether from Left or Right—and violent criminals should go to jail for a very long time."
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BUT CRUZ AND OTHER REPUBLICANS HAVE BACKTRACKED AND ARE NOT SAYING THAT NOW.
We know what he knew and what he did during the Insurrection attack on the Capitol building on January 6th in 2021.
Jan. 6 Committee vice-chair Liz Cheney publicly disclosed Sunday that a witness cooperating with the insurrection probe has privately testified that during the assault on the Capitol, former President Donald Trump sat by and watched it unfold on television as police were viciously beaten and his supporters overran the building.
This bit of information is something that has been widely suspected by those who have followed the committee’s investigation closely—and even by some who have not. Trump’s silence and inaction for 187 minutes on Jan. 6 were palpable as the riot exploded. But precisely what he was doing, who he spoke to, or what he said in that window remains, for now, a subject of some mystery.
We'll be finding out.
Merrick Garland Will Give Speech About January 6
January 3, 2022 at 6:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 137 Comments
Attorney General Merrick Garland will give a speech Wednesday about the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, stressing the department’s “unwavering commitment to defend Americans and American democracy from violence and threats of violence,” the Washington Post reports.
Cruz will be listening? Ch will be listening?
the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol
including Donald J. Trump
Decent, honest teller of truth said...
the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol
You fucking idiot
The Justice department is still hiding the bodycam and surveillance video, over 14,000 hours worth.
They still haven't identified those involved who were either FBI agents or informants
They still haven't identified the pipe bomber
Any honest investigation would have already addressed those
And there are more issues
Garland is another political hack
as is Wray
Here is what the President actually said
"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for [the] integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country. Our country has been under siege for a long time, far longer than this four-year period. If they don't fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight. You primary them. We're going to let you know who they are."
Now here is the reality...
Either you can accept what he actually said... which is how the law works. Or you can add about 101 different opinions about what he meant (but didn't actually say).
It's like saying... well yeah, that person didn't actually kill anyone. He didn't actually do anything that will kill someone. But based on my own convoluted logic regarding things non-specific to these events that this person (who didn't kill anyone or attempt to kill anyone) is a murderer.
Sometimes you can only prove that you cannot accept reality.
The more the Reverend and others try, they cannot change the fact that the President himself never told anyone to storm the Capital, in fact suggested that they would be peaceful and patriotic and the actual reference to "fighting" was actually clarified by suggesting a perfectly legal primary.
If you ignore what he said. Take bits and pieces of it out of context. Or repeat other "opinions" about what people "believe" he said...
Then you are being dishonest.
Plain and simple.
I prefer to be just honest... without having to spend 10,000 words to explain why the facts of the situation need to take a back seat to my opinion.
The FBI Is Not What It Used to Be
There was a time when every kid, and a lot of cops, fantasized about becoming FBI agents. Its agents were known as the best of the best.
That was then. After Mid-Year Exam, Crossfire Hurricane, and numerous other scandals, being a part of the FBI is no longer a thing of pride. Many retired agents admit to being embarrassed and ashamed of what the bureau has become.
When it comes to preventing crime, the FBI has dropped the ball far too many times. The FBI had credible warnings about the attack on 9/11, the Pulse Nightclub slaughter, the San Bernardino shooting, the Parkland school shooting, and even the Boston Marathon bombing. Yet somehow failed to take preventive action.
They’re no longer our guardians against public corruption either. They gave Hillary Clinton a pass for her email transgressions. They did an investigation in name only, that lasted months. Oddly, the FBI never served any subpoenas. The bureau even destroyed the evidence at the conclusion of the investigation. It’s almost as if they didn’t really want to find anything -- no?
Hillary Clinton, in collusion with the DNC, orchestrated the dirtiest trick in U.S. political history -- the fabricated Trump/Russian collusion tale. The FBI learned within two months that the whole thing was a setup. Yet they played along with the plan for three years -- even to the point of affecting the 2018 midterm election. Their investigation became the famous “insurance policy” against the Trump Presidency. Rather than ferreting out corruption, the FBI became enthusiastic participants.
Evidence of Biden family corruption is lying around everywhere -- in plain sight. Hunter Biden is selling kindergarten-level art to Chinese officials for half a million bucks a pop. His sales started right after his dad was inaugurated. Where’s the investigation? For that matter, what’s happening with Hunter’s laptop? It’s full of incriminating evidence. We’ve all seen it, and we know the “Big Guy” was getting 10%. But the FBI has been sitting on it for years.
Eric Swalwell was having an extramarital affair with a known Chinese spy. From an espionage perspective, it doesn’t get much riskier than that, especially with him sitting on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Has he been investigated? Nope. Has his security clearance been revoked? No again.
Now we’re learning that the FBI is not only turning a blind eye to corruption, but it’s also playing the game for petty personal gain too. In 2015 the FBI was contacted by a member of the U.S. Females Gymnastic Team with allegations of sexual assault. Special Agent in Charge Jay Abbot was placed in charge of the investigation. As a result of an inspector general’s report, we have learned that SAC Abbott made no arrests, asked for no indictments, but did seek employment with the pedophile’s employer -- the U.S. Olympic Committee. Who cares about little girls when there’s a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity?
The bureau has developed some impressive expertise at putting on a show for the news agencies too. They’ve dragged old men (Paul Manafort and Roger Stone), with no violent history, out of their homes at night at gunpoint, by an FBI SWAT team normally used for hostage situations and the arrest of heavily armed and dangerous fugitives. But CNN did have the cameras running, so they had to make a good show of it.
They raided the homes of Project Veritas reporters and tipped off the press that it had happened. Again, the raids were done at night, with overwhelming firepower, against reporters. That’s a violation of the 1st Amendment, numerous Supreme Court rulings, and FBI policy against leaking details of ongoing investigations. Of course, it was all done for a good cause, to find a -- wait for it -- missing diary. What was the federal crime? Does it matter anymore?
But recently, an even bigger question has arisen. Is the FBI investigating, or creating crimes? Over 500 U.S. citizens are being held without bond for the January 6 protest. We even know that a man named Ray Epps was one of the instigators of the Capitol break-in. Even though he is clearly seen on security video egging on the attack, he was taken off the FBI’s wanted list when internet sleuths located him. Is there any chance he was working for the FBI? Interesting, no? Isn’t it alarming that we have to ask?
