Thank God for Republicans, Manchin and Senima for savings the country from destruction. And they continue to by opposing that horrible bill teying to federalize elections and make permanent vote harvesting, fraud by mail, and letting everything require an ID except choosing the most powerful leader in the world.
It appears that this will slow the economy a little bit, because the job creation is growing at the fastest rate since 1969.. But it will reduce inflation rates, and coupled with the demand crisis that Sleepy Joe Biden has addressed..it will decrease inflation by the end of fall season.
Rate hikes, tapering ahead As expected, the Fed’s policymaking group following the December meeting kept its benchmark interest rate anchored near zero. However, officials also indicated that they foresee up to three quarter-percentage point increases in 2022, as well as another three hikes in 2023 and two more the year after that.
Officials at the meeting indicated that inflation gauges “had been higher and were more persistent than previously anticipated,” the minutes stated. While members said they think growth will be “robust” in 2022, they also said inflation poses a strong risk, perhaps even more so than the pandemic.
Consequently, they said it would be time to tighten policy sooner than anticipated.
“Some participants judged that a less accommodative future stance of policy would likely be warranted and that the Committee should convey a strong commitment to address elevated inflation pressures,” the minutes said.
Along those lines, the committee announced it would speed up the tapering pace of its monthly bond-buying program. Under the new plan, the program would now end around March, after which it would free up the committee to start hiking rates.
Current fed fund futures market pricing is indicating about a 2-to-1 chance of the first hike coming in March, according to the CME’s FedWatch Tool. Traders figure the next increase would come in June or July, followed by a third move in November or December.
Fed officials indicated that the reasoning behind the moves was in response to inflation that is higher and more persistent than they had figured. Consumer prices are rising at their fastest pace in nearly 40 years.
The Fed is trying to catch up with inflation dumbass. Trum.p had wage growth greater than inflation. Biden's is less than inflation. Everything is getting more expensive. That's not a good thing.
Mike Pence may put the country over his personal ambition to be the President...
Pence aides 'particularly cooperative' in providing January 6 committee info on Trump's activity: report
Matthew Chapman
January 05, 2022
On Wednesday, Axios reported that aides to former Vice President Mike Pence have been "particularly cooperative" in giving the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol information on former President Donald Trump's activity during the events of that day.
"At the one-year mark of the insurrection, the committee is piecing together a definitive timeline of how Trump resisted pleas from his own advisers, allies, family members and lawmakers to halt the violence down Pennsylvania Avenue," reported Alayna Treene. "The committee is ramping up its closed-door work with the goal of holding public hearings as early as this spring. Many Pence-world witnesses have testified without a subpoena, according to one source with direct knowledge of the closed-door hearings."
Among those who have provided information is former Pence chief of staff Marc Short, as well as former Pence communications director Alyssa Farrah and former National Security Adviser Keith Kellogg, who was with Pence during the insurrection.
RELATED: Stephanie Grisham says she 'cooperated fully' with Jan. 6 committee and 'will continue to' she might have information...
"Some of the most helpful information has come from second- and third-tier staff who were not directly involved but were at the White House on Jan. 6 and had access to top administration officials, sources tell Axios," the report continued. "They’ve been integral to helping piece together exactly what happened that day, one committee aide said. Many of those officials met solely with the committee's Republican members, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), two sources with direct knowledge said."
Pence, who held a ceremonial role in counting the electoral votes, was a particular target of the insurrectionists, who led chants calling for his lynching after he concluded he didn't have the constitutional authority to refuse to count President Joe Biden's votes — something that Trump actually defended after the fact. The incident has led to a fracturing of the relationship between Trump and his former running mate.
Pence is rumored to be considering a presidential run in 2024, although analysts believe he would have serious problems winning over Trump supporters still enraged that he didn't help overturn the 2020 election, especially if he cooperates with the investigation himself.
It's impossible to know for sure what Sean Hannity meant by "January 6th happening the way he is being told" but according to a number of accounts this was when Trump's henchmen were hatching their plot to have Republicans in Congress object to the electoral count and have Pence throw the election to the House of Representatives where Trump would win despite losing through legitimate means. In other words, the coup was being planned.
Marc Short, the top aide to Vice-President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6th Select Committee.
Marc Short was present at the meeting when Donald Trump and John Eastman tried to convince Mike Pence not to allow the electors from some states to cast their vote in a Joint Session of Congress as mandated in the Constitution, and not to certify the winner of the Electoral College vote as the 46th President of the United States as mandated by the Constitution.
Conspiring to overthrow the government is sedition. Sedition is a felony. Every individual who pressured Vice-President Pence to ignore the Constitutionally mandated process for the peaceful transfer of power, faces legal jeopardy.
If we can trust the words of Peter Navarro, he has confirmed that he and Steve Bannon conspired with Ted Cruz and Paul Gosar to block certification of the Electoral College vote.
The Navarro-Bannon-Gosar-Cruz conspiracy required Mike Pence to refuse to accept electors from some Red states that voted for Biden, but had Republican legislatures that would—if Pence refused to seat the Biden electors—recall the electors chosen by the voters and replace them with Trump electors chosen by state legislators.
For their part, Cruz and Gosar convinced over 100 Congressional Republicans to join the conspiracy by voting to reject the Electoral College vote. The name of each Congressional co-conspirator is a permanent part of the Congressional Record.
Pence—placing his life in danger—refused to steal the election for Donald Trump. The planned “bloodless coup” exploded into a bloody insurrection with the attack of a seditious mob called to Washington by Donald Trump, incited to violence by Donald Trump, and directed to attack a Joint Session of Congress by Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will deliver a speech Thursday in the heart of the U.S. Capitol to mark the first anniversary of the insurrection there.
One year ago, former President Donald Trump incited a mob of his supporters, and encouraged them to storm the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the electoral votes for Biden’s 2020 presidential win.
Five people died, hundreds of law enforcement officers were injured — four later died by suicide — and congressional staff, lawmakers, police and journalists were traumatized. One woman was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer when she tried to breach the House speaker’s lobby.
On Thursday, Biden will also be joined by Vice President Kamala Harris at the Capitol. They will speak at 9 a.m. in Statuary Hall, which rioters walked through the day of the attack, shouting and waving flags, including a Trump campaign banner.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is also set to hold a private moment of reflection on the House floor with staff that were present on Jan. 6. She will also have a moment of silence on the House floor soon after.
Later in the day, Pelosi, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and several historians, will host a discussion in the Cannon Caucus Room about how to preserve the narrative of events that occurred on Jan. 6.
Some members of Congress are expected to relate their personal Jan. 6 experiences following the discussion, and a prayer vigil will end the day at 5:30 p.m. Most events are scheduled to be carried by C-SPAN.
The former president was set to issue a video statement on Thursday, but has now canceled it.
Trump was impeached for a second time, on the grounds of inciting the insurrection. Only 10 Republicans joined House Democrats in a 232-197 vote.
A recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 3 in 10 Republicans say the attack on the Capitol was not violent, while 9 in 10 Democrats considered the day violent.
The Justice Department has opened hundreds of cases and directed prosecutors to issue a slew of sedition and conspiracy charges against pro-Trump rioters. Some of those insurrectionists are waiting for their trials in D.C. jails.
Congressional hearings and investigations into the attack on the Capitol have been ongoing for a year. Schumer on Wednesday spoke during a Senate Rules Committee oversight hearing about security improvements made by the U.S. Capitol Police.
“January 6th was not merely a senseless act of mob violence that sprung up spontaneously,” he said. “It was an attempt to reverse, through violent means, the outcome of a free and fair election.
“And make no mistake: the root cause of January 6th is still with us today,” he continued. “It is the Big Lie pushed by Donald Trump that is undermining faith in our political system and making our democracy, our country, less safe.”
Trump has continued to make false claims that the presidential election was stolen, and Republicans in state legislatures have used those claims to enact and introduce strict voting requirements. It’s a trend that has concerned Democrats as they struggle to pass voting rights legislation.
Pelosi established a special commission to investigate the attack — similar to one created in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Only two Republicans sit on the committee, Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. The select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has issued subpoenas to former Trump aides, House Republicans and Fox News anchors.
When is a protest a failed coup? When it's all democrats have to run on. Never mind no one has been charged with insurrection. Never mind no one carried a gun.
The liberal media will give us an avalanche of coverage. Will anybody them mention Ashlie Babbitt?
The debate is over. After a year spent investigating claims of election fraud, the media has determined that any fraud in the 2020 election was too insignificant to have changed the outcome and Joe Biden legitimately won. Now we can get back to our normal lives, or whatever passes for normal now…except that’s fiction.
Most coups try to keep much of the society and government apparatus intact, merely changing who’s in charge. This illusion of continuity is intended to gain the population’s acquiescence by avoiding the appearance of a bloody civil war.
The moment the coup began to reveal itself Americans knew something was amiss. Many went to bed on November 3rd believing that Trump was leading in enough states to secure an electoral victory, including in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin. Strangely, however, while America slept, densely populated Democrat counties like Fulton (Atlanta) in Georgia and Allegheny (Pittsburgh) in Pennsylvania “stopped counting“ votes only to “restart” later when Biden suddenly got enough votes to swing the state blue. Similarly, Philadelphia stopped “reporting” at 1 AM and later announced Biden had won the state.
The morning of the 4th, as cries of fraud came from red areas across the country, the side that cried “election fraud” for four years suddenly fell silent. Apparently, 2020 had become the “most legitimate election in American history“.
Joseph Stalin said, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” That’s exactly how we went from being a constitutional republic to a banana republic, but rather than the United Fruit Company or the CIA running the coup, it was Mark Zuckerberg, Democrats, the FBI, and the media.
The most threatening aspect of January 6th was not the ferocious attack on the Capitol but the response of Republican officeholders thereafter. Even after the unleashing of medieval mob violence; even after the erection of a gallows; even after members had been forced to run for their lives; even after the deaths and injuries; even after all of that and more, 147 Republican members of Congress voted not to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the presidency.”
“The transformation of the GOP from a political party into an authoritarian personality cult became official that day. McCarthy’s bootlicking visit to Mar-a-Lago in late January 2021 merely provided the visual.
Again the right wing terrorists have continued their attacks on The United States of America.
