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Ransacking of Capitol false flag as a part of neoliberal counterrevolution of 2020-2021

May 2020 vs. January 2021

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Introduction

  President Trump was decisively beaten, if not fair and square. The hopes of millions of American voters were squashed and extinguished. The saga of the Orange Man is over. The victors used a gambit: they sacrificed the sanctity and security of the Capitol, allowed intruders in, permitted them to take selfies in the Speaker’s office, and then faked horror and outrage. The attempted calls for electoral transparency were deflated in real time as huge crowds were dispersed, electors were confirmed, and the ascendancy of Biden was assured, while Trump followers were branded ‘domestic terrorists’.

Donald Trump denounced the people whom he personally called to protest. His close political allies withdrew their support. Within hours, or even minutes, this ruler of the world admired by millions became a non-person. Like a boy who posted an obscenity, he was banned by Twitter and Facebook. Time will tell whether he will go to prison, as so many Dems pray for, but his political life seems to have ended, even if his cause may live.

Trump’s Last Stand, by Israel Shamir - The Unz Review

Some things don’t smell right. Washington, DC is heavily policed. It is infested with security and intelligence assets of all kinds. Even an ordinary incident can bring a massive response including K-9, SWAT team, and a chopper in the air to coordinate actions of law enforcement.  And if there is a crowd,  then probably more than one MRAP.

And yet a not very large,  unarmed crowd was able to overrun the most important government building in the national capital. And that's happened after several weeks’ notice of a large demonstration to be held. Does this pass the “smell test” ?

Occam Razor principle suggest that forces were deliberately withheld and that means that this was a false flag operation. Either from the very beginning (with a certain number of FBI personnel within the crowd (the leader of Proud Boys was a FBI informant after all), which is given, to drive events in the particular direction), or it morphed into the false flag operation after the crowd showed that they can charge on the Capitol and weakened Capitol police has problem containing the crowd.

Such a political gambit to kill Trump as a politician and to have a perfect pretext to suppress "Trumpism" (the right wing anti-neoliberalism and anti-globalization movement distinct from Trump)  as a movement. Which played out really well. And while Trump during the Capitol event appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process fool, who walked into an obvious trap does not excuse the organizers. Also the crowd that went into Capital was confused about their own political platform from the beginning, has no plan, but that doesn't mean they were wrong to question the integrity of 2020 elections. And the fact that they were used a patsies does not change that.

Any American intelligence/police office should have identified the possibility of an attack on the Capitol on January 6th at least a week or two in advance. The social mood of Trump supporters was well known. Yet nobody told the White House to cool the crowd down and control it. Of course Trump behaved completely unprofessionally, but he has advisors that probably are much more experienced in such things should have corrected him. Looks like his entourage betrayed him, which is also a sign of well planned false flag operation. To make things worse, his speech was incoherent rambling of  a petty man with a hurt pride, not a speech of the President of the USA who cares about the future of the country.

Even with Capitol police not everything is clear. The Capitol Police has 2,300 officers and a $516 million annual budget – to patrol an area a little over a square kilometer. That budget is more than the police budgets of Atlanta and Detroit combined. In 2000, it was only pegged at $115 million. So looks like even by themselves they should be a match for protesters. Perhaps USCP commanders are selected on not so much as their professionalism but for their ability to “get along” with their political masters. But still the event looked staged.

The fundamental question that drove the event is not whether Trump's victory was stolen. The fundamental question was the question of integrity of the US elections. About which neither party cares too much. And while the suggestion to appoint  by-partisan commission to investigate the claim of voter fraud was a logical step to uncover the truth the prevalent sentiment in Republican Party, to say nothing about neoliberal Dems, at the end (and now without the help of the mob, which acted as a spoiler)  the dirt was swiped under the rug.

The fact the neoliberal Dems fought the investigation of 2020 elections tooth and nail suggests that they have something to hide. And it attests that they are as addicted to political power (just look at Pelosi) as Bolsheviks and use Machiavellian tactics to this end ("The goal justifies the means"). What makes election fraud for them  just another tool of obtaining and maining political power.

The exact sequence of events that led to ransacking of Capitol on Dec 6, 2021 is convoluted but there are some indirect that drives us in the direction of a preplanned false operation,  or the spontaneous event, which was turned into a false flag operation dynamically as the event unfold and it became clear that the Capitol police can be overrun if they would not get any reinforcements.  There are  at least seven indirect  signs in favor of this hypothesis:

  1. Cue bono. Democratic Party was extremely interested in squashing the discussion about election fraud.  And that was a pretty elegant way to solve two problems simultaneously -- remove Trump from the political scene and to discredit nationalist movement in the USA which is distinct from Trump and much more dangerous for neoliberals  (although most of them voted for Trump, Trump actually betrayed them), which neoliberal globalists fear and hate.  While some observers compare it with Reichstag fire, Ukrainian Maydan events is probably a more close analogy. Haste with which the articles of impeachment were drafted and passed and the absence of any discussion. definitely implicates Pelosi.  Who, incidentally, due to her position and the Speaker of the House,  also was the person responsible for Capitol security. Here is one comment that suggests a possible agenda: 
    exiled off mainstreet, January 16, 2021 at 1:02 am GMT • 1.1 days ago

    I refer to it all as the Reichstag riots. They are following Goebbels’ propaganda template of using an incident, probably a provocation they themselves largely manufactured, to pass enabling acts to consolidate the power of fascist regimes. The Reichstag fire (burning of the German parliament building several weeks after the Fuhrer was named chancellor) led to a propaganda provocation, and resulted in the Nazis making serious gains in the Reichstag elections already scheduled for 5 March. What followed were the Reichstagsbrandverordnungen (usually translated as the Reichstag fire decrees, because the enactments proscribed opponents of the Nazi regime as “terrorists.”

    The same template is being followed by the permanent Yankee regime, now in the new Biden-Harris iteration. They are planning to pass laws labeling most opponents as “domestic terrorists” and going totally extra-legal, since the way the courts treated the evidence of fraud reveals that they no longer are willing to uphold the rule of law. The new regime lacks all legitimacy and has all of the hallmarks of fascism, complete with private companies spearheading attacks on free speech and the proscription of opponents. Another issue is the usage of a virus killing less than 1 of 200 who get it being the pretext to deny almost all rights, including those too basic to be enumerated in the constitution, i.e., the right to breathe.

  2. The defense of Capitol was artificially weakened and clearly inadequate for the event of this size. That this was a violation of the standard operating procedure is a provable fact (see the photo above). Enhancing security with equipment and people are obligatory, not optional,  for such mass events). Here are some telling comments from What’s the floor plan- — New ‘suspicious video’ emerges from Capitol siege… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
    • First this was a setup. They could have had more than enough police presence at the Cap. This was all on Pelosi.
    • I have faced off with antifa, That is antifa, not patriots.
    • I bet John Sullivan knows who pink hat lady is and who paid their way to DC.
  3. Behaviour of major, Pentagon and governors of neighboring states. As event unfolded and got hotter and hotter,  all requests for help by Capitol police were rejected both on city level and neighboring states level. As if "powers that be" badly wanted to crowd to brake into Capitol
  4. Proven presence of agents provocateurs in the crowd (which in view of presence of radical elements in such crowd is almost redundant; but people with completely opposing views some of whom behaved like agents provocateurs were in the crowd. So far there is only some weak evidence:
    1. John Sullivan, the suspected agent provocateur filmed allegedly instigating protesters to commit crimes and committing crimes himself while inside the Capitol Building, was arrested on Thursday and hit with a federal charge. Hi is a very suspicious figure, whom some commenters on UNZ views as a person with FBI ties, but nominally he was the head of some radical (possibly created by FBI) organization ("Insurgence USA"), and it is logical to assume that some of his supported were also on the ground.
      Getaclue, January 16, 2021 at 5:58 pm GMT
      No doubt Sullivan works for the FBI, he instigated it all with the other FBI Agent Provocateurs and he got arrested because he ran his mouth bragging on Local TV News the others won’t and the FBI will shield them — he has been given “Get Out Of Jail Free Cards” for violence before and he is out of jail now – – others (fools) who followed him into the Capitol (which he is on tape inside urging them to “burn it down”) have NO Bail and face decades in Prison (Buffalo Horn head guy) — the FBI is nothing but a NWO KGB — they “infiltrate” or set up all the “violence” we see to use it so our Rights can be stripped away as we are now seeing and have since the 911 False Flag which they also knew about, allowed, and covered up — it is all theater to be used to destroy us for the NWO Globalist Agenda: https://national-justice.com/black-lives-matter-organizer-seen-entering-capitol-building-crowd-likely-fbi-agent-provocateur
    2. Reporter Jade Sacker who is a contractor working for CNN and NPR and who accompanied John Sullivan. She was heard gloating over the break-in in Capitol as the event that achieved her goals, and at best was indifferent to death of MAGA female supporter.
    3. Mike Dunn, leader of “Boogaloo Bois,” an anti-government, anti-Trump group whose adherents call for a revolution toppling the federal government. Who despite his actions and rhetoric was not arrested by FBI. See 'Boogaloo Boi' Leader Who Aligns with Black Lives Matter Boasted About Organizing Armed Insurrection On US Capitol
    4. According to the interview on Epoch Times, some dressed as Trump people were caught on video changing clothes after they fomented the violence and beat a hasty exit. That's a typical Antifa tactic.
  5. After Russiagate FBI is the primary suspect for organizing false flag operations against Trump. FBI is known for infiltration in such rallies as well as most radical groups, who often became just fronts for FBI organized provocations. An old joke states that in any three person terrorist cell in the USA two people are FBI informants.  Notorious Nazi Satanic Group Is An Illegal Counter Intelligence Operation Controlled By Two Career FBI Informants. See comments at the thread  Rush To Judgment On Trump- Multiple Leftists Arrested For Capitol Riot - ZeroHedge. Here is one example:

    Max21c

    Even the press is starting to notice that the pieces aren't fitting together. Rather than a picture of all wicked and crazed Trump supporters, charging the Capitol, leftist news outfit Bloomberg reported that its survey of various parties involved, including those who died or were arrested, didn't paint the desired picture. Conclusion?

    Many of those shown in news footage had no party affiliation and voted sporadically, if at all.

    It's not unusual for the FBI & CIA to recruit and use drug addicts, alcoholics, derelicts, day workers, and others on the margins of society as they are easy to hire through fronts and easy to manipulate and be used by the secret police.  It would not be the least surprising therefore that many of the agent provocateurs have suspicious background, lack stability, and come from the fringes of society as such bear the classic hallmarks of people used as dupes and cannon fodder by the intelligence agencies.

    They often make use of throw always and disposable people and people that are vulnerable and easy to take advantage of and easy to handle and dump.  These people fit the bill quite nicely as people that can be easily recruited by fronts and dupes and allow the puppet masters to keep it all at arms length. 

  6. Looks like a part of Trump entourage also betrayed Trump as any more or less experienced politician would  instantly recognized the danger that such an event can turn into a political trap for Trump. If is clear even to non-professionals that such events can and often are hijacked by security services utilizing a typical color revolutions scenario. It only takes at most a couple of dozen of agitators with less than dozen megaphones to move a crowd to act violently in such a scenario.
  7. Senseless, "in cold blood" execution of Ashli Babbitt Videos show shooting of Ashli Babbitt during Capitol siege Was this event designed to increase the temperature of the crowd (which, thanks God, did not happened);  was it a provocation ?
  8. Extremely suspicious, unexplainable behaviour of Trump which suggest iether utter stupidly (voluntarily getting into the trap that destroys his carrier as politician) or some hidden motives.  In his strange, very weak  "all over the place"/stream of consciousness speech. In which he was playing with fire and this time he was burned --  his political opponents managed to exploit his incompetence and impulsivity to their own advantage (Lessons from the Trumpistan Coup, by Thomas Dalton - The Unz Review )

    Let’s start with the “apparent reality.” By all appearances, January 6 was a day of diverse protests, all of which focused on the election certification by Congress. Authorities evidently planned for several hundred thousand people at various venues, representing related movements. The semi-official “March to Save America” was joined by marches from other organizations like Women for America First, Stop the Steal, and (we are told) a number of renegade groups like The Proud Boys. Around noon, “several thousand people” gathered at the Trump rally, which was then transformed into a mass protest action aimed directly at Congress.

    By 1:15 pm, people had started to collect around the Capitol building. Around 1:45, the first small group broke through the crowd-control fencing and were at the doors to the building. This was, coincidentally, just about the time that the legislators had convened, in both the House and Senate, to begin their 2-hour debate on the objection to the Arizona delegate count. By 2:30, Capitol police had begun to lock-down the building, and were warning congressmen and staffers to evacuate or shelter in place.

    Within five minutes, protestors were in both the Rotunda (underneath the big dome) and in Statuary Hall, to the south; both areas, incidentally, are formally public spaces. (The House chamber in the left wing, and the Senate chamber, in the right wing, are not public.)

    Later we got the damage assessment: five people dead, including the unfortunate Ms. Babbitt. A security guard died after getting hit on the head by a pipe or fire extinguisher. And three others died from “separate medical emergencies” apparently unrelated to the event. Damage in and to the building was remarkably slight, especially for an “insurrection”—some windows broken, some offices ransacked, and a few minor items stolen.

    The protest thus ended on a surprisingly calm note. As I said, most people just calmly walked away, including many of those who “breached” the Capitol. Most were gone by 5:30 or 6:00 when the building was finally secured by the late-arriving law enforcement. Police and national guardsmen experienced little to no conflict, engaged in no shoot-outs, made no mass arrests, and put out no fires. The relatively calm and peaceful description accords well with firsthand witnesses like Cat McGuire, who reported on “a polite, well-mannered crowd.” Notably, she said, “I did not see a single visible weapon the entire time,” which aligns with my initial thoughts watching the event live on television. Those who crashed the doors of the Capitol constituted “a relatively extremely small number” of people, many of whom, she conjectured, were “Antifa” types, serving as “agents provocateur” to cause trouble and give pro-Trump people, and Trump himself, a bad name.

    And yet, our fine and objective media told a different story. There was no ‘Antifa’ there at all, they said. The crowd was an enraged White mob, directly incited by Trump, and hell-bent on death and destruction. The event was, variously, a “coup,” an “insurrection,” or at minimum, “a riot.” Protesters were “right-wing extremists” and even “domestic terrorists” who were attacking “the very basis of American democracy.” Incredibly, they were also “anti-Semites” who “promoted the Holocaust.” The Times of Israel informs us that “Holocaust-denying neo-Nazis [were] among the Trump supporters who stormed US Capitol.”[1] CNN tells us that “the warning signs were clear: online posts from hate groups and right-wing provocateurs agitating for civil war, the deaths of top lawmakers and attacks on law enforcement.” We also read that “the riot” was “even more violent than it first appeared.” Indeed, “it could have been a massacre”—could have, but wasn’t. Not even close.

  9. No attempt to provide some security or organization of the rally, despite the fact that there were radical right-wing elements in the crowd; and one can expect large number of agents provocateurs infiltrated in the crowd. Looks like some participants of the rally have had their own agenda.
  10. Extremely good coordination and speed with which the witch hunt started after the event. Trump instantly without any investigation was threatened with impeachment (which Bush faction of Republicans probably fully support). Both neoliberal MSM, neoliberal politicians, and Silicon Valley moguls responded with tried and true the NKVD methods to fighting the opposition. Some think that it was given ( neoliberal are actually neo-Trotskyites if we delve into their ideology -- "Trotskyism for the rich", and as Marx quipped "history repeats..."). But people are losing this jobs for just participation in Dec 6 rally, people who never tried to get  inside the Capitol  and did not participate in "hot" event of Dec 6.  Their only guilt is that they were nuts to support Trump, who really outlived his usefulness, but this not a criminal offence.
    The crowd of protesters did not have any plans, no real organization, and no intention to overthrow the government by force; all they just wanted was to listed to their grievances about the integrity of elections.

Intelligence assessments, received before Dec 6 meeting

The national security state is called as such for one particular reason -- the key role of intelligence agencies in its functioning and, especially, protection of the state.  At least three days before the any major mass meeting relevant authorities (in this case the head of Capitol Police) get the intelligence assessment from FBI, and in case of Capitol, Secret Service as well as probably a couple of other intelligence agencies (The Department of Homeland Security is one). Pelosi probably got those assessments too. At this point FBI has pretty good picture about potential size of the crowd and its intentions. Certain number of plain cloth officers are probably assigned. Some future participants, who in view of authorities, can represent certain danger,  were already identified and researched. Fmr. Capitol Police chief sends letter explaining how Intel Community failed to respond to Jan. 6 protests - One America News

Sund, who resigned after the demonstrations, noted he had relied on assessments from the FBI, Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security when preparing for potential unrest .

He said three days prior, an internal intelligence assessment showed a number of extremist groups, including Antifa, were expected to target the Capitol Building and "could become violent."

That's when Sund detailed a timeline of his many attempts to shore up support and expedite a mass delivery of protective equipment for his officers. Although 100 riot helmets were delivered on January 4, Army Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt allegedly told Sund he "did not like the visual of the National Guard standing in a line with the Capitol in the background."

... ... ...

On Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he truly appreciated Sund's letter and wished more people would come forward because the American public deserves to know what really happened on January 6.

The senator added, he's "suspicious" that Democrat leaders knew about the attack and are using the upcoming impeachment trial as a "diversion tactic."

In other words nothing is left to the chance. So if spontaneous event did happens there is strong probablity that was approve and/or facilitated byintelligence againces.

To whom provocateurs in Dec 6 crowd belong?

 All over the world, at any mass rally, there are special personalities -- provocateurs. These are employees who, according to the contolloing organization agenda, try to influence the vector of behavior of all the other unsuspecting people (patcies) who came to the meeting. The net effect can be substancial is due to the skillful manipulation of the crowd, when citizens who are in the same space are "infected" from each other with a certain emotion. This is the law of crowd behavior

So far there was no substantial research on the composition of agent provocateurs "fifth column" in Dec 6 croud.

The Capitol Police at least at the beginning let the protesters into the building

Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

otschelnik 10 hours ago (Edited) otschelnik 10 hours ago (Edited)

Here's the facts. The Capitol Police at least at the beginning let the protesters into the building.

Among the MAGA demonstrators are Antifa and BLM activists.

As organization like Antifa stand no chances against the power of the national security state it is reasonable to assume that Antifa is at least partially is FBI infiltrated, sponsored, and it looks like even protected organization. Remember a very curious statement of Chris Wray about "benign" nature of Antifa  FBI Director Says Antifa Is an Ideology, Not an Organization - Political News - US News) and compare it with the treatment of ISIS which is also an ideology: 

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Chris Wray told lawmakers Thursday that antifa is an ideology, not an organization, delivering testimony that puts him at odds with President Donald Trump, who has said he would designate it a terror group.

Hours after the hearing, Trump took to Twitter to chastise his FBI director for his statements on antifa and on Russian election interference, two themes that dominated a congressional hearing on threats to the American homeland.

Referring to antifa, the president wrote: “And I look at them as a bunch of well funded ANARCHISTS & THUGS who are protected because the Comey/Mueller inspired FBI is simply unable, or unwilling, to find their funding source, and allows them to get away..."

And some members of Antifa were noticed in the Dec 6 crowd: Antifa was present during Capitol siege and used standard operation procedures operating procedure

Post Dec 6 "Threat inflation" spiral

Threat inflation after the event is one of the typical signs of a false flag operation and, if present, that increases the plausibility of this hypothesis. Realistically, anybody who was trying to call it a coup are are trying to deceive the audience: this was "disorganized protest" -- the  crowd of protesters did not have any plans, no real organization, and no intention to overthrow the government by force; all they just wanted was that Congress listen to their  grievances about elections and appointed the commission to investigate 2020 elections.  Most of people who entered the building behave like a regular tourists. And when asked to leave they peacefully left. They did not barricade themselves in the building or put the building of fire.  At best it was a riot instigated by radical elements within the crowd (who might well be  agents provocateurs; after Russiagate we can suspect anything from FBI) and supported by artificial weakening of Capitol police force to achieve the desired end.   The decision to allow the angry crowd into the public spaces inside the building can well be made by higher ups in Capitol building security. But subsequent events morphed this event into a full sale attempt to eliminate the Trump from the political scene and suppress nationalist movement, which threatens the retrun to the neoliberal policies and neoliberal globalization (Trump was a fake leader of anti-neoliberalism and anti-globalization movement; he is more of a con-man than a nationalist and his sympathies are with Israel, not so much with the USA, and especially the USA working class; he did almost nothing for them in four years).

The spirit of exaggerations was well caught in the following post:

Just another serf, February 11, 2021 at 6:43 am

I’m overcome by a feeling of sorrow for Mr. Brimelow, who seems to be arguing for some type of redefinition applied to the narrative of this awful assault on our temple of freedom and democracy. He seems to be missing the key and indisputable facts of this domestic terrorism:

1. The Capitol is a sacred place from which all our unlimited freedoms originate
2. President Trump called for millions of white supremacists to assemble and launch a violent attack on our Capitol
3. The white supremacists attacked the building, with the intent of killing members of Congress. They were particularly focused on capturing and torturing AOC and Nancy Pelosi
4. The Capitol police were successful in driving the supremacists back and unfortunately were forced to kill one of the leaders, Ashli Babbit

This was a critical point in American history. Very much similar to our entry into World War I, II, the Holocaust, Vietnam, 9/11, the war on terror, to name just a few events.

Mr. Brimelow would be wise to cease any efforts to reinterpret historical facts, long since proven beyond any criticism.

Also anybody who claim that this is an "awful assault on our temple of freedom and democracy" simply do not know the history or try to ignore it for nefarious purposes.

Some politicians, who were not in the building during the dramatic "hot" stage (aka occupation)  now claim that they were physically threatened (in the safety of their offices in another, connected to the Capitol building). It’s like watching women feign tears when they know they’ve been caught and need to milk people’s sympathy. Catturd ™ on Twitter- -This is what a meltdown looks like when an egomaniac gets caught red-handed in a massive lie

Catturd ™

This is what a meltdown looks like when an egomaniac gets caught red-handed in a massive lie.

Jack Posobiec

BREAKING: AOC just emailed her followers to mass-report everyone who tweeted #AlexandriaOcasioSmollet today so Twitter and Facebook will take down any posts criticizing or fact-checking her

Some propose de-nazification process for Trump supporters (Brennan sound like a real victor representing the interests of the Deep State):

In fact, Brennan is far from alone in expressing such views, with multiple commentators urging the need for a religious-sounding "redemption" of sorts or the outright persecution of Trump-supporters, somewhat resembling denazification in post-WWII Germany.

John O. Brennan @JohnBrennan 18h

Anyone now seeking national redemption by claiming to no longer support Trump must acknowledge how wrong it was to ignore & enable his corrupt, dishonest, & divisive agenda. Total denunciation of a despot’s legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy.

The calls for such measures have been greatly amplified by the recent Capitol Hill incident, which left five people including a law enforcement officer dead.

...Such calls were not taken lightly by Trump supporters, who told their opponents they were not going anywhere.

Many hit out at Brennan personally, accusing him of just holding a grudge against Trump, who booted him from his CIA position back in 2017, and now simply seeking revenge. Moreover, his spiritual-sounding musings were not quite in-line with his spy career, they argued.

What proponents of the "treat inflation" do not understand (or do not  care) is that this way they further undermine already weak legitimacy of Joe Biden administration (Biden was involved in Russiagate, which was, in essence,  a color revolution against the legitimate government; a failed coup d'état; much more dangerous and insidious then Dec 6 events due to the direct participation of FBI brass  )

Persecution of the participants who did not enter the building or fight with the police also strengthen the hypothesis that it was yet another false flag directed toward destroying the opposition to the restoration of "classic neoliberal" policies including neoliberal globalization (aka "return to normal") as well as eliminating Trump and the movement that opposes neoliberalism from conservative positions (which is distinct from Trump) from the political scène (Reichstag fire  model.) While the elimination of Trump from the political scene is just an elimination of the second rate (or worse) bankrupt and pretty old (he is 74 now and will be 78 in 2024) politician, who betrayed his voters, the attack on the movement against neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization in the USA is a pretty dangerous development. If something like the second  PATRIOT act will be adopted this is can be interpreted as a slide to the neofascism.  

 

Many people who were found inside the building were just pranksters, who used the event for photo-ops, and  who can be found in any such event. Often they do not have any real political affiliation and more often then not they have connections to the FBI to avoid convictions.  

But FBI was put to work and unlike more damaging summer riots, many people were arrested.

But the underling problem that gave birth to Trump and his movement as well to the rally on Dec 6 is the crisis of neoliberalism, and it is is impossible to solve this problem with the police state methods. When ideology collapsed (and neoliberal ideology collapsed in 2008) and the standard of living  of common people go in to "permanent sliding" mode (in the USA this is happening since 1980th. with a long Plato in 1991-2000 due to looting of the former USSR ), the neoliberal elite losses it legitimacy and this process greatly accelerated under Trump administration.

 

As this point the neoliberal elite has no other choice then tighten the screws. But much like in case of Gorbachov attempt to rain on excesses of Perestroika (and his false flag coup d'état called GCKP ) the effectiveness is not given. The events more and more remind the processes that led to the collapse of the USSR.  The fundamental problem of neoliberalism, which gave the birth of Trump movement, is that it is re-distribution of wealth up (Accumulation by dispossession, of what can be called in case of the USA "Internal colonialism") which led to signicant slide of the standard of living of the US working and lower middle class remains unsolved.

The fundamental problem of neoliberalism, which gave the birth of Trump movement,  is that it is re-distribution of wealth up (Accumulation by dispossession, of what can be called in case of the USA "Internal colonialism") which led to signicant slide of the standard of living of the US working and lower middle class remains unsolved.

See for example:

Financialization

The wave of financialization that set in the 1980s is facilitated by governmental deregulation which has made the financial system one of the main centers of redistributive activity. Stock promotions, Ponzi schemes, structured asset destruction through inflation, asset stripping through mergers and acquisitions, dispossession of assets (raiding of pension funds and their decimation by stock and corporate collapses) by credit and stock manipulations, are, according to Harvey, central features of the post-1970s capitalist financial system. That aspect relies entirely on the fact that the quantity of money in circulation and therefore demand levels and price levels are controlled by the boards of directors of privately owned banks.

Those boards of directors are also on boards of corporations and any number of other legal vehicles who are also profiting from asset price swings. At the heart of accumulation by dispossession is the private control of the quantity of money supply that can be manipulated for private gain, which includes creating unemployment or restive conditions in the population. This process is well documented in English history as far back as prior to the founding of the Bank of England and before that in the Netherlands. The process works well with or without a central bank and with or without gold backing. The details are also manipulated from time to time as needed to satisfy popular rage or apathy.[2]

Management and manipulation of crises

By creating and manipulating crises, such as by suddenly raising interest rates, poorer nations can be forced into bankruptcy, and agreeing to such deals like that of the structural adjustment programs can yield more damages to those nations. Harvey reasoned that this is authorized by parties such as the U.S. Treasury, World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

State redistributions

The neoliberal nation-state is one of the most important agents of redistributive policies. Even when privatization or commodification appear to be profitable to the lower class, in the long run it can affect the economy negatively. The state seeks redistributions through a variety of things, like changing the tax code to profit returns on investment rather than incomes and wages (of the lower classes)

And neoliberal Dems as a party of  Wall Street and tech oligarchs has no slightest intention to address it. They just want political power by any means, much like Bolsheviks in the past: 

James2 on January 06, 2021  ·  at 9:20 pm EST/EDT

What hypocrites the establishment are from both sides. The farce of the government who could not event give the people a decent stimulus cheque. I say why aren’t more people rising up – they have let themselves be divided into so many identity groups – it’s hard to keep count !!!

The establishment has been very good at dividing and conquering. They’re being very successful at avoiding the economic issues of class and get Americans fighting amount themselves over being red or blue! While they transfer more and more wealth to the already wealthy. The political establishment is corrupted to the core and is all in it for themselves and their corporate paymasters. The voter is just the means to access wealth for the politicians.

I hope more Americans wake up – both parties don’t care about you. Trump is a cipher for real discontent but like Bernie he is not clever enough or brave enough to fight the deep state. But the discontent will remain

Was it a staged event ?

This was a mass event. So it can't be completely staged. In this sense the answer is NO. But like typically happens in all color revolutions such events are very easy to hijack and turn into desirable for nefarious actors direction.  There is no doubt that the security was artificially weakened and that probably was a plan ( My thoughts on what I see as a staged coup-protest - conspiracy):

My thoughts on what I see as a staged coup/protest I've seen people posting already, wondering why the insurrectionists were allowed to break into the Capitol so easily. My wheels have been turning and here's what I got:

They were let in with almost NO resistance. I believe many cops are on the side of Trump supporters (and, undoubtedly, many of the rioters were known neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, and the like). And I have many feelings about the police in general BUT I also think most police simply follow orders, and I believe they were purposefully told to go easy on these people. Or, they were purposefully not given backup and set up to fail against the coup (FYI - Capitol Police are overseen by bi-partisan congressional committees, with two Dems and two Reps.)

The organization of this event was publicly available on multiple platforms for MONTHS. The Govt has total surveillance and tracking power over all of us per the Patriot Act. If they DIDN'T WANT the Capitol to be stormed, it would have been shockingly easy to defend (as we've seen in response to BLM protests).

NO OTHER security from DC, Virginia, or Maryland were standing by even though every top security official undoubtedly KNEW this was very likely happen. The liberal Mayor of DC allowed this happen. Steven Sund (Chief of CP) allowed it to happen.

We know from a long history of police brutality that the Govt is fully capable of shutting down anything. I'm only led to believe that certain members of Congress (Dem and Rep) had full knowledge of this and let it happen in a way that they could take advantage of and make themselves look good. And in the end, we saw many GOP members rescind their objections -- perhaps a very convenient way to distance themselves from Trump before they went down with the sinking ship. Or...something like that, still working on the "why" part.

LamonJelo · 7 hours ago

If it was a coup attempt, it was the worst one in history. The trump family incriminates themselves and then their supporters breach the capitol with no real goal or plan. The supporters get pushed out of the building and go back and forth with law enforcement before leaving. Whole of gov. condemns trump and his legacy is now ruined. Lmao

afghanistan098

It seems the Capitol Police refused help more than once,, even as the "mob descended on the building". Wonder why?

There are multiple signs that it was. Did the Capitol Police 'Let In' the Protesters:

One of the most pervasive story lines following the Capitol protest that turned violent is that the Capitol Police let in protesters.

Though some still doubt it, it’s beginning to appear that some of the protesters were, in fact, allowed onto the grounds and into the building, which explains why there were those who entered and stayed within the velvet guide ropes, taking selfies, and staying peaceful. And those who were not peaceful.

...

Democrat Congressman Jim Cooper complained to WUSA TV that Capitol Police appeared to be working with the protesters.

“Some people are worried today that some police were complicit with the protesters,” Cooper said. “It’s one thing to be friendly and to de-escalate the violence. But it’s one thing to take selfies with them (rioters) and let them go through the lines.”

Cooper said he did not see these actions by Capitol Police himself, but said he’s “never seen a crowd less afraid of the police than this one.”

“At best they were overwhelmed and did not anticipate what they had been warned of by (President) Trump, even as of this morning when he said he would join the protests at the Capitol. … At worst, they let this protest proceed unlike any other.”

If police did let them in, it’s understandable. Trump supporters have been peaceful in the country. To the extent there has been violence, the Leftist mob started it with few, if any, exceptions.

What role Antifa provocators played in the events

Antifa looks like a protected by FBI organization. Antifa members were not prosecuted and jailed for their participation in the summer riots. Which raises an interesting question about FBI role in them.  Did Antifa infiltrate pro-Trump Capitol protest- Internet spots odd clues about group that ran amok - MEAWW

One social media user tweeted, "NO, ANTIFA & BLM ARE THE "TERRORISTS!" Take a look at who were in the Congressional building...ANTIFA! Pretending to be @realDonaldTrump supporters. Very Proud of their Tattoos I must say..." Another added, "We clearly saw this type of disorder all summer & fall, when BLM & Antifa extremists wreaked havoc on cities across America, with their rioting, looting, & arson...yet, you said nothing publicly about any of that. Are you sure today’s wall-scalers weren’t Antifa? @realDonaldTrump" Adding to the above tweets another wrote, "I'm glad to know you guys are ok! Trump supporters didn't do this today. Antifa did so they could 1)remove what little spine the GOP had. 2) cause public perception to believe the lie 3) have a reason to attempt to remove Trump from your white house & finish their coup." And one tweeted, "This was all staged. Antifa infiltrated the otherwise peaceful protest. Here is proof. No Trump supporter would've taken the knee."

... ... ...

Meanwhile, POTUS supporter and televangelist Mark Burns was one among the Trump administration to claim that the protests at the Capitol were staged by Antifa. He tweeted, "This is NOT a Trump supporter...This is a staged #Antifa attack." Similarly, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, seconding one such viral tweet claiming there was "at least one bus lad of Antifa" wrote, "These are not Trump supporters."

Cue bono: was it a successful and devious attempt to swipe election fraud under the rug?

There is no question the neoliberal elite both in Dem and Repug party wants Trump go. For them Biden is strongly preferable. So efforts to neuter Trump and paralyze Trump administration in the last last were pretty natural cause of actions.  But that does not change the fact that the elimination of Trump from the political scene is good for the country. So there a silver lining in any dark cloud.

But the question of the integrity of the elections remains unresolved and this is a huge drawback of the current developments.  In case of JFK murder and 9/11 there were at least formal attempts by Congress to investigate the events. There was no such attempt so far for this event and that might have certain negative consequences:

Larchmonter445 on January 06, 2021

Kelly Loffler who just lost her Senate seat has switched away from Trump. Ran Paul, a snake in phony curly hair, darling of the limp libertarians, has abandoned Trump. And more are crawling over to Mitch and the Dems for “regular order”.

No investigation. No hard look at the criminality of the voter and election fraud. No using the Constitutional provisions that exist to rectify the wrongs. The excuse of the violence was their ticket back to the Swamp. Hypocrites is not strong enough a term. What do you call Oath Breakers who sell out their country?

PokeTheTruth on January 06, 2021 · at 9:17 pm EST/EDT January 6th, 2021 during the protest at the U.S. Capital

Here is a Rumble video from Steve Bannon’s War Room website. Many people have a negative opinion of Bannon but he speaks the truth about the electoral fraud.

https://rumble.com/vci3la-ep-637-that-fateful-night-w-fogcitymidge-cpt.-bannon-bergquam-epshteyn-east.html

tomo on January 06, 2021 · at 8:08 pm EST/EDT

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, we live in a DICTATORSHIP:

“..Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support…the use of an official ideology to legitimize and maintain the regime, the use of terror and propaganda to suppress dissent and stile opposition, and the use of modern science and technology to control the economy and individual behavior…” https://www.britannica.com/topic/dictatorship

Laurent on January 06, 2021 · at 8:38 pm EST/EDT

As a French citizen all of this is a déjà vu. Gilets Jaunes tried to size the Assemblee Nationale in Paris. It did not work. The regime felt frightened and started a tremendously violent repression of the movement by both the police and the regime-controlled medias. Many protestors lost hands eyes noses. In the US the police killed the first protestor right from the start. In France the police never used real fire arms (it seems the woman who died was shot by a M4 assault rifle).

Like in France what the MSM and political elites say about the events is utterly disgusting. And like in France I do not see the people (the deplorables to quote the saker) winning.

Reality is in comparison to the state apparatus and police army etc people are powerless and can say “yes Master” immediately or get a beating and then say “yes Master” anyway. It is a bitter day for me.

Echo of Maydan or sacrificial victim

It is unclear why plain cloth Capitol police officer shot the woman. Was he acting on instructions and he was just a wacko with a gun?  The was a cold blood murder https://www.bitchute.com/video/4FDUB2DShTrU/  She was unarmed and did not pose any threat that justifies using the lethal force.  This incident is especially suspicious in view of rumors that the police actually invited protesters (and groups of pseudo-protesters) inside via back doors.

Taras 77 on January 06, 2021  ·  at 9:13 pm EST/EDT 
Not sure if mods will permit but scroll down thru comments and a few tweets show video of incident, and an interview with a young man next to her when she was shot. Also tweet with photo/video of clown with horns with antifa guy with antifa tattoo.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/01/06/we-are-on-our-own/#more-231427

Graphic but ID of young woman the floor:
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/061/346/832/original/f75fa78a2849068e.jpeg 

kapimo  on January 06, 2021  ·  at 9:23 pm EST/EDT 

She was a 14 year army veteran according to some:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/OrbHjB6kc9ye/ 

siljan  on January 06, 2021  ·  at 9:31 pm EST/EDT 

Yes Saker, it appears …that quite a few Antifa thugs infiltrated the legit Trump protesters…being escorted into DC by police…

Graphic videos allegedly showing woman being shot at US Capitol Building emerge online;
https://sputniknews.com/us/202101061081675879-graphic-video-of-woman-being-shot-at-us-capitol-building-emerges-online/

https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1346917705476173829 

Anonymous  on January 06, 2021  ·  at 9:27 pm EST/EDT 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/breaking-unarmed-woman-shot-killed-capitol-police-identified-14-year-usaf-veteran-video/

kapimo  on January 06, 2021  ·  at 9:27 pm EST/EDT 

Cold blood murder https://www.bitchute.com/video/4FDUB2DShTrU/ 

GG  on January 07, 2021  ·  at 1:25 am EST/EDT 

https://twitter.com/realmajordan/status/1346996091082911745

“They killed a 14 year veteran who served 4 tours fighting your f***ing endless wars. RIP Ashli Babbit.”

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1346938473710759936

“UPDATE – Acting Secretary of Defence confirms it was VP Mike Pence, not President Trump who authorized deployment of the National Guard.”

Yk  on January 07, 2021  ·  at 2:08 am EST/EDT 

A Veteran? Why not call a spade a spade, a mercenary met her end after robotically serving as the empire’s killing machine for long in the occupied colored peoples nations around the globe. Such poetic justice as that end came from the hands of another zombified mercenary when she felt she couldn’t tolerate what she has for long been employed to force fed to people of color who have offended her US in no way.

Time to deploy Alqaida and Alnusra to America in order to restore democracy in the US. Good riddance… 

Carmel by the Sea  on January 07, 2021  ·  at 10:42 am EST/EDT 

As per your request Saker: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/exact-moment-ashli-babbitt-was-shot-while-storming-capitol

Wishing you & your loved ones God’s blessings & protection for this 2021 year. Same wishes for your readers.

Regards.Carmel by the Sea 

Ed Paré  on January 07, 2021  ·  at 1:22 am EST/EDT

Where do you get “as she crawled through a window”? The videos clearly show her standing upright and still, several feet back from the doors to the chamber when she was shot in the neck by Capitol police on the other side of the doors. Other than being there in the thick of things, she was peacefully innocent. Don’t make her out to be something she was not. She was a married, 14 year Air Force veteran, who husband says was a huge admirer of Trump. 

The Happy Hindoo  on January 07, 2021  ·  at 1:51 am EST/EDT 

There is a one-hour long video on Infowars that shows the entire storming of the capitol and ends with the woman shot. She did indeed try to crawl through a broken window:

https://banned.video/watch?id=5ff6857e00bac0328da8e888 

Larinda  on January 07, 2021  ·  at 2:20 am EST/EDT 

A real tragedy when a precious human life is lost due to delusional trust into “the institutions”. The sheeple of the USA: it’s time for you to grow up. You are around about a quarter of a millennia. It’s about time.

Richard Braverman  on January 07, 2021  ·  at 3:00 am EST/EDT 

Apparently, she had a chest wound when she collapsed on the floor with her back to the floor
Moments earlier she had been moving forward while climbing through the broken glass of a broken door
The two closest Capitol Hill police officers were behind her
Q? shot in the chest by cops in the other corridor ?
Q? shot in the back when she was not a threat ?
Q? Staged ? 

Trump proved to be a weak politician and a coward. Trump should go

It goes without saying that if Jan 6 events were a plot to eliminate Trump from the US political scene, it was a resounding success. Trump, at least initially during 2016 election campaign, used to had right instincts. But he quickly (in just two months since inauguration) degenerated into Bush III and like was the case with Bush II,  it was a pity to watch as clearly this position was too high for him. At this point he became toxic to his country and his supporters. He should go into the sunset as a politician.  Right now he has nothing to offer to the country. 

After his rambling, incoherent speech on Dec 6, he at least should have a courage to go with the protestors to the Capitol and stand with them with his staff  and personal security providing the organization and helong to ensure the security of his followers.  The only viable political meaning of the protest was to demand the commission for the investigating the election fraud from the Congress.  The fact that he left after his speech is completely inexcusable. It is worse than a crime, it is a fatal political blunder.

Evan a  mediocre politician would understand the the same forces in intelligence agencies that launched Russiagate and Ukrainegate against  him will try to hijack rally to sabotage hearings, which are very damaging to neoliberal Dems as they were translated all over the country and Trump side has pretty strong arguments as for the presence of mass scale fraud in the elections. 

If he does not feel good to the present till the end of the rally, he should have been providing  the leadership and organization to the rally using his trusted cabinet members as organizers twho took the leadership position after he left, to prevent hijacking (which is a standard color revolutions textbooks trick)  from happening.

He also need to to stand on the stars of the Capitol himself to prevent hot head (and supposed infiltrators) from rushing to the entrance of Capitol and breaking the windows. He count not missed the fact that security was weakened for this size of this rally and that it could well be intentional.

Instead, Trump just stepped aside and let the event unfold "spontaneously". Now he will pay a huge price for his cowardness and inability to grasp the gravity of the situation.  In other words like Gorbachov before him he is mediocre weakling who in no way deserves the position he obtained.  And that was a consistent trend during his presidency:

Chris Moore says: • Website January 8, 2021 at 3:17 am GMT • 20.1 hours ago • 200 Words

Trump was too conflicted to lead a populist revolt. He was too mobbed up with wealthy Zionists and right-leaning factions of the Jewish establishment. Now they’ll quickly throw him under the bus. He’s finished, and politically homeless. Not even the Deplorables will want anything to do with him, given the fact that he betrayed them time and again.

Trump might have been a populist leader had he immediately abandoned his Jewish handlers, fully adopted the white right, the military and veterans, Christians, Constitutionalists, small business, Main Street, America First industry and working class, etc. and oriented his entire administration in their direction. But given that New York Jews were part of his family, that wasn’t going to happen.

A true populist will eventually emerge from the People, and do what Trump should have done but lacked the guts and integrity to do. And the Deep State will do all it can to strangle him in the cradle, but will fail, because like Golden Calf Hebrews from the Bible, or like Cyclops if you prefer Greek fables, it and its sycophants are sick, blind and insane now beyond any possibility for redemption, intoxicated by their own narcissism.

How long the white knight will take to emerge is hard to say, but he’s eventually coming. Count on it.

nsa says: January 8, 2021 at 7:22 am GMT • 16.0 hours ago

The filthy old swindler could have easily won re-election if he had done even one tiny thing for the vast demographic making under $34k per year (the median wage) i.e. the working poor. He could have pushed for a federally mandated $15/ hour minimum wage. He could have pushed for a universal basic subsidized medical plan instead of trying to take one away.

How about federal money for a new system of trade schools and vocational training institutes? Instead, he signed off on massive tax cuts for himself and his wealthy jew sponsors. He signed off on trillions of dollars for his wall street pals, goosing the stock market into the stratosphere.

The old coot played golf while half the nursing home population was wiped out by the wu-wu. He started a pointless trade war with China after listening to three of the dumbest jews on the planet: Munchkin, Krudlow, Koshner……jews so stupid they couldn’t figure out how to cheat rubes at a corner furniture store.

Endless demagoguery, fake religiosity, phony nationalism, counterproductive race baiting, shameless nepotism, constant lying….but then what else would you expect from a former WWE wrestling promoter?

anonymous[204] • Disclaimer says:January 8, 2021 at 2:45 pm GMT • 8.7 hours ago • 100 Words  

Trump is and was a fool. He was a New York media construction used to harm the Republicans and their base. He sealed his own fate because he lacked wisdom or experience in dealing with the such complexities as Washington DC.

He did not learn either, he was a reliable fool. He never went more a few weeks without saying or tweeting something that could harm him. It is sad to see that he was just a tool to harm his supporters. He is now destroyed and his supporters are damaged. Sad to see this because Republicans did not deserve it.

There is not any justification for Trump's behaviour other then the complete lack of political skills and courage.

ADKC | Jan 7 2021 17:34 utc | 149

This whole thing is deeply inauthentic.

I listened to Trump's speech contemporaneously and I thought that it was definitely incendiary and also considered that Trump was causing a whole lot of trouble with no actual meaningful plan. Then Trump disappears and leaves his supporters to it. That is cowardly.

I have long thought that Trumps supporters (the deplorables) are not a significant force and are just people who are being used as an Aunt Sally.

Then his supporters somehow get into Capitol Hill; it was the most soft invasion I have ever seen. And we are asked to believe that Senators were at real risk? This is just not plausible.

And then a protester gets shot and killed. Were the deplorables meant to lose their shit? They didn't; they just stood around shocked, like dummies, suddenly realising that a jolly outing had become serious.

And then Trump tells they were great and should go home.

This is all just ridiculous.

The "deplorables" were used and manipulated. Overall, they are a pathetic bunch, desperate enough to put their faith in a snake-oil salesman and now they all in the frame for treason and sedition, which carries a death sentence, because they followed Trump! Will Trump secure immunity for them before leaving office? You can be certain he won't give them a second thought. (Trump won't help Snowden or Assange either, but is much more likely to pardon Maxwell [the "she has suffered enough" groundwork has already been laid]).

We are asked to believe that not a single agency of the US Government, any part of the US bureaucracy, or any of his appointments actually really supported Trump. He could have told the American people this at any time in his term, instead he just "reluctantly" acquiesced and did what he didn't want to do. This is just completely unbelievable.

I really don't think that it is appropriate to be talking about "sitting back" and stuffing your face with "popcorn". This is almost certainly not China's revenge or the US elite tearing themselves apart, but, much more likely the introduction of a different "system" which will only benefit the elite and be very much detrimental to ordinary Americans and, possibly, the whole of the West.

Trump is now promoting the idea of campaigning for the next four years and standing in 2024 (Christ, he'll be 78). The parallels with Bernie greatly letting his supporters down in 2016, setting up "Our Rollover" to prepare to run an "insurgency" campaign in 2020 and then letting his supporters down all over again (but not after milking them for every cent he could) doesn't pass me by.

I visited America in the '90s and they were the most sincerely nicest, non-judgement, well-meaning, professional and efficient people I have ever met. In less than 30 years they have been misled, used, abused and are unrecognisable to the people they were then. Americans need to find a different way based on unity, liberty, equality and economic justice; I am not optimistic.

Summary

With all his warts, Trump was a real wrecking ball for neoliberalism in the USA. During Trump's four years:

  1. FBI was completely discredited by Russiagate,  and now is suspected to be the organizer of any false flag operation.
  2. Neoliberal MSM were completely discredited by their connections to intelligence agencies, by RussiaGate and Ukrainegate, as well as following the State Department talking points about foreign events. 
  3. Justice Department was completely discredited  as politicized and subversive entity that has nothing to do with justice and about the enforcement of neoliberalism on the population and on the any administration the tried to deviate from it.  Seth Rich case, Epstein case and Hunter Biden case were just three last nails in the coffin.  To say nothing about the statement of Barr that the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential...  So if fraud is not widespread and concentrated in key battleground states,  it is OK.
  4. Supreme Court was partially discredited by cowardly refusing to take the Texas case  which actually was an interesting legal document with pretty solid argumentation about injury.
  5. CIA was discredited  for its attempt to influence the USA internal politics (thanks to Brennan's prominent role n RussiaGate,  Pompeo 'I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole' and Gina Haspel, who as a protégé of Brennan and as London CIA resident most probably was a part of Russiagate plot) 
  6. State Department was discredited as a bunch of crazy neocons ( partially due to Pompeo activities)
  7. National Security Counsel is discredited as a wiper nest of neocons, as well as the caliber of some functionaries such as Fiona Hill,  Vindman, Ciaramella, etc. 
  8. Election system was discredited as a patchwork that allows classical method of election fraud (staffing the ballot box)  on the level of banana republics. And that this situation was institualized by both parties, which means that fraud is the element of the system and made worse by wide deployment of computer voting machines. 
  9. Courts were discredited as an institution unable to uphold the law in case of widespread mail-in fraud; with some (like in PA) facilitating it.
  10. And now Congress is discredited. Polarization reached the level and one part of the Congress views another as "fascists" and want to eliminate them. Corruption reached the level when Biden behaviour as a vice President looks like a norm, not like a deviation; and Clintons never plaid the price for their ugly machinations with Clinton Foundation. 
  11. President position was discredited -- First by  Bush II, then Trump, who was a reckless dilettante, who instantly betrayed his voters,  and was ignored and subverted by his own administration and Pentagon, and then Biden looks and behaves a lot like Konstantin Chernenko, the joke about the latter was the he assumed the position of First Secretary of CPSU without regaining consciousness.
  12. Silicon Valley giants such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Amazon were discredited as stooges of the "Deep state" -- read intelligence agencies. 

At the same time the fact that Trump is gone is good. He proved to be incompetent and more a neoliberal and imperialist, than a populist.  Most of his key 2016 election promises to working people and lower middle class were broken.  He completely betrayed his electorate. He also was a toxic leader:

A 2012 Army manual describes toxic leadership as “a combination of self-centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors ... The toxic leader operates with an inflated sense of self-worth and from acute self-interest. Toxic leaders consistently use dysfunctional behaviors to deceive, intimidate, coerce, or unfairly punish others to get what they want for themselves.”

In the last days he also proved to be a coward.  Still the Trumpism as a social movement  of lower middle class which can ne defined as "national neoliberalism" will probably live, although may be not in the original form.

All in all it would be positive development if  Trump is impeached and completely removed from the US political scene, although not on false pretexts pushed forward by neoliberal Dems.  He committed some real crimes during his Presidency. His actions in Syria (bombing the country on false pretext of false flag gas attack staged by opposition to the Assad government ) and Yemen (logistical support and supplying arms to Saudis regime ) as well as assassination of Iranian general on diplomatic mission alone probably justify the impeachment.  By Nuremberg Tribunal rules those are crimes against peace.

The fact that Biden team of classic (pro-globalization) neoliberals (aka economic imperialists) and warmongers, dreaming about the return of glory day of neoliberalism in early 1990th, with looting xUSSR republic as the major achievement, will replace him is also bad.  There probably will be only very little  improvement, especially in foreign policy area. In domestic policy Biden is hamstrung by identity politics. I would say Biden administration might be as bad for the country as Trump the second term because being classic neoliberal they did not learn the bitter lessons from their 2016 defeat "They forgot nothing and leaned nothing" as Talleyrand said on another occasion. Care and feeding of the military-industrial complex will remain the highest priority.  Imperial dream of Full Spectrum Domination will guide the foreign policy.

So, in a way, there is no light at the end of tunnel after Trump departure. At least for common people.  As Jonathan Cook put it (Trump May be on Trial, but System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted – Consortiumnews, Feb 4, 202)

While we fixate on identities that have been crafted to divide us, while we remain immersed in the surface of politics, while we are distracted from the real battle lines, those elites prosper. Political paralysis may not harm the establishment. But it is profoundly damaging to us, the 99 percent, when our communities are being ravaged by a pandemic, when our economies are in meltdown, when the planet is on the brink of ecological collapse.

We need a functioning political system that reflects popular priorities, like Medicare For All, a dignified minimum wage and free college; that understands the urgency of the challenges posed by multiple crises; and that can marshal and channel our energies into solutions, not into endless, irresolvable confrontations based on grievances that have been cultivated to weaken us. Trump is not the enemy. That target is far too small and limited. The class he belongs to is our enemy, as is the system of privilege he has spent the past four years upholding and his successor will defend just as assiduously.

Whether Trump is ultimately convicted or not in the Senate, the system that produced him will be acquitted — by Congress, by the new president, by Wall Street, by the corporate media. It is we who will pay the price.

The fact that Dems cheated during the elections using mail-in ballots and other methods is bad. But far from being new. Trump just draw nationwide attention to this practice  Continuing deployment of voting machines (authorized by Congress) essentially facilitates old methods of rigging the elections, as they can serve as a catalyst for various old forms of voting fraud.

Blocking elections observers from observing all details is also a sign of a banana republic, where oligarchy does what it wants and ordinary people opinions do not matter.  The same is true about  the absence of 24x7  close video surveillance of each counting table, accessible to public.  But those issues are secondary. The primary issue is that the selection of nationwide candidates from  each party is even more rigged than the Presidential elections. Looks how skillfully neoliberal Dems neutralized Tulsi Gabbard, Elisabeth Warren and Sanders (Sanders actually played a role of sheep dog and enjoyed it, so this is not a completely fair comparison), and pushed semi-demented Biden across the finishing line.  If he does not remind you about Konstantin Chernenko, you probably should pay more attention to history.

The fact that neoliberals staged a false flag operation to neutralize Trump challenge of election fraud, while having a positive effect of removing Trump from the political scene,  created a dangerous precedent. Forthcoming impeachment (after Pelosi Ukrainegate fiasco)  is yet another dangerous precedent -- what we observe is a typical process of  "commodization of impeachment" so to speak. That puts Biden administration into "the king is naked"  situation ( Biden has a lot of skeletons in the closet), and boomerang can well return in 2022 and 2024.


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[Jul 19, 2021] Capitol 'Rioter' Sentenced To 8 Months, Not Accused Of Assaulting Anyone Or Damaging Property

Jul 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

This is no longer fight club 5 hours ago

And yet Hunter still walks free. No questions asked.

Dis-obey 5 hours ago

He paid the 10% to the big man so he was covered.

snatchpounder PREMIUM 5 hours ago

And an agent of the state executes an unarmed woman and he'll never be prosecuted for it.

Poppavein 5 hours ago

That's because we didn't burn down cities in protest.

[Jun 20, 2021] Was the "Capitol Riot" an Inside Job?

Jun 18, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Jun 17 2021 23:24 utc | 46

Was the "Capitol Riot" an Inside Job? IMO, good reasons to think so are surfacing. Putin's upped the game by saying they could easily be considered political prisoners whose constitutional and human rights are being violated. And given the FBI has orchestrated numerous terrorist attacks in order to frame innocents provides some credibility to that possibility.

And the beat goes on........

[Jun 16, 2021] FBI Operatives Likely 'Unindicted Co-Conspirators', Organizers Of Capitol Riot- Report

Comments for this article are pretty instructive about the particular strata of US population mindset right now. Reminds the mood of dissidents in the USSR.
Jun 16, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Tucker Carlson dropped several bombshells on his show Tuesday night, chief among them was from a Revolver News report that the FBI was likely involved in organizing the Jan. 6 Capitol 'insurrection,' and were similarly involved in the kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchin Whitmer .

" Why are there so many factual matters that we don't understand about that day? " asked Carlson.

" Why is the Biden administration preventing us from knowing? Why is the administration still hiding more than 10,000 hours of surveillance tape from the US capitol on January 6th? What could possibly be the reason for that - even as they call for more openness... they could release those tapes today, but they're not. Why?"

Carlson notes that Revolver News has dissected court filings surrounding the Capitol riot, suggests that unindicted co-conspirators in the case are likely to have been federal operatives.

We at Revolver News have noticed a pattern from our now months-long investigation into 1/6 -- and in particular from our meticulous study of the charging documents related to those indicted. In many cases the unindicted co-conspirators appear to be much more aggressive and egregious participants in the very so-called "conspiracy" serving as the basis for charging those indicted.

The question immediately arises as to why this is the case, and forces us to consider whether certain individuals are being protected from indictment because they were involved in 1/6 as undercover operatives or confidential informants for a federal agency.

Key segment from Tucker:

"We know that the government is hiding the identity of many law enforcement officers that were present at the Capitol on January 6th, not just the one that killed Ashli Babbitt. According to the government's own court filing, those law enforcement officers participated in the riot - sometimes in violent ways . We know that because without fail, the government has thrown the book at most people who were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6. There was a nationwide dragnet to find them - and many are still in solitary confinement tonight. But s trangely, some of the key people who participated on Jan. 6 have not been charged ."

Look at the documents , the government calls those people 'unindicted co-conspirators.' What does that mean? Well it means that in potentially every case they were FBI operatives ... in the Capitol, on January 6th."

"For example, one of those unindicted co-conspirators is someone government documents identify only as "person two." According to those documents, person two stayed in the same hotel room as a man called Thomas Caldwell - an 'insurrectionist.' A man alleged to be a member of the group "The Oathkeepers." Person two also "stormed the barricades" at the Capitol on January 6th alongside Thomas Caldwell. The government's indictments further indicate that Caldwell - who by the way is a 65-year-old man... was led to believe there would be a "quick reaction force" also participating on January 6th. That quick reaction force Caldwell was told, would be led by someone called "Person 3," who had a hotel room and an accomplice with them . But wait. Here's the interesting thing. Person 2 and person 3 were organizers of the riot . The government knows who they are, but the government has not charged them. Why is that? You know why. They were almost certainly working for the FBI. So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6th according to government documents. And those two are not alone. In all, Revolver news reported there are "upwards of 20 unindicted co-conspirators in the Oath Keeper indictments, all playing various roles in the conspiracy, who have not been charged for virtually the exact same activities and in some cases much, much more severe activities - as those named alongside them in the indictments."

Watch:

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Revolver , meanwhile, has important questions about January 6th

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has demanded an explanation from FBI Director Christopher Wray:

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More:

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We recommend you read the entire Revolver piece, which includes the fact that at least five individuals involved int he "Whitmer Kidnapping Plot" were undercover agents and federal informants .


_Rorschach 7 hours ago

Just remember folks

a Klan meeting is always 33 FBI agents

and 2 ACTUAL white supremacists

Dragonlord 7 hours ago

No CIA? I am disappointed.

_Rorschach 7 hours ago (Edited)

Glowies are never at the meetings

theyre busy planting bombs for the false flag afterwards

Misesmissesme 6 hours ago

90% of "terrorists" would never commit acts of terror if the US Guv wasn't coercing them to commit said acts. The wrong people are in jail.

Wonder who in government started the ball rolling on 9/11 before it got away from them?

Sedaeng PREMIUM 6 hours ago

it never got away from them! They directed through and afterwards... Patriot act just 'happened' to be on standby just in case? ha!

Not Your Father's ZH 6 hours ago (Edited)

Amid this chronic Machiavellian conniving, here are creatures who know how to act right:

Goldendoodle Harley saved fawn in lake and then loved on her keeping her safe

"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river." ~ Will Durant, "The Story of Civilization"

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss , the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven." ― Mark Twain

thomas sewell 6 hours ago

everything in the USA is bull sheet. its all polluted with mind fook.

the last 1+ year has gone beyond any psycho drama i could ever imagine.

krda 5 hours ago

Didn't Brennan issue the 9/11 hijackers' visas?

zedwork 1 hour ago

Yes, but no planes. That would have been way too risky when you can just add them into the live feed later using CGI.

Bob Lidd 1 hour ago

You mean like what happen in the 1993 WTC bombing.....??

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-10-28-1993301015-story.html

Misesmissesme 59 minutes ago

How there hasn't been a day of reckoning yet is beyond me.

SexyJulian 6 hours ago

And stacks of bricks.

E5 5 hours ago

The FBI does not have the right to commit a crime. They chose to run an operation they should disavow all agents involved and they know it. Arrest them.

Not Your Father's ZH 4 hours ago

Breaking: Court Documents Confirm FBI Planned & Executed Jan. 6th 'Insurrection'

vova_3.2018 3 hours ago remove link

The FBI does not have the right to commit a crime. ...

Like 9/11, the "Capitol Hill Riot", was a false-flag operation staged by the Deep-State and falsely attributed to a group the DS sought to target.

BaNNeD oN THe RuN 7 hours ago

DoD also has a domestic undercover army of 60,000... so they may have been more involved than the FBI...

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881

There is strong evidence that Ashli Babbit's shooting was also fake...

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gb5nZYoFLuar/

DinduNuffin 6 hours ago

that video destroys the whole narrative ... EVERYTHING IS FAKE

Not Your Father's ZH 5 hours ago

The Pentagon Uses the World's Largest 'Secret Army' of 60,000 Undercover Operatives To Carry Out 'Domestic & Foreign' Operations

Feck Weed 6 hours ago

With Wray out there spreading fear about the Great White Supremacy Threat, you can bet the FBI is working overtime to make something newsworthy happen. Remember folks: 3 "militia" = 2 FBI informants + 1 patsy

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eatapeach 7 hours ago

https://mises.org/library/conspiracy-theory-history-revisited

Until the JFK murder/coup is brought to light, you can bet it's all hoax, including Trump being an 'outsider'. He's not. He did everything Israel told him to do.

GhostOLaz 3 hours ago

America's perception of the FBI comes from TV "programs", not history or reality.

Joiningupthedots 1 hour ago

"Why is the administration still hiding more than 10,000 hours of surveillance tape from the US capitol on January 6th?"

For the same reason the UK government wont release the Skripal Tapes from Salisbury, UK.......LMAO.

Its an inside job........OBVIOUSLY!

Faeriedust 2 hours ago

So. Incidents are being staged and then used as excuses for more draconian State security powers. How is this different from the behavior of known historical groups such as the SS and the KGB? How can this be interpreted except as the actions of a totalitarian State?

Sizzurp PREMIUM 6 hours ago

Scary stuff. They manufacture their own crimes to suit their political narrative and agenda. This is straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Garciathinksso 6 hours ago

this is SOP for FBI, long rich history of manufacturing crimes and low, mid and high level corruption . Prior to that the BOI was even worse.

JaxPavan 7 hours ago remove link

The chickens coming home to roost.

This was a "color revolution" by us, against us. And, it was designed to fail. Like a freakish side show.

Why? Let off political steam. Keep all the people in their respective aisle of the democan and republicrat uniparty bus. Distract political attention away from the full ****** plandemic lockdowns. Keep the rest of the world agape for a few more years thinking things will fall apart on their own, while their resources are extracted. . .

Jam 47 minutes ago

This scam getting some press now is better late than never, but not by much. Some of these media types being all surprised by this must have lived pretty sheltered lives and are lacking any street smarts. This set up was obvious since day one, this is the same bunch that won't call out these crooks for rigged elections.

Oxygen Likes Carbon 48 minutes ago

It should be painfully clear that with the level of surveillance in 2021, nobody can walk into high security governmental building, without being arrested. Let alone organize a mass demonstration then go into Capitol Building during the day, while the politicians being there, to take ... selfies.

... without some help, or coordination from some governmental services.

anti-bolshevik 7 hours ago (Edited)

Replace 'unindicted co-conspirators.' with Agent Provocateurs.

The entire chain-of-command that authorized / planned / executed / gave material support to this Operation should be indicted and prosecuted.

Reminder, Fordham Law's findings

In this course of its investigation, researchers at Fordham discovered that EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 138 terrorist incidents recorded in the USA between 2001-2012 involved FBI informants who played leading roles in planning out, supplying weapons, instructions and even recruiting Islamic terrorists to carry out terrorist acts on U.S. soil.

Enraged 56 minutes ago

With FBI Director Comey, Assistant Director McCabe, and FBI agent/covert CIA agent Strzok acting against President Trump, this should be considered treasonous, and hopefully they will be prosecuted.

The question is who authorized the latest actions on January 6 since Comey, McCabe, and Strzok were fired.

Conductor "Corn Pop" Angelo 38 minutes ago

I can think of two to start with. Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi. Both refused additional security even after being told that the latest intel suggested there was going to be a protest at the capital building on Jan 6th. The two were offered National Guard troops, in addition to Capital Police, to help out, but refused. IIRC, both the Senate and House Sgt at Arms lost their jobs over this, too

Make it three, Mayor Bowser had the same intel and did nothing

Andro1345 7 hours ago

These are old tricks by the FBI. They have been just as bad as the CIA for years.

So many instances going back so far. They plan things, set it up, help to encourage and supply sheep to do these things. If I had someone trying to encourage me to get on board something similar my first guess would be a government operative, seriously.

WeNamedTheDogIndiana 1 hour ago

I attended protests after the election, and it was obvious to be that the rallies at our state capitol were infiltrated by FBI/deep state stooges. A number of them were talking civil war, and said it too boldly in my opinion, and then many of them were carrying AKs, when that was not necessary.

The only rally that I attended that seemed uncorrupted was the first protest in DC a few weeks after the election.

taketheredpill 7 hours ago

Don't be shocked if the FBI funded some of the trips, hotels etc.

And for sure the FBI operatives "wound up" the participants...

But you won't find out for 10 years.

Alfred 7 hours ago

Not just infiltrated.

The FBI actually creates the organizations they then infiltrate.

Someone goes on a good rant here or there, can expect to be befriended by someone of like mind. Thereafter that someone undergoes radicalization and then organization via FBI sting ops. They get funding, they get resources, they get ready, they get busted.

Ha! It's all shake-n-bake, baby!

ProudZion 6 hours ago

...The proud boys was led by a FBI agent....

Mad Muppet PREMIUM 1 hour ago

They're called Agents Provacateurs and it's nothing new. The Government always initiates the violence they say they want to prevent.

Ms No PREMIUM 1 hour ago remove link

"Informants" is a very misleading title. They aren't out there ferretting info of people up to no good. It's more an infiltration and steering game and always has been.

They are basically agents without the boundaries of law. Good front guys too. They will keep them out of trouble and protect them if they can but if it gets too hot they are expendable and even easily patsied. It's all actually actually technically illegal because even when they do real informant work it's actually entrapment.

We used to be protected from these things and now you see the reason behind that. Nothing is new it just has different names and since it's always avoided by media, some of it doesn't even have proper names, at least for the public.

It's basically false flag color revolution operations.

QuiteShocking 6 hours ago (Edited) remove link

The USA's standing in the world is vastly diminished by the continue lies and mischaracterizations of what happened on Jan 6th by the democrats. The police officer died from a stroke and not from the rioters. The unarmed white woman was executed by capital police and no one was held responsible. The democrats have continued to blatantly lie and mislead on what really happened on Jan 6th for political gain...

Max21c 7 hours ago

We recommend you read the entire Revolver piece, which includes the fact that at least five individuals involved int he "Whitmer Kidnapping Plot" were undercover agents and federal informants .

People were already aware that the FBI kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was an FBI thing from the start and all throughout. Just as many if not most of these things are as they involve the secret police creating the plots and then unraveling the plots they've created and managed and orchestrated all along the way.

Angular Momentum 7 hours ago

The states need to outlaw entrapment in cases like that. The FBI moles need to be punished as severely as the dupes.

junction 7 hours ago

The FBI and the CIA apparently fund the so-call White Supremacist organizations. Your tax dollars at work. Meanwhile, total silence for a decade from the FBI as Jeffrey Epstein ran a transnational white slavery operation out of his Manhattan mansion, aided by the Israeli Mossad.

Max21c 7 hours ago

The intelligence community and secret police community were well aware of what was going on with the Epstein operation. It's not just the US side either as the UK and Israelis were aware of it also.

Uncle Sugar PREMIUM 7 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Trump is better than Xiden, but

He left Chris Wray running the FIB

He didn't prosecute Comey, Brennan, anyone

He pushed the "Vax"

He spent worse than a drunken sailor

Conclusion - He's not the answer

OldNewB 6 hours ago

He should have pardoned Snowden.

otschelnik 7 hours ago

Well looks like the DOJ is bringing back the Obummer spygate team. John P. Carlin who was head of DOJ/National Security Division is now deputy AG. He let the FBI give 4 civilian contractors access to the NSA database for 702 inquiries, which Admiral Rogers stopped. Also back is Lisa Monoco who oversaw the FISA warrants for Carter Page, and now she's going to be heading up Garland's domestic terror task force.

That's all very ominous.

Farmer Tink 4 hours ago

I didn't realize that Carlin was back. He tried to defend his actions in the annual report to the FISA court but Adm. Mike Rogers, on whose watch the NSA found out what the DOJ was doing, carried the day. I also didn't realize that Lisa Monaco was the one in charge of those illegal Page warrants. It's just sickening that they are being rewarded. Thanks for the info.

glenlloyd 2 hours ago (Edited)

With such a high percentage of those 'involved' in the "insurrection" (said loosely here) and the so called Whitmer kidnapping being from FBI / CIA / other intelligence agencies AND those same people end up apparently being in leadership roles in these groups that are supposedly going to be doing the kidnapping and insurrecting, then it's really hard not to come to the conclusion that the fault was with the FBI et al.

It just seems like the FBI et al were way more involved in this than they should have been, if you're going to suggest that it was the others that are to blame. The tough pill to swallow is the claim that it was the people the FBI et al infiltrated and coerced into do these things, that are to blame.

Things really do stink with this.

newworldorder 5 hours ago

How are these actions are not "entrapment."

InfiniteIntellRules 5 hours ago

I will stop, just too many tales of FBI corruption. Last 1

From the book " The United States of Paranoia " by Jesse Walker:

Under COINTELPRO, FBI agents infiltrated political groups and spread rumors that loyal members were the real infiltrators. They tried to get targets fired from their jobs, and they tried to break up the targets' marriages. They published deliberately inflammatory literature in the names of the organizations they wanted to discredit, and they drove wedges between groups that might otherwise be allied. In Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as "a cowardly, honky group" who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous "dirty work." The operation was apparently successful: In August 1969, just five months after the initial instructions went out, the Baltimore FBI reported that the local Panther branch had ordered its members not to associate with SDS members or attend any SDS events.

EVERY MAJOR EVENT. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

heehaw2 6 hours ago

All happened under Trumps watch. He said he was going to lead the March to Capital building, then totally disappeared.

MrNoItAll 7 hours ago

Got to hand it to them. Those Fed guys sure know how to stage a riot to get media attention and shape public opinion. How else could they explain why all the guard troops were needed in D C. When getting them there could have been the primary goal of this staged event.

lightwork 7 hours ago

In the early 70's it seemed that a government informant/ mole was instrumental in the activities of virtually every left wing group in the country. It became common knowledge that whomever was most vocal and advocated the most activist positions was usually "that guy". It was effective since paranoia caused most groups to disintegrate.

otschelnik 8 hours ago remove link

Probably more snitches than that.

Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell who is one of the lucky few released but still charged is a former FBI contractor who had top secret security clearance according to his lawyer.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/538018-man-charged-in-capitol-riot-says-he-worked-for-fbi-and-holds-top

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio who was arrested 2 days before the riot for vandalism (burning a BLM banner), had been an informer to the FBI and law inforcement in Florida, according to his lawyer.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-fbi-informant

Max21c 6 hours ago remove link

They forgot Antifa and BLM in their list of groups.

State sponsored terrorist groups favored by Liberal Elites and their secret police are generally omitted and immune.

heehaw2 6 hours ago

George Bush Senior, then head of CIA was in Dallas when JFK was assinated. Ol George announced as President the New World order

QE49er 6 hours ago

Reichstag Fire style false flag.

Ruff_Roll 6 hours ago

It makes perfect sense that FBI or government supported operatives were acting as agents provocateurs on 1/6, organizing and instigating the riot, and subsequently let off as "unindicted co-conspirators." Pelosi was probably in on it, too.

TheySayIAmOkay 7 hours ago

This is the biggest "duh" ever. Of course the government is involved. Just like they were in 9/11. Just like they were stealing the election. Just like they are in at least some of these mass shootings (the FBI was warned about the Parkland shooter multiple times). Just like they will be in the next big incident that massively strips rights from the people.

The Deep State is real. And it is the upper echelons of the FBI, DHS, CIA, ATF, etc. They are the shadow government that wags the tail. They can do whatever they want and nobody can do anything about it. Do you think if Ted Cruz or Nancy Pelosi killed someone they'd get away with it? No. They are figures. The limits of their power can be stripped with a single, stupid, scandal. How about John Brennan? I have absolutely no doubt in my mind he could. Because who will hold him accountable? Nobody in the CIA or FBI went down for not listening to the FBI agent about the 20th hijacker. Mueller got PROMOTED! He's deep state. Brennan was regional chief of the CIA in Riyadh leading up to 9/11. He got... PROMOTED! Deep state.

3-fingered_chemist 7 hours ago

The fact the Capitol had essentially zero security the day all members were present to tally the EC votes and people still think this wasn't faked?

Jim in MN 7 hours ago

Speaking as someone who actually attended the earlier 'Stop the Steal' rally in DC, I said at the time that the Jan. 6th event didn't smell right and felt like a setup. Recommended that folks stay away, expect trouble and stay frosty at that time.

Note that the FBI was/is also deeply involved in the BLM riots. AKA a criminal conspiracy to destabilize US civil order. Of course a lot of mayors and police chiefs are also involved in that criminal conspiracy.

The more you know.....

jammyjo 7 hours ago

FBI is making contact with unstable people, and do nothing but keep them on a list of "assets" to be activated when needed.

Patmos 7 hours ago

Gives new meaning to false narrative. More than just spin, they actually create the events themselves. Not quite a false flag, because nothing really happened.

Is anyone involved going to stand up and say no? Or have they all just decided to reserve themselves to being corrupt little b!tches?

Feck Weed 7 hours ago

FBI is the US domestic secret police force for the Globalist Empire. Nationalism is the enemy of the globalists...

[Jun 16, 2021] I guess the crazy conspiracy theorists were right again: FBI Operatives "highly likely" were the organizers Of Capitol Riot

FBI sponsored Arab Spring in the USA ?
Jun 16, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
WeNamedTheDogIndiana 7 hours ago

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

LeadPipeDreams 3 hours ago

The men on the street corners with "The End is Nigh" placards are beginning to resemble Walter Kronkite in demeanor as well as credibility.

But then again Walter was one of the CIA's finest...

Nona Yobiznes 7 hours ago

I guess the crazy conspiracy theorists were right again.

benb 3 hours ago (Edited)

Dumb Hannity used to call the FBI "The Crown Jewel of Law Enforcement,."

C Rabbit PREMIUM 7 hours ago

Why has the FBI never released the surveillance videos from the Alfred P. Murrah Buildings and the others around it from the morning of April 19, 1995. "It's still under investigation."

Why have the videos from all around the Pentagon taken on the morning of 9/11 never been released?

Why does the CIA refuse to release all of their files on the JFK assassination?

Why? Why? Why?

Muffdiver2269vIII 7 hours ago

Ahh, they are waiting for Durham to complete the reports?

wootendw PREMIUM 6 hours ago

"Congressman Matt Gaetz calls on FBI Director Christopher Wray to fully disclose the role and involvement of FBI operatives during the January 6th Capitol riot."