The FBI heroically prevented a conspiracy to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer -- the governor of Michigan. Just like that, the embattled Whitmer (a Democrat) is no longer on the hot seat for being a COVID tyrant. Now she’s a victim. But as details have emerged, things have gotten interesting. A large number of conspirators were in fact FBI agents or informants. We’re assured by Special Agent Richard Trask that his people had no hand in instigating or planning the plot. That would be the same Richard Trask that was fired for beating his wife to a bloody pulp after a swinger’s party. Color me skeptical, but I’m going to need more than Trask’s word on the matter.
Won’t it be disturbing if we eventually discover that the FBI had a hand in instigating either January 6 or the Whitmer kidnapping? If so, it will be the dawn of a new method of law enforcement. Talk some poor morons into committing a crime, wait for them to do it, and then arrest them. It’s an efficient system, but not exactly what the American people had in mind when the FBI was founded.
As if corruption and incompetence aren’t bad enough, now they’re even becoming an embarrassment. Fifteen agents were dispatched to investigate a rope that someone thought looked like a noose. Apparently, inanimate objects have the potential to be symbolic hate crimes warranting federal attention. It only took them a week or so to figure out that the rope with a knot in it, attached to a garage door, was a garage door pull. That’s some impressive police work. But I want to know: What if it was a noose? Does the FBI really not have anything better to do than investigate knotted pieces of rope? What is the federal statute against putting a knot in a rope with malice by the way?
We can’t talk about the new FBI without also talking about their integrity -- or lack thereof. They have treated us to some blatantly dishonest behavior lately.
Special Agent Peter Strzok lost or altered official interview notes in the General Michael Flynn case.
Lawyer Kevin Clinesmith falsified evidence to obtain a FISA warrant against Carter Page.
Assistant Director Andrew McCabe lied to investigators to cover up his role in leaking confidential information to reporters.
Director James Comey leaked classified notes about a meeting with the president to a friend and the press -- a felony. When asked about it, he had sudden and complete memory failure under oath.
The FBI’s credibility is so compromised at this point that the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial barred an FBI agent from testifying. It seems the agent couldn’t explain how he “lost” key evidence. So much for the integrity thing.
How does an agent remain an agent, when his testimony is no longer presumed trustworthy? The FBI has squandered its reputation through incompetence, bias, and dishonesty. The next time agents take the stand to testify, jurors may not afford them any more credibility than the criminal that cut a deal in exchange for his testimony. Is that what the FBI wants? It’s certainly not what America needs. We live in a dangerous world. We need them to be what they once were. But that will be a long road back.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/the_fbi_is_not_what_it_used_to_be.html#ixzz7GxfsFk5j
I promise you if I'm elected president, you're going to see the single most important thing that changes America, we're gonna cure cancer."
Waiting
This will trigger the alky again and again and again and again
The media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) had the same insouciant attitude to the seemingly endless violent and destructive protests in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis, and other Democrat cities.
Attorney General Merrick Garland will give a speech Wednesday about the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, stressing the department’s “unwavering commitment to defend Americans and American democracy from violence and threats of violence and
the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol including Donald J. Trump.
Ch and F Daddy are raging conspiratorialists.
We will continue to find out more about what Trump was actually saying and doing on the day of Jan 6.
BUT ALREADY WE KNOW he was DELIGHTED that the Capitol was being stormed. He thought it was great. Wonderful.
He simply could NOT understand WHY his supporters and even members of his own family were not sharing his elation.
He had to be begged and begged and begged until FINALLY, hours later, he reluctantly asked the rioters to stop and go home.
That speaks volumns about what he really wanted to happen that day.
He will probably be the first ex-President to be tried for treason.
Ivanka Asked Her Father to ‘Stop the Violence’
January 2, 2022 at 11:19 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 146 Comments
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that the House committee investigating Jan. 6 has received testimony that then-President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, repeatedly asked her father to intervene to stop the attack on the Capitol, The Hill reports.
Said Cheney:
“We know his daughter — we have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to ‘please stop this violence.”
She added:
“The committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television as the assault on the Capitol occurred.”
________
Hours passed before Trump finally made his "multiple (HA!) statements."
Trump, Bannon to Counterprogram Democrats
January 3, 2022 at 9:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 64 Comments
“Former President Trump and fervent allies, including Steve Bannon, plan to go on the offense during Thursday’s anniversary of the Capitol insurrection — in fiery contrast with House and Senate Republican leaders, who plan no events,” Axios reports.
“The starkly differing approaches underscore tensions remaining within the GOP about how to address the deadly riot.”
______
LOL
Unlike you Trump sycophants here, those House and Senate Republicans are seeing which way the wind is blowing now, with subpoena after subpoena bringing up new evidence.
Unlike you, they have the good sense cautiously to wait and see what next emerges.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A Virginia man told the FBI that he and his cousin marched on the Capitol because President Trump said “something about taking Pennsylvania Avenue.”
And a lawyer for the so-called QAnon Shaman — who invaded the building in a Viking costume — said the president was culpable and that he planned to ask the White House to pardon his client.
“Does our president bear responsibility?” the lawyer, Al Watkins, told The New York Times. “Hell yes, he does.”
POST-GAZETTE.COM
'I answered the call of my president': Capitol rioters say President Trump urged them on
In court papers and interviews, at least four pro-Trump rioters have said they joined the Jan. 6 march that spiraled into violence in part because the president encouraged them...
Trump said in his speech that WE are going to march on the Capitol. His supporters thought that WE included him. And as usual, he didn't follow thru. He literally hung his supporters out to dry.
You beat me to it but
We know what Scott will be doing all day long on January 6th anniversary party!
Former President Trump and fervent allies, including Steve Bannon, plan to go on the offense during Thursday's anniversary of the Capitol insurrection — in fiery contrast with House and Senate Republican leaders, who plan no events, sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.
Why it matters: The starkly differing approaches underscore tensions remaining within the GOP about how to address the deadly riot.
Behind the scenes: Bannon — Trump's former chief strategist who's been indicted for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify about his conversations with the former president ahead of Jan. 6 — is far from chastened after his arrest.
Bannon told Axios that on Thursday morning, he'll host a special edition of his podcast "WarRoom" featuring two of Trump's most zealous supporters — Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).Bannon says he'll also host Darren Beattie. He was a major character in the incendiary documentary Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson produced about the Capitol riot.Based on their previous statements, it's likely Bannon and his allies will portray the arrested Jan. 6 rioters as political prisoners and MAGA martyrs.
The show is designed as counterprogramming to a series of Washington events House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House are planning.