The moment the coup began to reveal itself Americans knew something was amiss. Many went to bed on November 3rd believing that Trump was leading in enough states to secure an electoral victory, including in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin. Strangely, however, while America slept, densely populated Democrat counties like Fulton (Atlanta) in Georgia and Allegheny (Pittsburgh) in Pennsylvania “stopped counting“ votes only to “restart” later when Biden suddenly got enough votes to swing the state blue. Similarly, Philadelphia stopped “reporting” at 1 AM and later announced Biden had won the state.
The morning of the 4th, as cries of fraud came from red areas across the country, the side that cried “election fraud” for four years suddenly fell silent. Apparently, 2020 had become the “most legitimate election in American history“.
Joseph Stalin said, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” That’s exactly how we went from being a constitutional republic to a banana republic, but rather than the United Fruit Company or the CIA running the coup, it was Mark Zuckerberg, Democrats, the FBI, and the media.
The whitewashing of Jan. 6 began that very night. Just hours after the insurrection — which resulted in five deaths, including a police officer — 139 House members and eight senators returned to the desecrated Capitol and voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump and his allies, too, began rewriting the narrative almost immediately. Some falsely claimed leftist “antifa” protesters were behind the violence. Others falsely argued there was very little violence on Jan. 6 or, as Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.) claimed, the riot was simply “a normal tourist visit.” And some Republicans rebranded those arrested in the aftermath of the insurrection as “political prisoners.” Trump and his supporters have also sought to make a martyr of Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was shot and killed on Jan. 6 by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a broken window into the Speaker’s Lobby — the hallway just off the House chamber, from which lawmakers were still being evacuated. Trump has described her death as a murder, and called for “justice” for Babbitt. In a posthumous birthday video he taped for her, the former president called Babbitt “a truly incredible person” and offered his “unwavering support” to her family. Babbitt’s mother and brother have said in recent interviews with The Post that they believe Trump is critical to drawing attention to her death — and reframing the public’s understanding of the day — and they continue to support him.
The words “anniversary” or “commemoration” do not appropriately characterize this day. What occurred a year ago is nothing to be memorialized, nothing to glorify.
What happened on January 6, 2021 was frightening and shameful. That date shall live in infamy — like December 7, 1941 and 9/11. The difference is that on those days the United States was attacked by foreign powers, whereas on this date the United States was attacked by Americans — some waving American flags, most of them loyal to the man who had lost the presidential reelection the previous November 3 but who did not concede his loss and continues to argue the presidency was stolen from him.
Besides paying our respects to the families of the five people who lost their lives in the attack on the Capitol, as well as to those who still bear its psychological scars — Capitol police officers, and members of congress who remain traumatized by what occurred — it is also important to acknowledge the trauma to our nation. The trauma continues to some extent in each of us today.
The perpetrators must be held accountable. Trump must be held accountable. Members of congress who conspired with him must be held accountable. The only way we as a nation can process this trauma — gain some finality and closure on what occurred a year ago today — is to ensure that those who attacked the Capitol and those who instigated the attack bear full responsibility for their actions. And we must ensure that nothing like this ever occurs again.
Oh, to be in the fainting couch business today with a shit ton of inventory to sell. I would throw in a free set of faux pearls for clutching with every sale.
LOL.
"January 6th. A day... that will live... in INFAMY!"
Good to see rat ranting like the true idiot he is.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Funny he thinks PJ Media is a credible source but in reality it is a perveyor of bullshit news that he falls for and shares......LOLOLOO
Most amusing Fox News is ignoring the insurrection like it never happened!!!! Kinda like all you pukes who have your heads stuck in the sand holding your breath still believing trump won!!!!! bWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Dumb fucks!!!
This is what a real, actual "insurrection" looks like. Not a bunch of FBI clowns playing dress-up:
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russia-led military alliance said Thursday that it will dispatch peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan after the country’s president asked for help in controlling protests that escalated into violence, including the seizure and setting afire of government buildings.
Protesters in Kazakhstan’s largest city stormed the presidential residence and the mayor’s office Wednesday and set both on fire, according to news reports, as demonstrations sparked by a rise in fuel prices escalated sharply in the Central Asian nation.
And GOP clowns like you denying trump tried to take away Biden's election.....sad you don't see the similarity between Putin and Trumps tactics of misinformation and lying to manipulate assholes like to to fight on.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Gibberish and stupidity posted by the KU goat fucking idiot....!!!!!!
Breath deep goat fucker....imbed those smoke particulates in your polluted lungs....>>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Maybe if you could find work, you wouldn't have to act like an 19th century settler to keep warm.....yeah.....great life you have asshole!!!!
False flags are popping up like dandelions in the spring...
Seattle police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020, investigation finds
At a crucial moment during 2020’s racial justice protests, Seattle police exchanged a detailed series of fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists.
The radio chatter about members of the Proud Boys marching around downtown Seattle, some possibly carrying guns, and then heading to confront protesters on Capitol Hill was an improper “ruse,” or dishonest ploy, that exacerbated a volatile situation, according to findings released Wednesday by the city’s Office of Police Accountability.
The Proud Boys is a far-right group with a reputation for street violence and with several members — including one from South King County — who have been charged with terrorism for alleged actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The ruse happened on the night of June 8, 2020, hours after the Police Department had abandoned its East Precinct on Capitol Hill and just as protesters were starting to set up the zone that was later called the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.
The officers who participated described a group gathering by City Hall and moving around downtown. They delivered reports such as, “It looks like a few of them might be open carrying,” and: “Hearing from the Proud Boys group. … They may be looking for somewhere else for confrontation.”
A year ago, President-elect Joe Biden was huddling with his advisers in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, preparing to deliver a speech on the economy – far from the reaches of Washington, D.C.
But as images of rioters brandishing flagpoles and violently barreling through police barricades at the U.S. Capitol unfolded on television, it became clear Biden would have to nix his economy speech for something else entirely.
Suddenly, Biden's campaign rhetoric about restoring democracy and healing a divided nation crashed headfirst into a horrific political reality: the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol in more than 200 years – and a direct assault on the foundation of American governance.
"Fundamentally, what we talked about for the entire campaign had really just become very much vivid and alive that day,” recalled Mike Donilon, a top Biden adviser.
Biden, who framed his campaign as the battle for the soul of the nation, has spent the last year trying to strike a balance between addressing the magnitude of Jan. 6 and refusing to let it overshadow his presidency, even as he confronted myriad other crises facing the country.
False flags are popping up like dandelions in the spring...
Until Biden, Garland and Wray come clean about federal involvement, release the video evidence, explain the "pipe bomber", and explain why security was turned down Americans have a duty to not trust what is going on in Washington DC.
Of course no apologies were ever given for the previous unprecedented hoaxes
Biden Will Speak from the Capitol January 6, 2022 at 8:30 am EST
President Biden will mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by placing responsibility on Donald Trump and telling Americans that “the way forward is to recognize the truth and to live by it,” Axios reports.
From his prepared remarks: “Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?”
Biden will address the nation from Statuary Hall in the Capitol at 9 a.m. ET.
No GOP Leaders Will Attend January 6 Events January 6, 2022 at 8:29 am EST
“No members of Republican leadership have said they plan to attend Thursday’s events commemorating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob,” the Washington Post reports.
Bonus Quote of the Day January 6, 2022 at 8:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
“The threat continues. And it’s very important, if you look at what’s happening today in my party, the Republican party, rather than reject what happened on 6th, reject the lies about the election and make clear that a president who engaged in those activities can never be president again, unfortunately too many in my own party are embracing that former president, are looking the other way, are minimizing the danger. That’s how democracies die, and we simply cannot let that happen.” — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), in an interview with NBC News.
Georgia Republicans Planned Vigil for ‘J6 Patriots’ January 6, 2022 at 8:15 am EST s
“Some Georgia Republicans planned to spend the anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol praying — not just for those killed or hurt during the Jan. 6 riot, but for the ‘J6 Prisoners’ and ‘J6 Patriots’ who stormed the building in a futile attempt to keep then-President Trump in power,” the Washington Post reports.
“But after bipartisan blowback, the Cobb County GOP on Wednesday CANCELLED what it had been calling a ‘prayer vigil,’ citing ‘mischaracterization of the event.’” Axios reports.
The GOP Leadership Completely Caved to Trump January 6, 2022 at 8:00 am EST
Adam Schiff: “In the hours and days after the insurrection, it seemed like the GOP leadership might finally come to grips with what President Trump had wrought with his big lie about massive election fraud.
“And for a brief moment, we had a chance to turn the corner on a disastrous period of our nation’s history. We had a chance to repudiate the immoral grifter who led our country for four years, and weaponized people’s worst fears and anxieties to the point of violence against our capitol. We had a chance to turn back from one party’s grim flirtation with authoritarianism. We had a chance to move forward, still fragmented, but together as a country and a democracy.
“And then, just like that, the opportunity was gone. Fingers to the wind, McCarthy, McConnell and state and local GOP leaders decided that Donald Trump really could, if not shoot someone in the middle of the street with impunity, at least incite a violent attack on our democracy and retain the support of his base. Lacking the courage of their convictions, guided by nothing more than their ambition to regain power, the GOP leadership buckled again to the former president.”
Sean Illing: January 6 should’ve moderated the GOP. It did the opposite.
The Next Insurrection is Coming January 6, 2022 at 7:58 am EST
Dan Pfeiffer: “The fact Republicans are moving ahead with a plan to steal the election in 2024 without fear of consequence is frightening and depressing. The political winds heading into the midterms are at their backs. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema remain more interested in protecting their centrist credentials than American democracy. Too much of the political media has normalized election theft as a legitimate political strategy in a fruitless attempt to avoid accusations of bias.
“The time, place, and plan for perhaps the greatest crime in American history have been identified. We have three years to stop it. Yet, our political leaders are either unwilling or unable to intervene.”
Quote of the Day January 6, 2022 at 7:33 am EST s
“Have you ever had your house broken into or been a victim of a burglary, and when you walked back into the house it felt differently, it felt violated? I felt that way for the longest time — and I still do.” — Sen. Dick Durbin, quoted by the New York Times, remembering the Capitol riots.
January 6 Is About Donald Trump January 6, 2022 at 7:29 am EST s
Playbook: “For those who always despised him, feel betrayed by him, or fear his return to power, today is about remembering — never forgetting — his lowest point as president: the day he incited a mob to attack Congress while it affirmed Joe Biden’s clear victory, the final desperate move in a plot to overthrow an American presidential election.