That would be self-incrimination.

radical-extremist 7 hours ago (Edited)

FBI will never talk because that would be revealing "classified methods and procedures".

Why of course they troll the boards looking for "extremists" to exploit. They befriend them and groom them, until they eventually enable them to commit the crime itself. Conspiracy to commit the crime isn't near as sexy as the real thing, let's put these people away for life. If there's collateral damage now and then, so be it. "Justice" comes at a cost. /s

Jim in MN 7 hours ago remove link

WELL WORTH a minute of your time.

https://www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-writing/the-federal-prosecutor/

The Federal Prosecutor, 1940

If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm-in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.

[Jun 07, 2021] Putin sees 'double standard' in US Capitol riot prosecutions

Jun 07, 2021 | www.bbc.com

"They weren't just a crowd of robbers and rioters," Mr Putin said of the Trump supporters who stormed Congress on 6 January and temporarily suspended a session to certify Mr Biden as the winner of last November's election. "Those people had come with political demands."

When the forum moderator at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum suggested Mr Putin's comments about the Capitol riot could see him banned from US social media platforms, the Russian leader drew applause from the audience by retorting: "I don't give a damn about being blocked somewhere."

Earlier this week, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Capitol rioters were being "persecuted" by the US government.

Some 500 suspects have been arrested for the riot, most of them charged with entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds. Many have been released pending trial, but some are being held in solitary confinement.

A member of Mr Biden's own Democratic party, Senator Elizabeth Warren, has said some of the defendants were being subjected to "cruel" treatment.

Mr Putin also rebuked the West for its criticism of Russian authorities' response to anti-Kremlin demonstrations, including jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Opposition protests across Russia earlier this year were suppressed with crackdowns. Riot police were seen beating and dragging protesters away, while thousands of people were detained.

The Russian leader told business leaders that protesters in Europe have faced an even tougher police response, with some shot in the eye by what he mockingly called "democratic rubber bullets".

It is not clear what he was referring to, but a number of French demonstrators were blinded by rubber bullets fired by police during the so-called yellow vest rallies that began in late 2018.

[May 28, 2021] New Video Reveals Capitol Police Officer Giving Protesters Permission To Enter Building

May 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Julie Kelly via American Greatness (emphasis ours)

A newly-obtained video shows United States Capitol Police officers speaking with several January 6 protestors including Jacob Chansley, the so-called "Q shaman"" inside the Capitol that afternoon.

One officer, identified in the video and confirmed by charging documents as Officer Keith Robishaw, appears to tell Chansely's group they won't stop them from entering the building.

" We're not against . . . you need to show us . . . no attacking, no assault, remain calm ," Robishaw warns. Chansley and another protestor instruct the crowd to act peacefully. " This has to be peaceful, " Chansley yelled. "We have the right to peacefully assemble."

Watch:

https://rumble.com/embed/veiwo5/?pub=4

The video directly contradicts what government prosecutors allege in a complaint filed January 8 against Chansley: "Robishaw and other officers calmed the protestors somewhat and directed them to leave the area from the same way they had entered. Chansley approached Officer Robishaw and screamed, among other things, that this was their house, and that they were there to take the Capitol, and to get Congressional leaders."

Chansley later is seen entering the Senate chambers with a police officer behind him; he led several protesters in prayer and sat in Vice President Mike Pence's chair . (The man in the yellow sweatshirt is William Watson, a drug dealer out on bond. He was arrested in January.)

Chansley is not charged with assaulting an officer; he faces several counts for trespassing and disorderly conduct. He has been incarcerated since January, denied bail awaiting trial. He has no criminal record.

American Greatness obtained the video from RMG News. The 44-second clip is reportedly part of a much longer video that has yet to be released.

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Meanwhile:

Who the hell was this "cop"?? Why encouraging people through? pic.twitter.com/OcXWCh33P9

"" Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) May 16, 2021

I've watched this clip 100 times and I still can't believe it pic.twitter.com/7vYfmPJoxB

"" Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) January 8, 2021

[May 28, 2021] DOJ Seizes $90K, Charges BLM Agitator John Earle Sullivan Who Stormed Capitol And Sold The Footage

The real question is who is behind this guy...
Notable quotes:
"... John Earle Sullivan of Provo, Utah, was also hit with additional criminal charges and now faces a total of eight criminal counts, including weapons charges , according to Reuters . Sullivan is one of more than 440 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 'insurrection' in which Trump supporters who rejected the outcome of the 2020 US election stormed the Capitol with the full support of several Capitol Police officers - some of whom took selfies with the protesters. ..."
"... During one conversation with others while inside, Sullivan said, "We gotta get this [expletive] burned." At other times, he said, among other things, "it's our house [expletive]" and "we are getting this [expletive]." ..."
"... Sullivan told U.S. Capitol Police officers to stand down so that they wouldn't get hurt, according to the court filing ( pdf ). He joined the crowd trying to open doors to another part of the Capitol, telling people "Hey guys, I have a knife" and asking them to let him get to the front. He did not make it to the doors. He later tried to get the officers guarding the Speaker's Lobby to go home, telling them: "Bro, I've seen people out there get hurt." ..."
"... Following the riot Sullivan appeared on several mainstream television networks CNN and MSNBC, which paid him for the footage. ..."
May 23, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

US authorities have seized approximately $90,000 from a far-left BLM organizer who 'stormed the capitol' right alongside Trump supporters and sold footage he took of US Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt being shot dead by a Capitol Police Officer.

John Earle Sullivan of Provo, Utah, was also hit with additional criminal charges and now faces a total of eight criminal counts, including weapons charges , according to Reuters . Sullivan is one of more than 440 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 'insurrection' in which Trump supporters who rejected the outcome of the 2020 US election stormed the Capitol with the full support of several Capitol Police officers - some of whom took selfies with the protesters.

After breaking into the Capitol through an open window, Sullivan was heard encouraging protesters to climb a wall to gain entrance .

During one conversation with others while inside, Sullivan said, "We gotta get this [expletive] burned." At other times, he said, among other things, "it's our house [expletive]" and "we are getting this [expletive]."

h/t @Cernovich

Sullivan told U.S. Capitol Police officers to stand down so that they wouldn't get hurt, according to the court filing ( pdf ). He joined the crowd trying to open doors to another part of the Capitol, telling people "Hey guys, I have a knife" and asking them to let him get to the front. He did not make it to the doors. He later tried to get the officers guarding the Speaker's Lobby to go home, telling them: "Bro, I've seen people out there get hurt."

Following the riot Sullivan appeared on several mainstream television networks CNN and MSNBC, which paid him for the footage.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y7PXvchh2WQ

[Mar 03, 2021] Trump's Last Stand by Israel Shamir

Trump proved to be a politic weakling. He got what he deserved.
Mar 03, 2021 | www.unz.com

President Trump was decisively beaten, if not fair and square. The hopes of millions of American voters were squashed and extinguished. The saga of the Orange Man is over. The victors used a gambit: they sacrificed the sanctity and security of the Capitol, allowed intruders in, permitted them to take selfies in the Speaker's office, and then faked horror and outrage. The attempted calls for electoral transparency were deflated in real time as huge crowds were dispersed, electors were confirmed, and the ascendancy of Biden was assured, while Trump followers were branded 'domestic terrorists'.

Donald Trump denounced the people whom he personally called to protest. His close political allies withdrew their support. Within hours, or even minutes, this ruler of the world admired by millions became a non-person. Like a boy who posted an obscenity, he was banned by Twitter and Facebook. Time will tell whether he will go to prison, as so many Dems pray for, but his political life seems to have ended, even if his cause may live.

[Feb 24, 2021] Ralph Nader poses tough questions for Pelosi about her complete bungling of the Impeachment Trial--twice!

Feb 24, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Feb 21 2021 21:46 utc | 60

Ralph Nader poses tough questions for Pelosi about her complete bungling of the Impeachment Trial--twice! The message IMO is there's to be no law enforcement when it comes to High Crimes committed by the POTUS, for much of what Trump's guilty of Obama and Biden are as well--and in several cases far worse since they committed thousands of Capital Crimes.

[Feb 24, 2021] If the 'show trial' showed anything, it demonstrated again the hold that Trump has over the party base. The trial might well have consolidated that hold if anything

Feb 24, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Bemildred , Feb 22 2021 17:15 utc | 123

Alistair Crooke explains the Great Reset:

"Yes, the Republican Party may be entering a period of contention or civil war, but if the 'show trial' showed anything, it demonstrated again the hold that Trump has over the party base. The trial might well have consolidated that hold if anything – even if some old-style conservatives depart a metamorphosised GOP, in search of a more peaceful and civil anchorage. McConnell's conservative contingent seems, in retrospect, to emerge as the ephemeral element, rather than a key pivot around which a new GOP might form.

Yet Biden, in many ways, is in the politically weaker position. His party is less than homogenous – it is a more conflicted bunch. Many of its components simply detest each other. The Clinton-Obama neoliberal wing is fixated in its belief that they, and the U.S., have been on the global side-lines for far too long – and are agog to jump back in. They are escalating in Afghanistan, in Syria, and preparing a new push in Ukraine. Trump's troop withdrawals have been all reversed (even for Germany) – and numbers deployed rather, have been augmented.

In spite of their heady eagerness to lead the world, they are likely to find themselves banging heads with a changed world. Iran, Russia – even the EU – are not showing regard to the Biden bugle call: 'America is back'."

The 'Transition' of the Élites

[Feb 21, 2021] One thing is crystal clear: Unconstitutional, illegal changes to voting laws generated millions of irregular ballots -- a hundred times greater than the margin between the candidates, in some swing states. If the balloting is illegal, there is no way the count can be correct.

Feb 21, 2021 | www.unz.com

Knockwood , says: February 16, 2021 at 4:19 am GMT • 4.0 days ago

http://thesaker.is/usa-sitrep-presidents-day-in-a-divided-nation/

Presidents' Day in a Divided Nation

February 15th is Presidents' Day.

America has two Presidents on this day, besides Washington and Lincoln.
One half of the country believes Trump rightfully won.

Yet the events of Jan. 6th still hang like a cloud over Washington.
Critics fault his claims of a stolen election for provoking the protests.

But what if the Democrats really did steal the election? Wouldn't the fault be theirs?
And how can we know whether they really stole it?
Claims of "Massive fraud" on one side vs. "No sign of fraud" on the other -- who is right?

One thing is crystal clear: Unconstitutional, illegal changes to voting laws generated millions of irregular ballots -- a hundred times greater than the margin between the candidates, in some swing states. If the balloting is illegal, there is no way the count can be correct.

An unconstitutional vote can only produce an unconstitutional result. Everything that followed -- the certification of the popular vote, the electoral college vote, and the inauguration -- none of these steps had any legal foundation.
Bad data makes bad decisions. Since Nov. 3, our machinery of government has been spinning off course on erroneous, unlawful inputs.

The only solution in such cases is to correct the error.
Until runoff elections are held in conformity with the law, we will still have two Presidents.
Only one of them can be the rightful one.

[Feb 21, 2021] The optics for the establishment of the capital incursion were so horrible I find it hard to believe it was planned. It was used after it occured

Feb 21, 2021 | www.unz.com

Alfred Muscatia , says: February 15, 2021 at 5:44 pm GMT • 4.5 days ago

@dimples

The optics for the establishment of the Capitol incursion were so horrible I find it hard to believe it was planned. The photoshop of bed guy that the FBI presented as criminal evidence doubled down on the humiliation. Honk honk! They can't keep this together for long I don't think.

[Feb 21, 2021] The invasion of the Capitol building was clearly a setup. The Capitol police made no attempt to keep crowds out of the building like they are actually employed to do.

Feb 21, 2021 | www.unz.com

Wally , says: February 17, 2021 at 7:19 pm GMT • 2.4 days ago

@dimples on the Capitol "insurrection":

The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot , by Glenn Greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-claims

also:
Capitol "Insurrection" Hoax / How Our Lying Press Would Have Spun Jan 6 Protest If Trump Were A Democrat : https://www.unz.com/article/capitol-insurrection-hoax-how-our-lying-press-would-have-spun-jan-6-protest-if-trump-were-a-democrat/

dimples , says: February 15, 2021 at 9:04 am GMT • 4.8 days ago
@AReply that the Japanese Navy was heading towards Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Well played, Party* gerontocracy and affiliated corporate elites! That's two wildly successful covert operations in as many months, the other being the fake election.

3. The massive beat-up of confected hysteria by the media, turning a mildly raucous event into an 'insurrection' complete with police state witch-hunt of the mainly bumbling dupes who participated, culminating in yet another show trial of the leftists preferred scapegoat/scumbag , is to anybody with half a brain, symptomatic of the massively diseased and terminally cancerous state of the modern JSA.

*there are no Parties any longer, just the Party.

thotmonger , says: February 15, 2021 at 9:50 am GMT • 4.8 days ago
@AReply

What crime? The no-warning shot, cowardly point blank murder of Ashli Babbit? The treasonous mass censorship/public hanging of the First Amendment? Other than those two atrocities, all I saw was a Tea Party. And it was beautiful.

p.s. The broad wisdom of Gen. Petrov (RIP) is worth some study. for example:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZlyGb_Nbhw?feature=oembed

GMC , says: February 15, 2021 at 11:28 am GMT • 4.7 days ago

The problem, is that Trump is dirty , has a whole lot of dirty baggage and everyone knows that Washington's middle name is blackmail or assassin. If he were to ever succeed as a reformer, he'd have to be ready to commit political and business suicide for the cause – and he 's not the type. More than 1/2 of America, wanted what he was selling – but that just turned out to be campaign BS. America is toast unless something really big happens at the peasant level . What a shame.

Walter , says: February 15, 2021 at 1:39 pm GMT • 4.7 days ago

Despite the naming of the process as "election", the actual function of the process is the creation of consent, the belief that so and so is legitimate in custom and law.

Seen objectively, the recent "election" failed. There is no consent. That does not mean that Mr 10% and his gang or cohort will now go home. It means that they will now use force. That will work, for a while.

In the longer term, however, regions will invite in the Chinese and Russians, as they have thousands of tons of gold, functioning industries, and massive resources, and they will pay the army.

It's collapse. After a time it happens. Empires fall.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

Old and Grumpy , says: February 15, 2021 at 2:32 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago

I love optimism, but I just don't do it. Biden is ruling with EO, and the Supreme Court made it almost impossible for EOs (unless they're Trumps) to go away. So despite the theater of a two party system, we are under a corporate dictatorship. Kind of a fascism, except the corporations and bankers are on top. Gotta a plan for fighting any of that? The GOP is in on it. As for the Donald, he needs to purge his movement of the Kushners to show he is serious. Since he won't do that, MAGA is toast.

For the record my suggestion is to go small and take as much independence as you can from the system. Corporations don't like confederations, which will lead them to demand fed action. The feds are run by doddering old fossils, inbred bureaucratic aristocrats, silly woke girls , and not nearly bright as advertised Zionist Jews. I think if we act like our ancient ancestors, we can work against the feds.
And can the corporations even function without using the government for cheating? I have my doubts on that. We just need to give up defending the USA , and move on to defend ourselves.

Mustapha Mond , says: February 15, 2021 at 2:47 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago
@Flying Dutchman fornia, it is expressed thus:

California's Evidence Code § 1230[3] defines "Declarations against interest" as:

"Evidence of a statement by a declarant having sufficient knowledge of the subject is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the declarant is unavailable as a witness and the statement, when made, was so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far subjected him to the risk of civil or criminal liability, or so far tended to render invalid a claim by him against another, or created such a risk of making him an object of hatred, ridicule, or social disgrace in the community, that a reasonable man in his position would not have made the statement unless he believed it to be true."

Realist , says: February 15, 2021 at 3:00 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago
@Mulga Mumblebrain

There hasn't been an actual election in years. The Deep State has been in control for decades.

Neutral Observer , says: February 15, 2021 at 3:08 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago

Now Trump is more powerful than when he was in the White House.

That anybody celebrates that is nuts.

Nitwit narcissistic Donald Trump is a fatally flawed, fatally failed and totally bogus change agent. What America needs is a genuine change agent with genuine intelligence, genuine wisdom and genuine integrity. And that ain't Trump.

Even Ann Coulter, one of Trump's earliest high profile supporters sees Trump for what he really is, a selfish rank opportunist. America will be hosed as long as Trump is the front for the anti-Status Quo movement.

Realist , says: February 15, 2021 at 3:17 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago
@GomezAdddams

Trump only tapped into the anger but did nothing.

Trump did plenty he fooled you and tens of millions of other Americans into believing he was on their side.

Trump is a minion of the Deep State sham just part of the cast.

Trinity , says: February 15, 2021 at 3:23 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago

As a man who doesn't give two shits about Trump and his carpet bagging family that includes a greasy Jewish Supremacist racist like Jared Kushner and as a man who thinks "Honest Joe" is just about the sleaziest individual that I have ever laid eyes on lemme say that it is at least refreshing to see a positive article here.

Beautiful Evidence , says: February 15, 2021 at 5:22 pm GMT • 4.5 days ago

The reason I enjoy this website and alethonews.com is because at least a reasonable attempt is made to see through the MSM propaganda. It doesn't mean, however, that dots are sufficiently connected to see what is actually happening. For example, thinking that Glenn Greenwald is some beacon of truth instead of a seriously flawed controlled opposition proponent misses the point dramatically. And not just Greenwald, if you analyze any of the so-called truth tellers you'll find they won't be willing to discuss the massive mind fuck that is 9/11 or the Kennedy assassinations. Our government is a one party system is that is broken beyond all repair. Thinking that is country is winning at all is blind.

[Feb 14, 2021] 'We've opened Pandora's Box'- Graham floats idea of impeaching Kamala Harris if Republicans retake House -- RT USA News

Feb 14, 2021 | www.rt.com

US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) may have voted against impeaching Donald Trump, but he seems open to holding Vice President Kamala Harris to the same standard after the 2022 midterms.

Appearing on 'Fox News Sunday,' Graham railed against the impeachment trial in the Senate, which ultimately failed, with the 53-47 vote not enough to reach a 'guilty' ruling. He called it an "affront to the law" and "unconstitutional."

Despite its failure, however, the Trump-supporting Republican says Democrats have "opened Pandora's Box" and leaders like Harris could pay the price.

"We've opened Pandora's Box to future presidents. And if you use this model, I don't know how Kamala Harris doesn't get impeached if the Republicans take over the House," he said.

Harris was brought up multiple times during the impeachment trial for her past promotion of a bail fund for Black Lives Matter protesters that released rioters who ended up rearrested on separate criminal charges.

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Graham's apparent threat to Harris, mixed with his own disapproval of the standard used to try and convict Trump for "inciting an insurrection," have many blasting the senator for hypocrisy, with many also rushing to Harris' defense.

"Well it only works if the impeachee is a Democrat, a woman or Black (in VP Harris' case she meets all three of Jim Crow Caucus chairman @LindseyGrahamSC's criteria," MSNBC's Joy Reid tweeted in response to a user asking how impeaching Harris could be possible.

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Others even suggested Republicans taking control of Congress could mean a chance to overturn election results in 2024.

"Graham is correct about the stakes of the 2022 midterms: If Republicans take Congress, they could not only impeach Biden and/or Harris (though unlikely they'd have the votes to convict), they could potentially succeed in overturning the results of the 2024 election," former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau suggested .

Graham also revealed to Fox News that he'd spoken to Trump since the trial ended and suggested the former president will be actively involved in the Republican Party going forward.

ALSO ON RT.COM 'Traitor' spray-painted outside of home of Trump's impeachment attorney, as he says he's received 'nearly 100 death threats'

"I spoke to him last night; he was grateful to his lawyers. He appreciated the help that all of us provided. You know, he's ready to move on and rebuild the Republican Party," he said, adding the former president is "excited" for the 2022 midterm elections.

Trump's influence over the Republican Party has been a hotly-debated topic, especially in light of seven Republican senators voting to impeach on Saturday, and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) seemingly turning on his past support and giving a speech on the Senate floor saying Trump was "responsible" for the January 6 riot at the US Capitol – despite voting against impeachment – and suggesting he could be pursued in criminal court.

Graham said McConnell's speech could come back to haunt Republicans.

"I think Senator McConnell's speech, he got a load off his chest, obviously, but unfortunately he put a load on the back of Republicans," he said. "That speech you will see in 2022 campaigns."


jfc46wv 6 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:13 PM

I don't understand the talk of retaking the house or Senate or winning the presidency in 2024. How is this supposed to happen now that the Dems have masterered the fine art of controlling the votes?
silvermoon jfc46wv 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 08:12 PM
Another election steal line and obvious while trying to be subtle. You don't even need any evidence. Of course non has ever been given.
Austin Rock jfc46wv 3 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:20 PM
No, in mid terms, two years from now you will see a swing and a lame duck president for last three years. I dont think anyonevtruthfully believes their was electoral craud on a scale to affect result. Trump lost, tough.
Blackace180 5 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:38 PM
The dems took their best shot and failed, but they did loose the dogs of war. What goes around comes around. Trump was right about a large number of things and the dems will find out the hard way. Taxes Gas Forever wars Open borders Free trade China virus... See more
Bob Blackace180 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:37 PM
sorry to say-the GOP is one with the Democrat party on all these issues Donald Trump was the ONLY one not playing by the SWAMP playbook.
Blackace180 6 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:22 PM
Impeach the former escort. I say impeach, impeach, impeach. Take her out tonight. It amazes me the hate they hurled at Trump and then they want unity and actually expect to return to normal. No, it ain't happening. Impeach.
justliloleme Blackace180 1 hour ago 14 Feb, 2021 08:53 PM
She also encouraged BLM riots that murdered >19 people according to Forbes who expects that to be a low number They also rioted, spreading covid widely She should have been arrested when she encouraged that on TV
CarolABinkley Blackace180 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:47 PM
That, too, is my concern. Why wait?

[Feb 14, 2021] Impeachment champion

Feb 14, 2021 | twitter.com

This marks the second time in twelve months that Trump has survived impeachment.

Eric Trump @EricTrump

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[Feb 14, 2021] McConnell Says Trump -Responsible For Provoking Attack After Voting To Acquit

Feb 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

In a rather stunning and head-scratchingly self-serving and hyprocritical moment, Leader McConnell spoke after the Senate acquitted former President Trump and threw him back under the bus while covering his own political ass.

...

This marks the second time in twelve months that Trump has survived impeachment.

[Feb 14, 2021] House Managers Fold -- Will Not Call Impeachment Witnesses After Pelosi Subpoena Threat

Feb 13, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Update (1300ET) : After a couple of hours of 'negotiations' during which Sen. Cruz threatened to subpoena Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Trump's lawyers said they would call "100s of witnesses", a deal has been reached that means no witnesses will be called.

House impeachment managers dropped their request to obtain testimony from Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler after senators agreed instead to enter into the record an account of her secondhand account of a phone call between Trump and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.

This agreement has averted the prospect of an avalanche of requests for testimony from both sides that would have extended the impeachment trial beyond its expected conclusion later today (and perhaps delayed any attempts at reaching a stimulus agreement).

As a reminder, Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been advising Trump's legal team, said that if the Senate agrees to the request by House impeachment managers to depose Herrera Beutler, he'll insist on "multiple witnesses"...starting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

He said she should be required "to answer the question as to whether or not there was credible evidence of pre-planned violence before President Trump spoke? Whether Speaker Pelosi, due to optics, refused requests by the Capitol Hill Police for additional resources like the National Guard?"

* * *

Just when you thought Donald Trump's second impeachment trials was over, five Republicans have joined their Democratic colleagues in a Saturday morning vote (55-45) to call witnesses - an unexpected development in this snap impeachment over Trump's alleged role inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

GOP Sens. Collins, Graham, Murkowski, Romney and Sasse were the five.

The move - which was originally opposed by several Democrats, will allow them to strengthen their case. It is unclear what kind of delay this may cause, after impeachment managers and Trump's defense team estimated it would be over on Saturday.

In response to the vote, Trump attorney Michael van der Veen answered that if witnesses are going to be called, " I'm going to need more than 100 witnesses , not just one," adding "we should close this case out today," but if that doesn't happen, "Do not handcuff me by limiting the number of witnesses I can have."

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Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested that a debate on the number of witnesses should not take place, saying "I don't think there's any limit right now, and that's part of what will be debated."

As Axios notes, Trump himself is Democrats' most desired witness , however the former president has already quashed that - saying he would not comply willingly . The Senate could subpoena him, however it's unclear whether they would have enough support.

Instead, Democrats plan to call GOP Rep. Jamie Herrera Butler of Washington, who the NY Times reported on Friday said Trump 'sided with the mob' during a phone call as the attack was unfolding. Herrera Butler, who voted to impeach Trump in the House, was requested to testify by House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin.

Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican of Washington, at the Capitol last week.Credit...

In a statement on Friday night, Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican of Washington, recounted a phone call relayed to her by Mr. McCarthy of California, the minority leader, in which Mr. Trump was said to have sided with the rioters, telling the top House Republican that members of the mob who had stormed the Capitol were "more upset about the election than you are."

She pleaded with witnesses to step forward and share what they knew about Mr. Trump's actions and statements as the attack was underway. - NY Times

" To the patriots who were standing next to the former president as these conversations were happening, or even to the former vice president: if you have something to add here, now would be the time ," said Herrera Beutler in a statement.

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According to her account, McCarthy 'frantically' called Trump on Jan. 6 and asked him to "publicly and forcefully call off the riot," and that Trump replied that it was Antifa, not his supporters, who were responsible. When McCarthy pushed back saying that wasn't true, Trump allegedly said "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."

Senate Democrats who initially opposed witnesses include Kristen Gillibrand of NY, who said on Thursday: "We've heard from many witnesses based on their interviews and their video presentations, so, I feel like we've heard from enough witnesses." Sen. Angus King of Maine said "I think the case has been made. I don't know what witnesses would add."

Once witnesses have testified , impeachment managers and Trump's defense team will present closing arguments - with each side allotted two hours. A full vote on whether to convict or acquit will follow.

To that end, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has told his fellow Senate GOP in an email that he will vote to acquit the former president - writing "As I have said for some time, today's vote is a vote of conscience and I know we will all treat it as such," according to Politico 's Burgess Everett.

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Foe Jaws 3 hours ago

McConnell got had by the D Rats and now he is backing out of the bargain they made to fcck over Trump.

Foe Jaws 2 hours ago

Same for Mike Pence. All he had to do was investigate the election fraud and he betrayed every single Trump voter in America. Pence can burn in hell forever.

Doom Porn Star 2 hours ago

Even IF Trump had been provided with intelligence indicating that fringe organizations were plotting a violent protest at the Capitol, doesn't the power to call in the National Guard reside with the local DC mayor Bowser who made the decision to call them up or not during the BLM protests earlier in 2020 and on the closing night of the Republican convention when Rand Paul was famously swarmed?

Why are assertions this call was suddenly Trump's call to make being entertained at all?

Shouldn't any call for National Guard support have been from the Capitol police to the office of Mayor Bowser?

Doom Porn Star 2 hours ago (Edited)

Look at what actually happened all throughout 2020.

Mayor Bowser was the person who called in the National Guard or did not.

Bowser had/has the authority and has used it or not at her discretion:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=Mayor+od+DC+calls+up+National+Guard&ia=web

Unknown User 1 hour ago

The first witness the defense should be the Ex-US Capitol Police Chief who already said:

"The entire intelligence community seems to have missed this", ... "I must add that I wish that before placing the blame on the USCP and on me as the Chief for the breach of the Capitol by an insurrectionist mob, more consideration would have been given to the impact of incomplete information provided by intelligence assessments, the denied National Guard request, and the subsequent delayed approval for National Guard assistance", ... "I still cannot fathom why in the midst of an armed insurrection, which was broadcast worldwide on television, it took the Department of Defence over three hours to approve an urgent request for National Guard support"

Doom Porn Star 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

Exactly WHO had authority to call for the National Guard?

Exactly WHO called for the National Guard?

-Congress may not have the authority to call. -The Capitol police may not either.

-The MSM doesn't have any authority to call the National Guard, or to command troops to act or stand down.

Exactly WHO did they call and WHO did they speak to?

-There are facts behind all this hysterical rhetoric, newsroom caterwauling, and political puffery.

WHO decided when and which troops to deploy from where?

-Names, rank and serial numbers.

Was DC Mayor Bowser called and what did Mayor Bowser do?

-These questions are all painfully obvious and no one is asking...

SoDamnMad 17 minutes ago remove link

I saw a video which I saved which showed, NOT Capitol Police on the barricades of the Capitol but DC Metropolitan Police. If the Capitol Police are 2300 strong WHERE THE HELL WERE THEY?

holdbuysell 3 hours ago

Witnesses no longer mean anything. They've poisoned this well when they brushed away thousands of affidavits, signed under the penalty of perjury, citing massive election and voter fraud.

These people have destroyed any semblance of the rule of law.

GodSpeed 3 hours ago

call the BLM activist as a witness and let people see it wasn't just Trump Supporters in the Capitol.

TRUMP WON 3 hours ago

Exposed:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/neo-nazi-ukrainians-forefathers-antifa-instigated-participated-capitol-hill-riot-alongside-antifa/

Foe Jaws 3 hours ago

The FRAUD

https://peternavarro.com/the-navarro-report/

boyplunger7777 3 hours ago

This spectacle of a show trial would make Stalin proud. Now we have a moron old man with Stage 2 dementia sitting in Oval Office surrounded barbed wire/steel fencing, and 15,000 troops. Think about what America has devolved into.

GreatUncle 2 hours ago

Can't recall a senator but I think a petition to enable into state law and constitutionally approved in the state the ability to expel a senator by a vote that is instigated by 20% of the population signing a petition would be a dam good start.

Reckon it is needed and not just in SC and not just for Republicans neither but for any that break promises or expose themselves too poor judgement.

So the Democrats may win more seats does it really matter anymore?

It can also restore accountability to the electorate that a fraudulent election may steal.

Samual Vimes 3 hours ago

Dominion executive admits fixing election to ensure 'Trump ...

https://noqreport.com/2020/11/18/dominion-executive-admits-fixing-election-to-ensure-trumps-not-gonna-win/

Twitter censors Oltmann for revealing truth about Coomer, Dominion election fraud Dominion , which is tied to both Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein, appears to have in its upper ranks a diehard Trump hater who expressed a willingness to do anything possible to prevent Trump from winning reelection.

Samual Vimes 3 hours ago

The Italian Job: Explosive New Testimony on Dominion ...

https://coercioncode.com/2021/01/09/the-italian-job-explosive-new-testimony-on-dominion-election-fraud/

The news connects the dots between Eric Coomer's actions for Dominion Voting Systems in the U.S., the CIA raid in Frankfurt, Germany to protect Dominion's servers and destroy the evidence of election fraud , and now the actions at Leonardo in Italy. It even ropes in the deep state in the U.S. government.

Samual Vimes 3 hours ago remove link

Forensics report on Dominion machines in Michigan claim ...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/12/14/forensics-report-on-dominion-machines-in-michigan-claim-intentionally-and-purposefully-designed-to-create-fraud-1005841/

"We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results," Russell Ramsland Jr.,...

UnicornTears 2 hours ago (Edited)

Where were all the guns for this alleged 'insurgency' ? Surely in a country with half a billion guns there would have been one or two in this attempt to 'overthrow the government'? Do you ever ask yourself why you believe such obvious lies?

boyplunger7777 2 hours ago remove link

Rigged elections, rigged markets, state run media, censorship of opposing views, multi-trillion dollar fiscal deficits, central bank monetizing debt, and now a show trial that would make Stalin proud. This is America in 2021. Have a plan, things are going to fall apart very quickly from here.

WolfgangIffans101 2 hours ago

I see complicity everywhere, and at all levels. Why would it fall apart quickly from here? The USSR held together for quite a while, no?

chunga 3 hours ago

It figures a guy like Raskin is the face of this thing. I can't watch this today because yesterday I was boiling over.

nmewn 2 hours ago

"In a statement on Friday night, Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican of Washington, recounted a phone call relayed to her by Mr. McCarthy of California, the minority leader, in which Mr. Trump was said to have sided with the rioters, telling the top House Republican that members of the mob who had stormed the Capitol were "more upset about the election than you are."

She's going to testify to receiving second hand information, from McCarthy?

She's going to testify that McCarthy said Trump said that some Americans were "more upset about the election than you are."...meaning, McCarthy?...mmmkay, besides the Senate's complete lack of jurisdiction over "trying" a private citizen in the Legislature I guess we can add some... she-said-he-said-that-he-said ...nonsense for the 80yr old "Supreme Court Justice" Patrick Leahy to wade through, if he can stay awake ;-)

Posa 2 hours ago

Illegitimate? Yes. Five key swing states had no signature checks and validation for millions of mail-in votes. Doesn't prove fraud; then again, this doesn't prove there was no fraud. It does prove this was not a legitimate election when so many ballots were indiscriminately cast.

SWRichmond 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Trump "publicly and forcefully calling off the riot" would imply, of course, that he was in charge of it, would it not? Trump asked for the rally, not the riot.

I think he did the right thing by NOT doing that.

the_pencil 2 hours ago remove link

If Pelosi is called as a witness, she/they will all be toast. And they know it.
Keep digging your hole, Dems.

Baconeggs 2 hours ago

Must have been trump that ordered the cops to allow everyone into the capitol then right? Maybe we should have someone investigate that

Aquamaster 2 hours ago

And these clowns in the House, Senate, and the rest of the D.C. swamp STILL can't seem to understand why normal Americans hate them so much.

the_pencil 2 hours ago

"Hate"....is nowhere near strong enough. The whole bunch is pure filth.

cleg 2 hours ago

they have brought it all on themselves

Xena fobe 2 hours ago

They understand. They want to be hated. It means they are getting filthy rich.

Jim in MN 2 hours ago

Here, let me help....

We The People DEMAND TO SEE:

Seth Rich's laptop

Hunter Biden's laptop

Anthony Weiner's laptop

Epstein's tapes

The Soros/DNC riot conspiracy surveillance files

The bioweapon strike files

the_pencil 2 hours ago remove link

If Pelosi is called as a witness, she/they will all be toast. And they know it.
Keep digging your hole, Dems.

Baconeggs 2 hours ago

Must have been trump that ordered the cops to allow everyone into the capitol then right? Maybe we should have someone investigate that

Aquamaster 2 hours ago

And these clowns in the House, Senate, and the rest of the D.C. swamp STILL can't seem to understand why normal Americans hate them so much.

the_pencil 2 hours ago

"Hate"....is nowhere near strong enough. The whole bunch is pure filth.

cleg 2 hours ago

they have brought it all on themselves

Xena fobe 2 hours ago

They understand. They want to be hated. It means they are getting filthy rich.

Jim in MN 2 hours ago

Here, let me help....

We The People DEMAND TO SEE:

Seth Rich's laptop

Hunter Biden's laptop

Anthony Weiner's laptop

Epstein's tapes

The Soros/DNC riot conspiracy surveillance files

The bioweapon strike files

tyberious 4 hours ago remove link

Witnesses? To what?

I want hand counted votes and voter ID!
found our POTUS won CO and VA!

chiquita 4 hours ago

This opens the door to calling in Pelosi, Harris, Zuckerberg, and a whole laundry list of people who had their hands in what happened with the riots and the election fraud. It also means the impeachment hearing can go on for quite a bit longer, but now a whole lot of information will come out that might never have been shown to the American public. It's crazy because Trump will still never be convicted, but if they get out the election fraud information, people will know what happened.

Why they're doing this is to try to make it look like Trump put Pence's life in danger, which is absurd.

SoDamnMad 3 hours ago

Small but symbolic is Windam, NH found during autied hand count that the voting machines removed 300 votes from all Republican candidates. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/huge-development-hand-recount-finds-dominion-voting-machines-shorted-every-republican-windham-new-hampshire-300-votes/

SDShack 38 minutes ago

No one is going to remember the opening case the demorats presented, nor the boring opening response from Trump's team, especially his first attorney. All anyone is going to remember is how the demorats were exposed as lying hypocrites yesterday, and today how they tried undo the damage by gaming their sham to their advantage. Cheating is all they know, just like their election fraud. But all they did is actually score the biggest 'own goal' they could to lose in epic fashion, and as a result had to slink off the field humiliated once again by Trump. This is how their world ends...not with a bang...but with a whimper. I would love to see how their deranged base is reacting to this. Must be the biggest suicide watch in history.

USAllDay 32 minutes ago

I am not sure democrats are capable of being humiliated. One must grasp reality and have certain level of respect to experience the feeling.

Joe Davola 51 minutes ago (Edited)

Hey Mitch:

How's about prosecuting those who scammed the FISA court and spied on the incoming administration?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

champ2top 1 hour ago (Edited)

Nancy holds the keys. She knows who sponsored the riots this past summer, she knows who is part of the deep state, she knows where the dark money comes from, she knows who hired the agent provocateurs who led the Capitol incursion. The coup and voter fraud are now hidden away unless someone comes forth. We can only hope someone is brave enough.

Samual Vimes 1 hour ago

She is not alone in that knowledge.

champ2top 1 hour ago

Where are the witnesses? Where is Nancy? The deep state and swamp once again is successful in hiding the truth from the people. Our government is a sham government. Our media is a sham media. Neither is representative of the people.

Subsidence 2 hours ago

Meanwhile on main street.... we are losing our jobs, our culture and buried in debt. Our way of life has been deemed extremist and not compatible with the "new" America. The elites in charge see us as a throwaway and a useless group of people. We are dying out here and yet our government is more concerned about appeasing a group of coastal yuppies by placing the former president on a sham trial. They hate us! Its past sad and getting to the point of pure anger. We are at the breaking point.

hugin-o-munin 43 minutes ago

US elections need to be fully manual and with paper ballots only going forward. The way elections are stolen using electronic voting machine systems is so obvious and fraudulent that it can't be used any more. Even with all these sophisticated systems of fraud Biden couldn't win so they had to go full banana and van in loads of freshly printed fake ballots in the middle of the night and let teams rerun the tabulators many times to 'win'.

Kina 1 hour ago

  • Absolutely undoubted the USA has undergone a total coup by the Global Deep State.

America is now owned and run by a group of international oligarch from various countries, for their own ideological power purposes.

And people like Lindsay Graham are absolutely traitors to America.

Hard to witness Americans selling out their own country for some global world govt.

[Feb 14, 2021] Trump Legal Team Plays Scorching Montage Of Democrats 'Inciting' And Challenging Past Elections - ZeroHedge

Feb 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

" Insurrection is a term of art. It's defined in the law ," argued Castor. " It involves taking over a country, a shadow government, taking the TV stations over and having some plan on what you're going to do when you finally take power. Clearly this is not that ."

Update (1410ET): After spending much of the morning laying out their case for why the impeachment is a sham, former President Trump's legal team proceeded to play several montages of Democrats doing the exact same thing they've impeached Trump over - namely, calling for violence against Republicans. Interspersed throughout are clips of leftists committing violence against conservatives following the 'incitement.

Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rhJYHU3ejLc

They also played clips of Democrats objecting to election results :

https://www.youtube.com/embed/umsAhEFHFKA

As well as clips of Democrats gunning for a Trump impeachment at all costs:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/cq4GiGTZaKQ

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Watch Live:

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After Democratic impeachment managers spent the last two days dissecting videos and tweets - and in one case fabricating evidence to try and convince the world that former President Trump incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, it's now time for the defense to counter .

In what is expected to last just one day, Trump's impeachment lawyers will reportedly present a montage of prominent Democrats similarly 'inciting' their base , as BLM and Antifa extremists spent much of last year committing violent and destructive crimes throughout the country.

SeaDonkey 6 hours ago remove link

You guys keep reducing it down to democrats versus republicans. Both parties are in bed with each other. Both parties strike deals with corporations, special interest groups, lobbyists, and any other entity which provides wealth and power. Dan Crenshaw is the exact same thing as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. His job (like hers) is to attract right leaning voters which may be disenchanted with contemporary American politicians. He brings the outcasts and the exiled back to the party while reassuring them that they can trust him- since, he claims to not be 'one of them.' This country needs to hold ALL politicians accountable and clean house.

[Feb 14, 2021] WHO MURDERED ASHLI WHILE SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY TROOPS AND COPS

Feb 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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Jim in MN 1 hour ago

WHO MURDERED ASHLI WHILE SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY TROOPS AND COPS WITH THEIR WEAPONS ALL HOLSTERED??? AND WHY???

That is the only thing they really need to answer.

hugin-o-munin 1 hour ago (Edited)

Do we have any irrefutable evidence that she really was shot and died? I'm mentioning this because there have been video reviews of what actually happened there and nothing makes sense unless it was a film op.

Everything wrong with the Capitol Shooting HOAX - Ashley Babbit

https://www.bitchute.com/video/mrlDXyYwoQaQ/

Jim in MN 1 hour ago

I had thought that the shooter was way down the hallway hiding behind a chair. Kind of understandable in a way.

But the video the Dems showed had the guy stepping in from the side and just point blank murdering her.

It is beyond anything any cops did to black folks in recent years.

Just sickening.

Jim in MN 1 hour ago

From that distance, he could have shoved her back out of the window.

Or maced her.

Or hit her with something.

But he shot her in the fcking neck.

[Feb 10, 2021] Fmr. Capitol Police chief sends letter explaining how Intel Community failed to respond to Jan. 6 protests

So, the fact is that at least three say before the event there were at least three assessment send to Capitol police.
Also it looks like Antifa is, at least partially a FBI-controlled organization, so FBI was involved not only in creating the assessment.
Feb 10, 2021 | www.oann.com

The former Capitol Police chief sent a letter to congressional leaders explaining why the Capitol Police appeared unprepared for the January 6 demonstrations. In the letter, which was addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Steven Sund said the failure to respond to violence during the demonstrations was largely due to a lack of intelligence on the type of people that would be there.

Sund, who resigned after the demonstrations, noted he had relied on assessments from the FBI, Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security when preparing for potential unrest .

He said three days prior, an internal intelligence assessment showed a number of extremist groups, including Antifa, were expected to target the Capitol Building and "could become violent."

That's when Sund detailed a timeline of his many attempts to shore up support and expedite a mass delivery of protective equipment for his officers. Although 100 riot helmets were delivered on January 4, Army Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt allegedly told Sund he "did not like the visual of the National Guard standing in a line with the Capitol in the background."

This came despite several people in the crowd "wearing radio earpieces indicating a high level of coordination" and "carrying weapons, explosives and climbing gear."

In the letter, Sund recognized that a "number of systems broke down," adding that officials who violated policies or directives need to be held accountable. He went on to say the National Guard was far too slow, noting they sent in 150 troops about five-hours after his request for their support was approved by the Capitol Police Board and called for that process to be reformed.

On Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he truly appreciated Sund's letter and wished more people would come forward because the American public deserves to know what really happened on January 6.

The senator added, he's "suspicious" that Democrat leaders knew about the attack and are using the upcoming impeachment trial as a "diversion tactic."

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[Feb 06, 2021] The essence of impeachment is similar to the recall of a government offical -- it is nothing more then a forceful removal from elected office

Feb 06, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The first reason is that the impeachment proceedings aren't a criminal trial, so even conviction wouldn't establish guilt the way an actual criminal court might. Contrary to what the public thinks -- with its third grade–level understanding of American politics -- and what the media is happy to imply, impeachment is strictly a political process that does nothing more than remove a person from office. The Democrats' new interpretation that impeachment can be used to bar someone from holding office in the future is a rather novel approach.


Justus_Americans 6 hours ago remove link

Gaslight 1944 Movie both timeless and timely the gaslighting of America in 2021. Projection, accusing others of what they themselves do.
https://youtu.be/sLXlAIVP46c

US Banana Republic 10 hours ago remove link

This "impeachment" is 100% a political move (10 RINOs not withstanding).

It is supported 100% by oligarchical propaganda.

It depends on mass hysteria, with no logic whatsoever.

karzai_luver 16 hours ago remove link

Keep it simple. Just go with whatever John Brennan says you can do.

Don't drone me bro.

Don't want to be branded a Domestic Terrorist or extremist.

Don't drone me bro.

[Feb 05, 2021] Maxine Waters- Trump Needs To Be Charged With Premeditated Murder - ZeroHedge

Feb 05, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Over the last four years, there has been a type of race by politicians and pundits who seek to outdo each other in the most sensational claims of how Donald Trump could be prosecuted or impeached on an ever-expanding list of offenses. Each claim is stated with absolute certainty despite long-standing questions or constitutional barriers. Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California has been a standout in this crowd -- calling for impeachments and prosecutions from the very beginning of Trump's term in office. She is now insisting that Trump can and should be charged with "premeditated murder" over the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th. The statement was made on MSNBC which has trafficked in such ridiculous theories without any pushback from the media or legal experts.

Waters made her statement in an interview with Joy Reid, who has had one of the most controversial records in television for her racially charged language , dubious legal arguments , and unsupported claims . Reid notably does not press Waters on her claim that Trump should be charged with premeditated murder.

Here is the interview:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/l3TfKQYuoDc

In the interview, Reid refers to the 1990s and the "insurrections in Los Angeles." It is not clear from the interview what constitutes an insurrection in the 1990s but the term "riot" seems effectively barred today in favor of "insurrection."

When Trump or his allies made outlandish and unsupported claims about the law in the past, the media piled on with coverage stating that such claims were ridiculous or unfounded. I regularly called out Trump for such claims, including his call for changing whole areas of law like defamation. However, equally unsupported claims on the left are met with little or no push back from hosts or the media.

Waters states "He absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder because of the lives that were lost for this invasion with his insurrection,. For the President of the United States to sit and watch the invasion and the insurrection and not say a word because he knew he had absolutely initiated it – and as some of them said, 'he invited us to come. We're here at the invitation of the President of the United States."

In Washington, D.C., a person is guilty of first degree murder when he or she specifically intends to kill another purposely with premeditation and deliberation, or kills while in the process of committing a felony. See Section 22-2104 . Most states require that first-degree premeditated murder be proven as a willful, deliberate, premeditated killing. That is treated as a specific intent crime with the showing of a purposive act or an act with express malice. You must generally show a specific intent to kill and premeditation is usually shown by evidence that a defendant reflected on the act or planned for the act of murder.

Waters' home state courts have dealt with this issue recently:

"Murder, whether in the first or second degree, requires malice aforethought. (§ 187.) Malice can be express or implied. It is express when there is a manifest intent to kill (§ 188, subd. (a)(1)); it is implied if someone kills with "no considerable provocation . . . or when the circumstances attending the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart" (§ 188, subd. (a)(2)). When a person directly perpetrates a killing, it is the perpetrator who must possess such malice. People v. Gentile (Riverside County Court December 2020)."

In this case, there is no evidence that Trump directly murdered anyone or sought the death of anyone. He is being accused of conspiring in the commission of such murders. That sounds more like a claim of being an aider and abetter to murder. However, even in California where charges can be based on the the natural and probable consequence of the aided and abetted crime, courts have balked at such broad interpretations. "Under the natural and probable consequences doctrine, an accomplice is guilty not only of the offense he or she directly aided or abetted (i.e., the target offense), but also of any other offense committed by the direct perpetrator that was the "natural and probable consequence" of the crime the accomplice aided and abetted (i.e., the nontarget offense)."

This distinction was again recently drawn in California:

"In Chiu, we held that the natural and probable consequences doctrine cannot support a conviction for first degree premeditated murder. (Chiu, supra, 59 Cal.4th at p. 167.) We reasoned that in the context of murder, the natural and probable consequences doctrine serves the purpose of "deterring aiders and abettors from aiding or encouraging the commission of offenses that would naturally, probably, and foreseeably result in an unlawful killing." (Id. at p. 165.) But this purpose "loses its force" when an accomplice is held culpable for first degree premeditated murder under a natural and probable consequences theory. (Id. at p. 166.) First degree premeditated murder carries significantly higher penalties than second degree murder and requires the additional mental state that the killing be "willful, deliberate, and premeditated." PEOPLE v. GENTILE Opinion of the Court by Liu, J. 12 (§ 189, subd. (a); Chiu, at p. 166.) Whether or not the direct perpetrator killed with premeditation "has no effect on the resultant harm. The victim has been killed regardless of the perpetrator's premeditative mental state." (Chiu, at p. 166.) We further concluded that subjecting an accomplice to enhanced punishment based solely on the "uniquely subjective and personal" mental state of the direct perpetrator was inconsistent with "reasonable concepts of culpability." (Chiu, supra, 59 Cal.4th at pp. 166, 165.)"

In her interview, Waters was apparently referencing reports that some of the rioters had planned in advance to storm the Capitol. On the day of the riot, many of us noted that some of the rioters clearly brought ropes and other items that indicated preparation to the attack. Those reports however cut both ways. It certainly shows that those individuals had premeditation, but it also shows that the speech itself may not have been the incitement for those individuals. Critics can fairly note that the President had engaged in reckless rhetoric for weeks. However, there is a difference between reckless and criminal speech. More importantly, if such comments are now dispositive evidence of premeditation for murder, it would allow such vicarious charges for homicide in a wide array of cases involving politicians.

While Waters has defended her long list of impeachable offenses as based on the view that "impeachment is whatever Congress says it is ," the same is not true of the criminal code.

[Feb 05, 2021] Trump May be on Trial, but System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted Consortiumnews

Feb 05, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

I t is a fitting end to four years of Donald Trump in the White House.

On one side, Trump's endless stoking of political grievances -- and claims that November's presidential election was "stolen" from him -- spilled over into a mob storming the U.S. Capitol. They did so in the forlorn hope of disrupting the certification process of the Electoral College vote, which formally declared his opponent, Joe Biden, the winner.

On the other side, the Democratic Party instituted a second, unprecedented impeachment process in the slightly less forlorn hope of foreclosing any possibility of him running again in 2024.

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Barely concealing its alliance with the then-incoming Biden administration, Silicon Valley shut down Trump's social media megaphone. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lobbied the Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut an "unhinged" Trump out of the chain of command, in a move that was reportedly rejected out of hand by Pentagon officials because, they told The New York Times , it would amount to a "military coup."

And Biden, who boasts that he was the author the Patriot Act years before 9/11, has been touting a new "domestic terrorism" bill, as though the U.S. did not already have a plethora of ways to crack down on dissent, of both the legitimate and the illegitimate varieties.

With that as the backdrop, Washington, D.C., designated Biden's inauguration last month a "national special security event."

Authoritarian Tribes

None of this is just the latest sign that the U.S. political system has degenerated into tawdry theater. It is growing evidence that U.S. politics is devolving into a permanent confrontation between two authoritarian tribes. Both are convinced that the other side is un-American, perverting the true republic. Both are unwilling to compromise, believing they share no common ground. And ultimately both are fighting for a rotten cause.

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This is not a divide between ethical and unethical politics. This clash is now a bitter grudge match. It is civil war by other means. Not only is the chasm between these rival camps widening, but the real criminals are making off -- as they always do -- with the loot.

Each tribe has been coalescing for a while now around a center of gravity. On the Republican side that became clear with the emergence of the Tea Party and the birther movement during President Barack Obama's tenure. But it took Trump's election as president in 2016 to create a proper oppositional center of gravity on the other side.

Those in the Democratic tribe who now disdain Trump and his supporters for their desperate refusal to accept November's result overlook how they greeted Trump's victory in 2016. They struggled against the legitimacy of that outcome too, even if they did not resort to the overt violence of the mob at the Capitol.

It began with arguments that, while Trump might have won the Electoral College vote, he lost the popular vote . Four years ago, the Electoral College also faced self-serving accusations that it had disenfranchised the majority.

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The Democratic tribe took to the streets as well, in protest marches in cities across the U.S. under the banner of the Resistance, denying Trump was their president. That was understandable, given his personal behavior and the policies he advocated. But it did not end there.

Russian Conspiracies

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The disavowal of the Trump presidency quickly regressed into a dangerous narrative -- one that has never properly gone away, despite the dearth of evidence to support it. The claim was not only that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win, but that Trump himself had actively colluded with Russia to steal the election from his opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Anything that had damaged Clinton -- including emails showing that the Democratic leadership rigged its own primaries to make sure she was the party's candidate rather than Bernie Sanders -- got sucked into that vast conspiracy theory. That included the messenger of these bad tidings: WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

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For years, the Democratic tribe has invested its considerable energies in fruitless efforts to prove its theory, including the first bid to remove Trump through an entirely self-defeating impeachment process.

None of this could be justified politically. It was a Democrat counterpoint to Trump's MAGA slogan: "Make America Great Again". Democrats promised the much less catchy SAPD: "Save America from President Deplorable."

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Antagonistic Tango

For this tribe, Trump was an illegitimate president from the outset, one whose election to the highest office in the land revealed something unwholesome about their country they preferred to avert their gaze from because it might implicate them too. Removing Trump largely eclipsed the struggle to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.

The obsession with Trump above everything else seemingly rationalized any means -- fair or foul -- to be rid of him. Few thought about how this would look to his supporters or to those not already safely ensconced in one or other tribe.

To understand, they now need only look to the storming of the Capitol How they felt watching the building being ransacked -- a Deplorable putting his feet up contemptuously on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk -- was how Trump's tribe felt watching their president being denounced as a Russian agent and dragged through impeachment proceedings.

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This mood is not likely to dissipate. The two political tribes are locked in an antagonistic tango, mirroring each other's moves, each other's grudges, each other's sense of victimhood. Much more unites them than they would ever care to admit.

Festering Culture War

This may be the pathology, but what of the cause.

What we see here is the culmination of a festering culture war stoked by an unhealthy investment by both sides in a simple-minded and highly divisive identity politics.

Much has correctly been made of the white supremacism of the most loyal sections of Trump's tribe, and that was on show again during the invasion of the Capitol. The Confederate flag, the neo-Nazi slogans, the T-shirts extolling the Jewish supremacy of Israel are all indicators of a toxic politics of white grievance that may be less articulated but is still felt by a wider swath of Trump's supporting constituency.

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This ugly identity politics is rightly rejected by the other tribe, but is nonetheless mirrored in its equally deep commitment to identity politics. The progressive coalition of identities at the core of the Democratic Party may be more reassuring to modern sensibilities, but has served in practice to accentuate to parts of the Trump tribe the supposed threat to their white identity.

This is not to equate the justified struggle of Black Lives Matter against endemic racism, including in the police, with the reactionary forces seeking to preserve some notion of white privilege. It is to simply observe that when the political field of battle exclusively revolves around identity, then one cannot be surprised if each side continues to frame its struggle in precisely those terms.

Those who live by the identity sword are likely to die by that same sword.

The Trump tribe want their president, and the Republican Party more generally, to guarantee a white supremacism they fear is being eroded as the Democrat Party flaunts its progressive, multicultural credentials. The Democrat tribe, meanwhile, wants to challenge the old order -- and most especially reactionary institutions like local police forces -- that have been an oppressive bulwark against change.

This dynamic can lead only to permanent confrontation, bitterness and alienation.

Class Struggle

There is a way out of the dead-end culture war that pits one tribe against the other. It is to formulate an alternative, popular politics based on class struggle -- the 99 percent against the 1 percent. But neither the Republican nor the Democratic leaderships, or the respective medias that cheerlead them, has any interest in encouraging a political realignment of this sort.

The Democratic Party is not a vehicle for class struggle, after all. Like the Republican Party, it is designed to preserve the privileges of an elite. Its biggest donors, like the Republicans', are drawn from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, the arms industries. The political battle in the United States is between two parties of capital united by far more than divides them.

The shadow play of U.S. politics is the enervating, antagonistic confrontation of identities described above. While ordinary Americans get stoked into a mutual tribal loathing by a corporate media that profits from this theatre of hate, the elite enjoys a free hand to pillage the planet and the commons.

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While we fixate on identities that have been crafted to divide us, while we remain immersed in the surface of politics, while we are distracted from the real battle lines, those elites prosper.

Political paralysis may not harm the establishment. But it is profoundly damaging to us, the 99 percent, when our communities are being ravaged by a pandemic, when our economies are in meltdown, when the planet is on the brink of ecological collapse.

We need a functioning political system that reflects popular priorities, like Medicare For All, a dignified minimum wage and free college; that understands the urgency of the challenges posed by multiple crises; and that can marshal and channel our energies into solutions, not into endless, irresolvable confrontations based on grievances that have been cultivated to weaken us.

Trump is not the enemy. That target is far too small and limited. The class he belongs to is our enemy, as is the system of privilege he has spent the past four years upholding and his successor will defend just as assiduously.

Whether Trump is ultimately convicted or not in the Senate, the system that produced him will be acquitted -- by Congress, by the new president, by Wall Street, by the corporate media.

It is we who will pay the price.

Jonathan Cook is a former Guardian journalist (1994-2001) and winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. He is a freelance journalist based in Nazareth. If you appreciate his articles, please consider offering your financial support .

This article is from his blog Jonathan Cook.net .

The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.

[Feb 05, 2021] New Video Surfaces of Antifa-Insurgence Leader John Sullivan Training Antifa Soldiers and Selling Riot Equipment at his Website

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Exclusive: New Video Surfaces of Antifa-Insurgence Leader John Sullivan Training Antifa Soldiers and Selling Riot Equipment at his Website

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Published February 4, 2021 at 8:10am

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This dude's father (he was adopted) is a retired general.

The embedded video shows him teaching people how to dress in black bloc. Is he behind bars? Don't make me laff. Also this AP (agent provocateur) was right next to the woman that was shot dead on Jan. 6.

Black bloc gear is right out of Germany. This guy didn't learn these tactics on his own. The scary part is that the MSM is ignoring the real history of black bloc, out of Germany, and how it migrated here to the US.

[Feb 03, 2021] The "accountability" rhetoric speaks directly to the broad base that really wants to stick events of Jan 6 to the Republicans, bipartisanship be damned

I would expect more courage from a former bartender,
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I'm filing the AOC stuff here, for reasons that will become obvious in a moment:

Here is the entire AOC Instagram on the Capitol Seizure:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fWNWoNaImQA

It's an hour-and-a-half long, and I just don't have time to listen to it all. It would be great any readers had to time and the inclination to pick out the highlights and put them in comments (and if you do, please include time codes).

"AOC on Instagram Live: Recounting Jan. 6 attack details draws more than 160K viewers" [ Staunton News-Leader ]. "[S]he laid out the fact that people knew violence was coming on Jan. 6. Members of Congress, trying to help her, sent messages as early as the Thursday before Jan. 6 that they expected bad things to go down as the Congress moved to certify the Electoral College results of the November election."

The News-Leader is a Gannet paper in the Shenendoah Valley, but they didn't pull the story from the wires, they had a reporter write it up. The last politician I can remember who made the story like this was, well Donald Trump.

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Trauma in a Moving and Powerful Instagram Live" [ Marie Claire ].

"On Monday night, in a brave and candid video on Instagram Live, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed her deep trauma following the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, and the prior traumas that had made it even more triggering. Ocasio-Cortez shared that she is a survivor of sexual assault: 'I haven't told many people in my life," she said. She began crying during her retelling of the events of Jan. 6, but fought to continue to tell her story. 'All of your traumas can, kind of, intersect and interact,' she explained. Ocasio-Cortez compared Republicans' insistence on telling her and other survivors of the Jan. 6 attack to 'get over it' to the tactics used by abusers. She added: 'The folks [false note, there] who are saying we should move on, we shouldn't have accountability, etc., are saying: 'Can you just forget about this so that we can do it again?' I'm not going to let it happen to me again and I'm not going to let it happen to our country."

I have mixed reactions to this. On the one hand the "we should just move on" attitude has done the country a lot of damage. Obama's version of this was " we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards ," and as a direct result Gina Haspel, a torturer, headed the CIA.

On the other, I would want expert testimony on whether traumas "intersect and interact," and how they do. On yet another, I'm deeply suspicious of the concept that trauma conveys authenticity, especially political authenticity. If trauma did convey authenticity, then PSTD-suffering soldiers would make the best cops. Finally, it's a category error, exactly on the order of confusing government with a household, to equate personal trauma with political violence. They may have similar roots (say, deaths of despair), and they may feel the same to the person experiencing them, but they are products of difference systems.

"AOC: Ocasio-Cortez recalls Capitol raid, calls for accountability" [ Al Jazeera ]. "US Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has described being terrified for her life during the storming of the US Capitol, doubling down on calls for Republican politicians to be held accountable.

In an emotional broadcast on Monday night, New York House member Ocasio-Cortez said she was harassed by those she identified as fans of former President Donald Trump for days before the January 6 incident and was warned by other members of Congress to be "careful" on the day of the rally."

To me, it looks like AOC -- a very, very talented politician -- is picking up the power that's lying in the street. First, the "survivor" rhetoric, like it or not -- I don't; see my comment above -- speaks directly to the bourgeois feminists of the Clintonite wing of the Democrat Party. Who else is doing that?

Second, the "accountability" rhetoric speaks directly to the broad (albeit PMC) base that really wants to stick it to the Republicans, bipartisanship be damned. Who else is doing that? (The pink pussy hat brigade will, of course, do whatever the leadership tells them to, but that's their initial, default, setting).

Third, in a party with a weak bench thirsting for non-geriatric leadership, AOC is stepping forward. Who else is doing that? Finally, speaking directly to her fan base (i.e., one assumes, voters, ultimately) on Instagram -- as, apparently, she while cooking (!) -- bypasses the press entirely.

Who else is doing that? Again, one thinks of Trump. I wonder if she does A/B testing? (There are all sorts of reasons to dislike AOC on policy -- I notices a long time ago she was saying "working class" a lot less -- but there's no denying her talents as a politician.)

freedomny , February 2, 2021 at 7:08 pm

Really sorry that AOC was scared for her life. Was gonna look it up re how many politicians have been killed by Americans in the past 100 years but .just too much energy.

We've all been traumatized.

45,000 Americans.die every year from no insurance.

This girl needs to get over herself.

The Rev Kev , February 3, 2021 at 12:01 am

"AOC on Instagram"

There is a shorter video by AOC linked in the following tweet and I will say this for her. She knows how to project an image. In the video you will see the black borders on either side, a cream background, and AOC dressed in a grayish-black top with her face being the only colour in this 1:37 min video. If these were not her decisions, then she must have a very good media advisor-

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[Feb 03, 2021] Make fire and police departments that receive federal grants have their members sign commitments not to engage in acts to overthrow the government.

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Capitol Seizure

"'Be ready to fight': FBI probe of U.S. Capitol riot finds evidence detailing coordination of an assault" [ WaPo ]. "FBI agents around the country are working to unravel the various motives, relationships, goals and actions of the hundreds of Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Some inside the bureau have described the Capitol riot investigation as their biggest case since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and a top priority of the agents' work is to determine the extent to which that violence and chaos was preplanned and coordinated." • And if so, by whom .

"'Blame Trump' defense from alleged Capitol rioters dovetails with Democrats' impeachment case" [ CNN ]. "One by one, die-hard supporters of former President Donald Trump are now blaming him for their actions that day, after being charged by federal prosecutors and facing possible jail time. A lawyer for one rioter who allegedly attacked police officers with a baseball bat said he was "inspired" by Trump's incendiary speech at a rally beforehand. The so-called QAnon shaman, whose horned bearskin headdress made him go viral, now claims he was "duped" by Trump, his lawyer said. At this point, the statements may be more of a public relations strategy than an articulated legal defense. But they dovetail with Democrats' case in favor of impeaching and convicting Trump; they agree that the former president incited the deadly insurrection that overwhelmed the Capitol on January 6."

"A 2009 warning about right-wing extremism was engulfed by politics. There are signs it's happening again." [ USA Today ]. "In April 2009, federal intelligence officials issued a prescient warning to police departments around the country. 'Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat," experts in the Department of Homeland Security wrote. 'These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists – including lone wolves or small terrorist cells – to carry out violence.' It was one of DHS' most explicit mentions of homegrown terrorists since 9/11, one with a direct connection to the military. But the call to action was effectively buried after powerful Republican politicians and their allies in the right-wing media launched broadsides against President Barack Obama's administration and Democrats , alleging that they had disrespected the men and women in the U.S. military while attempting to surveil and silence conservatives. The blowback shifted the debate away from how to actually address the threat and into another partisan public spectacle." • Translating, the Democrats -- assuming good faith -- were weak. Yet another 2009 debacle from Obama.

"How to fix our domestic terrorist problem" [ Washington Examiner ]. "We saw five dead in the Jan. 6 attempted coup d'etat. We saw possible assassination plots against both former Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We saw coercion designed to prevent certification of President Biden's Electoral College victory. We now see the Capitol necessarily secured behind razor wire. But we also see some Republican members of Congress trying to sneak guns onto the House floor. One has even called for violence. It is time to confront these putschists." One suggested measure: 'Make fire and police departments that receive federal grants have their members sign commitments not to engage in acts to overthrow the government.'" • Hmm.

Impeachment

"House Dems make their impeachment case in pretrial brief" [ ABC ]. "'The only honorable path at that point was for President Trump to accept the results and concede his electoral defeat. Instead, he summoned a mob to Washington, exhorted them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue,' the managers wrote in their brief submitted ahead of next week's trial of the former president." •

[Jan 29, 2021] Were Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Involved In Planning, Executing The Capitol Hill Siege- - CD Media

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he direct evidence is Pravy Sektor's Sergei Dybynyn at the front of the violent Capitol groups yelling "Faster! Faster!" in Russian. At first, the media started trying to paint Dybynyn as a Russian propagandist and provocateur. But, the fact Dybynyn received a medal from former Ukrainian president Petr Poroshenko for his work changed that story and big media dropped it. Because of his work for Poroshenko, he is wanted for supporting terrorism in the Donbass Lugansk People's Republic.

In August 2020, we reported on the ties between Ukrainian neo-Nazis and US Antifa. The Ukrainian fascists were given asylum in the US by the Obama administration working with John Brennan in the tens of thousands from late 2016 to 2020. When the FBI caught on to the violent groups relocating to the US from Ukraine, they stopped it. Over 17,000 Ukrainian nationalists emigrated during this timeframe.

According to the WaPo article, "an unlikely nationality has come to represent a disproportionate share of the refugees who have been entering the United States in recent years: Ukrainians.

The United States last year resettled more nationals from Ukraine, a country that barely registers in the United Nations' assessments of the global refugee crisis, than it did almost any other nationality Many of the newly arrived Ukrainians have ended up here in Washington state, near Seattle "

In that article series we warned the large groups of Ukrainian nationalists came to the US for the purpose of beefing up riots against Donald Trump after they started. This Obama policy brought the worst of the worst into the US under a false asylum claim until it was finally stopped.

Sergei Dybynyn self-identifies as a Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) member in the middle photo. The blood and soil (red and black) menorah is what Jewish members wear showing off affiliation.

The connection between Ukraine's radical nationalists (fascists) and AntiFa-BLM is they began their history together. Azov battalion which I'll be focusing on is another Pravy Sektor spinoff and US aid funding goes through Pravy Sektor leader Dmitro Yarosh hands.

Time Magazine's January 7 th article seems to be a lead-in waiting for the proof of Azov's participation in the Capitol siege. The article lays it out and makes that point.

"Outside Ukraine, Azov occupies a central role in a network of extremist groups stretching from California across Europe to New Zealand, according to law enforcement officials on three continents.

"Azov has been recruiting, radicalizing, and training American citizens for years," the letter said. Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, later confirmed in testimony to the U.S. Senate that American white supremacists are "actually traveling overseas to train."

In their letter to the State Department in 2019, U.S. lawmakers noted that "the link between Azov and acts of terror in America is clear." The Ukrainian authorities have also taken notice."

Former Ukrainian president Petr Poroshenko has supported the work of Pravy Sektor and Azov since 2014 when they propelled him into power; they in turn support him. Poroshenko has worked non-stop to unseat Donald Trump since the 2016 election season.

Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach published taped conversations between Poroshenko and then Vice President Joe Biden explicitly detailing how Poroshenko fabricated allegations about Paul Manafort in an attempt to derail the Trump campaign.

CD Media's investigation headlined "BREAKING: Ukrainian MEP Releases Further Biden Tapes JOE CONSPIRED WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AGAINST TRUMP ." The media claimed this was just an attempt to interfere with Joe Biden's campaign even though the proof was clear Biden was party to election interference in 2016 . From the 2016 until the impeachment vote in 2021, Poroshenko and the Democrats focused the Information Operations tools, methods, and assets the Obama-Biden administration set Ukraine up with on the Trump presidency.

What kind of opportunities requiring courage would Ukraine be looking for? The following Poroshenko tweet after the Capitol siege caught my eye for that reason.

The ICC is investigating Ukraine for atrocities committed by Azov and Pravy Sektor on his watch as president and even before any of the facts are known, he's condemning Donald Trump. Was he in on it? I started watching for a cookie to be thrown to him and didn't have to wait long for it.

On January 11 th , the US Treasury sanctioned the Ukrainians who exposed Poroshenko and Joe Biden's effort against Trump as well as Burisma ties. MP Andrey Derkach also exposed the details of the Biden-Burisma scandal at the same time. Exposing the Biden-Ukraine 2016 election interference is the same as the Russian election interference narrative in 2020.

Poroshenko did take advantage of every window of opportunity to make sure Biden made it past January 6 th .

What you are about to read raises serious questions for me. Is there such a thing as too many coincidences? When does coincidence line up to conspiracy? This is Maxim Yarosh (Макс Ярош). According to his own statements, his job in Azov is infiltration and crowd agitation. Yarosh is a Pravy Sektor member and very active in the violence in Ukraine from Maidan until now. As you can see in the photo, Poroshenko awarded him medals for his service. His reputation for thuggishness speaks for itself.

In the photo below, he is in the first row, second from the left, and on the right is former US Ambassador Geoff Pyatt. Ukrainian soldiers didn't take photos with Pyatt unless they have high enough standing with Petr Poroshenko. Poroshenko and Yarosh knew each other well going all the way back to Pyatt's tenure.

Around the January 9 th through the 11 th , Yarosh makes a point of establishing he was in Quito, Ecuador for a religious pilgrimage (his words). The timing itself raises an eyebrow and the proof he posted on Facebook are two photos showing him at the airport and this one placing him outside the Mayor San Jose Seminary showing off his neo-nazi tattoos.

Even if we know one Pravy Sektor member, Sergei Dybynyn, was videoed taking part in the Capitol siege, so far it's not newsworthy. But if Yarosh was there, then things change completely.

At the same time, according to Petr Poroshenko, he took his family (wife and children) to Ecuador. His story is they flew in under an assumed name (fake passports), rented a yacht, and toured the Galapagos Islands for a couple of weeks starting at the end of December until around January 11 th or 12 th .

The circumstantial evidence that points to the possibility Yarosh was involved in the Capitol siege, which involves Poroshenko, was reported in the news. Maxim Yarosh made a point of confronting Petr Poroshenko on the flight to Amsterdam and again after they landed.

CDMedia is being de-platformed and obviously too effective! We need your support to put more reporters in the field! Help us here!

In light of the events on the 6 th , this looks like a crude attempt at establishing an alibi for Maxim Yarosh. The following video is unedited and of poor quality. Unless you speak Russian, I'd suggest turning the volume off and concentrating on what's wrong with the video.

Petr Poroshenko was the President of Ukraine until 2019. Ex-presidents have State provided bodyguard details for life. If you google "Poroshenko bodyguard" you'll see why Poroshenko doesn't travel without bodyguards anywhere.

There were no bodyguards on the plane intervening or even visible. There were none at the airport to intervene for Poroshenko. The ex-president looks like he's playing a part.

Ukrainian Billionaires like Poroshenko that fly halfway across the world to rent a yacht for a few weeks don't fly business class on commercial airliners. Looking at the seating arrangement, he might as well have gone with economy class. His wife kneels in the aisle next to his seat to take part in the conversation. It makes you wonder if he moved to this seat just for the video.

Petr Poroshenko and his wife are the only two people not wearing COVID masks on the flight which makes them the only two people that were 100% identifiable on the video.

At the airport, for a few seconds, Poroshenko drops back a few steps talking with what might be another radical. Again, there are no presidential bodyguards to be found.

Here's the problem. Yarosh has the motive, method, time, and opportunity to have been part of the Capitol siege.

Yarosh is the right guy for the job, has the needed skill sets and mentality, and most importantly places himself with the one guy in the world that wants to make a Capitol siege event happen so he can claw back into power.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/501664300?dnt=1&app_id=122963

If anyone has facial recognition capabilities, this is a key person to look for at the Capitol.

Poroshenko's Ukrainian neo-Nazis and AntiFa

According to AntiFa, from the beginning of the group in pre-Nazi Germany, they were a socialist group fighting fascists like the Nazis. While the statement is almost true in a specific timeframe, they were never the social humanitarian heroes they pretend to be.

The leader of the political group Antifa belonged to at the time was an architect of the final solution during WWII. That's a little different than they like to present themselves.

AntiFa's history can be summarized like this -- the group started out as the military wing of the German Communist Party (KPD) . Before the rise of Hitler, they supported Stalin and Marxist socialism. Nazis were fascists. The KPD didn't like other socialist groups so they were labeled fascist too.

The KPD's armed group was AntiFa and they fought in the streets against every group the KPD labeled fascist. The KPD decided it liked Hitler so Stalin was fascist. Then Hitler was fascist again. After this they merged with the SA, better known as the Brownshirts and Stalin was fascist again.

The Waffen SS was formed as a subgroup by the SA (Antifa) which was demanding the socialism Adolf Hitler promised them.

"The Munich-born American historian Konrad Heiden was one of the first to document this phenomenon in his 1936 book Hitler: A Biography, remarking that within the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA) ranks there were "large numbers of Communists and Social Democrats" and that "many of the storm troops were called 'beefsteaks' – brown outside and red within." The switching of political parties was at times so common that SA men would jest that "[i]n our storm troop there are three Nazis, but we shall soon have spewed them out." Wikipedia

Hitler didn't like the political power the leader of the SA , Ernst Rohm was gaining or the AntiFa SA elements who were looting, robbing, and raping and demanding socialism while he was trying to consolidate power. He set up the Reichstag fire to deal with all the Nazi's undesirables and his competitor. The night of the long knives followed.

The Nazis prosecuted the KPD-AntiFa's top leader, Ernst Torgler. After Torgler was found innocent, he worked for Reinhard Heidrich in 1941. Hitler called Heidrich the man with the iron heart.

In 1942, they presented "The Final Solution to the Jewish Problem." Reinhard and the KPD-AntiFa leader Torgler were the architects of the Holocaust.

In 1941, Ukrainian nationalists formalized their relations in with the SA and SS Antifa groups with 3 Waffen SS Battalions.