"If [Kevin] McCarthy won't program, Greene and Gaetz will," was how Bannon previewed his special show.A year ago, Bannon used his platform and access to Trump to pressure members of Congress to object to the certification of Joe Biden's electoral victory on Jan. 6.He also used his platform to cement the date of Jan. 6 in the minds of Trump's base as Vice President Mike Pence's last chance to stop Biden from taking office. On his Jan. 5 show, Bannon declared, "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow."
Trump himself will hold a press conference at 5pm Thursday at Mar-a-Lago. He'll assail the bipartisan select committee that Pelosi formed to investigate the attack.
A source familiar with Trump's plans said the former president would call Pelosi's investigation a "witch hunt" and embrace the protests of Jan. 6 as a legitimate reaction to a "stolen" election on Nov. 3, 2020.Trump has issued statements attacking Pelosi's committee but hasn't, until now, held an event designed entirely to defend and legitimize Jan. 6.Asked whether Trump would claim the riot was not violent and blame it on antifa and the FBI, the source replied, "I'm sure that will be a component."
Reality check: Trump's claims of a stolen election are baseless.
The Jan. 6 attack was perpetrated by Trump supporters.Trump himself also acted both publicly and privately to incite mob pressure — if not explicitly violence — to overturn the 2020 election results.Recent reports have said both his daughter, Ivanka, and son Don Jr. pleaded with him or those around him in real time to have Trump call for an end to the riot.
Between the lines: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sought to strike a balance — between condemning the rioters and attacking Democrats while also avoiding criticizing Trump — in previewing his Jan. 6 messaging.
In a letter sent to House Republicans on Sunday night, he said the riot was "as wrong as wrong can be," and the Jan. 6 rioters "deserve to face legal repercussions and full accountability."Yet McCarthy quickly pivoted to blaming Democrats for using Jan. 6 as a political weapon.He also blamed them for not adequately investigating alleged security failures that allowed the Capitol to be breached.
What we're hearing: Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), a conservative caucus leader with close ties to McCarthy, will share on a House GOP conference call Tuesday a separate investigation from House Republicans who Pelosi kicked off her Jan. 6 committee — a group that includes him.
Banks also will circulate a memo describing Pelosi's committee as "illegitimate," according to a source familiar with the document.And he'll tell House Republicans that GOP leadership staff have been conducting their own interviews with Capitol Police, their union and other officials to focus on the security failures that allowed the Capitol breach.Banks has told colleagues Republicans will produce their own report documenting failures of preparation, activation on intelligence and inadequate equipment for Capitol Police.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — who's condemned Trump's role in inciting the Jan. 6 crisis — may have something to say about the anniversary this week.
Senate GOP leadership has no public events planned to mark the date, according to sources familiar with the planning.On Thursday, many Republicans will travel to Atlanta to attend the funeral service of former Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.).
Reality check: Trump's claims of a stolen election are baseless.
The Jan. 6 attack was perpetrated by Trump supporters.Trump himself also acted both publicly and privately to incite mob pressure — if not explicitly violence — to overturn the 2020 election results.Recent reports have said both his daughter, Ivanka, and son Don Jr. pleaded with him or those around him in real time to have Trump call for an end to the riot.
Ch, tell us, do you too believe the Jan 6 invasion of the capitol was largely set up by the FBI and most of the break ins and violence were carried out by secret Biden supporters to make Trump supporters look bad?
DO YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT?
Ch will actually believe it too.
. “FBI tactical teams arrived on Capitol Hill early in the day to assist in the collection of evidence at sites—including the Republican and Democrat party national headquarters—where explosive devices were found. FBI SWAT teams and snipers were deployed to secure nearby congressional office buildings. Other FBI agents provided selective security around the U.S. Capitol and protection to congressional members and staff.”
An FBI tactical team, according to the report, entered the building immediately after protesters did, which was shortly after 2 p.m.
To the casual reader, news that the nation’s top law enforcement agency prepared ahead of time to combat possible violence on January 6 is reassuring. But to anyone who has closely followed the hyperpartisan activity of the FBI over the past several years, the article reads more like a confession, confirming deep suspicions that the FBI played an instrumental role in prompting the events of that day,!
James the coup may succeed next year!
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is forecasting a Republican house takeover and a President Joe Biden impeachment in 2023.
“I’m very optimistic about 2022,” Cruz said on the latest episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz podcast. “I put the odds of the Republicans winning the house at 90/10 and it may even be higher than that.”
The Republicans will make Trump the Speaker of the house of representatives and impeach President Biden and Kamala Harris.
He would be sworn in 2023.
The Democrats have a plan to make Cumswalower Harris the President!
The Left knows that they were on record from 2017-2020 with incessant 25th Amendment coup talk and went so low as to wheel out a Yale psychiatrist to claim Trump was crazy and needed an intervention removal. Their constant haranguing forced Trump to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment—which he aced and which Joe Biden most assuredly will not take, nor will be encouraged to take.
Apparently, Biden’s handlers believe in the next three years he can imitate the last few months of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, where the inactive president was kept incommunicado in bed while the wall of his family and close associates deluded the country and lied about Wilson’s true health condition.
Kamala Harris plays a bad Spiro Agnew. True, she is so incompetent that calls to ask Biden to step down resemble the early voices who asked the same of Nixon but were met with, “So you want Agnew?”
But unlike Agnew who resigned in disgrace after pleading nolo contendere to a single charge of tax evasion, Kamala Harris is in no legal jeopardy. And so, the idea of a “President Harris” who is not non compos mentis apparently is more frightening to the public than keeping Joe Biden who is non compos mentis. And thus, talk of Biden’s diminishing capacity always is interrupted by “So you want President Harris?”
https://twitter.com/C_H_Truth/status/1476676926941007872?t=uOKl5-92CPLQuuAgZyy_zw&s=19
He gets one or two likes
A recent shocking report in American Thinker suggests that life insurance payouts are considerably worse then executives expected. Obvious question: is it an aberration or is it for real? Alas, a cursory examination suggests it may be for real.
The scan of the following insurance companies confirms the initial report. For Prudential, they have had a massive 87% increase in death benefits paid comparing the third quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2021. Such a detailed breakdown wasn’t available for New York Life, but their 2021 year to date (1 Jan to 30 Sept) death benefit payout is up by 27%. Examining Pacific Life documents identifies multiple units. For Pacific Life the year to date claims are up by only 12%. But for a subsidiary, Pacific Life and Annuity, claims are up by over 80%. This is an opportunistic search; more data may be forthcoming.