“For those who love him, merely tolerate him, or crave his return to the White House, today is a media stunt: a contrived anniversary of an insignificant event boosted by Democrats and the press to punish Republicans and cynically advance Biden’s legislative priorities.
Biden Will Call Trump a Threat to Democracy January 6, 2022 at 7:14 am EST s
“President Joe Biden will accuse his predecessor Donald Trump of posing a continuing threat to democracy on Thursday, the anniversary of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who tried to overturn his election defeat,” Reuters reports.
‘I Fear for Our Democracy’ January 6, 2022 at 6:54 am EST s
Jimmy Carter: “Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy. Americans must set aside differences and work together before it is too late.”
Republicans Are Responsible for January 6 January 6, 2022 at 6:52 am EST s
Karl Rove: “If Democrats had done what some Trump supporters did on that violent Jan. 6, Republicans would have criticized them mercilessly and been right to do so. Republicans would have torched any high official who encouraged violence or stood mute while it was waged and been right to do so. Republicans would have demanded an investigation to find who was responsible for the violence and been right to do so.
“To move beyond Jan. 6, 2021, we must put country ahead of party. For Democrats, that means resisting their leadership’s petty habit of aggravating partisan fault lines by indiscriminately condemning all who came to Washington that day.
“We Republicans have a heavier burden. I’ve been a Republican my entire life, and believe in what the Republican Party, at its best, has represented for decades. There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. Love of country demands nothing less. That’s true patriotism.”
Why Republicans Keep Falling for Trump’s Lies January 6, 2022 at 6:51 am EST
Rebecca Solnit: “Mainstream figures in the center and the left are not pushing radically counterfactual stuff akin to the conservative lies about Covid-19, let alone trying to instigate or whitewash the kind of violence we saw on Jan. 6. Democrats operate on the basis of reasonably factual premises and usually accept the authority of science, law and history, while Republicans uninhibitedly push whatever’s most convenient for their goals and incendiary for their base.”
Axios: “Conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol insurrection continue to flood private messaging groups, social networks and even major news outlets one year later.”
Trump’s Hold on GOP Is Unrivaled January 6, 2022 at 6:49 am EST s
Washington Post: “As the nation prepares Thursday to mark the anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Trump has pushed a majority of his party into a full embrace of his false election fraud charges, while simultaneously leading the ongoing efforts to whitewash the violence carried out that day by a pro-Trump mob.”
New York Times: “Today, the Republican Party is very much still Mr. Trump’s, transforming his lies about a stolen 2020 election into an article of faith, and even a litmus test that he is seeking to impose on the 2022 primaries with the candidates he backs. He is the party’s most coveted endorser, its top fund-raiser and the polling front-runner for the 2024 presidential nomination.”
Capitol Riots Are Just Another Wedge In Divided Nation January 6, 2022 at 6:41 am EST
New York Times: “Today, it has become heresy among conservatives to question Mr. Trump’s legacy. The cabinet secretaries and White House aides who resigned in protest of his role in the violence now largely keep to themselves. Many corporations that vowed to halt donations to Republican lawmakers who voted to overturn the election have quietly reopened the contribution spigot. The congressional Republicans who angrily denounced the president after their headquarters was invaded have gone silent or even made the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, all but pretending it never happened…
“While nearly three-quarters of all Americans view the storming of the Capitol as an assault on democracy, about half of Republicans say the rioters were actually the ones ‘protecting democracy’ and nearly as many think the attack was not even that violent. While most Americans believe Mr. Biden was elected legitimately, seven in 10 Republicans think otherwise.”
Garland Has ‘No Higher Priority’ Than Capitol Rioters January 5, 2022 at 9:30 pm EST s
Attorney General Merrick Garland gave an update on the Justice Department’s investigation into the Capitol riot during a press conference Wednesday, emphasizing that the department has “no higher priority” than holding those accountable responsible."
Myballs said... When is a protest a failed coup? When it's all democrats have to run on. Never mind no one has been charged with insurrection. Never mind no one carried a gun.
The liberal media will give us an avalanche of coverage. Will anybody them mention Ashlie Babbitt?
I think Garland must have meant the moment of silence for her since she was the only person shot on Jan 6th at the Capitol
Funny how he still wasn't able to address the federal involvement despite an entire year having passed
Tom Fitton https://mobile.twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1478813103206903811 A major Garland corruption scandal is his willful failure to appoint a Special Counsel for the myriad Joe Biden family corruption issues.
Jack Posobiec Just a photo of some Kazakhstan oligarchs meeting with the big guy and the little guy
Why does Garland refuse to actually follow the mountain of evidence and stead go on political fishing expeditions
Sean Davis https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1478940435938750467
The corrupt Feds hunted down a rando with a Lego set of the U.S. Capitol, but they just can’t seem to figure out who planted pipe bombs in front of the RNC and DNC.
The corrupt Feds hunted down a rando with a Lego set of the U.S. Capitol, but they just can’t seem to figure out who planted pipe bombs in front of the RNC and DNC.
Lego's are a threat to the very core of our democracy. I'm literally shaking here.
LOL.
Take today to remember Ashli Babbitt. That's it. Nothing more.
Brian Stelter https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1479085805536747522
Lead story on Fox's morning show today, all three hours: Covid, Biden admin's failures, "maskless" liberal lawmakers, Chicago schools. Lead story on all the other major morning shows: 1/6 anniversary.
Only a few brief references of 1/6 on Fox's A.M. show today. Generic mentions about Biden's upcoming speech, plus this Brian Kilmeade POV: Biden "wants to talk only about January 6 and blame Donald Trump because he thinks that's the only thing he's going to get high ratings for."
Joel Pollak https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1478823364126916608 AG Merrick Garland is really hamming it up over the January 6 Capitol riot. This is no “just the facts” press briefing. It is part of a propaganda exercise for the Democrats’ midterm election effort. He’s a tool, and the idea that DOJ is “independent” and “apolitical” is a joke.
Presdident Joe Biden is not a great orator. He coughed into his hand too many times. He did not always bear down on portions of his speech as convincingly as he should have.
But there was more overall truthfulness and integrity in what he said than in anything that Trump has ever even come close to saying.
Peter J. Hasson https://mobile.twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1478924199028744193 I sometimes wonder how much attention the June 2017 attempted mass assassination of a couple dozen congressmen would still be getting if the parties were switched
President Joe Biden is not a great orator. He coughed into his hand too many times. He did not always bear down on portions of his speech as convincingly as he should have.
But there was more overall truthfulness and integrity in what he said than in anything that Trump has ever even come close to saying.
And that is why he may still go down in history as one of our greatest presidents.
Already Trump is being rated by objective historians as among the five or six worst president we have ever had. Obama is being rated among the top fifteen or so.
Decent, honest teller of truth said... President Joe Biden is not a great orator. He coughed into his hand too many times. He did not always bear down on portions of his speech as convincingly as he should have.
earlier...
President Biden gave the best speech of his presidency
President Biden on Thursday decried the violent mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters who breached the Capitol a year ago, saying that “democracy was attacked” and urging Americans to make sure such an attack “never, never happens again.” Biden took direct aim at Trump, who he said could not accept that he lost and “created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.” Democratic House leaders have planned a full day of commemorative activities, including testimonials from lawmakers, commentary from historians and a prayer vigil. Senate Democrats plan to deliver floor speeches about the day. Republican leaders do not plan to participate. The Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection resulted in five deaths and injured about 140 members of law enforcement. Here’s what to know: Trump had planned to hold a news conference to mark the first anniversary of the attack on the Capitol but announced this week that he was canceling it.
Senior Biden administration officials have concluded that the government’s Jan. 6 preparations were hampered by a lack of high-level information-sharing and a failure to anticipate how bad the day could be.
Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed to hold accountable all those who were responsible for the riot, whether they were at the Capitol or committed other crimes surrounding the day’s events. Enduring images from Jan. 6 | What the Jan. 6 committee has done | The Attack: Before, During and After 6:57 a.m. Biden says too many in GOP are ‘transforming that party into something else’ By Amy B Wang Biden on Thursday called out Republicans for enabling Trump to spread lies about the 2020 election, either actively or with their silence. “While some courageous men and women in the Republican Party are standing against it, trying to uphold the principle of that party, too many others are transforming that party into something else,” Biden said. Biden added that, despite their disagreements, he would always seek to work with Republicans “who support the rule of law and not the rule of a single man” because of their shared interest in democracy. The way forward, he said, was by recognizing the truth. “The big lie being told by the former president and many Republicans who fear his wrath is that the insurrection in this country actually took place on Election Day, November 3, 2020,” Biden said. “Is that what you thought when you voted that day?” Trump and his supporters are “trying to rewrite history,” Biden said. “They want you to see Election Day as the day of insurrection and the riot that took place here on January 6th as a true expression of the will of the people,” he said. “Can you think of a more twisted way to look at this country, to look at America? I cannot.” 6:56 a.m. ‘I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy,’ Biden says By Felicia Sonmez In his remarks at the Capitol on Thursday morning, Biden vowed to defend American democracy and said that Jan. 6 represents not its end but rather a rebirth of “liberty and fair play.” “You can’t love your country only when you win,” Biden said. “You can’t obey the law only when it’s convenient. You can’t be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.” Those who stormed the Capitol and those who called on them to do so, Biden said, “held a dagger at the throat of ... American democracy.” “They didn’t come here out of patriotism or principle. They came here in rage — not in service of America, but rather in service of one man,” Biden said. He added: “I did not seek this fight brought to this Capitol one year ago today. But I will not shrink from it, either. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation, and I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.”
When you have even Karl Rove saying that, it becomes OBVIOUS how sycophantish and unpatriotic and unprincipled you who still defend TRUMP'S BIG LIE have become.
You KNOW better, and that makes you traitors not only to America, but to the best Lincoln traditions of the Republican party.
The BLM riots were reprehensible. But they were not aimed at overturning the will of the American electorate, and thus, for all their wrongheadedness, they were less evil than what Trump tried and is still trying to produce -- a defeat of the democratic process itself, the democratic process on which this nation was founded.
Karl Rove and other Republicans are trying to warn you that if the GOP does not more firmly renounce Trumpism, its future is endangered.
Karl Rove: “If Democrats had done what some Trump supporters did on that violent Jan. 6, Republicans would have criticized them mercilessly and been right to do so. Republicans would have torched any high official who encouraged violence or stood mute while it was waged and been right to do so. Republicans would have demanded an investigation to find who was responsible for the violence and been right to do so.