In 1991, the last Ukrainian nationalist leader from that period (Slava Stetsko) immigrated to Ukraine and started her own political party with a militant wing. The militant wing called Trizub-Bandera is led by Dmitro Yarosh, the head of today's Pravy Sektor, Azov, and the other groups that came out of the 2014 Maidan.

German Foreign Policy notes the successors to Slava Stetsko's OUN (Ukrainian Nationalists) are Svoboda, CUN, Pravyi Sector, and UNA-UNSO.

Ultra-Nationalist UNA-UNSO also doubles as Ukraine's Antifa and has taken this mantle for a few decades.

Why would Ukraine neo-nazis help Antifa and the Democrats with the Capitol siege? In the photo they're working together in Lviv, Ukraine.

All three share the same politics. Imagine the 3 rd Reich without Hitler. Imagine.

It's not only the Ukrainian nationalists and US Antifa-BLM, but over 120+ Congressmen and Senators from both parties support the groups that made this happen and should be investigated formally.

[Jan 29, 2021] EXCLUSIVE- Independent Journalist Tayler Hansen- A Riot that Turned Deadly, What I Witnessed at the US Capitol Riot

Jan 29, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

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John Sullivan, ANTIFA organizer, and BLM Activist is seen telling Officers to "Go home." After being arrested he faced the following charges; civil disorder, disorderly conduct, and entering a restricted building without authority. Almost immediately after being detained, he was released with no bail.

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A man shifted Ashli's body after she fell from the window. Three Capitol Police Officers are seen on the stairs, none of which attempted to apply medical aide to Ashli's gunshot wound. For a brief moment I attempted to provide light so the gunshot wound could be found. When located, pressure was applied but there was nothing we could have done to save her.

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If Ashli Babbitt died in the hospital, why was she carried down the stairs, upside down, and with no pressure on her wound?

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In Conclusion

I, Tayler Hansen, in no way, shape, or form support the events that unfolded on the 6th. With that being said, it doesn't take a genius to know it's impossible for unarmed protestors to have successfully breached one of the most secure buildings on Earth, while the Vice President was inside. As time passes one thing becomes more clear, the Capitol was the perfect set up, and Trump supporters took the bait.

The Capitol siege was the biggest political power grab in modern-day history. The Left has officially shifted the spotlight, and this time they're coming for Trump supporters. We're witnessing the most intense roll out of Big Tech censorship we've ever seen. Which just so happens to be targeting President Trump, conservatives, and what's left of real journalists. Big Tech told conservatives to create their own platform if they didn't want to be censored, so they did. In response, Apple and Google removed that platform Parler, an app founded on free speech. Mainstream media is attempting to silence independent and fact-based reporting, forming the ultimate monopoly on the so-called "truth". They have Americans right where they want them.

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This was ANTIFA's proudest, and most accomplished moment yet. Known ANTIFA provocateurs have been exposed for causing the initial violence and unrest at the Capitol, but it doesn't matter. Left-wing extremist groups have caused over $2B in property damage, attempted to burn down Federal Buildings, and are responsible for over 30 deaths since last May of 2020. There were never any reports of an "insurrection" or "terrorist attack" when ANTIFA attempted to occupy Federal Buildings in Portland or the historic courthouse in Nashville. Left-wing terrorists have received nothing but praise from elected officials, celebrities, and mainstream media throughout their existence.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media has labeled everyone at the US Capitol "Domestic Terrorists" even the hundreds of thousands who were there in DC to listen to President Trump and then left the area after he ended his speech. We're bearing witness to the ultimate double standard.


MasterJedi_Yoda 5 hours ago ,

"The Capitol siege was the biggest political power grab in modern-day history. "

That's a negative, Sir. The biggest political grab in modern-day history was the theft of the 2020 Presidential election from President Trump right before our very own eyes.

Spike Springer MasterJedi_Yoda 5 hours ago • edited ,

It's the modern day equivalent of the Reichstag fire which allowed Hitler to rule without restraint, and let him crush all dissent toward the State.

thegentletruth Spike Springer 4 hours ago ,

And the indirect proof?
Now D.C. must be militarized indefinitely
because of all the violence on the right.
What violence had the right committed
over the previous 12 months? Almost none.
Who was rioting nonstop for the past year?
This violence is like "racism" in the universities--
yes, there is racism--but perpetuated by whom?

Reichstag Riot indeed.

ricocat1 thegentletruth 4 hours ago ,

The lying leftist media, and RINO Quisling enablers, will allow the Democrat Nazis to use this fake "Reichstag Fire" to impose a dictatorship upon the United States.

ZaSu Pitts ricocat1 4 hours ago ,

Was FBI informant Enrique Tarrio was running a off the books operation when he helped create the Proud Boys in 2016 around the time the RUSSIA!!! hoax was created by the FBI as well?

Brian Virgin ZaSu Pitts 4 hours ago ,

This is about painting a target on Tarrio's back. What other purpose could it serve? Just the kind of sleazeball tactics one expects from the Derp State. And even if it was true, so what? The people he allegedly help snag were "bad hombres."

ZaSu Pitts Brian Virgin 3 hours ago ,

Target?
Good!!!!
He put over a dozen people in Fed were there is no parole.
The guy is a FBI snitch and he was being run by the FBI when he helped "create" PB.
The Proud Boys are a FBI creation.

ZaSu Pitts Brian Virgin 3 hours ago ,

You are a member of the FBI created Proud Boys!
Do you get a junior FBI agent badge with your membership?

CLM ZaSu Pitts 2 hours ago • edited ,

Who the heck knows. At this point. What's it matter. No one can be trusted. Not even you. You could be an Demokkkrat communist operative feeding false information to stir up conflict. That is what they want. The Demokkkrats sent Antifa in to stir up trouble at the Capitol. That is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany to protect the 3rd Reich. Now we have the Demokkkrats playing the same thing. We all all screwed. It isn't going to end well.

AgtOso ZaSu Pitts 6 minutes ago ,

Fed prisoners get good/gain time so your parole is moot.

Brian Virgin Psyops Vet 40 minutes ago ,

Already did. She was spewing nonsense. Proud Boys was started by Gavin McInnes. So I guess he's and FBI informant as well. The whole story stinks, and only serves the purposes of the Derp State. And yet this troll is desperate to blow it up out of all proportion. Cui bono? I like GP, but the commenters aren't necessarily the most sophisticated crowd, given the upvotes she's received.

[Jan 27, 2021] Proud Boys FBI Snitch Enrique Tarrio's long informant history with the FB

Jan 27, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

gm , Jan 27 2021 17:58 utc | 21

More on Proud Boys FBI Snitch Enrique Tarrio's long informant history with the FBI:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-fbi-snitch-court-docs

While US officials claim that 'far-right extremism' is one of the largest threats facing America, the leader of the group most commonly singled out as an example - the Proud Boys - was a 'prolific' informant for federal and local law enforcement, according to Reuters, citing a 2014 federal court proceeding.

Enrique Tarrio repeatedly worked undercover for investigators following a 2012 arrest, court documents reveal.

Curiously, Tarrio was ordered to stay away from Washington D.C. one day before the January 6 Capitol riot after he was arrested on vandalism and weapons charges - upon a request by government prosecutors that he be prohibited from attending. At least five Proud Boys members were charged as part of the riot.

In the 2014 hearing, a federal prosecutor, an FBI agent and Tarrio's attorney describe his undercover work - noting that the Proud Boys leader helped authorities prosecute over a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling, accoding to Reuters.

In a Tuesday interview with Reuters, Tarrio denied working undercover or cooperating in cases.

"I don't know any of this," he said, adding "I don't recall any of this."

[...]

During Tarrio's 2014 hearing, both the prosecutor and Tarrio's defense attorney asked for a reduced prison sentence after pleading guilty in a fraud case related to the relabeling and sale of stolen diabetes test kits. In requesting leniency for Tarrio and two co-defendants, the prosecutor noted that Tarrio's information had resulted in the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and helped local authorities investigate a gambling ring.


oldhippie , Jan 27 2021 19:19 utc | 27

gm @ 21

The tell, the dead giveaway, is that the Proud Boys get promoted. They get headlines, column inches, airtime. Product placement. No homegrown anything gets that attention. They are a product being sold to us in the media. Apply same standard to BLM, AntiFa, Weathermen, apply as much as you like and you will seldom be in error.

There's that line is the Costa Gavras film Z, where someone gets chided about being too quick to blame CIA, and the instant comeback is always blame the CIA, even if you are wrong you will likely end up right. And of course the Greek colonels were CIA, even if some were not 100% sure until later. Same standard applies here. Any bogeyman the media stands up and points to and says be very afraid of this bad bogey, this bogey here, you can be sure it is fake from the start.

Bemildred , Jan 27 2021 19:33 utc | 29

Posted by: gm | Jan 27 2021 17:00 utc | 17

Yes, this whole policing business is just a lot easier if you cultivate and run your own criminal gangs, and in fact that approach to it has been very popular almost everywhere. No need to deal with any really dangerous people that way too, a big plus, and seasoned crooks can be handy for dealing with your enemies, encouraging reluctant counter-parties, etc.

Smith , Jan 28 2021 1:43 utc | 47

Somehow not surprised by the Proud Boy's revelation, this smells awfully like George Lincoln Rockwell back then.

Everything in America, left or right, is fake.

[Jan 27, 2021] Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant - US news - The Guardian

Jan 27, 2021 | www.theguardian.com

Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.

In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio's own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.

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Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. "I don't know any of this,'" he said, when asked about the transcript. "I don't recall any of this."

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Law enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio's denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio's case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that "he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes".

Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the rightwing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they believe to be antifa, short for "anti-fascism", an amorphous leftist movement. The Proud Boys were involved in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January.

The records uncovered by Reuters are startling because they show that a leader of a far-right group now under intense scrutiny by law enforcement was previously an active collaborator with criminal investigators.

Washington police arrested Tarrio in early January when he arrived in the city two days before the Capitol Hill riot. He was charged with possessing two high-capacity rifle magazines, and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a December demonstration by supporters of Donald Trump. The DC superior court ordered him to leave the city pending a court date in June.

Though Tarrio did not take part in the Capitol insurrection, at least five Proud Boys members have been charged in the riot. The FBI previously said Tarrio's earlier arrest was an effort to pre-empt the events of 6 January.

The transcript from 2014 shines a new light on Tarrio's past connections to law enforcement. During the hearing, the prosecutor and Tarrio's defense attorney asked a judge to reduce the prison sentence of Tarrio and two co-defendants. They had pleaded guilty in a fraud case related to the relabeling and sale of stolen diabetes test kits.

The prosecutor said Tarrio's information had led to the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and had helped local authorities investigate a gambling ring.

Tarrio's then lawyer Jeffrey Feiler said in court that his client had worked undercover in numerous investigations, one involving the sale of anabolic steroids, another regarding "wholesale prescription narcotics" and a third targeting human smuggling. He said Tarrio helped police uncover three marijuana grow houses, and was a "prolific" cooperator.

In the smuggling case, Tarrio, "at his own risk, in an undercover role met and negotiated to pay $11,000 to members of that ring to bring in fictitious family members of his from another country", the lawyer said in court.

In an interview, Feiler said he did not recall details about the case but added, "The information I provided to the court was based on information provided to me by law enforcement and the prosecutor."

An FBI agent at the hearing called Tarrio a "key component" in local police investigations involving marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, or ecstasy. The Miami FBI office declined comment.

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There is no evidence Tarrio has cooperated with authorities since then. In interviews with Reuters, however, he said that before rallies in various cities, he would let police departments know of the Proud Boys' plans. It is unclear if this was actually the case. He said he stopped this coordination after 12 December because the DC police had cracked down on the group.

Tarrio on Tuesday acknowledged that his fraud sentence was reduced, from 30 months to 16 months, but insisted that leniency was provided only because he and his co-defendants helped investigators "clear up" questions about his own case. He said he never helped investigate others.

That comment contrasts with statements made in court by the prosecutor, his lawyer and the FBI. The judge in the case, Joan A Lenard, said Tarrio "provided substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of other persons involved in criminal conduct".

As Trump supporters challenged the Republican's election loss in often violent demonstrations, Tarrio stood out for his swagger as he led crowds of mostly white Proud Boys in a series of confrontations and street brawls in Washington DC, Portland, Oregon and elsewhere.

The Proud Boys, founded in 2016, began as a group protesting against political correctness and perceived constraints on masculinity. It grew into a group with distinctive colors of yellow and black that embraced street fighting. In September their profile soared when Trump called on them to "Stand back and stand by."

Tarrio, based in Miami, became the national chairman of the group in 2018.

In November and December, Tarrio led the Proud Boys through the streets of DC after Trump's loss. Video shows him on 11 December with a bullhorn in front of a large crowd. "To the parasites both in Congress, and in that stolen White House,'" he said. "You want a war, you got one!" The crowd roared. The next day Tarrio burned the BLM banner.

Former prosecutor Johannes said she was surprised that the defendant she prosecuted for fraud is now a key player in the violent movement that sought to halt the certification of President Joe Biden.

"I knew that he was a fraudster, but had no reason to know that he was also a domestic terrorist," she said.

[Jan 27, 2021] Don't Let the Capitol Riot Become a 9-11-Style Excuse for Authoritarianism

Jan 27, 2021 | reason.com

Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties.

J.D. TUCCILLE | 1.15.2021 11:00 AM

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, horrified Americans were ready to embrace virtually any proposal that promised to keep them safe. Government officials, for their part, were eager to curry favor with the fearful public and saw an opportunity to promote legislation and policies that had failed to win support in the past. The result was a surge of authoritarianism from which the U.S. has yet to recover. Now -- with the public understandably concerned after the January 6 storming of the Capitol -- we should brace ourselves for another wave of political responses that would, again, erode our liberty.

"We're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told her Instagram followers this week. "It's one thing to have differing opinions but it's another thing entirely to just say things that are false. So that's something that we're looking into."

The socialist lawmaker isn't always careful about her words, but it's worrying when officials talk about a need to "rein in" the media in any context. There's really no way to cast government action to that end in a good light, no matter what policy tools are intended (Ocasio-Cortez's office hasn't responded to a request for comment). To let government agencies "rein in" the media is to put control over speech and the press in the hands of people who always see benefit in less scrutiny and criticism of their own activities.

That free speech might well take a hit is apparent from the pasting law enforcement is getting for, allegedly, being too considerate of First Amendment rights before the events at the Capitol.

"FBI intelligence analysts gathered information about possible violence involving the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., but the FBI never distributed a formal intelligence bulletin, in part because of concerns that doing so might have run afoul of free speech protections," NBC News reported on Tuesday.

The report goes on to reveal that in preparing for the protest that degenerated into a riot, the FBI did share intelligence with other law enforcement agencies, neglecting only to issue a formal Joint Intelligence Bulletin. But the overall impression left by NBC and by the behind-the-scenes leaks from officialdom on which its reporting is based are that respect for free speech got in the way.

Since then, the FBI has made up for lost time, issuing a bulletin highlighting the "threat of violence" from a range of "ideologically diverse" extremists. The danger is real, as the violence of January 6 demonstrated. But so is the danger of an unrestrained federal agency with a history of interference in domestic policy debates, spying on activists, and even trying to sabotage political parties -- revealed in great detail by the 1976 Church Committee report . An FBI stung for being too respectful of individual rights in the recent past may return to its old habits in the future.

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In its efforts, the FBI and its allied agencies are almost certain to have the support of the new president. After the storming of the Capitol, President-elect Joe Biden was harsh in his description of the participants. "Don't dare call them protesters," he said . "They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple."

Biden's choice of language is interesting because, even before the election, his campaign promised to " work for a domestic terrorism law " -- an idea reportedly favored by his close advisors. What a new law would look like isn't clear, but Biden has a history with such legislation.

After the 9/11 attacks, Biden claimed authorship of the Patriot Act , which has been much criticized for the damage it does to civil liberties in the name of combating foreign terrorism. "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing," he told The New Republic in October 2001. "And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill."

The uses to which the Patriot Act has been put since its passage should be warning enough to be wary of any legislation proposed in response to the events of January 6.

"The Patriot Act was the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans by expanding the authority to monitor phone and email communications, collect bank and credit reporting records, and track the activity of innocent Americans on the Internet," the American Civil Liberties Union summarizes . "While most Americans think it was created to catch terrorists, the Patriot Act actually turns regular citizens into suspects."

"This is really a debate about the standard our government should have to meet in order to obtain personal information about individuals from banks, hospitals, libraries, retail stores, gun shops, and other institutions," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) argued about ongoing controversies surround the Patriot Act in 2011. "Government agents should not be able to collect this sort of information on law abiding American citizens without showing that they have at least some connection to terrorism or other nefarious activities."

Twenty years after its passage, the Patriot Act lingers on, still threatening civil liberties.

"The government has interpreted a high-profile provision of the Patriot Act as empowering F.B.I. national security investigators to collect logs showing who has visited particular web pages," Charlie Savage of The New York Times reported just last month. "New tensions have emerged over the extent to which the F.B.I. could use that law to gather logs of people's web browsing activities, as opposed to using warrants -- a tool that requires investigators to first be able to produce evidence that a person probably engaged in wrongdoing," he added.

Despite much moaning about the absence of a domestic terrorism law, the Patriot Act has had considerable and very intrusive domestic impact on Americans' privacy.

The fallout from 9/11 also brought us amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , which authorized mass surveillance campaigns that were exposed by Edward Snowden and ruled unconstitutional only last September. We saw the establishment of the simultaneously creepy and incompetent Department of Homeland Security, and the further transformation of air travel into an ordeal under the groping guidance of the Transportation Security Administration . All of this was presented to a frightened public as part of a necessary response to the attacks in hopes that nobody would notice that the proposals had been gathering dust on shelves, just waiting for an opening.

"Many of the changes have precious little to do with the dangers that we saw on September 11," George Washington University Law School's Jonathan Turley told PBS in 2002. "Many of those things are part of a wish list of intelligence agencies that they've wanted for decades."

Given that government officials' wish list of expanded powers are endless, and that they were calling for new laws well before the storming of the Capitol, we should expect a flurry of legislative proposals in the weeks and months to come. We'll need to scrutinize them very closely, on the assumption that they'll be as dangerous to freedom as past schemes to protect us from risks real and imagined.

[Jan 25, 2021] Sen. Rand Paul says Chief Justice Roberts won't take Trump impeach trial

Jan 25, 2021 | nypost.com

As Democrats plunge ahead with a post-term impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, a key question remains: Will Chief Justice Roberts take the case?

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he won't -- making the exercise "a fake, partisan impeachment," the lawmaker told Fox News' Sean Hannity Friday.

Paul claimed Roberts has "privately said he's not supposed to come unless it's an impeachment of the president."

According to the US Constitution, "when the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside" -- a requirement not made for any other impeachment case.

As lawmakers debated the legitimacy of impeachment, the Biden administration continued to keep its distance from the issue .

"Congress is going to do what Congress does," Ashley Etienne, Vice President Kamala Harris' communications director, told MSNBC Saturday.

One thing Trump enemies in Congress appear to be doing is grasping at straws -- even reaching back to a post-Civil War amendment.

Several Dems have floated the idea of punishing Trump with the 14th Amendment's rule that shuts those who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" out of elective office.

"I certainly think there is a 14th Amendment avenue separate and aside from impeachment," Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy told The Hill .

But the stricture, which was written to prevent former Confederate loyalists from regaining power as the United States struggled through Reconstruction, has not been used since -- and would spark a long judicial battle if Congress attempted to invoke it, legal experts say.

Meanwhile, with Trump no longer in the White House, Republicans like Paul continued to deride the impeachment as "an illegitimate procedure."

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Roberts, who has not said publicly whether he will preside over the trial, has two more weeks to decide.

After the House of Representatives' impeachment managers on Monday read their articles of impeachment accusing Trump of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot, the Senate will delay the trial until the week of Feb. 8 so that President Biden can get his administration up and running, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Friday.

If Trump is convicted with a two-thirds majority of the Senate, Schumer could call for a second vote, this one requiring only a simple majority, barring him from holding elective office again.

But conviction will require the votes of at least 17 Senate Republicans -- an increasingly remote possibility, as more party members climb aboard Paul's argument that only a sitting president can be impeached.

"It's going to be tough to get even a handful" of GOP defectors, Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) told CNN -- because "everybody has views that it's kind of a constitutional concern."

[Jan 25, 2021] We already having a flaming fire in this country, and it's like take a bunch of gasoline and pouring it on top of the fire

Jan 25, 2021 | www.newsmax.com

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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Sunday called the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump "stupid" and "counterproductive".

In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Rubio said "we already having a flaming fire in this country, and it's like take a bunch of gasoline and pouring it on top of the fire."

"First of all, I think the trial is stupid. It's counterproductive," Rubio declared.

"Second, I look back at a time, for example, Richard Nixon, who had clearly committed crimes and wrongdoing, and in hindsight I think we would all agree that President Ford's pardon was important for the country to be able to move forward," he added. "And history held Richard Nixon quite accountable for what he did as a result."

Rubio said Trump does bear "responsibility for some of what happened."

"It was most certainly a foreseeable consequence of everything that was going on," Rubio said. "All I'm arguing is we have some really important things to work on. ... We're gonna jump right back into what we've been going through for the last five years, and stirring it up again with a trial, and it's just going to be bad for the country."

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"It's just going to continue to fuel the divisions in this country," where already "people hate each other," he said.

Rubio also brushed aside rumors that former White House adviser Ivanka Trump is is considering a primary challenge for the Senate seat.

"I don't really get into the parlor games of Washington," Rubio said.

"I don't own the Senate seat, it doesn't belong to me," he asserted. "If I want to be back in the U.S Senate, I have to earn that every six years."

[Jan 24, 2021] Mitch McConnell Proposes Postponing Impeachment Trial Until February to Keep Trump Under His Thumb

Jan 24, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

Deep State Mitch McConnell is proposing to postpone the second bogus impeachment trial, which is based on a total fabrication, until February, under the guise 'to give president Trump more time to prepare his defense'.

Mitch McConnell won his Senate election in Kentucky in November, only with the support of President Trump, and came back to Washington DC loaded for bear. He's not after the Democrats, who stole the election in thousands of different ways. He has not said a word about the election being stolen. McConnell doesn't even consider that a review of the election fraud would likely lead to many of the Republican Senators who lost in November having new elections or outright being awarded the wins in the states where Democrats won.

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McConnell didn't show a commitment to helping the people of America who have been destroyed by COVID because he wouldn't even provide more than $600 for COVID relief for Americans suffering from shutdowns. Instead McConnell aligned himself with the Democrat Party.

McConnell has done all he could to slander, disparage and destroy President Trump and the 79 million who voted for him. (McConnell doesn't realize this is the old Republican Party and then some).

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Today McConnell announced that he is planning to move the bogus impeachment of President Trump to February. McConnell doesn't realize that any Senators who vote to remove the President from any future terms in office will be replaced. It also will be the final nail in the coffin of the Republican Party.

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The Hill reports:

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) proposed on a call with Republican senators Thursday that former President Trump's impeachment trial be delayed until February to give him enough time to mount a defense.

McConnell told colleagues that Trump should have at least as much time as the president had in previous trials, which means he would like to postpone the proceeding until the second week of February, according to Republican senators on the call.

"It would have been the 10th or 11th [of February] or somewhere in there," said Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who said McConnell wants to give Trump the same amount of time he had to prepare for the first impeachment trial and that former President Clinton had to prepare for his 1999 impeachment trial.

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But Republican Senators McConnell and Braun are both lost in DC. Americans who voted for the President in numbers never seen before by any Presidential candidate, (when accounting for valid votes) are livid that the election got stolen. They're livid the Democrats staged the riots in the Capitol on January 6th and they are livid Republicans are working with the Democrats, who stole the election in the greatest heist in world history, to attack the victim, President Trump rather than work for justice.

Also, it's a shock Senator Braun, who would not be a Senator if it wasn't for President Trump, doesn't know that Bill Clinton was under investigation by an independent counsel for years and then was impeached in the House in a process after the independent counsel identified crimes Clinton had committed. The impeachment of Clinton was supported by laws and a process. This latest impeachment of President Trump is based on lies and a few hours for Democrats to put together papers. There was no due process.

Washington DC is a mess. The Democrats have stolen an election and Republicans are allowing it and saying nothing. Americans are quickly seeing that a new party that works for the people is the remedy.

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Dallas Box KS Freeman 2 days ago ,

The senate is not "supposed" to do investigations and discovery . Kavanaugh was the first . The house is supposed to deliver a completed case. But , that's just the constitution. Who really cares about that anymore ?

Proud Communist Dallas Box 2 days ago • edited ,

Trump should have pardoned Julian Assange & told Manchurian Mitch to F.O.

RandSec Proud Communist 2 days ago ,

When we cannot trust the count, voting is over.

Abel Washington RandSec 2 days ago ,

Turtle should have thrown out first faux impeachment, and he should have tossed this second bogus one. Mcconnell needs to be made aware that china mitch is an enemy to the Republican party and to the millions of Patriots who support President Trump.

Bubba Abel Washington a day ago ,

The republican party is trash. Trump didn't run as a libertarian because he would've never won. Republicans didn't elect Trump, Americans did. Republicans can f off with the rest of them. They're all trash.

Now that Trump easily has 100 million new party members, let's remove the traitors.

Jim Elliott Bubba a day ago ,

Jordan, Nunes, Hawley, Massie aren't trash, but you are right, the rest of them are.

Reztin Jim Elliott a day ago ,

They voted to certify the fraudulent election. They are fraud's.

Chris Dennis Reztin 21 hours ago ,

I don't think Hawley or the other 3 voted to certify. You left off Ted Cruz & I'm sure he didn't' vote to certify. These are the only true patriots left in the GOP.

Tom Davis 1994gls a day ago ,

Yes, there they did go, again. And when Reagan said that, he canceled millions of American's ability to get SS survivor's benefits (death of a parent) during their university studies, and delayed how long you have to "keep working" into old-age, to get full benefits - so less time to enjoy life, after a lifetime of work for the system.

"Oh, but that was a bipartisan commission," he told Mondale, in the debate - about the law HE Signed, to keep the Ponzi-Scheme going - when they could have simply pulled the caps off, so the Mega-Rich didn't get to avoid paying SS-Taxes on MOST of Their income - while working/middle class folks (up to $200+K) pay on ALL of theirs.

The Same Old GOPeee Schmiel, as Reagan WRECKED middle-class wages, and Shamnestied Millions of Illegal-Alien Invaders - making Americans poor and desperate enough to vote for communism.

I'm for tax cuts - Raise the Personal Deduction on ALL types of taxes.

[Jan 24, 2021] Trump was not the first and will not the the last: on November 22, 1963 The Anglo-American Ruling Elite, through their Deep State operatives, overthrow the U.S. government. From now on all presidents will rule under Deep State supervision.

Jan 24, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

dh-mtl , Jan 24 2021 15:15 utc | 5


'The Day the Music Died'*
A brief history of the decline and fall of the United States of America

- November 22, 1963 The Anglo-American Ruling Elite, through their Deep State operatives, overthrow the U.S. government. From now on all presidents will rule under Deep State supervision.

- January 20, 1981
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite's first puppet president is installed. Others will follow (Clinton, W, Obama).
Over the next 40 years the U.S. economy will be hollowed out while the The Anglo-American Ruling Elite strip mines the country's assets, leaving both the government and the population in perpetual debt servitude.

- November 9, 1989
The Soviet Union gives up on the Cold War
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite is now free to rebuild the former British Empire as a new, improved Global Empire, based in global institutions and without the inconvenience of host countries.
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite now becomes the 'Global Elite'.

- September 11, 2001
Domestic resistance to the U.S. military becoming the Global Elite's mercenary military force is removed.
The colonial wars may begin.

- November 3, 2020
After decades of suffering a thousand cuts, U.S. democracy is delivered the final, fatal blow.

- January 6, 2021 - The Day the Music Died
The U.S. Capitol is under military occupation. The constitution is effectively suspended.
The United States of America, as a constitutional republic, is no more.
From now on the U.S. is just another Globalist colony.


* From Don McLean's 1971 song 'American Pie'. At the time it seemed an omen of things to come. It took 50 years for the premonition to be realized.

[Jan 24, 2021] They forgot nothing and they learned nothing: In 2014, ignoring the warning of Robert F. Kennedy of the need to put yourself in the other Country's shoes, Biden supported the violent Coup which essentially included a violent takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament (Rada) by violent protesters, similar to taking over the US Capitol on January 6, 2021

Jan 24, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

Mike Lamb , January 23, 2021 at 15:00

After the Coup in Ukraine in 2014 for several years I listened weekly to the John Batchelor show when he interviewed Russia scholar the late Stephen Cohen.
From those conversations I learned that Ukraine is politically divided EAST (pro European Union) / WEST (pro Russian) (a bit like the United States is divided RED / BLUE).
Politically by vote Ukraine was close to 50% pro E.U., 50% pro Russia.
After the Coup Crimea voted to return to Russia thus making the political breakdown of Ukraine more pro E.U.

Forbes Magazine in 2008 republished an interview with Soviet critic Alexander Solzhenitsyn

see: forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html?sh=593c65b65f53

Solzhenitsyn, among other things, noted 1) in 1919 Lenin in bringing Ukraine into the Soviet Union gave Ukraine "several Russian provinces to assuage her feelings," 2) that when in 1954 Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine Sevastopol was not transferred to Ukraine as Sevastopol was a military city subject to the Central Government of the U.S.S.R.

I would note that Khrushchev's transfer of Crimea to Ukraine violated Soviet Law / Constitution as the people of Crimea were not asked if they wanted to be transferred.

At the time I did some searching about the history of Crimea and Ukraine and it turns out that shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union Crimea wanted to separate from Ukraine and the Central Government of Ukraine threatened to invade Crimea.

The Central Government of Ukraine in its Constitution gave Crimea a special status not given other provinces.

I would note that in October 1962 Joe Biden was 19 years 11 months old and likely a college student. In October 1962 the world came close to ending (at least a good deal of the so called civilized world) with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

However, in 2014, ignoring the warning of Robert F. Kennedy of the need to put yourself in the other Country's shoes, Biden supported the violent Coup which essentially included a violent takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament (Rada) by violent protesters, much akin to the Trump Taliban taking over the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

It seems that Biden thought that NATO could just move into Sevastopol and take over not just the port of the Russian navy, but the Russian Navy itself.

[Jan 24, 2021] What a joke. CIA can't even carry out a false flag in its front yard anymore, much less in its backyard.

Notable quotes:
"... "Invasion of Capitol" was real, but it does not seem a conspiracy with hidden strings. We know how mobs were use to overthrow government, e.g. in Cairo, Kiev and La Paz -- in chronological order. It was nothing like that. ..."
"... Where there is a wide room for possible conspiracy is how it happened. Methods of defending key buildings in such situations exists and were used, with success, many times, including Washington Mall. And they were not deployed. Why? ..."
"... Defenders of the Capitol were practically removed and Democrats got the possibility of starting the political season of 2021 with impeachment and other jolly diversions, complete with the revival of Russia Gate. ..."
Jan 24, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

Mrs. Debra L Carr de Legorreta , January 22, 2021 at 16:21

These Keystone Cops would be hilarious if they weren't so nefarious. There was no "insurrection" – totally manufactured, false flag.
Where were the "insurgents" that were supposedly going to show up Jan-20-21 at every state capital in the nation and DC? The handful of demonstrators that did show up were anything but insurgents, and instead some of them talked about populist unity.

Yet for days ever since "the assault on democracy" that's all the mainstream harped about, with help from notables on "the left" crying wolf over "the rise of fascism." What a joke. CIA can't even carry out a false flag in its front yard anymore, much less in its backyard.

Next comes commissions and the legislation and the policy changes to avert the evil. Meanwhile 4000+ US citizens die per day due to a pandemic that could've, should've been contained by a half-way decent public health system like the rest of the world has.

The Biden Administration desperately needed an excuse NOT to work on progressive causes (caged children, M4A, student debt, etc) and they got it: an anti domestic terrorism bill.


JohnO
, January 22, 2021 at 19:50

Sorry, Mrs de Legorreta,
Your comments are completely off point and totally lacking evidence. To suggest that the violent invasion and trashing of the Capitol was a CIA false-flag operation ignores the facts on the ground. The leader of The Proud Boys, a neo-nazi group was videotaped at the attack. He has admitted to planning it. Many of his confederates are in fact fascist. Many of them hold as their greatest aspiration a race war. The subject of this column was Russiagate, and you have taken it as an opportunity to promote an interpretation of the January 6 uprising that has no basis in fact. Well done.

Piotr Berman , January 23, 2021 at 12:06

"Invasion of Capitol" was real, but it does not seem a conspiracy with hidden strings. We know how mobs were use to overthrow government, e.g. in Cairo, Kiev and La Paz -- in chronological order. It was nothing like that.

Where there is a wide room for possible conspiracy is how it happened. Methods of defending key buildings in such situations exists and were used, with success, many times, including Washington Mall. And they were not deployed. Why?

One possibility is "offside strategy" of Association Football: you remove the defenders from the area in front of the goal, and then the offense of the opposite side makes a forbidden move that is otherwise OK. Defenders of the Capitol were practically removed and Democrats got the possibility of starting the political season of 2021 with impeachment and other jolly diversions, complete with the revival of Russia Gate.

I am agnostic about the causes, but the situation was highly peculiar.

[Jan 24, 2021] Capitol riot exploited to expand the national security state that failed to stop it by AARON MATÉ

Jan 21, 2021 | thegrayzone.com
· The US national security state failed to prevent the pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol. Yet instead of accountability, US intelligence officials are being emboldened via increased militarization, censorship, and surveillance. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté discuss the dangerous fallout.

Rather than prioritize accountability for US intelligence officials' failure to prevent the pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol, the incident is instead being used to expand the national security state's powers. Max Blumenthal, who witnessed the Capitol mob and reported on a key participant, discusses his coverage of the attack and the dangers of a militarized, myopic response.

Guest: Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone and author of several books including his latest, "The Management of Savagery."

https://www.youtube.com/embed/583bbAzyv5U?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent


CAPITOL RIOT CAPITOL TAKEOVER MAX BLUMENTHAL NATIONAL SECURITY STATE RUSSIAGATE US CAPITOL

AARON MATÉ

Aaron Maté is a journalist and producer. He hosts Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone. He is also is contributor to The Nation magazine and former host/producer for The Real News and Democracy Now!. Aaron has also presented and produced for Vice, AJ+, and Al Jazeera.

[Jan 24, 2021] The Deep State's Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Re

Notable quotes:
"... "You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with -- its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don't steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned." -- Seven Days in May (1964) ..."
"... That January 6 attempt by so-called insurrectionists to overturn the election results was not the real coup, however. Those who answered President Trump's call to march on the Capitol were merely the fall guys, manipulated into creating the perfect crisis for the Deep State -- a.k.a. the Police State a.k.a. the Military Industrial Complex a.k.a. the Techno-Corporate State a.k.a. the Surveillance State -- to swoop in and take control. ..."
"... It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation's capital to be placed under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or controversial viewpoints ferreted out, investigated, shamed and/or shunned . ..."
"... Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America ..."
"... Seven Days in May ..."
"... Seven Days in May ..."
"... domestic right-wing extremism ..."
"... Battlefield America: The War on the American People ..."
"... This article was originally published on The Rutherford Institute . ..."
Jan 24, 2021 | www.globalresearch.ca

"You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with -- its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don't steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned." -- Seven Days in May (1964)

No doubt about it: the coup d'etat was successful.

That January 6 attempt by so-called insurrectionists to overturn the election results was not the real coup, however. Those who answered President Trump's call to march on the Capitol were merely the fall guys, manipulated into creating the perfect crisis for the Deep State -- a.k.a. the Police State a.k.a. the Military Industrial Complex a.k.a. the Techno-Corporate State a.k.a. the Surveillance State -- to swoop in and take control.

It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation's capital to be placed under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or controversial viewpoints ferreted out, investigated, shamed and/or shunned .

This new order didn't emerge into being this week, or this month, or even this year, however.

Indeed, the real coup happened when our government "of the people, by the people, for the people" was overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic, techno-corporate state that is in cahoots with a government "of the rich, by the elite, for the corporations."

We've been mired in this swamp for decades now.

Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought lock, stock and barrel and made to dance to the Deep State's tune.

Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.

Joe Biden will be no different: his job is to keep the Deep State in power.

Step away from the cult of personality politics and you'll find that beneath the power suits, they're all alike.

Follow the money. It always points the way.

As Bertram Gross noted in Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America , " evil now wears a friendlier face than ever before in American history ."

Writing in 1980, Gross predicted a future in which he saw:

a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or military invasion

This stealthy, creeping, silent coup that Gross prophesied is the same danger that writer Rod Serling envisioned in the 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May , a clear warning to beware of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation's security.

Incredibly enough, almost 60 years later, we find ourselves hostages to a government run more by military doctrine and corporate greed than by the rule of law established in the Constitution. Indeed, proving once again that fact and fiction are not dissimilar, today's current events could well have been lifted straight out of Seven Days in May , which takes viewers into eerily familiar terrain.

American Apocalypse: The Government's Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

The premise is straightforward.

With the Cold War at its height, an unpopular U.S. President signs a momentous nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Believing that the treaty constitutes an unacceptable threat to the security of the United States and certain that he knows what is best for the nation, General James Mattoon Scott (played by Burt Lancaster), the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presidential hopeful, plans a military takeover of the national government. When Gen. Scott's aide, Col. Casey (Kirk Douglas), discovers the planned military coup, he goes to the President with the information. The race for command of the U.S. government begins, with the clock ticking off the hours until the military plotters plan to overthrow the President.

Needless to say, while on the big screen, the military coup is foiled and the republic is saved in a matter of hours, in the real world, the plot thickens and spreads out over the past half century.

We've been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long -- sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs -- that it's hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we've been on that fast-moving, downward trajectory for some time now.

The question is no longer whether the U.S. government will be preyed upon and taken over by the military industrial complex. That's a done deal, but martial law disguised as national security is only one small part of the greater deception we've been fooled into believing is for our own good.

How do you get a nation to docilely accept a police state? How do you persuade a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations, tanks and military weaponry used by their small town police forces, surveillance cameras in their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted blood draws at drunk driving checkpoints, whole body scanners in their airports, and government agents monitoring their communications?

Try to ram such a state of affairs down the throats of the populace, and you might find yourself with a rebellion on your hands. Instead, you bombard them with constant color-coded alerts, terrorize them with shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and sell the whole package to them as being for their best interests.

This present military occupation of the nation's capital by 25,000 troops as part of the so-called "peaceful" transfer of power from one administration to the next is telling.

This is not the language of a free people. This is the language of force.

Still, you can't say we weren't warned.

Back in 2008, an Army War College report revealed that "widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security." The 44-page report went on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, "unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order , purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters."

In 2009, reports by the Department of Homeland Security surfaced that labelled right-wing and left-wing activists and military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) and called on the government to subject such targeted individuals to full-fledged pre-crime surveillance. Almost a decade later, after spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS concluded that the greater threat is not ISIS but domestic right-wing extremism .

Meanwhile, the police have been transformed into extensions of the military while the nation itself has been transformed into a battlefield. This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent's order or not complying fast enough. This hasn't just been happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It's been happening all across the country.

And then you've got the government, which has been steadily amassing an arsenal of military weapons for use domestically and equipping and training their "troops" for war. Even government agencies with largely administrative functions such as the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Smithsonian have been acquiring body armor, riot helmets and shields, cannon launchers and police firearms and ammunition. In fact, there are now at least 120,000 armed federal agents carrying such weapons who possess the power to arrest.

Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that has been colluding with the government to create a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing and inescapable . It's not just the drones, fusion centers , license plate readers, stingray devices and the NSA that you have to worry about. You're also being tracked by the black boxes in your cars , your cell phone, smart devices in your home, grocery loyalty cards, social media accounts, credit cards, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader accounts.

So you see, January 6 and its aftermath provided the government and its corporate technocrats the perfect excuse to show off all of the powers they've been amassing so assiduously over the years.

Mind you, by "government," I'm not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats.

I'm referring to "government" with a capital "G," the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.

I'm referring to the corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country and calling the shots in Washington DC, no matter who sits in the White House.

This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry.

Brace yourself.

There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn't bode well for the future of this country.

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class that they are oblivious to all else, you'd better beware.

Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you'd better beware.

And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you'd better beware.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People , we are at our most vulnerable right now.

All of those dastardly seeds we have allowed the government to sow under the guise of national security are bearing demon fruit.

The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money.

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Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute . His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People is available at www.amazon.com . Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected] . He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.

[Jan 24, 2021] Roosevelt knew a Japanese fleet was enroute to attack Pearl Harbor, but withheld this intel from commanders in Hawaii; similarly weakining of police defence lines was a deliberate action by Dems operatives and their Republican collaborators

Jan 24, 2021 | www.unz.com

The January Sixth events in Washington D.C., depicted in the corporate media as Donald Trump's criminal "incitement to insurrection", were predictably greeted by Democrats and their media as the worst tragedy to ever befall American democracy, the heinous plot to establish a police state -- a coup d'etat, the final desperate act of a deranged tyrant. That might be considered something akin to surface discourse. Framed differently, those events could not have made the Dems happier, for by the time the last demonstrator left the Capitol the political floodgates were opened: total war against an entire nation of seditious Republicans, now demonized as "domestic terrorists", could finally be adopted as full-fledged strategy. The perfect Dems scenario for gaining unchallenged power had been laid.

Beyond the moment of Capitol disorder the Dems would find, without much difficulty, that most precious of all gifts -- a political godsend. Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, national trauma would give the power elite just what it coveted – in this case the greatest of all opportunities to frame Trump and much of the Republican party as enemies of the state, collectively damned to ideological purgatory. January Sixth, like December Seventh before it, would serve as political code for converting national chaos into its very opposite: relief. The Dems, already beginning to solidify power in the White House, Congress, the media, and Big Tech, could now move toward a scorched-earth policy – war of annihilation.

In his book Cultures of Militarism, historian John Dower describes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as "political godsend", a moment when humiliating military defeat ("day of infamy") would allow president Franklin Roosevelt to do what he desperately wanted to do but could not in the face of an "isolationist" American public opinion -- bring the U.S. into World War II. Pearl Harbor turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise for FDR, whose infamous eight-point program effectively provoked the Japanese into attacking the Pacific fleet in Hawaii. In the end, after four difficult years, victory would be heroically wrestled from defeat.

After what was portrayed as a "sneak attack" (military operations were supposed to be advertised in advance?), the New York Herald Tribune could exalt: "Since the clash now appears to have been inevitable, its occurrence brings with it a sense of relief. The air is clearer. Americans can now get down to their task [of waging war] with the old obstacles finally removed, forgotten." Public opposition to U.S. entry into the war vanished in two hours one early Sunday morning. Democratic politicians, joined by a good many Republicans, were now ready to take military combat to Japan (and then Germany), as the attack had given FDR all the power, not to mention legitimacy, any president could possibly desire. Since 1941 Pearl Harbor has been ideological code for unlimited executive freedom, and Roosevelt energetically took advantage.

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, shock turned to resolve, momentary defeat to righteous commitment. Victim status would be transformed into its opposite. Roughly the same dynamic would be repeated in the case of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which gave president George W. Bush "permission" to do what he and the neocons were already hellbent on doing – invading Iraq and "finishing the job" of overthrowing Saddam Hussein. In both cases – Pearl Harbor and 9/11 – national humiliation was mobilized to "reset" U.S. foreign policy.

For the present-day ensemble of Democratic elites – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, et. al. – January Sixth at the Capitol could not have been more timely, more opportune. Truly another godsend. A jolt to the system, however feeble, partial, and ill-fated, would justify sustained authoritarian force across the public landscape. Seen as vile agents of treachery, Republicans would be thrown onto the defensive, immobilized. Pelosi, ready as ever for vengeful action, would say: "The situation of this unhinged president could not be more dangerous. He chose to be an insurrectionist." Trump's behavior (in riling up demonstrators) would demand immediate and harsh retribution. Other Dems quickly followed Pelosi's lead, amplified by a monolithically frenzied media. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shrill as ever and clearly speaking for the "progressive" squad, said: "I do believe we should exercise every avenue possible because the president has shown that his mental status and his actions are wildly eroding at a rapid pace." Trump represents a "clear and present danger to our democracy", she blustered, and must be removed from office as soon as possible.

Not to be overshadowed, Senator Chuck Schumer, reprising "Pearl Harbor" no less, would state: "I have never lived through or even imagined an experience like the one we have just witnessed in this Capitol. President Franklin Roosevelt set aside December 7, 1941 as a day that will live in infamy. Unfortunately, we can now add January 6, 2021 to that very short list of dates in American history that will live forever in infamy." Oblivious to months of fire bombings, lootings, beatings, and killings across the streets and buildings of dozens of American cities (criminality that persists to this day) – all encouraged by the Dems -- Schumer would add, hypocritically: "The temple of democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized."

The authoritarian, virtually fascistic reaction of the media and political establishment was swift and, well, unhinged: the House would quickly move to impeach the president, again, Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and other social-media outlets, Republicans (even those far removed from the Capitol violence) were facing censorship, blacklisting, job loss, and thoroughly dishonest smears. Within a week the silencing of conservatives across the Internet had reached new heights. The long-cherished Beltway goal to destroy Trump, his family, and associates was in sight: any Trump hope for the presidency in 2024 would be smashed. Hysterical threats of "domestic terrorism" would mean, as always, a drastic Hobbesian response: maximum state power, strengthened ideological controls, the crushing of political opposition.

As Dower noted, the ideological code emanating from "Pearl Harbor" included yet another motif: the familiar stereotype of Asians (at that time) as sneaky, backstabbing, and irrational would be affirmed on December Seventh. Who else could carry out such a dastardly attack? The same code would naturally apply to millions (tens of millions) of deplorable Trump supporters – a motley assemblage of gun-toting racists and neo-Nazis. Didn't those sanctimonious CNN pundits always warn about the backward white-supremacists seduced by the guile of the Orange Menace? Indeed. The truth was finally illuminated for every Beltway dweller to seize upon and embellish: Trump followers would now have to pay, their collective guilt revealed beyond doubt amidst the ashes of January Sixth.

So when all the enlightened Dems repeat their heartfelt sadness over the fate of the Republic, over Trump's evil subversion of "our democracy", it might be time to look more closely beneath the surface – or maybe head for the hills. If there were any bars open in the woke Democratic neighborhoods, that is probably where Pelosi, AOC, Adam Schiff, and other sad victims of the Orange Menace might be found gathering to celebrate, toasting to their unbelievably good fortune. Whether such celebrations might be long-lived, however, would be another matter. Fascistic politics has a tendency to devour its own ruthless protagonists.


Sue Dunham , says: January 15, 2021 at 7:49 pm GMT • 7.9 days ago

Thank you for writing this. I am still trying to figure out why Ashli Babbit, the only person shot on 1/6, was surrounded by cops at the time, with John Sullivan filming the incident, along with a Chinese videographer from the CIA's Epoch Times. Sullivan's footage of the event focuses lovingly on the hand of the shooter, until he steps forward and shoots. The shooter makes a very exaggerated movement before he fires, despite having his gun trained on Babbitt already. I believe this movement was a necessary signal to Babbitt, so that could fall backward in sync with the gunshot. She could have been easily restrained and arrested by the cops on her side of the window, but instead she was "shot" by a conveniently disembodied arm. And the only evidence of injury is a very small amount of blood coming out of her mouth.

Crisis actor shenanigans!

My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle , says: January 16, 2021 at 12:04 am GMT • 7.7 days ago
@Sue Dunham ng out of her neck and all over the Capital steps.

After I saw the video of Ashli Babbit's rant on gewtube I came to the conclusion it was just another manufactured event. I was reminded of the woman Astronaut that drove all the way from the Johnson Space Center down to the Space Coast in Florida to be with her unrequited love. All the while wearing diapers the whole time so she wouldn't have to take potty breaks on the drive down.

If anyone else has seen a video of blood spurting out of Ashli's neck and pooling all over the floor please provide a link.

You know, I want to see a video where the blood is really spurting out like in the movies.

Robert Dolan , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:19 am GMT • 11.3 hours ago

1/6 was a nothingburger that is being jewed out of all proportion.

In reality, 1/6 did about ..1/10000000000000 as much damage as the Antifa and BLM shitheads did in nine months of REAL insurrection.

The jewish owned MSM lies about everything, turns ANY event into an opportunity to SHIT on innocent white people to demonize them and instill desire in non-whites to MURDER white people.

The jew media narrative distilled is blood libel against white people.

That's all it is.

Louis Hissink , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:29 am GMT • 11.2 hours ago

January Sixth, like December Seventh before it, would serve as political code for converting national chaos into its very opposite: relief.

Isn't "order" the antonym of chaos?

Carlton Meyer , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 5:32 am GMT • 11.1 hours ago

In his book Cultures of Militarism, historian John Dower describes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as "political godsend", a moment when humiliating military defeat ("day of infamy") would allow president Franklin Roosevelt to do what he desperately wanted to do but could not in the face of an "isolationist" American public opinion -- bring the U.S. into World War II. Pearl Harbor turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise for FDR, whose infamous eight-point program effectively provoked the Japanese into attacking the Pacific fleet in Hawaii.

Roosevelt also knew a Japanese fleet was enroute to attack Pearl Harbor, but withheld this intel from commanders in Hawaii.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1niZil4lNjU?feature=oembed

Buzz Mohawk , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:36 am GMT • 11.1 hours ago
@Beavertales act, the draconian over-reaction of the elite may prove to be a godsend rallying event for the oppressed.

Indeed, when I read the title, "January Sixth as Godsend," I thought this article was going in the direction you indicate.

Events, like arguments, often comprise two, opposing poles. The question is, what will be the result, the aufheben , this time?

In the near term, clearly it will be further erosion of civil liberties and continued "American Pravada" fakery. In the long run, however, anything is possible, even things we can't imagine, because this is now an irrational, complex, disturbed system.

Tony Hall , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:39 am GMT • 11.0 hours ago

Who will play the role of the Philip Zelikow in the "Insurrection Commission," in the extension of the 9/11 Commission into the forthcoming 1/6 Commission?

aandrews , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:44 am GMT • 10.9 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RFpw-ioM3dk?feature=oembed
44:00
" a shift of the tectonic plates. It is happening before our eyes, this gathering of the elites ."

RedpilledAF , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:45 am GMT • 10.9 hours ago
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle

I forget the name of the incident, but several years ago there was a very obvious fake female getting shot incident in an attempted color revolution in Iran. It had cia/mi6/Mossad written all over it, as usual. However, I think they ended up killing the "useful idiot" a few hours later when the plan failed. This incident is very similar. If someone knows the incident I am talking about please remind me/us.

mcohen , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:04 am GMT • 10.6 hours ago

she was shot in the chest.the neck shot narrative is disinformation to go with the false flag narrative which is a great sunny day.

Luus Kanin , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:18 am GMT • 10.4 hours ago

Please don't besmirch fascists by mentioning Pelosi as a representative. A better description of her would be a plutocratic cypriot. No self respecting fascist would be caught within a stone's throw of her for fear of catching the backdoor trots.

Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:55 am GMT • 9.7 hours ago

Oh my gosh, is that thing still alive?! And who is that corpse beside her?

Kolya Krassotkin , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:01 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago
@Beavertales

Quite tame, but Schumer, Pelosi and the rest of the gang are going to work it up into The Reichstag Fire and would, if they could use it to get an enabling act.

Goebbels would be so proud of all the Dems, especially of Schumer.

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:02 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago

We can take this Pearl Harbor analogy a little further. The Japanese Americans were also stripped of their property in a very planned and devious manner immediately after December 7. Jews picked up most of this property at fire sale prices and benefitted immensely.

The full effects of how this faked January 6 "insurrection" was "good for the jews" will become clear in the months ahead. But one thing is clear, the take down of Parler directly benefitted jew owned Facebook (((Zuckerberg))) and the gaggle of jew controlled social media outfits like Twitter and Instagram.

The Japanese Americans were stripped of thousands of acres of valuable farmland in central California. Shortly after the January 6 insurrection it came out the Bill Gates is the largest owner of farmland in the US. Covid and Climate Engineering has impacted farmers across the US (derechios). I think there may be some correlation here too.

There is also the issue of the 25,000 National Gaurd called in for the innauguration. Washington mobilized for war.

Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:03 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago

Will these people please die already!

Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:16 am GMT • 9.4 hours ago

They can wear tailored suits that cost five or ten thousand. They can get hair colouring that cost maybe two grand. They can spend as much as they can spend, but the brutal truth is they are not getting out of this place alive, no matter how much they spend, no matter how much political power they have, no matter who they know. They are going to be just as dead as the rest of us. LOL.

GeneralRipper , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:30 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago

Pelosi is 80 lol

That filthy fucking treasonous whore is going to die soon.

Her Daddy is waiting to greet her in Hell.

Dube , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:32 am GMT • 9.1 hours ago

Let the show continue. Trump will be in the Senate gallery to enjoy the impeachment. Pass it on.

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:41 am GMT • 9.0 hours ago

The people pictured above, are hands down, the craziest of the crazies. These comrades make the Trump administration look like boy scouts by comparison.

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:48 am GMT • 8.9 hours ago

The problem is, they weren't carrying guns. No one was really threatened. They stayed between the purple ropes, those folks with canes and walkers and only a few reached the "inner sanctum", which looks like a library and there ANTIFA members instigated the usual window breaking and were actually scolded by some of the Trump supporters telling them to stop it, when finally an unarmed woman, a Trump supporter was murdered by the police. Only the biggest dupes and people wanting to believe an absurd narrative were shocked. Thinking people were not.

brabantian , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:01 am GMT • 8.6 hours ago

Interesting that the troops in DC are STAYING, their active duty orders extending AT LEAST through 16 February which MAY BE EXTENDED military document below on this

Some say these are Trump troops who will still help 'stop the steal', arrest Biden etc LOL others say that Biden-Harris are preparing martial law scenarios after possible false flag terror attack, or some kind of new economic or pandemic crisis Given Biden's USA troops invaded northern Syria on Biden's first full day in office Thursday, it seems the USA war machine is back in gear and happy to be ridin' wit' Biden

As is widely noted, the new Biden gov seems to be poking ordinary Americans with a stick:
– Biden's tranny orders destroying women's sports and that all bio-males 'identifying as female' be welcome in women's locker rooms & rest rooms
– Biden 'critical race theory' order for white-humiliating 'training', all non-Jew whites to confess to being inherently 'racist' as price to keep gov etc jobs
– Amnesty & citizenship for 11 million & maybe 30-40 million migrants inside US, end to deportations & border security

Jewish Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee blurts out that 75% of USA white soldiers 'cannot be fully trusted' , as if hinting there is a war of the new government and Jewish interests, opposing whites who voted for Trump or reject the 'humiliate the whites', LGBTranny etc agendas

The 'troops staying in DC thru February, maybe longer' military document

chris , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:10 am GMT • 8.5 hours ago

Great summary, though the word 'godsent' implies a passivity which seems misapplied in describing the actions of the beneficiaries of this deep state instigation.

This type of event, perfunctorily (and rather clumsily) tracing a number of transparent stages, which are then blasted incessantly through propaganda megaphones, is absolutely standard practice in all foreign coups.

This dynamic is used to give all the partisans a fig leaf to cover their actions and to provide the next level actors a cue to start their intervention.

animalogic , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:18 am GMT • 8.4 hours ago
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle

"You know, I want to see a video where the blood is really spurting out like in the movies."
Fair enough.
But -- if she died instantly there'd be very little blood .
I have no idea what really happened, but I'm willing to provisionally accept she was shot dead by an unidentified shooter.

animalogic , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:25 am GMT • 8.2 hours ago

"The temple of democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized."
Most of the Dem' – Establishment reaction to 6.1.21 has been spew inducing, but the above quote is just perfectly -- funny.
It is SO over the top, SO cynical, self serving & lacking in irony that hilarity is the only natural response.

dimples , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:05 am GMT • 7.6 hours ago

There are said to be 2300 Capitol police answerable to Pelosi etc. So when the remarkably few police actually there conveniently moved the barriers aside to let protestors into the building, its obvious that the Democrat gerontocracy was still thinking well ahead of the dumb Trumpstein rabble.

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:09 am GMT • 7.5 hours ago
@Sue Dunham staged "incidents" along the path to Lexington, just like Charlottsville in 2017 was part of the lead up to the "insurrection" of January 6, 2021.

Samuel Adams and his Masonic Brothers had been planning and inciting the rebellion (Tea Party, Boston Massacre) from the Green Dragon Tavern.

Boston's Green Dragon Tavern, headquarters of both the Sons of Liberty and St. Andrew's Lodge

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TyRade , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:14 am GMT • 7.4 hours ago

I thought from the title the theme was going to be a far subtler one, not the 'what a gimme for The Left', the line which everyone still able to publish has taken. I'd argue that 6 Jan brings peak Democrat hubris forward so pulls nemesis – the revelation of the red tooth and claw of unhinged, vote-losing socialism – much nearer (say 2022).

goldgettin , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:18 am GMT • 7.4 hours ago
@Beavertales

Good points. Flip the script tell the truth make it happen.
Yet people still don't believe in Karma?????????
What we need to do is stop tolerating/subsidizing evil.
Easier said than done you say?You're probably right.
Hard to get it out there though,most seem TOO invested in
continuing their blissful expertise .
Looks to me that it's finally beginning to end or not

Bert , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:55 am GMT • 5.7 hours ago
@Beavertales

Yes, and there is also the clear evidence of capitol police standing aside, waving protestors toward the building, lining the halls to get out of their way as they entered, and leading them up the correct set of stairs. It was a set up, like what Roosevelt achieved at Pearl Harbor.

Patric , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:56 am GMT • 5.7 hours ago

The writer does not say so though it is implied .this 'event' screamed it was STAGED. Beginning with the most obvious why were the crowd allowed in at all? It's just another of these 'hoaxes' and with Biden in charge look for many more. Didn't the whole 'hoax' method (Sandy Hook, Boston Bombing, etc etc) take off during the Obama/Biden years? As Chuck Shumer said recently "Buckle Up"

WorkingClass , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:56 am GMT • 5.7 hours ago

1/6 was a false flag attack following the theft of the 2020 election. The purpose? To establish Chinese style Totalitarianism on behalf of what Pepe Escobar refers to as Techno Feudalism.

Nothing good can come from Democrats and/or Republicans. Democrats and Republicans have ruined our Country. Why is Orange Man Bad? Becuase the Deplorables defeated both Parties in 2016. It won't happen again. Nothing good can come from the District of Corruption. Separation is the ONLY way forward. Why is anyone still talking about future elections?

The Alarmist , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:05 am GMT • 5.6 hours ago

That might be considered something akin to surface discourse.

Along these lines

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SjbPi00k_ME?feature=oembed

Anonymous [144] • Disclaimer , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:07 am GMT • 5.5 hours ago
@Sue Dunham as a cue to pretend you were shot, if you are, in fact, pretending. So, if the "exaggerated movement" is your proof that it was "acting," then it was not acting but real. That it was otherwise a set-up, and "an inside job" by the same people who run Antifa is obvious. That the police removed the barricades and waved the people to come in, led by bussed in Antifa Judas goats, is also obvious and well documented. You could say all of America, white and black, was shot at that moment. Just because all of the fake killings the last few years by white people are a staged show to incriminate the innocent and create the illusion of "White Supremacy," does not mean that the Deep State does not kill when it serves their interest.
Abdul Alhazred , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:26 am GMT • 5.2 hours ago
@Sue Dunham

Some say Schumer shot Ashli Babbitt? Who did?

Chucky wants to take your guns away, but he knew how to shoot and somewhere on the net is a
better phrenic matchup than this would suggest, but hairlines do speak as well

https://www.sinsthatcrytoheavenforvengeance.com/2021/01/some-say-that-chuck-schumer-is-one-who.html

onebornfree , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 11:30 am GMT • 5.2 hours ago

"For the present-day ensemble of Democratic elites – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, et. al. – January Sixth at the Capitol could not have been more timely, more opportune. Truly another godsend. A jolt to the system, however feeble, partial, and ill-fated, would justify sustained authoritarian force across the public landscape. Seen as vile agents of treachery, Republicans would be thrown onto the defensive, immobilized. "

The author does not seem to be aware yet that the whole invasion was a CIA/FBI/Antifa/BLM/Q-Anon staged, planned false flag event, [complete with a staged shooting], with the intent to demonize Trump and his supporters [and to arrest some of them on the spot, eg Alex Jones and Roger Stone].

A set up from the git go.

SWAT teams came to Roger Stones D.C. hotel room [luckily he'd already left town after smelling something rotten in the air]. Since then his 70 yr old wife was viciously attacked in FL. by an anonymous bike rider [Antifa?] who deliberately ran over her body at least 3 times [she's now under intensive care in a FL hospital, and Stone himself has gone into hiding, apparently].

A SWAT team also came for Jones in DC [apparently], but local police refused to co-operate with Feds to the best of my knowledge at present, so that take down didn't go as planned for the Fed goons either.

Regards, onebornfree

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:14 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago
@Sue Dunham

Ashli died very quickly, You can see her hands going into tetanic contractions within a very few seconds of her collapse. She was bleeding internally through her esophagus or wind pipe and the blood was coming out her mouth. As your heart stops, so does the bleeding.

Curiously this is the second time you have posted this exact same comment, even with the exact same "Thank you for writing this" to start. Even more curious, your first reply and agreement comes from the exact same person who agreed with you then (Jan. 15). Who curiously posted the exact same response he posted then. Are you posing as both? Very convenient, if true.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:36 pm GMT • 4.1 hours ago
@mcohen

she was shot in the chest.

That's interesting. It would explain a lot of things. Do you have a source for it? Has there been an autopsy?

Temporary Insanity , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:36 pm GMT • 4.1 hours ago

"Whether such celebrations might be long-lived, however, would be another matter."

Only time will tell

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:38 pm GMT • 4.0 hours ago
@Peripatetic Itch "throuple" mind games, clearly she has been a lot more than merely "mentioned"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147335/Dead-MAGA-mobster-Ashli-Babbitt-Marine-ex-husband-THROUPLE-bartender.html

"Ashli and Aaron, who served as a Marine from 2000 to 2005, married in 2019 and met their girlfriend less than a year into their marriage"

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:45 pm GMT • 3.9 hours ago
@brabantian

I think that they are afraid that old Jubal Early is pissed off about all the Confederate statues being desecrated and that he is going to rise from the dead, whoop those useless Yankees and threaten Washington once more

General Early and the Army of the Valley Movements Map

theMann , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:51 pm GMT • 3.8 hours ago

I think most of you are missing the point about the events of 1-6. The only really relevant photos of that day are the ones of US Congress"men" cowering in abject terror under their desks, or running in abject terror to their precious "safe" location away from the Capitol building.

This is the very public demonstration of true sniveling cowardice in a manner that cannot be naysayed or denied in any way. And now the entire world knows it. Having been so publicly outed as low grade cowards, we can now expect, going forward, that every reaction of the US Congress will be a grotesque, and violent, overreaction.

Because that is what cowards do with power.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:00 pm GMT • 3.7 hours ago
@Schuetze lockquote>

There is also the issue of the 25,000 National [Guard] called in for the [inauguration].

They did give cover for the abysmally small crowd attending the inauguration. From the pics, it hardly looked to be more than a thousand. Trump had more than that lining the streets when he returned to Mar-a-Lago.

So of course, the "threat" of further horrendous violence from those oh so vicious Trump supporters still hiding in the city since Jan. 6 deterred a full half million of those enthusiastic Biden supporters who so wanted to see him take the oath.

Nicolae Ceaușescu would have been proud.

Realist , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:18 pm GMT • 3.4 hours ago

Beyond the moment of Capitol disorder the Dems would find, without much difficulty, that most precious of all gifts -- a political godsend.

It was not a godsend it was conceived and designed by subhumans in the Deep State.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:35 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago
@Schuetze Why would he shoot with Capitol police standing in the line of fire back in the stairwell?

Winter also tries to make the case that John Sullivan was inciting the riot when there is no footage yet produced of Sullivan doing anything more than recording events as he saw them, which is what he said he was doing. He published an hour-long video and nothing there shows him doing anything physical. He did say things like "Let's burn that shit down" but it could not have been heard by many (if any) people near him and there is no indication anyone else was paying attention to him. He was, it seems, simply narrating and role-playing.

Petermx , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:41 pm GMT • 3.0 hours ago

I only learned in the last 4 to 5 years what despicable old hags Pelosi and Hillary are. They compete for being the most despicable with Hillary suggesting Trump was in contact with Russian President Putin on January 6 to keep him updated on the so called "insurrection". For over 75 years Americans, most often Jews, have called Germany's Josef Goebbels a liar but I can't recall the last time they said what he supposedly lied about. No one can compete with Americans like Hillary Clinton and American Jews like Adam Schiff for being the most unabashed liars in the world. And it's the Lying Jewish media with mini-mes like CNN's head Jeff Zucker that create these deliberately false narratives for their stooges Pelosi and Clinton to propagate. As former Congressman Ron Paul suggested yesterday, no country has interfered in more foreign elections than the USA.

It would be glorious if Trump ran for President again. I don't expect it and I would think he would not want to become a human punching bag again, but I believe he would win if his forces could prevent another fraudulent election. There is no force in the USA as powerful as the media and it's the same in most "democratic" countries. How glorious it would be too if the old hags had enough of letting themselves be used by people like Zucker and Twitter's Jack Dorsey and turned on them and had the justice department put those despicables in jail. Oh, how glorious. One can dream. But that is unlikely and what is more likely is that within the next ten years the world won't care much what is happening in the USA, for the USA is in for a big fall which will reduce its power and influence greatly.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:49 pm GMT • 2.8 hours ago
@WorkingClass

Separation is the ONLY way forward.

That said, Republicans control the legislatures in quite a few states, and the Constitution gives those states plenary power over election law, particularly for President and the Congress. Changing the law to mandate paper ballots and voter ID while eliminating the machines and mail-in ballots would probably expose the fraud and regain the House and Senate in the mid-terms.

Can do both prongs at the same time.

Jiminy , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:51 pm GMT • 2.8 hours ago
@animalogic

I remember the film of the vc prisoner, who while being held by guards was shot suddenly in the temple. The amount of blood forcefully streaming from the hole in his head was both astonishing and gruesome. I don't know if happened because of being shot in the head though, as opposed to being shot in the body. Or maybe the bullet hit the artery.

Achmed E. Newman , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 1:59 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago

That was a concise truthful account of what we are up against again, Mr. Boggs. Thank you.

Even the pundit Ann Coulter, someone I've appreciated being on my side for more than a decade, has fallen for some of this bullshit out of the Lyin' Press in their ceaseless Infotainment. From her latest column (otherwise, one I agree with):

The raid was disgusting, appalling, sickening, but it's not a license for concocting imaginary accusations. Trump is bad. The thugs who stormed the Capitol are bad. You don't need to manufacture evidence against them, media.

Peak Stupidity notes that she lied by using the terms "raid", "disgusting", and "thugs", in the post "Et tu, Ann?"

Will Ann Coulter, even, be suckered into supporting anti-"domestic-terrorism" laws, just as she went for the "fight them over there " crap after 9/11? There are cooler heads that don't get emotionally suckered in by the Lyin' Press narrative. We are the ones they are aiming at with the new round of oppression to come.

Tumi , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:00 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago

" Fascistic politics has a tendency to devour its own ruthless protagonists."
It has already done .Bush or more precisely Cheney to Tea Party to MAGA false prophet of Trump is linear and traces only a tiny distance.
False hope is entertained because desperation and anger demand it . Obama and Trump are two sides of the same coin , Both hurt the believers and the faithful most and did intentionally.

Miro23 , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:25 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago

"Since the clash now appears to have been inevitable, its occurrence brings with it a sense of relief. The air is clearer. Americans can now get down to their task [of waging war] with the old obstacles finally removed, forgotten."

This would apply equally well to a US civil war . It would clear the air, people/organizations commit to one side or the other and get on with it.

Sick of Orcs , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:44 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago
@theMann

Agreed. It was truly satisfying to watch uniparty kleptocrat cowards, who torture us daily with bad laws and invitations for invading hordes, scrambling for their escape choo-choo train.

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:45 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago
@Peripatetic Itch on in Syria, preceded by waves of Iraeli bombings and missile strikes. Iraq has also been under the zio-genocide hammer.

Clearly, the next move in the US is going to be the gun grab, and they will try to focus it on "white supremacists". This is the narrative construction we see going on, of which Babbit likely was part of. During the Trump administration there seemed to be far fewer false flags. I would bet that we are about to see a flurry of "white supremacists" shooting up various synogogues, jewish graveyards, black churches, and I would not be at all surprised if the grand climax was the bombing of a "holocaust" museum.

HT , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:47 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago

Hitler was the only leader in history that knew exactly what must be done with communists. If you allow even one communist to live in your land, your freedom is at risk. In my view, the only thing that will remove them now and thus save America is for a Hitlarian type figure to rise up and ruthlessly deal with the communists in politics, the Judeo media complex, the courts, and academia. He rounded them up in the 1930's and that is the only way to stop them now. If that isn't done soon, they will be rounding us up which they are making very clear.

Old and Grumpy , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:56 pm GMT • 1.7 hours ago

How about all those available resources to fortify the capital since the Big Capital Walk Thru? Were concrete and metal fence producers considered essential during all our lockdowns? Did they miraculously have inventory waiting for DC to come beckoning?

Crescent Moon , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:01 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago
@Abdul Alhazred ian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/"> https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-special-agent-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-is-a-brazilian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/

Here is the best footage (professional) of the day. You could him shooting with the black and white bracelet clearly. Now it seems to be edited out, unless I missed it
blob: https://www.newyorker.com/a36c1f75-18a7-4f63-87ba-73fc37e2aebc

Alexandros , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:08 pm GMT • 1.5 hours ago
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle

Well of course it's fake. It's on TV!

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:21 pm GMT • 1.3 hours ago
@Schuetze every possible misdemeanor in her life, from accusations of deliberate assault by car to restraining orders, to adultery, to her "fanatical" propensity to rant, to living in a threesome, as you say. Her death, on the other hand, is treated matter-of-factly, as if to say, What else would you expect for such a flaky dumb-ass? No mention that she was not armed.

Compare that to what they did for George Floyd. He came out as a saint who had only wanted to be president as a kid. Gone to Minneapolis to start a "new life" as I recall. Barely a mention of his home invasion, holding a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman, possibly raping her.

Avery , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:29 pm GMT • 1.2 hours ago
@HT > der Führer

__________________
* Hitler and Germans were lucky that Russians/Slavs were not as vengeful as Germans' Anglo-Saxon kin, who burned about 100,000 or so German civilians – old men, women, children – just to show what they are capable of. Stalin could have created 100s of Dresdens, and nobody could have stopped him.

** I understand there is an organized, decades long effort to erase that wonderful trait.

follyofwar , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:56 pm GMT • 43 minutes ago
@GeneralRipper especially since the servile House democrats don't have the guts to vote her out as Speaker? And she will continue to be easily re-elected in her far-left district, no matter how senile and delusional she is.

Think Strom Thurmond in his last years. He lived to be 1oo, dying in office. In fact, since women live longer than men, Pelosi may finally collapse for the last time when she is 110, still firmly clutching her gold-plated gavel that she refused to give up. After rigor mortis sets in, they won't be able to pry it out of her cold dead hand, so she'll be buried with it, and will lie in State in the Capitol Rotunda for a month.

[Jan 22, 2021] Structural Crisis- Senate Threatens to Usurp Presidency, Constitution, and Will of the People by Leonard R. Jaffee

Jan 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

By 8 January 2021, Mitch McConnell had determined he would not permit the Senate to try Trump until 19 January 2021 or later. He ruled that the Senate could not convene for special session unless all 100 Senators formally agreed; he maintained that ruling consistently, through 19 January 2021. By 10 January 2021, House majority Whip James Clyburn suggested the House may not deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate until after Biden has been in Office 100 days.

Not until today, 20 January 2021, did Pelosi deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate. The same day, McConnell said: (a) the Senate will receive the House managers at noon ET Thursday, 21 January, when the managers will present and exhibit the articles; (b) at 2:00 PM 21 January, Chief Justice John Roberts will be escorted into the Senate chamber and swear in all senators; (c) the impeachment articles' trial will begin Tuesday, 26 January.

Until 20 or 21 January, the Senate majority would remain Republican; and a GOP-majority Senate would not only acquit Trump but also impeach, strongly, the articles of impeachment. So, why did Mitch McConnell block early Senate trial? Two possible intersecting reasons:

has said Trump fed the "mob" lies to provoke the mob to use violence to prevent Congress's certification of Biden's election.] (b) If trial occurs (as it will) when the Democrats control the Senate, a conviction might seem a Democrat-framed lynching -- not the GOP's traitorous assassination of Trump's "populism" and his political career.

I do not suggest such reasons are wise, logical, or even rational, but possibly real. McConnell is a crafty, dissembling, unscrupulous pseudo-aristocrat, but no Socrates or Aristotle.

"Liberal" and "moderate" Democrats, never-Trump Republicans,"The Squad, " the "Deep State" -- the nation's whole jumble of psychopathic and otherwise-psychically-ill "Elite," "woke," anti-"White"/anti-male/anti-meritocracy/sexually-deviant members -- all share one mantra : Trump and populism are evil, inimical to "Democracy" and the "culture," "morality," and "public interests" of the U.S. Populism must be extinguished. Never again may Trump "hold and enjoy any Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" [U.S. Constitution Article I § 3 clause 7].

Why ought anyone care?

I voted twice for Trump, the second time (2020) merely because he was the lesser evil. In 2016, Trump promised more than a few moves that would have bettered the nation, e.g. ,

Trump meant and honored some promises -- at least partly. But others -- (a), (b), (f), (h), (i), and (k) -- were bad jokes. His Israel policy was evil. He railed against growing impairment of free speech. But his concern was mostly his own freedom of expression; and he failed to do anything substantial toward restoring the general public's freedom of speech. He continued, and worsened, Obama's persecution of Julian Assange and Bradley ["Chelsea"] Manning. Edward Snowden remains exiled. Trump has pardoned or commuted sentence of tens of nefarious criminals, but not Assange, Manning, or Snowden.

Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, George W Bush, and Obama supported the illegal "state" called Israel. But Trump lifted Israel-support, and, concomitantly, anti-Iran policy to insane levels. Trump's Israel-related domestic policy included design of blocking or impeding first-amendment-protected speech and assembly that opposes Israel's genocidal persecution of Palestinians. Trump rendered formal equation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and sought to outlaw the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement.