Life insurance companies have strong incentives to be accurate in their reporting to financial markets. It is possible that these deaths represent neglected care, the postponed treatments of heart disease, cancer, and the like. But that seems unlikely given the spike in the third quarter deaths. And presumably COVID already has taken the most vulnerable in 2020 in the absence of a vaccine. These massive claims seemed to be a phenomenon of the third quarter—about six months after the vaccine regimen became widely available. This just offers further evidence that something is very wrong with these vaccines.
End the mandates. End the vaccination program. And let’s start asking Pfizer what they knew and when.
It was The Chinese Virus!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/more_preliminary_evidence_that_the_vaccines_have_led_to_a_spike_in_deaths.html
Justice has been served. Another Democratic hoax has been identified.
Matt Gaetz still faces no child sex trafficking charges – and he might never
https://twitter.com/C_H_Truth/status/1476676926941007872?t=uOKl5-92CPLQuuAgZyy_zw&s=19
He gets one or two likes
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Less of a following than this slice of heaven!!!!!!!!
Enough of the Weekly Testing
This common practice on school campuses, as well as the lone option for employees eschewing vaccination under Biden’s federal vaccine mandate for large companies, never made much sense. A negative test on Monday says little about anyone’s contagion on Tuesday, not to mention Friday. With Omicron — in which symptoms often start before a rapid antigen test will even show positive, and viral load rises remarkably swiftly — weekly testing becomes theater of the absurd.
Daily tests for nursing home workers? This I can get around. Readily available rapid tests so that people can make better and swifter decisions (without going to the ER for a test!) about seeking treatment and avoiding contacts? Fine, especially if done properly. But elite universities still doing weekly tests for their fully vaccinated, often boosted, extremely low risk students? A ridiculous use of resources. Enough already.
Enough of the Mask Mandates
I know the arguments for masks: they’re cheap, non-invasive, and just might work. They have a cost, though, aside from the developmental, social, and psychologic cost of asking people to interact with their primary organ of communication covered. I’ll also refrain from discussing the environmental disaster created by disposable masks…
Of course, if I was convinced mandating people to wear masks was an effective policy intervention, I might think it still worth it, at least at high-impact times as hospitals fill. However, positive clinical data on mask-wearing is entirely based on observational studies with high risk of bias (people who wear masks might tend to be more careful than those who don’t, and places which enforce mask mandates might have more cautious people than those which do not). Most prospective studies that have actually looked at the effectiveness of mask policies have failed to deliver significant findings, though one randomized controlled trial conducted last year in Bangladesh led by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale University found that mask interventions reduced spread by about 11%.
The more the Reverend and others try, they cannot change the fact that the President himself never told anyone to storm the Capital, in fact suggested that they would be peaceful and patriotic and the actual reference to "fighting" was actually clarified by suggesting a perfectly legal primary.
If you ignore what he said. Take bits and pieces of it out of context. Or repeat other "opinions" about what people "believe" he said...
Then you are being dishonest.
Plain and simple.
I prefer to be just honest... without having to spend 10,000 words to explain why the facts of the situation need to take a back seat to my opinion.
Precisely.
All the blustering bullshit by the pederast and the alky on here and by the left in general everywhere regarding this issue is indicative of one thing -
The outcome of the Jan. 6 'commission' (read: kangaroo court) is pre-ordained. Starting with the make up of the commission and continuing will all of the rhetoric flowing from it, this commission is designed to head off the coming slaughter of the left in the mid-terms by finding several key GOP candidates "guilty" and therefore not eligible to run for office, and to find Trump "guilty" and not eligible to run for president in 2024.
"Guilty" of what you ask?
Who the fuck would know.
Not guilty of any crime or violation of a genuine statute on the books somewhere, anywhere. Just "guilty."
Because "guilty" verdicts against those targeted by the committee is the ballgame. It is what's driving passage of H.R.1 in the senate, the end of the filibuster preceding that, and the elimination of competition in the mid-terms because this is the only path to power for democrats.
No sane and rational person believes ANY of the claims surrounding Jan. 6 by the left, hence the massive amount of water carrying for the dems by the MSM/DNC steno pool in their crazed attempt to convince the electorate of the most heinous act against democracy since the invention of the alky's salad spinner.
For the left it's either this, or a reincarnation of James Hodgkinson walking the halls of congress and murdering the GOP members outright.
The left really IS that sick and depraved.
In June 2020, chapters of WC4BL around the country succeeded in effectuating change at medical schools. At UC Davis, WC4BL presented recommendations and its Racial Justice Report Card to the School of Medicine. The administration found them “largely feasible” and responded by creating the Administrative Action Plan to Address Racial Justice. The plan institutionalized, among other things, “a clear system to ensure that perpetrators of racial microaggressions are required to complete corrective action.” Meantime, the school of medicine at the University of Utah received demands from its chapter of WC4BL on June 12, 2020. By December 9, the School of Medicine’s Executive Committee had approved a long version of those demands, declaring that “Racism is a Public Health Crisis” and updating student evaluations to solicit feedback on the “cultural humility” of faculty.
At Columbia University, WC4BL played a part in inspiring the medical school’s anti-racism initiative. One top recommendation in Columbia’s plan involves creating “faculty development” run by “individuals grounded in critical race theory.” At Michigan Medicine, the WC4BL chapter sent a letter demanding a curriculum redesign that employs “an intersectional framework that incorporates critical race theory.” Michigan Medicine adopted that demand almost verbatim, adding only that the new curriculum should draw from the work of Ibram X. Kendi.
These medical schools are being forthright about their new priorities. White Coats for Black Lives has already had much success in its mission to transform medical education. The next stop will be the medical field itself.
At Columbia University, WC4BL played a part in inspiring the medical school’s anti-racism initiative. One top recommendation in Columbia’s plan involves creating “faculty development” run by “individuals grounded in critical race theory.” At Michigan Medicine, the WC4BL chapter sent a letter demanding a curriculum redesign that employs “an intersectional framework that incorporates critical race theory.” Michigan Medicine adopted that demand almost verbatim, adding only that the new curriculum should draw from the work of Ibram X. Kendi.
This is how we leap from social justice just being some fringe pain in the ass promoted by 'woke' racist grifters like Henry Rogers X, to actually getting people fucking killed.
More brilliance from the left.
Should I find myself under the prospective care of a new doc I'll be sure to inquire about their WC4BL status so I can flee the exam room if they answer in the affirmative.
Fuckwits like this should be reserved for practicing on pregnant men.
Scott, don't play the same game as the President and the Democrats have!