“To move beyond Jan. 6, 2021, we must put country ahead of party. For Democrats, that means resisting their leadership’s petty habit of aggravating partisan fault lines by indiscriminately condemning all who came to Washington that day.
“We Republicans have a heavier burden. I’ve been a Republican my entire life, and believe in what the Republican Party, at its best, has represented for decades. There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. Love of country demands nothing less. That’s true patriotism.”
I won’t participate in a charade to pretend January 6th deserves some kind of remembrance or memorial. It’s political theater. You know what deserves the focus? The 100,000+ Americans who died from Fentanyl OD’s last year. This is a war. Our enemies are China + cartels.
Rove does not regard speaking honestly about Jan 7 to be "political theater." He considers it essential to winning back the better nature and the very soul of the Republican party.
PRO TIP: All the January 6th stuff this week is a distraction technique because the communists are under water on every single issue that matters to Americans. They’re trying to turn your head away from real problems.
With the left perpetually grousing for a hot civil war it's getting to the point that we should just give them what they seek and get it the fuck over with.
THIS IS WHERE DEMS ARE TAKING JANUARY 6: This quote in The Hill today from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) captures it succinctly: “The point is that the constitutional purpose is clear, to keep people exactly like Donald Trump and other traitors to the union from holding public office.”
Raskin is referring to Section Three of the 14th Amendment, which was approved as a means of preventing former Confederates of any rank from holding elected office after the Civil War. The provision bans any individual who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies” of the Constitution.
There are presently only a dozen or so in Congress who agree with Raskin, according to The Hill, and a few as well in the academic world. But don’t think there won’t be more after today’s hyper-partisan January 6 “memorials.”
Since the constitutional penalty for treason is death, what the Raskins of the Democratic Party want is to return politics to the blood sport it was for centuries before 1789 in which losing meant a trip to the gallows, the chopping block or a firing squad.
Myballs said... Objective historians? Who? Bechloss and Kearns Goodwin?
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You Hannity....Tucker.....Alex Jones.......You really are a flaming asshole ballz with such revisionists all fellating trump to remain in good graces with the fat assed liar!!!!!!
Hugh Hewitt https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/1479068548823613441 If you turn on cable news today and the channel is going wall-to-wall w/ 1/6 coverage, know you are not watching a "news station." I opened my show w/ a fact-based summary of 1/6, but 75% of show is devoted to #chicagopublicschools, by far the most important news story of today.
Joel Pollak https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1479098028275355649
Biden is screaming at us about Truth, something he's rarely told. Where was this outrage about the Russia collusion hoax? Where is accountability for that? Democrats spun a lie to undo the 2016 election and they used it to dominate our politics and cripple the new adminsitration.
You mean where it says the post has been deleted BY THE AUTHOR?
Not the Administrator.... __________
No, that is not what has been happening. I have put up several posts and seen them accepted as posts, only to have them to have disappeared when I returned. ' For example, this is the third time I posted the following only to have it didappear:
I will just say this: As for the collusion matter, I will say that I never commented much on it, but was waiting for the investigation to be commpleted, so you can't accuse me of playing the collusion card.
This is now the fourth time I put this up and it disappeared all three times before. And with no indication in the sidebar it had been removed either by the author or the administrator.
Ted Cruz Apologizes for Calling Capitol Rioters ‘Terrorists’ January 6, 2022 at 10:52 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 250 Comments
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went on Tucker Carlon’s show to say it had been a “mistake” for him to call the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol a “terrorist attack” after he received pushback from supporters of former President Trump.
Said Cruz: “As a result of my sloppy phrasing, it’s caused a lot of people to misunderstand what I meant. What I was referring to was the limited number of people who engaged in violent attacks against police officers.”
Jonathan Chait: “Cruz thought the sweet spot for him was to position himself as a champion of Trump’s non-violent efforts to discard the election results while strongly condemning its violent aspects. Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, he misjudged the political market.”
Aaron Blake: “It did not go quite so well. But it did at least provide an extremely apt picture of the current state of the post-Jan. 6 GOP — on the evening of Jan. 6 itself, no less.” ________
I put this last post up last night and it kept disappearing.
Someone is a coward who does not believe in free speech.
117 comments:
Roger simply did not understand the dis-service Biden has done to American Parents.
"Child tax credit: Parents who took the monthly child tax credit could owe money at tax time.
IRS warning"
Thank God for Republicans, Manchin and Senima for savings the country from destruction. And they continue to by opposing that horrible bill teying to federalize elections and make permanent vote harvesting, fraud by mail, and letting everything require an ID except choosing the most powerful leader in the world.
Instead of responding to propaganda classes.
It appears that this will slow the economy a little bit, because the job creation is growing at the fastest rate since 1969.. But it will reduce inflation rates, and coupled with the demand crisis that Sleepy Joe Biden has addressed..it will decrease inflation by the end of fall season.
Rate hikes, tapering ahead
As expected, the Fed’s policymaking group following the December meeting kept its benchmark interest rate anchored near zero. However, officials also indicated that they foresee up to three quarter-percentage point increases in 2022, as well as another three hikes in 2023 and two more the year after that.
Officials at the meeting indicated that inflation gauges “had been higher and were more persistent than previously anticipated,” the minutes stated. While members said they think growth will be “robust” in 2022, they also said inflation poses a strong risk, perhaps even more so than the pandemic.
Consequently, they said it would be time to tighten policy sooner than anticipated.
“Some participants judged that a less accommodative future stance of policy would likely be warranted and that the Committee should convey a strong commitment to address elevated inflation pressures,” the minutes said.
Along those lines, the committee announced it would speed up the tapering pace of its monthly bond-buying program. Under the new plan, the program would now end around March, after which it would free up the committee to start hiking rates.
Current fed fund futures market pricing is indicating about a 2-to-1 chance of the first hike coming in March, according to the CME’s FedWatch Tool. Traders figure the next increase would come in June or July, followed by a third move in November or December.
Fed officials indicated that the reasoning behind the moves was in response to inflation that is higher and more persistent than they had figured. Consumer prices are rising at their fastest pace in nearly 40 years.
The Fed is trying to catch up with inflation dumbass. Trum.p had wage growth greater than inflation. Biden's is less than inflation. Everything is getting more expensive. That's not a good thing.
What exactly are you attempting to talk about Roger.
"coupled with the demand crisis"
What "demand crisis"?
Gasoline, how does Biden reduce the price of gasoline, Natural gas and home heating oil?
Come on very average IQ Roger.
Mike Pence may put the country over his personal ambition to be the President...
Pence aides 'particularly cooperative' in providing January 6 committee info on Trump's activity: report
Matthew Chapman
January 05, 2022
On Wednesday, Axios reported that aides to former Vice President Mike Pence have been "particularly cooperative" in giving the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol information on former President Donald Trump's activity during the events of that day.
"At the one-year mark of the insurrection, the committee is piecing together a definitive timeline of how Trump resisted pleas from his own advisers, allies, family members and lawmakers to halt the violence down Pennsylvania Avenue," reported Alayna Treene. "The committee is ramping up its closed-door work with the goal of holding public hearings as early as this spring. Many Pence-world witnesses have testified without a subpoena, according to one source with direct knowledge of the closed-door hearings."
Among those who have provided information is former Pence chief of staff Marc Short, as well as former Pence communications director Alyssa Farrah and former National Security Adviser Keith Kellogg, who was with Pence during the insurrection.
RELATED: Stephanie Grisham says she 'cooperated fully' with Jan. 6 committee and 'will continue to' she might have information...
"Some of the most helpful information has come from second- and third-tier staff who were not directly involved but were at the White House on Jan. 6 and had access to top administration officials, sources tell Axios," the report continued. "They’ve been integral to helping piece together exactly what happened that day, one committee aide said. Many of those officials met solely with the committee's Republican members, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), two sources with direct knowledge said."
Pence, who held a ceremonial role in counting the electoral votes, was a particular target of the insurrectionists, who led chants calling for his lynching after he concluded he didn't have the constitutional authority to refuse to count President Joe Biden's votes — something that Trump actually defended after the fact. The incident has led to a fracturing of the relationship between Trump and his former running mate.
Pence is rumored to be considering a presidential run in 2024, although analysts believe he would have serious problems winning over Trump supporters still enraged that he didn't help overturn the 2020 election, especially if he cooperates with the investigation himself.
rrb wants to lynch him
Supply and demand kputz
What "demand crisis"?
Rogers best well thought out answer.
"We have a Supply and demand crisis"
What are you attempting to talk about Roger?
How does that even work in the real world?
They're helping because they know there's nothing there and this is all for show.
It's impossible to know for sure what Sean Hannity meant by "January 6th happening the way he is being told" but according to a number of accounts this was when Trump's henchmen were hatching their plot to have Republicans in Congress object to the electoral count and have Pence throw the election to the House of Representatives where Trump would win despite losing through legitimate means. In other words, the coup was being planned.
Marc Short, the top aide to Vice-President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6th Select Committee.
Marc Short was present at the meeting when Donald Trump and John Eastman tried to convince Mike Pence not to allow the electors from some states to cast their vote in a Joint Session of Congress as mandated in the Constitution, and not to certify the winner of the Electoral College vote as the 46th President of the United States as mandated by the Constitution.
Conspiring to overthrow the government is sedition. Sedition is a felony. Every individual who pressured Vice-President Pence to ignore the Constitutionally mandated process for the peaceful transfer of power, faces legal jeopardy.
If we can trust the words of Peter Navarro, he has confirmed that he and Steve Bannon conspired with Ted Cruz and Paul Gosar to block certification of the Electoral College vote.
The Navarro-Bannon-Gosar-Cruz conspiracy required Mike Pence to refuse to accept electors from some Red states that voted for Biden, but had Republican legislatures that would—if Pence refused to seat the Biden electors—recall the electors chosen by the voters and replace them with Trump electors chosen by state legislators.
For their part, Cruz and Gosar convinced over 100 Congressional Republicans to join the conspiracy by voting to reject the Electoral College vote. The name of each Congressional co-conspirator is a permanent part of the Congressional Record.
Pence—placing his life in danger—refused to steal the election for Donald Trump. The planned “bloodless coup” exploded into a bloody insurrection with the attack of a seditious mob called to Washington by Donald Trump, incited to violence by Donald Trump, and directed to attack a Joint Session of Congress by Donald Trump.