So, why ought we care whether, after Trump is not President, the Senate tries the articles of impeachment of Trump and rules that Trump shall not "hold and enjoy any Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States"? Why ought we care even whether simply the Senate tries the articles of impeachment but acquits Trump?

Trump's 2016 election suggested a true populist might become President -- not a closet "Elite," but one who would resist the Elites and the Deep State, not surround himself with snakes of the swamp. If the Senate tries Trump and rules that Trump shall not "hold and enjoy any Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" because Trump and his supporters exercised their First Amendment freedom of speaking and assembling to support populism and protest a corrupt election, speech and assembly freedoms will cease and near-certainly no capable, electable populist will run for the Presidency.

But that consideration is subsumed in another, greater, more vital, fundamental concern. We have a federal Constitution. Every federal legislator and judge promises, by oath, not to act contrary to that Constitution. Every federal judge must promise this: "I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me under the Constitution and laws of the United States."

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anonymous [305] Disclaimer , says: January 21, 2021 at 3:44 pm GMT • 1.3 days ago

...You live in a totalitarian state with arbitrary power.

Your government has three branches: CIA, CIA, and CIA. They infest every other corner of your government with spies. Until you can accept this you will be an irrelevant muppet writing bullshit.

Just another serf , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:40 am GMT • 18.2 hours ago

Trump pardoned the following:

... ... ...
4. Every jew ever involved in health care fraud over the past 100 years

If you might be a Trump supporter, just stop. Trump was an incompetent fraud. And Biden (well his handlers really), will be very competent and will soon make you feel the sting of systemic punishment.

Everyone can claim some African ancestry. Suggest you get familiar with the process real quick

Dr. X , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:57 am GMT • 18.0 hours ago

Back in 1987, as a young political science major, my constitutional law professor made us attend a lecture by a visiting scholar on the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention. I cannot remember who the lecturer was, but I do recall one phrase he used that has stuck in my mind ever since: the Constitution only works if we have a "constitutional frame of mind." In other words, the Constitution reflected the culture and the attitudes of its authors. Today, elites in both parties could give a damn about the Constitution. They simply ignore the Constitution when it suits them -- or, conversely, use it as a club to bludgeon their enemies when it suits them.

Today we are reduced to parsing the language of the Constitution because nobody is really committed to the upholding the culture and the attitudes that informed it when it was written. Therefore it has become meaningless.

stevennonemaker88 , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:58 am GMT • 17.9 hours ago

The president must dance to the tune of the bankers and assorted oligarchs who actually control the US. They enjoy confusing the common people with changing rhetoric and theater, but at the end of the day, the president is little more than a figurehead, and the policies remain largely the same. Many do not realize that the Obama administration deported some 2,750,000 illegals.. Under Trump it was only 935,000. Foreign wars? Police brutality? the rich getting richer? Prison industrial complex? decimation of the middle class? endless currency debasement? these things are consistent regardless, because they represent the interests of the actual rulers. The red candidate throws a bone to the "conservatives", the blue candidate throws a bone to the socialists, but the policy makers continue from one administration to the next. The last president who tried to stand up to the powers that be was JFK . and look what they did to him.

Thomasina , says: January 22, 2021 at 7:22 am GMT • 16.5 hours ago

Excellent article. Very well done.

Tucker Carlson said Monday or Tuesday night on his show that McConnell warned Trump not to pardon Assange, and he held the impeachment over Trump's head.

Swampington has gone rogue. I have a feeling that during much of Trump's presidency the threat of impeachment loomed large, and maybe worse.

Look at Sessions, recusing himself and cowering in the corner. Barr comes in and does diddly squat. The Durham investigation was a very long joke.

Two years of the Mueller Commission (when everybody in the know knew it was a pack of lies), spying, leaking, abuse of the FISA Court, Kavanaugh, impeachment over Ukraine, Covid, Antifa, BLM, stolen election ..never-ending chaos.

These corrupt clowns will do whatever the hell they please. They are the law now. If they do end up following the law, it will only be because the destruction they've caused already will be deemed to be enough.

Many of them should be behind bars.

Miro23 , says: January 22, 2021 at 11:27 am GMT • 12.5 hours ago

With the federal judiciary's corrupt or cowardly treatment of legitimate election-result challenges, the federal judiciary has shown it has abnegated its constitutional duty and will incline to commit impeachable offenses to avoid resisting the Elites' and the Deep State's subjugation of the People. The Supreme Court has shown that five or more pseudo-aristocrat judges (two Democrats, three or more Republicans) align with the Elites and the Deep State. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is correct. The People are suffering a revolution wrought by the "Establishment" (of the Elites and the Deep State).

I would say that they are more cowardly than corrupt.

They know that if they supported Trump's legitimate (good evidence) questioning of the election result, they would personally be in big trouble, so the Supreme Court is really not a Supreme Court at all – it's a piece of establishment window dressing – same as the rest of the hollowed out US Democratic institutions.

Real power in the US lies with the ZioGlob deep state and their MSM, the military (whichever way they turn), and the 72 million US gun owners (whatever they decide to do). There's also the aspect of real military power outside the US (Russia and China) that could be brought to bear, and would be potentially decisive. Accepted that some of these are TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) scenarios but that seems to be how it is. Genuine Democracy isn't coming back to the US any time soon.

Avery , says: January 22, 2021 at 2:23 pm GMT • 9.5 hours ago
@Beavertales at, do you really think Trump will discuss anything that went on in private? He is not the type to write a memoir.

And some of the most bizarre decisions he made while POTUS were as a result of "advice" from his favourite daughter Ivanka and her repellant husband. Ann Coulter has an article where she lists the boneheaded decisions Trump made on "advice" from the two incompetent rich-kids..

This short video is very indicative of the stupidity of Ivanka: she is so stupid, that she can't even see the contempt these politicians have for her, and sticks around like a bad smell:

[French Government Posts Video Of Ivanka Trump At G-20 Summit | NBC News]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7yUko1YCuxY?feature=oembed

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 22, 2021 at 3:43 pm GMT • 8.2 hours ago

McConnell must, not maybe, must be the first person to go if the Republican Senate has any chance of surviving in a way that serves conservative interests. He has been positively of Zero support to president Trumps four years in office, only giving lip service to the interests of the issues the presidents supporters wanted addressed.. For four long years, McConnell was an expert at bringing every advance, or potential advance in conservative interests to naught. He however, had no problemo at all in taking advantage of President Trumps popularity with conservative voters, when his re-election was in doubt. Maybe his middle name should be Mitt.

Getaclue , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:13 pm GMT • 6.7 hours ago
@anonymous ChiComs -- from whence In Laws $ all arises . McConnell shows the country is totally sold out to the ChiComs and in fact "governed" by them -- the rest of Congrassholes are about the same with various "spies" working them, having sex with them, and screwing us -- the USA is an occupied country via IsraHell and the Chinese Communists -- very, very bad days are ahead and most in the USA are moron mask wearers who actually believe the filthy pieces of cloth do something for their "health" contrary to all actual 41 Medical Studies to date which state the opposite -- truly Maskholing was an IQ test and the country failed to reach even the level of "Moron". Easy to steal an election when dealing with Maskhole Morons. Sad all are being pulled down by them .
Getaclue , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:18 pm GMT • 6.6 hours ago
@Aardvark you are charged by the Feds you will be railroaded, innocence means zero once you are charged and all the "Judge" cares about is getting you to plead guilty and move the case, you will be grossly overcharged to force this to happen and the Judge will glare at you and let you know he hates you if you go forward -- unless you are a Leftist Political hack or "activist" then you will be cut loose and probably never even charged ."justice" Roberts is the "model" -- his rulings in Obamacare etc. show he has no care for the actual "law" at all -- all the other Federal "judges" follow his example .The best thing that could happen to the USA is for the end of the Federal Courts, DOJ, and FBI -- all are Enemies Of The People -- get involved with them and find out.
waw , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:46 pm GMT • 6.1 hours ago

The Trumpster is a phony. He folded like a cheap suit, as he had done the bidding of the Khazar Satanists like a judas goat.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:52 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago
@FoSquare The works of Plato and Aristotle have had much influence on the modern view of the "sophist" as a greedy instructor who uses rhetorical sleight-of-hand and ambiguities of language in order to deceive, or to support fallacious reasoning. In this view, the sophist is not concerned with truth and justice, but instead seeks power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist

Societies that value truth but recognize the difficulties involved in discovering it also put value on freedom of expression. Those interested in power for its own sake, not so much. Unfortunately the power mongers always have the advantage of moral certainty. For them Alinsky and the Protocols are the only bibles.

Majority of One , says: January 22, 2021 at 7:12 pm GMT • 4.7 hours ago
@Anon olling 90% of the mass media of mindfuckery, mesmerization and mass megalomania and finally, the CIA financed and directed "Social Media", the greatest enemy of our First Amendment rights;;; those nefarious forces nearing absolute control over the federal regime in the Di$trict of Corruption have now fully succeeded in driving the last nail into the coffin of the Constitution AND the Bill of Rights, the enabling precondition for establishment of the federal system.

Behind the scenes, roaring and howling with fits of schadenfreude laughter; the ultimate shotcallers, those OWNER$ of the Federal Reserve and most other major international banking institutions, are rubbing their greasy palm$ with total glee by having pulled off the greatest heist in world history.

Johnny Walker Read , says: January 22, 2021 at 7:35 pm GMT • 4.3 hours ago

Former President Trump is playing his final scene today, making ready to hand over the lead part of a government like reality show to the mentally infirm Joe Biden. Biden, with history of pathological lying and a trail of crimes and associations with other crimes had no actual chance of winning a real election, but real elections are now only part of America's history.
Trumped & Dumped: The Psychological Operation Scrambles to Survive | Jack Mullen
https://blog.thegovernmentrag.com/2021/01/21/trumped-dumped-psychological-operation-enters-phase-two/

Majority of One , says: January 22, 2021 at 8:09 pm GMT • 3.8 hours ago
@Old and Grumpy wn individual of blackmail able importance -- was discovered in one of Ep$tein's logs).

Anyone notice how the Joint Chiefs of $taff for the U$ armed forces put out a notice to all military personnel that they must not participate in acts of sedition prior to the coronation of the Kamal's Foote/Biding administration.? Since the days of their attempted Operation Northwoods false flag scheme to attack Cuba, which was vetoed by JFK (among his other sins against the Deepe$t $tate); the proof was already in the pudding that the JC$ is dirty and our military is compromised by their chains of command from the top-down -- which is the way the enemies of We The People choose to employ their nefarious control system over one and all -- excepting, of course, the Elite$ themselves.

Spanky , says: January 22, 2021 at 8:51 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago
@Mefobills of savvy self-promoter and foil for Hillary. That would explain a lot, especially Hillary's (and the Democrats) absolute hatred of Trump and his supporters. That his shtick worked is testament to both his talent for self-promotion and our dislike of Hillary. Guess she miscalculated

In any case, it became obvious that either the fix was in, when he refused to back Flynn and appointed swamp creatures to fill his administrations' posts, or Trump was a fool. But that's not to say he wasn't useful in exposing the media and deep state's contempt, hatred and fear of us -- deplorables all -- by personifying it in their attacks on him.

The question that matters now, for populists, is how do we avoid the leadership trap?

gotmituns , says: January 22, 2021 at 9:10 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago
@FoSquare

For the most part, our entire legal profession has been taken over by an overeducated, inexperienced crowd of people who are not able to deal in "Letter" and "Spirit" of law. They're prisoners of the letter of the law because their only background is of the spoken and written word.

[Jan 22, 2021] Woman I know was arrested by the FBI for going to the Capitol protest.

Jan 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

Alden , says: January 21, 2021 at 10:09 am GMT • 15.9 hours ago

Woman I know was arrested by the FBI for going to the Capitol protest. She's a physician in her 50s. She did vote for Trump. She does think the hatred directed towards Trump was just insane. But otherwise she's a standard conventional liberal. It's frightening that someone like her was arrested.

The FBI must be looking at everyone's credit cards for plane tickets train tickets gas purchases hotels and meals to see who traveled to DC first week of January.

[Jan 22, 2021] The MSM has been uniformly portraying the Storming of the Capitol as a deadly attack by Trumpists, and using it to potentially justify a huge civil-liberties crackdown. Yet with the sole exception of the one Capitol police officer, all the victims were Trumpists

Jan 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

Ron Unz , says: January 21, 2021 at 9:53 pm GMT • 4.2 hours ago

The MSM has been uniformly portraying the Storming of the Capitol as a deadly attack by Trumpists, and using it to potentially justify a huge civil-liberties crackdown. Yet with the sole exception of the one Capitol police officer, all the victims were Trumpists, one unarmed woman shot by a security guard and the rest who apparently died from strokes or heart-attacks during all the excitement probably because they were elderly or overweight.

Moreover, I've become extremely suspicious of the official MSM account of the killing of that officer. Here's a couple of comments I made a couple of days ago about the alleged killing:

Given that zero details of the incident have come out, I'm getting pretty suspicious.

I wouldn't be surprised if that cop had died from a heart-attack or something, and his death was then conflated with the video of the thrown fire-extinguisher. I'm pretty sure that I read in the NYT that the fire-extinguisher video had nothing to do with the cop's death, and I'm skeptical that there were two entirely separate fire-extinguisher incidents.

As a follow-up, my morning NYT stated that the person who threw the fire-extinguisher in the video has now been charged with "assault." That means it's 100% certain that he didn't kill that cop.

The cop was the only "regime fatality" in the 1/6 incident, and there seems to be absolutely no effort to track down his alleged attacker even though national law enforcement is scouring the country for dozens or hundreds of other minor participants. Why would they make an all-out effort to catch those individuals who were guilty of trespassing and disorderly-conduct without trying to locate the supposed pro-Trump cop-killer?

I think the most logical explanation is that there *was* no cop-killer, and the officer died of more-or-less natural causes, e.g. a stroke brought on by all the excitement

https://www.unz.com/isteve/adl-doxxing-is-bad-except-when-we-do-it/#comment-4413978

Just as numerous people have emphasized, the whole situation sounds like a combination of 9/11 and Charlottesville. But if someone can prove that the alleged cop-killing was actually a media hoax, maybe average Americans would become suspicious about other elements of the official story, and deflect some of these plans.

I think Glenn Greenwald would be glad to blast it out, and he has a large public platform:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is

[Jan 22, 2021] Trump's been deleted from internet, and any one of us could be next

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... It's all been clearly coordinated. The Deep State and big business and the media working together. Police are instructed to create unrest on Capitol Hill, allow "rioters" into the building. The media report it as an "attempted coup", while the social networks remove all of Trump's denunciations so he can be blamed for "inciting violence". ..."
"... They created the lie. They spread the lie. They silenced anyone who would dare say that this is the lie. They have, as Karl Rove would put it, "created reality", and now we're here analyzing it. ..."
"... The precedent has been created. They can ban anyone they want and make up the reasons later. ..."
"... The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. ..."
"... As Trump was on his way out of the door, they chose to make it very clear to him who was actually in charge. Which has broader benefits, of course. Occasionally, concentration camp guards would shoot somebody entirely at random. ..."
"... They are now busily reinforcing and imposing tyrannical corporate dictatorship by destroying the rights, freedom of speech and reputations of anyone still brave enough to oppose them. The last great stronghold of democracy, the proles' only way of ever removing corrupt and failed leaders peacefully, has fallen under their full control. ..."
"... Biden is blatantly a senile puppet president approved and selected by the elites, then elected by fraud rather than by the American people. The leftists who laboured so hard to save us from Orange Man Bad have only saved the corrupt power system exploiting us all. ..."
Jan 22, 2021 | off-guardian.org

It's all been clearly coordinated. The Deep State and big business and the media working together. Police are instructed to create unrest on Capitol Hill, allow "rioters" into the building. The media report it as an "attempted coup", while the social networks remove all of Trump's denunciations so he can be blamed for "inciting violence".

They created the lie. They spread the lie. They silenced anyone who would dare say that this is the lie. They have, as Karl Rove would put it, "created reality", and now we're here analyzing it.

It was a big lie, this time, because it had to be. Because the man – or rather the office – was big. But for Joe Blo it can be a small lie. "He posted child porn" or "He was spreading hate" or "He was denying the pandemic" .

The precedent has been created. They can ban anyone they want and make up the reasons later.

Frank Zappa famously said :

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Well, we've been shown the wall, and we're being encouraged to cheer because the first person to run into it was Donald Trump. Rather predictably, millions have fallen for it.


Emily Durron , Jan 16, 2021 8:48 PM

As Trump was on his way out of the door, they chose to make it very clear to him who was actually in charge. Which has broader benefits, of course. Occasionally, concentration camp guards would shoot somebody entirely at random. The reason? "Pour encourager les autres". Politicians and hopeful politicians have been served notice to stay on the reservation. And that's that. No more aberrations will be allowed.

Thomas Tschoepke , Jan 16, 2021 2:30 PM

Watch the movie "Wag the Dog" and it would be enough

I_left_the_left , Jan 17, 2021 1:44 PM

Leftists and ex-leftists like me have long hated and opposed 'the system', especially the US state and its long, bloody record of corruption and military intervention for the benefit of the military-industrial complex, not for the American workers forced to fund the US state, and who naively offered their sons to die in the endless foreign wars the witless politicians approved. But the system tricked the hugely influential leftist movement into thinking Trump embodied the US system they hated, rather than threaten it. Blinded by mass-manufactured hate, leftists just couldn't and still can't see that Trump, the DC outsider and the greatest anti-politician of our time, was their key ally and asset against the corrupt system and mega-rich political class Trump famously called 'the swamp', and which Americans elected him to drain. The tragedy is that leftist hysteria and hate have been fundamental to ruining Trump's epic rescue mission for US democracy, and for ensuring the survival of the political elites and big tech corporate power we all hate.

They are now busily reinforcing and imposing tyrannical corporate dictatorship by destroying the rights, freedom of speech and reputations of anyone still brave enough to oppose them. The last great stronghold of democracy, the proles' only way of ever removing corrupt and failed leaders peacefully, has fallen under their full control.

Biden is blatantly a senile puppet president approved and selected by the elites, then elected by fraud rather than by the American people. The leftists who laboured so hard to save us from Orange Man Bad have only saved the corrupt power system exploiting us all.

[Jan 22, 2021] The pot calling the cattle black again: Senate Dems File Ethics Complaint Against Cruz, Hawley For Objecting To Electoral Results

Look how perfectly applicable is the phase "The complaint wants the Ethics Committee to investigate whether Cruz and Hawley failed to "[p]ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department," to key Russiagaters
Notable quotes:
"... they "engaged in criminal conduct, or unethical or improper behavior." ..."
"... The Democratic Senators are also asking the Ethics Committee to "offer recommendations for strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts uncovered." ..."
"... Its as if democrats didnt spend 4 years and millions of dollars questioning the validity of the prevous election. ..."
Jan 22, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The complaint wants the Ethics Committee to investigate whether Cruz and Hawley failed to "[p]ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department," or if they engaged in "improper conduct reflecting on the Senate" linked to the January 6 Capitol 'riot.'

The Democratic senators also outlined several questions they believed should be probed as part of an Ethics Committee investigation including if they were in touch with coordinators for the rally , if they encouraged any "insurrectionist" acts or if they "engaged in criminal conduct, or unethical or improper behavior."

"While it was within Senators' rights to object to the electors, the conduct of Senators Cruz and Hawley, and potentially others, went beyond that," they wrote in the letter to Ethics Committee leadership.

Cruz and Hawley, two potential 2024 presidential contenders, have denounced the mob that breached the Capitol but they've also stood by their decisions to object to the Electoral College results from Arizona and Pennsylvania, respectively. - The Hill

During the counting of electoral votes, Cruz objected to Arizona's results, while Hawley objected to Pennsylvania's results following the Capitol attack, when a group of Trump supporters and at least one prominent member of BLM breached the Capitol building and occupied it for a brief period of time before leaving on their own.

The Democratic Senators are also asking the Ethics Committee to "offer recommendations for strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts uncovered."

Forgero 3 hours ago

Its as if democrats didnt spend 4 years and millions of dollars questioning the validity of the prevous election.

[Jan 20, 2021] The Mob Did Not Win!, the plutocratic oligarchy did by The Saker

Jan 19, 2021 | www.unz.com

Most certainly not the abstract concept of "law and order". For one thing, it is now abundantly clear that some cops deliberately let a (rather small) subset of protestors not only across police lines but even inside the Capitol Building itself. That is not exactly law and order, now is it? Furthermore, it is now also clear that Ashli Babbitt was very deliberately shot by an (apparently black) cop who was then quickly hidden away from sight by the authorities. Not exactly law and order either.

Neither did the abstract concept of "democracy" win anything that day. Many protesters were recorded saying that the Capitol building belonged to the people, not to the people working in it on behalf of the people. They are right. But even if we accept the notion that those who entered the building were trespassing, the massive crackdown on free speech which immediately followed the events at the Capitol is a clear sign that "democracy" did not win that day. More about that later.

So who won?

Well, look who is celebrating and who is now demanding that punitive and even repressive measures be taken against Trump supporters:

The Democrats The united legacy corporate ziomedia The letter soup agencies and their top officials Most of the GOP leaders The War Lobby (including lots of ex Cold Warriors) Big Money (MIC, Oil, Pharma, Jails and Prisons, etc.) The Israel Lobby (especially the ADL -- see here and here ) The Russia-hating Lobby Antifa/BLM/etc The many freaks of nature leading various "minorities" Big Tech megacorporations a la Google and Amazon

The list is longer, of course, and it includes pretty much all the folks afflicted with the now famous Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

Our list looks like a cocktail of very different actors, but is that really the case?

I submit that if we look closely at this list of possible "winners" we can quickly see that we are dealing with a single social category /group whose "diversity" is only apparent. Here is what all these groups have in common:

They are numerically small, definitely a minority They are very wealthy They are very close to the real centers of power They share the same narcissistic (Neocon) ideology of self-worship They are driven by the same hate-based ideology of revenge They don't care about the people of the USA They want to dismantle the US Constitutional order

On the basis of these common characteristics, I believe that we can speak about a social class united by a common ideology .

Now, of course, in the plutocratic oligarchy (which the United States in reality is), the notion of "class" has been declared heretical and it has been replaced by identity politics -- the best way for a ruling class to (a) hide behind a fake illusion of pluralism and (b) to divide the people and rule over them.

I have already written about what I consider to be a US version of the Soviet Nomenklatura , a special ruling class which was official in the (comparatively much more honest) Soviet system but which is always hidden from sight by the rulers of the United States.

The actual word we use are not that important: Nomenklatura , class, caste, establishment, powers that be, deep state, etc. -- they all approximate the reality of a small gang of self-declared "elites" (as opposed to the "deplorables") ruling with total impunity and no checks and balances mitigating their de facto dictatorship. Some well-intentioned people began speaking about the "1%" -- which is not bad, even if the actual figure is even smaller than just one percent. Others used "Wall Street" (as in the "occupy WS" movement), again -- not a bad attempt to describe the problem. Whatever the terms you chose, what is certain is that this entity has what Marx would call a " class consciousness " which produces a single " class ideology " characterized by an extremely strong sense of "us versus them" .

By the way, while I disagree with any notion that the US Nomenklatura is Marxist or Socialist in any way, I very much agree that these "elites" are displaying an ideological zeal very similar to what Trotskysts or Nazis typically exhibit, especially when confronted with the "deplorables" or, like FoxNews says, the "mob" (the Polish word " bydło " -- cattle -- very accurately renders this contempt for the masses).

In fact, they see us all as their "class enemy" . And they are quite correct, by the way.

Their ideology is messianic, racist, violent and hate filled while the members of this US Nomenklatura see themselves as the cream of the crop, the "chosen people", whose "destiny" is to rule over the "dark and primitive" "mob".

This contempt for the "mob" is something which self-described "liberals" always try to conceal, but which always comes out, be it in 1917 Russia or in 2021 USA. There is a weird logic to this, by the way. It goes something like this: " we are clearly superior to the plebes, yet these plebes seem to reject that notion, these plebes are therefore a "dark mob" which absolutely needs to be strictly ruled by us ". The underlying assumption is that plebes are dangerous, they can always riot and threaten "us". Hence the need for a police state. QED.

[Jan 20, 2021] Are You Ready for Total (Ideological) War by CJ Hopkins

Notable quotes:
"... Oh, yes, you really did it this time! You stormed the goddamned US Capitol. You and your racist, Russia-backed army of bison-hat wearing half-naked actors have meddled with the primal forces of GloboCap, and now, by God, you will atone! ..."
"... No, do not try to minimize your crimes. You entered a building without permission! The building where America simulates democracy! You walked around in there waving silly flags! You went into the Chamber, into people's offices! One of you actually put his filthy populist feet up on Pelosi's desk ON HER DESK! This aggression will not stand! ..."
Jan 12, 2021 | off-guardian.org

So, welcome to 2021! If last week was any indication, it is going to be quite an exciting year. It is going to be the year in which GloboCap reminds everyone who is actually in charge and restores "normality" throughout the world.

or at least attempts to restore "normality," or the "New Normality," or the "Great Normal Reset," or "The New Normal War on Domestic Terror" or whatever they eventually decide to call it.

In any event, whatever they call it, GloboCap is done playing grab-ass. They have had it with all this "populism" malarkey that has been going on for the last four years.

Yes, that's right, the party is over, you Russian-backed white supremacist terrorists! You Trump-loving, anti-mask grandmother killers! You anti-vax, election-fraud-conspiracy theorists! You deviants who refuse to follow orders, wear your damn masks, vote for who they tell you, and believe whatever completely nonsensical official propaganda they pour into your heads!

Oh, yes, you really did it this time! You stormed the goddamned US Capitol. You and your racist, Russia-backed army of bison-hat wearing half-naked actors have meddled with the primal forces of GloboCap, and now, by God, you will atone!

No, do not try to minimize your crimes. You entered a building without permission! The building where America simulates democracy! You walked around in there waving silly flags! You went into the Chamber, into people's offices! One of you actually put his filthy populist feet up on Pelosi's desk ON HER DESK! This aggression will not stand!

OK, before I go any further with this essay, I need to explain to my regular readers (in case it wasn't already clear) that I've decided to forswear every word I've ever written, and all my principles, and my common sense, and join the remainder of my old leftist and liberal friends in the orgy of online hate and outrage they are currently mindlessly indulging in.

Yes, I realize this comes as a shock, but I have seen the GloboCap writing on the wall, and I don't want to you know, get ideologically "cleansed," or charged with " extremism ," or " insurrectionism ," or " domestic terrorism ," or " populism ," or whatever.

I'm already in enough trouble as it is for not playing ball with their " apocalyptic plague ," and whatever else I am, I am certainly no martyr, and I have a career in the arts to consider, so I have decided to listen to my inner coward and join the goose-stepping global-capitalist mob, which is why this column sounds slightly out of character.

See, back in the old days, before my conversion, I would have made fun of my liberal friends for calling this "storming" of the Capitol a "coup," or an "insurrection," and for demanding that the protesters be prosecuted as "domestic terrorists."

I probably would have scolded them a bit for taking to the Internet and spewing their hatred at the unarmed woman shot dead by the police like a pack of soulless, totalitarian jackals.

I might have even made a reference to that infamous scene in Schindler's List where the crowd of "normal" German citizens all laugh and jeer as the Jews are marched away to the ghetto by the Nazi goons.

But, now that I have seen the light, I see how bad and wrong that would have been. Clearly, trespassing in the US Capitol is a crime that should be punishable by death. And comparing contemporary American liberals to the "good Germans" during the Nazi era is so outrageous that well, it should probably be censored.

So, good thing I decided not to do that!

Plus, the woman was a "devoted conspiracy theorist," so she got what she deserved, right? ( "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" was the official liberal shibboleth, I believe.)

In fact (and I hope my liberal friends are still reading this), the police should have shot the entire lot of them! All these Russian-backed Nazi insurrectionists should have been gunned down right there on the spot, preferably by muscle-bound corporate mercenaries and CIA snipers in Black Hawk helicopters with big Facebook and Twitter logos on them!

Actually, anyone who trespassed in the Capitol Building (which is like a cathedral), or just came to the protest wearing a MAGA hat, should be hunted down by federal authorities, charged as a "domestic white-supremacist terrorist," frog-marched out onto Black Lives Matter Plaza, and shot, in the face, live, on TV, so that everyone can watch and howl at their screens like the Two Minutes Hate in 1984 . That would teach these "insurrectionists" a lesson!

Or they could shoot them in one of those corporate-branded stadiums! We could make it a weekly televised event. It's not like there is any shortage of Trump-supporting "domestic terrorists." They could use a different stadium every week, deck the place out with big "New Normal" banners, play music, make speeches, the whole nine yards. Everyone would have to wear masks, of course, and strictly adhere to social distancing. Folks could bring the kids, make a day of it.

How am I doing so far, leftist and liberal friends? No? Not fanatical and hateful enough?

OK, so what is it going to take to convince you that I have changed my tune, got my mind right, and am totally on board with the New Normal totalitarianism? Trump? Sure, I can do Trump. I hate him! He's Hitler! He's Russian Hitler! He's Russian White Supremacist Hitler!

Yes, I know I've spent the last four years pointing out that he isn't actually Hitler, or a Russian agent, and that he's really just the same ridiculous, narcissistic ass clown that he has always been, but I was wrong. He's definitely Hitler, and a Russian agent! He is certainly not just a pathetic old huckster without a single powerful ally in Washington who could not stage an actual coup if Putin nuked every blue state on the map.

No, I soil myself in fear before his awesome power. Never mind that he's just been banned by Facebook , Twitter , and numerous other corporate platforms , and made a fool of by the corporate media, the international political establishment, the Intelligence agencies, and the rest of GloboCap since the day he took the oath of office.

Forget the fact that, although he holds the nuclear launch codes in his tiny little hands and is Commander in Chief of the US military, the most he could do to challenge his removal was file a buttload of hopeless lawsuits and sit around in the Oval Office eating cheeseburgers and tweeting into the night.

No, none of that means a thing, not when he still has the power to "embolden" a few dozen pissed-off Americans to storm ( or calmly walk ) into the Capitol and take selfies sitting in the Vice President's Chair!

Look, the point is, I hate him. And I hate his supporters. I hate everyone who doesn't hate him and his supporters. I hate everyone who won't wear a mask. I hate the Republicans. I hate the Russians. I hate everyone who won't get the vaccine. My God do I hate them! I am so full of hatred and mindless rage that it is making me crazy. I am so consumed with self-righteous hatred, propaganda, and manufactured hysteria that, if Rachel Maddow, or Chris Hayes, or whoever, told me that it was time to round them all up, these "domestic terrorists," these "insurrectionists," these "conspiracy theorists," these "anti-mask extremists" (and anyone else who won't obey us), and put them on trains and send them to camps, I'd probably be OK with that.

How am I doing, liberals? Am I back in the club? Because, I get it. I swear! I'm cured! Praise God! I'm ready to pitch in and do my part. I believe in GloboCap's final victory! I'm willing to work, if our leaders order me, ten, twelve, or fourteen hours a day, and give all I have for GloboCap victory! I am ready for total ideological war an ideological war more total and radical than anything I can even imagine!

Sure, our imaginary enemies are formidable (and this war will probably last forever or at least until the end of global capitalism), but, in the words of one our greatest liberal heroes, George W. Bush, "bring it on!"

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CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23 , is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volume I of his Consent Factory Essays is published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .

[Jan 20, 2021] The article estimates that the numbers who attended the rally were in the range of 150,000 to 300,000.

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Jen , Jan 20 2021 0:04 utc | 57

The Saker has posted an article "What Is To Be Done?" which shows what is apparently the only image of the size of the crowd that attended the Save America rally at President's Park in Washington DC, in support of outgoing President Donald Trump, on 6 January 2021. The image was taken by a journalist affiliated with an Asian media publication.

The article estimates that the numbers who attended the rally were in the range of 150,000 to 300,000.

These articles (see here and here ) state that "thousands" attended the rally on 7 January 2021.

If what The Saker and the other sources whose articles I linked to are correct, then we do not need to wonder why 26,000 National Guard members were needed to safeguard Joe Biden's inauguration.

[Jan 20, 2021] No one is doing threat analysis. This is a pure demonstration of force by neoliberal elite to frighten the opponents of the regime

Jan 19, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

VietnamVet , 19 January 2021 at 11:32 PM

Colonel,

The USA is facing an existential crisis. This month is the thirtieth anniversary of Desert Storm's first invasion of Iraq. Eight tours overseas and two in combat zones in the Air Force can't help but mess with one's head.

The closure of DC and 25,000 National Guard soldiers but no regular army troops guarding the inaugural is weird. No one is doing threat analysis. National Guard units are deployed overseas too. This appears to be to tamp down dissent but keep the Pentagon's hands clean.

Forever Wars, Identity Politics and the Wuhan Coronavirus have brought things to a head. The only way to fight the war against the virus, end the economic depression, short-circuit unrest, and live in a multi-polar world as a 50-state nation is to restore the Constitution and government by and for the people.

This appears not to be an option anymore.

[Jan 20, 2021] Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

vk , Jan 19 2021 11:47 utc | 139

Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks

The nation's military has a history of downplaying white nationalism and right-wing activism, but the siege of the Capitol has created a new urgency for dealing with them.

I mean they will try.

But, ultimately, they won't succeed. The Pentagon simply wouldn't have enough recruits if they did go all in with this purge.

I still stick with my prediction: the USA will enter a "Byzantine Era", marked by economic, geopolitical decline (more Pacific/West Coast oriented), and by a cultural shift to religious fundamentalism at least in its armed forces.

[Jan 20, 2021] The Military Industrial Complex's Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes

Jan 20, 2021 | www.mintpressnews.com

No doubt about it: the coup d'etat was successful. That January 6 attempt by so-called insurrectionists to overturn the election results was not the real coup, however. Those who answered President Trump's call to march on the Capitol were merely the fall guys, manipulated into creating the perfect crisis for the Deep State -- a.k.a. the Police State a.k.a. the Military Industrial Complex a.k.a. the Techno-Corporate State a.k.a. the Surveillance State -- to swoop in and take control.

It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation's capital to be placed under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or controversial viewpoints ferreted out, investigated, shamed and/or shunned .

This new order didn't emerge into being this week, or this month, or even this year, however.

Indeed, the real coup happened when our government "of the people, by the people, for the people" was overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic, techno-corporate state that is in cahoots with a government "of the rich, by the elite, for the corporations."

Unpacking the Aftermath of Trump's Coup Attempt With Brian Becker Dan Cohen is joined by the host of The Socialist Program Brian Becker to discuss what we know about Trump's insurrection at the Capitol. MintPress News | Dan Cohen | Jan 14

We've been mired in this swamp for decades now.

Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought lock, stock and barrel and made to dance to the Deep State's tune.

Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.

Joe Biden will be no different: his job is to keep the Deep State in power.

Step away from the cult of personality politics and you'll find that beneath the power suits, they're all alike.

Follow the money. It always points the way.

As Bertram Gross noted in Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America , " evil now wears a friendlier face than ever before in American history ."

Writing in 1980, Gross predicted a future in which he saw:

a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or military invasion "

This stealthy, creeping, silent coup that Gross prophesied is the same danger that writer Rod Serling envisioned in the 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May , a clear warning to beware of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation's security.

Incredibly enough, almost 60 years later, we find ourselves hostages to a government run more by military doctrine and corporate greed than by the rule of law established in the Constitution. Indeed, proving once again that fact and fiction are not dissimilar, today's current events could well have been lifted straight out of Seven Days in May , which takes viewers into eerily familiar terrain.

The premise is straightforward.

With the Cold War at its height, an unpopular U.S. President signs a momentous nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Believing that the treaty constitutes an unacceptable threat to the security of the United States and certain that he knows what is best for the nation, General James Mattoon Scott (played by Burt Lancaster), the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presidential hopeful, plans a military takeover of the national government. When Gen. Scott's aide, Col. Casey (Kirk Douglas), discovers the planned military coup, he goes to the President with the information. The race for command of the U.S. government begins, with the clock ticking off the hours until the military plotters plan to overthrow the President.

Needless to say, while on the big screen, the military coup is foiled and the republic is saved in a matter of hours, in the real world, the plot thickens and spreads out over the past half century.

We've been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long -- sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs -- that it's hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we've been on that fast-moving, downward trajectory for some time now.

A Nation Imploding: Digital Tyranny, Insurrection and Martial Law John and Nisha Whitehead on the constitutional fallout of the Capitol protests and social media deplatforming that followed. MintPress News | John Whitehead | Jan 13

The question is no longer whether the U.S. government will be preyed upon and taken over by the military industrial complex. That's a done deal, but martial law disguised as national security is only one small part of the greater deception we've been fooled into believing is for our own good.

How do you get a nation to docilely accept a police state? How do you persuade a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations, tanks and military weaponry used by their small town police forces, surveillance cameras in their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted blood draws at drunk driving checkpoints, whole body scanners in their airports, and government agents monitoring their communications?

Try to ram such a state of affairs down the throats of the populace, and you might find yourself with a rebellion on your hands. Instead, you bombard them with constant color-coded alerts, terrorize them with shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and sell the whole package to them as being for their best interests.

This present military occupation of the nation's capital by 25,000 troops as part of the so-called "peaceful" transfer of power from one administration to the next is telling.

This is not the language of a free people. This is the language of force.

Still, you can't say we weren't warned.

Back in 2008, an Army War College report revealed that "widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security." The 44-page report went on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, "unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order , purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters."

In 2009, reports by the Department of Homeland Security surfaced that labeled right-wing and left-wing activists and military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) and called on the government to subject such targeted individuals to full-fledged pre-crime surveillance. Almost a decade later, after spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS concluded that the greater threat is not ISIS but domestic right-wing extremism .

Meanwhile, the police have been transformed into extensions of the military while the nation itself has been transformed into a battlefield. This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent's order or not complying fast enough. This hasn't just been happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It's been happening all across the country.

And then you've got the government, which has been steadily amassing an arsenal of military weapons for use domestically and equipping and training their "troops" for war. Even government agencies with largely administrative functions such as the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Smithsonian have been acquiring body armor, riot helmets and shields, cannon launchers and police firearms and ammunition. In fact, there are now at least 120,000 armed federal agents carrying such weapons who possess the power to arrest.

Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that has been colluding with the government to create a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing and inescapable . It's not just the drones, fusion centers , license plate readers, stingray devices and the NSA that you have to worry about. You're also being tracked by the black boxes in your cars , your cell phone, smart devices in your home, grocery loyalty cards, social media accounts, credit cards, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader accounts.

What If Jesus Had Been Born in the American Police State? Today, Jesus' anti-government views would certainly have resulted in him being labeled a domestic extremist by law enforcement agencies. MintPress News | John Whitehead | Dec 22, 2020

So you see, January 6 and its aftermath provided the government and its corporate technocrats the perfect excuse to show off all of the powers they've been amassing so assiduously over the years.

Mind you, by "government," I'm not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats.

I'm referring to "government" with a capital "G," the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.

I'm referring to the corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country and calling the shots in Washington DC, no matter who sits in the White House.

This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry.

Brace yourself.

There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn't bode well for the future of this country.

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class that they are oblivious to all else, you'd better beware.

Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you'd better beware.

And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you'd better beware.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People , we are at our most vulnerable right now.

All of those dastardly seeds we have allowed the government to sow under the guise of national security are bearing demon fruit.

The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money.

Feature photo | Two White House Marine stand at the front doors at the US Capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. The door was damaged from last week's violent protest. Jim Lo Scalzo | Pool via AP

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His books Battlefield America: The War on the American People and A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State are available online at www.amazon.com . He can be contacted at [email protected] . Click here to read more of John Whitehead's commentaries.

[Jan 20, 2021] Biden will technically be President , so it's time to ask ourselves what kind of world are we in for?

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... If not for the "new normal" we 100% would guarantee a new war – or a restarted old war – within a year. As it stands, we're only 60% sure they'll be some kind of military intervention sometime soon (Venezuela wouldn't be a surprise). ..."
"... The real crackdowns are going to be domestic. There is a huge push to take "domestic terrorism" seriously , and that will go hand-in-hand with increased purges of social media (again with "Russian disinformation" playing a major role). ..."
"... I wonder if the military occupation was designed to disguise the total lack of support, given the evidence of election fraud. You couldn't get more emptiness and virtual absence of reality if the military conducted the installation in a bunker in the dying days of the Reich. ..."
"... Another poster said it looked like a junta in a minor banana dictatorship. Spot on. It was a military installation visually and in a political sense for there were no people. ..."
Jan 20, 2021 | off-guardian.org

This particular inauguration is going to look a lot different from all the others – the twin bogus narratives of coronavirus and the "attempted coup" on January 6th have forced, FORCED, capitol city into an almost Martial Law-like standing.

A heavy troop presence as your leader is sworn in is one of the hallmarks of legitimacy, you understand. And not even slightly a sign of power being seized illegitimately.

That said, Biden will technically be "President", so it's time to ask ourselves – what kind of world are we in for?

For one thing, it's possible they are preparing to sideline the covid "pandemic" narrative , as the mayor of Chicago and governor of New York have both said that lockdowns need to end, and a report has been published saying lockdowns don't work.

Internationally it's likely to be business as usual. If you look at his cabinet choices, from Victoria Nuland to Samantha power , we have a LOT of warmongers who bleat about America's "responsibility to protect". While politicians and pundits are already rebuking Trump & Johnson for failing in US/UK's "moral leadership" of the world, or praising Biden for his plans to "counter Russian disinformation".

If not for the "new normal" we 100% would guarantee a new war – or a restarted old war – within a year. As it stands, we're only 60% sure they'll be some kind of military intervention sometime soon (Venezuela wouldn't be a surprise).

The real crackdowns are going to be domestic. There is a huge push to take "domestic terrorism" seriously , and that will go hand-in-hand with increased purges of social media (again with "Russian disinformation" playing a major role).

The big question is whether the inauguration will go off smoothly, or they'll try another manufactured incident to sell that agenda.

How do you think President Creepy Uncle Joe is going to shape our world? How long before, for whatever reason, Kamala Harris replaces him? Will the pandemic be "solved"? Will we have a new war? Discuss below.

Jan 21, 2021 2:24 AM

Washington DC was empty except for the troops. Windblown streets. Jason Goodman did his walkabout could not even get a distant view of the Capitol. It's as if no one voted for Biden: no supporters even tried to attend the inauguration. You would have expected someone a few diehards who hadn't heard about the military occupation.

I wonder if the military occupation was designed to disguise the total lack of support, given the evidence of election fraud. You couldn't get more emptiness and virtual absence of reality if the military conducted the installation in a bunker in the dying days of the Reich.

Another poster said it looked like a junta in a minor banana dictatorship. Spot on. It was a military installation visually and in a political sense for there were no people.

An inauguration of the leader of a nation cannot be legitimate if the people play no part .

Celebrities cheered with exaggerated leering grins and lockjaw, tongues lolling in a vain caricature of support from the class of paid actors.

The term 'State Actor' has a new meaning today. The Corporatist Media could not recognise its own banality. This was like the USSR Actors' Union huddling and fawning around Secretary General Brezhnev as the Soviet Union teetered to collapse.

Social cretinism is the best one can say about this sorry debacle but I fear it is something much, much worse.

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Disillusioned Peasant , Jan 21, 2021 2:38 AM Reply to theobalt

Agreed, Trump was used as a puppet to shame anybody who questions the narrative or resists the deep state. He was asked to be a cartoon, a ridiculous exaggeration of a "traditionalist" or "nationalist" to forever tarnish that stance. He was basically the Alex Jones president .the ultimate controlled opposition. A clown.

I'm so embarrassed I fell for it in 2016. Of COURSE he was phony. Jan 21, 2021 1:39 AM

The snake as a new head. It's still the same snake. It still crawls on it's belly and it still spits the same lies on behalf of the masters who stand behind the curtain. We could still hear Bush Sr when Clinton spoke ; We could still hear Bush Jr when Obama spoke. Red and Blue are the same colour.

It was refreshing in parts to have an American president who didn't try to contrive a narrative that would justify invading another country or contrive yet another cell of 'radicalised' terrorists. No explosions on home soil intended to be taken as an attack from foreign soil. Nothing in four years.

It was all the more surprising as many believed that Trump was and is a great real estate dealer and TV celebrity who has manufactured his charisma from arrogance and ignorance. He has never been celebrated for much beyond his business acumen in the real estate area and TV. This wasn't exactly an erudite man. Former presidents of different ages were and were capable of putting it on paper in their memoirs. Trump was the sign of the times ; a Twitter president. His reign was punctuated by the occasional flexing of Uncle Sam's muscles with threats and a go -ahead-punk-make-our-day approach to public speaking. Yet still no threats of war. This was an odd four years. That odd = peace says more about the US than Trump though. So, what was his role ?

In 2001 we had the Twin Towers. The most dramatic mass murder and the destruction of the laws of Physics and Logic all in one day. Soon after we had the destruction of personal freedom and the creation of domestic terror. It had been suggested by Philip Zelikow three years earlier that a 'searing event such as a terror attack' would be a useful and effective tool in transforming the future by breaking away from the past in no uncertain terms. It would be the event that nobody dare question, and that would be perfect for creating a real fear within the people of the west that such a disaster could occur any time without warning. All they needed was the right salesman to address us.

And so the Patriot Act was born. The surveillance of everyone in their streets, in other towns and their homes was pushed through as a public health measure and a matter of national security. If you protested you were a ' 9 /11 denier' and 'unpatriotic'. If we went too long without evidence of this terror then somewhere would be bombed and the bomber would be 'neutralised' before we would ever learn who was behind it. It took time to become a 'new normal' but it became the 'new normal'. Complain- you were a 'dangerous' conspiracy theorist; in some states it was considered grounds to label you under the mental health act. Just for asking questions. This was how to protect democracy- by tyranny.

So, two decades on we were ready and primed.

Gates and his cohort billionaire 'philanderers' had been beavering away for decades creating more subtle forms of terror. No bangs; no smoke; no mess. These 'missiles' were microbes and the control groups had been observed closely. From mice, to bats to black people to gay people. Once the results /data became big enough numbers, the bomb factory went to work behind the closed doors of 'Cancer Research ' facilities.

We all know now about the hypothetical exercises 'imagined' by the Gates 'Good Club' ; nightmares of being unprepared etc. They penned in 2030 as target date for the endgame. . A date that will have seen the human race enslaved or culled by their terrorism.

Liability would have been taken off the table, giving them free reign. All involved sank their pennies into the manufacturing of these little bombs. And all Academic Institutions, MSM platforms, and pharmaceutical industries were funded by Gates and Co. Then Monsanto and it's subsidiaries were purchased the same way, and the same immunity from prosecution granted from the damaging synthetic /poison crops and food.

So, 2020, was Trump's last stand. He had his '9 /11'. He had domestic bio terrorists. Then the rest of the world had it. We had the same threats to national security and the same 'need' for a new version of a Dystopian Patriot Act.

This wasn't about ISIS or Al -Qaeda and their radicalised lunatics. Trump had found a new group of Bogeymen. China. He would have sounded a bit paranoid if Russia was blamed for something again. Besides, everyone knows that all SARS- type or flu-like viruses are made in China quicker and cheaper. And the US should know that by looking in their many, many stockpiles in their own Biological War labs they pretend are trying to cure cancer.

Trump decided to refer to the Covid 19 virus as 'The Chinese disease '. Fang Ling Fauci had told him to on behalf of Wong Sing Gates.

He went on to call himself a 'war time president' ( there you go- he got one).

He invoked the Defence Production Act, an old Cold War law which allows the Executive Branch to control and redirect the production and distribution of scarce materials deemed "essential to the national defense. " In an executive order dated March 18th, 2020.

To add another layer to the movie the troops were brought in and all medics were now 'heroes on the front line'.

The script went global. It began in the country that Gates had composed such a hypothetical scenario- America. Hence the 'Chinese Disease'. It was the new war on terror minus the James Bond bad guy Bin Laden.

So Trump ushered it in right on time. It didn't win the election( we were told). Instead, it won it for Obama's man, Biden.

Biden and Obama were the most vehement advocates of Monsanto, Sterilisation, and Social Technology ( eugenics ; social cleansing). Obama was made a very wealthy man for his services to the Gates agenda, pharma and GM / Frankenfood. He was surprisingly racist as well as elitist. Tom Vilsack was their frontman. Biden has already called him out of retirement.

So, given the 'war-on-(bio)-terror ' that was born in the USA and sold worldwide, there was no place for Trump. His job was to let the the 'enemy' in, warn us of the possible 'war ahead' and leave it to Gates. But Trump seemed to have spotted that and didn't seem too keen on the narrative. So, come on down Barack O Biden. The timing's right.. Jan 20, 2021 11:40 PM Reply to Ben

Do not be bamboozled, in SHAM DEMOCRACY USA there is only one party, THE REPUBLICRATS (the WAR RACKETEER CORPORATE FASCIST political racket so corrupt it needs two aliases).

"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

~ Frederick Douglas, 1857

Schmitz Katze , Jan 20, 2021 10:44 PM

„That said, Biden will technically be "President", so it's time to ask ourselves – what kind of world are we in for?
The real crackdowns are going to be domestic.-
Will the pandemic be "solved"? „

It will only be solved when people have had enough of it. The deep state got rid of Trump (for the timebeing-) under the guise of a pandemic. For them and their minions in MSM, government and academia it´s a gift that keeps on giving, with never ending corona mutation fearporn.
It´s totalitarianism, it´s dystopia under under the guise of – domestic-safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4hBCBdutUE

[Jan 20, 2021] Did not Trumpstein promise to lead the march to the Capitol Building ..but instead snuck off to his limo and scurried back to the safety of the White House to watch the farce he encouraged on TV?

Notable quotes:
"... Did not Trumpstein promise to lead the march to the Capitol Building ..but instead snuck off to his limo and scurried back to the safety of the White House to watch the farce he encouraged on TV? No balls to go along with no brains. ..."
"... With his gift for bullshit and demagoguery, he could handily siphon off 60% of the R base i.e. the aggrieved rube demographic and the hideous Chrissie morons. Of course, there would be a bit of risk ask the Kennedy family. ..."
Jan 20, 2021 | off-guardian.org

nsa says: January 10, 2021 at 5:58 am GMT • 22.9 hours ago • 100 Words

Did not Trumpstein promise to lead the march to the Capitol Building ..but instead snuck off to his limo and scurried back to the safety of the White House to watch the farce he encouraged on TV? No balls to go along with no brains.

He could even now form a Populist third party and easily bury the Rs, just as the Rs buried the Whigs 170 years ago. With his gift for bullshit and demagoguery, he could handily siphon off 60% of the R base i.e. the aggrieved rube demographic and the hideous Chrissie morons. Of course, there would be a bit of risk ask the Kennedy family.

[Jan 20, 2021] LOL: Clinton, Pelosi ask "Was Russia/Putin involved in the riots?"

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Zanon , Jan 19 2021 8:11 utc | 137

LOL!

Clinton, Pelosi: Was Russia/Putin involved in the riots?
https://www.foxbangor.com/national-news/clinton-suggests-putin-may-have-known-about-riot-in-capitol-pelosi-wants-9-11-commission-type-probe/

[Jan 19, 2021] Turley On The No-Show Option -- Trump Could Sit Out The Senate Trial And Still Prevail

Notable quotes:
"... In fairness, people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment. While I have stated that I do not wish to serve as the president's counsel, I have spoken to members of Congress and the White House on the historical and constitutional backgrounds for a trial. From a purely strategic perspective, I believe Trump may be wise to skip any trial. ..."
"... First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented "snap impeachment" without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately. ..."
"... Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump's Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an "incitement to insurrection." His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously , it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution. ..."
"... He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris assures us the Senate can politically "multitask" to deal with an impeachment, an incoming Biden administration and a pandemic.

However, the threshold question is whether this is constitutionally one of those tasks -- and for soon-to-be citizen Donald Trump , the best defense may be no defense at all.

In fairness, people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment. While I have stated that I do not wish to serve as the president's counsel, I have spoken to members of Congress and the White House on the historical and constitutional backgrounds for a trial. From a purely strategic perspective, I believe Trump may be wise to skip any trial.

For a notorious counterpuncher, avoiding a fight might be the most difficult decision of all, particularly because he has obvious defenses.

First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented "snap impeachment" without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately.

Even a one-day hearing would have allowed evidence to be discussed as well as a formal request for a response.

Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump's Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an "incitement to insurrection." His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously , it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution.

While impeachment can be based on noncriminal grounds, Trump's speech alone did not amount to criminal incitement. Absent direct evidence of intent, a criminal charge would likely collapse in an actual trial or on appeal on First Amendment grounds. Trump expressly called for his supporters "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." He told them to go to the Capitol "to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women," to "fight like hell" to challenge the election, and to remind unsupportive Republicans that their actions would not be forgotten. It was a reckless speech -- but, in a court of law, it would constitute protected speech.

Despite the strength of such defenses, the president must first decide whether he wants to sit for trial at all. He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left.

Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution states that the sole purpose of an impeachment trial is whether "the president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office." While the Senate can later add a disqualification from holding federal office again, that is only after removal is decided -- because it is a question of the penalty, not the purpose of the proceeding.

The Constitution refers to a present-tense status of "the president." That status is key to other provisions bestowing official powers and privileges, which do not linger after leaving office. No one would argue that Trump could continue to exercise those powers once President-elect Biden is sworn in. Yet a Senate trial would insist that, while Trump has no continuing powers, he remains subject to continued penalties tied to the office. Moreover, the stated purpose of the impeachment trial is whether a president "shall be removed." Thus, the only person constitutionally subject to an impeachment trial would be the sitting president, Joe Biden.

This issue has been debated since the first impeachment in 1797, when Sen. William Blount of Tennessee faced allegations of conspiring to help Great Britain seize what is now Louisiana. Blount was expelled from the Senate before being impeached, so he insisted he was not subject to trial and refused to appear. The Senate apparently agreed and dismissed the case -- just 10 years after the Constitution's ratification, with most of the Framers still alive and some serving in Congress. (Indeed, Blount was one of its signers.)

The second case fared little better. In 1876, former Secretary of War William Belknap was tried even though he resigned before being impeached. Almost half of the senators voted that they did not have jurisdiction, and Belknap was later acquitted, in part due to doubts over the trial's legitimacy.

The absence of a defendant or defense counsel might not be the only curious element in this trial. It is unclear, for example, if Chief Justice John Roberts would be called upon to preside. After all, the Constitution stipulates that when "the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside" -- but the president will be Biden, not Trump.

The failure to put on a defense is not an admission of guilt. The Senate has a duty to resolve whether there is a valid impeachment trial to be held and then whether the constitutional standard has been satisfied. If the Senate does not dismiss the case in a threshold vote, Trump can treat the proceeding as an extraconstitutional act because he is no longer subject to removal. If the Senate were to convict, he would have standing to challenge any disqualification from future federal offices. He could well prevail, and the Senate would have created a precedent against itself: history's first judicial reversal of an impeachment verdict.

Courts have long maintained that impeachments are left to Congress. Yet this is different. This is a question of whether a private citizen can be subjected to a proceeding that is expressly committed to the removal of officeholders. Impeachments go to the status of an officeholder, while indictments go to the status of an individual. If prosecutors believe Trump incited insurrection, they should charge him. However, the Senate must decide if it wants to hold a trial based on a legal fiction: a vote to remove someone who is no longer in office.

[Jan 19, 2021] Turley On The No-Show Option -- Trump Could Sit Out The Senate Trial And Still Prevail

Notable quotes:
"... In fairness, people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment. While I have stated that I do not wish to serve as the president's counsel, I have spoken to members of Congress and the White House on the historical and constitutional backgrounds for a trial. From a purely strategic perspective, I believe Trump may be wise to skip any trial. ..."
"... First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented "snap impeachment" without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately. ..."
"... Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump's Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an "incitement to insurrection." His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously , it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution. ..."
"... He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris assures us the Senate can politically "multitask" to deal with an impeachment, an incoming Biden administration and a pandemic.

However, the threshold question is whether this is constitutionally one of those tasks -- and for soon-to-be citizen Donald Trump , the best defense may be no defense at all.

In fairness, people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment. While I have stated that I do not wish to serve as the president's counsel, I have spoken to members of Congress and the White House on the historical and constitutional backgrounds for a trial. From a purely strategic perspective, I believe Trump may be wise to skip any trial.

For a notorious counterpuncher, avoiding a fight might be the most difficult decision of all, particularly because he has obvious defenses.

First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented "snap impeachment" without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately.

Even a one-day hearing would have allowed evidence to be discussed as well as a formal request for a response.

Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump's Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an "incitement to insurrection." His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously , it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution.

While impeachment can be based on noncriminal grounds, Trump's speech alone did not amount to criminal incitement. Absent direct evidence of intent, a criminal charge would likely collapse in an actual trial or on appeal on First Amendment grounds. Trump expressly called for his supporters "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." He told them to go to the Capitol "to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women," to "fight like hell" to challenge the election, and to remind unsupportive Republicans that their actions would not be forgotten. It was a reckless speech -- but, in a court of law, it would constitute protected speech.

Despite the strength of such defenses, the president must first decide whether he wants to sit for trial at all. He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left.

Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution states that the sole purpose of an impeachment trial is whether "the president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office." While the Senate can later add a disqualification from holding federal office again, that is only after removal is decided -- because it is a question of the penalty, not the purpose of the proceeding.

The Constitution refers to a present-tense status of "the president." That status is key to other provisions bestowing official powers and privileges, which do not linger after leaving office. No one would argue that Trump could continue to exercise those powers once President-elect Biden is sworn in. Yet a Senate trial would insist that, while Trump has no continuing powers, he remains subject to continued penalties tied to the office. Moreover, the stated purpose of the impeachment trial is whether a president "shall be removed." Thus, the only person constitutionally subject to an impeachment trial would be the sitting president, Joe Biden.

This issue has been debated since the first impeachment in 1797, when Sen. William Blount of Tennessee faced allegations of conspiring to help Great Britain seize what is now Louisiana. Blount was expelled from the Senate before being impeached, so he insisted he was not subject to trial and refused to appear. The Senate apparently agreed and dismissed the case -- just 10 years after the Constitution's ratification, with most of the Framers still alive and some serving in Congress. (Indeed, Blount was one of its signers.)

The second case fared little better. In 1876, former Secretary of War William Belknap was tried even though he resigned before being impeached. Almost half of the senators voted that they did not have jurisdiction, and Belknap was later acquitted, in part due to doubts over the trial's legitimacy.

The absence of a defendant or defense counsel might not be the only curious element in this trial. It is unclear, for example, if Chief Justice John Roberts would be called upon to preside. After all, the Constitution stipulates that when "the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside" -- but the president will be Biden, not Trump.

The failure to put on a defense is not an admission of guilt. The Senate has a duty to resolve whether there is a valid impeachment trial to be held and then whether the constitutional standard has been satisfied. If the Senate does not dismiss the case in a threshold vote, Trump can treat the proceeding as an extraconstitutional act because he is no longer subject to removal. If the Senate were to convict, he would have standing to challenge any disqualification from future federal offices. He could well prevail, and the Senate would have created a precedent against itself: history's first judicial reversal of an impeachment verdict.

Courts have long maintained that impeachments are left to Congress. Yet this is different. This is a question of whether a private citizen can be subjected to a proceeding that is expressly committed to the removal of officeholders. Impeachments go to the status of an officeholder, while indictments go to the status of an individual. If prosecutors believe Trump incited insurrection, they should charge him. However, the Senate must decide if it wants to hold a trial based on a legal fiction: a vote to remove someone who is no longer in office.

[Jan 19, 2021] New details about January 6 riot reveal need for full-scale investigation

Looks like some lawmakers were not informed that this is a false flag...
Jan 19, 2021 | www.wsws.org

Eric London

[Jan 19, 2021] The neoliberals uses Capitol invasion as Nazis used the Reichstag fire

Jan 19, 2021 | www.naturalnews.com

On Jan. 6, 2021, a right-wing mob of a few hundred people broke away from a peaceful right-wing protest involving tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of American conservatives and forced its way into the U.S. Capitol. One Capitol policeman was killed after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, and one of the right-wing Capitol invaders was shot by a Capitol police officer. (A handful of others who died in the vicinity of the Capitol did so of nonviolent causes.) Aside from smashed windows, the mob seems to have done little damage to the Capitol. Their intent is still not clear. It seems to have been largely catharsis. They hurt no legislators, and if they intended to overthrow the government, they were delusional.

Beginning the next day, the American neoliberals used the Capitol mob just as the Nazis used the Reichstag: as an excuse to subjugate its conservative enemies and further squelch civil liberties in America – specifically, freedom of speech.

Twitter not only permanently banned the account of president of the United States but permanently banned him from Twitter. Any Twitter account found tweeting Donald Trump was permanently banned.

The neoliberals was able to do all this not only by using the Capitol mob incident but also by engaging in a series of lies.

The first was blaming the attack on President Donald Trump. Over and over, in every neoliberals MSM, Trump is blamed for "inciting" the riot in his speech just before it took place. Almost never is a Trump quote cited. Because there is none. On the contrary, he did say, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" (italics added).

Another lie was the immediate labeling of the mob attack on the Capitol as "insurrection." All neoliberals MSM and Democratic politicans now refer to the event as an "insurrection," a term defined by almost every dictionary as "an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government." As morally repulsive as the actions of the mob were, they did not constitute a revolt against civil authority or an established government. Disrupting the work of legislators for a few hours – as wrong as that was – does not constitute a "revolt."

But what proves the neoliberals's "insurrection" label is a lie is that Democrats and their media never labeled the riots of summer of 2020 – which involved the destruction by fire and/or occupation and vandalizing of police stations, and the establishment of "autonomous zones," which, by definition, revolted against "established governments" – as an "insurrection." The number of businesses burned down, looted or otherwise destroyed was barely covered by the mainstream media, and their violent perpetrators were almost never prosecuted, let alone condemned, as engaging in an insurrection. Dozens of people were killed in these riots, yet there was more outcry and condemnation against the hours-long occupation of the U.S. Capitol than against six months of violent riots.

Then, like the Nazi regime after the Reichstag fire, the neoliberals immediately moved to further curtail civil liberties, specifically conservatives' ability to promote their ideas. Twitter and Amazon made it impossible for the alternative to Twitter, Parler, to exist, all in the name of preventing another right-wing "insurrection."

[Jan 19, 2021] Unpacking the Aftermath of Trump's Coup Attempt With Brian Becker

Ok. Let's assume that we have conspiracy. But who was the head of this conspiracy. It was not Trump... We should apply Cue bono question to all this story.
Jan 19, 2021 | www.mintpressnews.com

The evidence of a conspiracy having take that is available to the public at the time of this writing is as follows:

[Jan 19, 2021] This is why Q Anon came on the scene, sponsored by some real government intel

Jan 19, 2021 | fitzinfo.net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7j4GS2Kt0

This is why Q Anon came on the scene, sponsored by some real government intel just enough to prove it was inside information to mislead you into apathy while they cement power and bide time to create contingency plans behind the scenes.

[Jan 19, 2021] The Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump- Can He be Convicted

Ralph Nader is tryting to sell his agenda. But some of his observations are interesting: "Last week, the powerful National Association of Manufacturers demanded that Trump be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. " In other words neoliberal corporations dumped Trump.
Jan 19, 2021 | www.counterpunch.org

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Trump's business allies and supporters are not waiting for any verdicts. Major corporations such as Disney, Coca-Cola, and J.P. Morgan Chase have suspended campaign contributions to the GOP. Last week, the powerful National Association of Manufacturers demanded that Trump be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. Trump's banks, to whom he owes hundreds of millions of dollars, are distancing themselves from their insatiable borrower. New York City has canceled its contract with the Trump corporation. More cancellations of deals with TRUMP, Inc. will come.

Though verbally defiant, admitting no mistakes, and as usual taking no responsibility, Trump is a broken man, assailing his most loyal subjects including total toady Vice President Mike Pence. Deprived of his Twitter machine and other Internet platforms, Trump will soon be a besieged debtor, a manyfold investigated and sued defendant abandoned by the likes of Mitch McConnell.

The calculus of political survival for the just re-elected McConnell's Congressional Republicans has changed. In the minority, no longer will Republicans be able to confirm corporatist judges or pass Trump-like corporate tax cuts for the super-rich, or dismantle health and safety regulations.

But out on the MAGA hustings, Trump may be a huge tormentor, raising money and wanting to run again. Such a prospect is intolerable to McConnell. That is why he is turning against Trump by declining to oppose Impeachment and signaling that he may unleash his Republican Senators to convict Trump, if only for their own political survival...

[Jan 19, 2021] To convict Trump, the Senate trial, if it were not a completely political exercise, should have to determine if his words at the rally on Wednesday broke federal law, which states in 18 U.S. Code 373 "Solicitation to commit a crime of violence"

Jan 19, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

To convict Trump, the Senate trial, if it were not a completely political exercise, should have to determine if his words at the rally on Wednesday broke federal law, which states in 18 U.S. Code § 373 – "Solicitation to commit a crime of violence":

"Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned "

About 30,000 Trump supporters filled the Ellipse between the back of the White House and the Washington Monument. According to the transcript of his remarks, Trump said:

"These people are not going to take it any longer. They're not going to take it any longer. All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats and stolen by the fake news media. We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved.

Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal. We're gathered together in the heart of our nation's Capitol for one very, very basic and simple reason, to save our democracy . we're going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed, and we're not going to stand for that.

You're stronger, you're smarter. You've got more going than anybody, and they try and demean everybody having to do with us, and you're the real people. Unbelievable, what we have to go through, what we have to go through and you have to get your people to fight. If they don't fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight. You primary them .

Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. After this, we're going to walk down and I'll be there with you. We're going to walk down. We're going to walk down any one you want, but I think right here.

We're going walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country. The radical left knows exactly what they're doing. They're ruthless and it's time that somebody did something about it. And Mike Pence, I hope you're going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country.

So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don't need any of our help, we're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country."

At times the crowd chanted, "Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump!"

Are these words by Trump "strongly corroborative" of an "intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony," an intent that " solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct?"?

Or were these just the fighting words of a politician, directed almost entirely at fellow Republicans? He said: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." [Emphasis added.]

When he said the Democrats were "ruthless" and "it's time that somebody did something about it" he was referring to Pence and the Republicans sending the electoral college votes back to key states. That is the entire context of his more than one hour speech. When he said "you have to get your people to fight," he meant Republican representatives who would have to be primaried.

With no proof so far that Trump had prior knowledge of the plan to take over the Capitol, or evidence of direct instructions from him to do so, it would seem difficult to convict him in a court of law, but maybe not in a political trial in the Senate.

Before Trump spoke, Donald Trump Jr., who acted like he's preparing to run for office, whipped up the crowd saying that Wednesday was the day to prove "if you are a hero or a zero." But he was not referring to the supporters, but to Republicans in Congress who he was demanding vote against certifying election results from key swing states.

Rudy Giuliani, likewise used a strange phrase, "combat justice," but in the context of continuing to challenge the computer results of the election. Trump's people already filed 62 electoral fraud lawsuits across the country, and lost them all.

Whether or not it would be sufficient evidence to convict him, it was troubling that Trump took several hours before he called on the rioters to leave the Capitol and afterward tweeted "Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!"

[Jan 19, 2021] 'Organized' March to Capitol Was Not Permitted, Rally Organizers Warned White House

Another confirmation that Trump is a mediocre politician who walked into the trap. Now he is history. The movement against neoliberalism that was hijacked by Trump also will suffer being branded as "white nationalists". So Trump betrayed his supporters again.
Notable quotes:
"... Investigative reporter Greg Palast and photojournalist Zach D. Roberts have covered the issues of vote suppression and right wing violence for two decades in reports for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Democracy Now! ..."
"... Ali Alexander is a phony who has managed to work his way into MAGA Circles. He is an intel asset and everything he has ever done to "assist" MAGA Organizations created disharmony and violence. The MAGA Movement has always been about non-violence and support for the military and law enforcement. Ali's appearances are always well arranged so that he is perfectly framed by fake news cameras as he calls for violence. Hence, we see him very clearly saying "We're going to burn this shit down". ..."
"... Am I the only one who thinks this riot was allowed to happen? For weeks Trump had been telling his base the election was stolen. Everyone was talking about what Trump might do to try to hold on to power. ..."
"... The NSA surveils everyone. The FBI infiltrates all extremist groups. Are you seriously trying to tell me the capitol was taken by surprise? FFS it was all over Twitter! This was allowed to happen. This was allowed to happen!! Why? Because 2020 was the year that people took to the streets again. Not since Nixon's time have we seen so many people take to the streets. Back then it was anti-Vietnam war protesters and civil rights protesters. Nixon launched the "war on drugs" as a way to control those groups. ..."
"... They allowed it to happen so they can pass The Patriot Act 2.0. Biden is already talking about new powers for the state and police to tackle the threat of "domestic terrorism". The people have good reason to uprise. Financial inequality not seen in 100 years, jobs not coming back, massive personal debt, lack of healthcare during a pandemic, etc., etc. Meanwhile the elites massively expand their wealth. ..."
"... I love most of what you publish, but any excuse for DC not being prepared for this march is preposterous. They new it was being planned even without a permit. They saw the people arriving. And they did not bother to prepare despite all the issues Palast lists above. Trump must be accountable, but Congress and the rest of the government must share the blame. Every large peace march I have attended in Washington (since 1969) has moved down cordoned off routes with police in riot gear looking like armed aliens or perhaps beetles in their armor surrounding the capital. So there is no excuse for their not responding to this event appropriately. ..."
"... ...while the democrats sit around freaking over Trump – who will leave office in a week – who is writing the bill to rescue the American people from a complete economic meltdown. ..."
"... Although there is good research in this article, I find it impossible to determine, at this point, the actors involved. The "protest" and its aftermath have all the hallmarks of a planned psyops provocation that would and has justified the calling for an increased security state that will further erode free speech and demonize, then prosecute anyone who disagrees with the corporate fascist neoliberal elites who control the deep state and its propaganda arm-the legacy media (MSM) and now the censorship of monopoly social media, with the control of reality and history determined corporate controlled searches online of selective if not altered "facts". This is true of all search engines as well as wikipedia. ..."
"... Only Paul Jay has suggested that Trump walked into a trap set by McConnel, Pence and Graham, but Dems are profiting as well. I don't care if Trump fragrantly told the crowd to burn the capitol down, there should have been a police response other than selfies. I don't believe that Trump was responsible for the severe lack of a police presence and until we know who was responsible for that (you can bet we will never be told) we cannot hold those responsible for the events of that day. Trump was an instigator but not the ultimate cause of what happened. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

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The permit issued by the U.S. Interior Department, which has jurisdiction over federal parkland, says: "Women for America First will not conduct an organized march from the Ellipse at the conclusion of the rally." It adds, "Some participants may leave to attend rallies at the United States Capitol to hear results of Congressional certification of the Electoral College count." But an "organized march" was not allowed.

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The insider claims that Woman for America First was quite worried that they had no marshals to keep the crowd in line. "We did advocate against [the march] for all kinds of reasons. So, excuse me , it's not a big stretch to say when you have a bunch of people heading that way, it's going to be a problem."

The first news that there would be, despite warnings, an illegal, uncontrolled march was at 12:15 pm when Trump himself surprised the protest organizers with his announcement. "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard," Trump said.

The march on the Capitol was set in motion when the President announced he himself would join it . "The announcement that he was going to go was news to us," the insider said. "But then [Trump] said he's walking! It caught our team by surprise and unprepared."

Alex Jones stated on his podcast that he and Alexander were called by the White House just before the president's speech and were told to prepare to lead the crowd on a march.

"We had a legitimate deal with the White House," Jones said in an InfoWars show filmed with Alexander after the riot. "'Hey Jones and Ali,' literally, with Alexander, we were supposed to lead a peaceful deal."

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Investigative reporter Greg Palast and photojournalist Zach D. Roberts have covered the issues of vote suppression and right wing violence for two decades in reports for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Democracy Now!


Mark Bradford Benson , January 16, 2021 at 06:16

Following is my comment, which was attached to your YouTube plug for this article. Shame on Greg Palast. I always trusted him until now. He knows the above story is FAKE NEWS and, if he doesn't, he's not really an investigative reporter. There's plenty of video evidence out there Greg. Why did you just happen to fail to do your job on this story?

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Ali Alexander is a phony who has managed to work his way into MAGA Circles. He is an intel asset and everything he has ever done to "assist" MAGA Organizations created disharmony and violence. The MAGA Movement has always been about non-violence and support for the military and law enforcement. Ali's appearances are always well arranged so that he is perfectly framed by fake news cameras as he calls for violence. Hence, we see him very clearly saying "We're going to burn this shit down".

In the case of the first big spontaneous Trump Rally, in DC, following the election, the term #Stopthesteal.org was used by the female organizers of a bus tour across the US. Ali then obtained the same domain name with a different address, #stopthesteal.us" and even copy/pasted some of their original artwork. Before people had been alerted, Ali managed to scam at least $30K from decent people before the scam was exposed. He then showed up and led a counter rally that incited violence at the Capitol Building. He was unsuccessful on that day, because no one from the Trump Movement would go with him.

Then, in Georgia, he managed to show up on a stage behind Attorneys, L. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. After they spoke and left the peaceful rally, most of the people went home. Still, Ali incited violence among a group of trained false flag intel assets and managed to damage the reputations of Wood and Powell, who did not know him. They have since been advised regarding his role playing, as has the President who was once seen in a photo op with Ali, who is known as "Scammy Davis" around Maga Circles because of his resemblance to former "Rat Pack" Member, Sammy Davis, Jr.

On January 6th, Ali again teamed up with Alex Jones, who is also an asset of the Deep State, but he apparently ripped Jones off and Jones has since denounced him. Jones has spoken about this in detail, but one never knows with Jones, since he's a compromised asset and will work for either side to avoid exposure. That's how these people operate, through blackmail. I'm no fan of Alex Jones, but I have NEVER heard him advocate violence and he doesn't actually advocate violence in the video.

I always loved Greg Palast, but either he is missing the story on this one or he is yet another disinformation asset, who will be exposed in the near future. That would be a shame, but we are finding that out about a lot of people that were once trusted. Ali and Jones are just players in a much bigger game, which will be exposed to the world, beginning this week.