Don’t cover the one year anniversary. Don’t cover any of it. Don’t write reaction pieces to whatever dumb thing Brian Stelter or Joy Reid says. Don’t send out indignant tweets. Don’t share ridiculous progressive blog posts just so you can hate-tweet them. If you must comment at all, just call it misinformation and declare your refusal to tolerate “the crazies.”
Two can play this game. It’s time we conservative media stop being solely reactionaries and start acting like we have the power to set the narrative.
Fake it til you make it.
Don’t cover the one year anniversary. Don’t cover any of it.
bwaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! That's the ticket dumb ass...sweep it aside like it never happened which will create the idea the riot was just a figment of imagination and forgotten quickly.....The GOP way.....lie and forget!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL
Alky steals everything he posts -
So, here’s my challenge to my colleagues. Don’t cover the one year anniversary. Don’t cover any of it. Don’t write reaction pieces to whatever dumb thing Brian Stelter or Joy Reid says. Don’t send out indignant tweets. Don’t share ridiculous progressive blog posts just so you can hate-tweet them. If you must comment at all, just call it misinformation and declare your refusal to tolerate “the crazies.”
Two can play this game. It’s time we conservative media stop being solely reactionaries and start acting like we have the power to set the narrative.
Fake it til you make it.
https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2022/01/04/conservative-outlets-should-take-a-page-out-of-the-lefts-playbook-and-ignore-january-6th-n501256
James the coup may succeed next year!
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is forecasting a Republican house takeover and a President Joe Biden impeachment in 2023.
“I’m very optimistic about 2022,” Cruz said on the latest episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz podcast. “I put the odds of the Republicans winning the house at 90/10 and it may even be higher than that.”
The Republicans will make Trump the Speaker of the house of representatives and impeach President Biden and Kamala Harris.
He would be sworn in 2023.
That's has to be the most pathetic thing you ever did Roger. Can't come up with a conspiracy theory on your own so you
Copies somebody else.
Meanwhile, we're up to 24 House democrat assholes fleeing to "retirement"...
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/rep-bobby-rush-wont-run-for-reelection-multiple-sources-say/2720263/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_CHBrand
Internal DCCC polling must be a fucking bloodbath.
Heh.
RE 7:00
Quite astute of Roger to pick up on that!
"so you copies(sic) somebody else"
Are you speaking Ebonics, Commonsense?
Thanks for making it so clear that you guys don't like any form of anti racism because you like all forms of racism.
rrb, how can you be so DISLOYAL to Trump?
He WANTS Jan 6 to BE PUBLICIZED.
Proof that rrb is being disloyal to the fanatic wing of the GOP he loves the most.
Trump, Bannon to Counterprogram Democrats
January 3, 2022 at 9:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 219 Comments
“Former President Trump and fervent allies, including Steve Bannon, plan to go on the offense during Thursday’s anniversary of the Capitol insurrection — in fiery contrast with House and Senate Republican leaders, who plan no events,” Axios reports.
“The starkly differing approaches underscore tensions remaining within the GOP about how to address the deadly riot.”
IGNORE IT! SAYS RRB.
DON'T IGNORE IT!!! SAY TRUMP AND BANNON.
Facebook Was Critical In Spreading False Information
January 4, 2022 at 8:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
“Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, with many calling for executions or other political violence,” the Washington Post reports.
“The barrage — averaging at least 10,000 posts a day, a scale not reported previously — turned the groups into incubators for the baseless claims supporters of President Donald Trump voiced as they stormed the Capitol, demanding he get a second term. Many posts portrayed Biden’s election as the result of widespread fraud that required extraordinary action — including the use of force — to prevent the nation from falling into the hands of traitors.”
THAT'S WHY A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE ATTACKING THE CAPITOL THOUGHT THEY WERE ATTACKING TRAITORS. THEY COULD NOT SEE THAT THEY WERE THE TRAITORS.
CNBC POLL
"KEY POINTS
President Joe Biden's overall disapproval rating reached a new high in December as more voters signaled their unhappiness with his handling of the economy and the Covid pandemic.Results from a CNBC/Change Research poll show 60% of respondents said they disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy as he nears the conclusion of his first year in office.A 55% majority of survey respondents also signaled disapproval of his leadership during the pandemic, an area in which he previously excelled."
Many posts portrayed Biden’s election as the result of widespread fraud that required extraordinary action — including the use of force — to prevent the nation from falling into the hands of traitors.”
THAT'S WHY A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE ATTACKING THE CAPITOL THOUGHT THEY WERE ATTACKING TRAITORS. THEY COULD NOT SEE THAT THEY WERE THE TRAITORS>
And you can't see a conspiracy theory if it hit you in the ass.
YOU are a living conspiracy theory. That I see.
Biden's unpopularityh even now is not as great as Trump's is.
BIDEN'S UNFAVORABILITY -10.1
TRUMP'S UNFAVORABILITY -10.9
Realclearpolitics.com
All the blustering bullshit by the pederast and the alky on here and by the left in general everywhere regarding this issue is indicative of one thing -
The outcome of the Jan. 6 'commission' (read: kangaroo court) is pre-ordained. Starting with the make up of the commission and continuing will all of the rhetoric flowing from it, this commission is designed to head off the coming slaughter of the left in the mid-terms by finding several key GOP candidates "guilty" and therefore not eligible to run for office, and to find Trump "guilty" and not eligible to run for president in 2024.
"Guilty" of what you ask?
Who the fuck would know.
It's increasingly amusing watching the liberal butt buddies implode.
roger's bunky is now the sane one
the POS "pastor" is waterboying like never before
"boldly"
and VERY lo iq is BWAAing like the rabid banshee he is.
I love the smell of liberal desperation in the morning !
ROFLMFAO !!!
Blogger Decent, honest teller of truth said...
Proof that rrb is being disloyal to the fanatic wing of the GOP he loves the most.
Proof that the pederast is too stupid to notice that the alky posted his usual plagiarism under MY handle, and I simple exposed the alky plagiarism.
Good job pederast. I used to credit all of your asshole-ishness to dishonesty, but now I'm throwing sheer stupidity on the pile.
Benny
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1478048589498753029
Examples of 'Mass Formation Psychosis'
- RussiaGate (3 year obsession)
- Mueller Report (2 year obsession)
- BLM (1 year obsession)
- COVID (3 year obsession, ongoing)
- 1/6 (1 year obsession ongoing)
The damage done will break America.
We must break the machine.
