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Twelve guns were recovered in the aftermath of Jan 6. None of them had been fired. Rioters were arrested that day and many were hunted down across the country and brought back to face justice. Many of these morons were placed in solitary and have been held there since they were arrested. Not a single person was seriously harmed by the mob. Many, like BT, probably assert that Officer Sicknick had his head beaten in with a fire extinguisher, or if they actually know how to read, they have learned that he died of a stroke. Those who get that far, desperately assert that he was maced by rioters, which caused the stroke, a blind assertion with no evidence. On the other hand we cannot even learn the name of the Capital Hill security guard who shot and killed Ashlii Babbitt.
Even mentioning the Capital Hill riot in the same context as 9/11 is deeply offensive to the thousands of victims who were murdered by true terrorists. It is revealing to point out that OAC and Nancy Pelosi were back in the House a few hours after the attack.
In the meantime, vicious murders took place around the country throughout the summer. Many of those rioters, if they even were arrested, were released without bond within a couple of hours. What is the status of the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrator who killed David Dorn in cold blood in an ambush?
As to the Steal the Vote narrative, I find the vehemence of panic at the mere mention of an audit of the vote to be indicative of the true concerns of defenders of the election results. There was no such resistance to Hillary’s illegal efforts to cancel the 2016 results. In fact, most leftist activists did everything in their power to advance her agenda.
The fundamental concern with the 2020 election is the fact that the election laws of many key states were changed meaningfully without the involvement of the relevant state legislatures, a flatly unconstitutional approach. The fact that the courts refused to hear many of the resulting cases was more the result of their discomfort with perpetuating a seriously disruptive process that could destabilize society. It has done that anyway since people adamently want answers.
It is the sheer desperation of the Democrats to shut down any audit or review that stinks to high heaven. What on earth terrifies them? Every step has been met with obstruction and delay. At the same time their national leaders in the House and Senate have moved forward aggressively to make permanent these voting procedures that are causing so much distrust and disruption.
I do not think that voters around the country are deeply aware of the staggering importance of this issue. Democrats are winning the PR battle on this and have succeeded with people like BT in convincing them that there is nothing to the concerns of people like me. To use the terminology of the Left, this is an existential event. If they were able to enact HR 1 and S1, our country will have crossed a threshold from which it will be very unlikely to return.
John Durham’s report should be out in about two months.
I kid. People on the right have been saying that for two years. However, I am surprised that he is still working away on his assignment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-durham-steele-dossier-source-brookings-subpoena.
I overstated the point. I apologize. I had seriously understood it to be the case that no guns were seized. I did not realize that twelve guns were confiscated.
There was not a single gun confiscated at the Capitol Riot on 1/6. The only person shot was one of the rioters. And the terrorists on the far left have the audacity to talk about the threat Trump poses to democracy.
Can gaslighting cause permanent damage? I feel like I’m living in an asylum.
Speaking of frauds, carnival barkers and incompetents . . .
Sheryl Attkisson has actually tracked examples of the press and media violating fundamental standards of journalism related to their coverage of Trump over the last four years. I suggest a google search or YouTube search and you should get a maddening, entertaining and eye-opening trip down memory lane. Here’s a recent one (pretty long).
Glen Greenwald addressed the WaPo malfeasance in his column yesterday. Very powerful.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-media-outlets-so-often
Hopefully, the publisher will update the illustrations and re-issue the books. i have no problem with that (as if any of you give a rat’s ass if I have problems with this or anything else for that matter.) What is dangerous in this moment is the trend toward “ghosting” writing that doesn’t fit the “woke” narrative. The Leftists don’t burn books. They just eliminate any way to order them online. 😥
Some “woke” scholar was probably desperate to find a thesis topic and, running out of time, went “all in” to inspect children’s books for racist themes and images. Apparently this effort was rewarded by finding hurtful depictions in several Dr. Seuss books. I have not seen the subject illustrations to determine how explicit they are. But I suppose that I must consider the possibility that early exposures to this explains a least a portion of my racist persona.
It is easy to get frustrated at Millenials and GenXers and such, but it has been the Baby Boomer generation that gave the initial momentum to this movement and it was they who inculcated these perspectives in our younger population. And it is the absence of backbone in Baby Boomers that allows this wildfire to spread without resistance.
I have not seen much in the way of analysis of the economic impact of a wealth tax, but there are those who question if it is constitutional. An income tax is specifically indicated, as are other types of levys, but there is no mention of a wealth tax. I would imagine, though, that a constitutional scholar such as Elizabeth Warren has thought that through and just needs to hammer out some details.
It also strikes me that it would be a method of taxation burdened by process and red tape. Capital gains calculations and estate taxes already provide examples of taxing methods that necessitate burdensome documentation, evaluation and subjectivity. A wealth tax would be much more difficult and arbitrary. Would this be an annual process? What an enormous pain. The cost of preparation of taxes would increase and enforcement costs would also go much higher.
And one can presume that this would be just the camel’s nose under the tent. I think it is laughable to say that this tax might replace the income tax. Instead, I would expect that, once the imposition is in place, it will be periodically raised in the normal “take and take” (instead of “give and take”, get it?) of legislators.
The Left has achieved cultural control. Their outlook underlies the general public’s “common sense”. The manner in which we discuss the future of the republic will be effected dramatically by the consensus default to the meaning of terms like “equity” or “fairness” or “inclusivity”. The decency of the American proletariat is being fed lies and is manipulated to transform our core values.
I thought the election of Trump was a giant middle finger to authoritarians in this country. Turns out, he simply unified the other side to such a degree that they discovered their immense power: media, technology, education, entertainment and all the key areas of cultural influence and control. A full manifestation of George Orwell’s nightmare.
Barack Obama is winning. Perhaps he has already won.
I respect the opinions of Turley, Derschowitz, A. McCarthy, Bill Barr, and many others that suggest that SCOTUS was correct in spurning Texas’s case. But my acceptance is founded in their credibility, not in my deep understanding.
The case Texas made, as I understand it, was that the non-legislative branches of the four defendant states had changed election law during the course of the run up to this year’s elections. This was in direct contradiction with the stated principle in the Constitution that the state legislature shall, in its sole discretion, determine the time and manner of the selection of the state’s electors. This would seem to at least merit SCOTUS deliberation.
As to standing, isn’t that determined in some manner that requires that plaintiff demonstrate that they have suffered some harm as a result of defendants’ actions. It seems indisputable that if the four defendant states improperly name their electors and, if a different result is possible if they had not committed their violations, that Texas and other states could credibly claim harm.
It is remarkable to me that these suits did not arise immediately in response to the subject illegal changes. It damages the credibility of this action that Texas (or others in each of the respective states) did not feel sufficiently threatened to take action earlier in the year.
Holy mackeral, though, I sure do hope that a minimum of one of these Georgia Senate runoffs goes to Republicans. We are toast if it doesn’t.