Note to Greg: This story makes you and Consortium News look foolish. Perhaps you should go to Toresays or ToreSaysNews on YouTube and find about Ali from an asset that came in from the cold. Her shows are long, but you're an investigative reporter. Take the time to listen to a few of her shows before you start "exposing" Ali as a MAGA Supporter.

Note to the Reader: I supported Bernie Sanders in 2016, with my money and my primary vote. I held my nose and voted for Trump rather than vote for a WAR CRIMINAL who had stolen the nomination. As a former Federal Manager, who fought my Agency for eight years, lost everything and even started a union as my departure gift, I come from the "left". However, this term is no longer valid, since the Deep State has people working both sides of a phony left/right paradigm.

Finally, I'm not an investigative reporter, but I know how to do research beyond the staged mainstream footage, which Mr. Palast conveniently used for this story. Moreover, there's a lot of footage out there and more will be released this week, since there were undercover military assets among the vandals who recorded their activities. Some of it is already in the MSM Greg. How did you miss it?

The bigger story, which is also being missed, is this: Trump and company have just pulled off the greatest sting in history and we will all have a front row seat on January 20, so get your popcorn and tune in. In fact, arrests have already been made and many more are coming. Ali may already have been arrested, but we won't know for a while.

Neil Youngson , January 16, 2021 at 03:07

Am I the only one who thinks this riot was allowed to happen? For weeks Trump had been telling his base the election was stolen. Everyone was talking about what Trump might do to try to hold on to power.

The NSA surveils everyone. The FBI infiltrates all extremist groups. Are you seriously trying to tell me the capitol was taken by surprise? FFS it was all over Twitter! This was allowed to happen. This was allowed to happen!! Why? Because 2020 was the year that people took to the streets again. Not since Nixon's time have we seen so many people take to the streets. Back then it was anti-Vietnam war protesters and civil rights protesters. Nixon launched the "war on drugs" as a way to control those groups.

The one thing the establishment fears the most is the people taking to the streets and building guillotines (ask the French).

They allowed it to happen so they can pass The Patriot Act 2.0. Biden is already talking about new powers for the state and police to tackle the threat of "domestic terrorism". The people have good reason to uprise. Financial inequality not seen in 100 years, jobs not coming back, massive personal debt, lack of healthcare during a pandemic, etc., etc. Meanwhile the elites massively expand their wealth.

It's a class struggle. Don't fall into the trap of blaming Trump, the whole establishment is your enemy.

Judith Bello , January 15, 2021 at 21:46

I love most of what you publish, but any excuse for DC not being prepared for this march is preposterous. They new it was being planned even without a permit. They saw the people arriving. And they did not bother to prepare despite all the issues Palast lists above. Trump must be accountable, but Congress and the rest of the government must share the blame. Every large peace march I have attended in Washington (since 1969) has moved down cordoned off routes with police in riot gear looking like armed aliens or perhaps beetles in their armor surrounding the capital. So there is no excuse for their not responding to this event appropriately.

Apparently there were such severe threats on social media that the tech giants felt compelled to actually take down Parler, one of the sites where the protesters congregated. But they knew about this in advance, and far more planning went on in google and facebook groups. So, Trump was out of line, but the rest of the DC establishment made a decision to take advantage of this moment of excess rather than contain it...

...while the democrats sit around freaking over Trump – who will leave office in a week – who is writing the bill to rescue the American people from a complete economic meltdown. Who is minding the affairs of state. Who is addressing the real problems that have incited riots on both the left and right by desperate people? Not congress. And the blogosphere is drowning in Trump Trump Trump Trump . Trump Trump Trump Trump well, you get it.

Charles Cox , January 15, 2021 at 18:54

Although there is good research in this article, I find it impossible to determine, at this point, the actors involved. The "protest" and its aftermath have all the hallmarks of a planned psyops provocation that would and has justified the calling for an increased security state that will further erode free speech and demonize, then prosecute anyone who disagrees with the corporate fascist neoliberal elites who control the deep state and its propaganda arm-the legacy media (MSM) and now the censorship of monopoly social media, with the control of reality and history determined corporate controlled searches online of selective if not altered "facts". This is true of all search engines as well as wikipedia.

Jhoblho , January 15, 2021 at 15:00

Only Paul Jay has suggested that Trump walked into a trap set by McConnel, Pence and Graham, but Dems are profiting as well. I don't care if Trump fragrantly told the crowd to burn the capitol down, there should have been a police response other than selfies. I don't believe that Trump was responsible for the severe lack of a police presence and until we know who was responsible for that (you can bet we will never be told) we cannot hold those responsible for the events of that day. Trump was an instigator but not the ultimate cause of what happened.

[Jan 19, 2021] DOJ Now Says There Was No Plot to Kill Elected Officials

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Jan 19, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

T he U.S. Justice Department has reversed an earlier assertion in court by prosecutors that protestors who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 had plans to "capture and assassinate elected officials."

Instead, the head of the DOJ investigation into the Capitol siege admitted that federal prosecutors filed a misleading statement before a federal judge in Arizona that was intended to prevent Jacob Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, from being released on bail.

The DOJ said that though there were calls to kill officials during the two-hour takeover of the Capitol, no evidence has been discovered yet to prove any serious effort to carry out such a plan.

"There is no direct evidence at this point of kill-capture teams and assassination," Michael Sherwin, the Washington DC federal district attorney running the investigation of the attack, told reporters, Agence France-Presse reported. Sherwin said it may be "appropriate" to raise it at trial, but at this point it could "mislead the court."

The original story of intentions to kill officials has entered the media discourse and is likely to remain a Democratic talking point despite the DOJ reversal. The only major media outlets that reported the new story is NBC News and The Washington Post . It has not appeared in The New York Times or on CNN's website, for instance.

Having saturated the public with days of lurid tales of intentions to hang Vice President Mike Pence and abduct House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it will be hard to shake such beliefs without reporting the DOJ's reversal with the same intensity.

The original statement filed in court said: "Strong evidence, including Chansley's own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials of the United States government."

There has been no suggestion that the prosecutors in Arizona who made the false claim are being investigated for misleading the court.

The 'Coup'

Riot police at Capitol, Jan. 21, 2017 for Trump's inauguration. (Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons)

The admission dramatically changes the story, repeated as Democratic Party talking points, and undermines the unquestioned certainty that what took place was an attempted coup against the United States government. The new DOJ stance might also weaken efforts to charge Capitol rioters and intruders with "seditious conspiracy" charges for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government.

Consortium News has been among the few media outlets to question the coup narrative from the start.

Even if there were such murderous intentions it would not have amounted to a coup attempt without the backing of the military or paramilitaries, and without taking over the airport and radio and TV stations. These days it would probably mean taking over social media companies too. The U.S. government and media structures are vaster and more powerful than just the legislature.

Even if the protestors had intended and succeeded in hanging Vice President Mike Pence (presuming the gallows erected outside the Capitol was sturdy enough), and even if they had taken Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and others hostage would Donald Trump have said, "Okay, they didn't certify Biden, I'm still president!"?

No branch of government would have supported Trump in that case and the surviving members of Congress would have met elsewhere to certify Joe Biden as president.

New Video Inside Capitol

Chansley, the far-right, bare-chested activist with fur headdress and Viking horns, became the symbol of the brief takeover of the Capitol by Trump supporters. He was arrested and faces a six-count federal indictment, charged with:

Civil disorder Obstruction of an official proceeding Entering and remaining in a restricted building Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building Violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building Parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building

He is not charged with insurrection or sedition to overthrow the government.

Jacob Chandsley/ Qananon Shaman. (TheUnseen011101/Wikimedia Commons)

In a new video released on Sunday by The New Yorker, Chansley is seen grunting primordial chants while playing to a photographer a few feet in front of him in a Senate balcony. Later he seats himself in Pence's Senate chair.

After a single Capitol police officer pleads with the intruders to leave, Chansley leads the group in prayer and then files out with the others, but not before scrawling on a piece of paper on Pence's desk: "It's only a matter of time, justice is coming."

Before Chansley sat in it, the video shows one of the protest leaders, dressed in military gear, demanding that the others not occupy the vice president's chair. He says: "It's not our chair. I love you brothers, but we cannot be disrespectful. It's a PR war, okay? You have to understand it's an IO war. We can't lose the IO war. We're better than that. It's an Information Operation."

The video shows a couple of dozen protestors rifling through senators' desks looking for, in the words of one, "something we can fucking use against these scumbags" and taking photos of documents. At one point they thought they found evidence in Senator Ted Cruz's desk that he was going to betray them on certification, but read further and realized he would not.

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The film is interspersed with very violent scenes of police in riot gear trying to prevent protestors from entering the Capitol.

The last scene in the video shows that the violent protest and takeover was about more than just the election. After trashing media equipment, one man says, "We gotta change it. They fucking abuse us. They laugh at us. They steal our money."

As journalist Chris Hedges said last Thursday, one can decry their politics, the racism among many, and their tactics, but their pain is real in a system that has shrunk the middle class and debased workers.

What happened at the Capitol cannot be condoned. But unless Congress defies its oligarchic backers and serves the interests of average Americans, who also fund them, a real insurrection may be inevitable. Instead of the reforms to defuse that and bring more economic justice, we are witnessing a crackdown that will only further inflame the country.

Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former UN correspondent for T he Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe , and numerous other newspapers. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London and began his professional career as a stringer for The New York Times. He can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @unjoe .


rosemerry , January 18, 2021 at 13:15

It is interesting that both sides of the House and Senate manage almost all the time to arrange that other countries they have decided are enemies or rivals have real "coups" and takeovers helped by the mighty US . Iraq, Syria,Libya,Venezuela are just a few of the recent examples, but they are not "USA USA" so they do not count.

rosemerry , January 18, 2021 at 13:07

No surprise that the "paper of record" NYT did not bother to mention this legal angle. The descriptions I have seen in European papers and in the Sycophant aka the Guardian hardly vary at all and scream the alleged danger to the poor Congress members.

Anne , January 18, 2021 at 14:25

Nor NPR .Indeed they didn't bother to mention the 1954 shootings in the US Capitol (House) until AFTER the BBC World Service had and then a week later


Tim S.
, January 18, 2021 at 12:54

Anyone who has watched the video filmed by the arch-instigator's would-be-journalist sidekick can see for themselves that these were not even serious rioters, much less coup plotters, who were surprised as everybody else about being allowed into the Capitol building.
And despite some toy guns and one man with the slogan on the back of his jacket "God, guns, and Trump), it is obvious from their panicky reactions when a woman was killed that they felt deep down that this was all fun and games. She was trying to break down an interior door, starting with the window, but when an agent inside pointed a pistol at her, she ignored it. When he finally shot her, they all start yelling "She's been shot!" and react rather like a bunch of bystanders.

Does that sound like a gang planning to kill some Congressmen and taken others hostage?

Jonny James , January 18, 2021 at 11:48

Yes, once again the mainstream narrative stinks, and the fresh air is here on CN. That's why we don't breathe the miasma of the corporate media.

The Divide and Rule strategies of the ruling classes are working nicely. We can't have the "99%" get together to work against "the interests of Goldman Sachs" (Hedges). That is not allowed. The rub is that both the so-called right and so-called left work for the interests of Goldman Sachs.

I remember very clearly how brutally the peaceful Occupy protests were smashed. The violent cops used armored vehicles and other military equipment, massive amounts of tear gas, flash-bang grenades, drones, surveillance etc. etc. , Scott Horton was nearly killed by a tear-gas canister fired directly at his head. You are not allowed to work against the interests of the real owners of this country. As George Carlin once said, "they own the f-in place".


Anne
, January 18, 2021 at 14:35

I have yet to hear NPR mention anything about the woman who was shot dead (no weapon on her) let alone who shot and killed her that she was ex-mil (thus trained to invade, destroy, devastate, slaughter peoples, cultures, societies far, far, from these shores what you train for and then deploy will eventually come back home and bite

John Drake , January 18, 2021 at 13:37

Agreed, I find the minimizing of this event truly putrid. What is it about an enraged crowd, chanting "stop the steal" breaking into a building full of legislators , assaulting, injuring police and scaring the ..t out of said elected legislators that is not an attempt to overthrow, interfere, interrupt, prevent a key governmental process? This a governmental process whose outcome they wanted to alter keeping the Orange Menace in power. A flight of ridiculous fancy, no doubt, but still attitude, behavior and intent count.

Just because it doesn't rise to the level of well known coups orchestrated by professionals (CIA): Honduras, Guatemala, Chile, Iran and hundreds more; doesn't mean it doesn't belong in the same family of nasty socio/political events. Can we compromise and call it a mini attempted coup or maybe mini coup-lite? Anyway the perpetrators and their enablers need to major consequences; especially those officials that violated their oath of office.

[Jan 19, 2021] Am I the only one who thinks this riot was allowed to happen?

Jan 19, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

Neil Youngson , January 16, 2021 at 03:07

Am I the only one who thinks this riot was allowed to happen? For weeks Trump had been telling his base the election was stolen. Everyone was talking about what Trump might do to try to hold on to power.

The NSA surveils everyone. The FBI infiltrates all extremist groups. Are you seriously trying to tell me the capitol was taken by surprise? FFS it was all over Twitter!

This was allowed to happen. This was allowed to happen!!

Why? Because 2020 was the year that people took to the streets again. Not since Nixon's time have we seen so many people take to the streets. Back then it was anti-Vietnam war protesters and civil rights protesters. Nixon launched the "war on drugs" as a way to control those groups.

The one thing the establishment fears the most is the people taking to the streets and building guillotines (ask the French).

They allowed it to happen so they can pass The Patriot Act 2.0. Biden is already talking about new powers for the state and police to tackle the threat of "domestic terrorism".

The people have good reason to uprise. Financial inequality not seen in 100 years, jobs not coming back, massive personal debt, lack of healthcare during a pandemic, etc., etc. Meanwhile the elites massively expand their wealth.

It's a class struggle. Don't fall into the trap of blaming Trump, the whole establishment is your enemy.

Judith Bello , January 15, 2021 at 21:46

I love most of what you publish, but any excuse for DC not being prepared for this march is preposterous. They new it was being planned even without a permit. They saw the people arriving . and they did not bother to prepare despite all the issues Palast lists above. Trump must be accountable, but Congress and the rest of the government must share the blame. Every large peace march I have attended in Washington (since 1969) has moved down cordoned off routes with police in riot gear looking like armed aliens or perhaps beetles in their armor surrounding the capital. So there is no excuse for their not responding to this event appropriately.

Apparently there were such severe threats on social media that the tech giants felt compelled to actually take down Parler, one of the sites where the protesters congregated. But they knew about this in advance, and far more planning went on in google and facebook groups. So, Trump was out of line, but the rest of the DC establishment made a decision to take advantage of this moment of excess rather than contain it...

...while the democrats sit around freaking over Trump – who will leave office in a week – who is writing the bill to rescue the American people from a complete economic meltdown. Who is minding the affairs of state. Who is addressing the real problems that have incited riots on both the left and right by desperate people? Not congress. And the blogosphere is drowning in Trump Trump Trump Trump . Trump Trump Trump Trump well, you get it.

Charles Cox , January 15, 2021 at 18:54

Although there is good research in this article, I find it impossible to determine, at this point, the actors involved. The "protest" and its aftermath have all the hallmarks of a planned psyops provocation that would and has justified the calling for an increased security state that will further erode free speech and demonize, then prosecute anyone who disagrees with the corporate fascist neoliberal elites who control the deep state and its propaganda arm-the legacy media (MSM) and now the censorship of monopoly social media, with the control of reality and history determined corporate controlled searches online of selective if not altered "facts". This is true of all search engines as well as wikipedia.

Jhoblho , January 15, 2021 at 15:00

Only Paul Jay has suggested that Trump walked into a trap set by McConnel, Pence and Graham, but Dems are profiting as well. I don't care if Trump fragrantly told the crowd to burn the capitol down, there should have been a police response other than selfies.

I don't believe that Trump was responsible for the severe lack of a police presence and until we know who was responsible for that (you can bet we will never be told) we cannot hold those responsible for the events of that day. Trump was an instigator but not the ultimate cause of what happened.

Jonny James , January 15, 2021 at 13:39

Equal application of the law? Please!

The "rule of law" is something of a joke in this country. War criminals are lavished with praise and perks, rewarded with contracts and cushy jobs. For just one example: Henry K is still alive, never prosecuted – he holds a Nobel Peace Prize for cryin out loud.

Bush Jr., Cheney and the gang were never prosecuted for the many high crimes they committed, let alone the war crimes resulting in the destruction of entire countries and the deaths of over a million innocent people.

Obama and HRC were never held accountable for war crimes and other illegal activities either.

The largest financial crimes in US history were not even investigated, let alone prosecuted. Instead the banksters were (and still are) REWARDED with trillions in public funds and Fed Reserve "quantitative easing". However, millions lost their homes due to fraud, but that's perfectly fine. The Banksters are Above The Law.

Police can murder black, brown and poor white folks with impunity. As servants to the ruling class, police are given special privileges

The equal application of the law is simply not possible in our current system.

Sorry to be so skeptical, but Trump will likely never be held accountable.

Rosemarie Castelli Orr , January 16, 2021 at 21:39

I am in total agreement with you.
I also believe Trump had flagrant delicato information about many politicians on the Hill from Epstein and Maxwell who are mysteriously absent from MSM.
The Empire of Shite is in its Death Knell.
The market will continue its rise post COVID-19 with history repeating itself and mirroring the roaring twenties of 100 years ago.
Rome is in ashes.

JOHN CHUCKMAN , January 15, 2021 at 12:32

An excellent report.

It explains why the police were unprepared which seemed clear to me.

It confirms my view of chaos with the crowd and no central purpose other than to display their unhappiness with events, with individual exceptions of course.

And it confirms the absolute lunatic recklessness of Trump.

Recklessness we have seen displayed many times from tearing up nuclear treaties and giving away the property of others to the criminal abuse of Iran and China.

By the way, just a footnote, a recent study demonstrated that Trump's insane efforts with China actually cost the US 245,000 jobs at one point. And yet his naive followers think he was working for their good.

JoSixPack , January 15, 2021 at 09:02

So it was dangerous because they did not get a permit? Is a permit required to hold a protest? Did the Black Lives Matters protests have permits?

See how that works. A lack of a permit does not make a protest dangerous.

It's also disingenuous to say this protest was not known about to the police or law enforcement.

According to the ACLU,

"What if others react violently to a protest?

A speaker at a protest is not legally responsible for the presence of angry listeners, and their hostile actions do not make the speaker's speech illegal. "

hXXps://www.aclu-wa.org/story/rights-protesters

Some parting words from John Pilger:

"The hysteria in the US about a coup that was not a coup, an "assault on democracy" that was no such thing, is due to a cartoonish insularity that distracts from an unending pre-Trump imperial assault on the rest of humanity, such as stricken Yemen."

hXXps://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1349498383367626754

There are real stories of bad things Trump has done. This is not one of them.

John R , January 15, 2021 at 08:38

They lacked a permit ? I look at the Trump directive to proceed to the Capital and fight like hell as their "unofficial permit."

Mark Walker , January 15, 2021 at 11:33

So, no permit then.
Nixon tried this, "It's legal if the President does it." Didn't work for him or for Reagan.
The "Rule of Law", "Law and Order" guy is on opposite day 24x7x365.

Sally Snyder , January 15, 2021 at 08:25

Here is an interesting look at how Americans view Donald Trump's links to the events on Capitol Hill:

see: viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-americans-perceive-events-on.html

As is becoming typical of the United States, the events of last week are viewed completely differently by each side of the massive political divide.

michae888 , January 15, 2021 at 06:34

Sounds much like when Democrats took Green parties off of ballots because of a change of address of one of the candidates while collecting needed petition signatures (technicalities; legal but unethical disenfranchisement).
The First Amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the right of Americans "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". (Even Mexico "allowed" protests, grudgingly, when AMLO's supporters flooded the streets after his first two losses.) What percent of the George Floyd protests had permits? 93% of those protests– involving 10 million+ people– were peaceful (yet 78% of the arrests were not for violent crimes). The George Floyd protesters destroyed national monuments and statures, a precedent, and did much more damage generally (yet not one unarmed protester was shot to death by Police during these protests).

I'm a life-long Democrat, but am appalled at the partisan CONTROL coming about through the unholy alliance of the DNC, CIA, MSM and social media. I grew up in another world where Freedom of Speech, dissent (often spirited, occasionally violent) and diversity of views were valued. I remember when the CIA was not allowed to operate within the US, and all Intelligence agencies were apolitical (at least for the Democrats and Republicans, who share essentially the same corrupt values though they claim to detest each other). Now the CIA demands other Five Eyes agencies do their dirty work within the US, and all Intelligence Agencies have fought Trump (hate him or not) spying on him constantly and undermining his campaign, somehow legally?

The "modernization" of Smith Mundt removed anti-propaganda restrictions, and it is clear that on any important issue, an Official Narrative is handed down to MSM and enforced through social media as well (and it's not just political; many of us retired scientists, physicians and veterinarians were aghast at obvious mistakes(?) made with Covid-19, calling for glucocorticoids and vitamin D3 and other things IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY and MARCH, which would have saved lives (first peak death rate April 21st) but almost all dissenting views from the WHO and Fauci and the CDC were taken down from social media and comments sections as "MISINFORMATION".

Some of us were even barred from sites briefly; Fauci is an AIDS expert, but knew nothing in January about Covid-19 and the Public Health measures which worked so well in Asia against the virus.) As with the CIA, now LEGALLY controlling Narratives, censorship is not allowed by the Government, BUT they can tell MSM who can tell social media who to censor. As SCOTUS has ruled repeatedly: "HATE SPEECH IS FREE SPEECH!"

U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein doesn't think so, as a federal judge she has violated the First Amendment by refusing to allow Parler to serve as a free speech publisher with no moderation (censoring them). I have never been on that site and am sure it is hateful, but it doesn't bother me, since they are not a publisher, just a free speech platform. With the DNC/ CIA/ MSM/ social media chain making censoring "legal", maybe it will soon be legal to kill people you disagree with (your wife?) provided similar chains of corrupt actors can be established. The US already does this abroad.

Anne , January 16, 2021 at 11:40

I agree with much you have written and I support neither Face of the Janus Party Either you have free speech or you don't. Either you have the right to protest or you don't. (I seem to recall not too many months ago that the MSM were cheering on the Hong Kong rioters no matter what they did, violent or not, including their closing down of the island's airport for a day while beating up at least one journalist but hey what's good for the goose apparently is not for the gander.)

And I too recall protests that were hardly peaceful – protests in good causes that produced rioting, destruction of buildings and looting and what of 1968?

Moreover didn't one Lolita LeBron, a Puerto Rican nationalist and anti-colonialist, and a handful of her compatriots enter the US Capitol and once in Congress, the pubic gallery (the House, I think), and proceed to shoot the members – five sustained injuries

To pretend that nothing kindred to last week has happened in the US Capitol since 1812 is to lie egregiously yes the Puerto Rican nationalists (too few) did not ransack the building but there was an intent to maim if not kill

And the news regarding the one woman shot is totally absent (at least on NPR) she was ex military who shot her?

Given that not a few of the people were ex military or the adult offspring of ex-mil – what can be expected? You train people to kill others, especially others who do not look like you, live differently, have a different culture and that training induces a totally compunctionless attitude toward destruction, devastation of others and their homes, livelihoods and so on when they come back home, why would they suddenly become humane again? Suddenly regain empathy, sympathy? You've destroyed it within them to achieve your political, economic, imperialist ends

This is the result: Chickens home to roost

Luchorpan , January 14, 2021 at 23:12

If Trump and Alexander are punished for this, then apply the law equally and punish the huge number of anti-Trump, BLM, and antifa marches and protests. The law cannot be selective. The impression people have is BLM, Antifa, and really any violent group useful to the powers-that-be are given a free pass, that the law does not apply to them.

If big business, big government, big media, and the Democratic Party continue to unite in violence against their enemies, productive people are just going to leave the US. Whether you call it fascism or communism, it is wrong. And it is quite shocking how many on the Left defend the violence in the US, makes it easier to understand how they can implicitly support so many horrible and ongoing genocides overseas.

[Jan 19, 2021] Wise words from black socialist Ajamu Baraka: You cannot promote lawlessness and deny democracy and national sovereignty to nations around the world without it eventually destroying the illusions that serve as the foundation of your own fragile political institutions.

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wise words from black socialist Ajamu Baraka*

wendy davis on Mon, 01/18/2021 - 4:28pm

on this MLK Day civil rights 2.0 as the nation is being torn asunder with fear and loathing post-Capitol insurrection.

*International human rights activist, organizer, political analyst. National Organizer for @blacks4peace

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[Jan 19, 2021] Trump walked into the DC 'Forum', and ended 'stabbed to death', as had Julius. It has been truly Shakespearean by Alastair Crooke

Jan 19, 2021 | www.strategic-culture.org

The 'Ides of March', they came early this year – on 6 January, at least for one current U.S. 'Caesar'. What happened; how it happened; who concocted the Capitol events, will be long debated. However, the daggers had long been sharpened for Caesar, well before the invasion of the Capitol. In a sense, the stage was already set – Trump walked into the DC 'Forum', and ended 'stabbed to death', as had Julius. It has been truly Shakespearean.

It was well-known that Trump might well reject the election results, because of postal ballot potential fraud (as postal ballots assumed their disproportionate 2020 electoral predominance). The Transition Integrity Project (TIP) precisely (purposefully?) had taunted Trump last June with its forecast of a contested election in which Trump would lose – after "all of the mail-in ballots had been tallied". The TIP then had turned to the prospective tactics and tasks for forcefully ousting a President-in-denial from the White House. (The media and 'platforms' had been participants in this early war-gaming of how to deal with a Trump, who contested the election result, and questioned the legality and authenticity of postal ballots).

It needn't have been this way – but no compromise on rules on postal balloting was attempted (rather, the reverse). In any event, the Capitol invasion now stands as a major psychic event (the "Insurrection") searing the American consciousness. Apart from unnerving the legislators, unused to experiencing a sudden loss of security, the invasion has become the sacrilege to a 'sacred space' (with all the additional connotations of America's exceptional, divine mission). The daggers were gleefully plunged in – Trump is impeached again; he is to be tried in the Senate after the Biden inauguration; and he and his family, may expect the legal dismemberment that will follow.

The 'Blue State' has – from Trump's first election – been determined to crush him. That is underway. And somehow sychronistically, we now have the Tech digital deletion of Red America from social platforms, with talk of a 'purge' and cultural 're-education' for his supporters (and their children), as well. Biden is already speaking like a War President (and the Capitol now has taken the air of a theatre of war, with troops and weapons strewn about its corridors): "Trump", said Biden, "has unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of democracy, from the outset, and yesterday was but the culmination of that unrelenting attack".

Here is the key first implication to that 'psychic event' – not just for Americans, but for the world spectating the unfolding events: Biden has called for measures against "domestic terrorism", and used language that is usually reserved for combat with an external enemy state – language such as accompanies major wars. This is 'revenge cycle' material. In the case of two nations, literally at war, they do do this. This is a part of it. They hope to resolve their conflict through humiliation, repression and the forced submission of the other (i.e. Japan after WW2). But America is, at least nominally, one nation. What happens when a single nation splits, with one turning the 'seditious' elements into an 'alien other'?

We do not know. But hatred is intense, both toward Trump and the 'deplorables'. And now, these sentiments are reciprocated in the wake of the President's humiliation, at a contents-free impeachment, reached in few hours. What seems certain is that the course of events likely will lead to a self-reinforcing cycle of ever greater polarisation.

The rise of Trumpism has created a new radical Manicheanism amongst the liberal élite. Tech, with its algos feeding like-minded material to the like-minded, has a lot to do with this digital and ideological divide. But the bottom line is that this divide is (falsely) cast as a death-struggle now underway between a monolithic liberalism and a monolithic illiberalism.

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[Jan 18, 2021] The mob never wins. It is always led by the nose by well organised agents provocateur. See Epoch time video:

Jan 18, 2021 | www.unz.com

Faihtful , says: January 12, 2021 at 5:28 am GMT • 6.4 days ago

The mob never wins. It is always led by the nose by well organised agents provocateur. See Epoch time video:


https://www.bitchute.com/embed/FrE27FTf11Q/

[Jan 18, 2021] It was a trap. I really don't know about Trump. Is he that dumb he didn't see this coming? And who is responsible for setting up the Perimeters? Nancy? Mitch? So, this was a False Flag, just like Saker says.

Jan 18, 2021 | www.unz.com

freedom-cat , says: January 12, 2021 at 8:26 am GMT • 6.3 days ago

There's an Attorney in Washington State who used to be a Security Cop at the Capitol. He said he has NEVER seen anything like this. When he was in Security at the Capitol he said they would Always plan for Protests and set Perimeters up where nobody could get through. He also mentioned how everyone knew about this Protest for weeks. ( https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/jan/09/spokane-attorney-and-former-capitol-police-officer/ )

It was a trap. I really don't know about Trump. Is he that dumb he didn't see this coming? And who is responsible for setting up the Perimeters? Nancy? Mitch?

So, this was a False Flag, just like Saker says. It was an event coldly calculated and planned to ensure a result that could be blamed on the "enemy".

And it worked.

Yes, I voted Trump twice. I am not ashamed of it. I'm not a fan of Trump, but am a Proud Pleb/Peasant/Deplorable who is sick of the Self-Appointed Triad (Political Administrators/Technocrats/Media Moguls).

[Jan 18, 2021] It is sickening to watch the demonization of our fellow Americans in high gear this week. The CIA's media assets are certainly earning their thirty pieces of silver. The media shows us images of the "rioters" who terrified their owners

Jan 18, 2021 | www.unz.com

Observator , says: January 12, 2021 at 1:04 pm GMT • 6.1 days ago

Well put article, thank you. Personally, I suspect that for once the bumbling incompetent Democrats out-faked the vote better than the Republicans, for whom sabotaging the will of the people is historically Job No. 1. Maybe seventeen million fake Biden votes trounced ten million phony Trump votes delivered by the ever-reliable electronic voting machines, and there you go. Like the man said, if voting could make a difference, it would not be legal.

Trump is a larger than life figure you must either love or loathe. I was impressed by his inaugural address but skeptical of his intent and his ability to deliver. Yes, it is true the one great thing he has done is to wake millions of Americans to the reality that an unelected government makes all the important policy decisions with no concern for the consent of the governed. And this is a real game changer.

It is sickening to watch the demonization of our fellow Americans in high gear this week. The CIA's media assets are certainly earning their thirty pieces of silver. The media shows us images of the "rioters" who terrified their owners, and assumes we will obediently get scared of them too. No, fellas, not this time.

This system cannot be reformed from within. Its corruption is the logical result of keeping an obsolete form of government to run a 21st century post-capitalist global empire. It was devised by eighteenth century aristocrats primarily not to interfere with their local class privilege in a tiny agrarian country. We are again at a point in our history where the contradictions are too great to sustain. We will either become all of one thing, or all of the other, but we cannot continue to pretend that Washington as it is has anything to do with liberty. In my youth, I thought a socialist revolution would do the job, but since there is zero support for such a thing among a thoroughly indoctrinated population, we'll have to work with what we've got. Our survival, and the world's, is at stake.

[Jan 17, 2021] Video evidence of antifa inside capitol before crowd entered

Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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TuicyJits 16 hours ago remove link

Video evidence of antifa inside capitol before crowd entered. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKDHr1Yg9cH/?igshid=9fdp6hd31zv5

AuEagleNest 16 hours ago (Edited)

So Far, More Than 120 Arrests (more coming) for Siege on Capitol

The FBI has over 110,000 pictures and videos that they are sifting through, to identify domestic terrorists that laid siege to the Capitol on Jan 6. If you're in one of those pics or videos, it sux to be you. Expect a knock (or no-knock) at your door, from the FBI, any day now.

Fiscal Reality 16 hours ago remove link

OOPS. Don't look now....

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-brother-arrested-antifa-blm-activist-john-sullivan-turned-brother-says-brother-somehow-charge-us-capitol-riots-video/

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/whats-the-floor-plan-new-suspicious-video-emerges-from-capitol-siege/

bruhaha 20 hours ago remove link

Doesn't seem to me there is any direct connection of that reporter to CNN. She's a freelance reporter (so technically not employed by them). From her website, she has done work for the following: NBC, NPR, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed News and others.

The video is still suspicious. But now that everyone jumped on the "CNN reporter" bandwagon without checking first, now the whole situation can be labelled "fake news" because of that error.

[Jan 17, 2021] The Trial Of Citizen Trump Would Raise Serious Constitutional Questions

Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Below is my column in USA Today on the upcoming Senate trial of President Donald Trump. The Hill recently ran my second column on why the best defense of Trump could be no defense -- to skip the Senate trial and force a threshold vote on the constitutionality of the trial of an ex-president. Here is my column:

With the second impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Congress is set for one of the most bizarre moments in constitutional history: the removal of someone who has already left office. The retroactive removal would be a testament to the timeliness of rage. While it is not without precedent, it is without logic.

The planned impeachment trial of Donald Trump after he leaves office would be our own version of the Cadaver Synod . In 897, Pope Stephen VI and his supporters continued to seethe over the action of Pope Formosus, who not only died in 896 but was followed by another pope, Boniface VI. After the brief rule of Boniface VI, Pope Stephen set about to even some scores. He pulled Formosus out of his tomb, propped him up in court, and convicted him of variety of violations of canon law. Formosus was then taken out, three fingers cut off, and eventually thrown in the Tiber River.

While some may be looking longingly at the Potomac for their own Cadaver Synod, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have stated that their primary interest is in the possible disqualification of Trump from holding future federal office. Disqualification however is an optional penalty that follows a conviction and removal. It may be added to the primary purpose of removal referenced in the Constitution. The Trump trial would convert this supplemental punishment into the primary purpose of the trial.

This did happen before but that precedent is only slightly better than the Cadaver Synod. That case involved William Belknap who served as Secretary of War to President Ulysses S. Grant. Belknap resigned after allegations of corruption -- just shortly before a House vote of impeachment. The Senate held a trial but acquitted him. Twenty nine of 66 voting senators disagreed in a threshold motion that Belknap was "amenable to trial by impeachment . . . notwithstanding his resignation."

In fairness to the Democrats, I have long rejected the argument that there comes a point when it is too late to impeach a president while he is in office. As I said in both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings, the House is under a duty to impeach if it believes that a president has committed a high crime and misdemeanor. If that occurred on the last day of a term, it would still be warranted.

My objection to this second impeachment was that it proceeded without any deliberation of the traditional impeachment process. It was a snap impeachment, which is to the Constitution what Snapchat is to conversations. It reduces the process to a raw, brief and partisan vote. This could have been avoided. A hearing could have been held in a day to allow the language of the article to be amended and the implications of the impeachment considered. It would also have allowed for a formal demand for a response from the president.

Instead, the impeachment was pushed through on a partisan muscle vote with only ten Republicans supporting the single article. It was an ironic moment. In the last Trump impeachment, I chastised the Democrats for pushing through an impeachment on the slimmest record and the shortest time frame of any presidential impeachment. They insisted that there was no time for witnesses before the House Judiciary hearing, but later waited weeks to submit the articles to the Senate. Now they have outdone that record with an impeachment with no traditional record in a matter of a couple of days. The Senate will not sit until January 19th and any trial would likely occur after January 20th.

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I have long wrestled with the notion of a retroactive impeachment trial. I can see the value of establishing that a president was not just accused but convicted of unconstitutional acts. There is also the value of disqualification of such an individual from future office. However, what was an intriguing academic puzzle is now a pressing constitutional concern.

The impeachment trial of a private citizen raises a host of constitutional and practical problems . For example, a president can rely on publicly-funded lawyers like the White House Counsel and can assert presidential privileges. After leaving office, an ex-president would not only pay for his own defense, but he will lose the ability to make privilege determinations. Indeed, many such assertions would be subject to the review of his successor, Joe Biden. It would be like Pope Stephen making determinations on critical evidence of Pope Formosus after pulling him out of the crypt.

The main issue however would be whether this is really an impeachment trial, as opposed to some curious constitutional post-mortem on a passed presidency. That question could face Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts if he has summoned for this role. A chief justice does not simply show up at anything deemed an impeachment trial. He must make an independent judgment over his carrying out a constitutional function. Even if he rules that this is a valid trial, that ruling could be rejected by the Senate in a motion to dismiss the article. In the Clinton impeachment, Democrats demanded such a threshold vote before a trial. Of course, since there is no president to try for impeachment, the Senate may not even ask Roberts to preside -- a telling departure that only undermines the trial as a whole.

This impeachment should end with the Trump administration. I do not fault those who view the president's conduct as impeachable. The speech was reckless and wrong. My primary objection was to the use of a snap impeachment and the language of the article of impeachment. That is now part of Trump's presidential legacy. The question is now what will be the troubling constitutional legacy left by the Senate in the trial of an ex-president.

In my view, a retroactive removal vote would combine with the use of a snap impeachment to fundamentally altering the role of impeachment in the United States. It would take a rush to judgment and turn it into a parade of constitutional horribles. Any party could retroactively impeach or remove a former president for the purpose of disqualifying him from office. Thus, if a party feared a one-term president's possible run, they could hold use impeachment to eliminate the political threat. With the snap impeachment, it would be worse than creating a type of "no confidence vote" under our Constitution. After a non confidence vote in the United Kingdom, a former prime minister can still run again for office.

A conviction would also not bring the closure as many may hope. Such disqualification would be one of the few impeachment issues that could be challenged in court. Trump would have standing to sue for his right to run again and he could well win. He would then be more popular than ever with many citizens eager to defy the Washington establishment. There is another path. The Senate could end the trial with a threshold vote and let history and the voters be the final judge of Donald J. Trump.

[Jan 17, 2021] The pot calling the kettle black: Liz Cheney forgot about Bush II administration crimes

Liz Cheney who probably got her position due to her father might well overplayed her hand.
Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

MhOOMan 5 hours ago remove link

Below is a list of which House Republicans voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday.

[Jan 17, 2021] Rush To Judgment On Trump- Multiple Leftists Arrested For Capitol Riot

ZH commenters are not impressed with the official version of the events, to say the least...
Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
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chelydra 19 hours ago remove link

At this point I don't care that some Antifa Rent-A-Mob types intermingled with the pro-Trump crowd. That unruly mob shown considerable restraint in the face of the criminality of our self-anointed ruling class. The vast bulk of the mob stayed within the velvet rope line. If the riot on Capitol Hill didn't happen, the Deep State would have cooked up some sinister post in some corner of the Internet to justify making the National Guard sleep in the halls and shut down DC (Biden already planned a "virtual" immaculation). Thanks to this show of force, our self-anointed rulers let their masks slip showing how craven and contemptuous they truly are.

SwmngwShrks 18 hours ago

That IS the Deep State cooking it up. People were bussed in. The guards let the people in. There was no forced entry. How was this violent?

sgt_doom 18 hours ago (Edited)

Exactly!!! You see it right in the MASAKO video:

https://youtu.be/5nvqvvsqJ_s

https://mb.ntd.com/analysis-of-ashli-babbit-video-suggests-coordinated-actions-interview-with-masako_551860.html

The video above is the 21st century equivalent of the Zapruder film!

William Dorritt 10 hours ago remove link

ANTIFA IS THE TERRORIST ARM OF THE FBI & DOJ

Antifa-BLM Organizer John Earl Sullivan

Released from Jail Without Bail

By Jim Hoft Published January 15, 2021 at 8:10pm

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/double-standards-antifa-blm-organizer-stormed-us-capitol-released-jail-without-bail/

Brother of Arrested Antifa-BLM Activist John Sullivan

Says His Brother Was "Somehow in Charge" of US Capitol Riots (VIDEO )

By Jim Hoft Published January 15, 2021 at 5:41pm

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-brother-arrested-antifa-blm-activist-john-sullivan-turned-brother-says-brother-somehow-charge-us-capitol-riots-video/

Arising 3.0 20 hours ago remove link

More and more, it looks like Trump was framed.

for the majority of ZH readers that was obvious as the events were unfolding live.

HowdyDoody 8 hours ago

Pictures of the Washington Maidan - Trumps supporters - allegedly

https://i1.wp.com/www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ErKKQqcVkAQYfRh.jpg

This image shows Michiel Vos, Nancy Pelosi's son in law with Buffalo Man in front of the White House. He just happened to be there as he is a newsman for a Dutch TV show. If it was anyone but Nancy, I would suspect collusion.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFL2a-W8AUsVD4.jpg

The White House framed in a gallows with a noose in front of it.

https://i0.wp.com/www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/136954744_10158698018982850_6919317569108662572_n.jpg

This is a dog whistle to this image of a similar takeover in Israel.

https://i1.wp.com/www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/136474173_10158698019032850_5296847883469615052_n.jpg

It shows a noose dangling framed before the coffin of Yitzhak Rabin murdered by Zionists in 1995 after being incited by Netanyahu allowing him eventually take control.

Finally we have Aaron Mostofsky, whose father is Judge Shlomo "Steven" Mostofsky of Kings County Supreme Court. He is a prominent in Democratic Borough politics and a former president of National Council of Young Israel.

https://cdn.cms.prod.nypr.digital/images/shutterstock_editorial_11691139q.2e16d0ba.fill-661x496.jpg

Let's give Aaron his 5 minutes of fame. Notice the totally uncontrolled violence on display at the end of the clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewPUMYkaMQ

Jack_Ewing 19 hours ago remove link

Trump was not outsmarted by Dems. He was in on "the plan". The plan: Hand over the nation to globalists on 1/20 without a fight with patriots demoralized, humiliated and living in fear. Don't forget that the con artist set up supporters to be shamed, killed and face-recognized on Jan 6.

Then called the National Guard on them. Now they all belong to a national database, no fly lists. Remember: 4 years of Trump and no end to DACA, no end to birthright citizenship, no FISA arrests, no 'lock her up', no 'drain the swamp', no wall, no voter ID. But Israel got EVERYTHING: embassy, Golan Heights, settlements, billion$ in aid. ‬Trump: Rothschild puppet, Israeli double-agent.

TRM 19 hours ago remove link

Either the biggest Zionist shill since Theodore Herzl or the Mossad had the goods on him. I know which is most likely.

Trump's owners, the military industrial complex and the zionist lobby, have thrown him under the bus. Bummer dude but you don't get to be "the one". It is so easy to manipulate ego maniacs.

What deal did they cut with Biden's owners (media (all 6), med-mafia (pharma on top), tech and CIA+lawfare (DOJ, FBI, IRS))?

1) Biden will NOT end the sanctions against Iran. He may say "we'll negotiate" but it will drag on forever.

2) The MIC gets to keep the "civilian special forces" and most importantly control of the NSA.

So after doing all the dirty work Trump gets thrown under the bus. LMAO. Will he be a broken man like LBJ or Nixon or will he drift off into irrelevance like most of the rest?

The central banking cartel gets what it wants (all FED chair positions, Secretary of Treasury) for its people from both parties so they control the money which controls all else. They have supported Bolsheviks, fascists and FDR so they have no political affiliation other than to themselves. They are the true party of power.

Forced vaccinations, tracking and rigged "science" to justify everything are going to get worse. To all those who think you will get a "Socialist Republic" get a grip. You will get Chinese capitalism. The worst of both worlds. Single party dictatorship and the most exploitative capitalist system ever. It makes the robber barons of the late 1800's roll over in their graves in awe. The left owners worship the Chinese model.

" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTuPFeaD3U"

"Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands"

sgt_doom 17 hours ago (Edited)

Seriously dude, he was outsmarted, but the dems are just the minions of the Deep State, America's China Class.

Trump was the disrupter to the status quo, the Rockefeller Plan -- which created the rigged market of rigged markets.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/31/us-middle-class-still-suffering-from-rockefeller-kissinger-industrial-transfer-scheme-to-china/

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-china-class-fights-trump

🚫pinkos🚫 20 hours ago

There was no rush to judgement. This was ALL planned, probably weeks if not months beforehand. All the leftist operatives were well prepared/rehearsed. They knew exactly who, what, when, where, how and why. Just like they do EVERYTIME.

Templar X 20 hours ago (Edited)

This rush to not only blame President Trump for this "attack" upon Capitol Hill, but to also use it as a false reason to impeach him is not only a wild, insane, and irresponsible rush to judgement, it is proof positive that Nancy Pelosi is not fit for public office.

sgt_doom 17 hours ago

Exactly, exactly, exactly. The mayors and countymexecs, etc., across the nation were reading from,the same script all using the term "white insurrectionists" --- in the Northwesr

T my two sources notified me that the scrips,arrived a week before the 7th!

GreatCaesar'sGhost 20 hours ago

Interesting, but moot. The dems have both houses of Congress and the presidency. They will reek havoc for at least the next 2 years. Hopefully that creepy Liz Cheney gets primaried and loses, at least. She's sickening.

rwmctrofholz 19 hours ago

Bump this story to the top.

Secondly, didn't Matt Gaetz get shouted down/groaned at when he suggested that outside agitators had a role at the event at the Capitol?

ItsDanger 19 hours ago

But they can't investigate election fraud? No standing? Sad

Max21c 19 hours ago

Yeah it is quite amazing how all the drama queens in the Washington establishment rushed out to denounce the events on Capitol Hill and how quickly the phonies in the Justice Department and law enforcement were to launch investigations and make arrests over people barging in to the Capitol building. Yet the coup d'etat has been swept under the rug by the Regime and its state security apparatus and the puppet journalists in the official media.

SwmngwShrks 18 hours ago remove link

After watching the Occupy Wall-Street coverage and CIA handling of how to crush dissent, why would I trust the government's or media's word on any of this?

Musum 19 hours ago

The facts will continue to roll out

But it won't matter. The Russia Hoax proved that.

Truth and facts are the collateral damage of ideological crazies.

Max21c 19 hours ago

The people behind this all along have been deep state secret police and the intelligence community per CIA, Pentagon Gestapo, military intelligence, military secret police, FBI, British Gestapo and others in the cabal drawn from the ranks and world of the secret police and intelligence community.

Cardinal Fang 19 hours ago (Edited) remove link

What I find hilarious about this whole thing is that the exact same failings of the Benghazi attack are readily apparent in the US Capitol attack, right down to and including the unheeded request for reinforcements.

The only difference is the panic room wasn't burned out.

And the very same people who completely downplayed the Benghazi Attack are blowing this same type of operation way out of proportion.

We are being gaslighted.

Jolt 19 hours ago

That leaves Congress and all the jerks who voted for impeachment of President Trump looking like boobs and losers.

No, if Pelosi and McConnell and all of their buddies knew in advance that something was coming (and reports say it's true) and ALL refused to beef up security, passing IMPEACHMENT was an act of treason.

But that's just another conspiracy theory...

NOT EPS TYING 19 hours ago (Edited)

The black boy antifa guy was on cnn with his white partner in crime female as a guest of honor. i can smell the bs from a mile away, over 1000 miles away in this case. DC smells really bad now.

Delusion Spotter 19 hours ago (Edited)

The Truth always come out. This was obviously a staged Left Wing Plot from the beginning. The Democrats will try every dirty trick in the book to try to make sure Trump doesn't run against and defeat Senile Joe in 2024.

Senile Joe is already off to a bad start with his sure to fail $1.9 Trillion - Pork, Deadbeat, and Lost Cause Bonanza Plan.

Looks likes Trumps 2024 re-election will be a sure thing.

NOT EPS TYING 19 hours ago (Edited)

well the media is in big trouble now without trump. biden is more boring than watching paint dry, unless he is not using the teleprompter.

Crush the cube 19 hours ago

No they're not finished, your still standing.

Max21c 19 hours ago (Edited)

Even the press is starting to notice that the pieces aren't fitting together. Rather than a picture of all wicked and crazed Trump supporters, charging the Capitol, leftist news outfit Bloomberg reported that its survey of various parties involved , including those who died or were arrested, didn't paint the desired picture. Conclusion?

Many of those shown in news footage had no party affiliation and voted sporadically, if at all.

It's not unusual for the FBI & CIA to recruit and use drug addicts, alcoholics, derelicts, day workers, and others on the margins of society as they are easy to hire through fronts and easy to manipulate and be used by the secret police. It would not be the least surprising therefore that many of the agent provocateurs have suspicious background, lack stability, and come from the fringes of society as such bear the classic hallmarks of people used as dupes and cannon fodder by the intelligence agencies. They often make use of throw aways and disposable people and people that are vulnerable and easy to take advantage of and easy to handle and dump. These people fit the bill quite nicely as people that can be easily recruited by fronts and dupes and allow the puppet masters to keep it all at arms length.

slumdog_billionaire 19 hours ago

Yup!

11th_Harmonic 19 hours ago (Edited)

OBVIOUS: The 'left wing faction', the media, SillyCon Valley, and their political enablers have:

NOT OBVIOUS: Any well-thought, intelligent challenge to any of the above. You can't just keep hoping that this will go away with time; the time for peaceful action has almost passed.

Max21c 20 hours ago remove link

A left-wing activist who told Fox News last week that he'd followed a pro-Trump mob into the Capitol in order to "document" the siege is now the subject of a criminal complaint in connection with his alleged participation, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

John Sullivan can allegedly be heard egging on protesters in video he provided to the FBI, according to a federal criminal complaint. He has also shared the video to his YouTube and Twitter accounts under the pseudonym Jayden X

Apparently this guy John Sullivan claims to be an ordinary America but has a very suspicious background in allegedly being the son of a US Air Force General... and has been apparently mixed up in suspicious activities and suspicious groups... he may even be on the payroll and funded by front groups such as Anti-Fa or other radical front groups... Like other elites mixed up in these radical activities they all seem to have ties to higher levels of the government and political system... some are even Ivy Leaguers...

It would be interesting to see how many of the folks have been possibly trained by groups associated with the National Endowment for Democracy or other radical front groups for the deep state per CIA, State Department, Pentagon, FBI, National Security Council and rest of the state security apparatus. It would be interesting to see how much of this is just another British Gestapo and CIA and Pentagon Gestapo, State department elites color revolution aimed at the overthrow of the US government and imposing a ruler over America that shall do the biddings of the war machine and secret police machine...

[Jan 17, 2021] Poland Set To Make Censoring Social Media Accounts Illegal

Demonopolizatio0n of Internet giants would be a much better move...
Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

On Jan. 6, pro-Trump extremists stormed the US Capitol complex and disrupted Congress's joint session to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory. Days later, social media companies went on a free speech crusade against President Trump, banning or limiting the president from various platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat.

It appears some Polish government officials have denounced big tech's censorship of Trump. They are preparing to draft a law that will make it illegal for tech firms to ban accounts, according to The Guardian .

"Algorithms or the owners of corporate giants should not decide which views are right and which are not," wrote the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

"There is no and can be no consent to censorship."

Morawiecki's comments were published on Facebook days after Twitter and Facebook suspended the US president, citing a "risk of further incitement of violence" in the wake of his supporters storming the US Capitol building in Washington, DC.

Speaking vaguely and without mentioning Trump, Morawiecki said:

"Censorship of free speech, which is the domain of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, is now returning in the form of a new, commercial mechanism to combat those who think differently," he said.

"The owners of social platforms cannot act above the law," Morawiecki added, noting that in Poland, the functioning of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are regulated by law.

"We will suggest that similar regulations are also put in place in all of the European Union," he said.

Morawiecki's comments came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Trump's ban from Twitter is "problematic."

The fallout from last week's deadly raid on the Capitol has included the purging of Parler , which is a social media app mainly used by conservatives. Apple and Google both banned Parler from their respective app stores over concerns the app aided Trump supporters in the Capitol attack.

Banning Trump from Twitter and other social media platforms has set dangerous precedence where big tech companies can, at their convenience, censor anyone they want, even the president of the US.


Sven Novgorod 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

"On Jan 6th, pro-Trump extremists stormed the US Capitol complex and disrupted Congress's joint session"

This article states as fact the storming of Congress is a closed case. Done and dusted.

I say Propaganda.

No comment on the fact BLM was present or Antifa was also there. No comment on the fact, the police encouraged people to enter the building.

takeaction 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

And CNN was in on it... .they are trying to scrub the video...

Note: I could find NO Reference to this video through google. Duck Duck go...there it was.

Ikiru 1 hour ago (Edited)

Google has become entirely useless for anyone looking for the truth. I gave a friend a Google demonstration by punching in "election fraud", which 5 years ago would have pulled up all sorts of information, including the massive evidence. Now, it only pulls up MSM sites and leftist rags. I would recommend trying this with friends and family to show how Google is manipulating the public who are unaware of their evil doings.

mcgman 1 hour ago remove link

This is the biggest problem with the right wing activist base. They run for cover and start dumping people overboard once the going gets rough. Yes there were antifa and blm provocateurs at the protest. But that says nothing for the 99% of the people in attendance that were the most ardent of trump activists. They are responsible for how they behaved. But their justification was IMMEDIATELY cooped by washington GOP talking points in saying how "BAD THEY ARE". Rather than pointing out how they have been systematically disenfranchised and targeted over the last 4 years. The activist base on the right needs to take a lesson from the left. Did you see democrats running for cover and throwing their base under the bus over the summer when the country was on fire ? absolutely NOT. Jerry Nadler told everyone it was a myth and to go piss up a rope. The GOP is the party of fools which is why they are allowing their most ardent supporters to be put on corporate blacklists and DHS no fly lists. If the right intends to be politically active they have a LOT of learning to do. This event exposes why the movement on the right is so weak politically.

Sandwich 2 hours ago

Hey ZH, nobody stormed anything. It was a guided tour.

Debtman And Robbin 1 hour ago

I saw members of Congress storming out on live TV.

takeaction 1 hour ago

Yes sir it was....by CNN We did it!

This should be front page story. Needs to get some legs.

ThomasJefferson69 2 hours ago remove link

Yes it seems the oligarch's have found a weapon they can continue to use to control the masses. A flu virus.

Amazing how many people I still see wearing masks [outside of closed spaces]. Even in a state that doesn't require them.

https://summit.news/2020/10/07/over-6000-scientists-doctors-sign-anti-lockdown-petition/

balz 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

On Jan. 6, pro-Trump extremists stormed the US Capitol complex

Get your facts straight, Tyler. They weren't extremists, the Capitol wasn't "stormed" and some of them weren't even Trump supporters.

Pigeon 1 hour ago (Edited)

+1000

This sort of fake-news editorializing happens far too frequently here. How long until Tylers go full-Drudge?

FYI, did you see American Thinker turned off comments (and those were hosted by POS Vuukle). Can't take a chance on someone saying something naughty.

These sites are shooting themselves in the foot. Personally, my time online has dropped 50% - and will continue to drop as I detox myself from the stupidity , manipulation and propaganda.

[Jan 17, 2021] Why did Trump learn nothing from Charlottesville?

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Anonymous [401] Disclaimer , says: January 16, 2021 at 8:37 am GMT • 18.4 hours ago

Trump should have been at the head of his army of supporters, leading them down Pennsylvania Avenue as voting fraud evidence was examined in Congress. It would have been a powerful and wondrous photo op. Why didn't he? Why did he learn nothing from Charlottesville?

Also, why hasn't he pardoned the Proud Boys, James Fields, Assange, etc.? Why did he, yet again, jump to do Israel's bidding by pardoning Kushner's corrupt father and freeing Israeli spy Pollard? Now every pro-Trump media talking-head BEGINS by atoning for the fake "insurrection."

The Republican party is dead, filled with rabid RINOs and masochistic Swampussies. Why would ANY Trumper ever vote again, knowing that election-machinery is rigged? Finally, what good does it do now for Don to unseal the evidence used against him? That should have been done years ago, when it mattered.

[Jan 17, 2021] To what extent Jan 6 events can be viewed as a provocation specifically designed to remove Trump from polical arean and disredit his supporters

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Anita Patel , says: January 15, 2021 at 11:31 pm GMT • 1.1 days ago

"Trump and his supporters had to be blackened and discredited with an orchestrated event that stopped the presentation of the evidence of electoral fraud and replaced it with an "insurrection against democracy by MAGA terrorists." Or: "THE SWAMP STRIKES BACK."

Notsofast , says: January 16, 2021 at 12:00 am GMT • 1.1 days ago

what i can't understand is why would trump send his followers to the capitol at the precise time the evidence is about to be read into the congressional record. ted cruz (not that i like or trust him) was about to present "evidence" that would have been available to the public, that is now buried and resulted in calls for his resignation. they had to know that there would be provocateurs after charlotte, i wonder if trump hadn't cut a deal to throw his supporters under the bus in order to save his ass, or if the whole deal is just a massive scripted psyops for the last four years.

[Jan 17, 2021] Is John Sullivan somehow connected to/controlled by FBI

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HallParvey , says: January 16, 2021 at 2:46 pm GMT • 12.3 hours ago

@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle ations are either dissolved or they merge with the artificial ones, but always in subordinate roles.

Basically, instead of going out to find the radicals you attract them to you. Now you know where they all are and what they are doing. Even better, you are now in command of those very radicalized individuals who want to take you down. Sweet! If you need to thin their ranks you just hatch a fake plot to do whatever and send the ones to die into a kill zone that your military has set up somewhere. Not only do you get rid of some radicals but you build a reputation of omniscience and invulnerability around your military. Alternatively you can steer two or more of your controlled radical organizations into conflict with each other, killing more radicals and building the reputation of your opponents as being a bunch of idiots who kill their own.

, Getaclue , says: January 16, 2021 at 5:58 pm GMT • 9.1 hours ago
@lloyd s been given "Get Out Of Jail Free Cards" for violence before and he is out of jail now – – others (fools) who followed him into the Capitol (which he is on tape inside urging them to "burn it down") have NO Bail and face decades in Prison (Buffalo Horn head guy) -- the FBI is nothing but a NWO KGB -- they "infiltrate" or set up all the "violence" we see to use it so our Rights can be stripped away as we are now seeing and have since the 911 False Flag which they also knew about, allowed, and covered up -- it is all theater to be used to destroy us for the NWO Globalist Agenda: https://national-justice.com/black-lives-matter-organizer-seen-entering-capitol-building-crowd-likely-fbi-agent-provocateur
Corvinus , says: January 16, 2021 at 6:34 pm GMT • 8.5 hours ago
@Getaclue

"No doubt Sullivan works for the FBI "

Citations required.

"it is all theater to be used to destroy us for the NWO Globalist Agenda"

So, assuming this to be true, what are you personally doing about it other than lamenting on a blog?

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 17, 2021 at 1:48 am GMT • 1.2 hours ago
@Corvinus
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ashli-babbitt-shooting-video-jayden-x-maga-riot-interview-1112949/

So you may be on to something. He may be the key witness in the Ashli case. He was certainly most seriously shocked by it.

This is Sullivan's documentary. The murder scene is real. It is extremely difficult to watch, but occurs near the end, at about 1:11. The rest is incredibly good footage. Every second person in the protest was taking pics. No one had weapons. The man who broke the window for Ashli to climb through was probably the same one who snuck down the stairs to change his clothes right after, so most probably Antifa.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/P34tO5eaLhg?feature=oembed

[Jan 17, 2021] If we compare two riots

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KenH , says: January 16, 2021 at 10:30 pm GMT • 4.5 hours ago

The neoliberal MSM and various talking heads now lecture us that the black supremacist and radical left looting of Target stores and businesses on main street and firebombing police precincts and a federal building and killing and maiming dozens of people over a five month period is far less serious than storming the Capitol building, stealing Nancy Pelosi's holy lectern and taking some selfies.

So if the pro-Trump "Capitol rioters" would have just destroyed the nearest Target store and police precinct and used fire extinguishers on wheel chair bound black women then that would have been ok with CNN. But dare to make mischief at the holy Capitol building and all bets are off and it's time for the firing squads and drone strikes. At least for right wingers.

Of course the amnesiac neoliberal morons forgot that they attempted to storm the White House in late May 2020 but of course that is Democracy in action and whenever blacks and leftists riot we better sit up and take notice and do some serious soul searching because we brought it upon ourselves.

Suddenly, neoliberal media, some BLM leaders and assorted left wing gas bags have morphed into back the bluetards and are celebrating the murder of unarmed white woman Ashli Babbitt by a black Capitol police officer. Surprisingly, BLM activist Shaun King, a.k.a. "Martin Luther Cream", actually showed some principle and said the shooting was unwarranted.

[Jan 17, 2021] Does Chuck Schumer really want to try Trump in the Senate on the charges submitted by the House?

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anonymous [432] Disclaimer , says: January 16, 2021 at 8:28 am GMT • 18.6 hours ago

So, I must ask, does Chuck Schumer REALLY want to try Trump in the Senate on the charges submitted by the House? Because, if so, is not Trump entitled to a defense a defense that may include evidence touching on all the issues you raised in your piece, Mr. Roberts?

At this point the name of the game is the Democrats trying to besmirch Trump's reputation to the point where he can never participate in the American political system ever again. This is why Schumer says he would try Trump even if January 20th were the last possible opportunity to do so. And, if he missed that deadline, that he would try him AFTER his presidential term as a private citizen, all to i) punish him with jail time to underscore a definitive "win" in the history books for his hardball party politics and ii) preclude him from ever seeking the presidency again because of disqualification under the relevant constitutional amendment, or having the credibility to back another candidate or create his own political party/movement.

Does Mr. Schumer think that he can present only one side of the story in any such Senate trial? Does he think Trump will not be allowed to defend himself with evidence? Or at least with contentions claimed to be evidence which would then have to be examined in detail before the Senate to establish its status as evidence or not? And, unless the Senate trial is a secret kangaroo court closed to the public, whatever is presented to the Senate is now revealed to the public and the scenario you paint in your article, Mr. Roberts, should ultimately be revealed in glorious technicolor to all.

Am I right? Or does Schumer in the Senate have the same prerogatives to short circuit constitutionally guaranteed rights of legal self-defense that Pelosi seemingly employed in the House where only "evidence" provided by the prosecution was allowed? Will Trump, or his lawyers, simply be made to stand in the dock and listen to the accusations with no allowance for rebuttal? Well, that certainly should not impress the public either. I daresay that kind of performance would lead not to the "blue tide" in coming elections that the Dems envision in their dreams but to their next "shellacking," as their silver-tongued Nobel laureate put it.

If Trump is given the legal rights usually extended to most multibillionaires in the American legal system, he should be able to tie up the Senate's time for months or even years to come whilst embarrassing the left side of the aisle no end. I know, justice in the Congress does not take the same form and maybe does not provide the same protections as in the courts, but appearances alone should be a consideration for both sides in this matter. Does it appear that justice and fairness are being applied, or does it look like raw power politics, cold retribution with an old fashioned tar and feathering? So, I again pose the question, does Schumer really want to try Trump in the Senate for his alleged "high crimes and misdemeanors?" I also wonder, if Schumer's dream case against Trump goes awry and the Dems stand to be humiliated with the truth and with evidence of their own crimes, could we ultimately be seeing a resolution similar to the Milosevic case at the Hague? Could the Russians be framed once again for exposing their alleged puppet to a fatal dose of novichok? (Pelosi and the Queen of Warmongers would claim Putin didn't trust the Donald not to spill his guts on their grand conspiracy to rule the world together.) I know, sounds crazy, but what that has happened during the last four years has not been crazy?

[Jan 17, 2021] Baghdad green zone in Washington, DC

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Artemesia , 16 January 2021 at 11:59 AM

...Does anyone share my belief that the "requirement" for heavily armed guards and barricades around state capitols, based on FBI threat assessment that ProudBoys and other white supremacist/deplorables/smellies plan armed attacks in protest of Biden's inauguration is the prequel to imposition of martial law and/or a false flag?

I've never used FB and don't understand how or why to use Twitter.
I don't have TV and haven't watched MSM or cable news for about a decade.
I do, however, -- or did -- watch C Span, including Washington Journal almost religiously.

This morning's Wash. Journ. was outrageous. Moderator Jesse Holland, who teaches journalism, if I'm not mistaken, opened with, "The insurrectionist riots have the nation on edge . . ." Luge downhill from there.
C Span has revealed itself as Propaganda Central. Moderators proclaim themselves to be "objective" and even invisible: the callers are the focus. But especially since the beginning of the pandemic, and blatantly since the election & ensuing controversy, Moderators produce heavily loaded questions that function more as conditioners- normalizers; they validate callers who conform to the party line; and they argue with or cut off callers who disagree with the party line, even when such callers present articulate and soundly sourced information.

Brian Lamb retired in 2012 but remained a presence until about 2 years ago, and to the best of my knowledge has not appeared on the network, in person, since 2018. I believe the C Span project has morphed into something he did not anticipate and might not endorse.

JohninMK , 16 January 2021 at 04:58 PM

BillWade you touch on an interesting topic.

Who made the decision and why is it thought necessary to turn central DC into the equivalent of the Green Zone in Baghdad? With an estimated 30,000 troops, 50 odd medium armour Strikers, engineers, drones plus goodness knows what else.

I understand that it is a 30 day deployment, why for so long after the inauguration?

As military Intel is usually good they surely can't be expecting strike columns of Deplorables in their 'technicals' a la ISIS?

This quite naturally leads to the theory that if they are not to keep someone out, maybe they are there for the opposite. We will know in a few days.

[Jan 17, 2021] Why hasn't Mike Dunn been arrested by the FBI?

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'Boogaloo Boi' Leader Who Aligns with Black Lives Matter Boasted About Organizing Armed Insurrection On US Capitol

While establishment Republicans and Democrats and the mainstream media continue to blame Trump and his supporters for violent riots at the Capitol, they entirely ignored a Jan. 8 Reuters interview where he admitted "three or four groups of loyalists under his command helped storm the Capitol " and "embraced the moment to strike against the government."

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Asked whether boogaloos had planned to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, he told the publication, "Just know there is more to come."

The 22-year-old Boogaloo leader and Virginia resident bragged about "infiltrating" MAGA during the riot and scoffed at Trump supporters for adhering to the 6pm citywide curfew for the District of Columbia mandated on Jan 6.

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"After MAGA and others stormed the capital building in a moment of anger (which was cool) they retreated to hotels to comply with the Curfew. We obviously didn't stayed out in the streets until 12," he tweeted on Jan. 7.

In response to another Twitter user, he claimed, "Those were infiltrators, not real MAGA," Dunn gloated, "Yeh, we know."

While a Google search of the Boogaloo movement would have you believe the group is comprised of "far right," "white supremacist" Trump supporters, the Boogaloo Bois are actually a far-left group aligned with Black Lives Matter in their disdain for Trump and Republicans.

[Jan 17, 2021] Does Jade Sacker Work for CNN

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On Jan. 15, 2021, a slight wrinkle was added to this rumor: Not only was antifa responsible for the attack, but so was CNN. A viral video supposedly showing " CNN's Own " Jade Sacker quickly racked up more than 2 million views as it circulated on Twitter. Other postings of this video labeled Sacker as " CNN photojournalist " or " CNN reporter ."

Here's a screenshot of one such posting .

While this video was widely shared as if it showed a woman named Jade Sacker, we have not been able to independently verify this. If this video truly does show Sacker, however, it's important to note Sacker is not an employee of CNN. Describing her as "CNN's own" or "CNN reporter Jade Sacker" is inaccurate.

Sacker is a freelance photojournalist who documented the pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. She is not, nor has she ever been, employed by CNN.

Matt Dornic, the head of strategic communications for CNN Worldwide, wrote on Twitter that "no one named Jade Sacker works for CNN."

A spokesperson for CNN reiterated this point to us in an email, writing: "Jade Sacker has never worked for CNN."

So, where does this rumor come from?

On the evening of Jan. 6, Sacker appeared on "Anderson Cooper 360" alongside a man named John Sullivan to talk about what they saw during the Capitol riot. Specially, these two appeared on the network to discuss a piece of footage captured by Sullivan that showed the shooting death of a woman inside the Capitol. Here's a screenshot from that interview:

Sacker appeared on CNN because she was a witness to the Capitol riot, not because she was employed by CNN, or because she was hired by the network to report from the event.

It should be noted that Sullivan was arrested by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the riot a few days after this interview. While Sullivan claims that he was at the Capitol to document the event as a journalist, the FBI affidavit notes that Sullivan can be heard on video yelling things like "we about to burn this shit down" and "we accomplished this shit. We did this together. Fuck yeah! We are all a part of this history."

News of Sullivan's arrest was widely spread on social media attached to the misleading claim that he was a leader of antifa. We took a deeper look into Sullivan's alleged ties to antifa and Black Lives Matter here .

[Jan 17, 2021] The people who stormed the Capitol are easily divided into two groups; the petty bourgeoisie and lumpen-proletariat

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Andrew Watts , January 16, 2021 at 8:35 am

I've previously compared our time to the Revolutions of 1848 and so I reject the notion that these events can be compared to a genuine underclass rebellion. The people who stormed the Capitol are easily divided into two groups; the petty bourgeoisie and lumpen-proletariat. The lumpen proletariat is playing a similar role to what they did during 1848 as useful pawns of reactionary forces. While the petty bourgeoisie in America has seen it's economic prosperity threatened by the pandemic and are seething with fury at the federal/state government(s) after years of anti-government propaganda from the likes of Fox News and/or other "conservative" sources.

In any capitalist system the middle classes typically lack the political influence to be made whole by the State in any emergency and unknowingly live their lives on the edge of ruin. We saw this with the CARES Act when the largest chunk of the Paycheck Protection loans went to politically connected businesses. Babbitt is somewhere in the cross section between these groups. A former soldier without any dedicated profession nevertheless tries to start a business in a monopolistic service industry dominated by capital.

There isn't anything that can convince me her unnecessary and tragic death wasn't a suicide by cop. A former soldier or failed businesswoman attempting to breach a barricade with armed people behind it seems like a clear-cut example.

bob k , January 16, 2021 at 9:56 am

while i disagree with your last paragraph, i think you're right about the class content of the assaulters. I believe it was Marx who talked about the outrage of the petty bourgeoise (if not, then it was Lenin, can't remember). anyway the pb lacks the sweeping world view an enlightened working class and sees the world in terms of its narrow and short term interests, which right now are desperate and dismal.

Interestingly enough, or maybe not, the ranks of Antifa are also made up of the pb.

Andrew Watts , January 16, 2021 at 5:30 pm

I'd have to say that Antifa types are petty bourgeoisie with lumpen inclinations. The common characteristic that defines the lumpen is the inability to view itself with any degree of class awareness. The issue of class is an abstract theory to most of them. They can't connect the challenges of being lower class to their own personal life or contemporary peer's experience.

That very prevalence of abstract thought is commonly found in ages of decline/collapse though.

There is nothing more conducive to the destruction of a nation, whether it be a republic or monarchy, than the lack of men of wisdom or intellect. When a republic has many citizens, or a monarchy many ministers, of high quality it quickly recovers from losses that are brought about by misfortune. When such men are lacking, it falls into the very depths of disgrace. That is why I deplore the present state of the Empire which, having produced so many excellent men in the past, has now been reduced to such a level of sterility that today's governors possess nothing to elevate them above whom they govern. -John Cantacuzenus

Tony Wright , January 17, 2021 at 6:00 am

That quote also seems to perfectly summarise the reason behind the current Brexit and Covid19 situation in the (dis)UK. Little cause for optimism there methinks.

Dennis , January 16, 2021 at 12:01 pm

If there was any real party of the proletariat in the US, it would be pushing to incorporate the petty bourgeoisie into an alliance with the gig workers/retail workers who make up today's proletariat. As Marx pointed out in the Communist Manifesto, the lower middle class are becoming revolutionary "in view of its impending transfer into the proletariat," and it should be the goal of the left to partner with this class, not alienate them.

21st Century America's petty bourgeoisie is rather large as it consists of not only traditional small business owners, but also the kin to the working classes of the 70's and 80s, who benefited from the century of union activism that preceded them. They grew up middle class and in relative comfort, and they still have some of the wealth left over from the past. But now they see the only future for them and their children under Neoliberalism is downward. Since there is no movement from the left, they easily fall prey to the right and slogans like MAGA.

[Jan 17, 2021] Neither of these parties serves the interests of anyone except the ultrawealthy. And with the sliding standard of living of the majority of population this is problem and led to the Jan 6 events.

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KD , January 16, 2021 at 10:26 pm

The mistake I see is partisan thinking. "Working class people who vote for the GOP are voting against their own interests." Perhaps, provided we add "working class people who vote for the Democrats are voting against their own interests." The government serves the oligarchs, and GOP or Dem just expresses the tilt, is it going to be handouts for Hollywood or Oil and Gas?

Neither of these parties serves the interests of anyone except the ultrawealthy. You're more likely to get better representation voting in a local Chinese election, because at least the candidate hasn't been bought off by corporations. As long as the 99% continues to turn on each other in the fight over the table scraps, and keeps voting for these two corrupt "lesser of two evils", the result will be more evil.

VietnamVet , January 16, 2021 at 9:16 pm

[Jan 17, 2021] Lessons From the 6 January Capitol Insurrection

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Yves here.

... It's not hard to imagine that a decent proportion of the rioters were small business owners, like the woman who was fatally shot, Ashli Babbitt, who operated a pool service company with her husband. Small businesspeople have been the loudest opponents of lockdowns and other restrictions on Covid and some are even of the "Covid is a hoax" school. Yes, they favored Trump for economic reasons: they benefitted from his tax reforms and were keen about his refusal to support aggressive Covid containment measures.

By Albena Azmanova, an associate professor of politics at the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies and author of Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia (2020) and Marshall Auerback, a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, a fellow of Economists for Peace and Security , and a regular contributor to Economy for All , a project of the Independent Media Institute. Produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute

By the same token, the events of January 6th should be viewed as the point U.S. political dysfunction reached its breaking point. While the country still appears to remain economically powerful, it has become politically weak and socially fragile in ways characteristic of a society in decline. The focus on the relatively small group that broke into the Capitol as a result of lax security is akin to focusing on the Beirut blast wreckage to the exclusion of all else. Far more significant are the surveys of representative samples of Americans that reveal deepening mistrust of the core institutions and a growing commitment to sectarian interests which have, in many parts of the nation, superseded commitment to the republic itself.

This sheds a different light on the events. While the spark that ignited the violent pro-Trump upheaval was the incumbent's allegations that the November Presidential election was fraudulent, for many the assault on the Capitol was also an insurgency against the entire political class. "All these politicians work for us. We pay their salaries, we pay our taxes. And what do we get? Nothing. All of them inside are traitors" -- as a member of the mob stated .

On this particular point, the grievances of the violent mob and the findings of scholars align: America is an oligarchy, not a functioning democracy, as the detailed study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page argued in 2014. Thus, much as this was an assault on American democracy, the storming of the Capitol was also a sign that American democracy had already failed. Surely, these clumsy "revolutionaries" did not storm the Capitol because they are living the American Dream -- and they are blaming, unsurprisingly, the whole political class for their malaise.