Now.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Texas GOP Primaries Begin Test of Trump’s Influence
January 4, 2022 at 9:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Jonathan Bernstein:
“It’s an election year — and Americans will be voting sooner than many people may realize. The first primary election is in Texas on March 1, fewer than two months away.
“While there will be a handful of important Democratic primaries, the big news is coming on the Republican side for several reasons. For one thing, with Republicans expected to have a good year, their nominees simply matter more, since they’re more likely to be elected and share the power of the majority. For another, one of the things that can stop Republican majorities is the possibility of extremely poor candidates winning nominations in competitive seats. Control of the party is at stake, and that’s currently a lot more of a contentious question on the Republican side.”
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My friend Rastus says
"Is dem dumb 'publicans gwine keep on lettin' de ole Trumpster keep on pullin' 'em down?
LOL
I admit, rrb, I didn't bother to read too carefully what I considered your usual twaddle to be.
Proof that the pederast is too stupid to notice that the alky posted his usual plagiarism under MY handle, and I simple exposed the alky plagiarism.
Good job pederast. I used to credit all of your asshole-ishness to dishonesty, but now I'm throwing sheer stupidity on the pile.
The lying POS "pastor" is just a GODdard waterboy
and a very old one at that
* and worships on his knees at the GODdard altar
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1477853446007136257
Covid is the first disease in human history spread by hourly employees not the politicans, celebrities, and ruling class billionaires they serve.
the media, big tech, big pharma and democrat leaders are all controlled and owned by the super rich
The new democrat party
* state media
Goddard publishes material from multitudinous sources.
How can I "worship" him when he is even being honest about the difficulties Democrats are now facing, and an example is the following:
So meanwhile, for those who unlike FDaddy like to thinK:
Why the GOP Isn’t Concerned With Popularity
January 4, 2022 at 8:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments
FiveThirtyEight:
“Despite the fact that the GOP is quite unpopular and that much of its current agenda — such as overturning the Affordable Care Act or advancing restrictive immigration policies — does not appeal to a majority of voters, the party is in an enviable position heading into the 2022 midterm elections and beyond. What is to make of this glaring disconnect?”
“The biggest reason why the GOP may not be pushing more popular policies is that recent history suggests it’s unnecessary. Former President Trump’s startling 2016 election victory showed that an unpopular candidate with little interest in public policy can still win. For conservative activists disappointed in the outcomes of Romney’s and the late Sen. John McCain’s campaigns, the lesson of 2016 was that political candidates with personal baggage or extreme political views are no longer a liability.”
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That's a mistake, however. The American people are growing increasinly tired of GOP flirtations with extremism.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1478044418796048391
The feds were everywhere on January 6, all over the capital and in the building. Planned ahead to be there all day -- what a cover-up.
Hello @JudiciaryGOP time to ask some real questions about FBI involvement in January 6:
newsweek.com
Exclusive: Secret commandos with shoot-to-kill authority were at the Capitol
In this daily series, Newsweek explores the steps that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot.
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-secret-commandos-shoot-kill-authority-were-capitol-1661330
Why is the commission so afraid to ask real questions and release real information ?
and instead engage on a political fishing expedition ?
FAKE INSURRECTION
FAKE COMMISSION
FAKE search for truth
increasingly
FAKE accusations of the FBI.
The POS "pastor's" GODdard is almost exclusively sourced from media controlled by the richest people in the world
and he's too stupid to realize it.
He's just a POS waterboy
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
A full year after the 1/6 riot at the Capitol, the total number of indictments from the Biden DOJ for insurrection, sedition or treason is the same number as Americans indicted by Mueller for criminally conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election:
ZERO.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1478126375139786756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1478126375139786756%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectorblue.blogspot.com%2F
The world of the Socialist .
This is a Win, except it's not.
"BIDEN'S UNFAVORABILITY -10.1
TRUMP'S UNFAVORABILITY -10.9"
Someone continues to lower expectations.
'...and release real information...'
It's coming, it's coming. Tremble.
The Hottest December on Record
January 4, 2022 at 9:29 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“The lower 48 states likely had their hottest December on record, new data shows, with numerous locations in the Central States, South and East breaking previous benchmarks by large margins,” Axios reports.
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Fake news! Fake news! Lies! Climate change Lies!!!
Almost 1,000 houses did NOT burn in Colorado!!!
Just like all of Shiff's evidence of Trump Russia collusion he said he had.
Why is the commission so afraid to ask real questions and release real information ?
and instead engage on a political fishing expedition ?
Because that doesn't serve their agenda which is to save their asses in the mid-terms and to prevent Trump from running in 2024.
With regards to the mid-terms, Liz Cheney is, by definition, a traitor to her party for helping Peloshee try and save democrats in 2022.
Left Wing Bloomberg
"
One topic dominates: “Inflation” is the most frequently cited term in our selected calls, appearing 224 times. Unsurprisingly, it’s often paired with a word like “higher” or “rising.” AXA Investment Managers describes it as “the key concern” for 2022, and surging prices hang over nearly every scenario envisaged by the Wall Street prognosticators"
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT, assured us inflation was "Transitory".
Why did they get every economic issue so Spectacularly wrong?
Liz Cheney is more interested in saving her country than in saving the Democrats or helping the Republicans.
rrb:
With regards to the mid-terms, Liz Cheney is, by definition, a traitor to her party for helping Peloshee try and save democrats in 2022.
truth teller:
Liz Cheney is more interested in saving her country than in saving the Democrats or helping the Republicans.
So is Joe Manchin
The top five states with the highest amount of outbound migration in 2021 were governed by Democrat politicians, according to United Van Lines’s annual movers study.
ST. LOUIS – Jan. 3, 2022 – United Van Lines released the company’s 45th Annual National Movers Study today, which indicates Americans were on the move to lower-density areas and to be closer to their families throughout last year.
The annual study, which tracks the company’s exclusive data for customers’ state-to-state migration patterns, determined Vermont as the state with the highest percentage of inbound migration (74%) with United Van Lines. Topping the list of outbound locations was New Jersey (71%), which has held the spot for the past four years.
South Dakota (69%), South Carolina (63%), West Virginia (63%) and Florida (62%) were also revealed as the top inbound states for 2021. Meanwhile, states like Illinois (67%), New York (63%), Connecticut (60%) and California (59%), which have regularly appeared on the top outbound list in recent years, again ranked among states with the largest exoduses.
https://www.unitedvanlines.com/newsroom/movers-study-2021#
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1478169444652302336
On one side you have Dr. Malone.
