The Left, 364 Days a Year: “What, you think you’re going to take on the US Government and Military with your AR15?
The Left, the other day: “ZOMG, THEY HAD GUNS AND WERE GOING TO OVERTHROE TEH GOVERMENT!
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The committee’s prize is the disqualification of Trump from running in 2024.
Because to save “our democracy,” it is necessary for the state to determine who you are and are not allowed to vote for.
These TDS people have to know, at some level, how ridiculous that they have become.
If Trump truly believed that the election was illegally stolen by Biden, then his resistance makes him a hero, not a villain. So what did Trump believe? Any idea? I haven’t seen any evidence that Trump “knew” that he lost the election.
The January 6 committee is a joke, Nancy Pelosi chose TDS maniacs Cheney and Kinziger after the GOP minorities washed its hands of the business after Pelosi refused to seat the reps the GOP selected. Kinziger is out, won’t run again, and Cheney will lose her primary by a 2:1 margin. Who the Hell do Kinziger and Cheney represent, any how?
Well, MP, Kinzinger came from a rare reliably Republican district in Illinois. He’s been getting savaged by most of his constituents and allegedly, members of his own family, for turning RINO. He also formed a PAC, rumored to be at least partially funded by Georgie Soros and is meddling in the elections of Trump endorsed candidates.
I read the linked affidavit. Its purpose was to persuade a court that Mr. Vallejo was a flight risk and had possessed weaponry while committing his sedition and therefore should be denied bail. Probably a reasonable request. It is not evidence introduced at trial. What jumps out at the reader is that Vallejo didn’t seem to believe that Trump was on board with the Oath Keepers’ scheme, blowing a rather large hole in the assertion that Trump was connected with the conspiracy to overthrow the government. The current show trial attempts to “prove” a conspiracy existed involving Trump and it will fail to do so except in the minds of MSNBC commentators. It’s also apparent that the Feds had been listening to the conspirators and had informants within their ranks. Should the “QRF” attempted to bring their guns across the Potomac, they would have been met by overwhelming force. It does beg the question: why was the defense of the Capitol left to the inept Capitol Police? With right wingnuts out there with AR-15s, shouldn’t the National Guard have guarded the perimeter? I don’t think an answer to that will be forthcoming from the Select Committee.
The capitol police chief blew apart the narrative that certain members of congress led people around or otherwise aided the “insurrection” by testifying that they had no evidence of that.
Big accusations, then lack of evidence.
Where have we seen this before?
Oh yeah, during the congressional investigation into “Russian collusion.”
Same cast of characters.
It would be even more useful to have a hearing looking into why exactly people are so angry and desperate as to believe the lies of a megalomaniac ex-president that wanted to become an authoritarian leader.
I have followed one Trump scandal after another, wall-to-wall Russia scandal, impeachment I and impeachment II. I have read many of the court opinions, briefs, the Mueller report, Cambridge metrics obtained by Kushner, to manipulate the voting patterns with advertising dollars on Facebook in Wisconsin and Michigan. New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Politico, Axios, Trump rallies and FT.
When the hearings started, I expected reaffirmation of the things I knew – nothing could be further from the truth. What I have seen the first two sessions absolutely blew my mind. I could not believe that a grown man could believe the nonsense that Trump tried to foist upon his followers. He really does believe that we are dumber than he is. I was in disbelief. It was laughable that this went on for four years.
In fairness to Trump, the people who are now throwing him under the bus empowered him as long as it suited them, to promote their careers or their power. Now that Trump is a pariah, it’s much easier to pile on.
For example, Did Barr believe all the things he says now, at the time those things happened? If not, why did he not speak out sooner and resign and why did he stay? Or did it become politically expedient for him to speak now, in order to save his own skin and reputation. Barr was also spineless. Recall when Barr wrote a letter to absolve Trump regarding Russia connection in the the Mueller report before it was released without having read it.
Trump needed enablers to get away with his show. But Trump slowly fired his enablers. When there were very few left — only Giuliani, Navarro, Steven Miller and a couple of other lunatics — it was time to get off the sinking ship.