Rogers best well thought out answer.
"We have a Supply and demand crisis"
What are you attempting to talk about Roger?
How does that even work in the real world?
You are a traitor!
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will deliver a speech Thursday in the heart of the U.S. Capitol to mark the first anniversary of the insurrection there.
One year ago, former President Donald Trump incited a mob of his supporters, and encouraged them to storm the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the electoral votes for Biden’s 2020 presidential win.
Five people died, hundreds of law enforcement officers were injured — four later died by suicide — and congressional staff, lawmakers, police and journalists were traumatized. One woman was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer when she tried to breach the House speaker’s lobby.
On Thursday, Biden will also be joined by Vice President Kamala Harris at the Capitol. They will speak at 9 a.m. in Statuary Hall, which rioters walked through the day of the attack, shouting and waving flags, including a Trump campaign banner.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is also set to hold a private moment of reflection on the House floor with staff that were present on Jan. 6. She will also have a moment of silence on the House floor soon after.
Later in the day, Pelosi, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and several historians, will host a discussion in the Cannon Caucus Room about how to preserve the narrative of events that occurred on Jan. 6.
Some members of Congress are expected to relate their personal Jan. 6 experiences following the discussion, and a prayer vigil will end the day at 5:30 p.m. Most events are scheduled to be carried by C-SPAN.
The former president was set to issue a video statement on Thursday, but has now canceled it.
Trump was impeached for a second time, on the grounds of inciting the insurrection. Only 10 Republicans joined House Democrats in a 232-197 vote.
A recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 3 in 10 Republicans say the attack on the Capitol was not violent, while 9 in 10 Democrats considered the day violent.
The Justice Department has opened hundreds of cases and directed prosecutors to issue a slew of sedition and conspiracy charges against pro-Trump rioters. Some of those insurrectionists are waiting for their trials in D.C. jails.
Congressional hearings and investigations into the attack on the Capitol have been ongoing for a year. Schumer on Wednesday spoke during a Senate Rules Committee oversight hearing about security improvements made by the U.S. Capitol Police.
“January 6th was not merely a senseless act of mob violence that sprung up spontaneously,” he said. “It was an attempt to reverse, through violent means, the outcome of a free and fair election.
“And make no mistake: the root cause of January 6th is still with us today,” he continued. “It is the Big Lie pushed by Donald Trump that is undermining faith in our political system and making our democracy, our country, less safe.”
Trump has continued to make false claims that the presidential election was stolen, and Republicans in state legislatures have used those claims to enact and introduce strict voting requirements. It’s a trend that has concerned Democrats as they struggle to pass voting rights legislation.
Pelosi established a special commission to investigate the attack — similar to one created in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Only two Republicans sit on the committee, Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. The select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has issued subpoenas to former Trump aides, House Republicans and Fox News anchors.
Whoopi Goldberg stunned by testing positive for COVID: 'I've done everything I was supposed to do'
When is a protest a failed coup? When it's all democrats have to run on. Never mind no one has been charged with insurrection. Never mind no one carried a gun.
The liberal media will give us an avalanche of coverage. Will anybody them mention Ashlie Babbitt?
The right wing spin has begun.
January 6, 2022
There Was No Insurrection But There Was A Coup
By Vince Coyner
The debate is over. After a year spent investigating claims of election fraud, the media has determined that any fraud in the 2020 election was too insignificant to have changed the outcome and Joe Biden legitimately won. Now we can get back to our normal lives, or whatever passes for normal now…except that’s fiction.
In 44 BC, Roman Senators murdered Caesar, claiming they acted to protect the Republic. In fact, they simply sought power. Their coup d’état put the final nail in the coffin of a republic that had been dead in deed, if not name, for decades.
Coup d’états differ from revolutions in that they’re generally orchestrated by or include people within government who seize power—often by narrowly using or just threatening violence—resulting in a rapid transition of power. Revolutions are often longer affairs that include much of a country’s population and exponentially more bloodshed.
Most coups try to keep much of the society and government apparatus intact, merely changing who’s in charge. This illusion of continuity is intended to gain the population’s acquiescence by avoiding the appearance of a bloody civil war.
And that’s exactly what we got. While Donald Trump does not lie in a bloody toga on the floor of the Senate, America witnessed a coup d’état equally as vicious. Many will deny one took place because their guy won but, make no mistake, virtually every American knows one did, even if only 56% admit it.
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The moment the coup began to reveal itself Americans knew something was amiss. Many went to bed on November 3rd believing that Trump was leading in enough states to secure an electoral victory, including in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin. Strangely, however, while America slept, densely populated Democrat counties like Fulton (Atlanta) in Georgia and Allegheny (Pittsburgh) in Pennsylvania “stopped counting“ votes only to “restart” later when Biden suddenly got enough votes to swing the state blue. Similarly, Philadelphia stopped “reporting” at 1 AM and later announced Biden had won the state.
The morning of the 4th, as cries of fraud came from red areas across the country, the side that cried “election fraud” for four years suddenly fell silent. Apparently, 2020 had become the “most legitimate election in American history“.
Joseph Stalin said, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” That’s exactly how we went from being a constitutional republic to a banana republic, but rather than the United Fruit Company or the CIA running the coup, it was Mark Zuckerberg, Democrats, the FBI, and the media.
The coup did not fail.
The most threatening aspect of January 6th was not the ferocious attack on the Capitol but the response of Republican officeholders thereafter. Even after the unleashing of medieval mob violence; even after the erection of a gallows; even after members had been forced to run for their lives; even after the deaths and injuries; even after all of that and more, 147 Republican members of Congress voted not to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the presidency.”
“The transformation of the GOP from a political party into an authoritarian personality cult became official that day. McCarthy’s bootlicking visit to Mar-a-Lago in late January 2021 merely provided the visual.
Again the right wing terrorists have continued their attacks on The United States of America.
The moment the coup began to reveal itself Americans knew something was amiss. Many went to bed on November 3rd believing that Trump was leading in enough states to secure an electoral victory, including in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin. Strangely, however, while America slept, densely populated Democrat counties like Fulton (Atlanta) in Georgia and Allegheny (Pittsburgh) in Pennsylvania “stopped counting“ votes only to “restart” later when Biden suddenly got enough votes to swing the state blue. Similarly, Philadelphia stopped “reporting” at 1 AM and later announced Biden had won the state.
The morning of the 4th, as cries of fraud came from red areas across the country, the side that cried “election fraud” for four years suddenly fell silent. Apparently, 2020 had become the “most legitimate election in American history“.
Joseph Stalin said, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” That’s exactly how we went from being a constitutional republic to a banana republic, but rather than the United Fruit Company or the CIA running the coup, it was Mark Zuckerberg, Democrats, the FBI, and the media.
Rewriting the narrative
The whitewashing of Jan. 6 began that very night.
Just hours after the insurrection — which resulted in five deaths, including a police officer — 139 House members and eight senators returned to the desecrated Capitol and voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Trump and his allies, too, began rewriting the narrative almost immediately.
Some falsely claimed leftist “antifa” protesters were behind the violence. Others falsely argued there was very little violence on Jan. 6 or, as Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.) claimed, the riot was simply “a normal tourist visit.” And some Republicans rebranded those arrested in the aftermath of the insurrection as “political prisoners.”
Trump and his supporters have also sought to make a martyr of Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was shot and killed on Jan. 6 by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a broken window into the Speaker’s Lobby — the hallway just off the House chamber, from which lawmakers were still being evacuated.
Trump has described her death as a murder, and called for “justice” for Babbitt. In a posthumous birthday video he taped for her, the former president called Babbitt “a truly incredible person” and offered his “unwavering support” to her family. Babbitt’s mother and brother have said in recent interviews with The Post that they believe Trump is critical to drawing attention to her death — and reframing the public’s understanding of the day — and they continue to support him.
Friends, and I mean that.
The words “anniversary” or “commemoration” do not appropriately characterize this day. What occurred a year ago is nothing to be memorialized, nothing to glorify.
What happened on January 6, 2021 was frightening and shameful. That date shall live in infamy — like December 7, 1941 and 9/11. The difference is that on those days the United States was attacked by foreign powers, whereas on this date the United States was attacked by Americans — some waving American flags, most of them loyal to the man who had lost the presidential reelection the previous November 3 but who did not concede his loss and continues to argue the presidency was stolen from him.
Besides paying our respects to the families of the five people who lost their lives in the attack on the Capitol, as well as to those who still bear its psychological scars — Capitol police officers, and members of congress who remain traumatized by what occurred — it is also important to acknowledge the trauma to our nation. The trauma continues to some extent in each of us today.
The perpetrators must be held accountable. Trump must be held accountable. Members of congress who conspired with him must be held accountable. The only way we as a nation can process this trauma — gain some finality and closure on what occurred a year ago today — is to ensure that those who attacked the Capitol and those who instigated the attack bear full responsibility for their actions. And we must ensure that nothing like this ever occurs again.
Oh, to be in the fainting couch business today with a shit ton of inventory to sell. I would throw in a free set of faux pearls for clutching with every sale.
LOL.
"January 6th. A day... that will live... in INFAMY!"
It looks like the alky is 'dwarf tossing' again.
Give the shrimp his credit alky -
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-year-ago-today
I only hope Lil Bobby ran down to Stride Rite to pick up a new pair of shoes for all the foot stomping he'll be doing today.
It looks like the alky is 'dwarf tossing' again.
Good to see rat ranting like the true idiot he is.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Funny he thinks PJ Media is a credible source but in reality it is a perveyor of bullshit news that he falls for and shares......LOLOLOO
Kyrsten Sinema Tells Chuck Schumer to Pound Sand and Leaves Democrats With Nowhere to Go
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/01/05/kyrsten-sinema-tells-chuck-schumer-to-pound-sand-and-leaves-democrats-with-nowhere-to-go-n502100
Heh.
Nice.
The mid terms will be here before we know it...
Most amusing Fox News is ignoring the insurrection like it never happened!!!! Kinda like all you pukes who have your heads stuck in the sand holding your breath still believing trump won!!!!! bWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Dumb fucks!!!
Rogers best well thought out answer.
"We have a Supply and demand crisis"
What are you attempting to talk about Roger?
How does that even work in the real world?
Every time you attempt to talk about economics it turns out like your two marriages.