On the other you have Dr. Fauci.
Only one side wants a debate.
Well one side is way more qualified
and the other is a political hack living in his bureaucratic bubble for the last 40 years
or maybe basement would be a better term ?
like Biden
Anonymous Myballs said...
So is Joe Manchin
Exactly.
Manchin truly IS trying to help the nation.
Cheney seeks only to help herself.
New NYC mayor Eric Adams says the schools will stay open. Period. And that the teachers unions pushing for closures should get their asses in to the classrooms. Good for him.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1478145396950159362
Turn on CNN or MSNBC for a few minutes and you will see how mass formation psychosis is delievered.
Well GODdard does that on steroids
ROFLMFAO !!!
There are both worried parents and worried teachers about opening the schools with such a flurry of new Covid cases.
Currently 12 degrees outside. We could use a little global warming right now
With regards to the mid-terms, Liz Cheney is, by definition, a traitor to her party for helping Peloshee try and save democrats in 2022
Gee, and I thought she would resign to take that lucrative gig as a DOD [lobbyist] consultant.
Parents are more worried about their kids being out of school again. It is affecting them psychologically and emotionally.
Ted Cruz Floats Impeaching Biden
January 4, 2022 at 7:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard 80 Comments
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that a Republican-led House after the 2022 elections likely will consider impeaching President Biden on “multiple grounds,” the Washington Times reports.
Said Cruz: “The Democrats weaponized impeachment. They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him. One of the real disadvantages of doing that is the more you weaponize it and turn it into a partisan cudgel, you know what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
Cruz predicted that Republican majorities in Congress after the next midterm election would face “enormous pressure … to begin impeachment proceedings.”
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Impeach Biden? Why?
Is Ted gonna claim BIDEN sent those protesters storming into the Capitol?
Myballs said...
New NYC mayor Eric Adams says the schools will stay open. Period. And that the teachers unions pushing for closures should get their asses in to the classrooms. Good for him.
Well he pissed of many with his leaving the mandates in place
This will piss off the other side
Looks like he deliberately is staking his own ground
Hopefully he will revisit mandates and the actual science
But I think what he did was a smart political move
My balls, no kidding.
15 °F here, with the wind 4°F
Tomorrow, 10 °F for the high and 4-8 " of new snow on top of the ice and snow we already have.
Love our wood burning Furance.
Adam Baldwin
"SCIENCE" VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/1477701293988728839
They’re betting that you won’t remember and/or, even if you do remember, that there’s nothing you can do about it.
Exactly correct.
"MyballsJanuary 4, 2022 at 8:51 AM
Parents are more worried about their kids being out of school again. It is affecting them psychologically and emotionally."
The damage being done may not be reversible.
Socialist like James don't care.
It is Party over People.
There are both worried parents and worried teachers about opening the schools with such a flurry of new Covid cases.
There have always been a small set of Americans who have been cowards. But to see the collective hysteria of almost an entire generation is dismaying. As is the not stopping it.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that a Republican-led House after the 2022 elections likely will consider impeaching President Biden on “multiple grounds,” the Washington Times reports.
Said Cruz: “The Democrats weaponized impeachment. They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him. One of the real disadvantages of doing that is the more you weaponize it and turn it into a partisan cudgel, you know what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
Cruz predicted that Republican majorities in Congress after the next midterm election would face “enormous pressure … to begin impeachment proceedings
Impeach Biden? Why?
Is Ted gonna claim BIDEN sent those protesters storming into the Capitol?
The prerequisite of the scenario is to get Harris to resign and Hillary Clinton will become speaker of the house. And slide over to the presidency when the time is right.
Clinton people gamed that out before the NH primary.
THIS JUST KEEPS HAPPENING:
GOP Candidate Who Opposed Vaccine Mandates Dies of Covid
January 4, 2022 at 10:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Kelly Ernby (R), who was running for a California Assembly seat and opposed vaccine mandates, died suddenly after becoming ill from Covid-19, the Orange County Register reports.
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THIS IS A GOOD POINT:
Thoughts On Our Political Exhaustion
January 4, 2022 at 10:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
Charlie Sykes:
“The world is too much with us, of course, but the real problem it is that it so dumb, so infused with mind-numbing bad faith, and a grinding sense of futility that anything will matter or change.
“This exhaustion is not to be confused with boredom, because, if anything we have been been over-stimulated for too long. On social media and cable television, the emotional level has been set somewhere between alarm and emotional meltdown for years now. We’ve experienced endless assaults on the public mind, with the ever-escalating goal of inciting, inflaming, and grifting. We’ve been saturated, pummeled, and battered by it for the last five years.
“Over and over and over.”
I WOULD ADD:
AND THE WORST OFFENDERS ARE REPUBLICANS.
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THIS IS HOW FAR WE HAVE FALLEN:
Lawmakers Silent on Trump’s Endorsement Viktor Orbán
January 4, 2022 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
Politico:
“It would’ve previously turned heads. The ostensible leader of the Republican Party embraced Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for reelection on Monday, endorsing a far-right leader accused of eroding democratic norms and embracing authoritarian governance.
“But barely anyone said a peep about former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Orbán, even though the Hungarian has previously received bipartisan condemnation.”
HE IS A WOULD BE DICTATOR. SO WHY SHOULDN'T A WOULD BE DICTATOR ENDORSE A WOULD BE DICTATOR? HO HUM.
Said Ernby in opposition to vaccine mandates:
“There’s nothing that matters more than our freedoms right now.”
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Nothing more important than the "freedom" not to listen to scientific and medical experts who warned us that not getting vaccinated could endanger ourselves and others?
Future generations will ask:
Did American right wingers lose their freaking MINDS as a result of Trump?
Suicide attempts have risen, slightly among adolescent boys and sharply among adolescent girls. The number of E.R. visits for suspected suicide attempts by 12- to 17-year-old girls rose by 51 percent from early 2019 to early 2021, according to the C.D.C.
Gun violence against children has increased, as part of a broader nationwide rise in crime. In Chicago, for example, 101 residents under age 20 were murdered last year, up from 76 in 2019. School shootings have also risen: The Washington Post counted 42 last year in the U.S., the most on record and up from 27 in 2019.
Many schools have still not returned to normal, worsening learning loss and social isolation. Once-normal aspects of school life — lunchtime, extracurricular activities, assemblies, school trips, parent-teacher conferences, reliable bus schedules — have been transformed if not eliminated.
Because of Doctor Fauci and the Democrats!
Masking and immunization are a fucking joke.