Some of Trump’s people, like Bolton, kept their mouths shut, for example, to protect the big advance he got for a book deal. I wonder if the contract that Bolton had with his publisher prevented him from testifying at the impeachment trial on Ukraine.
I would love to know what Stephen Miller will put on his resume. It’s not like he could make four years as Trump’s speechwriter disappear. I am not sure that even Fox News would give him a job as a pundit.
^ Any post is an excuse to rant about Trump.
^ What’s so troubling to me is that Trump is the perfect reflection of his hard core base. They are profoundly aggrieved and believe that are entitled to political power and will use any means to get and retain it.
While there are many consistencies between the Nixon and Trump presidencies, in one critical and troubling area they are very different. Nixon hid his machinations from voters, knowing most would be repulsed by his actions. Trump pushes his cheating and lying openly, knowing his voters are eager to accept his false version.
Nixon was a Machiavellian snake intent on surreptitiously gaining and holding power. Trump is a cartoonish carnival barker. The fact that such a loutish, unlearned clown could ascend to the presidency says far, far more about the culture of today’s America than it does about Trump himself.
Principled people drove Nixon out — unprincipled people keep Trump around.
Emery, your 9:43 is an almost perfect example of ‘projection,’ blaming the other side for your own side’s sins.
Trump didn’t steal the election. Democrats stole the election. Trump wanted Congress to delay certifying the stolen election until it could be proven and corrected. Democrats and Never-Trumpers leapt at the opportunity to rid themselves of an outsider.
Read your penultimate paragraph again, substituting Obama, Biden, Harris. Projection.
jdm, you have to admit; rAT’s squeaking as the ceiling collapses on his little rodent head is amusing to say the least.
< Stock market collapses
"TRUMP!!"
< Inflation at historic levels
"Trump!!"since 1931
< Consumer confidence lower than anytime since 1931
"Trump!!"
< Russia on the ascendancy
"TRUMP!!"
< China on the ascendancy
"TRUMP!!"
< Norko on the ascendancy
"TRUMP!!"
< Iran on the ascendancy
"TRUMP!!"
< $6.00 gasoline
"TRUMMMMMP!!!"
lmao.
This was a conspiracy led by a sitting president to overthrow the election results. How can this be shoveled under the rug with no consequences?
Anybody else appreciating the irony of a lawyer writing a book about Barack Obama undermining democracy and then signing on to help Trump steal an election? You can’t even make this stuff up.
No one really believes it was an insurrection, it was a FEDsurrection.
Just a tool to attack all Republicans. Not even the troll thinks (oops, the troll thinking, lol) that if the Republican party completely threw Trump under the bus that this third shampeachment circus would stop. This is about dhimmicraps getting more power, and keeping power. Future don’t look bright for this republic.
The troll is like a fly that just won’t go away. You try to ignore it, but every once in a while you get peek of its drool, and just have to comment. Having completely owned it with your superior facts and logic, you think your work is done. But then, more lefty talking points. I’m surprised the troll hasn’t dropped the “crime is a red state problem” talking, er lie.
I am still bemused anyone reads trollbot tl;dr incoherent talking point spam.
jpa, I usually don’t, but then someone will include a pull quote from one of its ramblings, so I will see it there, can’t resist taking it apart. Gotta resist.
Kinlaw is the man walking outside with a bullhorn/loud-hailer): “The world is coming to an end! Mankind should never have manufactured paper plates! The world is coming to an end!”
Man (walking outside with a bullhorn/loud-hailer the next day): “The world is coming to an end! Mankind should never have manufactured paper plates! The world is coming to an end!”
Man (walking outside with a bullhorn/loud-hailer every single day after that for the next several trillion years): “The world is coming to an end! Mankind should never have manufactured paper plates! The world is coming to an end!”
(Trillions of years later, the world comes to an end)
Man: “See? I TOLD you the world would come to an end if we kept manufacturing paper plates!”
manufactured paper plates?
Poor, deluded Emery. Apparently, you missed Butthead Bennie admitting that “they had no power to bring charges. They can only provide the info to the DOJ and it’s up to them to decide what to do.” Just to translate for your #8 bird shot brain, he just admitted that the whole thing is a sham, that they wasted millions of taxpayer’s money on.