Whenever economic explanations of this radicalization are attempted, inequality is singled out as the root of working-class discontent. Commentators from Joseph Stiglitz to Thomas Piketty or Emmaunuel Saez relentlessly hammer on one theme above all others: an economic inequality that has deep roots in the political system. A cross-party consensus is now emerging on fighting inequality through redistribution -- from raising the minimum wage to increasing unemployment benefits.

One reason why inequality has attracted so much attention is that it is easily measurable. Indeed, reports of the top 1% of Americans taking $50 trillion from the bottom 90% easily appeal to our sense of injustice. However, there are studies of the white working class which reveal that despite the outrage about inequality, many in this demographic still admire the rich. Additionally, the singular focus on economic inequality obscures another phenomenon -- the massive economic insecurity which is affecting broader swathes of the population beyond the 'precariat' (those in poorly paid and insecure jobs). While insecurity is not easy to measure and report, it is in fact at the root of the social malaise of Western societies.

Seeing economic precarity as a root cause also helps to better explain why so much of the working-class radicalization has taken a turn to the right. Right-wing populists specifically evoke language that triggers conservative instincts -- the evocation of family, a desire for stability, for clinging strongly to what is familiar ("Make America Great Again"), as opposed to plunging into political experimentation with something new -- with the "foreign", to the American mind, European-style social democracy (especially when combined with "woke" issues that tend to alienate). On the other hand, many on the libertarian right champion free market fundamentalism, which fosters competitive, rather than solidaristic attitudes -- especially when public goods are converted into private rents via privatization, which in turn limits access to resources that mitigate the effects of that intense competition instead of enhancing social solidarity.

Even under recent Democratic Administrations, economic recovery from the 2008 financial meltdown happened through a growth in insecure employment. The services jobs that fueled U.S. economic growth for the past 40 years -- until the pandemic began to destroy them -- were numerous, but of low quality. The rise of neoliberalism at the expense of the conservative-liberal divide that preceded it has enabled employers to tilt the terms of our capitalist economies heavily toward capital and away from labor, via the evisceration of unions, the deconstruction of the welfare state, and the privatization of public services. Most importantly, funding for public services and social programs has been persistently slashed. It is this impoverishment of the public commons that has increased the importance of personal wealth in securing essential goods such as healthcare and education. Thus, economic inequality matters enormously, but as a grave symptom of a broader problem -- that of massive, and growing, fragility of society as a whole. The erosion of the public sector precludes access to many of the social supports that have historically buttressed economic security.

As a result, the American economy has begun to resemble a new, modern feudalism with a small technocracy dominated by Silicon Valley tech overlords and Wall Street billionaires at the top, and a large, uneducated, rapidly growing serf class at the bottom with no social safety net to protect it. . Even if the wealth gap were to be considerably reduced by transfer from rich to poor, precarity would persist because it is rooted not in inequality, but in a depleted public sector, in a public authority that has abandoned the public and increasingly become a vehicle for predatory capitalism .

The pandemic exacerbated both the inequality and the precarity. Wall Street and the stock market have boomed over the past several months, generating affluence imbued with unprecedented levels of risk. At the same time, job growth has collapsed, and unemployment remains stubbornly high. Millions of Americans have withdrawn from the labor force, their jobs likely destroyed for good as the long-term impact of the economic shutdown wreaks havoc in many industries.

That has become a literal life consequence for working people in a system that continues to introduce restrictions to curb the pandemic. It is a particularly acute paradox in the United States, where healthcare remains largely predicated to employment via employer-funded healthcare systems. So we have the makings of a vicious cycle: restrictions are introduced to slow the pandemic, which in turn creates further job losses, which in turn can mean loss of employment and, hence, loss of access to healthcare provision. The very policies designed to safeguard health, then, ultimately exacerbate the problem. Add all of these factors together, align it with a demagogue working to undermine an election result, and you get the ingredients for a very poisonous outbreak of the kind we witnessed on January 6th.

The forces that led to the evisceration of working-class security is now extending to those ensconced in historically well-paid jobs, from lawyers to IT engineers. Even in the midst of a severe recession and a rapidly accelerating pandemic, policy makers remain remarkably indifferent to these trends and the ongoing precarity . They persist in believing that what has happened is merely a disruption to a solid structure, a deviation from normality, all of which can be rectified by the right mix of policy stimulus. A growing political consensus in the United States to tackle inequality appears to be emerging (especially in the wake of the recent Georgia run-off election, which put the Senate back under the control of the Democratic Party). But no matter how equal society becomes in terms of wealth distribution, without a dramatic government investment in public services, notably education, healthcare provision, and job security, trust and disillusionment in American institutions will persist, and with that also the rise of militancy by a radicalized underclass.


jackiebass , January 16, 2021 at 6:48 am

Generally people attending protests aren't poor people. Poor people are living from paycheck to paycheck. They need to work to survive. It is expensive to attend a protest. The travel and other costs along with lost wages if you are a working person aren't affordable. Many are funded by dark money, live off of parents or are borne into privilege. Actually many were protesting against a system that favors them. It is a small but vocal part of the population. People need to take these hate groups seriously. They are the biggest threat to our democracy that exists. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been warning us about this hate groups for decades. It is time we take the warning seriously.

bob k , January 16, 2021 at 8:07 am

i don't know, it was probably a mix of classes. I do know that I attended many many demos in the 60s in DC and always travelled by bus with many others. often we'd have a car wash to raise money for the bus. it was cheap and effective. and as a college student i didn't have much disposable income and often had to rely on the generosity of others. as for getting arrested, who thinks they're going to be arrested?

The Historian , January 16, 2021 at 8:24 am

I tend to agree. It is important not to judge them by what they looked like. It's like what happens at Sturgis. Many of the bikers are doctors, lawyers, techies, etc., but they grow beards and shave their heads, and generally 'dress down' for the event. I think that often happens at MAGA rallies too. Most of the MAGA types I know are small businessmen, i.e., the guy who owns a house painting business, or an auto repair place, or a small construction yard.

Carla , January 16, 2021 at 10:07 am

And safety forces -- almost all police officers and firefighters are unionized. While starting pay can be very low, benefits are excellent, and promotions plus regular raises mean these workers are usually solidly middle class. And tragically for this country, it seems they often identify with the predator class more than they do with the precariat.

Michael Fiorillo , January 16, 2021 at 11:25 am

Most of them seem to be petit bourgeois, which traditionally forms the base of right-wing/fascist movements. While it might have been white working class defectors from the Democratic Party who put Trump over the top in 2016 (as in the many thousands in swing states who voted for Obama before turning to Trump), his base is otherwise similar to that of more conventional Republicans.

As Adolph Reed has pointed out, #McResistance Media, LLC, has racialized the term "working class" to mean "white working class," the better to shame, scold and divide.

John Wright , January 17, 2021 at 9:16 am

One local (Northern Calif) retail business owner I deal with stated that "Trump is better for business" prior to the election, indicating his support for Trump.

Another time, he mentioned that he was "behind on the rent" for his building.

But this business owner still has a small and loyal workforce that he, somehow, pays.

Trump was the carny barker selling his version of (Obama) hope.

And great many USA people are hoping for their lot to improve.

In my view, the Democrats had an opportunity to work with Trump for the betterment of the country from January 2017 to January 2021.

Instead they ridiculed him and accused him of being a traitorous Russian dupe and unleashed the national security state on him..

Maybe if the Democrats had swallowed their pride and dealt in a less adversarial manner with the unworthy Trump, the USA and the world would be better off.

De-facto ignoring the long term economic issues (wages, healthcare, education, infrastructure) in the USA is policy for both parties.

And people USED to look to the Democrats as the party that actually cared for the less well off as in LBJ's War on Poverty.

I'm now expecting "Biden Disappointment Syndrome" to unfold after Jan 21 in Biden supporters.

John Wright , January 17, 2021 at 2:27 pm

I tend to view politicians as skilled in manipulation to get what they want.

Out of the gate, the Democrats Russigated Trump and second guessed his moves (talking with Putin, talking with North Korea).

I suspect businessman Trump is not the winning party in every deal he has made.

In my view, the Democrats did a real disservice to the county by antagonizing Trump from day one, seemingly because the anointed one did not win.

Perhaps the Democrats could have manipulated "serial liar" Trump for the country's benefit if they had t

dcblogger , January 16, 2021 at 7:45 am

when you violently assault the Capitol for the purpose of overturning and election and beat a police officer to death, people are going to say very mean things about you.

Carolinian , January 16, 2021 at 9:46 am

Depends on what you mean by "you." First hand accounts of the riot suggest that only a hard core were out to break into the building (and may have already been at the Capitol as Trump was speaking on the Ellipse). Many others simply walked in almost as tourists when the guards stepped aside. It's also unclear so far who these militant people were although they could have been Proud Boys. The Capitol policeman inside was killed by one person who hit him in the head with a fire extinguisher.

Greg Palast has an article saying that the rally did not have a permit to gather at the Capitol and that may be the reason it was so thinly defended (together one must suggest with incompetence by the now resigned head of the Capitol police). Perhaps the whole incident is more a matter of "stuff happens" than some deep dark insurrectionist plan.

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/14/organized-march-to-capitol-was-not-permitted-rally-organizers-warned-white-house/

lyman alpha blob , January 16, 2021 at 11:54 am

I agree with your take. The Gray Zone piece by Max Blumenthal that someone linked to here a few days ago is the only report I've seen by a reporter who was in the crowd at the scene. Blumenthal reported that there was definitely a core group who had violent intentions, but they were far from the majority. Sounds like that core used the larger protest as camouflage to some extent. Blumenthal also reported that there were many in the crowd who to him at least had some clear mental health issues.

I think the 6th was as you described – stuff happens. If more riots break out in the coming weeks though, that will no longer be the case. And telling people they'll get $1,400 right after you specifically promised them $2,000 isn't exactly the best way to calm the restless masses.

As many have noted here, the crowd was not the poorest of the poor. There have been reports that some pooled funds to charter private jets to the protest. A lot of what you might call petit bourgeoisie – small business owners and merchants.

And I sincerely hope that people don't misunderstand my point since I am not trying in any way to make a direct comparison between the participants in the riots of the 6th who I've never met and people from a couple centuries ago who I've also never met, but here's a list of some other petit bourgeoisie with an axe to grind – Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, Paul Revere .

The point is, regardless of the particular grievances of today's rioters and the revolutionaries of yesteryear, these things very rarely start with the poorest of the poor – they start when there is middle class backing, and as we all know, the middle class in the US has been under legislative assault from both parties for decades now.

Louis Fyne , January 16, 2021 at 1:56 pm

there is this account too, from the Martha Vineyards Times -- which I think that we can all agree is not a traditionally right-wing outlet.

https://www.mvtimes.com/2021/01/08/not-huge-angry-mob/

lyman alpha blob , January 16, 2021 at 2:50 pm

Thanks for that – great article. This was particularly interesting –

He said there were agitators wearing military-style clothing along the route from the rally to the Capitol trying to get the crowd fired up, but he repeated that the majority of people were just there to peacefully protest. "There were people trying to incite the crowd and I remember yelling at one. Maybe we should have grabbed their megaphones. I'm not there to get in a fight with anyone. There were people there to incite the crowd. No one was listening to them."

And for some strange reason, no matter the protest, if things do get violent we just never seem to be able to identify these types of agitators

fresno dan , January 16, 2021 at 12:05 pm

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/capitol-capture-assassinate-elected-officials/index.html
(CNN)Justice Department prosecutors have formally walked back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters sought to "capture and assassinate elected officials."
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Well, kudos to CNN for reporting against ideology. I wonder if people who appear on CNN TV will get the memo . And with regard to class of the protestors/rioters, it probably was an amalgam of well off AND people, IMHO, rightly justified in being cynical about the people who inhabit congress and the CORRUPT SYSTEM we have in the US that puts them in that building. People who don't read right wing publications would probably be surprised that a significant portion of the readers of such publications DO NOT support the thin blue line. – remember that an awful lot of unarmed white men get shot dead by police too. (National Review often points out unjustified police shootings of both black and white).
One of the problems with our MSM and social media is the idea that you either support or oppose 100% of what Trump ostensibly says (as Trump says so much that is contradictory, meaningless, or so much that just doesn't make sense, it really doesn't mean much to divide people based on such a criterion).
In this case, prosecutors seem to have leveled charges that I would say were premature at BEST, and perhaps due to an overly anti Trump animus (as always, I note that I despise Trump, but I will not defend the indefensible). REMEMBER that a good portion of the FBI and DoJ believed that Russiagate was a thing? Dare I say it – this insurrection was Trumped up? Maybe some conservatives believe, with good cause, that US policing and security functions aren't all that just. There is a movie out now about MLK and the FBI – people on the "left" should see it so that they no longer hold in thrall the FBI and DoJ one should never knee jerk defend or criticize the police.

FluffytheObeseCat , January 16, 2021 at 12:49 pm

" The Capitol policeman inside was killed by one person who hit him in the head with a fire extinguisher."
Based on video and common sense it's fairly clear that most of the people milling around in front of the Capitol on January 6th had no intention of storming it. And they're quite vocal now about how "obvious"* that should be. However. If they're comfortable blaming younger, darker, less privileged Americans for "enabling" the real vandals this past summer .. I feel comfortable holding them to the same account.

They provided cover and validation for the nutjob vandals and the genuinely dangerous (but rare) neofascists who led those charges into the Capitol. With the intent of stopping our legal, orderly transition of power based on an election. However fraught the validity of the election may be, or be claimed to have been, the people who tried to upend it 'cause they so love God Emperor Trump . they need to serve time. Lotsa time.

And the 'nonviolent' middle aged party animals who made it possible with their numbers, and their expensive Trump flags and camo gear, need to grow up and acknowledge the real duties of adult citizens. Just like the tiresome woke 'kids' who dominated the news this summer.

*(I have the sense that we are just expected to 'know' they must be virtuous, on account of their country music fan looks and saintly Republicanism.)

Carolinian , January 16, 2021 at 1:16 pm

cover and validation

I don't think any of us are arguing that Trump and his people should be blameless for letting his protest rally get out of control. But the Whataboutism cuts both ways. During the Floyd protests the media and the Dems were quick to assert that the worst violence was the fault of agent provocateurs but are unwilling to say the same about 1/6. Some of those militants may not even have been Trump supporters but rather anarchist types out for excitement. Too little is known to jump to conclusions.

Which is why if anything the House should have gone for censure rather than snap impeachment. And the new talk about "domestic terrorism" is a huge overreach.

neo-realist , January 16, 2021 at 5:29 pm

Lets not give short shrift to domestic terrorism:

White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.

Two later draft versions of the same document -- all of which were reviewed by POLITICO -- describe the threat from white supremacists in slightly different language. But all three drafts describe the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S., listed above the immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-terror-threat-dhs-409236

While the Orange Menace brays "Antifa, Antifa."

FluffytheObeseCat , January 16, 2021 at 9:52 pm

" Some of those militants may not even have been Trump supporters but rather anarchist types out for excitement. Too little is known to jump to conclusions."

Implicit in this statement is the notion that "some of them" may have been Antifa-like false flag, super undercover rodent-effers. After living in these Untied States for 59 years, I suspect this comfortable idea is a pile of hooey. We're not dealing with a horde of super-Machiavellis here. Just over excited heels who tend to congregate with those whom they're most comfortable around.

This Twitter clip https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1349944401179496449/video/1

is the best condemnation of every apologia I have yet seen. "But bleep you for being there."

The Rev Kev , January 16, 2021 at 10:31 pm

Yeah, saw that interview yesterday. But then I remembered that this guy actually applied for that job, is on about $65,000 a year with full pension and health benefits so he has a lot of security in his life, unlike a lot of the people in that riot, so bleep him too. And I bet that that neck tattoo would bar him from a lot of other jobs too.

But like yourself, I seriously doubt that there were any Antifa types in that riot as that would be like a mouse at a cat convention. From the videos that I have seen, their style is to do their stuff when they have superior numbers and are masked so that they could not be identified.

marym , January 16, 2021 at 10:56 pm

As reflected in several discussions at NC, we don't have a clear picture of the economic status of the participants. Sure, there's an argument to be made that, whatever the mix of petit bourgeois or working class, arriving by private plane or shared rides or rented buses, their economic situation, like that of most people now, is somewhere between precarious and more severely distressed.

However, that's not what they were protesting. They were protesting that their preferred candidate didn't win the election, that votes of people not-like-them were counted; and they were willing to use disruption and violence to thwart the legal process of finalizing the election.

The Rev Kev , January 17, 2021 at 1:25 am

Well, I never said that they were intelligent. :)

Carolinian , January 16, 2021 at 11:15 pm

Blumenthal who was there said some who scaled the walls seemed military or trained. Lambert then said from the video he thought they looked more like the people who attacked the Federal Courthouse in Portland.

And please read what I said carefully–that we don't know who they were but it's unlikely that the ones scaling walls were small business people. I also said they could be Proud Boys.

Also check out that Palast link on radical elements that were planning to cause trouble.

I don't think I'm the one who is jumping to conclusions here.

Yves Smith , January 17, 2021 at 4:24 am

I'm not keen about Blumenthal's reporting. He's mixed second-hand accounts with his and presented them all as first hand, or elided them so you can't tell which is which.

And why do you assume people who are fit are military? I'm a small business person and a fitness enthusiast. Before my hip was busted three years ago, I could have scaled a wall (I probably wouldn't have due to the risk of falling on concrete). They have scaling walls in some fancy gyms, along with climbing ropes. And there's also the cohort of people who are climbers and scale pretty sheer rockfaces for fun. Gah.

[Jan 17, 2021] Certainly the several government officials who obstructed getting the Maryland National Guard into DC for several hours were trying to buy time for the " Zip Tie Guys" to succeed in their "stuff that happened".

The mob was mostly ordinary folks out for a spectacle put on by a small group. Of course their presence validated the behaviour of the radicals
Jan 17, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

drumlin woodchuckles , January 17, 2021 at 3:06 am

[Jan 17, 2021] Utah Man Charged in Federal Court Following Events at the United States Capitol

Jan 17, 2021 | www.justice.gov

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Utah man was charged today in federal court in the District of Columbia in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.

John Earle Sullivan was charged by complaint with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and one count of interfering with law enforcement engaged in the lawful performance of their official duties incident to and during the commission of civil disorder. The defendant was arrested today in Utah.

The Complaint alleges that during the events at the U.S. Capitol, Sullivan, wearing a ballistics vest and gas mask, entered the U.S. Capitol through a window that had been broken out, pushing past U.S. Capitol Police once inside. The Complaint also alleges that Sullivan admits to filming and being depicted in video footage that shows him present, outside of the Speaker's Lobby within the U.S. Capitol, at the shooting of a woman by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

[Jan 17, 2021] Black Lives Matter Organizer Seen Entering Capitol Building With Crowd Is Likely An FBI Agent Provocateur

Jan 17, 2021 | national-justice.com

Social media is aflame after it emerged that John Earle Sullivan , a Utah-based Black Lives Matter organizer, was one of the people who entered the Capitol building with Trump-supporters on Wednesday.

Some are theorizing that Sullivan, who was arrested on felony rioting and multiple other charges last Summer after a shooting in Provo, is part of a Black Lives Matter conspiracy to make Trump-supporters look bad. Sullivan, the leader of Insurgence USA, was filmed in July as the ringleader directing a group of armed men who trapped a car and opened fire on the motorist .

Yet unlike dozens of others arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) after they left the Capitol building, Sullivan was released without charges after a short detention.

Despite the Department of Justice and FBI vowing to viciously punish every individual who entered the federal building, Sullivan continues to do public interviews incriminating himself after online sleuths identified him. He also witnessed and filmed the shooting of the unarmed white woman Ashli Babbitt by a black federal agent, but refuses to publish the footage.

While it is certain that Sullivan was at the Trump march to collect intelligence and act as an agent provocateur, evidence suggests he was operating on behalf of the FBI rather than Antifa.

Ideological Informants

During the anarchist riots last summer, National Justice learned of four separate instances of FBI agents approaching members of the Proud Boys and similar groups, offering to pay them large sums of money to fly to Portland and join the Antifa riots to collect evidence to help stop left-wing violence. The Antifa crackdown never materialized.

As they attempted to recruit Proud Boys, the FBI was using the media to seed a baseless claim about far-right provocateurs inciting all the violence at George Floyd riots.

The FBI dangles the prospect of retaliation against ideological enemies as a recruiting tool for informants and marks. While the offer made to right-wing activists has always been a sham later used to entrap them, the FBI is sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter cause.

The FBI At The Capitol

A new article published by Pro Publica suggests that FBI agents and informants played some kind of role at the Stop The Steal rally.

According to the report, the FBI knocked on the doors the day before the event and told various conservative figures they should not attend the First Amendment protest on behalf of the president. Federal agents played a role in the MPD's decision to arrest Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio on weak charges.

Trump-supporter Milo Yiannopolous told his audience over Parler that FBI agents came to his home and told him not to go, "Just had a knock at the door. I won't be going to DC. Whatever operation they've got running to fuck with patriots, it's massive and they aren't playing around."

While there's no evidence that the group that overpowered the police and entered the Capitol was inorganic, open questions remain over the role informants and undercover agents may have played in the deaths that occurred.

[Jan 15, 2021] Below is a short clip filmed by the BLM idiot that was just arrested, it shows Jade Sacker from CNN inciting the riot in the capitol right along with him.

Jan 15, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com


2 hours ago remove link

It's all starting to fall apart for the Demtards and their narrative. Below is a short clip filmed by the BLM idiot that was just arrested, it shows Jade Sacker from CNN inciting the riot in the capitol right along with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1uHKEAppU

Then we have Steele coming out and directly telling everyone that he wrote the Dossier for one reason, that was to get the Trump/Russia collusion story going in order to divert attention away from the Clinton emails. So there you have it, you****ingassholelibtards who spent years whining about Trump and how he was controlled by Putin, now know the truth of your idiocy and outright Treason against this country. You people are thebiggestassholesin the world for pulling this crap on America.

When De-class hits full on this weekend and next week, we are all going to get a taste of just what these people are all about.

[Jan 15, 2021] Trump did not tell the protesters to storm the capitol building but he was stupid for sending them there. He should have known there were agitators in the crowd. Intelligence should have informed him, if not, common sense should have told him

Why the DC and Capitol Police who also 'should have known" since they are the professionals, were the ones who chose to not add additional forces. False flag operation ?
Jan 15, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

optimax , 15 January 2021 at 04:33 PM

Trump did not tell the protesters to storm the capitol building but he was stupid for sending them there. He should have known there were agitators in the crowd. Intelligence should have informed him, if not, common sense should have told him.

There were lefties in the riot who entered the capitol e3ven though there is no proof they were a determining factor in the stupidity that followed Trump's speech.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/rush_to_judgment_on_trump_multiple_leftists_arrested_for_capitol_riot.html

I heard AOC say she was afraid for her life. She had no sympathy for the small business owner that lost everything when the cities burned, windows broken, stores looted, people beaten and killed. The Dems supported BLM and antifa riots, in fact, egged them on. Now they want to crack down on the right because they target the source of power and not the little guy unprotected by law enforcement. Defund the capitol police.

TV , 15 January 2021 at 08:01 PM

Optimax:
If there was "intelligence". I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was withheld from Trump.
The "intelligence" (talk about an oxymoron) agencies have been sabotaging him since before his election.
As for the cops, the DC Metro police work for a raging Trump-hater and the Capitol Police, who knows?
My niece worked in the Capital for several years and when I asked her about the Capitol Police, she laughed:
"They can barely operate the metal detectors."

[Jan 15, 2021] Were the people who walked through a door held open by cops saying, "I don't agree with it, but I respect it," stole a podium, and took some selfies and then left after a couple hours implementing the "destroy the Constitution" plan

Will the Senate really take this superfast cooked Impeachment? Impeachment has customarily been understood to be a process to remove a sitting president, not convict a former one -- or bar him from federal office, as is proposed by the count of the indictment. Looks like once Trump's term ends on Jan. 20, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him -- even if the House has already approved articles of impeachment. Regardless, there's no way the Senate will convict with a 2/3 vote and the dems know it.
Jan 15, 2021 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Annie from Alaska interguru 2 days ago

The BLM protests, ugly as they were, were not an attempt to destroy the Constitution and overthrow the government.

I get the different parts of the leftist program confused. I guess we have a James Clapper "not under this program" situation here. It wasn't BLM it was some other program. hunh. What was the constitution-overthrow program called again?

Was it the rigged vote-counting? Operation Voteharvest? The activist judges ordering the permanent administrative state to defy the state legislature's election laws? The Soros DAs refusing to enforce the law? The Californians pretending to move to Georgia then moving back? The plans to pack the court and add states that the puppet presidential candidate refused to discuss? The plan to lock everyone in their homes, shut down small businesses, print money and distribute it based on skin color? The plan to legalize all the illegals by illegal executive order? The plan to grab all the guns through some weird scheme of requiring stamps that nobody issues? Burning the police station to the ground and attempting to burn the federal courthouse to the ground while talking about Orange Man's "fascist" attempts to stop that from happening?

Or the black-shirted Marxist roving death squads with bats, bricks, and guns declaring warlord-ruled "autonomous zones" within major cities, with support from local politicians and their party organ media?

Which was the plan to destroy the Constitution and overthrow the government?

oh, sorry. I got it all wrong. it was the people who walked through a door held open by cops saying, "I don't agree with it, but I respect it," stole a podium, and took some selfies and then left after a couple hours. That was the "destroy the Constitution" plan. Did it work? How's it going, guys? We're rooting for you. We've come so far but we have such a long way to go.

Tom Riddle Guest 3 days ago
In what specific part of the President's speech did he "incite the mob"? By telling them to go peacefully protest? By telling them to cheer on the Senators and Representatives raising objections? By telling them to make people proud?

Trump literally gave a speech filled with insane lies about election fraud and told them to go to the Capitol to stop the steal. His personal lawyer bellowed there will be "trial by combat". Trump advisor and bedding impresario Mike Lindell talk about civil war. Saying "peaceful" once isn't a magic spell that absolves one of responsibility. If it was, Michael Corleone would be as innocent as a babe being baptized.

None of this would have happened without Trump's leadership. Whipping up a mob against Congress is the only thing he's focused on for an extended period of time in his presidency

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As for the riots this summer, I also believe that any rioters should be removed from the office of the president of the United States.

Matthew Maheras Guest 3 days ago • edited
Yes, there is. In what specific part of the President's speech did he "incite the mob"? By telling them to go peacefully protest?

Probably the parts where he told the crowd that they had to "fight like hell," then the part where he said if they "don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore" , then saying they had to "stop the steal" and that if they didn't they would have an "illegitimate president." The latter claim of course being a bald-faced lie.

But what happened in the capitol last week was no uglier than what has been happening in this country for years, virtually every time the left gets it protest wheels turning.

Yes it was uglier.

Attacking businesses ≠ attacking police stations ≠ attacking court houses ≠ attacking State Capitols ≠ attacking The Capitol ≠ threatening to lynch the VP and Members of Congress

If you're going to make a false equivalence like this, why should anyone take you seriously? Yes, threatening to upend our democracy by advocating the death of our elected officials is a lot bigger of an issue than a Target in Minneapolis being looted or burned. It's possible for both things to be bad or unwelcome outcomes, but for one (the Trump insurrection) to be far, far, far, far worse.

How about burning down entire sections of cities, dragging innocent civilians out of their cars, rioting, looting, firebombing, raping, murdering....all part and parcel with conduct we watched go on for months.

Hilariously, Trump pardons war criminals that literally have done all these things, and you pretend like you have the moral high ground.

But he incited a riot. He deserves to be impeached. He deserves to be barred from running for office. He deserves to be deplatformed.

The funniest thing about this is that you could ignore the riot and he still deserves to be impeached . Did you forget when the little impeachable phone call he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger? God knows how many more similar phone calls he's made over the past four years that no one was smart enough to record and leak.

who went around and raised money to bail out rioters from jail so they could go out and riot again have been fired

They primary reason to paying for bail is because we have an unequal and unjust cash bail system that benefits to middle/upper-class and has unequal impact on the poor. Get real.

SatirevFlesti Matthew Maheras 2 days ago • edited

Funny you leftist didn't mind when left-wing scum occupied the Wisconsin capitol for 40 days in 2011, or attacked and occupied Senate offices during the Kavanaugh hearings, or breached Capitol security barriers during the "Women's March, etc etc.

[Jan 15, 2021] Sen. Josh Hawley responds to critics- 'Why I objected'

Jan 14, 2021 | www.semissourian.com

Last week I objected during the Joint Session count of electoral votes in order to have a debate on the issue of election integrity. My objection proceeded according to the letter of the statute, which specifically permits for objections and debate, and followed the traditions of Congress. In fact, dozens of Democratic members of Congress have lodged objections in precisely the same forum over the last three decades. To be specific, Democrats objected after the elections of 2000, 2004, and 2016–in other words, every time a Republican has won the White House in the last thirty years. And they were within their rights to do so. The Joint Session is the forum where concerns about an election can be raised, debated, and ultimately resolved with a vote.

The difference between those past instances and this year, however, is striking. In the past, when Democrats objected, they were praised for standing up for democracy. In 2005, when Democrats objected to counting Ohio's electoral votes, Nancy Pelosi praised the objections, saying, "This debate is fundamental to our democracy" and "we are witnessing democracy at work."

This time around, anyone who objected has been called an "insurrectionist." Sadly, much of the media and many members of the Washington establishment want to deceive Americans into thinking those who raised concerns incited violence, simply by voicing the concern. That's false. And the allegation itself is corrosive and dangerous.

Let me say again, as I have said before: the lawless violence at the Capitol last week was criminal. There can be no quibbling about that. Those who engaged in it should be prosecuted and punished. Lawless violence undermines the democratic process by which we settle our disputes and threatens our democratic life. That applies to mobs of any and all political persuasions. Mob violence is always wrong.But democratic debate is not mob violence. It is in fact how we avoid that violence.

Our system of government is the envy of the world in part because it contains mechanisms to give Americans of different views a voice -- without resort to threats or violence or unrest of any kind. Debate on the floor of Congress, like the debate that is provided for during the counting of electoral votes, is one of these. It is a forum for registering disagreement, airing differing views, and resolving these differences peaceably. This is our proud tradition as Americans.

Many, many citizens in Missouri have deep concerns about election integrity. For months, I heard from these Missourians -- writing, calling my office, stopping me to talk. They want Congress to take action to see that our elections at every level are free, fair, and secure. They have a right to be heard in Congress. And as their representative, it is my duty to speak on their behalf. That is just what I did last week.

As to my specific objection: I objected with regard to Pennsylvania because the state failed to follow its own constitution. The Pennsylvania constitution has been interpreted by the state's courts for over a century to prohibit mail-in voting, except in clearly stated circumstances. But last year, Pennsylvania politicians adopted universal mail-in voting anyway. To make matters worse, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court then changed the rules for when mail-in ballots could be returned. And when Pennsylvania citizens tried to go to court to object, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out the case on procedural grounds, in violation of its own precedent. To this day, no court has found the mail-in voting scheme to be constitutional, or even heard the merits of the case.

I also objected to point out the unprecedented interference of the Big Tech corporations in this election in favor of the Biden campaign, not just in Pennsylvania but everywhere. Their interference in our democratic process has only accelerated in recent days.

Some wondered why I stuck with my objection following the violence at the Capitol. The reason is simple: I will not bow to a lawless mob, or allow criminals to drown out the legitimate concerns of my constituents.

I am proud to represent you in Congress. Your voice helps make this country and our democracy strong. These are difficult days for our country. All I can promise you is that I will do my best, day in and day out, to represent your voice, no matter who criticizes me. And I will do my utmost to preserve, protect and defend this republic that we call home.

Josh Hawley (R-MO) is a United States senator.

[Jan 15, 2021] Trump supporters are pushed into underground

I am strongly against balkanization of the country. The example of the USSR shows where it leads -- misery of common pople and dramatic drop of the standard of living, while new gand of ruthless oligarchs emerge from the ruins.
Jan 15, 2021 | www.rt.com

Pushing the Trump-inspired populist movement underground may only cause it to resort to more drastic measures. As the leftist libertarian reporter Glenn Greenwald observes ,

"these people know they are scorned and looked down upon... and the more you humiliate and make them feel powerless, the more you take away their ability to organize and express that rage, it's gonna find an outlet in more destructive ways."

As a former professor at a top-ranking university, I favored a Trump re-election, not because I support Trump so much as abhor what the opposition represents and is proving itself to be. In response to the social media threat to expression, I have inaugurated a new group on Telegram called 'Thought Criminals'. There, fellow 'thought deviationists' like me are able to express views that are effectively proscribed on mainstream social media platforms. No one among us advocates violence or the overthrow of the government. None of us is 'racist'. We advocate only the rights enshrined in the US Constitution.

But some groups, no doubt, are intent on violence. Yet the violent extremists consist mostly of Antifa and related 'activists', who will unfortunately trick Trump supporters into another error during the inauguration, like some appeared to do when involved in the Capitol siege. It's not as if violent extremists among the Trump base were always there, ready to pounce on any opportunity to express their "racist," "white nationalist" views.

Rather, as the rising party has already demonstrated, these people stand to lose the most under a Biden-Harris regime, whose Big Tech and mainstream media allies act as governmental enforcement apparatuses.

Trump supporters have been hated and demonized simply for wanting to live without being reprimanded and punished for their whiteness, their middle-Americanness, or their values. They face an anti-white, anti-native, anti-middle-America extremism that is set to silence and crush them into submission.

These and others will form a new underground under the prevailing ideological and political hegemony. This banishment of millions, and not Trump, is why the nation will fall apart, if indeed it does.


JJ_Rousseau 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:58 PM

The best thing that could happen is for USA to "balkanize". For the rest of the world, and for Americans too. The founding fathers intentionally put restraints on the federal government's power to prevent the situation we now face. Both parties (actually the duopoly) are guilty of breaching the constitution, on so many levels we have lost count
Ronj14848 JJ_Rousseau 1 hour ago 15 Jan, 2021 07:23 PM
The USA have more American in uniform outside America than civilian Americans inside America. You bleed yourself dry trying to be the boss of the world.
chert JJ_Rousseau 3 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 04:52 PM
Right, states should have more power than the federal government. Case in point: North Dakota is trying to pass a law to sue Facebook and Twitter for those who have been censored on those platforms. But federal law under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act will supersede because federal law wins.
apothqowejh 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 04:17 PM
As an American, I can't say a reckoning hasn't been overdue. The myopia in this country, and the tolerance for evil, was bound to rebound. From a refusal to honestly look at 9/11, a refusal to accept responsibility for Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and a host of other insanely brutal blunders, to an acceptance of such horrors as the USAPatriot Act and the COVID scam, everyday Americans have obliviously sleepwalked into a totalitarian dystopia. Tyranny abroad inevitably leads to tyranny at home, and we have well-earned it by refusing to vote for peace and non-interventionism; for limited government, for responsible spending. Now our votes no longer matter, and we are caught helpless in the whirlwind of our own destruction.
newagerage apothqowejh 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 04:33 PM
The CIA, NSA, Pentagon... all these corporations lead to disaster as the employees have to keep causing trouble to justify their jobs and spend, spend like crazy, the Army and intelligence agencies spending the hard worked money from Silicon Valley and other sectors. The country just doesn't make sense, first outsource jobs to China and then when they see that Chinese people are smarter than them outsource those to India? are Indians idiots? I don't think so... both countries will rule the World by the end of the century. And the most important of all... where is your public education system? you can live without a proper health system, China does, but without a decent public education system? most Americans don't know where Portugal or Belgium is placed, no matter black or white...
ceshawn 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:31 PM
Trump didn't do this. The irrational reaction to Trump did this. It started with the now-fully mythological Russia-gate nonsense (that started with an almost ridiculously made up FISA warrant application). Continued through constant over-the-top challenges by Democrats of Trump following Obama-era laws (separation of children and adults for illegal border crossings) and the clear obstruction used by opponents during his entire Presidency. Trump was a disaster, Biden will be a nightmare (or a complete liar), but the left shouldn't be complaining when the reaction to their candidate is equally as disturbing as their reaction to the right (and yes, the circus that was the "raid" at the Capitol is just as bad as the intel community doing shady things against a sitting President).
Ronj14848 ceshawn 1 hour ago 15 Jan, 2021 07:27 PM
Trump didnt start new wars......but he has created a situation that foriegn wars will spring from his actions. He has created hate for a country that during the second world war was a much loved country.
billy brown ceshawn 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:36 PM
What could the 'rioters' do? We aren't going to let them poison us anymore. This election will not be stolen and the new patriot act isn't going to get passed quietly. They are going to have to crush us or allow a partition of the country
ceshawn 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:36 PM
If I were Russia or China, I would be watching carefully. Biden almost HAS to go after Russia over the Crimean disaster of Obama and China will be his easy-out enemy if things are complicated otherwise. North Korea will somehow become a big deal again as well. Let those missiles fly, because the incoming administration has a proven track record of blowing up innocent women and children for "funsies" (drone strikes on "suspected" terrorists...oh and their families) without any form of due process or care for the safety of collateral damage.
Ronj14848 ceshawn 58 minutes ago 15 Jan, 2021 07:36 PM
True...the media support the military industrial complex. Their friends own the miltary industrial complex . See who they support politically and avoid them like the plague.
Ronnie Spelbos ceshawn 2 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 06:04 PM
if I was Russia or an Eastern European nation I would offer asylum to white heterosexual men and their families who want to leave the US. Take advantage of the brain capital and work ethic of this group. The US is no country for white men.
Ohhho 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 01:41 PM
The Evil empire felt vulnerable so it lashed out with vengeance! None if it helps to fix the issues behind the problem so I expect to see more of it in the near future!
TheFishh Ohhho 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:32 PM
There are literally just a few things the US can do to rebound as a decent country, but the establishment doesn't want to make those moves. They rather see everything collapse than see their wealth and power decreased by any amount.
OneHorseGuy 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:17 PM
"79% of Americans think the US is falling apart" those not accounted for are possibly homeless or illiterate and don't have the opportunity of putting their view forward.
Ronnie Spelbos OneHorseGuy 2 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 06:02 PM
102% think the US is falling apart - cites Dominion.
newswithoutbord OneHorseGuy 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:31 PM
Spot on, mate!
RTaccount 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:22 PM
There will be no peace, no unity, and no prosperity. And there shouldn't be.
TheFishh RTaccount 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:38 PM
The US regimes past and present have worn out their bag of tricks. A magician is a con-man. And the only way they can entertain and spellbind the crowd with their routines is if everyone just ignores the sleight of hand. But people are starting to call the US out for the tricks it is pulling, and that's where the magician's career ends.
omyomy RTaccount 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:54 PM
We the sane people know who is picking a fight. No matter what the propaganda outlets decree.
Tor Gjesdal 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:18 PM
79%,sure? OK. Very soon 85% of Westerners will understand their Countries are heading for failures. They have been deceived for way too long.
Twenty Tor Gjesdal 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:23 PM
The alternative to western governments is dictators, one party rule. Yes, most western governmental concepts are idealistic, but we wouldn't trade for anything else because we know better.
JIMI JAMES Tor Gjesdal 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:31 PM
0 covid cases,i dont think so.
soumalinna1 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:36 PM
Correct. America will never be the same again. Democrats and CNN destroyed a once great nation.
Ronnie Spelbos soumalinna1 2 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 06:06 PM
The 1965 Immigration Act destroyed the US. A country too diverse with little in common was always bound the fall apart.
Drayk soumalinna1 3 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 04:42 PM
How did they do that?

[Jan 15, 2021] The false flag event was an excuse for all under pressure to toss the POTUS under the bus...to do just that. The stolen election that had multistate collusion

While Trump went into the trap himself, by inciting his supporters instead of putting clear agenda ("demand the establishment of the Congressional commission on election fraud ") and organizing them, there are already some indirect signs of the false flag. First of all speed with which the second impeachment articles were drafted and passed.
Jan 15, 2021 | www.rt.com

Grm Rpr 11 January, 2021 11 Jan, 2021 01:58 PM

Today is 11Jan2021. Very few if any Republicans have stated that what happened on 06Jan2021 was a false flag operation. There are many, many videos proving this. Pres Trump did not encourage violence in anyway shape or form and every communique that proves this was hastily removed from every platform possible, no one makes the connection to hide the truth. The false flag event was an excuse for all under pressure to toss the POTUS under the bus...to do just that. The stolen election that had multistate collusion, multiple foreign states interfering is far, far more dangerous to the USA than any one protest on 06Jan 2021 ever could be. Far too many republicans just rolled over in the name of distancing themselves from him to keep their position without risk. These are the people that like sending others into unending wars. There are still 8.5 days left. Pres Trump can still declassify a lot of treason/sedition//and plan old felonious crimes perpetrated by people in (or formerly in) very, very high places. If he does it quickly enough he could win a second term for the second time.

[Jan 15, 2021] So now that BLM and ANTIFA have been implicated with the events of Jan 6th in DC, can we just say it was a mostly peaceful protest and everyone can go on to the next manufactured crisis?

Jan 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Tom , Jan 15 2021 21:12 utc | 122

So now that BLM and ANTIFA have been implicated with the events of Jan 6th in DC, can we just say it was a mostly peaceful protest and everyone can go on to the next manufactured crisis?

[Jan 15, 2021] I'm thinking Pelosi Schumer arranged the invasion. Remember they got themselves vandalized a few days before? That's why she is prancing around like she ate the canary

Jan 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Jackrabbit , Jan 15 2021 3:34 utc | 68

...The attack on conservative media and free speech rights is generating much consternation on the right. Some have speculated that the Capitol take-over was allowed to happen so that the liberal establishment could crackdown on the right. The failures of the Capitol police are suspicious. They failed to adequately prepare and failed to call upon additional resources until too late.

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Bemildred , Jan 15 2021 4:47 utc | 74

@Jackrabbit | Jan 15 2021 3:34 utc | 68

I'm thinking Pelosi & Schumer arranged the invasion. Remember they got themselves vandalized a few days before? That's why she is prancing around like she ate the canary. They outfoxed Trump's attempt to put pressure on the counting.

Copeland , Jan 15 2021 2:38 utc | 62

It is fair to observe that if Trump were to be impeached for his real crimes; then his rivals, the Democrats, would be implicated in the same evils: the savage and intentional starvation of children in Yemen, or the overt hostility to any socialist society that offers land reform or social safety nets, or universal healthcare to its citizens. There is bipartisan support for the brutal and perhaps lethal captivity of Julian Assange.

US military chiefs have put out a letter to condemn the abortive siege of the Capitol. The authority of the surveillance state and its covert methods continue undiminished. Joe Biden is putting Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power on the pointy end of regime change for any little country that might reject the Empire's edicts.

Cyril , Jan 15 2021 1:37 utc | 59

@b

The Democrats aren't stupid. They know that they are provoking more strife. They will use that to roll out authoritarian measure that will serve the powerful. It is a suppression strategy that has, at times, worked in other countries.

The forceful suppression works for long -- repeat, for long -- only if the country's military is supported and supplied by an external force...

vk , Jan 14 2021 12:11 utc | 2

Impeachment Is a Call for 'Moral Clarity'

Besides this guy, the WaPo Editorial Board has already called for the Senate to accelerate this impeachment.

It seems this impeachment is more like a desperate attempt by the Legislative to try to restore the image of American democracy than anything else. I don't think there's a bigger conspiracy looming behind it:

'I do not celebrate or feel pride': Twitter CEO defends Trump's permaban, but admits speech crackdown can 'destroy' open internet

Dorsey is right: a permaban on Trump is bad for his business, as his followers obviously will immigrate en masse to another social media platform. It would be an artisanal antitrust breakup.

I think the USA is long gone its phase of scheming and planning. It is now improvising, trying to fix problem after problem in their system as they come. Pretty much how the great empires fall: pressure from the outside, problems from the inside.

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Kabobyak , Jan 14 2021 18:10 utc | 27

The theatre of what's happening in Congress is amusing, even if it seems to be a play by grade-schoolers instead by Broadway. The Dems seem sure their strategy will cripple the Repubs, and there's a good chance that could happen. But McConnell controls the Senate until Jan. 20, and can start the impeachment trial at any time he chooses (he has hinted that it would be on Jan. 19th). Do the Dems really want to spend their important "first hundred days" impeaching someone who is no longer there? If it didn't totally shut down decisions on other issues (cabinet hearings, stimulus checks, healthcare, etc.) it would delay them greatly. Even though Schumer would then be in control, Senate rules would require rules of order that could make the trial go on for weeks. I would think the public backlash could be harsh.

Of course there are many Repubs who I assume would like to see the whole thing disappear quickly, as a prolonged trial will allow the Dems to milk the "domestic terrorists" angle even more, pointing the finger at those lawmakers who were complicit (real or perceived) in stoking the uprising. This could play into McConnell's decisions as well.

From my POV, above the "two party illusion", the impeachment could be the best thing to throw a monkey wrench into whatever upcoming fuckery is in store (as Caitlin J. wrote, "Biden will have the most diverse, intersectional cabinet of mass murderers ever assembled"). Unlike Trump's dysfunctional presidency, this team will have the deep ties with neo-liberal (and neocon) heavy hitters in the MIC, big tech, Wall Street, etc., and may be ready to hit the ground running. Victoria Nuland's appointment was the icing on the cookies to highlight our awful state of affairs.

[Jan 15, 2021] Happened I come across a great 20-minute YouTube video about the blatant and ongoing US/Western hypocrisy regarding what happened at the Capitol and what the US inflicts on others.

Jan 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Canadian Cents , Jan 14 2021 18:58 utc | 31

Happened across a great 20-minute YouTube video about the blatant and ongoing US/Western hypocrisy regarding what happened at the Capitol and what the US inflicts on others.

"A Reflection on American Foreign Policy Arrogance & Hypocrisy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv3H9PNw4eQ

Those events that the US mediacracy has made so much of were relatively brief and mild when put into context, but as in Shock Doctrine, the shock is played up and the crisis is readily and extensively made use of by the establishment.

It's from YouTuber Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian expat in China who has lived in Hong Kong, so it relates to what happened in Hong Kong, but the same exercise could probably be done with other US-sponsored insurrections like Maidan in Kiev, Ukraine, the attempt in Belarus, and the countless other protests/insurrections inflicted by the US.

[Jan 15, 2021] What's the floor plan- -- New 'suspicious video' emerges from Capitol siege

Jan 15, 2021 | www.citizenfreepress.com

Miss Marple

I was extremely interested in hearing the General opinions.

You can't blame Antifa, folks. Shouldn't the people who organized this demonstration have co-ordinated better? Didn't they have the least bit of whisper in their ears that Antifa/disguised BLM may show up? Do we not know anything about Antifa? Of course we do!! They're amply funded, organized, and well trained. They have agreements with Soros-elected DAs for nonprosecution for any charges related to rioting and violence. Why would anyone expect them NOT to show up?

Too late now. You KNOW these vids will get no airplay outside of independent journalism. No one in Congress cares.

Btw, Antifa is run by U.S. intelligence. Antifa comes from our own Deep State. I got this clear impression after reviewing many vids of last Wednesday. So now you REALLY know why Antifa/BLM have NOT been charged throughout the country. This is a big operation and highly co-ordinated. They are part and parcel of the Democrat Party = Deep State America Against Americans

Democrat Party's election slogan = Build Back Better

Deep State America/Democrat Party are the water carriers for Klaus Schwab/Davos crowd.

Btw, any Europeans going to attend Klaus' party on Jan. 25 or so when WEF announces The Great Reset?

Maybe we should spread the rumor throughout Europe's immigrant communities that Klaus is planning on showing cartoons of Allah in horrid contexts. Fray

I am not much for conspiracy theories but I am starting to believe this Capital "riot" was a false flag, it's almost as if it has become the Democrats Riechstag fire. They needed a race to blame all of the countries problems on, the Dems use whites as that race, next comes the banning of guns and the purging of academia of differing views. 1 Reply January 14, 2021 11:00 am Obsolete_Man Obsolete_Man

I'm sure by now you saw the poster which calls for armed protests at all the state capitals and in DC the 20th. A perfect excuse to justify the military being called up, it will be ANTIFA and perhaps a few alt right militia members who will show up while the cameras are rolling. If there are peaceful protesters thinking of going to DC they should not fall for this trap. This stunt accomplishes several things for the left; proof of an insurrection, the need to get those pesky guns from supremacists, and of course, Trump is responsible. cromwell

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4bIeKj7fZ8U?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent 3 Reply January 14, 2021 10:51 am Founders1791 Founders1791

[Jan 15, 2021] American Pravda- Our Disputed Election by Ron Unz

The key reson of the protest, which was later hijacked and used against Trump and his supporters, was disputed election. Navaro report https://navarroreport.com/ suggests that the signs of election fraud committed are very plausible. As Ron Unz said "Given these facts, anyone who continues to deny that the election was stolen from Trump is simply being ridiculous."
If those allegations are true, that makes installation of Biden a coup d'état. The fact that the protest was turned into false flag used to depose and silence Trump does not change that fact.
Notable quotes:
"... The Hunter Biden corruption scandal seemed about as serious as any in modern presidential election history and Biden's official victory margin was just 0.01%. So if the American voters had been allowed to learn the truth, Trump almost certainly would have won the election, quite possibly in an Electoral College landslide. Given these facts, anyone who continues to deny that the election was stolen from Trump is simply being ridiculous. ..."
"... Heated election campaigns have consequences, and this is especially true when all of America's most powerful corporations and ruling elites unite to essentially steal a reelection ..."
"... this confused tableau of chaos and popular anger, which recalls scenes from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention protests, has been portrayed as a "coup attempt" incited by President Trump, and therefore justifying his second impeachment. ..."
"... Expanded mail in voting FRAUD, you mean. Most European countries do not accept voting by mail. Because of fraud issues. ..."
"... This is one more typical coup, CIA installing its chosen presidential puppet ruler. It's a wholly routine occurrence ..."
"... Trump would have won despite the hostility of the media and big tech, and despite electoral corruption in Democrat-controlled big cities, if he had spent the previous 4 years making a good faith effort to implement the policies he ran on in 2016. ..."
"... He ran as a populist, yet ruled as a plutocrat. ..."
"... Candidate Trump promised a non-interventionist foreign policy. President Trump dug us deeper into the Middle East quagmire, intensifying hostilities against Russia, Syria, Yemen and Iran while being cartoonishly subservient to Israel. ..."
"... He ran on an immigration platform written by Jeff Sessions. As president he prioritized the immigration policies of Sheldon Adelson and Jared Kushner – calling for "more immigration than ever before" in his State of the Union address, and lecturing his dumbfounded rally-goers on the need for increased immigration because "my friends in the business world say we need it". ..."
"... Candidate Trump promised to drain the swamp. President Trump pardoned a menagerie of grotesque swamp creatures. ..."
"... Candidate Trump promised to close the carried interest loophole and make Wall Street pay its fair share. President Trump gave massive tax cuts to the very media moguls and tech oligarchs who would subsequently doom his 2020 campaign. ..."
Jan 15, 2021 | www.unz.com

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In particular, several of the major swing-states contain large cities -- Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Atlanta -- that are both totally controlled by the Democratic Party and also notoriously corrupt, and various eye-witnesses have suggested that the huge anti-Trump margins they provided may have been heavily "padded" to ensure the candidate's defeat.

Even leaving aside some of these plausible claims, the case for a stolen election seems almost airtight. I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines, whether they are controlled by Venezuelan Marxists, Chinese Communists, or Martians. But the most blatant election-theft was accomplished in absolutely plain sight.

Not long before the election, the hard drive of an abandoned laptop owned by Joe Biden's son Hunter revealed a gigantic international corruption scheme, quite possibility involving the candidate himself. But the facts of this enormous political scandal were entirely ignored and boycotted by virtually every mainstream media outlet. And once they story was finally published in the pages of the New York Post , America's oldest newspaper, all links to the Post article and its website were suddenly banned by Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets to ensure that the voters remained ignorant until after they had cast their ballots.

Renowned international journalist Glenn Greenwald was hardly a Trump partisan, but he became outraged that the editors of the Intercept , the $100 million publication he himself had co-founded, refused to allow him to cover that massive media scandal, and he angrily resigned in protest. In effect, America's media and tech giants formed a united front to steal the election and somehow drag the crippled Biden/Harris ticket across the finish line.

The Hunter Biden corruption scandal seemed about as serious as any in modern presidential election history and Biden's official victory margin was just 0.01%. So if the American voters had been allowed to learn the truth, Trump almost certainly would have won the election, quite possibly in an Electoral College landslide. Given these facts, anyone who continues to deny that the election was stolen from Trump is simply being ridiculous.

Heated election campaigns have consequences, and this is especially true when all of America's most powerful corporations and ruling elites unite to essentially steal a reelection from a populist incumbent, hero-worshiped by many tens of millions of Americans. And when despite all that blatant unfairness and theft, the final margin of defeat is just one vote in 7,000, an explosion of popular outrage should only be expected.

Solid estimates appear unavailable, but it seems that hundreds of thousands of grass-roots Trump supporters traveled to our nation's capital to protest against what they regarded as a stolen election, and then peacefully assembled to listen to their hero's speech.

Afterwards, a tiny sliver of this vast multitude of angry individuals -- perhaps less than one in a thousand -- barged their way into the strangely-undefended Capitol building of Congress, took souvenir selfies, livesteamed their antics, and generally played the role of tourist-protesters while the lawmakers they so despised as corrupt mostly fled or hid. These Trumpists and some of their colorful costumes brought to mind the radical Yippies of the late 1960s.

The previous year had seen an unprecedented wave of violent riots, arson, and looting across some 200 American cities, which our entirely corrupt and dishonest media had generally characterized as "mostly peaceful protests." In previous years, angry mobs of organized Democratic activists had repeatedly invaded and occupied the Wisconsin Legislature , sometimes winning praise from the media. But when unarmed Trump supporters now did something similar for a few hours in Washington, they were quickly branded "domestic terrorists" seeking to overthrow our democracy.

A video shows Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female protester, being shot dead by a security guard as she tried to climb through a window, an incident not dissimilar to the famous Kent State shootings of a 1960s campus protest, but hardly treated by the media in a similar manner.

A couple of other Trump protesters, probably elderly, overweight, or in poor health, died of strokes or heart-attacks during all the excitement, and one Capitol police officer later died as well, allegedly struck in the head with a fire-extinguisher although there has been no solid account of the incident. Yet this confused tableau of chaos and popular anger, which recalls scenes from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention protests, has been portrayed as a "coup attempt" incited by President Trump, and therefore justifying his second impeachment.

Even more importantly, the incoming Biden/Harris Administration may be considering the most sweeping domestic crackdown upon traditional American civil liberties since the Patriot Act was passed in the hurried aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks twenty years ago. This has been justified by the need to suppress "domestic extremism."

Even without any new governmental legislation, a remarkable Internet crackdown has already begun. In an absolutely unprecedented development, the sitting president of the United States -- who had just lost his reelection by 0.01% of the vote -- has been summarily banned by Twitter, Facebook, and all other major social media outlets, preventing him from communicating with his followers, and with many of his leading supporters suffering the same fate.

Famed libertarian Ron Paul criticized Twitter for banning Trump, and he was immediately locked out of his own Facebook page . Parler, a young but rapidly growing Twitter competitor, refused to ban Trump, and was immediately driven off the Internet by a combined attack from Apple, Google, and Amazon, possibly never to return. Our Information Age has entered a truly Orwellian period.

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Dumbo , says: January 14, 2021 at 9:38 pm GMT • 20.5 hours ago

Another unprecedented aspect of the election is the change of rules implemented due to COVID. I expected Trump vs. Biden to be the lowest turnout ever. Instead it was the highest. This must be a consequence of expanded mail in voting.

Expanded mail in voting FRAUD, you mean. Most European countries do not accept voting by mail. Because of fraud issues. Anyway, probably in the future we will be able to vote with an app, from the safety of our homes, as we will be locked inside forever due to the "new variations" of Covid.

It will all be safe from fraud, of course, Dorsey and Zuck and Cook and Gates and Brin guarantee.

anon [179] Disclaimer , says: January 14, 2021 at 11:23 pm GMT • 18.7 hours ago

Right. This is one more typical coup, CIA installing its chosen presidential puppet ruler. It's a wholly routine occurrence, although the tactics and staging change a bit:

1. Preemptively quashing the candidacy of Robert Taft
2. Murder of John Kennedy
3. Preemptive murder of candidate Robert Kennedy
4. "Watergate" purge of Richard Nixon
5. Iran-hostage "October surprise" ratfuck of Jimmy Carter
6. Botched murder of Ronald Reagan
7. Suspending the vote count for candidate Al Gore
8. Ballot-stuffing in Ohio to stop John Kerry
9. Multi state ballot-stuffing to purge Donald Trump

By the way, it's a hoot to see the censorship hysteria in CIA's Mockingbird social networks, while arch-subversive Ron Unz sits here with his infuriating little grin, permitting the manifest foreign treason of GC34-standard freedom of expression.

A123 , says: January 14, 2021 at 11:36 pm GMT • 18.5 hours ago

The Navarro report provides detailed proof on how elections in multiple states were stolen. (1)

https://thenationalpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2020-12-17-at-9.39.42-AM-1160x651.png

Given that all rational human beings understand, as a matter of objective proven fact, that the election was stolen Where do we go from here?

The slender & extreme, authoritarian, Leftoid margin in the House is certain to be a circular firing squad of internecine discontent. What little they pass will contain more pork than an industrial pig farm. It will be a matter of months before the U.S. Economy is tanked by SJW illegitimacy and misrule.

Much like the GOP beat Gerrymandering, with lead time the GOP will beat Fultoning (named after the Atlanta County). The GOP is sure to take the House in the 2022 elections.

How many times will Biden & Harris be Impeached, shamed, and forced to undergo public trial in the Senate? There will have to be multiple trials to establish for the historical record that Biden/Harris Coup plot was vastly more criminal than Nixon, Clinton, and Trump.

PEACE

P.S.

Theft By A Thousand Cuts’ Report Conclusive On Election Fraud, Slams Media Cover Up

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/navarro-report-conclusive-slams-media/

ruralguy , says: January 15, 2021 at 1:16 am GMT • 16.8 hours ago

I read an interesting article by a Sri Lankan who lived through the recent Sri Lanka Civil War. He made an interesting point that in a civil war, most people just go about their daily routines, not aware they are in a war. They experience the war as a constant drumbeat of negative news, with outbreaks of violence that don't directly affect themselves. He said America is in a civil war, but Americans don't realize it. You know you are in a civil war or insurrection when the news is constantly negative with frequent reports of violence.

John Gruskos , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:31 am GMT • 15.6 hours ago

Trump would have won despite the hostility of the media and big tech, and despite electoral corruption in Democrat-controlled big cities, if he had spent the previous 4 years making a good faith effort to implement the policies he ran on in 2016.

He ran as a populist, yet ruled as a plutocrat.

Candidate Trump promised a non-interventionist foreign policy. President Trump dug us deeper into the Middle East quagmire, intensifying hostilities against Russia, Syria, Yemen and Iran while being cartoonishly subservient to Israel.

The troops didn't come home.

He ran on an immigration platform written by Jeff Sessions. As president he prioritized the immigration policies of Sheldon Adelson and Jared Kushner – calling for "more immigration than ever before" in his State of the Union address, and lecturing his dumbfounded rally-goers on the need for increased immigration because "my friends in the business world say we need it".

A tight labor market and rising real wages remained in the world of might-have-been.

Candidate Trump promised to drain the swamp. President Trump pardoned a menagerie of grotesque swamp creatures.

Candidate Trump promised to close the carried interest loophole and make Wall Street pay its fair share. President Trump gave massive tax cuts to the very media moguls and tech oligarchs who would subsequently doom his 2020 campaign.

The most passionate supporters of candidate Trump were stabbed in the back by President Trump – Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, Ann Coulter, the Dissident Right, etc. in a pattern that has continued to the bitter end with his denunciations of the Capitol Hill protesters and scapegoating of Rudy Giuliani. At the same time, a whole series of Never-Trump personalities were promoted within the Trump White House (Rod Rosenstein, Anthony "the Mooch" Scaramucci, John Bolton, etc.).

Trump's most intelligent and active supporters were utterly demoralized, while his enemies were given ample opportunity for sabotage and espionage.

Candidate Trump promised law and order. President Trump did absolutely nothing while his supporters were terrorized by Antifa and BLM.

Thousands of Antifa terrorists and BLM rioters broke federal laws. Why weren't they arrested, charged, indicted and tried?

President Trump didn't support $2,000 stimulus checks until after the election.

He didn't lift a finger against electoral corruption in Democrat-controlled big cities, or big tech censorship, until after the election.

Without all these own-goals, the score wouldn't have even been close, and the biased referees wouldn't have mattered.

Ash Williams , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:13 am GMT • 14.9 hours ago
@A123

Here's the link to the full Navaro report https://navarroreport.com/ This election wasn't "close". It was a blowout for Trump. It was OBVIOUS. It was also EASY to find, if anyone bothered looked just a little bit.

Ron put a "I'm a reasonable man" spin on this (and changed his tune from beginning to end, glad I read it before firing off an angry response), but I'm not sure there's a lot gained anymore by trying to reason with thieves and liars. Let's pray this turns around peacefully.

Derer , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:56 am GMT • 14.2 hours ago

But the facts of this enormous political scandal were entirely ignored and boycotted by virtually every mainstream media outlet.

Re: Hunter Biden scandal. A survey of Biden's voters – unaware of his son's corruption – is suggesting that estimated 4.6% would've not voted for Biden, sufficient for Trump victory.

Mr. Dershowitz, strong defender of constitution and who opposed Trump first impeachment is suggesting (BBC Hard Talk) that vindictive Dems lead by Pelosi and Schumer violated 5 articles of constitution in one day during the 2nd not even investigated impeachment. Denying freedom of speech is a violation of constitution.

[Jan 15, 2021] The leaders of Transition Integrity Project (TIP) believe that a mass mobilization will help them to achieve what Russiagate could not, that is, the removal Donald Trump via an illicit coup conjured up by behind-the-scenes powerbrokers and their Democrat allies. by Mike Whitney

Notable quotes:
"... "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." ..."
"... Gatestone Institute ..."
"... The Transition Integrity Project ..."
"... Unlimited Hangout ..."
"... Paul Craig Roberts ..."
Sep 17, 2020 | www.unz.com

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Transition Integrity Project (TIP) is a shadowy group of government, military and media elites who have concocted a plan to spread mayhem and disinformation following the November 3 presidential elections. The strategy takes advantage of the presumed delay in determining the winner of the upcoming election. (due to the deluge of mail-in votes.) The interim period is expected to intensify partisan warfare creating the perfect environment for disseminating propaganda and inciting street violence. The leaders of TIP believe that a mass mobilization will help them to achieve what Russiagate could not, that is, the removal Donald Trump via an illicit coup conjured up by behind-the-scenes powerbrokers and their Democrat allies. Here's a little more background from an article by Chris Farrell at the Gatestone Institute:

"In one of the greatest public disinformation campaigns in American history -- the Left and their NeverTrumper allies (under the nom de guerre: "Transition Integrity Project") released a 22-page report in August 2020 "war gaming" four election crisis scenarios: .The outcome of each TIP scenario results in street violence and political impasse.

Is it possible that the leadership of the American Left, along with their NeverTrumper allies, are busy talking themselves into advocating and promoting street violence as a response to a presidential election?

The answer is: Yes . expect violence in the aftermath of the election, because now that is the new 'normal." (" How to Steal an Election", Gatestone Institute )

Farrell is right. As we can see from the many articles that have recently popped up in the media, the American people are being prepared for a contested election that will fuel public anxiety and revolt. This all fits with the overall strategy of the TIP. Selected journalists will be used to provide bits of information that serve the interests of the group while the people will be told to expect a long and drawn-out constitutional crisis. Meanwhile, the media, the Democrat leadership, trusted elites and elements in the Intelligence Community will put pressure on Trump to step down while firing up their political base to take to the streets. TIP's 22-page manifesto makes it clear that mass mobilization will be key to any electoral victory. Here's an excerpt from the text:

"A show of numbers in the streets-and actions in the streets-may be decisive factors in determining what the public perceives as a just and legitimate outcome." ( "Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition" The Transition Integrity Project )

In other words, the authors fully support demonstrations and political upheaval to achieve their goal of removing Trump. Clearly, this scorched earth approach did not originate with Joe Biden, but with the cynical and bloodthirsty puppetmasters who operate behind the curtain and who will do anything to advance their agenda.

This is a full-blown color revolution authored and supported by the same oligarchs and deep-state honchoes that have opposed Trump from the very beginning. They're not going to back down or call off the dogs until the job is done and Trump is gone. And when the dust settles, Trump will likely be charged, tried, sentenced and imprisoned. His fortune will be seized, his family will be financially ruined, and his closest advisors and allies will be prosecuted on fabricated charges. There's not going to be a "graceful transition" of power if Trump loses. He will face the full wrath of the scheming mandarins he has frustrated for the last 4 years. These are the men who applauded when Saddam and Ghaddafi were savagely butchered. Will Trump face the same fate as them?

Trump has less than two months to rally his supporters, draw attention to the conspiracy that has is presently underway, and figure out a way to defend himself against the coup plotters. If he is unable to derail the impending junta, his goose is cooked.

It's worth noting, that the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) has no legal authority to meddle in the upcoming election. They were not appointed by any congressional committee nor did any government entity approve their intrusive activities. This is entirely a "lone wolf" operation designed to exploit loopholes in campaign laws in order to undermine public confidence in our elections and to express their unbridled hostility towards Donald Trump. That said, there analysis will probably influence those who share their views. In the first page of their "Executive Summary" they say:

"We assess with a high degree of likelihood that November's elections will be marked by a chaotic legal and political landscape. We also assess that the President Trump is likely to contest the result by both legal and extra-legal means, in an attempt to hold onto power. " (Ibid )

This short statement provides the basic justification for the group's existence. It presents the participants as impartial observers performing their civic duty by objectively analyzing exercises (war games?) that indicate that Trump will challenge the election results in a desperate attempt to hold on to power. Not surprisingly, the group provides no evidence that the president would react the way they think he would. In fact, their hypothesis seems extremely far-fetched given the fact that Trump has no militia, no private army, and very few allies among the political class, the Intelligence Community, the FBI, the military or the deep state. Who exactly does the group think would help Trump hold on to power: Bill Barr, Larry Kudlow, Melania??

There is nothing "impartial" about this analysis. It is partisan gibberish aimed at discrediting Trump while creating a pretext for launching a coup against him. Here is another sample of TIP's "objective analysis" from page 1 of the manuscript:

"The Transition Integrity Project (TIP) was launched in late 2019 out of concern that the Trump Administration may seek to manipulate, ignore, undermine or disrupt the 2020 presidential election and transition process. TIP takes no position on how Americans should cast their votes, or on the likely winner of the upcoming election; either major party candidate could prevail at the polls in November without resorting to "dirty tricks." However, the administration of President Donald Trump has steadily undermined core norms of democracy and the rule of law and embraced numerous corrupt and authoritarian practices. This presents a profound challenge for those –from either party –who are committed to ensuring free and fair elections, peaceful transitions of power, and stable administrative continuity in the United States." (Ibid )

Got that? In other words (to paraphrase) "Trump is a corrupt dictator who hates democracy and the rule of law, but that is just our unbiased opinion. Please, don't let that influence your vote. We just want to make sure the election goes smoothly."

As we noted, the hatred for Trump permeates the entire 22-page document and that, in turn, undermines the credibility of the author to portray his project as an impartial examination of potential problems in the upcoming election. There is nothing evenhanded in the approach to these issues or in the remedies that are recommended. This is a partisan project concocted by malicious elites who despise Trump and who plan to remove him from office by hook or crook.

So, do we know who the leaders of this (TIP) group are?

Well, we know who their two main spokesmen are: Rosa Brooks– Georgetown law professor and co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, and Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary, and chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to an article by Whitney Webb:

" (Rosa) Brooks was an advisor to the Pentagon and the Hillary Clinton-led State Department during the Obama administration. She was also previously the general counsel to the President of the Open Society Institute, part of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), a controversial organization funded by billionaire George Soros. Zoe Hudson, who is TIP's director, is also a former top figure at OSF, serving as senior policy analyst and liaison between the foundations and the U.S. government for 11 years .

OSF ties to the TIP are a red flag for a number of reasons, namely due to the fact that OSF and other Soros-funded organizations played a critical role in fomenting so-called "color revolutions" to overthrow non-aligned governments, particularly during the Obama administration. Examples of OSF's ties to these manufactured "revolutions" include Ukraine in 2014 and the "Arab Spring" ..

In addition to her ties to the Obama administration and OSF, Brooks is currently a scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute, where she focuses on "the relationship between the military and domestic policing" and also Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program. She is a currently a key player in the documented OSF-led push to "capitalize" off of legitimate calls for police reform to justify the creation of a federalized police force under the guise of defunding and/or eliminating local police departments. Brooks' interest in the "blurring line" between military and police is notable given her past advocacy of a military coup to remove Trump from office and the TIP's subsequent conclusion that the military "may" have to step in if Trump manages to win the 2020 election, per the group's "war games" described above.

Brooks is also a senior fellow at the think tank New America . New America's mission statement notes that the organization is focused on "honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create." It is largely funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, including Bill Gates (Microsoft), Eric Schmidt (Google), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Jeffrey Skoll and Pierre Omidyar (eBay) . In addition, it has received millions directly from the U.S. State Department to research "ranking digital rights." Notably, of these funders, Reid Hoffman was caught "meddling" in the most recent Democratic primary to undercut Bernie Sanders' candidacy during the Iowa caucus and while others, such as Eric Schmidt and Pierre Omidyar, are known for their cozy ties to the Clinton family and even ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign." (" "Bipartisan" Washington Insiders Reveal Their Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins the Election ", Unlimited Hangout )

Is it safe to say that Rosa Brooks is a Soros stooge overseeing a color revolution in the United States aimed at toppling Trump and replacing him with a dementia-addled, meat-puppet named Joe Biden?

Political analyst Paul Craig Roberts seems to think so. Here's what he said in a recent post at his website:

"I have provided evidence that the military/security complex, using the media and the Democrats, intends to turn the November election into a color revolution The evidence of a color revolution in the works is abundantly supplied by CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, NPR, Washington Post and numerous Internet sites funded by the CIA and the foundations and corporations through which it operates.. All of these media organizations are establishing the story in the mind of Americans that Trump will not leave office when he loses or steals the election and must be driven out.

With Antifa and Black Lives Matter now experienced in violent protests, they will be unleashed anew on American cities when there is news of a Trump election victory. The media will explain the violence as necessary to free us from a tyrant and egg on the violence, as will the Democrat Party. The CIA will be certain that the violence is well funded .

What is a reelected President Trump going to do when the Secret Service refuses to repel Antifa and Black Lives Matter when they breach White House Security?

American Democracy is on the verge of being ended for all times, and the world media will herald the event as the successful overthrowing of a tyrant." ( "America's Color Revolution" , Paul Craig Roberts )

Another of the leading spokesmen for TIP is Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson who made this revealing statement in a recent interview:

"Let me just say some of the things that we're putting out there. Among those things, one that is very important is the media, particularly the mainstream media. They cannot act as they usually act with regard to elections. They have to play a coup on election night. They can't be declaring some state like Pennsylvania for one candidate or the other. When Pennsylvania probably has thousands upon thousands of votes yet to come in and count. So, the media has to get its act in order and it has to act very differently than it normally does."

(NOTE: In other words, Wilkerson does not want the media to follow the normal protocols for covering an election, but to adjust their reporting to accommodate the aims of the coup-plotters. Does that sound like someone who is committed to evenhanded coverage of events, or someone who wants reporters to shape the news to meet the specifications of his own particular agenda? Here's more from Wilkerson:)

"Second, .we also have learned that poll workers have to be younger. And we've started a movement all across the country to train young people. And we've had really good luck with the volunteers to do so , to be poll workers. Because we found out in Wisconsin, for example, poll workers are mostly over 60. And many of them didn't show up because they were afraid of COVID-19. And so Wisconsin went from about one 188 polling places, to about 15. That's disastrous." (" This 'War Game' Maps out what happens if the President contests the Election" , WBUR )

Why is Wilkerson so encouraged by the young people he's trained to act as poll workers? Doesn't that sound a bit fishy, especially from a dyed-in-the-wool partisan who's mixed up with a group whose sole aim is to beat Trump? And why are the authors of the TIP manifesto so eager to reveal their true intentions. Take a look:

"There will likely not be an "election night" this year; unprecedented numbers of voters are expected to use mail-in ballots, which will almost certainly delay the certified result for days or weeks. A delay provides a window for campaigns, the media, and others to cast doubt on the integrity of the process and for escalating tensions between competing camps. As a legal matter, a candidate unwilling to concede can contest the election into January. .."( Ibid)

So, that's the GamePlan, eh? The coup plotters want a contested election that drags on for weeks, deepens divisions among the population, undermines confidence in the electoral system, instigates ferocious street fighting in cities across the country, and gives the Biden camp time to mobilize its political resources in Congress to mount a Constitutional attack on Trump.

Can we at least call this treachery by its proper name: Treason– "the crime of betraying one's country by trying to overthrow the government?"

If the shoe fits ..

[Jan 14, 2021] The Capitol Police at least at the beginning let the protesters into the building

Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

otschelnik 10 hours ago (Edited) otschelnik 10 hours ago (Edited)

Here's the facts. The Capitol Police at least at the beginning let the protesters into the building.

Among the MAGA demonstrators are Antifa and BLM activists.

At least some of these Antifa were agent-provocateurs.

rwe2late 9 hours ago

Nonetheless,

PBS "news" reported that there is "no evidence"

of Antifa at the Capitol.

[Same as they reported "no evidence" of any election fraud, and "no evidence" of Biden corruption, etc. ]

Don't entirely blame the average bloke who thinks he/she is getting the facts from allegedly non-partisan PBS.

[Jan 14, 2021] Bumerang can return in 2022: Pelosi has lowered the bar of impeachment to the level when it became just a political tool. Which means that once Republicans take congress back in 2022 they can now impeach both Biden and Harris. Biden for his Ukraine dealings and Harris for inciting riots over the summer, saying they should never end

Looks like Nancy again eat way too much ice-cream...
Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

maximin thrax 4 hours ago (Edited)

They've lowered the bar considerably. Once Republicans take congress back in 2022/24 they had better immediately impeach both Biden and Harris concurrently. Biden for his Ukraine dealings and Harris for inciting riots over the summer, saying they should never end. They have no excuses. It should be in the GOP platform. Make impeachment the Democrat's problem.

get nothing and like it 4 hours ago

The precedent is set - impeachment can be for anything without any merit. Start the Biden impeachment now!