I'M GONNA SHUT DOWN THE VIRUS!!!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1478508837485301761
Yeah, NO.
LOL.
Fucking Asshole.
Most amusing Fox News is ignoring the insurrection like it never happened!!!!
Probably because everyone within the DOJ and FBI responsible for it refuse to be interviewed, BWAA.
How's "Crossfire Hurricane" doing these days BWAA?
The Steele Dossier?
The plot to kidnap and murder Gretchen Whitmer?
And idiots like you rat perpetuate the fact that the big lie has no basis in fact just your ignoance and gullibility!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
This is what a real, actual "insurrection" looks like. Not a bunch of FBI clowns playing dress-up:
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russia-led military alliance said Thursday that it will dispatch peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan after the country’s president asked for help in controlling protests that escalated into violence, including the seizure and setting afire of government buildings.
Protesters in Kazakhstan’s largest city stormed the presidential residence and the mayor’s office Wednesday and set both on fire, according to news reports, as demonstrations sparked by a rise in fuel prices escalated sharply in the Central Asian nation.
https://apnews.com/article/business-kazakhstan-almaty-9da42330ca51c36fe9fd88f9ef35ff4e
And GOP clowns like you denying trump tried to take away Biden's election.....sad you don't see the similarity between Putin and Trumps tactics of misinformation and lying to manipulate assholes like to to fight on.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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Biden has a "plan" to stop Putin.
Giving Putin his pipelines was part of that plan.
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Gibberish and stupidity posted by the KU goat fucking idiot....!!!!!!
Breath deep goat fucker....imbed those smoke particulates in your polluted lungs....>>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Maybe if you could find work, you wouldn't have to act like an 19th century settler to keep warm.....yeah.....great life you have asshole!!!!
Thing about heating with clean, renewable wood is no taxes.
It is one more way of earning our way and enjoying financial prosperity.
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False flags are popping up like dandelions in the spring...
Seattle police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020, investigation finds
At a crucial moment during 2020’s racial justice protests, Seattle police exchanged a detailed series of fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists.
The radio chatter about members of the Proud Boys marching around downtown Seattle, some possibly carrying guns, and then heading to confront protesters on Capitol Hill was an improper “ruse,” or dishonest ploy, that exacerbated a volatile situation, according to findings released Wednesday by the city’s Office of Police Accountability.
The Proud Boys is a far-right group with a reputation for street violence and with several members — including one from South King County — who have been charged with terrorism for alleged actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The ruse happened on the night of June 8, 2020, hours after the Police Department had abandoned its East Precinct on Capitol Hill and just as protesters were starting to set up the zone that was later called the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.
The officers who participated described a group gathering by City Hall and moving around downtown. They delivered reports such as, “It looks like a few of them might be open carrying,” and: “Hearing from the Proud Boys group. … They may be looking for somewhere else for confrontation.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-police-improperly-faked-radio-chatter-about-proud-boys-as-chop-formed-in-2020-investigation-finds/
A year ago, President-elect Joe Biden was huddling with his advisers in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, preparing to deliver a speech on the economy – far from the reaches of Washington, D.C.
But as images of rioters brandishing flagpoles and violently barreling through police barricades at the U.S. Capitol unfolded on television, it became clear Biden would have to nix his economy speech for something else entirely.
Suddenly, Biden's campaign rhetoric about restoring democracy and healing a divided nation crashed headfirst into a horrific political reality: the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol in more than 200 years – and a direct assault on the foundation of American governance.
"Fundamentally, what we talked about for the entire campaign had really just become very much vivid and alive that day,” recalled Mike Donilon, a top Biden adviser.
Biden, who framed his campaign as the battle for the soul of the nation, has spent the last year trying to strike a balance between addressing the magnitude of Jan. 6 and refusing to let it overshadow his presidency, even as he confronted myriad other crises facing the country.
Show your plagiarism alky...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/06/biden-capitol-attack-legacy/8974964002/?gnt-cfr=1
rrb said...
False flags are popping up like dandelions in the spring...
Until Biden, Garland and Wray come clean about federal involvement, release the video evidence, explain the "pipe bomber", and explain why security was turned down Americans have a duty to not trust what is going on in Washington DC.
Of course no apologies were ever given for the previous unprecedented hoaxes
Banana Republic
"led" by a demented old man
and his patience is running thin
Biden Will Speak from the Capitol
January 6, 2022 at 8:30 am EST
President Biden will mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by placing responsibility on Donald Trump and telling Americans that “the way forward is to recognize the truth and to live by it,”
Axios reports.
From his prepared remarks:
“Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?”
Biden will address the nation from Statuary Hall in the Capitol at 9 a.m. ET.
No GOP Leaders Will Attend January 6 Events
January 6, 2022 at 8:29 am EST
“No members of Republican leadership have said they plan to attend Thursday’s events commemorating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob,”
the Washington Post reports.
Bonus Quote of the Day
January 6, 2022 at 8:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
“The threat continues. And it’s very important, if you look at what’s happening today in my party, the Republican party, rather than reject what happened on 6th, reject the lies about the election and make clear that a president who engaged in those activities can never be president again, unfortunately too many in my own party are embracing that former president, are looking the other way, are minimizing the danger. That’s how democracies die, and we simply cannot let that happen.”
— Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), in an interview with NBC News.
Georgia Republicans Planned Vigil for ‘J6 Patriots’
January 6, 2022 at 8:15 am EST s
“Some Georgia Republicans planned to spend the anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol praying — not just for those killed or hurt during the Jan. 6 riot, but for the ‘J6 Prisoners’ and ‘J6 Patriots’ who stormed the building in a futile attempt to keep then-President Trump in power,”
the Washington Post reports.
“But after bipartisan blowback, the Cobb County GOP on Wednesday CANCELLED what it had been calling a ‘prayer vigil,’ citing ‘mischaracterization of the event.’”
Axios reports.
The GOP Leadership Completely Caved to Trump
January 6, 2022 at 8:00 am EST
Adam Schiff:
“In the hours and days after the insurrection, it seemed like the GOP leadership might finally come to grips with what President Trump had wrought with his big lie about massive election fraud.
“And for a brief moment, we had a chance to turn the corner on a disastrous period of our nation’s history. We had a chance to repudiate the immoral grifter who led our country for four years, and weaponized people’s worst fears and anxieties to the point of violence against our capitol. We had a chance to turn back from one party’s grim flirtation with authoritarianism. We had a chance to move forward, still fragmented, but together as a country and a democracy.
“And then, just like that, the opportunity was gone. Fingers to the wind, McCarthy, McConnell and state and local GOP leaders decided that Donald Trump really could, if not shoot someone in the middle of the street with impunity, at least incite a violent attack on our democracy and retain the support of his base. Lacking the courage of their convictions, guided by nothing more than their ambition to regain power, the GOP leadership buckled again to the former president.”
Sean Illing:
January 6 should’ve moderated the GOP. It did the opposite.
The Next Insurrection is Coming
January 6, 2022 at 7:58 am EST
Dan Pfeiffer:
“The fact Republicans are moving ahead with a plan to steal the election in 2024 without fear of consequence is frightening and depressing. The political winds heading into the midterms are at their backs. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema remain more interested in protecting their centrist credentials than American democracy. Too much of the political media has normalized election theft as a legitimate political strategy in a fruitless attempt to avoid accusations of bias.
“The time, place, and plan for perhaps the greatest crime in American history have been identified. We have three years to stop it. Yet, our political leaders are either unwilling or unable to intervene.”
Quote of the Day
January 6, 2022 at 7:33 am EST s
“Have you ever had your house broken into or been a victim of a burglary, and when you walked back into the house it felt differently, it felt violated? I felt that way for the longest time — and I still do.”
— Sen. Dick Durbin, quoted by the New York Times, remembering the Capitol riots.
Wendy Rogers
https://gab.com/wendyrogersaz/posts/107572746366595477
Anyone who calls the Fedsurrection a terrorist attack and gas lights patriots does not deserve to hold office.
January 6 Is About Donald Trump
January 6, 2022 at 7:29 am EST s
Playbook:
“For those who always despised him, feel betrayed by him, or fear his return to power, today is about remembering — never forgetting — his lowest point as president: the day he incited a mob to attack Congress while it affirmed Joe Biden’s clear victory, the final desperate move in a plot to overthrow an American presidential election.
“For those who love him, merely tolerate him, or crave his return to the White House, today is a media stunt: a contrived anniversary of an insignificant event boosted by Democrats and the press to punish Republicans and cynically advance Biden’s legislative priorities.
“Americans often have a shared understanding about big traumatic national events. That is not the case with Jan. 6, which is why the cliché about our politics feeling like a civil war has more and more resonance.”
Biden Will Call Trump a Threat to Democracy
January 6, 2022 at 7:14 am EST s
“President Joe Biden will accuse his predecessor Donald Trump of posing a continuing threat to democracy on Thursday, the anniversary of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who tried to overturn his election defeat,” Reuters reports.
‘I Fear for Our Democracy’
January 6, 2022 at 6:54 am EST s
Jimmy Carter:
“Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy. Americans must set aside differences and work together before it is too late.”
Republicans Are Responsible for January 6
January 6, 2022 at 6:52 am EST s
Karl Rove:
“If Democrats had done what some Trump supporters did on that violent Jan. 6, Republicans would have criticized them mercilessly and been right to do so. Republicans would have torched any high official who encouraged violence or stood mute while it was waged and been right to do so. Republicans would have demanded an investigation to find who was responsible for the violence and been right to do so.
“To move beyond Jan. 6, 2021, we must put country ahead of party. For Democrats, that means resisting their leadership’s petty habit of aggravating partisan fault lines by indiscriminately condemning all who came to Washington that day.
“We Republicans have a heavier burden. I’ve been a Republican my entire life, and believe in what the Republican Party, at its best, has represented for decades. There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. Love of country demands nothing less. That’s true patriotism.”
Why Republicans Keep Falling for Trump’s Lies
January 6, 2022 at 6:51 am EST
Rebecca Solnit:
“Mainstream figures in the center and the left
are not pushing radically counterfactual stuff akin to the conservative lies about Covid-19,
let alone trying to instigate or whitewash the kind of violence we saw on Jan. 6.
Democrats operate on the basis of reasonably factual premises and usually accept the authority of science, law and history,
while Republicans uninhibitedly push whatever’s most convenient for their goals and incendiary for their base.”