Blogger Commonsense said...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that a Republican-led House after the 2022 elections likely will consider impeaching President Biden on “multiple grounds,” the Washington Times reports.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! That's the spirit cramps......unify the country and impeach Biden suggesting Cruz is nothing more than a blow hard idiot just like you!!!!!!!
from 9:23
"Because of Doctor Fauci and the Democrats!"
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Gee, and here I've been thinking it was because of Covid.
Future generations will ask:
Did American right wingers lose their freaking MINDS as a result of Trump?
Decent, honest teller of truth said...
Future generations will ask:
Did American right wingers lose their freaking MINDS as a result of Trump?
ROFLMFAO !!!
YOU don't have any future generation
But you are clueless
and marching in lock-step with your "betters"
Heil GODdard or that German guy you keep referring to
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
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BWAAAAAAAAA@!!!
In Orange County, California south of Los Angeles, Kelly Ernby — a GOP activist known for her opposition to vaccine mandates — has died of COVID-19 at the age of 46, according to the Daily Pilot.
Ernby, who spent a decade as a deputy district attorney in Orange County, ran for a seat in the California State Assembly in 2020 and competed with Newport Beach Mayor Diane Dixon for the Republican nomination. Dixon narrowly defeated Ernby in that primary before losing to the incumbent Democrat, Cottie Petrie-Norris, in the general election.
Ernby’s opposition to vaccine mandates preceded the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, Ernby opposed a California law that created stricter immunization rules for schoolchildren, saying, “I don’t think that the government should be involved in mandating what vaccines people are taking. I think that’s a decision between doctors and their patients…. If the government is going to mandate vaccines, what else are they going to mandate?”
Even Orange County has been Brainwashed by Doctor Fauci.
Whereas she had publicly expressed opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, it was not instantly clear if she herself was inoculated in opposition to the virus.
https://11thhrnews.com/2022/01/04/kelly-ernby-orange-county-california-deputy-da-dies-abruptly-after-falling-sick-with-covid-at-age-46/
another death caused by a reaction to the vaccine or booster ?
* death by mandate ?
With apologies to George Orwell, if you want a picture of the future, imagine all of this imbecility, inanity, and dishonesty stamping on your face—for ever.
The pandemic has made it all worse. For the last two years, we have been dipped in the molasses of frustration and forced inactivity that has magnified the whole depressing process. This last year, our hopes for normalcy were shattered and the disappointment and disillusionment can feel overwhelming. How many times can Lucy pull the football away from us?
Of course, complaints about political fatigue aren’t new. In 2014, NPR devoted a segment to what it called the Politics Fatigue Syndrome, which was characterized by malaise, disgust, and disillusionment.
Pelosi Is Blocking Access To House January 6 Records. What Is She Hiding?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not interested in a genuine examination of the events on Jan. 6. An honest review of the day’s timeline might reveal why.
As the U.S. Capitol building came under siege, House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving sought approval from Pelosi to dispatch the National Guard in an episode confirmed by the speaker’s office to The New York Times. Four days later, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned his post in the riot’s aftermath, told the Washington Post it was far from the first time National Guard reinforcements were requested. In fact, Sund told the paper the request was made six times.
continues:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/04/pelosi-is-blocking-access-to-house-january-6-records-what-is-she-hiding/
looks like security was not part of Nancy's plan
she had something else in mind
And the goat fucker still sits in his root cellar posting gibberish while almost record open jobs exist!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
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Demand for workers in the U.S. remained historically elevated in November, with job openings holding near a record high amid the ongoing pandemic.
Vacancies totaled 10.562 million in November, according to the Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) released Tuesday. This comes is slightly lower than the 11.091 million in October, based on the government's revised print for the month. Consensus economists were looking for job openings to rise to 11.079 million in November, according to Bloomberg data.
By industry, job openings declined most notably in accommodation and food services, with vacancies falling by 261,000 but remaining at a still-elevated 1.3 million in total. Construction and non-durable goods manufacturing employers also saw notable drops in job openings at 110,000 and 66,000, respectively.
ALBERT SMITH IRISH INDEPENDENT : Alleged Jordan triple agent Bahaalddin Al Shwawrah (42), stabs Wife to death at Christmas, 100 meteres away from Independent journalists cottage !!!!
Mother-of-five stabbed to death on Christmas Eve in Co Wicklow ...
www.irishmirror.ie › News › Irish News › Wicklow
26 Dec 2021 · Emergency services rushed to a house at about 7pm that evening at Park na Sillogue Court in Enniskerry. A man in his 40s was arrested and taken
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/man-appears-in-court-charged-with-murder-of-his-partner-in-enniskerry-1.4763884
10 years later Fukushima Daiichi still melts down my heart
https://www.cringely.com/2021/03/26/10-years-later-fukushima-daiichi...
26/03/2021 · Dr Moayyad Al kamali AKA the “Tripoli Bad Grass” is known to the Russian federation as a Government employee (agent) vetted by both the FBI and CIA (who politically endorse the torture and killing of Palestinians),before he worked within US terrortories.Allegations made against this Doctor include espionage,torture,money laundry,sexual abuse,false …
You keep spreading the big lie even about the gunshot that killed Ashli Babbitt, a rioter who broke through a blocked hallway and was slain by a Capitol Police officer guarding lawmakers. He was following orders from the police department.
A few months after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, a sound jolted Rep. Sara Jacobs back to one of the most terrifying moments in her life: the echoing thud of the doors to the cavernous House chamber slamming shut.
The Democrat from San Diego knew it was just a drill, but the moment nevertheless transported her back to the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, when she found herself trapped in the chamber’s gallery as a pro-Trump mob breached the building.
This time, the rookie lawmaker pulled out her phone and texted for help — from a support group of 28 House members who are wrestling with the same lingering trauma of having been cornered in the gallery that deadly day a year ago. In minutes, members flooded the chat group with responses that sought to soothe Jacobs’ anxieties.
“When they started closing all the doors and locking them, the sounds were very similar,” said Jacobs.
“It was very triggering,” she said, “and I really leaned on the group after that.”
The fallout from the training exercise was just one of many moments in the year since the insurrection when the “Gallery Group,” as it became known to its participants, has rallied around a struggling member.
Interviews with several of its participants, who discussed their involvement in broad terms to protect one another’s privacy, reveal how the diverse group of Democrats formed a tight and intimate bond as they navigated the unsettling experience of having survived a violent insurrection.
Trump supporters try to force their way through a police barricade in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, hoping to stop Congress from finalizing Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
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