US Banana Republic 4 hours ago (Edited)

Congress has resisted the temptation to use Impeachment as a political tool of vindictiveness for almost 250 years. In one fell swoop Nitwit Nancy Pelosi cheapened it to satisfy her selfish vengeance.

I am ashamed that she is an American.

Nancy is 80 years old. Likely in 20 years she will be dead and certainly forgotten. But this damages our country and our Constitution forever.

jim942 11 hours ago

Mitch thinks he is going to purge the Republican party of Trump influence?

jim942 11 hours ago

The New York Times reported that McConnell has told associates he is privately pleased with the impeachment, calculating that it will make it easier to purge the party of Trump's influence.

tangent 23 minutes ago (Edited)

In your honor I will do three minutes of research into the claims of election fraud tomorrow. Here is what I found in three minutes today:

Wisconson:
45% of the WI mail-in ballots are invalid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1692&v=XH9ihoLi1NA&feature=youtu.be
And, a Wisconson supreme court judge ruled those votes should be tossed:
https://rfangle.com/politics/trump-wisconsin/
These absentee votes went from from about 14,000 in 2019 to about 169,000. This type of fraud alone resulted in an estimate of 76,000 illegal votes.
The problem is they will never investigate because the dictator has already been appointed.

hoytmonger 19 minutes ago

With evidence like youtube videos,

What court in their right mind wouldn't look at that case?

tangent 17 minutes ago

The source for this information is the Voter Integrity Project. Sorry you don't like being proven wrong.

tangent 7 minutes ago

I believe they showed that there were about 100,000 people who made false claims of being too handicapped to vote regularly in Wisconson. Everyone has a bias, so by your standard nobody can do the study.

BoiledFrogs 41 minutes ago

In truth, Snowden told us about the Deep State. As for the swamp, they've been teaching government by the bureaucracy in college political science for decades.

Trump showed us nothing. He simply hitched a ride on our anger and resistance, rode our coattails.

Face-off 1 hour ago remove link

This is called being railroaded...on a hyped up bogus charge. T

Xena fobe 3 hours ago

Trump was impeached by multinational monopoly corporations for the crime of representing the people of the US.

John Hansen 3 hours ago

That sums it up pretty good.

de tocqueville's ghost 3 hours ago

the person who videoed the woman being shot was a convicted BLM activist...I wonder why he was in the building right behind her?

NoBigDeal 3 hours ago

Apologies. CIA putting on an Oscar winning performance as a MAGA loving Trump supporter.

mojo_jojo 12 hours ago

Democrats are truly delusional. They keep telling the big lie to try and convince everyone that it's true.

PyrrhicVictory 1 hour ago (Edited)

Trump accomplished exactly zero.

Trump didn't even try.

Why did Trump even want to be President?

Mamachief 1 hour ago

I've asked myself the same question.

Vanity?

Judge_Smails 1 hour ago (Edited)

Do you really think Trump gives a sh*t about a West Virginia coal miner or a Michigan auto worker? No - he only cares about his Wall St buddies and Billionaires

OutaTime43 2 hours ago (Edited)

Article 5 is the final hope. Conservatives need to put forth an amendment to the constitution to add term limits to congress. Via state conventions. It's the only real solution.. Forget twitter, etc. This is the real thing that would make a difference.

Time to put an end to the career politican and all the corruption it brings along with it.

OutaTime43 1 hour ago remove link

Hyperbole much? 3 terms for the house. 2 terms for the senate. After those, you get out and let someone else run. Simple. Vastly reduces corruption.

NAV 2 hours ago

" Today We unconstitutionality Impeached an Innocent Man!" -- - Mark Levin

(Levin will be on Hannity tonight arrmed with the information that the Capitol Police and Metropolitian Police had intell the day before the rally that armed groups were planning violence, but their requests for extra security were turned down. In all probability Pelosi and Schumer knew about this and maybe McConnell. But no one told Trump who should have been warned by the FBI to remain home.)

chiquita 2 hours ago (Edited)

I've been posting all day that Pelosi refused to add any extra security/protection to the Capitol despite being asked under the circumstance that there would be big crowds. The whole incident was a planned set up and everything moved way too fast afterwards to make it anything but that. Remember Rahm Emmanuel's "don't let a good crisis go to waste"--in this case they took an opportunity, created a crisis and ran like hell with it. They haven't stopped running yet.

Lucius Septimius Pertinax 2 hours ago

Nancy is making a big mistake. By doing this impeachment she keep Trump in the news. You know the saying, there is no bad news, only being in the news. Trump is getting all the air. If you do not want him to run again, you do not give him airtime. Also conducting another impeachment. without debate, without presenting evidence, without allowing the defense to ask questions and present a defense, is called a kangaroo court, and may even in the end provide some sympathy for Trump. This is the type of impeachment one would likely see in Stalin Soviet Union. Lastly she is not doing anything to promote unity.

fxrxexexdxoxmx2 3 hours ago (Edited)

...President Trump today.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1349492790531645441

Libtard Clown World - The New Nazi Party 4 hours ago

Ever wonder why the DNC kneecapped Bernie Sanders? ...

littlewing 4 hours ago

Kamala put blacks in for profit prison owed by Diane Feinstein for smoking pot and kept them there beyond their sentences.

Lucius Quinctius 4 hours ago

Further , she laughed when asked about her own pot use.

radical-extremist 4 hours ago (Edited)

Trump was at no time a danger to the country. He was a danger to the entrenched elite establishment in Washington. He was a threat to their power and control over the country. They were afraid he was going to expose their racket and every time he hinted that he would, the hammer came down. He was not going to be a "team player" like most outsiders are threatened to agree to. "Six ways to Sunday." ...

12Doberman 5 hours ago

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat."


― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

onewayticket2 5 hours ago

is the Peace deal (historic) "unethical"?

was giving away his salary unethical?

cutting taxes unethical?

unprecedented vaccine development to save millions of lives is unethical?

AHBL 5 hours ago (Edited)

1) His peace deal? Are you talking about Israel's pacts with Middle Eastern countries...those are grotesquely unethical

2) Yes, when you compensate for it by renting out your hotel rooms to foreign dignitaries, fail to divest, allow for your son in law to do business deals in middle east

3) Absolutely. More trickle down economics increasing the wealth gap and further lowering the effective corporate tax rate, which is already at a historic low of 11% average effective

4) That's just sad, you are giving Trump credit for that one...but that's fine, i'll agree it happened during his term...despite the fact he royally screwed over Covid response

dogfish 5 hours ago

Not for lack of trying to start wars.

LA_Goldbug 6 hours ago (Edited)

Democrats are the modern version of Communists.

Pervert Clinton pardoned Senate bombers and there wasn't even a stir. Why ? Because it was a Juice Rosenberg . Now a few dimwits stormed the Capital and Trump is made to be responsible. US is finished if this goes through.

kharrast 6 hours ago

The impeachment will pass but I don't think the senate will convict. In the end, it will be a meaningless media show. What else are they going to do. No one will watch TV to see what Sleepy Joe and Kamala are up to.

NAV 11 hours ago (Edited)

Regardless of whether he is convicted in the Senate, a second impeachment would further stain a presidency that has culminated in a frightening assault on the storied center of the American democracy. -- - Bloomberg

Bloomberg! From Bloomberg, the biggest reject in the Dems primaries, toppling like all the rest of the rejects until they finally got down to the only primary rejects left, Biden and Harris.

the storied center of the American democracy?

Congress? That den of thieves and traitors? We are witnessing before our very eyes the takeover of the United States bu a massive power network of oligarchical conspirators; how they gained control over the press, radio, tv and social media; how they manipulated themselves into total control of the Congress, the courts, and now the presidency; and how they used open borders to over rule the vote of the majority of the America people by handing it over to third world socialists.

And it all began in earnest when a handful of international bankers took control of America's currency and parlayed it into the world's reserve currency - all which they own - via the Fed.

consider me gone 1 hour ago

World Tribune: Pattern recognition specialist Jovan Hutton Pulitzer has released his report on election fraud and foreign interference in the 2020 election which concludes that by "eliminating the counterfeit mail-in and absentee ballots," President Donald Trump "almost certainly wins."

Dyler Turddin 54 minutes ago

If there was so much fraud in the 2020 election, then why did the Republicans gain so many seats in the House? And again, why did they have to have a runoff January 5th in Georgia to decide the Senate? If there was massive cheating and fraud, they Democrats would not have been stupid enough to let the Republicans pick up seats. You idiots think they targeted Trump with cheating and gave all other republicans a pass.

Fart Vandelay 1 hour ago

Here is your daily update Trumptards. 7 DAYS left to ACCEPTANCE

Let's see where we are.

tangent 1 hour ago remove link

By all appearances Trump actually did win the 2020 election. By the way, how many wars do you suppose you're invalid hero Biden and her police state sidekick Kamala will start?

blumenthal 4 hours ago (Edited)

i could still remember the campaign, it was a debate with Hillary:

Hillary: "it is just awfully good, that someone with the temprament of Donald Trump ist not in charge of the law in our country"

Donald: "because you'd be in jail!"

I thought to myself, hopefully he's not a big mouth. Unfortunately, it has been confirmed during his term in office, because draining the swamp has not worked out, on the contrary, he has brought some bog bodies in the team. I am disappointed because I had hoped for more from him. His Middle East policy was also a big failure, too much Israel, the canceled treaty with Iran, war in Yemen, the cowardly murder of Soleimani .........

Lucius Septimius Pertinax 4 hours ago

This time it is. Impeachment is not removal. And this impeachment in the house, was without debate, and without trial. Even if removal happened in the Senate, (which is unlikely) it is not binding, as Trump does not hold office.

John Hansen 4 hours ago

Nancy made it trivial.

TryingSomethingNew 5 hours ago remove link

The NANNY-NANNY FRAUDSTER MORONS impeached my President again, so he couldn't run for a second term, in spite of brokering peace in the Middle East, lowering prescription drug costs, and generally kicking *** in a skillful and efficacious manner. That is PRECISELY the type of stupid, petty ********, that (dumb) posturing posers do in ineffective workplaces, institutions, and governments around the world.

hcettnauq 5 hours ago

"brokering peace in the Middle East"

nonsense. Throwing the Palestinians under a bus isn't "brokering peace." The treaties that Chabad terrorist Kushner put together serve Israel and the Saudi Arabian beheaders that Trump bowed down to.

KidTwist 5 hours ago remove link

Cocaine Mitch may be pleased in deep-sixing Trump, but the ******** just signed the Repubs death certificate.

JSBach_1 6 hours ago remove link

Recall what Nancy Pelosi stated publicly:

Nancy Pelosi:If capital crumbles to the ground, o ne thing that'll remain is "our" commitment to Israel :

https://youtu.be/53x_zrkJwDs

Judge_Smails 2 hours ago remove link

Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign was one of the greatest marketing campaigns ever - they made a New York real estate shyster look like a Man Of the People.

hoytmonger 2 hours ago

Trump dropped more bombs than Obama or Bush 43...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/donald-trump-is-dropping-bombs-at-unprecedented-levels/

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/430420-121-bombs-per-day/

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/world-peace-trump-dropped-nearly-half-the-number-of-bombs-in-one-year-as-obama-dropped-over-8-years/

And he conducted more drone strikes than Obama...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/5/8/18619206/under-donald-trump-drone-strikes-far-exceed-obama-s-numbers

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-killings-count/

https://worldbeyondwar.org/u-s-drone-strikes-gone-432-since-trump-took-office/

So much for the "peace" President.

Pdunne 2 hours ago

Not if you account for Hillary's proxy war in Syria.

hoytmonger 2 hours ago (Edited)

Yes, it does.

Take into account drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia.

Then the massive increase in bombing in Afghanistan.

Trump dropped 3-4x as many bombs.

SurfingUSA 3 hours ago (Edited)

I was 9 when JFK went thru his public execution. I remember feeling sick to my stomach for an age afterwards. Like history had been ripped and interrupted and it was a mistake.

Now of course I am more philosophical about Trump getting jobbed, but without irony, I am just glad that he was not similarly assassinated except in slow motion.

The globalists and Deep State pay NO ATTENTION to any president who sneaks in without their blessing, so all those who thought DJT could prevail based on his authorit-tay alone were mistaken. He would have had to compromise his populism even more than we saw, and go full-CCP, to out-Biden Biden etc. Or else get the military on his side on Day 1 and engineer our transition from a Constitutional Republic to a soft dictatorship. Coloring within the lines, as we saw, no longer works.

alleger 2 hours ago remove link

The main flaw in your premise is that you assume the oligarchs behind the curtain are too dumb to conjure up a populist hero for whom the 'bewildered herd' can suspend their disbelief.

Hence, you let a New York billionaire tycoon--who's created nothing of value all his life--do all the dystopian sh!t you accused his opponent of wanting to do; and you let him get away with it.

[Jan 14, 2021] The purple color revolution finally close to success: Trump Impeached By House For Second Time

Trump speech on Jan 06 was extremely weak "stream of consciousness". He failed to formulate one clear goal: by standing on the steps of Capitol to pus some pressure on the Congress to elect commission to investigate voter fraud. He was all over the place instead. But I would not call it "an incitement". What he in clearly guilty is "reckless endangerment" of his supporters. He let the crowd without any leadership, organization and security. He was a coward. As the result the rally was easily hijecked by extremists and infiltrated agents provocateurs. How Trump will probably the pay the price for his cowardice.
Looks like military industrial complex (Cheney daughter is a typical representative) is not that happy with Trump.
Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Update (1635ET): The House now has voted to impeach President Trump for allegedly inciting last week's riot in the Capitol by a margin of 232-197.


otschelnik 10 hours ago (Edited)

Here's the facts. The Capitol Police at least at the beginning let the protesters into the building.

Among the MAGA demonstrators are Antifa and BLM activists.

At least some of these Antifa were agent-provactuers.

littlewing 40 minutes ago remove link

I'm not mad anymore. Trump did a lot.

He finally got you to boycott the big corps.

He made you realize that MSM is poison

He made it clear there is a uniparty.

He took down the Bush Dynasty.

He didn't start wars.

He showed you that you needed to make wise decisions.

He tore the veil.

I'm happy ...:)

Fart Vandelay 39 minutes ago

He printed $7 TRILLION and jacked stocks and crypto

I'm happy ...:)

DisturbedSilence 36 minutes ago

Yes he should have learned all about wise decisions...his appointments were awful..,

chiquita 47 minutes ago

Someone else posted this below, but I'll post it again. Excellent analysis of what happened around Ashli Babbitt shooting--should have been must watching by all Congressional members before they opened their big fat mouths today:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/video-analysis-of-ashli-babbit-video-suggests-coordinated-actions-interview-with-masako_3652783.html

meanrevers 59 minutes ago

I was just thinking about the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people around the world who died because of Bush/Cheney and comparing that number to all the people around the world who died because of Trump/Pence. Anyone have the stats?

owlpellets PRO 57 minutes ago

And Obama Biden

ReadyForHillary 54 minutes ago

Barry/Joetard are the all-time warmongers.

We had 15 years of continuous war before President Trump came along.

The Persistent Vegetable 53 minutes ago

Oh did the wars end? How come no one told us?

replaceme 49 minutes ago

Trump's military and career civil servants lied and pretended to draw down forces. We're not at the controls any more. And you're ****e.

Kina 2 hours ago (Edited)

So now do we see the number of Deep State owned members of Congress.

Rid'n Dirty 1 hour ago

War criminal Cheney's daughter is a multi-millionaire whose fortune was built on the bones of well over a million dead Afghani goat herds and Iraqis. Afghanis were hired by the CIA in the '70's to fight the Russians and the Iraqis were hired to fight the Iranians. When Cheney needed more cash he started a war so that Halliburton could sell a gallon of gas to the Army for $100. a gallon.

Lizzy Borden Cheney is covered in the blood and guts of innocent women and children but she hates violence? I'm sure that she'll fiind a WMD somewhere among the Trumpers or kill them all trying.

AuEagleNest 55 minutes ago

All true. **** Cheney, Rumsfeld, John Yoo and Bush should've all been tried as war criminals.

Libtard Clown World - The New Nazi Party 3 hours ago

The same party who stalled for 10 months on a 2nd round of stimulus checks for the people slammed home a bogus impeachment in a week's time.

Joe Potato 1 hour ago

What does it matter? Nobody is going to do anything about it. The justice system is corrupt. The military is corrupt. The bureaucracy is corrupt. The Senate is corrupt. The house is corrupt.

There is no system of government left in the US to stop the corruption

outsider9 3 hours ago

where in the speech from Trump did he say they should storm the capitol by all means available and get inside and do violence? Once again, the dems are just playing with hypotheticals and thinking they know what Trump was thinking. These are people who really serve no good, but themselves and their true constituents: china, corporations and whoever can pay top dollar like soros.

Mad Machine 3 hours ago

Does the mob boss tell his henchmen to kill so and so? No, he tells them to "take care of it". He's still responsible for them acting on his behalf. It's no different with Trump. He told them to march on the Capital, and they did. It was all on his behalf.

12Doberman 3 hours ago

He said march down to the capitol to support those that are objecting to the electoral certification in certain states.

Xi the Pooh 10 hours ago (Edited)

The damn capitol police opened the gate and let them in!!

AND ITS TIME FOR TRUMP TO GO ON THE OFFENSE!! NO MORE BEING A BIG *****!!.. PARDON ASSANGE AND SNOWDEN IMMEDIATELY AND START DECLASSIFYING DOCUMENTS!!

sgt_doom 2 hours ago

Worse than that . . .

https://youtu.be/5nvqvvsqJ_s

https://mb.ntd.com/analysis-of-ashli-babbit-video-suggests-coordinated-actions-interview-with-masako_551860.html

Kina 1 hour ago (Edited)

One last comment.

Do you think any election of any kind in any place within the USA will have a result not predetermined by the intent of Deep State.

America you will have no more elections, that are elections.

This theft as obvious and blatant as it was, makes it clear now that there is no way of stopping any electoral corruption Deep State wants.

Deep State are now doing what Hillary Clinton was meant to do behind the scenes.

America has become 'The Truman Show', you are now all Truman Burbank.

except their are no exit doors.

Oldwood 1 hour ago

Our elections have officially evolved to pageantry now, results predetermined and blessed...if they are to be considered valid anyway. This is what Hillary taught us...the failure of a progressive to achieve victory is the definition of election theft, whereas a conservative failure is the certification of election integrity.

chiquita 1 hour ago

Wow! Marjorie Taylor Greene--newbie House member (10 days) just announced on Greg Kelly that she plans to introduce impeachment articles against Joe Biden on January 21st. She's serious and has all her ducks lined up about it. Whoo hoo! The fun begins.

ProblemReactionSolution 1 hour ago

just as much of a waste of time as the Dems first impeachment of Trump, which they knew was doomed from day 1 because the Repubs controlled the Senate

Dems control the House, so impeachment of Biden will not make it out of committee.

You'll have to work on 2022 if you want to change that

kharrast 1 hour ago

Yes it is a waste but it further demonstrates how it is a partisan political process and not a legal or criminal process. In the future, all presidents will be impeached throughout their terms in office.

chiquita 49 minutes ago

Thank Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, and all the other Democrats in this Congress for the new precedent. However, if this action against Biden is presented, there is far more criminal evidence against him than anything they tried to conjure up about Trump, who did nothing wrong that warranted impeachment not only once, not a second time either. I believe there is an indictment in the Ukraine against Biden for his involvement with corruption and other crimes, including taking money from political officials there, which is also illegal here--this is all outside of the stuff on Hunter's laptop about the money from China. These things will be a little difficult to ignore or refute, especially if Ukrainian legal people are brought in to testify about the indictment there. Could be even though presented by Republicans, the Dems let it go through just to save any Amendment 25 to get rid of Joe, which would eventually happen if he doesn't die on cue when they need him to.

Mr Perspective 3 hours ago

Ponder this - someone posted this comment on another website

"Here is what is VERY, VERY STRANGE, to the point of revealing: After clearing the Capitol of its "unexpected guests," security apparently failed to thoroughly and carefully sweep all occupied areas for destructive devices, biological and chemical agents and hidden unauthorized personnel BEFORE allowing the members to occupy their work spaces again. A proper search would have taken days to plan and execute. It would have involved many highly educated and trained specialists that would take days to arrive, set up, work and report. The work of many teams would have to be reviewed, at least once, before clearing the facility for operation.

YET THE MEMBERS RETURNED WITHIN HOURS OF THE MASSIVE SECURITY BREACH.

Clearly, clearly, something is not right here.
And it continues not being right."

chiquita 3 hours ago

Again--I'll point out that Pelosi was responsible to approve the amount of security that the Capitol police put in place to protect the building. When the head of Security consulted her ahead of January 6th with concerns about the March for Trump because of the large numbers of people expected, Pelosi refused additional security measures, which could have included more staffing, additional/better barriers around the building, and possibly requesting National Guard presence. What happened was a DNC planned operation and Nancy was in on it.

OutWithLibs 3 hours ago

Projection....Accuse someone else of doing something while you are doing it yourself

OutaTime43 1 hour ago

Liz Cheney voting to impeach. While her father lied us into a war which killed well over a million. Let's not even discuss 911 (read "Crossing the Rubicon"). Her father and the doltish ex president he controlled should have been poster children for impeachment.

(in case your forgot... this guy)

https://youtu.be/O35NA6TywAg

MongoStraight 1 hour ago

This is NOT about Trump.

Absolutely correct. He was not one of the club and he had the audacity to not only run for the presidency but to win. He and his supporters MUST BE DESTROYED!

heehaw2 2 hours ago

Big Tech has proven they now run and own the United States. They have censored half of Americans voice and information. They have locked down the RNC email so we can't contribute (not that I would until they clean out RINOs).

Biden never won, and is not liked. He is a Global Tech Puppet.

NIRP-BTFD 2 hours ago

Big Tech all funded by the CIA. The CIA and their oligarchic owners in the 0.01% run you

Robert De Zero 3 hours ago remove link

Maxine Waters:

"Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere..."

This was not incitement?

President Trump:

" I know your pain. I know you're hurt, We had an election that was stolen from us, but you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We don't want anybody hurt."

This is incitement?

adamsmith10 3 hours ago

Three skyscrapers. Two planes. No real investigation. Any questions?

Giles Vilhelm Klintoon Jr 3 hours ago

A governing body with a 13% job approval rating, votes by majority to impeach a President with a 48% job approval rating. Cool.

Lucius Septimius Pertinax 24 minutes ago

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/john-mclaughlin-gop-vote-battleground/2021/01/13/id/1005483/

McLaughlin Poll: GOP Majority to Reject Those Voting for Impeachment

"Overall, survey results showed impeaching Trump in the final days of his presidency was widely unpopular, according to McLaughlin of McLaughlin & Associates."

"

Among the findings:

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Bad news for you ten Rino's that voted to impeach. Bye bye Liz Cheny, just go away.

Leguran@premium PREMIUM 1 hour ago remove link

Trump January 6, 2021 speech remains available outside the USA. You can find it at URL

https://youtu.be/RTK1lm1jk60?t=53

The situation is that the Media Oligarchs, politicians, and our black-robed judiciary have closed the door on freedom of speech in America. It is gone. Now, as with the Chinese, we have to find the video which is the basis for Impeachment of a duly our elected President from a foreign source.

nsurf9 9 hours ago (Edited)

Written Transcript of President Trump's 1/6/21 Speech on Ellipse

Video of President Trump's 1/6/21 Speech on Ellipse

"We're going walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women."

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

I don't see where Trump encourages anyone to go INTO the Capitol. Nonetheless , the Capitol Visitor Center is open to visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day and on Inauguration Day. Capitol Visiting Hours - Open to the Public..

rwe2late 9 hours ago

Sounds like a micro-aggression against the Capitol "safe space".

nsurf9 9 hours ago (Edited)

More like, letting your enemy into your House to talk things over, only to then call the police on him to be arrested - because you reported him as a trespasser who's broken into your house.

rwe2late 8 hours ago

Obviously,

having a public demonstration against their policies made some Congresspersons (even if only one) feel uncomfortable

and created a "hostile work environment" for them.

Robert De Zero 50 minutes ago

No state-wide recounts.

No cases heard in the Supreme Court.

No meaningful debate in Congress.

Mike Dense fell on his sword, "I can't."

Now Trump is impeached again on Trumped -up charges.

The flag is flying at half mast in Biden's dark winter. Now I know what he meant.

el_buffer 1 hour ago

The Senate won't follow through with it. Even then they won't get the votes.

What these morons in the Democrat Party are failing to understand is that you can't keep pissing off working-class people anymore. If the violent fringe elements on both sides figure this out and unite, they'll make the recent riot look like a picnic. Heck, I live in Portland and Antifa is now going after the Mayor with no fear.

PS I loved watching Ted Wheeler cower before the criminals he empowered all last year.

Tikaro 57 minutes ago

If you like seeing them cower, you'll love this one af a lady ripping Chuck Schumer.

https://youtu.be/UYGzkcpH1s4

JR Wirth 4 hours ago

I was never a Trump fan. But he does have one good legacy. Showing the right wingers that this isn't a free country, that is hasn't been in decades and how powerless they are against the establishment. And that's a good legacy. Because no one should live in a fantasy.

adamsmith10 3 hours ago

The right wingers you speak of are classical liberals

RoboFascist 1st 4 hours ago

Who is more desperate for needing 20,000 troops to protect them from being killed by the American people... Biden or Pelosi?

xious 3 hours ago

Harris is a real man, he's not scared.

tangent 28 minutes ago

I think you are just going for downvotes and don't believe you own words.

Evidence of Election fraud:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-court-secretary-of-state-changed-deadline

Oh and a pandemic is now when the population goes up:

2020 7,794,798,739 +1.05 %
2019 7,713,468,100 +1.08 %
2018 7,631,091,040 +1.10 %
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/

[Jan 14, 2021] How to define domestic terrorists

Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

ThePub'Lick_Har

Domestic terrorists - one can reasonably argue, are those who align with foreign enemy saboteurs of any given country to undermine and destroy say, a Presidential Election by widescale and seditious vote rigging to the extent a new and illegal regime will be erroneously installed to run the country for four years. That those who object against this state of felonious affairs - all 75,000,000 voters for one candidate and millions of others whose votes were given to the alternate choice, are now maligned and regarded as unpatriotic is a travesty of monumental proportions.

[Jan 14, 2021] Video message from President Donald J. Trump

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[Jan 14, 2021] The policing lesson for today was not that cops should have been more brutal with the Trumpers, it was that they should have been much more restrained during the BLM protests but chose not to be.

Jan 14, 2021 | twitter.com

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If you're shrugging off or celebrating cops killing a Trump supporter, you're taking the wrong lesson about police brutality Quote Tweet Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz · Jan 7 Just so we're clear, the policing lesson for today was not that cops should have been more brutal with the Trumpers, it was that they should have been much more restrained during the BLM protests but chose not to be. Don't let them troll you into cheering for police brutality.
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[Jan 14, 2021] Nancy Pelosi unhealthy preoccupation with Trump impeachment

Jan 14, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

Diana L Croissant , 13 January 2021 at 11:38 AM

Thank you for this very interesting analysis. I actually have noticed a sort of hurt little girl in her when she speaks.

That said, I don't really feel sorry for her but for us, the citizens of our country, who have to put up with her damaged psyche, which causes her to use liquor, ice cream and chocolate to assuage the pain.

I am and have always been forever grateful for my own father. He was not a wealthy man, but he was the best father a young girl could ever have. I've put all that Oedipus Complex analysis aside and have lived knowing how much he loved my mother and his children. That made up for all the wealth that other men, fathers of many of my friends, which caused them to demand enormously high expectations of their children. In most cases I out-performed those girls in school and in my working life. I was able to do that simply because I knew my parents felt I could do well since they raised me with values other than the greed for money and power.

Now, please provide an analysis of Diane Feinstein. My bet is that her father was the Devil himself.

fakebot , 13 January 2021 at 12:22 PM

Her brother was accused of raping two very young teenage girls, but was later acquitted.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7213742/dalesandro-freed-of-charge-in-1953/

roberto , 13 January 2021 at 12:49 PM

ADDITIONALLY, ALL THAT BOTOX MIGHT HAVE FURTHER ADDLED HER ALREADY PATHOLOGICALLY WEAK BRAIN.

akaPatience , 13 January 2021 at 01:32 PM

What an insufferable crone. Her power seems to have derived from and is sustained by being a major conduit between ambitious pols and the tremendously wealthy oligarchs of her CA district.

Leith , 13 January 2021 at 01:44 PM

Her Mom's birthname was Annunciata. Her son Tommy said that she was the true politician in the family. During the depression, hungry people or those seeking work came to her seeking help, not her husband. And the line would extend halfway around the block. During her husband's elections it was her that organized volunteer ladies to write letters, make fliers, and address envelopes. Every evening in the run-up to the election she would host ravioli and lasagna parties. Not just for volunteers and neighborhood ladies from Little Italy but also for the wives and daughters of other Baltimore ethnic groups. She was described as being a stereotype of old world motherliness but was no doormat. She she was a very fiery woman with a lot of moxie. Her political insight and common sense judgement was the reason she was her husband's main political adviser. I seriously doubt that her husband could have made her dump Velvex cosmetics unless she too realized it was in trouble. Ditto for any real estate. She was a child immigrant born in a mountain town of south central Italy, only 15 or 20 miles from Monte Cassino. .

Tommaso her husband was no raging bull. If he had been he would have banned her being on the boards of the Red Cross Home Nursing Association and the YWCA, plus her involvement with Sodality and other church organizations. But with five sons growing up in his home he perhaps had to birch them into shape every now and then when they were teenagers. The people of mountainous Abruzzo, the Abruzzese, where his parents immigrated from are known throughout Italy as being strong and kind . BTW it was he that dedicated the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monuments in B'more.

sbin , 13 January 2021 at 02:31 PM

Absolutely reprehensible person.
People such as Pelosi and McConnell are why congress is held in such low esteem by Americans.
Graft corruption and in fighting seem to be all that branch of government is capable of now.

Eric Newhill , 13 January 2021 at 02:46 PM

Interesting. Seems like sound analysis and does, indeed, explain a lot of Pelosi's behavior.

SWMBO has been telling me for a few years that the crazy trouble making female liberals all have "daddy issues"; all of them. In fact, she is convinced that daddy issues leads one to be liberal in general. Same kind of Electra complex you note in Pelosi and, in men, a sense that they cannot measure up and achieve what is expected of them, which, in turn, leads them to criticize and reject the existing structure. It's way for the defeated to pretend that they are not defeated, but more enlightened.

Artemesia , 13 January 2021 at 03:52 PM

Perhaps it's in the nature of political operatives with an unsavory agenda: they choose damaged people as front men (women) to carry out their plans.

Woodrow Wilson comes to mind. Whether or not the tale of the blackmail letters from a former lover are true, Wilson had other vulnerabilities. Joyce Carol Oates's The Accursed slices and dices Wilson savagely.

Haim Saban invested in Hillary Clinton at a time when she had been about as publicly humiliated as a woman can be. He poulticed with cash & power those wounds in her psyche.

It's not unlikely that Nancy Pelosi's psychological vulnerabilities, coupled with her early exposure to the exercise of political power and relationships with influential Jewish leaders, were assets, in the eyes of those who use her for their purposes.

Jeffrey Epstein couldn't compromise everybody.

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My four grandparents and my mother were born in Barrea, about 60 mi. NW of Pelosi's origins. I never knew my grandparents, but I recognize the style of paternal control. In my Mother's case -- she graduated from 6th grade at age 16 and was offered a scholarship to the high school the French nuns ran. Her father said No, she had to go to work to help support the family, not so much a case of "Italian American men were like that in that era," as "an Italian American laborer had to do what he must to keep his family fed" -- which is what brought him to the USA in the first place. My Mother completed her GED at age 65.

My own father was born in USA of Italian immigrant parents who were probably illiterate (in English). I came upon my Father's grade school report cards: his mother signed the first few with an X; the next few with her printed name, and finally, her signature in script.

My Father benefited enormously from the Americanizing impact of WASPish public schools, then US Navy in WWII until he was wounded and medically discharged. He was intelligent, possessed self-discipline and a sense of order, but his peasant background made him less socially polished than was acceptable to my own spouse and in-laws whose American roots were deep; their family members observed the fighting from their farm on the edge of the Antietam.

American leaders intent on opening borders to one and all would do well to spend some think-tank time considering how immigrants are supposed to learn how to be American, and how matings between long-term Americans and the newly arrived are going to navigate a marriage and child-rearing.

james , 13 January 2021 at 03:52 PM

thanks pat... it widens the picture... projection is a powerful force in her life it seems.. i think you are right in your analysis.. she is living in the past, like a lot of people today...

[Jan 14, 2021] Louie Gohmert DUNKS on Pelosi - Quotes Her Support for Black Lives Matter Riots on House Floor-- Liberals Freak Out!

Jan 14, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) flipped the script on Democrats on the House floor today.

After a summer of Democrat-sanctioned rioting and $2 billion in damages, Democrats and their fake news media are trying desperately to push to the American public that Republicans and Trump supporters are the violent ones.

This is as outrageous as it is dishonest.

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[Jan 14, 2021] Another sign of false flag: Pentagon Chief Waited Hours to Send Capitol Aid- Why

FBI alone could have prevented this. They have all the information. But it looks like they wanted it to happen. "Repeated requests for Guard assistance were denied and delayed, even though hundreds of National Guard were on standby outside D.C." -- that can be interpreted in two ways -- one is that false flag operation has the support of Pentagon, and another that Pentagon was waiting for Trump supporters which were aptly called Rabble Without a Cause (who have no organization, no plans, and no weapons) to overrun and, possibly, vandalize, the Capitol; to achieve what? The latter is much less plausible than the first. Looks like somebody at the top wanted protestors in to compromise Trump and remove him from the political scene, once and for all. That does not excuse Trump own incompetence, but still...
Jan 14, 2021 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Repeated requests for Guard assistance were denied and delayed, even though hundreds of National Guard were on standby outside D.C.

As protesters stormed the Capitol Wednesday, then-chief of U.S. Capitol Police Steven Sund says he requested National Guard assistance six times both ahead of, and during, the attack on the Capitol, and that each of his requests were denied or delayed. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser placed frantic calls to the Governors of Maryland and Virginia asking for the National Guard to send help.

On Tuesday, Bowser had sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen, and acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, explicitly stating that she did not want federal law enforcement personnel to provide additional support on Wednesday, and that Capitol Police were prepared to deal with the expected activity.

During an emergency meeting called by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) with the Maryland police and National Guard, House Minority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) called Hogan from "an undisclosed bunker" and told him Capitol Police were "overwhelmed" by the mob storming the Capitol, The Week reports .

There were 500 Maryland National Guard members on standby outside of D.C., ready and waiting to assist. Yet Hogan had to tell Hoyer that he still didn't have authorization to send the National Guard, despite the urgent pleadings of the House's No. 2 Democrat.

It wasn't until 90 minutes later that Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy called Hogan to ask, "Can you come as soon as possible?"

Hogan responded, "Yeah, we've been waiting. We're ready."

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Repeated requests for Guard assistance were denied and delayed, even though hundreds of National Guard were on standby outside D.C. WASHINGTON,DC-JAN6: Tear gas is fired at supporters of President Trump who stormed the United States Capitol building. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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As protesters stormed the Capitol Wednesday, then-chief of U.S. Capitol Police Steven Sund says he requested National Guard assistance six times both ahead of, and during, the attack on the Capitol, and that each of his requests were denied or delayed. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser placed frantic calls to the Governors of Maryland and Virginia asking for the National Guard to send help.

On Tuesday, Bowser had sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen, and acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, explicitly stating that she did not want federal law enforcement personnel to provide additional support on Wednesday, and that Capitol Police were prepared to deal with the expected activity.

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During an emergency meeting called by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) with the Maryland police and National Guard, House Minority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) called Hogan from "an undisclosed bunker" and told him Capitol Police were "overwhelmed" by the mob storming the Capitol, The Week reports .

There were 500 Maryland National Guard members on standby outside of D.C., ready and waiting to assist. Yet Hogan had to tell Hoyer that he still didn't have authorization to send the National Guard, despite the urgent pleadings of the House's No. 2 Democrat.

It wasn't until 90 minutes later that Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy called Hogan to ask, "Can you come as soon as possible?"

Hogan responded, "Yeah, we've been waiting. We're ready."

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"I can't tell you what was going on on the other end, on the decision-making process," Hogan said . "There's been lots of speculation in the media about that, but I'm not privy to what was going on inside the White House or inside the Pentagon."

The Army says that they received the first call for help from Bowser shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, followed by several additional calls for assistance.


Darnell Velius 17 hours ago

Several groups, eg., Antifa, QAnon, etc had been boasting in the days and weeks before that they were planning to go to the Capitol on January 6th and sow chaos. It was all over the 8chan analog chat room boards. It is impossible to believe that our intel agencies and FBI where unaware. More likely they helped stoke the unrest by using contracted agent provocateurs to goad the fringe groups into attacking the Capitol and cajole naïve Trump supporting bystanders into joining them. I also think the CIA, FBI, and DOD conspired to withhold intel and security support at the Capitol precisely so rioting could ensue with little resistance and have the dual effect of tainting the MAGA movement while shutting down the election fraud debate. That the CIA, FBI, and DOD would, let alone could, set such a trap for the President goes to show how corrupt the deep state has become and how diminished in stature the Presidency has become.

kenofken Darnell Velius 17 hours ago

Yes it was all leftists. Probably all paid by Soros no less.

Nurse, more Haldol over here...

1701 Darnell Velius 17 hours ago
That the CIA, FBI, and DOD would, let alone could, set such a trap for the President goes to show how corrupt the deep state has become and how diminished in stature the Presidency has become.
engineerscotty Darnell Velius 7 hours ago

That, Sir, is a brilliant parody. Well done!

(Were it serious, then you're barking mad. Poe's Law comes into play...)

Bob Thompson 17 hours ago • edited

Maybe the Deep Staters in the military learned the wrong lessons from Hillary and Barack's response to Benghazi.

Terry Ward 10 hours ago • edited

1. During the January 6 attack by Trump supporters while Congress
was in session, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser requested additional backup from
the D.C. National Guard, but received no response from the Pentagon.

2.
Mayor Bowser then contacted the governors of both Maryland and
Virginia, frantically requesting that they activate their national
guards.

3. The governors were "repeatedly denied approval to do so.

4. Only until over an hour after the attack began did Secretary of the
Army Ryan McCarthy activate the D.C. National Guard, leaving Mike Pence, members of Congress, and Congressional staffers in
grave danger for over an hour.

Secretary Ryan McCarthy is a Trump appointee

Egyptsteve 6 hours ago • edited

Wait, hold up, Bowser is mayor of DC but she and the DC police have no jurisdiction over the Capitol. She may or may not have dithered over whether the DC metro police needed National Guard support for areas around the Capitol, but what does that have to do with the Capitol riot itself?

[Jan 14, 2021] The events on Jan. 6th was a carefully orchestrated trap set in place by democrats and republicans, at least at leadership positions, to get rid of Trump and his brand once and for all. Of course, Trump and his MAGA clowns were too stupid to see this and this kind of stupidity should have consequences.

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Alpi , Jan 14 2021 18:25 utc | 3

The anti-Trump campaign, from Russiagate to Ukrainegate to this 'insurrection' nonsense, has likely done more damage to the U.S. than Trump managed to do during his four years in office. The hostility the Democrats have show will create a huge backlash. Do they really believe that can suppress 74 million Trump voters?

As M.K. Bhadrakumar diagnoses :

For the outside world Trump Impeachment 2.0 can only appear as a kangaroo trial.
...
This ongoing project to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a little over a year is farcical. ...

What happened in Washington, DC, on January 6 was by no means an insurrection. Of course, US citizens were behind the Capitol Building siege. But the parallel ends there. There was no way they could have usurped power in America last Wednesday. In fact, even the vandalism was entirely due to the ineptness of the security personnel deployed there.
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What is the guarantee that another Trump will not arise from outside the cabals that preside over politics in America and reaches out to the people directly? The fact of the matter is that Trump's support base still remains the envy of any American politician. Seventy million Americans voted for him last November. That massive support base will feel further disenfranchised or disempowered by what the cabals are perpetrating on the Capitol Hill.

The real paradox is that the "mob" who besieged the Capitol building was largely drawn from the American middle classes -- the petite bourgeoisie or the 'transitional class,' as Karl Marx described them ...
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Make no mistake, this class is here to stay in America and if the post-pandemic economic recovery does not go brilliantly well or is mismanaged, its ranks will swell further. That is going to be Biden's real challenge even if Pelosi were to dispatch Trump into political wilderness.

The backlash from this Trump impeachment will be huge. It may come in rare events of real domestic terrorism. But it is more likely to swell up through smaller acts of civil disobedience. There is a lot that the petite bourgeoisie can sabotage. The CIA has published volumes of advice, meant for people in other countries, on how to do that.

Feisal al-Istrabadi فيصل الاسترابادي @FIstrabadi - 00:03 UTC · 14 Jan 2021

Joy Reid just spoke on MSNBC of the necessity for "de-Baathifying" the Republican Party to rid it of Trumpian influences.

An excellent precedent. It has worked just great in Iraq.

The Democrats aren't stupid. They know that they are provoking more strife. They will use that to roll out authoritarian measure that will serve the powerful.

The events on Jan. 6th was a carefully orchestrated trap set in place by democrats and republicans, at least at leadership positions, to get rid of Trump and his brand once and for all. Of course, Trump and his MAGA clowns were too stupid to see this and this kind of stupidity should have consequences.

And now that he is deserting his follower on a daily basis, he will be forgotten soon. But I'm afraid the discontent is here to stay and soon we will see an uprising. Then, remains the terrifying future prospects of this new government. Either way, living in US will be hell for the next two years.

US political scene is so poisoned, and trust is at such a non-existent level that only a quasi revolution will be able to put an end to politics as we know it. Revolution not in a traditional sense perhaps, but a political/social awakening. This will need abandoning this Democrat/Republican circus show and start being Americans. Otherwise, we will allow ourselves to be pons in this sick charade for years to come.

Sadly, smart money will be on complacency and status quo after the uprising has been extinguished.

It is a suppression strategy that has, at times, worked in other countries.

But it does not lead to long term stability.

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It is a suppression strategy that has, at times, worked in other countries.

But it does not lead to long term stability.

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[Jan 14, 2021] I'm reading an interesting article that has cost a senior fellow of the Cato institute to lose his job. The title is Reichstag Fire '21. Some Illarionov, a former Putin economic adviser working with the Cato for over 15 years.

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Paco , Jan 14 2021 22:46 utc | 43

I'm reading an interesting article that has cost a senior fellow of the Cato institute to lose his job. The title is Reichstag Fire '21. Some Illarionov, a former Putin economic adviser working with the Cato for over 15 years.

It won't be pleasurable to machine read it, but give it a try, might be interesting as part of the big "migration" taking place, digital and analog.

https://aillarionov.livejournal.com/1215661.html

[Jan 14, 2021] Claims of insurrection as a sign of hysteria by neoliberals who are losing thier grip of the society

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

William Gruff , Jan 14 2021 21:41 utc | 35

dadooronron @29

No, there was no attempt at insurrection by the protesters at the Capitol building. You imaging that there was an insurrection attempt is just a symptom of hysteria, like your imaging the Russians were taking over for the last four years. It is an indication that your rational mind has failed and that you are overcome with fight-or-flight fear-based emotional reactions, with that fear being implanted in your head by the corporate mass media in order to remote-control your behavior.

You should probably turn off your TV.

[Jan 14, 2021] A central rule of a color revolution is to avoid an "orderly transition". The new regime must have a revolutionary mandate instead of a democratic one. Only then can it operate outside the constitution and outside the law.

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Petri Krohn , Jan 13 2021 23:08 utc | 51

How to Un-Trump Four Years of Trump?

A central rule of a color revolution is to avoid an "orderly transition". The new regime must have a revolutionary mandate instead of a democratic one. Only then can it operate outside the constitution and outside the law.

The plan here is to declare not only Trump illegitimate but his whole administration illegitimate. The new regime can then undo all of Trump's executive decisions. There is no need to "stuff" the Supreme Court with extra judges. Simply declare Trump's appointments null and void.

[Jan 13, 2021] I hope they spend the next 4 years on this impeachment hoax: I don't see where Trump encourages anyone to go INTO the Capitol. the Capitol Visitor Center is open to visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

ZD commenter goes after neoliberal Dems with the force of sarcasm...
Notable quotes:
"... "Crucifixion was invented by the Persians in 300 BC, adapted by the Romans in 100 BC to crucify Jesus Christ, and extensively used by Democrats in 2021..." ..."
Jan 13, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

PT 5 hours ago

CONgress.

If CON is the opposite of PRO then does that mean:
The opposite of Congress is Progress?
The opposite of Constitution is Prostitution?

CJgipper 4 minutes ago

I hope they spend the next 4 years on this impeachment hoax.

I'm pretty okay with the laws as they are, certainly don't want these monkeys monkeying with them.

Handful of Dust 6 hours ago remove link

"Crucifixion was invented by the Persians in 300 BC, adapted by the Romans in 100 BC to crucify Jesus Christ, and extensively used by Democrats in 2021..."

Dangerclose 5 hours ago

The "illegal entry" was starting before Trump even spoke. He was twenty minutes late for his speaking time. Antifa was rousing up the crowd well before Trump spoke.

NAV 4 hours ago (Edited)

And so they're impeaching Trump because he won the election. And hunting down his supporters for voting for him and participating in Washington's largest rally to show their support for him and America. And because they expect a no-show for Biden's inauguration, they've created an armed insurrection scare as an excuse for why no one attended.

And all we have to do is not fight the noose that already is around our necks.

nsurf9 5 hours ago (Edited)

Written Transcript of President Trump's 1/6/21 Speech on Ellipse

Video of President Trump's 1/6/21 Speech on Ellipse

"We're going walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women."

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

I don't see where Trump encourages anyone to go INTO the Capitol. Nonetheless , the Capitol Visitor Center is open to visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day and on Inauguration Day. Capitol Visiting Hours - Open to the Public..

[Jan 13, 2021] House Has Enough Votes To Impeach Trump For Second Time

Jan 13, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

* Ten Republicans have broken ranks and voted for impeachment: Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA) Rep. John Katko (NY) Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL) Rep. Fred Upton (MI) Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA) Rep. Peter Meijer (MI) Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (OH) Rep. Tom Rice (SC) and Rep. David Valadao (CA).

House Democrats are leading the charge on a Wednesday vote to impeach President Trump on one count of incitement of insurrection, after protesters were allowed into the US Capitol building last week through an open door - calmly walking inside before proceeding to take selfies and ransack lawmakers' offices.

The article of impeachment accuses Trump of "willfully inciting violence against the government of the United States" in violation of his oath and duty. Once it passes, which we expect it will, Trump will be the first US president in history to be impeached twice.

...

More via Bloomberg :

The timing could complicate Biden's efforts to get cabinet officials approved by the Senate since lawmakers would be occupied by an impeachment trial.

But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has raised the possibility of invoking a 2004 emergency session law to convene a trial this week, although such a move would require the consent of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Regardless of whether he is convicted in the Senate, a second impeachment would further stain a presidency that has culminated in a frightening assault on the storied center of the American democracy. It also opened fissures in the Republican Party that portends a power struggle over its future.

The New York Times reported that McConnell has told associates he is privately pleased with the impeachment, calculating that it will make it easier to purge the party of Trump's influence.

Numerous Republicans, however, argued that impeaching Trump would only worsen divisions in the country.

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who was elected in November, said impeachment "throws gasoline on the fire."

"Both parties need to take a time out and take a deep breath" Mace told reporters at the Capitol. "We need to have a peaceful transition of power and start over."

Mace was not among the 138 Republicans who voted on Jan. 6 to reject Biden's Electoral College win in at least one state even after the mob seeking to overturn the election had stormed the building. Many of them also made pleas for unity.

Check back for updates...


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HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 6 hours ago

John B. Wells had a guest on his show, a new member of Congress, who was walking around and saw a flare go off from the Capital roof. Once that happened he said all hell broke loose. It wasn't an accident. The whole thing, inside was staged. As is the installation of metal detectors.

Discussion on the flare is at the 2:42:00 mark, here: https://youtu.be/FU2f0qD5G6M

yerfej 6 hours ago

Notice there is NO focus on the economy, on Covid, on unemployment, on ANYTHING of value to the citizens. Its all about the progressive elites little fantasy world of power. The progressive supporters need to realize the incoming regime is all about the elites and there will be no crumbs for anyone. Why is it democrat voters can learn from their ownership of cities, there is NOTHING for the little guy but bloviating speeches and bullshyyytt. All of the money goes to entrenched party insiders and their hangers on.

Xi the Pooh 6 hours ago (Edited) remove link

The capital police opened the damn barricade and let them in!!

AND ITS TIME FOR TRUMP TO GO ON THE OFFENSE! NO MORE BEING A GIANT PYSIE. START DECLASSIFYING DEEP STATE DOCUMENTS, AND PARDON ASSANGE AND SNOWDEN ASAP!!

[Jan 13, 2021] Untouchable and deplorables

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Che Guava , says: January 12, 2021 at 2:31 pm GMT • 13.8 hours ago

I am not an American, but am incredulous at US media's lies.

Burn and loot for months, that is nothing it seems. Any arrested released.

A few jokers are waved into the 'Capitol' by the security there, they do no serious damage, they play it as play, yet there are mass arrests.

[Jan 13, 2021] The specter of politicians cowering under their desks on Jan. 6th preceded by the Supreme Court displaying no backbone in support of their Constitutional authority and duty pertaining to massive election fraud, in the wake of lower courts' dishonor on the issue, is now joined by a general piling on, of vindictiveness. Not just Democrats and mass media and the 'woke' universe: Republican rats scurry to abandon the Trumpian ship and hurl departing insults at the Captain.

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Robert Snefjella , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:28 am GMT • 51 minutes ago

Trouble ahead, but things are also looking up.

Solzhenitsyn, after coming to the West, and observing it first hand, observed that the West had lost its civic courage, and that such a loss presaged societal catastrophe.

Lack of courage is not necessarily a hindrance to sudden displays of viciousness.

The specter of politicians cowering under their desks on Jan. 6th preceded by the Supreme Court displaying no backbone in support of their Constitutional authority and duty pertaining to massive election fraud, in the wake of lower courts' dishonor on the issue, is now joined by a general piling on, of vindictiveness. Not just Democrats and mass media and the 'woke' universe: Republican rats scurry to abandon the Trumpian ship and hurl departing insults at the Captain.

For four years Trump was subjected to non-stop Establishment and mass media venom, but leading up to the election things got only crazier. A couple of weeks prior to the election on Nov 3rd, , for example, a large number of remarkably successful 'dissident' citizen journalists were purged from major mass media platforms, undermining both their reach and their incomes. Brazen censorship was deployed in this and many other ways.

Trump derangement syndrome – a remarkable and to me mysterious achievement – already widely inflicting countless 'educated' people in many lands, seems to have been somehow energized to new heights of hysteria and venom after the stolen election: Trump supporters are now to be fired, re educated, put on no fly lists, arrested, and otherwise attacked and removed: they are residual evidence of the great stain upon America's glorious history, or upon the human race itself, perhaps: one Donald J. Trump.

But here is the curious fact: Trump received more votes, if the votes were counted fairly, than any other President in American history. In the aftermath of relentless media hostility, bias, misrepresentation, attacks, etc, Trump became arguably among the most popular Presidents in American history.

So what does that tell us? Among other things, that the near unanimous mass media effort to deprecate Trump failed spectacularly with tens of millions of Americans: the person who mass media rigorously demonized for four years actually won the real election in a landslide. And the person who actually won the election had over the last four years directed continual teasing contempt at the 'fake new' industry/complex, and in my opinion easily holds the title of global champion when it comes to bringing widespread attention to mass media disinformation and corruption.

So while there is a great deal to be concerned about, and many pitfalls, from my perspective there has been an enormous positive sea change in the vast and growing 'peasantry' of America. The deplorable population has grown over the last four years, and they have learned a lot, and endured a lot. They have seen many of their hopes 'blown away in the vicious wind of corruption and cowardice'. They have been locked down and inconvenienced and frightened and impoverished by the fake news propagated dripping-with-evil-intent COVID-19 operation. But for all that, many millions will be more resolute, as well as wiser still.

We don't know how the story unfolds, but as far as I can see it's far from over, and the plot will involve the will power of millions in response to the illegitimate power now much more starkly on display, and wielded by far fewer numbers.

[Jan 13, 2021] Have to agree with Glenn Greenwald that the Capitol invasion was NOT a "coup" or "insurrection" as pushed by the same people who ignored the violence and destruction in the George Floyd protests

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Michael888 , says: January 12, 2021 at 10:08 pm GMT • 6.2 hours ago

Have to agree with Glenn Greenwald that the Capitol invasion was NOT a "coup" or "insurrection" as pushed by the same people who ignored the violence and destruction in the George Floyd protests ( https://greenwald.substack.com/p/violence-in-the-capitol-dangers-in-67f ). While not a benign chanting on a sidewalk, the violation of the Capitol by Deplorables was minor compared to what happened to other federal monuments and statues all summer, and in line with both groups' First Amendment right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". And while NO ONE was shot to death by police in the George Floyd protests (estimated at over 10 million protesters) many lost eyes to flash bangs and beanbags and many were hospitalized from tear gas.
Obviously the Saker is not American or he would know, as Neoliberal Global Elite George W Bush put it: "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

Maybe SCOTUS still pays some attention, but Congress creates their own hysterical deranged Narratives and as Karl Rove said: "in what we call the reality-based community," most Americans "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." But that's no longer true for Congress. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

[Jan 13, 2021] Demand Accountability for the Capitol Attack -

Jan 13, 2021 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Washington has long had a political culture of impunity that permits the abuses and crimes of the powerful to go unpunished, and the lack of accountability for our many foreign policy failures is well-known. As a general rule, politicians are rarely held accountable for what they do, and presidents are even less likely to face consequences for their outrages.

the [manipulated] public is demanding accountability right away. According to at least two surveys released in the last few days, most Americans fault the president for the Capitol attack. According to one poll, 56% want Trump removed from office before Biden's inauguration. Even if this weren't what most Americans support, it is what defending the Constitution and the rule of law requires.


NoMoreFalseGods Guest 17 hours ago

You mad bro?

interguru Guest 17 hours ago

The BLM protests, ugly as they were, were not an attempt to destroy the Constitution and overthrow the government.

SatirevFlesti interguru 6 hours ago

No...they were worse.

And besides, they were actually part of an overall coordinated left-wing movement all last year (mostly using Covid as the justification for instituting the most insecure and fraudulent election system in history) designed to undermine the election and enable mass vote fraud, which constitutes material participation in an effort to destroy the constitution and overthrow the truly elected leaders of the government.

rayray SatirevFlesti 6 hours ago

This is nonsense. Total, unmitigated hogwash. The BLM movement and the attendant voter registration movements were exactly what they were, an attempt to bring sharp attention to racial justice and an attempt to bring people to the polls to vote. Full stop. While I vehemently disagree with the elements of BLM that rioted and damaged property, there is no comparison between the two movements.

ekaneti rayray 5 hours ago

BLM movement is to destroy the USA as a constitutional republic and replace it with a collectivist system based on race.

Youre right there is no comparison. The body bags are much greater on the BLM side

Gyre rayray 4 hours ago

Which always seems to happen near a strip mall with an electronics store nearby.

junesxing SatirevFlesti 5 hours ago

are you saying that more people voting is bad for democracy?

ekaneti junesxing 5 hours ago

it can be yes.

junesxing ekaneti 3 hours ago

well then, let's get rid of voting altogether. That way the will of the people won't stand in the way of a democratic society.

Freespeak ekaneti 2 hours ago

Red arm band or ghost costume?

rayray ekaneti 2 hours ago

It can be if you're not living in a democracy. Worth noting, autocracy is only fun if it's your guy....

ekaneti interguru 5 hours ago

That is exactly what they were, The leaders even said so

Gyre interguru 4 hours ago

So you think protesting the handling of a suspicious election was "an attempt to destroy the Constitution"? Well, you get points for knowing how to spell, if not think clearly.

rayray Gyre 2 hours ago

But...there was no suspicious election. So what are you referring to?

Tom Riddle Guest 17 hours ago
In what specific part of the President's speech did he "incite the mob"? By telling them to go peacefully protest? By telling them to cheer on the Senators and Representatives raising objections? By telling them to make people proud?

Trump literally gave a speech filled with insane lies about election fraud and told them to go to the Capitol to stop the steal. His personal lawyer bellowed there will be "trial by combat". Trump advisor and bedding impresario Mike Lindell talk about civil war. Saying "peaceful" once isn't a magic spell that absolves one of responsibility. If it was, Michael Corleone would be as innocent as a babe being baptized.

None of this would have happened without Trump's leadership. Whipping up a mob against Congress is the only thing he's focused on for an extended period of time in his presidency

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As for the riots this summer, I also believe that any rioters should be removed from the office of the president of the United States.

Matthew Maheras Guest 17 hours ago • edited
Yes, there is. In what specific part of the President's speech did he "incite the mob"? By telling them to go peacefully protest?

Probably the parts where he told the crowd that they had to "fight like hell," then the part where he said if they "don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore" , then saying they had to "stop the steal" and that if they didn't they would have an "illegitimate president." The latter claim of course being a bald-faced lie.

But what happened in the capitol last week was no uglier than what has been happening in this country for years, virtually every time the left gets it protest wheels turning.

Yes it was uglier.

Attacking businesses ≠ attacking police stations ≠ attacking court houses ≠ attacking State Capitols ≠ attacking The Capitol ≠ threatening to lynch the VP and Members of Congress

If you're going to make a false equivalence like this, why should anyone take you seriously? Yes, threatening to upend our democracy by advocating the death of our elected officials is a lot bigger of an issue than a Target in Minneapolis being looted or burned. It's possible for both things to be bad or unwelcome outcomes, but for one (the Trump insurrection) to be far, far, far, far worse.

How about burning down entire sections of cities, dragging innocent civilians out of their cars, rioting, looting, firebombing, raping, murdering....all part and parcel with conduct we watched go on for months.

Hilariously, Trump pardons war criminals that literally have done all these things, and you pretend like you have the moral high ground.

But he incited a riot. He deserves to be impeached. He deserves to be barred from running for office. He deserves to be deplatformed.

The funniest thing about this is that you could ignore the riot and he still deserves to be impeached . Did you forget when the little impeachable phone call he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger? God knows how many more similar phone calls he's made over the past four years that no one was smart enough to record and leak.

who went around and raised money to bail out rioters from jail so they could go out and riot again have been fired

They primary reason to paying for bail is because we have an unequal and unjust cash bail system that benefits to middle/upper-class and has unequal impact on the poor. Get real.

SatirevFlesti Matthew Maheras 6 hours ago • edited

Funny you leftist didn't mind when left-wing scum occupied the Wisconsin capitol for 40 days in 2011, or attacked and occupied Senate offices during the Kavanaugh hearings, or breached Capitol security barriers during the "Women's March, etc etc.

Pure f-ing hypocrit scum.

junesxing SatirevFlesti 5 hours ago

and where were you when the 'sovereign citizens' occupied government property in Oregon?
'what's that got to do with me", you ask. Whataboutism is not relevant, neither about Bundy in Oregon or those that illegally occupied a state capitol. Maga insurgents occupied the National Capitol, calling for death to the Vice President, stealing government property including potentially classified information in order to support the overturn of the US government.

That is your hypocrisy, Dude

Annie from Alaska SatirevFlesti 18 minutes ago

They are like vampires. Mirrors send them hissing and reeling into the darkness to conduct more unnecessary depraved sex rituals.

rayray Matthew Maheras 6 hours ago

"It's possible for both things to be bad or unwelcome outcomes, but for one (the Trump insurrection) to be far, far, far, far worse."

Hard to put it clearer than that.

Matthew K 17 hours ago

I've deleted my prior comment. It has become obvious that TAC is dominated by leftists and fraudulent Conservatives who are perfectly complicit with the double standards and hypocrisy being imposed on our society. Enjoy your return to the Bob Dole/John McCain party. Enjoy never winning another Presidential election.

Yourcenar Matthew K 16 hours ago

Sorry, but the sane people actually did win the Presidential election despite every attempt by the current president to screw it up.

thecensoredamerican Matthew K 14 hours ago

don't back down, put it back up & wait for TAC to delete it for you - they enjoy censoring as much as losing

Zelda Gibran Matthew K 13 hours ago

It's just that this type of rhetoric and delusion is no longer tolerable, not even within the conservative movement. It's time to come back to Jesus.

Baruch Dreamstalker Zelda Gibran 7 hours ago

Careful. Rabbi Jesus talked about tending to the beam in your own eye before addressing the mote in your brother's eye.

Curious Baruch Dreamstalker 6 hours ago

He also sounds like a Marxist with all that Camel through the eye of the needle nonsense

1701 Curious 5 hours ago

Yeah, this Jesus fella clearly didn't know about the absolute necessity of flying private jets to avoid being surrounded by demons
https://www.foxnews.com/us/...

Baruch Dreamstalker Curious 5 hours ago

There was a narrow gate in the Jerusalem wall known as "the eye of the needle." Rabbi Jesus said it was easier for a camel to get through that gate than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom. Since Marx didn't come along for another eighteen hundred years or so, "Marxist" is a counter-factual label to put on him.

KevinS Matthew K 12 hours ago

Bye!!

1701 Matthew K 10 hours ago

Enjoy your return to the Bob Dole/John McCain party. Enjoy never winning another Presidential election.

Right, 'cause Trump was so good at it that he lost the popular vote twice and when that also led to him losing the Presidency he sabotaged his own party's possibility of winning the Senate and subsequently incited an insurgency against Congress.
I'm sure that's the sensible path forward every conservative should want to follow...
...is what I'd say if I wanted to see the GOP completely annihilate itself. So it's what I say.

Miles R. Matthew K 9 hours ago

Yeah, Donald Trump, such a big winner: two-time loser in the popular vote and now loser in the electoral college too; leader of the effort to discourage Republicans in Georgia from voting, thereby securing dominance in the senate for the Democratic Party. Tell me again how many times a Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote in the past thirty years. Oh, right: a grand total of once (GWB, 2004).

It's really a question of choosing your losers: do you want losers who can recognize reality and serve their country, or losers who live in narcissistic fantasies of grandeur and serve only themselves?

Feral Finster Matthew K 9 hours ago • edited

You sound like an ex-boyfriend who is bitter about having just been dumped.

EmpireLoyalist Matthew K 9 hours ago

As a business decision, it's not a great plan for a conservative paper to go marxist.
You lose your customer base - and your marxist fans soon lose interest as they have so many other options.
It's like a church that tries to be hip and cool and fun. People don't go to church for that.
They can stay home and watch tv for that. Hip-cool-fun churches close down.

KevinS EmpireLoyalist an hour ago

It hasn't gone Marxist...but other than that you're right on.

EmpireLoyalist Matthew K 9 hours ago

There is one GREAT thing about TAC.
It's the only marxist site that permits sane people to comment (using disqus). Try and find another one.
Their 'conservative' pretense requires them to tolerate a non-marxist presence.

Matt Russell EmpireLoyalist 6 hours ago

You clearly do not even know what Marxism is. It's just become a euphemism for everything that Trumpy people don't like.

gnt Matthew K 6 hours ago

Yet another conservative looking for a safe space to air their feelings....

SatirevFlesti Matthew K 6 hours ago

Spot on. TAC in the last few months has shown its true colors and is rapidly going the way of NRO, long the flagship of the cucked grifter pseudo-right.

Good riddance, TAC. Though I'm sure that, like NR, they'll still find plenty of useful idiot donors to keep the grift going for a while. They'll try hard now to pivot to being the "conservative opposition" now that Biden-Harris-Pelosi-Schumer will be fully in charge and they don't have to pretend to kinda-sorta be on the same side as the President anymore with Trump gone. Nothing the grifter right likes better than being the "loyal opposition," always losing, but always grifting.

After all, what would the likes of Rod Dreher complain about if the right ever actually won and put a stop to everything he's been complaining about and warning of for years? I think his psychology couldn't take actual victory. Soft-totalitarianism? It's here, and it's not soft. But no matter, better to be the "opposition," and issue dire warnings, and accept Big Tech-Woke Capital censorship of the public square, deplatforming of dissenters from financial and social media services, etc., than support icky Trump and actually score some policy victories (waging war on racist CRT trainings, being the most objectively pro-life President ever, cutting down on illegal immigration, not starting any new wars for the perpetual war machine military-industrial complex etc., etc. How long until Biden and the new Secretary of Defense (sic) from Raytheon start a new war somewhere? I put the over-under at 6 months) .

Annie from Alaska SatirevFlesti 21 minutes ago

fighting over DOMA while Bush and the rest of the corrupt psychopaths start a war with Iraq because "They tried to kill my dad!"
fighting over wedding cakes and podiums while Pelosi and the rest of these corrupt psychopaths start a war with China because "Shut up and die, white supremacist deplorable racist cannon fodder."
how much more hatred can the rulers have for the ruled before something snaps?

Curious Matthew K 6 hours ago

Exactly! Democracy is too dangerous to leave to the voters!

junesxing Matthew K 5 hours ago

so if they don't agree with you, they are 'fraudulent' conservatives? No wonder you think that if your guy didn't win, then the election was fraudulent.

ekaneti Matthew K 5 hours ago • edited

For some reason this small publication (circulation 5,000) attracts a lot of leftists and obnoxious libertarians. Go read the comment section at Reason if you want to see toxic. It begs the question who reads TAC and what good is it if no one on the right is listening?

junesxing ekaneti 3 hours ago

seems to me that folks that want to hear responsible, grounded conservative viewpoints read TAC. That perhaps is why when articles or comments veer off into conspiracy theories and Qanon BS, that commenters don't always have good things to say.

Don Dementia Don 17 hours ago

Felony murder rule... ya gotta act fast and call in for a deal, before it's all hard time only. Things are getting real, fast.

M Orban Don Dementia Don 16 hours ago • edited

My hunch is that the hammer is about to come down on these lunatics.

Don Dementia Don M Orban 3 hours ago

Wait see you a side effect? Did your mom take the pill and did you and make it? Ya sure post like this a job for you. ;)

Normally Silent Don Dementia Don an hour ago

I reckon deals would be erroneous.
Unless we are talking about ''Submit or die, insurrectionist scum''.

thecensoredamerican 13 hours ago • edited

"...it is likely that there will be further attempts to sabotage and wreck the republic in the coming years."

There certainly will be, you got that part right anyway, even if the rest of your screed is pure...what's the word du jour of your incoming stolen president - malarky! The incoming marxist regime will do everything it can to wreck our republic in the next four years & establish a one-party communist-style government. They must be stopped.
There was no incitement last Wed., or prior to that, on the part of the duly elected President Trump anymore than there was any 'Russian conspiracy' or 'Ukranian quid pro quo' in previous phony impeachment hoaxes. The only "incitement" came after patriotic protestors were allowed into the Capitol building by guards during the mostly peaceful protest & then the Republican/Democrat establishment & fake news tried to incite popular opinion against the President & his supporters with wild accusations & unfounded denunciations like this one. It's true, of course, that "Washington has long had a political culture of impunity that permits the abuses and crimes of the powerful to go unpunished"; which is why Biden was nominated to "win" a rigged election despite his family's unchecked corruption while previously in office which shall go unpunished & unimpeached. Just like rioters & looters & assailants have gone unpunished in last year's Democrat insurrections in major cities around the country. It's not Ted Cruz who authored those civil disturbances but it's true that we shouldn't put those egregious events, or the stolen election, behind us, we must continue to demand accountability, even if it means more division. And we must demand accountability for Ashli Babbitt - not a dangerous criminal like George Floyd - who was murdered by Capitol police. Of course, deadly Democrats & rabid RINO's will continue to try & incite hatred against us but 75 million deplorables aren't going to just give in to you.

Yourcenar thecensoredamerican 13 hours ago
were allowed into the Capitol building by guards

The videos I saw showed prolonged battles at the barriers, plus scenes of police officers being dragged down steps and beaten with flag poles plus another instance of someone throwing a fire extinguisher at a crowd of cops.

Also a lot of broken windows.

Funny to see an alternative reality being constructed in real time.

EmpireLoyalist 9 hours ago

To demand accountability for the Capitol riot while glorifying six months of insurrection, violence and destruction can only have one outcome - massive intensification of the culture war.
The chasm between marxism and civilisation is vast and unbridgeable.
We should accept that, and stop the bomb throwing. It's pointless.
There is only one way forward: a peaceful partition - or at the very least, a loose federation, as in the Articles of Confederation, that allows for a common defence and foreign policy.

EmpireLoyalist Baruch Dreamstalker 6 hours ago

The Left ALWAYS uses the vices, flaws, shortcomings, imperfections of their enemies as justification for their own cosmically horrific crimes.
Look at one of their popular arguments in favour of abortion: "If you guys are not willing to support the creation of socialist utopia which will provide for this child from cradle to grave, then I have every right to brutally hack him apart. So there!" This is marxist logic.
You talk about slavery. Look at what The American Left have done to blacks. Degradation, de-humanisation - reducing them to livestock on bleak, squalid, lawless urban vote plantations. The West was the civilisation that ended slavery - which had been universal.
Homophobia? Look at what The American Left has done to homosexuals. Encouraged them to live empty hedonistic lifestyles in which their whole identity is built around a particular sex practise - which many of them don't even like apparently, judging by the amount of drugs they need to take.
Heresy trials? Stalin used to kill more people before breakfast every morning than the Spanish Inquisition executed in its entire three centuries of existence. On the first day after the Roe v Wade decision, the US abortion industry slaughtered more innocent humans than the total number of Inquisition victims.
Rotten boroughs were actually benign because the representatives from those boroughs had almost no power compared to what modern politicians have. They were a symbolic statement that the State was not important and it should not be a significant presence in a free, rule-of-law society. "It should be left to rot." They provided an argument against expanding the power of the State.

Matt Russell EmpireLoyalist 5 hours ago

Well let's put that to the test. Do you believe that the election was stolen from Trump and that he actually won a "sacred landslide" (his words), or do you believe Biden is the rightful victor in the election?

EmpireLoyalist Matt Russell 5 hours ago

We are supposed to pretend there was no fraud because the Media stamps and shrieks and rants and raves and threatens to ruin peoples' lives? That only deepens and hardens the suspicion.
Just look at the circumstances of election night. Most murder cases are solved on circumstantial evidence alone. If that were a court case, the jury would have returned a guilty verdict in five minutes. The statistical aberrations and the mysterious overnight activities are just too bizarre.
We all saw that. Nobody is disputing that part.
Then there were mountains of material evidence and testimony rejected. Rejected by whom? By the Media-State and courts on behalf of their candidate.
If you have a football game - red team v blue team - you should decide it by the score.
You should not allow the owner of the blue team to decide who the winner is, and the referee should not be a member of one of the teams.

engineerscotty rayray 3 hours ago

The only "unbridgable chasm" is that Empire is unhappy his side lost the last election, and was not successful in overturning it, now he wishes to take his ball and go home.

And is now demanding that he be provided with a "home" to go to.

Had Trump won re-election, of course, he'd be demanding that America's coastal urban areas submit to political dominion by their betters in the heartland.

He's just a sore loser, with emphasis on loser.


Egyptsteve
EmpireLoyalist 4 hours ago

Lots of people got arrested at the BLM protests. But you know, the "violence and destruction" was mostly visited against fast-food restaurants and sports apparel stores. Looting the Capitol, attacking Congress, and threatening to lynch the Vice President is just a little bit of a different kettle of fish.

SatirevFlesti 6 hours ago

The real accountability needs to be with an insane Congress pursuing wholly unjustified 25th Amendment declarations and yet another groundless impeachment. What this country needs to make its failing and corrupt institutions accountable is not more liberalism and Frenchist procedural BS and worshiping at "temples of democracy," but a real Caesar or Augustus...or to use more recent examples, a Franco or Pinochet.

A few dozen people (including Antifa agents provocateur) invited in by cops who opened gates and doors, larking about taking selfies, doing almost no damage, is hardly an "attack," "insurrection", or "domestic terrorism." A real attack or insurrection would have involved hostages, demands, and real violence, including burning this alleged "sacred temple of democracy" down to the ground (the only real violence was by a clearly racist black supremacist cop who shot an unarmed white woman in the face - the left assumes all white cops who shot black suspects are white supremacist racists, so I'm doing them the courtesy of doing the same with their scum cop;the story of the one cop who died outside the building has been debunked as not having been the result of any violence against him by Trump supporters or anyone at all).

There will be no real right-wing movement worthy of the name in this country until cucked Conservative Inc types like Larison stop simping for liberalism and playing into the hands of the left.

Matt Russell SatirevFlesti 6 hours ago

Yeah that's the real problem here isn't it... Congress calling for Pence to start the 25th process. What a travesty. Not the riot, not the deaths, the call to use an actual Constitutional process. There is something seriously wrong with you.

Aetius Matt Russell 5 hours ago

Someday this whole thing is going to go down in the history books just like the Salem Witch Trials as evidence of the fragility of the human pysche, and its capacity for mass delusion

Matt Russell Aetius 3 hours ago

Yes it's a case study in all sorts of really disturbing human characteristics, from the propagandists to the sheep that have consumed it. It's easy to see how the German people fell in line so quickly, particularly because of their propensity and belief in order. This period will be studied similarly.


longlance
5 hours ago • edited

Should the Capitol building be the Forbidden City or the Great Hall of the People? Should the canaille be kept out of sight & out of mind? Is there a substantial difference between TAC and Salon or New York Magazine?.

WilliamRD 5 hours ago

Larison is a 3rd rate hack. It's a tossup who's the worst. Dreher or Larison

Capitol "Insurrection": Will Americans Ever Grow Wise To Alinsky?

By Christopher Adamo

Until the right wakes up, Alinsky disciples will keep steamrolling over conservatives.

https://libertysentinel.org...