Axios:
“Conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol insurrection continue to flood private messaging groups, social networks and even major news outlets one year later.”
Trump’s Hold on GOP Is Unrivaled
January 6, 2022 at 6:49 am EST s
Washington Post:
“As the nation prepares Thursday to mark the anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Trump has pushed a majority of his party into a full embrace of his false election fraud charges, while simultaneously leading the ongoing efforts to whitewash the violence carried out that day by a pro-Trump mob.”
New York Times:
“Today, the Republican Party is very much still Mr. Trump’s, transforming his lies about a stolen 2020 election into an article of faith, and even a litmus test that he is seeking to impose on the 2022 primaries with the candidates he backs. He is the party’s most coveted endorser, its top fund-raiser and the polling front-runner for the 2024 presidential nomination.”
Capitol Riots Are Just Another Wedge In Divided Nation
January 6, 2022 at 6:41 am EST
New York Times:
“Today, it has become heresy among conservatives to question Mr. Trump’s legacy. The cabinet secretaries and White House aides who resigned in protest of his role in the violence now largely keep to themselves.
Many corporations that vowed to halt donations to Republican lawmakers who voted to overturn the election have quietly reopened the contribution spigot.
The congressional Republicans who angrily denounced the president after their headquarters was invaded have gone silent or even made the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, all but pretending it never happened…
“While nearly three-quarters of all Americans view the storming of the Capitol as an assault on democracy, about half of Republicans say the rioters were actually the ones ‘protecting democracy’ and nearly as many think the attack was not even that violent.
While most Americans believe Mr. Biden was elected legitimately, seven in 10 Republicans think otherwise.”
Garland Has ‘No Higher Priority’ Than Capitol Rioters
January 5, 2022 at 9:30 pm EST s
Attorney General Merrick Garland gave an update on the Justice Department’s investigation into the Capitol riot during a press conference Wednesday, emphasizing that the department has “no higher priority” than holding those accountable responsible."
Myballs said...
When is a protest a failed coup? When it's all democrats have to run on. Never mind no one has been charged with insurrection. Never mind no one carried a gun.
The liberal media will give us an avalanche of coverage. Will anybody them mention Ashlie Babbitt?
I think Garland must have meant the moment of silence for her since she was the only person shot on Jan 6th at the Capitol
Funny how he still wasn't able to address the federal involvement despite an entire year having passed
All my posts above are from Taegan Goddard's politicalwire.com, an excellent source provided by an avowed independent.
Tom Fitton
https://mobile.twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1478813103206903811
A major Garland corruption scandal is his willful failure to appoint a Special Counsel for the myriad Joe Biden family corruption issues.
Jack Posobiec
Just a photo of some Kazakhstan oligarchs meeting with the big guy and the little guy
Why does Garland refuse to actually follow the mountain of evidence and stead go on political fishing expeditions
Banana Republic
Decent, honest teller of truth said...
All my posts above are from Taegan Goddard
The POS "pastor" is a self-admitted waterboy
ROFLMFAO !!!
no one worships GODdard like boswell and political_lire is his Bible
Sean Davis
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1478940435938750467
The corrupt Feds hunted down a rando with a Lego set of the U.S. Capitol, but they just can’t seem to figure out who planted pipe bombs in front of the RNC and DNC.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/05/is-the-fbi-ever-going-to-get-around-to-finding-the-jan-6-pipe-bomber-or-nah/
Great little article
Why does Garland refuse to actually follow the mountain of evidence and stead go on political fishing expeditions
Banana Republic
Garland's a piece of shit. I thank God every single day that the sniveling little worm never made it onto the USSC.
One unqualified liberal asshat - Sotomayor - thanks to 0linsky is enough.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1478904259580248065
Never forget: Democrats cheered rioters for eight months before they were 'outraged' by January 6th.
The corrupt Feds hunted down a rando with a Lego set of the U.S. Capitol, but they just can’t seem to figure out who planted pipe bombs in front of the RNC and DNC.
Lego's are a threat to the very core of our democracy. I'm literally shaking here.
LOL.
Take today to remember Ashli Babbitt. That's it. Nothing more.
Waiting for them to ask Portland business owners how horrible Jan 6th was.
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1479077543915442182
Twitter removed #WheresRayEpps from the trending list faster than the FBI removed Ray Epps from their wanted list.
wonder why
Democrat teachers unions once again showing the nation that they don't really give a damn about the kids. And Biden stays silent in agreement.
Brian Stelter
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1479085805536747522
Lead story on Fox's morning show today, all three hours: Covid, Biden admin's failures, "maskless" liberal lawmakers, Chicago schools. Lead story on all the other major morning shows: 1/6 anniversary.
Only a few brief references of 1/6 on Fox's A.M. show today. Generic mentions about Biden's upcoming speech, plus this Brian Kilmeade POV: Biden "wants to talk only about January 6 and blame Donald Trump because he thinks that's the only thing he's going to get high ratings for."
he's getting roasted in the comments
ROFLMFAO !!!
you can see why state media is called FAKE NEWS
Joel Pollak
https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1478823364126916608
AG Merrick Garland is really hamming it up over the January 6 Capitol riot. This is no “just the facts” press briefing. It is part of a propaganda exercise for the Democrats’ midterm election effort. He’s a tool, and the idea that DOJ is “independent” and “apolitical” is a joke.
Joe Biden's America
Banana Republic
Tucker Carlson
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1478927524100988929
Tonight at midnight, just hours from now, we will begin the first of many annual remembrances of January 6th.
top cable show in America
and growing by leaps and bounds
Anonymous Myballs said...
Democrat teachers unions once again showing the nation that they don't really give a damn about the kids. And Biden stays silent in agreement.
When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
- Albert Shanker, President - United Federation of Teachers; 1964 to 1985
TAEGAN GODDARD SAYS:
Biden Stands Up for Democracy
January 6, 2022 at 9:28 am EST
President Biden gave the best speech of his presidency — and perhaps of his entire political career — this morning at the U.S. Capitol.
If you missed it, I urge you to watch it.
Presdident Joe Biden is not a great orator. He coughed into his hand too many times. He did not always bear down on portions of his speech as convincingly as he should have.
But there was more overall truthfulness and integrity in what he said than in anything that Trump has ever even come close to saying.
President Biden gave the best speech of his presidency
Let's go Brandon ?
Didn't he already repeat that ?
biggest clown "president" ever
was he wearing his clown suit or did he just read something and not take any questions ?
you can see why state media is called FAKE NEWS
So Fox is focused on current events instead of something that happened a year ago and Tater Stelter just can't deal.
Explains his ratings collapse.
LOL.
Best speech of his 50 year career as he coughed and stumbled through it. Quite the low bar. Lol.
Peter J. Hasson
https://mobile.twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1478924199028744193
I sometimes wonder how much attention the June 2017 attempted mass assassination of a couple dozen congressmen would still be getting if the parties were switched
state media
Banana Republic
Myballs said...
Best speech of his 50 year career as he coughed and stumbled through it. Quite the low bar. Lol.
Guess he was able to remain on his feet the entire time
what a "fighter"
Meanwhile, back in the world of "shit that actually matters:"
U.S. weekly jobless claims total 207,000, higher than expected amid omicron spread
Jobless claims totaled 207,000 for the week ended Jan. 1, higher than the 195,000 estimate and 7,000 more than the previous week.
Continuing claims also rose, climbing to 1.75 million as the omicron spread dented the labor market heading into the end of 2021.
Also, the U.S. trade imbalance rose less than expected in November though it came close to setting a new record.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/06/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html
We now return you to the Jan. 6 clown show already in progress...
President Joe Biden is not a great orator. He coughed into his hand too many times. He did not always bear down on portions of his speech as convincingly as he should have.
But there was more overall truthfulness and integrity in what he said than in anything that Trump has ever even come close to saying.
And that is why he may still go down in history as one of our greatest presidents.
Already Trump is being rated by objective historians as among the five or six worst president we have ever had. Obama is being rated among the top fifteen or so.
Objective historians? Who? Bechloss and Kearns Goodwin?
Trump had the country out of war his entire term while raising wages eith low inflation.
Decent, honest teller of truth said...
President Joe Biden is not a great orator. He coughed into his hand too many times. He did not always bear down on portions of his speech as convincingly as he should have.
earlier...
President Biden gave the best speech of his presidency
ROFLMFAO at the waterboy !!!
President Biden on Thursday decried the violent mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters who breached the Capitol a year ago, saying that “democracy was attacked” and urging Americans to make sure such an attack “never, never happens again.” Biden took direct aim at Trump, who he said could not accept that he lost and “created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.”
Democratic House leaders have planned a full day of commemorative activities, including testimonials from lawmakers, commentary from historians and a prayer vigil. Senate Democrats plan to deliver floor speeches about the day. Republican leaders do not plan to participate. The Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection resulted in five deaths and injured about 140 members of law enforcement.
Here’s what to know:
Trump had planned to hold a news conference to mark the first anniversary of the attack on the Capitol but announced this week that he was canceling it.
Senior Biden administration officials have concluded that the government’s Jan. 6 preparations were hampered by a lack of high-level information-sharing and a failure to anticipate how bad the day could be.
Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed to hold accountable all those who were responsible for the riot, whether they were at the Capitol or committed other crimes surrounding the day’s events.
Enduring images from Jan. 6 | What the Jan. 6 committee has done | The Attack: Before, During and After
6:57 a.m.
Biden says too many in GOP are ‘transforming that party into something else’
By Amy B Wang
Biden on Thursday called out Republicans for enabling Trump to spread lies about the 2020 election, either actively or with their silence.
“While some courageous men and women in the Republican Party are standing against it, trying to uphold the principle of that party, too many others are transforming that party into something else,” Biden said.
Biden added that, despite their disagreements, he would always seek to work with Republicans “who support the rule of law and not the rule of a single man” because of their shared interest in democracy. The way forward, he said, was by recognizing the truth.
“The big lie being told by the former president and many Republicans who fear his wrath is that the insurrection in this country actually took place on Election Day, November 3, 2020,” Biden said. “Is that what you thought when you voted that day?”
Trump and his supporters are “trying to rewrite history,” Biden said.
“They want you to see Election Day as the day of insurrection and the riot that took place here on January 6th as a true expression of the will of the people,” he said. “Can you think of a more twisted way to look at this country, to look at America? I cannot.”
6:56 a.m.
‘I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy,’ Biden says
By Felicia Sonmez
In his remarks at the Capitol on Thursday morning, Biden vowed to defend American democracy and said that Jan. 6 represents not its end but rather a rebirth of “liberty and fair play.”
“You can’t love your country only when you win,” Biden said. “You can’t obey the law only when it’s convenient. You can’t be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.”
Those who stormed the Capitol and those who called on them to do so, Biden said, “held a dagger at the throat of ... American democracy.”
“They didn’t come here out of patriotism or principle. They came here in rage — not in service of America, but rather in service of one man,” Biden said.
He added: “I did not seek this fight brought to this Capitol one year ago today. But I will not shrink from it, either. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation, and I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.”
Look at the last portion of my 7:59 above.
When you have even Karl Rove saying that, it becomes OBVIOUS how sycophantish and unpatriotic and unprincipled you who still defend TRUMP'S BIG LIE have become.
You KNOW better, and that makes you traitors not only to America, but to the best Lincoln traditions of the Republican party.
All of you.
John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1479080012640829447
If the 1/6 riots were an act of "terrorism" - using force to achieve political ends - then so were the BLM riots.
The difference is that the latter were successful - and their success was a bloody disaster for Americans, especially black Americans.
well the BLM riots were much more violent.
not any real comparison between the two
and were encouraged and aided by democrat politicians
9:07 is more presidential than almost anything Trump has ever said.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?516986-1/president-biden-vice-president-harris-speak-january-6-anniversary
The BLM riots were reprehensible. But they were not aimed at overturning the will of the American electorate, and thus, for all their wrongheadedness, they were less evil than what Trump tried and is still trying to produce -- a defeat of the democratic process itself, the democratic process on which this nation was founded.
Candace Owens
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1479104592306528258
Biden and Harris were unavailable to address the nation after they abandoned American citizens and troops to die in Afghanistan.
But they are fully available to play-pretend about “January 6th”.
The Democrats continue to be a national disgrace.
Americans are still left behind in Afghanistan
and Joe still hasn't answered why and what he's going to do about it.
he's scared of the free press
but loves state media
This is as important as FDR spoke about the January 7th attacks on Pearl Harbor.
And as President George W. Bush held the loud speaker at the location of the 9/11 al Qaeda attack in New York City.
Jack Posobiec
PHOTO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1479099955583209481
Biden doesn’t even have the White House flag at half mast
Just snapped this from the live cam
Nobody truly believes Jan 6th was anything other than a democrat ruse
and they are so incompetent they can't even act it out right
* the "anniversary" of Jan 6th
Jack Posobiec
PHOTO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1479079139290324997
Only one Capitol Police officer has been murdered in the past 20 years
His name is Billy Evans
Killed in the 4-2 Extremist Attack on the US Capitol by a Nation of Islam follower
did Biden mention him ?
happened last April under his watch
He blamed Trump.
Karl Rove and other Republicans are trying to warn you that if the GOP does not more firmly renounce Trumpism, its future is
endangered.
Karl Rove:
“If Democrats had done what some Trump supporters did on that violent Jan. 6, Republicans would have criticized them mercilessly and been right to do so. Republicans would have torched any high official who encouraged violence or stood mute while it was waged and been right to do so. Republicans would have demanded an investigation to find who was responsible for the violence and been right to do so.
“To move beyond Jan. 6, 2021, we must put country ahead of party. For Democrats, that means resisting their leadership’s petty habit of aggravating partisan fault lines by indiscriminately condemning all who came to Washington that day.
“We Republicans have a heavier burden. I’ve been a Republican my entire life, and believe in what the Republican Party, at its best, has represented for decades. There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. Love of country demands nothing less. That’s true patriotism.”
Blogger Roger Amick said...
This is as important as FDR spoke about the January 7th attacks on Pearl Harbor.
And as President George W. Bush held the loud speaker at the location of the 9/11 al Qaeda attack in New York City.
This is simultaneously the most insulting and disgusting analogy, and the most laugh out loud comparison you will read today.
An insult to all who died and sacrificed at Pearl and on 09/11.
And it's shit like this which defines the left and is why they should never be taken seriously ever again.
FDaddy says:
Nobody truly believes Jan 6th was anything other than a democrat ruse
Karl Rove does not believe that.
Robby Starbuck
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1478945882041110530
I won’t participate in a charade to pretend January 6th deserves some kind of remembrance or memorial. It’s political theater. You know what deserves the focus? The 100,000+ Americans who died from Fentanyl OD’s last year. This is a war. Our enemies are China + cartels.
has Biden even given a speech on this ???
is he even aware ?
Karl Rove does not believe that.
Karl Rove is a swamp creature I have no respect for
didn't realize you consider him important
thought you only swallowed Goddard's man juices
Now tell us something about Karl Rove, rrb and FDaddy and Ch and myBalls and Commonsense.
* oh wait, Goddard brought him up
ROFLMFAO !!!
LOL "swamp creature"?
Could you be more specific about how he is wrong in what he said.
He did not engage in name calling.
So is that all YOU have?
Are you saying Goddard misquoted Rove?
Decent, honest teller of truth said...
Now tell us something about Karl Rove, rrb and FDaddy and Ch and myBalls and Commonsense.
already did idiot
ROFLMFAO !!!
Rove does not regard speaking honestly about Jan 7 to be "political theater." He considers it essential to winning back the better nature and the very soul of the Republican party.
Decent, honest teller of truth said...
Are you saying Goddard misquoted Rove?
NO, guess you can't comprehend but I don't care what Rove's opinion is
nor Goddard's
nor yours
but I do care about Americans's left behind
and huge counts of drug deaths
and people suffering from Biden's policies
Yeah, "swamp creature" was a BRILLIANT comment.
Now tell us something about Karl Rove
He's been absolutely irrelevant for over a decade.
Next!
Oh, and go fuck yourself, pederast.
The GOP can only hurt itself by sticking to Trump and his BIG LIE.
rrb thinks f yourself is also brilliant commentary LOL
Florida Leads Nation In Capitol Riot Cases
January 6, 2022 at 10:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Florida has more citizens involved in federal cases regarding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol than any other state by far, Axios reports.
Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
PRO TIP: All the January 6th stuff this week is a distraction technique because the communists are under water on every single issue that matters to Americans. They’re trying to turn your head away from real problems.
Stop letting them set the narrative.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1478765062663905286
With the left perpetually grousing for a hot civil war it's getting to the point that we should just give them what they seek and get it the fuck over with.
It would be over in just a couple hours.
Matt Wolking
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/MattWolking/status/1479102107244371968
Here’s Joe Biden in 2020 telling a woman that he absolutely agrees with her that Donald Trump is an illegitimate president
guess standards have changed...
but I do care about Americans's left behind
and huge counts of drug deaths
and people suffering from Biden's policies
guess the POS "pastor" doesn't care
BRILLIANT
THIS IS WHERE DEMS ARE TAKING JANUARY 6: This quote in The Hill today from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) captures it succinctly: “The point is that the constitutional purpose is clear, to keep people exactly like Donald Trump and other traitors to the union from holding public office.”
Raskin is referring to Section Three of the 14th Amendment, which was approved as a means of preventing former Confederates of any rank from holding elected office after the Civil War. The provision bans any individual who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies” of the Constitution.
There are presently only a dozen or so in Congress who agree with Raskin, according to The Hill, and a few as well in the academic world. But don’t think there won’t be more after today’s hyper-partisan January 6 “memorials.”
Since the constitutional penalty for treason is death, what the Raskins of the Democratic Party want is to return politics to the blood sport it was for centuries before 1789 in which losing meant a trip to the gallows, the chopping block or a firing squad.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/495564/
* but he does breathlessly wait for every Goddard blog update to rush over here
He's a trained waterboy
Myballs said...
Objective historians? Who? Bechloss and Kearns Goodwin?
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You Hannity....Tucker.....Alex Jones.......You really are a flaming asshole ballz with such revisionists all fellating trump to remain in good graces with the fat assed liar!!!!!!
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/495564/
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Your asshattery rat is awesome in its single themed none sense!!!!!!!!
Eric Matheny 🎙
PICTURES:
https://twitter.com/EricMMatheny/status/1479092250625953794
Never forget the day an angry mob stormed a government building in order to obstruct official congressional business.
guess standards were different then also
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Hugh Hewitt
https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/1479068548823613441
If you turn on cable news today and the channel is going wall-to-wall w/ 1/6 coverage, know you are not watching a "news station." I opened my show w/ a fact-based summary of 1/6, but 75% of show is devoted to #chicagopublicschools, by far the most important news story of today.
state media
Joe Biden's America
1984
Joel Pollak
https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1479098028275355649
Biden is screaming at us about Truth, something he's rarely told. Where was this outrage about the Russia collusion hoax? Where is accountability for that? Democrats spun a lie to undo the 2016 election and they used it to dominate our politics and cripple the new adminsitration.
Banana Republic
Reverend...
You mean where it says the post has been deleted BY THE AUTHOR?
Not the Administrator....
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No, that is not what has been happening. I have put up several posts and seen them accepted as posts, only to have them to have disappeared when I returned.
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For example, this is the third time I posted the following only to have it didappear:
I will just say this: As for the collusion matter, I will say that I never commented much on it, but was waiting for the investigation to be commpleted, so you can't accuse me of playing the collusion card.
This is now the fourth time I put this up and it disappeared all three times before. And with no indication in the sidebar it had been removed either by the author or the administrator.
Ted Cruz Apologizes for Calling Capitol Rioters ‘Terrorists’
January 6, 2022 at 10:52 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 250 Comments
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went on Tucker Carlon’s show to say it had been a “mistake” for him to call the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol a “terrorist attack” after he received pushback from supporters of former President Trump.
Said Cruz: “As a result of my sloppy phrasing, it’s caused a lot of people to misunderstand what I meant. What I was referring to was the limited number of people who engaged in violent attacks against police officers.”
Jonathan Chait: “Cruz thought the sweet spot for him was to position himself as a champion of Trump’s non-violent efforts to discard the election results while strongly condemning its violent aspects. Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, he misjudged the political market.”
Aaron Blake: “It did not go quite so well. But it did at least provide an extremely apt picture of the current state of the post-Jan. 6 GOP — on the evening of Jan. 6 itself, no less.”
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I put this last post up last night and it kept disappearing.
Someone is a coward who does not believe in free speech.
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