Joe Black 39 minutes ago

I find all this talk of holding the capital protesters accountable hypocritical and preposterous. Is there a full moon? Have people gone mad?
-Changing state constitutions by judicial decree or executive order by the governor should be corrected and those people should be held accountable. The judge should be disbarred. The governor should be impeached.
-Fraud in elections should be prosecuted and isnt
-open borders, human trafficking, drug trafficking, child-sex trafficking, cross border gang activity, criminal acts by non-citizens and illegals should be prosecuted and arent
-The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party have infiltrated the Democratic Party. Bribery, treason, sedition, corruption, using family members to hide payoffs, buyoffs, pay for play access to the Congress or White House, (Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, Swalwell, Obama, Clinton, Biden, etc), inviting known Chinese Spies to work for you in the Congress (Feinstein, Boxer, Swalwell) never held accountable
-deleting 30,000 emails and destroying cell phones, PDAs, laptops, with hammers....bleachbit a secret hidden server in the basement of the Clinton house in Chappaqua never held accountable
-Antifa/BLM killing cops, barricading them in police precincts and setting the police precincts on fire in an attempt to burn police officers alive never held accountable
-Antifa/BLM perpetrations of arson, vandalism, violent assault, harassment, traffic obstruction, murder, domestic terrorism never held accountable
-Big Tech, Social Media, Main Stream Media sensationalizing the news, using algorithms to censor and bias news reporting, delisting people, etc never held accountable.
-Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were being paid off by Russia while accusing Trump of being compromised by Russia even though it has yet to be proven that Trump has had any relationship other than professional with a foreign country.
The list goes on and on and on. Why the selective outrage over the capital protesters and no outrage over democratic sedition, treason and corruption which compromises our nations constitutional republic to a far greater extent than anything Trump did. Show me the standard of morals, ethics and enforcement of the law is fair, objective and equally applied then perhaps I will have some sympathy for your selective outrage. The democrats are like the hypocrit who condemns everyone else watching pornography while they sit home and watch it.

[Jan 13, 2021] It seems plausible that Trump's supporters were "set up" for the unprecedented crackdown

Jan 13, 2021 | dissident-mag.com

Here is the summarized timeline of what we know so far:

What we don't know yet:

So far, it seems abundantly clear that Trump's supporters were "set up" for the unprecedented totalitarian crackdown currently unfolding at a pace no one could have predicted. Based on a preponderance of the evidence, it is not possible to conclude anything else. The only matter up for debate at this point is the degree of complicity of those involved in leading tens of thousands of patriotic American citizens to lose their freedom – possibly forever – and in some cases, their lives.

[Jan 13, 2021] Lessons from the Trumpistan Coup, by Thomas Dalton

The main less is not be so stupid: Trump and Trumpists got in a trap and now will be eliminated from the political scene.
Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Mass protests generally have two distinct but intertwined goals: 1) to "make a statement," and 2) to inflict a cost. To state the obvious, mass protests occur because a group of people are unhappy about something, and they want something to change. Change only occurs, in a large bureaucratic nation like ours, if a loud "message" is conveyed, or if the price of non-change becomes too high. If thousands of Trump voters are mad as hell because they believe the election was stolen, and if they want to protest, they can either make their message heard and then hope for the best (not much hope there), or they can attempt to punish the thieves -- that is, make them incur some cost for their malfeasance.

What did the mob achieve on Wednesday? We already knew their message -- Trump won the election, and it was stolen. We know they have support across the country; even our biased media admit to some 74 million Trump voters, of whom 70% to 80% (depending on the poll) think the election was stolen. But then what? "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it." And then what? The message is impotent. It has no consequence.

If 'the message' was doomed to impotence, inflicting 'a cost' was much more tangible, and much more achievable. By forcing their way into the Capitol building, a motivated and reasonably prepared mob could have caused tremendous damage. If -- and I stress the conditional here -- if they wanted to inflict damage, they had a golden opportunity. They had guns, presumably hidden, and far outnumbered the handful of guards. Any firefight would have been over quickly, with the mob victorious. Security guards, staffers, even congressmen would have been easy prey, for kidnapping, injury, or worse. But this did not happen.

... ... ...

Notice how congressmen, left and right, responded to the event. All were indignant. All were outraged. All condemned the "senseless violence" of the crazed mob and the "attempted overthrow" of American democracy. All of them: left, right, and center; Democrat and Republican; Trump supporter or not. All of them condemned it.

Again: Why? The answer here is clear: All congressmen, of all stripes, have a vested interest in sustaining the system, more or less in its current form . This is obvious. They are all 'winners' in the system. It has made them all rich, famous, and powerful. Yes, they fight for relative power and relative influence, but this is largely a sham. The Republican-Democrat battles are only there to give the impression of real competition. Instead, in reality, we have a deep and radical monopoly -- a monopoly of pro-corporate, pro-capitalist, pro-war, pro-Israel, and pro-Jewish individuals. On these things, they all agree. I've been saying as much for many years: We should focus not on what divides the two parties, but on what unites them . This is far more revealing.

... More than anything, Trump was a symbol: a symbol of resistance, of defiance, and of an 'in your face' attitude. But nothing more. The Trump presidency was all show, no substance. It was, and is, hardly worth dying over.

And by 'media,' I mean all media. Consider what our beloved Tucker Carlson had to say , speaking at the beginning of his show on the very first day after the protest:

Political violence begets political violence. That is an iron law that never changes. We have to be against that, no matter who commits the violence or under what pretext, no matter how many self-interested demagogues assure us the violence is justified or necessary. We have a duty to oppose all of this, not simply because political violence kills other people's children, but because in the end it doesn't work.

No good person will live a happier life because [Ashli Babbitt] was killed in a hallway of the Capitol today. So our only option, as a practical matter, is to fix what is causing this in the first place. You may have nothing in common with the people on the other side of the country -- increasingly, you probably don't -- but you're stuck with them. The idea that groups of Americans will somehow break off into separate peaceful nations of like-minded citizens is a fantasy. That will not happen. There is no such thing as 'peaceful separation'; there never has been, and there won't be.

The two hemispheres of this country are inseparably intertwined, like conjoined twins. Neither can leave without killing the other. As horrifying as this moment is, we have no option but to make it better, to gut it out.


Beavertales , says: January 12, 2021 at 10:00 pm GMT • 23.9 hours ago

The entry of the Capitol building was spontaneous. Nobody saw it coming.

In the immediate aftermath, the media didn't know whether to promote it or bury it. It took hours and days for the narrative to coalesce on orders from the top.

As it was happening, the media was gob-smacked. The 'insurrection' narrative didn't truly get going until the protest was long over.

stevennonemaker88 , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:45 am GMT • 16.1 hours ago

I thought this was a pretty good article. Virtually no politician is on the side of the people (maybe Ron Paul is the exception)...

shylockcracy , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:51 am GMT • 16.0 hours ago

It's real tiresome to do this but people need to be reminded that Ziocorporate conman fraud Trump and his MAGA brand are a product of the same lot that governs the Democrats, and that he was never on his constituency's side:

"Donald Trump endorses Benjamin Netanyahu for PM"

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_l0N8ru6wII?feature=oembed

And it's necessary because if there's a chance to unite even a small group of people after realising how they're being had, then there's a chance for a small change to snowball into something larger. And it should not stay on the white side of the divide, it's not like the plandemic's been killing the economy for whites only. No "populist anti-Deep State patriot" or national leader goes around endorsing other countries' politicians, much less Israel's, the purest manifestation of corporate bankster power acting in unison with neocolonial globalism, a trait shared by Biden and Trump.

Actions should be peaceful, because entities like the Pentagon and CIA have an absolute monopoly on violent repression...

Thomasina , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:58 am GMT • 15.9 hours ago

One Christian fellow I listened to said that Antifa were definitely there. He took video of them walking down the street. That just proves to me that even Antifa knew they were no threat, otherwise they wouldn't have been mingling among thousands and thousands of Trump supporters.

The fellow said that from what he could see, the Trump protesters were unarmed, well behaved, smiling, and content with waving their flags. He said they are proud patriots and would never think of destroying art work or smashing up the Capitol Building.

He said on the 15 to 20 previous trips he's made to the Capitol Building, the pop-up metal barriers have always been up, but no barriers were up on January 6th. He said on a previous trip he had stepped onto the grass to take a picture and was quickly told by an officer to "get off the grass". But on January 6th, the sidewalks were blocked off, forcing people onto the grass.

We've seen the video of what looks to be an Antifa member breaking a window, only to be stopped by a Trump supporter.

No, these were salt of the earth people who were no threat to Antifa OR the spineless politicians. They knew this, but they've played it up for all it's worth.

And where was the police presence? Nowhere.

SwedeMan , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:59 am GMT • 14.9 hours ago

The main physical damage was the supposed theft of Pelosis laptop. Can I take a look at it?

Franz , says: January 13, 2021 at 7:13 am GMT • 14.6 hours ago
@James Speaks andbook by Edward N. Luttwak

Amazon includes a couple accurate blurbs on the product description page:

This short book is wicked, truthful, and entertaining. The author, after outlining a step-by-step procedure for bringing about a coup, analyzes modern (post–Second World War) coups, and points out why some succeeded and others failed. ( New Yorker )

An extraordinarily competent and well-written work, displaying very wide knowledge of the ways in which coups, both successful and unsuccessful, have actually been organized. ( Times Literary Supplement )

El Dato , says: January 13, 2021 at 7:16 am GMT • 14.6 hours ago

You don't do a "coup" by invading the congressional discussion bunker in a nominal democracy. You do a "coup" by ordering up CIA-organized troops to take over communication centers as checkpoints secured by APCs go up everywhere as congresscritters are frogmarched to a nearby stadium. The CEOs and salaried Wokers of the social meedja companies would swear enthusiastic allegiance to the new powers. Antifa would be issued clean shirts, ties and government-approved truncheons. Then a grand proclamation that there will be a convention to work towards national unity. Ooops, that last part actually happened.

If there had been a coup, it would 100% evident.

If there had been fair elections, it would 100% evident.

El Dato , says:
Whitewolf , says: January 13, 2021 at 10:03 am GMT • 11.8 hours ago

The event was, variously, a "coup," an "insurrection," or at minimum, "a riot." Protesters were "right-wing extremists" and even "domestic terrorists" who were attacking "the very basis of American democracy."

A coup?
An insurrection?
Attacking the very basis of American democracy?

The only reason the crowd was there in the first place was to protest against the people committing those crimes through election fraud. Hopefully at least the crowd has figured out that the Republicans and Trump are not on their side...

Forze , says: January 13, 2021 at 12:11 pm GMT • 9.7 hours ago

http://dissident-mag.com/2021/01/11/trumps-post-election-pentagon-shakeup-ensured-trap-was-sprung-for-patriots-at-the-capitol/

Jazzhand McFeels of https://therightstuff.biz/ has written a very interesting article on Dissident Mag about some sudden changes in the administration that could explain this thing.

There's also a podcast with even more facts: https://fash-the-nation.libsyn.com/ftn-372-rage-against-the-regime

Johnny Walker Read , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:01 pm GMT • 6.8 hours ago

Then things got ugly. Around 3:15, Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed, evidently by a security guard.

I don't know how this hoax could be exposed any better. WTFU people, you are being played.
https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=6NMK57Y5A924

Twodees Partain , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:16 pm GMT • 6.6 hours ago
@Franklin Ryckaert

If the attack on the Capitol was already so clumsy and ineffective, how could those same people succeed in the much more difficult task of seccession?

You're assuming that the phony attack was planned by the people who would be involved in a secession movement. I haven't seen any evidence that it was.

Anonymous [144] Disclaimer , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:54 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago

Cui Bono? The Key to 6 January is what did NOT happen. The two houses of congress had gone off to hear, separately, in public broadcast, evidence from objecting congressmen that there was massive electoral fraud to criminally deliver the election to Biden. MSM transmitted the opening statements to the debate by McConnell and Schumer. These two said that there was no election fraud. MSM then pulled away when the other congressmen started presenting the view that there WAS fraud. Although MSM was not going to carry what the people are not supposed to know, and filled in instead with their own propagandists and the Party Line, the proceedings examining election fraud would have been seen by some of the public through the internet streams and C-Span. This was clear evidence which the courts should have heard, but refused to hear. BUT, instead of Congress publicly hearing evidence, the hearings abruptly STOPPED. Why? The Capitol police, following instructions, opened the barricades and waved the demonstrators to come in. The demonstrators were guided to the spot where the Deep State assassin was waiting. A person was shot. After that, there were NO MORE discussions of election fraud. Biden was confirmed without the airing of evidence of fraud. 6 January was a simple, but elegant, Deep State SETUP. A psyop. The American people have been, once again, deceived. Once everybody submits to vaccination there will never again be disputed elections, just like in the third world.

anastasia , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:01 pm GMT • 4.8 hours ago

Correction: The media said that the policeman "collapsed when he got back to the Precinct. .that he MAY have been hit with a fire extinguisher." It was not reported as fact. No other subsequent report abouthow he died albeit it should have been established by now.

The second poilce officer who the media says was "killed" by the "riots" was a man who we heard nothing about on the date of the event, but who, five days later, committed suicide. The suicide story is not speculation. It was given as a fact. They call this suicide a "killing" because of the riots. It is more likely a police officer shooting his mouth off about these lies,who, five days later was suicided.

This summer and fall at least a dozen police officers were killed. Many more were injured. One got his eye knocked out. Many were very gravely injured. The government officials applauded their killers, posted bail for them, and every step of the way government officials "incited the violence".

Trump made a speech in front of his supporters laying out the evidence of the election fraud. He was complaining about the election fraud, a fraud that was never scutinized or investigated by anyone except his own lawyers and a few other lawyers, like Sidney Powell. They want to impeach him for publicly complaining about their stealing the election from him. It's like someone getting their home stolen, and when the victim publicly complains, he is threatened with arrest.

Again, they fundament their impeachment grounds on the "insurrection" of January 6, but again, like the election fraud, no one has scrutinized or conducted the most cursory investigation of it The fact that we still don't know how that policeman died is telling. The speculations made about him getting hit by a fire extinguisher are still floating around when at this point, it should be an established fact how he died. The dopiest doctor in this country would be able to diagnose a trauma to the head or body, if there were any physical trauma of that kind.

Two people died from natural causes. Yet, no details are given. One woman, age 34 and overweight was said to have been "trampled by the mob." Minutes after her death her family and closest friends were bad mouthing her, saying that she was mentally unstable, a conspiracy theorist, and "had problems in the past." She just died shortly before, and that was their public statements about their dearest friend and family member.

Ashli Babbits death was a provocative act that would have encouraged Trump supporters to turn on the police. It is no coincidence that those around her breaking windows, and screaming that she was dead when she was not, also provoked the crowds of Trump supporters. They are seen clearly on the video near Ashli not only breaking windows but changing their clothes after they had done so to hide their identification. This is clearly seen on the video. One guy provoking the crowds, breaking windows and screaming that Ashli was dead when she was not, was clearly Antifa, proven to be Antifa by video evidence. Yet, after January 6, he was interviewed by CNN. Clearly, the Antifa provocateur was not arrested by the Washington police or the FBI, but at least 6 Trump supporters were arrested for breaking curfew after 6 p.m. when all that happened at the Capitol was over. Those six were the first arrested – for breaking curfew. I do not find it a coincidence that both Ashli Babbitt and those breaking the windows around her, and screaming that she was dead when she was not, all acted to provoke the crowds and were all proven to be Antifa members. Was it coincidence that Ashli Babbitt's getting shot also acted as an unwitting provocateur, along with the Antifa members around her in the Capitol that day? Or was both Ashli and Antifa working for our security agencies that day, all playing their roles as agents provocateurs.

Why wouldn't the DOJ and FBI investigate the election fraud? Was it because the government did it? That would be a good reason not to investigate. Sidney Powell has produced an affidavit from a Serb who said it was the CIA who oversaw the manipulation of the US voting machines from Serbia, a country completely taken over by the CIA. He also writes about Hunter Biden's clandestine trip there in August 2020 to meet with these people.

Ugetit , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:13 pm GMT • 4.6 hours ago
@shylockcracy

Whoever didn't develop a sense of humor with your Ziocorporate fraud reality TV show president posing as patriot anti-deep maverick ain't gonna do it now.

Quite right. Unfortunately.

Thomasina , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:30 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago
@Whitewolf

Yes, the coup and insurrection had ALREADY happened.

The coup and insurrection happened when the Democrats AND Republicans rigged the election. Democratic state courts and election officials changed voting laws, and Republican state legislatures looked the other way.

NOVEMBER 3, 2020 COUP.

gleongelpi , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:46 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago

You are wrong on so many counts. The event was not spontaneous, that is quite clear when the guards let the protesters in and they mostly went inside peacefully while a handful of rioters did minimal damage. Some Antifas, yeah, for sure. But someone stole Pelosi's computer or did they? That smacks of a plan. It achieved the objectives of the groups on the inside. The marchers that went inside had to have been, for the most part, surprised that they were welcomed. Did you see how they walked in between the purple ropes? Took photographs and selfies, some of these with the guards? Did you see the videos of some of the protesters stopping the people trying to break the glass windows? ...

Curmudgeon , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:47 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago
@Thomasina

This is a very interesting video.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5nvqvvsqJ_s?feature=oembed

Trinity , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 7:58 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago

I see "anti-Semitism" has made it to the floor during these impeachment hearings. LMAO. I would guess that 97% of Trump's base is the muh Israel crowd and Trump is as pro-Israel, pro-Jewish as it gets.

Even more laughable is Maxine Waters standing up and decrying violence. I guess Maxine has a very selective memory. All these demsheviks and the gay guys over at CNN who had no problem with Antifa/BLM are now staunch advocates for the Constitution and have a problem with riots. How in the hell do these cretins live with themselves? Have these hypocrites no shame? It can't be said enuff that Antifa/BLM's and (((the leftoids))) fingerprints are all over these riots. This is the new 9-11, folks, don't believe your lying eyes. Look at some of those scraggly people busting windows and attacking cops? Do they look like the average Trump voter? Do these young punks scaling the walls look like the average Trump voter?

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 8:15 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago

The democratic party is now pretending to "call out" the "white supremacists" in Congress. Even if there were "white supremacists" in Congress, they would be not one bit different from "brown supremacists", "black supremacists","yellow supremaicsts", if by "supremacists" is meant politicians that belong to the Hispanic caucus, Black caucus or Asian caucus , ALL of whom claim to be looking out for the welfare of their respective group.

This is of course what is going on here. The democratic party politicians, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and the whole left has been race baiting against white people as a default manner of doing politics for over sixty years now. It is the fault of the FAUX REPUBLICAN PARTY, that has been posing as conservatives who many whites believe "have their backs", against the hate and shenanigans the anti-white left perpetrates. THEY ARE WRONG. We see plainly now, that what the U.S. has is a uni-party, that is left and far left and includes good old Republican RINO's, but the left and far left is used by the elite to keep and gain control of the U.S. for their own agenda. The idea now operating is to belittle, denigrate and cow white folks as never before, because many of the protesters at the recent "event", scared the living bleep out of the politicians who have simply not been representing them. The corporations and tech moguls,etc. are not taking the side of the left because they are "better" citizens or politicians than people on the right side of the political spectrum. They take the side of the left because that is where these corporations know that the radical Americans are, the ones that burn, loot and murder and therefore can be used to divide the nation for the big corporations and tech moguls,etc. Any honest person that considers what happened at the so called violent demonstration in D.C. knows that compared to the violence that ANTIFA, BLM and other groups perpertrated on innocent Americans last summer, knows perfectly well that there is no comparison. The anti-white left, enabled by the democratic party and the news media, IN SERVICE OF THE U.S. ELITE. BURNED, LOOTED AND MURDERED THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA for months, WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD FROM PELOSI, SCHUMER, BIDEN HARRIS, ETC.

The simple fact is that these D.C. politicians were scared shitless by some plain American citizens, who finally felt they needed to meet these representatives that keep ignoring and abusing them. The wrong people are being blamed here.

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 8:26 pm GMT • 1.4 hours ago

"Lessons from the Trumpistan Coup"

Before reading this article, the reader might consider the fact that there was NO COUP, by the accepted meaning that the word "coup" denotes. Now, if the fake news media and the democratic party want to explain the event by bending the facts and actual events to fit their own interpretation of it, that's a problem due to their dishonesty.

[Jan 11, 2021] Trump's talent has always been to goad his opponent into overplaying their hand

Jan 11, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

The healing is heading our way. Over the last few days I took a little time off from the 'net. Caught a re-run of Rumpole of the Bailey. "The Golden Thread" that runs through English common law. Good stuff, not taught in school nowadays. Too bad, really. Then I tried to catch up on all the goings on, and boy did somebody kick over the chamber pot ant hill. I'm barely keeping up.

"Not since Abraham Lincoln was smuggled into Washington has anyone assumed the presidency of a more divided and angry nation than Joe Biden. He brings with him a satchel full of scandals and an agenda of mumbled promises. His pledge to be the great healer rings hollow. His recent dishonest comments concerning Trump's advocacy of violence at the Capitol only proves the point. " "The elites have no idea how angry millions of Americans are." Quotes from above article in "free Republic" (see the link). Boy, there are some irritated people out there.

"Dear idiots, you're like the wife with her arm in a sling and both eyes blackened telling her husband "Please don't say anything to Joe. He'll be mad." Says woman and immigrant to America, now a citizen. "The 2020 election was a fraud -- and Congress including the Republicans -- are cool with that." To quote another blogger.

Meanwhile inside the Nation's Capital ..... it is, to quote Rumpole, a question of r loyalty.

... "We have Congress critters being hustled in panic down the escape hatch and out through the tunnels for their own protection from outraged American voters ." As one blogger put it . How DARE she say that.

...Those [pictures of summer riots] didn't age well. Remember though, police protection is for those who deserve it, as you saw in NYC.

Here in the Forbidden City we see members of the elite Praetorian Guard secret service and local police escorting a smiling member of the loyal senate past angry rabble voters alledged to be involved in the mostly peaceful protests Wednesday.

EEngineerq , 11 January 2021 at 10:05 AM

If that was his plan he's have done it by now. Trump's talent has always been to goad his opponent into overplaying their hand. I don't have much hope in Kunstler's thesis that Trump is about drop the hammer on the commies, but he can force them to out themselves. This weekends coordinated media lockdown is a straight up big-brother type move that even retards should recognize as tyranny.

[Jan 11, 2021] IMO former officials cannot be impeached

Jan 11, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

"Conviction immediately removes the defendant from office. Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring him or her from holding future federal office, elected or appointed. As the threshold for disqualification is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, the Senate has taken the position that disqualification votes only require a simple majority rather than a two-thirds supermajority. The Senate has used disqualification sparingly, as only three individuals have been disqualified from holding future office.

Conviction does not extend to further punishment, for example, loss of pension. After conviction by the Senate, "the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law" in the regular federal or state courts . However, the Former Presidents Act of 1958, which provides a pension, and other benefits, does not extend to presidents who were removed from office following an impeachment conviction. Because of an amendment to that law made in 2013, a former president who has been removed from office due to impeachment and conviction is still guaranteed lifetime Secret Service protection. " wiki

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IMO impeachment from federal office exists for the purpose of removal from office. A former official cannot be "removed from office." IMO the Belknap case will be treated as freakish. pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States


Deap , 10 January 2021 at 11:54 AM

Query: Why are "they" so afraid of Trump? Solve for "they".

Outrage at their actions is not pre-emption of their motivations. Solve for "they". And then systematically dismantle.

My favorite candidate for one of the "theys" is the teachers unions. Game plan follows to dismantle the power and control of the teachers unions. Step by step.

Attend school board meetings, Get to know each school board member. Write letters. Field slates of alternate candidates and support their election. Then work on state legislators who are not tools for the teachers unions. Elect a state superintendent of education who is not a tool of the teachers unions.

Elect key state officers who are not members of the teachers unions. Support Freedom Foundation who works to get teachers to opt out of the teachers unions, denying the teachers unions their annual dues ($1000 plus every year for teachers in California.

Or in the alternative, accept the fact it is too late to sweep back the sea. And hand this over to the next generation. They will experience the consequences and the costs. Not us ho are well into the last chapters of our own dotage. I hear my own call to action, and I now find myself too lazy to carry it out. It is no longer my fight. And somehow it is also my fault since my generation collectively delivered this fateful harvest.

.... So we can now only.......... rage, rage against the dying of the light .....

Record our own voices for posterity in case a new generation wants to learn what life on planet earth was like before BigTech defined and controlled its every waking moment. For future amusement, if nothing else. Look, they played Pick-Up-Sticks for fun after a sit down family dinner.

But much like Mr Willet's splendid translations from times long past, we owe future generations to also leave written personal histories. Just make sure it is non-biodegradable hard copy.

Deap , 10 January 2021 at 12:00 PM

Forget the First Amendment or the Second Amendment ..... I am going for the Fifth Commandment. Honor thy father and mother. These kids today, if only they would listen to us.

Wasn't that Socrates or Plato's lament too? I remember in high school in the late 1950's reading this lament against the "young people" of Ancient Greece presented as a letter to the editor. I was perplexed, because I did not know what we as teenagers were doing that was so wrong back then that generated this ancient reminder.

jerseycityjoan , 10 January 2021 at 12:33 PM

I see over at the Daily Mail that my Republican Senator Pat Toomey agrees with me and is calling for Trump to resign. Good.

I also see Nancy Pelosi has declared she has no understanding of Trump supporters and has no desire to understand them. I just saw on CNN that House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn agrees with her.

This is what she said:

"The California Democrat used an online video meeting Saturday with her hometown San Francisco constituents to criticize the overwhelmingly white mob that attacked Congress on Wednesday as it met to formally finalize Joe Biden's presidential victory over Trump.

'It has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy,' Pelosi said."

I don't think people around the world think what happened at the capital was about whiteness. It's really too bad the Democratic Party leadership has such a simplistic view. It also shows how anti-white some white people can be and why they want so much immigration we don't need.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9131437/Nancy-Pelosi-accuses-MAGA-mob-stormed-Capitol-choosing-whiteness-democracy.html

jerseycityjoan , 10 January 2021 at 01:12 PM

I don't know what the law is but I certainly have assumed that you had to be in office to be impeached.

So I do not know what to make of this statement from House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn on CNN today;

"We'll take the vote that we should take in the House, and (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) will make the determination as to when is the best time to get that vote and get the managers appointed and move that legislation over to the Senate," Clyburn told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."

"It just so happens that if it didn't go over there for 100 days, it could -- let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running, and maybe we'll send the articles sometime after that," the South Carolina Democrat added."

He's talking about waiting more than three months to get the Senate involved which would mean no trial until the summer. This makes no sense. Nobody should want us still dealing with Trump's presidency in DC after January 20.


https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/10/politics/james-clyburn-impeachment-senate-trial-biden-cnntv/index.html

[Jan 11, 2021] Trump is a monster of self-centredness.

Notable quotes:
"... I hate virtually all of Trump's policies. I hate his stupidity in continually hiring people who hated him. He could have turned to members of the genuine left -- men such as Stephen Cohen -- for advice. ..."
"... n a classic act of projection, woke Dems accuse Trump of not conceding, whereas in fact they are the ones who never conceded the presidency in 2016. This is so obvious, and yet it has apparently become invisible to most!!! Memory hole opened up like a crack in the earth behind each step. ..."
"... The gullibility of Trump is astounding. He did everything to keep the swamp happy, to keep Israel happy, flipped on Nato and on Russia, had hawks left and right and at the end he will be discarded like a used condom. ..."
"... can't help but think that Donald Trump is a man with no common sense, lacking the real conviction of his words and just not very bright or he was to some degree willfully complicit in this now obviously dire state the U.S. finds itself. ..."
"... If anyone thinks there is some good news because this murderous, warring empire is coming to an end, I suggest you think again. The war machine is still fully intact and funded. The international bankers who are in complete control are buying up everything and are planning on a 'reset' dictated by them. To the world! Understandably, there will likely be a few countries who do not feel inclined to agree with this reset and it's terms. There will have to be war to correct this thinking, even if a billion or more are killed. The more the merrier. Less 'useless eaters' to deal with. ..."
Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

Mike from Jersey on January 07, 2021 , · at 8:00 pm EST/EDT

Mr. Roberts is right on point when he says that Trump will be locked up.

The people running the United States are going to make an example of Trump. They will send a message that no "outsider" should ever again dare to run for President.

Trump will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Mark my words.

citymouse on January 08, 2021 , · at 1:07 am EST/EDT

I fear you are right. In this case it might be better if he weren't such a street fighter, because standing up for himself to me isn't worth the price he will pay. He should get himself and his family post haste to a country with no extradition and simply live the rest of his life in peace. No one needs the vitriol that has been and will continue to be heaped on him.

Jimmy on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:58 am EST/EDT

Trump _should_ spend the rest of his life behind bars -- for contributing to the deaths of tens of thousands of human beings. Ordinary Syrians, Iranians, Cubans, and Venezuelans died because of the murderous sanctions Washington put on their countries, and Pres. Trump did nothing to help -- and in fact, intensified them.

Very similar to his indifference to the plight of Edward Snowden & Julian Assange. Trump is a monster of self-centredness. In fact, in the words of his own former White House Chief of Staff, he is 'the most damaged human being I have ever met.' Just the sort of creature we would expect to find as head of the US empire

James on January 08, 2021 , · at 5:02 am EST/EDT

I'm afraid you are spot on -- Trump lies to the World when he was running for President & then broke almost all of his promises -especially to drain the Swamp. He also unforgivably allowed the Jews to take over Palistinian land etc. He has alot to answer for even if he wasn't as War like as the 3 Presidents before him.

augusto on January 08, 2021 , · at 8:37 am EST/EDT

YOu re problably right, Jimmy.
But it turns out differently when one gets the point where Trump locked up prospect here is not him but a whole lot of american people trying to get rid of globalism and the need for wars
Who might be buried up along with him.

Bill Osborne Jr on January 08, 2021 , · at 9:40 am EST/EDT

Trump should have pardoned Snowden and Assange instead of Jared Kushner's criminal father.

Boris Kazlov on January 08, 2021 , · at 4:14 pm EST/EDT

You are only looking to his overseas policy.
That is an imposition of the military and Zionists, when you dance with a gorilla you gotta him a banana.

eagle eye on January 08, 2021 , · at 6:43 pm EST/EDT

But not a word about the crimes of those who preceded him, which included the ultimate crime, that of engaging in unjustified warfare?

Your post implies you have a standard of behaviour you are judging Trump by. By definition it must be universally applied, otherwise all you are seeking is the selective imposition of your view.

Katherine on January 09, 2021 , · at 9:19 pm EST/EDT

I agree. If Trump deserves lockup, so do Obama, Bush, and the Clintons.

I hate virtually all of Trump's policies. I hate his stupidity in continually hiring people who hated him. He could have turned to members of the genuine left -- men such as Stephen Cohen -- for advice.

But that is not the point. Since 2016 those who tried to eliminate Trump did so not for his real crimes but for made-up. Basically his crime of being president in the first place.

I n a classic act of projection, woke Dems accuse Trump of not conceding, whereas in fact they are the ones who never conceded the presidency in 2016. This is so obvious, and yet it has apparently become invisible to most!!! Memory hole opened up like a crack in the earth behind each step.

Trump's crime, for which he may actually be locked up, was in truth just winning the presidency in 2016 and humiliating Hillary (whom everyone hated anyhow). I am becoming quite terrified of people I have known all my my life and even am related to.

Katherine

Disaffected on January 08, 2021 , · at 7:56 am EST/EDT

Trump is already charred toast. It appears that he's not even in charge now. Self-preservation is his only concern now.

Maltus on January 08, 2021 , · at 7:49 pm EST/EDT

Corrected assessment. His wealth and his 5 children (and their future) are too much of a liability for him to do the necessary. His policy of appeasement will not work though with the rabid bolshevik kabal.

I think he and his family will be persecuted and likely prosecuted unless the has the foresight to move to Russia and save his skin.

Gorgeous George on January 08, 2021 , · at 1:19 pm EST/EDT

The gullibility of Trump is astounding. He did everything to keep the swamp happy, to keep Israel happy, flipped on Nato and on Russia, had hawks left and right and at the end he will be discarded like a used condom.

Russia saw it from the get go, at the end he will have the full weight of both parties against him, and instead of locking her up it will be the other way around. The cowards have no sense of decency, they will not show any good will like he did.

Trump betrayed his base, failed to organize again and again, put his trust in all the wrong people and now is done. I'll be surprised if he doesn't face jailtime on some trumped up charges.

For all his charisma and good intentions he turned out a clueless clown, sad clown at the end. History will not be kind, and neither will the victors.

True Americans have seen their last train leave the station, it will take time to realize that there are no more trains. Game over.

Craig Mouldey on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:07 pm EST/EDT

I thought this was a good summation by Dr. Roberts. I can't help but think that Donald Trump is a man with no common sense, lacking the real conviction of his words and just not very bright or he was to some degree willfully complicit in this now obviously dire state the U.S. finds itself. Maybe he owed the Rothschild clan a favour.

If anyone thinks there is some good news because this murderous, warring empire is coming to an end, I suggest you think again. The war machine is still fully intact and funded. The international bankers who are in complete control are buying up everything and are planning on a 'reset' dictated by them. To the world! Understandably, there will likely be a few countries who do not feel inclined to agree with this reset and it's terms. There will have to be war to correct this thinking, even if a billion or more are killed. The more the merrier. Less 'useless eaters' to deal with.

Try to see something good in creation every day. Try to do good every day. This world as it is does not have much time. Someone said that what cannot go on forever won't! At some point, the One who gives life to all will say it is enough. Some of us just celebrated his most blessed nativity.

Alabama on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:26 pm EST/EDT

This guy biden is king of promises, and as every year goes by and so many promises are not met, don't think these people wont show up on D.C.'s doorstep looking for revenge.

This is just the tip of the iceburg.

Disaffected on January 08, 2021 , · at 3:20 pm EST/EDT

Who better to preside over the collapse of the empire? The usual rules will apply: the feckless Dems – always at their abysmal worst when they assume power – will blame the "evil Reps" for everything that goes wrong (and there will be plenty – although none of it will ever be discussed publicly!), and the Reps will be at their sterling obstructionist best. Talk of impeachment for Biden – who will be nowhere in sight for most of his term – will linger throughout his term, while Trump will soon be prosecuted and jailed, his entire administration canceled from the official histories, with Queen Hillary named "Presidentess in Exile" for 2016-2020 due to alleged Russian interference with her rightful coronation. The Empire will trumpet from on high for all to hear that this signals the glorious victory of US Democracy (angelic chorus sounds here) over the forces of darkness, or some such agitprop; and the skies will clear, the birds will sing, and a rosy glow will return to the cheeks of all the fair maidens and indeterminant gendered of our great land. The masks, of course, will remain firmly in place, as the "new normal" slowly becomes merely business as usual, and the sheeple graze contentedly in their prison stalls, content in the knowledge that Big Brother is looking out for their health and welfare, at least until the ritual sacrificial slaughter of the lambs should be deemed necessary. For the good of all, of course. Should all make for some excellent reality TV.

Alabama on January 09, 2021 , · at 7:35 am EST/EDT

Well the empire is going to collapse the citizens before it collapses, and even before the empire collapse comes a global scare of epic proportions to shake and rattle the cage for those whom are not prepared.

Ken Leslie on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:29 pm EST/EDT

The moronic face of the fake revolution – looks like the fake American wrestling – only Hulk Hogan was more convincing.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1347035563635986432

evilempire on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:54 pm EST/EDT

Trump isn't going anywhere. I was at the rally in DC and listened to his
entire speech on the ellipse. He stated that he would not concede. With
this assurance why would the demonstrators have any reason to aggressively
breach the Capitol building? The whole thing was a staged provocation by antifa.
There are videos of how this was staged all over the internet. Let us all
hope and pray that the Scarlet(Whore) color revolution against Trump is finally
eradiated and extirpated now that all the Deep Satanists have been exposed for
their participation in the coup and election fraud.

Beirut on January 08, 2021 , · at 3:53 pm EST/EDT

The question has been asked – what is the US military going to do? Will they just stay put and watch the theft unfold?
Whilst many commentators were soiling themselves in phantasies of a pro trump military coup to end the charade, drain the swamp and burn down DC, PCR had a very clear view (expressed elsewhere): why would the military object to a new leadership if it promises more war, more blood, more money? It won't, it will welcome it in fact.

Be it as it may, and despite all the stinkin' lies about the election I would think it is too tall an order for a non-murrican to mourn the self-destruction of the most evil, ghastly, ruthless hegemon the world has seen in the last 100 years.

Ken Leslie on January 08, 2021 , · at 4:38 pm EST/EDT

Dear Beirut,

I second the sentiment. It's not even that. The media are full of Muricans' moaning about their fate. It's everywhere – and on top of that, the scumbags are accusing China and Russia for their "tribulations".

We don't care and we don't want to hear about how hard the life is for Billy Bob who would die for the very criminals that have condemned him to a life of meth, moonshine and malingering – while telling him that he is solely responsible for his own miserable existence.

There is a huge big world elsewhere that is currently booming – thousand flowers are blooming despite the oppression by the parasitical cancerous sub-empire – and yet, we obsess over whether Trump is a fraud or not.

I suppose it provides a great platform for ranting :-)

[Jan 11, 2021] The collusion of some police and security, which allowed protesters in indicates Democrat's brass involvement.

Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

Santiago on January 08, 2021 , · at 1:57 pm EST/EDT

Soros has funded the ANTFIA and BLM who infiltrated the Trump Stop The Steal Rally and it was they who broke into the Capitol Building with the collusion of some police and security which indicates Democrat involvement. There is substantial evidence of that now. SEE https:/www.banned.video

Law enforcement has also failed to do anything about it and all the riots in 2020 and Democrat crimes and corruption.

The US military needs to move on this asap to save the country from this untenable situation which will only get worse over time. Arrest the Democrats, Soros, Pence all those who colluded with him. Because thats what Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Adams would so.

It is a grave situation.

[Jan 11, 2021] I've sometimes wondered if Trump wasn't intentionally some kind of straw man whether he was in on it or not.

Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

Mo on January 08, 2021 , · at 12:37 am EST/EDT

This ending of the Trump presidency certainly seems pretty anticlimactic for his supporters. I've sometimes wondered if Trump wasn't intentionally some kind of straw man whether he was in on it or not. Say what you will but in his final act he leads then leaves his supporters in the lurch.
Let's step back and look at what he accomplished:
– Giving the rich one of the largest tax cuts in history at a time when they were already making money hand over fist
– Putting the American embassy in Jerusalem
– Putting vassal states and institutions on notice
– Renegging on the Iran nuclear deal
– Starting a trade war with China
– Most importantly the TOTAL DELEGITIMIZATION of conservatism in America. I have feeling this is no accident.
His associates and cronies like Roger Stone or Jared Kushner look like big time establishment types.
4 years and he's still relying on liberal establishment platform Twitter to get out his message? He could have migrated 70 million+ overnight to another platform. Now that would have been a real act of resistance, not this half-assed Capitol clown show. In all this time conservatives couldn't even cobble together their own social media? There's this stench of wanton incompetence that vaguely reminds me of Saddam Hussein.

Mark W Anderson on January 08, 2021 , · at 1:04 am EST/EDT

The lack of any mention or discussion of labor or working class concerns within what comprises the "Left" or "Progressives" is the most telling feature of our time. The "Liberal Media" rarely mention the working class and when they do, it's nearly always with a disparaging tone. The idea that an organized, national, even international "Left" could emerge and become dominant while deliberately ignoring and debasing working class people and their concerns certainly marks a tremendous achievement among the moneyed elites who actually run the Empire.

But the material interest/needs of the working class continue to express themselves in ways even the smarty pants Silicon Valley CEO's, and MSNBC executives cannot foresee. A significant part (Maybe the most significant part) of the "Trump movement" was never about Trump. It was/is about the issues and concerns of the vast swath of working class and middle class people across this country. Trump was the vehicle to express anger at the liberal elites who have ignored the "commoners," in fly-over America. He was a poor choice for a populist movement but he was all that was available at the time. Trump will be gone soon, but as the events of 1/6/21 show, those issues and those people haven't gone anywhere. What new political figure will arise to address these concerns?

It is common knowledge that high voter turnout favors the Dems and lower turnout favors the Repubs. So of course, the DNC uses all kinds of schemes to manufacture, and generate lots of votes. I know this personally. I received four mail-in ballots in the month of October. Would they have figured out how to count all four if it was for the correct candidate? (For the record I voted for Leonard Peltier to be president) I've never seen an election so filled with fraudulent opportunities as this one. The Repubs in turn have been caught all over the place, in every election, scrubbing voter rolls, denying voting rights etc ..big surprise .it's statistically in their favor to do so. Still the margins of victory in a number of key states have been 1% – 2%. Hardly any kind of "mandate." Also an indication of how difficult it is, even with widespread cheating, to overcome a genuinely popular (albeit extremely odd) candidate.

If Trump had been an effective leader able to unify a real populist movement he would have won in a landslide and a few % points would have been meaningless.

djole on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:47 am EST/EDT

Blackmailed Trump was gradually betraying the American people who trusted him. So many omissions are impossible with common sense....

[Jan 11, 2021] It is inconceivable that any political party can survive in the US without the backing of the 'deep state' and first of all FBI and CIA.

Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

John Hagan on January 11, 2021 , · at 5:49 am EST/EDT

Hi Ah,
That the US deep state has been terrorising parts of the world for many years my reaction before the election was to hope that Biden would win as I believed that would be the quickest destruction of the terrorist deep state rather than with Trump where I believed it would survive some time longer. It is inconceivable that any political party can survive in the US without the backing of the 'deep state'.

Of course this makes the nuclear option more likely yet democrats are more attached to their lives than many others since the profit motive looms larger.

Secondly the US owes the pension and social security systems so much money they do not have unless they print, print and more print and hope someone will buy their bonds (over 100 trillion for the next 'x' years). That is not going to happen. That is why both political parties will not endorse medicare for all or any further social security programmes. Those with money insurance industries et al will run away to Australia that has more gold than it knows what to do with the Chinese are now trying to buy Aussie gold mines. Wonder why?

https://youtu.be/_uxJ8JYnwAQ

To sum up the US population will experience some of the same terrorism tacticts the deep state exported to the rest of the world while the same population will wonder why it is happening to them just like some of the middle east countries wondered the same for the last 20 years. That the deep state and the army offer pensions and heathcare will not matter if the funds are not there.
What are the options for the citizens that always believed in capitalism and Jesus and were the single moral compass for the rest of humanity? After living in a Buddist country for many years I am not so certain.

[Jan 11, 2021] For whites the 50s and 60s were golden years. Full jobs, a salary allowed them to live decently, to take care of themselves, to get an education, to go on vacation in an owned cabin often in idyllic places. For blacks and Hispanics it was less fun. But with JFK, Nixon, Bush father and now with Trump it is the 4th coup in 60 years.

Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

common man on January 08, 2021 , · at 6:21 am EST/EDT

For whites the 50s and 60s were golden years. Full jobs, a salary allowed them to live decently, to take care of themselves, to get an education, to go on vacation in an owned cabin often in idyllic places. For blacks and Hispanics it was less fun. But with JFK, Nixon, Bush father and now with Trump it is the 4th coup in 60 years.

Big capital has gone from a confrontation with the masses to a subjugation of the masses by culture and the absence of real education. It is more or less the same in Europe, even in Switzerland where I live, direct democracy is no longer a problem for the elites. Votes are hijacked. When the army wants to make a strategic turn by no longer buying American planes, a press campaign and a referendum launched by an anti-militarist association blocks the project and contributes to destroying what remained of credibility to the army...

[Jan 11, 2021] Neoliberal Dems reaction to the protest against election fraud is actually an overreaction and a sign of guilty consciousness

Pelosi is drunk again, this time with the victory...
Jan 11, 2021 | www.rt.com

The document excoriates Trump for "reiterat[ing] false claims that 'we won this election, and we won it by a landslide,'" and accuses him of "willfully [making] statements that, in context, encouraged – and foreseeably resulted in – lawless action at the Capitol." As for which statements actually incited the violence, the charges are vague, mentioning only one line: "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."

Democratic Representatives David Ciciline (Rhode Island), Ted Lieu (California), Jamie Raskin (Maryland), and Jerry Nadler (New York) introduced the article, which reportedly has more than 200 Democrat co-sponsors.

The House is planning to introduce a resolution to remove Trump using the 25th Amendment later on Monday, according to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Should that move to declare Trump unfit and remove him from office not receive unanimous consent – a very likely outcome – it would be taken up on the House floor, at which point Pelosi would call for Vice President Mike Pence to respond "within 24 hours."

ALSO ON RT.COM Trump must be jailed for inciting deadly Capitol riot – former White House communications director Scaramucci

Should that fail as well, Pelosi said in a statement on Sunday, impeachment legislation will be deployed once again. Trump was impeached in December 2019 for alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, the Senate did not vote to convict him.

Given that Trump is due to leave the White House later this month, some have questioned whether another impeachment is overkill. However, some lawmakers are using last week's events – which saw a horde of Trump supporters throng Washington DC and barge into the Capitol while Congress was overseeing the counting of Electoral College votes – as the argument that official reprimand isn't enough. Five people died as a result of the "storming" of the Capitol, which Trump later denounced.

Trump's personal Twitter feed became another casualty of the chaotic events, with the Silicon Valley giant claiming the "interpretation" of the president's posts could cause further violence. Twitter's perma-ban of Trump and the purge of Trump-related conservative accounts that followed were accompanied by the removal of the president from Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch and other liberal-leaning tech platforms.

[Jan 11, 2021] Neoliberal Biden administration may part with a few $2000 dollar relief payments to slow the mighty mortgage foreclosure/eviction rush. But they will never be able to maintain that $2000 periodic payment for two years to get the neoliberal Dems through the next election

Jan 11, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

uncle tungsten , Jan 11 2021 2:50 utc | 83

Thank you b for the Escobar/Hudson link. This proposition is interesting:

All of this [junk mortgage debt] was left on the books, foreclosed and sold to a private capital companies like Blackstone. And the result is that home ownership in America declined from 68 percent of the population down to about 61 percent. Well, right where the Obama administration left off, you're about to have the Biden administration begin in January with an estimated 5 million Americans losing their homes. They're going to be evicted because they've been unemployed during the pandemic. They've been working in restaurants or gyms or other industries that have been shut down because of the pandemic. They're going to be evicted and many homeowners and, low-income homeowners have been unable to pay their mortgages.

There's going to be a wave of foreclosures. The question is, who's going to bear the cost? Should it be 15 million American families who lose their homes just so the banks won't lose money? Or should we let the banks that have made all of the growth since 2008? Ninety five percent of American GDP of the population has seen its wealth go down. All the wealth has been accumulating for the 5 percent in statistics. Now the question is should this 5 percent that's got all the wealth lose or should the 95 percent lose?

The Biden administration says the 95 percent should lose basically. And you're going to see a wave of closures so that the question in China should be that, these intermediate banks (they're not really banks they are sort of like payday loan lenders), should they come in and, bear the loss or should Chinese localities and the people bear the loss? Somebody has to lose when you're charging, you're collecting the land's rent that was paid to the creditors, and either the creditors have to lose or, the tax collector loses and that's the conflict that exists in every society of the world today.

Xerxes Biden and his pickpocket clown cart may part with a few $2000 dollar relief payments to slow the mighty mortgage foreclosure/eviction rush. Will the clown cart maintain that $2000 periodic payment for two years to get the Dimratss through the next election?

I doubt it but it would be good to see the people of the USA get a break.

Xerxes and team clown cart would have to rein in the military spend :) but that too could be detrimental to them winning the mid term elections in two years. So I see Xerxes Biden facing his very own waterloo here. For this lad to be suddenly jammed between a rock and a hard place that he himself created by all his years of snuggling up to Repugnant legislation and banksters and Obummers thieving manipulations, is a mighty fine view.

Biden will sell you out and the people will be destitute and the banksters will be laughing - still. Time will tell.

[Jan 11, 2021] Dear Congress - Stop Wasting Time With Impeaching Trump - End His Famine In Yemen

Jan 11, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

james , Jan 11 2021 19:22 utc | 2

since when has the usa, wall st, it's political class or anyone else in power in the usa been concerned for the welfare of others, in particular brown skinned people in faraway countries like yemen??? i don't recall.... you can watch how the posters here will focus on the distraction of trump and dems doing this endless fucking stupid dance, but you can bet no one will be expressing an interest in helping yemen... the usa is one sick nation and it is no where more apparent then in them wanting to designate ansarallah as a terrorist group... same shit from the same ignoramus's... thanks for drawing my attention to this latest bullshit b..

gottlieb , Jan 11 2021 19:24 utc | 3

Totally agree. The circle-jerk politics is hilarious. Too bad it is also tragic and cruel. The Humpty Dumpty of US Society is not going back together again. Civil War 2.0 is here. Grab your musket and sword, twitter flamethrower and Facebook napalm. Civil War 2.0 will be televised, tweeted and live-streamed for all the world to see the result of bread and circuses to a propagandized population at the end of history.
Les , Jan 11 2021 19:28 utc | 4
It's another one of those wars where the US supplies weapons to both sides. They pretend that they were overrun by the rebels. This was done repeatedly in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Niger, Libya, and so on...
Canadian Cents , Jan 11 2021 19:47 utc | 5
Les @4, would not be surprised to learn that.

US attacks against the Houthis in Yemen seem to be bipartisan, and were happening under Obama in 2009/2010, going by an Eric Margolis article from January 3, 2010 that refers to "extensive covert U.S. military operations in Yemen."

"A military dictator, Ali Saleh, has held power since 1978. Saleh's U.S.-backed regime is accused of extensive human rights violations and deep corruption."

"neighbour Oman, a virtual colony of MI6, British intelligence."

"U.S. warplanes killed 50-100 Yemeni tribesmen fighting the American-backed regime."

"U.S. special forces, warplanes and killer drones have been active since 2001, assassinating Yemeni militants and anti-government tribal leaders."

So bipartisan since 2001, for at least two decades (Margolis started the article with the line "Welcome to the Afghanistan of Arabia.") if not longer if the US-backed dictator was in power since 1978 ...

[Jan 11, 2021] Trump's GREATEST TREASON is the betrayal of populism by Slavoj Zizek

Notable quotes:
"... On Thursday January 7, Trump gave another short speech in which, contradicting what he said before, he unambiguously condemned the attack on the Capitol as a threat to law and order, and promised to collaborate in the peaceful transition of power. Although he probably said this out of fear for his personal fate, this act just confirmed that he was and is a member of the establishment, not even a Rightist hero but a coward. ..."
Jan 11, 2021 | www.rt.com

... ... ... 'Swamp' creature with a populist facade

As Yuval Kremnitzer demonstrated, Trump is a populist who remains within the system. Like any populism, his version also distrusts political representation, pretending to speak directly for the people – it complains about how its hands are tied by the 'deep state' and financial establishment, so its message is: "if only we didn't have our hands tied, we would be able to do away with our enemies once and for all."

However, in contrast to old authoritarian populism (like Fascism) which is ready to abolish formal-representative democracy and really take over and impose a new order, today's populism doesn't have a coherent vision of some new order – the positive content of its ideology and politics is an inconsistent bricolage of measures to bribe "our own" poor, to lower the taxes for the rich, to focus the hatred on the immigrants and our own corrupted elite outsourcing jobs, etc. That's why today's populists don't really want to get rid of the established representative democracy and fully take power: "without the 'fetters' of the liberal order to struggle against, the new right would actually have to take some real action," and this would render obvious the vacuity of their program. Today's populists can only function in the indefinite postponement of achieving their goal since they can only function as opposing the 'deep state' of the liberal establishment: "The new right does not, at least not at this stage, seek to establish a supreme value – for instance, the nation, or the leader – that would fully express the will of the people and thereby allow and perhaps even require the abolition of the mechanisms of representation."

What this means is that the true victims of Trump are his ordinary supporters who take seriously his babble against liberal corporate elites and big banks. He is the traitor of his own populist cause. His liberal critics accuse him of just seemingly controlling his supporters ready to violently fight for him, while he is really at their side, inciting them to act, even violently. But he is NOT really ON their side. On the morning of January 6, he addressed the rally on the Ellipse: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol. And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong." However, when the mob did this and approached the Capitol, Trump retreated to the White House and watched on television as the violence unfolded on Capitol Hill.

Unmasking fake democracy

Did Trump really want to effect a coup d'etat? Unambiguously, NO. When the mob penetrated the Capitol, he made a statement: "I know your pain, I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order." Trump blamed his opponents for the violence and praised his supporters, saying, "We can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you; you're very special."

And when the mob began to disperse, Trump posted a tweet defending the actions of his supporters who stormed and vandalized the Capitol: "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away." He concluded his tweet with: "Remember this day forever!" Yes, we should – because it displayed the fakeness of US democracy as well as the fakeness of the populist protest against it. Just a few elections in the US really mattered – like the California gubernatorial election in 1934: the Democratic candidate Upton Sinclair lost because the entire establishment organized a previously unheard-of campaign of lies and defamations (Hollywood announced that, if Sinclair wins, it will move to Florida, etc.).

On Thursday January 7, Trump gave another short speech in which, contradicting what he said before, he unambiguously condemned the attack on the Capitol as a threat to law and order, and promised to collaborate in the peaceful transition of power. Although he probably said this out of fear for his personal fate, this act just confirmed that he was and is a member of the establishment, not even a Rightist hero but a coward. No wonder masses of his fans are already describing him as a "traitor," a part of the Washington "swamp" he'd promised to clear. This, of course, doesn't mean that his supporters are in any sense progressives betrayed by Trump: they expressed their actual grievances in a Rightist populist way. There is a grain of truth in their complaints, but they themselves betrayed it by the form of their activity. Crazy as it may sound, if they mean it seriously, they should join Bernie Sanders.

The furious, dissatisfied crowd attacking the parliament on behalf of a popular president deprived of his power through parliamentary manipulations sounds familiar? Yes: this should have happened in Brazil or in Bolivia – there, the crowd of the president's supporters would have the full right to storm the parliament and re-install their president. A totally different game was going on in the US. So let's hope that what happened on January 6 in Washington will at least stop the obscenity of the US sending observers to elections in other countries to judge their fairness – now the US elections themselves need foreign observers. The US is a rogue country, and not just when Trump became its President: the ongoing (almost) civil war displays a rift that was there all the time.

See also

[Jan 11, 2021] Is America's Future a Civil War, by Paul Craig Roberts -

Notable quotes:
"... The military would support whomever pays their salary and their pensions, i.e. the Establishment. However, as Iraq and Afghanistan has shown, the U.S. military, while possessing remarkable firepower when taken on directly and openly, is quite vulnerable. The U.S. military is essentially mercenaries. Mercenaries work for pay. Mercenaries are not willing to die for a cause. You can't spend money if you're dead. ..."
Jan 11, 2021 | www.unz.com

As a person who grew up in the glorious aftermath of World War II, it never occurred to me that in my later years I would be pondering whether the United States would end in civil war or a police state. In the aftermath of the stolen presidential election, it seems a 50-50 toss up.

There is abundant evidence of a police state. One feature of a police state is controlled explanations and the suppression of dissent. We certainly have that in abundance.

Experts are not permitted forums in which to challenge the official position on Covid.

Teachers are suspended for giving offense by using gender pronouns.

Recording stars are dropped by their recording studios for attending the Trump rally. Parents ratted on by their own children are fired from their jobs for attending the Trump rally. https://www.rt.com/usa/512048-capitol-riot-employees-fired/ Antifa is free to riot, loot, intimidate and hassle, but Trump supporters are insurrectionists.

White people are racists who use hateful words and concepts, but those who demonize whites are righting wrongs.

Suppression of dissent and controlling behavior are police state characteristics. It might be less clear to some why dictating permissible use of language is police state control. Think about it this way. If your use of pronouns can be controlled, so can your use of all other words. As concepts involve words, they also can be controlled. In this way inconvenient thoughts and expressions along with accurate descriptions find their way into the Memory Hole.

With the First Amendment gone, or restricted to the demonization of targeted persons, such as "the Trump Deplorables," "white supremacists," "Southern racists," the Second Amendment can't have much life left. As guns are associated with red states, that is, with Trump supporters, outlawing guns is a way to criminalize the red half of the American population that the Establishment considers "deplorable." Those who stand on their Constitutional right will be imprisoned and become cheap prison labor for America's global corporations.

Could all this lead to a civil war or are Americans too beat down to effectively resist? That we won't know until it is put to the test.

Are there clear frontlines? Identity Politics has divided the people across the entire country. The red states are only majority red. It is tempting to see the frontiers as the red center against the blue Northeast and West coasts, but that is misleading. Georgia is a red state with a red governor and legislature, but there were enough Democrats in power locally to steal the presidential and US senate elections.

Another problem for reds is that large cities -- the distribution centers -- such as Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles -- are in blue hands as are ports and international airports. Effectively, this cuts reds off from outside resources.

What would the US military do? Clearly, the Joint Chiefs and the military/security complex are establishment and not anti-establishment Trumpers. With the soldiers themselves now a racial and gender mix, the soldiers would be as divided as the country. Those not with the Establishment would lack upper level support.

Where are the youth and younger adults? They are in both camps depending on their education. Many of the whites who went to university have been brainwashed against themselves, and regard white Americans as "systemic racists" or "white supremacists" and feel guilt. Those who did not go to university for the most part have experienced to their disadvantage the favoritism given to people of color and have resentment.

What about weapons? How can the reds lose when guns are a household item and blues would never dirty themselves by owning one? The answer is that unlike the War of Northern Aggression in the 1860s, today the weapons in the hands of the military are devastating compared to those in the hands of the public. Unlike in the past, it is impossible for a citizens' militia to stand against the weapons and body armor that the military has. So, unless the military splits, the reds are outgunned. Never believe that the Establishment would not release chemical and biological agents against red forces. Or for that matter nuclear weapons.

What about communications? We know for an absolute fact that the tech monopolies are aligned with the Establishment against the people. So much so that President Trump, in the process of being set-up for prosecution, has been cut off from communicating with his supporters both in social media and email.

The American Establishment is doing to President Trump exactly what it did to Ukrainian President Yanukovych in Washington's orchestrated "Maidan Revolution," called "the Revolution of Dignity" by the liars at Wikipedia, and precisely what it did to Chavez, Maduro, and would like to do to Putin.

Suppose an American civil war occurs. How is it likely to play out? Before investigating this, first consider how the Establishment could prevent it by bringing the red states to its defense. The Trump supporters are the only patriots in the American population. They tend to wear the flag on their sleeve. In contrast, blue state denizens define patriotism as acknowledging America's evils and taking retribution on those white racists/imperialists who committed the evils. In blue states, riots against the "racist system" result in defunding the police. If the Antifa and Black Lives Matter militias were sicced on the Biden regime, red state patriots might see "their country" under attack. It is possible that the "Proud Boys" would come to Biden's defense, not because they believe in Biden but because America is under attack and he is "our president." Alternatively, an Antifa attack on the Biden regime could be portrayed as an unpatriotic attack on America and be used to discourage red state opposition to the police state, just as "Insurrection" has resulted in many Trump supporters declaring their opposition to violence. In other words, it is entirely possible that the patriotism of the "Trump Deplorables" would split the red state opposition and lead to defeat.

Assuming that the Establishment is too arrogant and sure of itself or too stupid to think of this ploy, how would a civil war play out? The Establishment would do everything possible to discredit the case of the "rebels." The true rebels, of course, would be the Establishment which has overthrown the Constitutional order, but no media would make that point. Controlling the media, the Establishment, knowing of the patriotism of its opponents, would portray the "rebels" as foreign agents seeking to overthrow American Democracy.

The "foreign threat" always captures the patriot's attention. We see it right now with Trump supporters falling for the disinformation that Switzerland and Italy are behind the stolen election. Previously, it was Dominion servers in Germany and Serbia that did the deed.

On whose head will the Establishment place the blame for "the War Against America"? There are three candidates: Iran, China, and Russia. Which will the Establishment choose?

To give Iran credit conveys too much power to a relatively small country over America. To blame Iran for our civil war would be belittling.

To blame China won't work, because Trump blamed China for economically undermining America and Trump supporters are generally anti-China. So accusing the red opposition with being China agents would not work.

The blame will be placed on Russia.

This is the easy one. Russia has been the black hat ever since Churchill's Iron Curtain speech in 1946. Americans are accustomed to this enemy. The Cold War reigned from the end of World War II until the Soviet Collapse in 1991. Many, including retired American generals, maintain that the Soviet collapse was faked to put us off guard for conquest.

When the Establishment decided to frame President Trump, the Establishment chose Russia as Trump's co-conspirator against American Democracy. Russiagate, orchestrated by the CIA and FBI, ensured for three years that Trump was accused in the Western media of being in cahoots with Russia. Despite the lack of any evidence, a large percentage of the American and world population was convinced that Trump was put into office by Putin somehow manipulating the vote.

The brainwashing was so successful that three years of Trump sanctions against Russia could not shake the Western peoples back into factual reality.

With Russia as the historic and orchestrated enemy, whatever happens in the United States that can be blamed elsewhere will be blamed on Russia. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes have already associated "Trump's insurrection" with Russia. https://www.rt.com/russia/512071-capitol-violence-consequences-fear/

Suppose that an American civil war becomes intense. Suppose that the Establishment's propaganda against Russia becomes the reigning belief as propaganda almost always becomes, how can the Establishment not finish the insurrection threat by attacking the country responsible? The Establishment would be trapped in its own propaganda. Emotions would run away. Russia would hear threats that would have to be taken seriously.

You can bet that Biden's neocon government will be egging this on. American exceptionalism. American hegemony. Russia's fifth column, the Atlanticist Integrationists, who wish absorption into the degenerate and failing Western World, will echo the charges against Russia. This would make the situation a serious international incident with Russia as the threatened villain.

What would the Kremlin do? Would Russia's leaders accept yet another humiliation and false accusation? Or will the anger of the Russian people forever accused and never stood up for by their own government force the Kremlin into awareness that Russia could be attacked at any moment.

Even if the Kremlin is reluctant to acknowledge the threat of war, what if another of the numerous false warnings of incoming ICBMs is received. Unlike the past, is it believed this time?

The stolen election in America, the emerging American Police State, more vicious and better armed than any in the past, could result in American chaos that could be a dire threat to the Russian Federation.

What Trump and his supporters, and perhaps the Kremlin, do not understand is that real evidence no longer counts . The Establishment makes up the evidence that it needs for its agendas. Consider how easy it was for the Capitol Police to remove barriers and allow some Antifa mixed in with Trump supporters into the Capitol. This was all that was required to create a "Trump led insurrection" that terminated the presentation of evidence of electoral fraud and turned the massive rally of support for Trump into a liability. Trump now leaves the presidency as an "insurrectionist" and is set up for continued harassment and prosecution.

As I previously wrote, the stolen election and its acceptance abroad signifies the failure of Western democracy. The collapse of the Western world and its values will affect the entire world.


Joe Stalin , says: January 10, 2021 at 5:16 pm GMT • 23.4 hours ago

How long did it take for the mighty USA military to restore electric utilities in the face of insurgency in Iraq?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gg-Zd193j60?feature=oembed

No member of the State wants to be picked off one by one, be it military, cops, leadership or functionaries.

What has been overlooked in the debate over the combat potential of violent extremists is the diffusion of something much more rudimentary and potentially more lethal: basic infantry skills. These include coordinated small-team tactical maneuvers supported by elementary marksmanship. The diffusion of such tactics seems to be underway, and it may generate serious concerns for U.S. security policy in the future if ignored.

https://warontherocks.com/2018/02/shock-of-the-mundane-the-dangerous-diffusion-of-basic-infantry-tactics/

Imagine if fuel pipe lines to urban areas were hit, railroad tracks hit, water processing facilities hit; the vision of an easy victory over Red America would quickly come home to the city dwellers.

Harry Huntington , says: January 10, 2021 at 6:02 pm GMT • 22.6 hours ago
@Joe Stalin /p>

Elections in the US are not about picking winners. They are about making voters complicit in governance by their having voted. The most recent election failed to make the Red voters "complict" because there was no transparency and everyone believes there was fraud. No election with mail in voting in the US will every work because everyone will assume fraud.

In a nation as large as the US with as much concentrated city living, logistics are a nightmare. The next time the lights go out, you may wonder. When your grocery chain runs out of meat, you may wonder. When sewers in your city keep breaking, you may wonder. Thus truly scares me.

Vidi , says: January 10, 2021 at 6:13 pm GMT • 22.4 hours ago

today the weapons in the hands of the military are devastating compared to those in the hands of the public

True enough. However, the weapons and the ammunition don't magically appear; they need to be manufactured somewhere, and those places (and/or their suppliers) can be destroyed.

TG , says: January 10, 2021 at 6:19 pm GMT • 22.3 hours ago

I must disagree. There will be no "civil war" in the United States. The establishment controls the levers of power and all communications and all organized structures. There may be a bunch of disaffected citizens, but they will remain a disorganized mob. Any apparent emergent rival for power will be ruthlessly suppressed, deplatformed, villified, or co-opted. The working class has been effectively divided and will waste its energy fighting itself over crumbs ('diversity').

Disorganized mobs do not fight civil wars.

No, the fate of the United States will be the sort of chaotic autocracy we see in places like Mexico and Brazil. Verging on being a failed state, the rich will nonetheless live lives of great luxury secure in their walled estates. Meanwhile the average person will be crushed into poverty, criminal gangs will flourish, and there will be a tension between the central police and local gangs, but gangs are rarely organized enough to truly challenge centralized states, and life will muddle on. There will be little social cohesion and no real trust of central authorities, but that only matters if you want a strong and unified society. The rich will do fine.

On the other hand, the overall national power will decline, and other powers like China (which for all its flaws has not declared war on the working class, nor does it routinely excuse or celebrate incompetence in leadership) will rise and take its place both on the world stage and as the cutting edge of science and culture.

Wyatt , says: January 10, 2021 at 6:48 pm GMT • 21.8 hours ago
@Vidi

And the people making them don't tend to want those weapons used against their friends and neighbors.

Notsofast , says: January 10, 2021 at 8:03 pm GMT • 20.6 hours ago

to me the biggest outcome of this faux coup/insurrection is the splintering of the republican party. with this schism the trump "populists" have been cleanly pared off of the party and thrown overboard and the remaining party will meekly do the bidding of the neocon deep state that now totally controls both of these sock puppet parties. we will now see both parties calling for a unification of our "indispensable nation". more than likely some false flag will provide the necessary impetus to bury the hatchet and focus us all on our new/old enemy. the only hope i see is an outside chance that so many republicans have been redpilled that the party becomes the new whigs and fades into obscurity, leaving room for new parties to rise from the ash. the dems are ripe for a schism themselves with aoc champing at the bit to kick the boomers to the curb and the bernie bros finally realizing that three card monty is a rigged game. i would love to see the destruction of both of these hopelessly corrupt parties but the deep state cthulhu has its tentacles thoroughly wrapped around our poor planet and anything emerging out of this toxic mess would most likely be even worse. the situation reminds me of voltaire's candide and his sage advice to cultivate your garden.

Anon [912] Disclaimer , says: January 10, 2021 at 8:26 pm GMT • 20.2 hours ago

I'd advise the young to develop a "plan B". Pick another country you find bearable amd study it. Find out what jobs are in demand there. Develop those skills in your spare time (computers, electricians, mechanics, etc.). Practice their language an hour or two per week with online resources/dvd's/books. Research their immigration laws and perhaps contact their embassy.

If it gets really awful for whites here, you may be able to take your family some place more hospitable. Hopefully none of this will be neccessary and the rhetoric will tone down. Trump personally really got under the left's skin. Don't umderestimate Hillary's supporters influence here. They were ticked off. The Obama's too. Perhaps they will calm down a notch now. Have a plan B though young whites.

Citizen of a Silly Country , says: January 10, 2021 at 11:17 pm GMT • 17.4 hours ago

Another insightful article by PCR. However, I must somewhat disagree on some points.

What would the US military do?

The military would support whomever pays their salary and their pensions, i.e. the Establishment. However, as Iraq and Afghanistan has shown, the U.S. military, while possessing remarkable firepower when taken on directly and openly, is quite vulnerable. The U.S. military is essentially mercenaries. Mercenaries work for pay. Mercenaries are not willing to die for a cause. You can't spend money if you're dead.

Think of the Troubles in Ireland.

The Establishment absolutely can deliver a punch to an identifiable opponent, but it can't take a punch. Low level violence directed at officers and politicians would bring them to their knees.

Controlling the media, the Establishment, knowing of the patriotism of its opponents, would portray the "rebels" as foreign agents seeking to overthrow American Democracy.

I agree that they will try. However, I suspect that PCR is underestimating how little faith many whites have in the media.

The Establishment will never be more powerful than it is today. They have inherited institutions, the people to man those institutions and a generally functioning economy. Basically, they stole the keys to car that they didn't create. But the Establishment run those institutions and economy into ground. They will slowly start to show cracks.

Whites need to stay low, start forming small groups and begin preparing for the openings that will come.

Dr. Robert Morgan , says: January 11, 2021 at 1:34 am GMT • 15.1 hours ago

The racial right has been fantasizing about a civil war since forever, but I can't see it. Too many people have too much to lose, there's no real desire for blood, and the people are anyway too soft to initiate or withstand the violence real war would unleash upon them. Further, and in stark contrast to the SJWs and antifa, the few racially conscious whites who fantasize about this are mostly too old to make good soldiers. Also, just like the "God emperor" himself, Trumpers are some of the stupidest people on the face of the earth, largely down with their own enslavement, nauseatingly fond of "law and order", sporting "Blue Lives Matter" badges, etc. Despite being preyed upon by blacks and browns for decades now, they still refuse to become racist. Most of them are Bible thumpers who really believe that race is just skin color, that all are equal before their imaginary friend called God, and that Israel is America's greatest ally. Then too, vast numbers of whites work for the government or its many offshoots such as education, law enforcement, the military, and the defense industry. Civil war would mean they'd be revolting against themselves.

Will America become a police state? In case you haven't noticed, Americans already live in a police state, and have for decades. PCR should know this as well as anyone, as he was part of it during the Reagan years. America is an open-air prison Americans built themselves, and they rat each other out and betray each other to keep themselves ideologically in line. When someone white is doxxed and fired for having bad thoughts, who do you think does the enforcing? For the most part, it's other white people. Fake president and China asset Biden is just the new warden.

Harold Smith , says: January 11, 2021 at 3:45 am GMT • 12.9 hours ago

As a person who grew up in the glorious aftermath of World War II, it never occurred to me that in my later years I would be pondering whether the United States would end in civil war or a police state. In the aftermath of the stolen presidential election, it seems a 50-50 toss up.

In a very meaningful sense we already have a "police state." Why do we have a police state? Because our masters realize that they can't run the whole world from anything resembling a constitutional republic (as the Founders and Framers envisioned it). It's the agenda for complete world domination and control that's driving the domestic oppression. As they continue to squander everything of value on the agenda and take more risks, etc., while the corruption and rot continue to take a toll and the country crumbles, the boot will need to come down ever harder on the neck.

And please stop kidding yourself about Trump. It wasn't for the benefit of Joe and Jill Sixpack that he seized Syrian oilfields, tried to start a war with Iran, tried to overthrow the Maduro government in Venezuela, tried to stop Nord Stream 2, started a trade war with China, pulled out of all the nuclear treaties, etc. Trump wasn't just fully onboard with the agenda, he pursued it enthusiastically.

If Trump's nuclear brinkmanship and aggressive foreign policies aren't promptly reversed, the U.S. may end as a pile of nuclear ash. Comments coming out of Moscow recently seem to suggest that Russia is finally losing its patience with interminable U.S. hostility and may soon start responding more forcefully to U.S./NATO provocations (and Biden's tough talk on Russia isn't helping matters any).

Neither Russia, China nor Iran are going to surrender to the USraeli empire and start taking orders, so either the U.S. "government" must back off and accept a multipolar world or WW3 is still on the table, even by accident.

tanabear , says: January 11, 2021 at 5:45 am GMT • 10.9 hours ago

From Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

The Civil War in Corcyra

"So savage was the progress of this revolution, and it seemed all the more so because it was one of the first which had broken out. Later, of course, practically the whole of the Hellenic world was convulsed, with rival parties in every state – democratic leaders trying to bring in the Athenians, and oligarchs trying to bring in the Spartans. In peacetime there would have been no excuse and no desire for calling them in, but in time of war, when each party could always count upon an alliance which would do harm to its opponents and at the same time strengthen its own position, it became a natural thing for anyone who wanted a change of government to call in help from outside.

So revolutions broke out in city after city, and in places where the revolutions occurred late the knowledge of what had happened previously in other places caused still new extravagances of revolutionary zeal, expressed by an elaboration in the methods of seizing power and by unheard-of atrocities in revenge. To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings . What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one's unmanly character ; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man, and to plot against an enemy behind his back was perfectly legitimate self-defence. Anyone who held violent opinions could always be trusted, and anyone who objected to them became a suspect. To plot successfully was a sign of intelligence, but it was still cleverer to see that a plot was hatching. If one attempted to provide against having to do either, one was disrupting the unity of the party and acting out of fear of the opposition. In short, it was equally praiseworthy to get one's blow in first against someone who was going to do wrong, and to denounce someone who had no intention of doing any wrong at all. Family relations were a weaker tie than party membership , since party members were more ready to go to any extreme for any reason whatever. These parties were not formed to enjoy the benefits of the established laws, but to acquire power by overthrowing the existing regime ; and the members of these parties felt confidence in each other not because of any fellowship in a religious communion, but because they were partners in crime. If an opponent made a reasonable speech, the party in power, so far from giving it a generous reception, took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect.

As the result of these revolutions, there was a general deterioration of character throughout the Greek world . The simple way of looking at things, which is so much the mark of a noble nature, was regarded as a ridiculous quality and soon ceased to exist. Society had become divided into two ideologically hostile camps , and each side viewed the other with suspicion. As for ending this state of affairs, no guarantee could be given that would be trusted, no oath sworn that people would fear to break; everyone had come to the conclusion that it was hopeless to expect a permanent settlement and so, instead of being able to feel confident in others, they devoted their energies to providing against being injured themselves."

Just another serf , says: January 11, 2021 at 6:04 am GMT • 10.6 hours ago

Whether civil war as we may imagine it, or something equally unappealing to our every day lives, something bad is about to happen.

I'm curious though, regarding what I do believe was unprecedented election fraud. How is it possible, after watching the Georgia State Farm arena video, that the President of the United States, with all the power that office should hold, could not force the woman identified in that video, one Ruby Freeman, to answer questions about what we saw? Ruby Freeman was never questioned as far as I can find. How is this possible? Nothing makes sense. Before we begin killing one another, can we do two things; 1. Interrogate Ruby Freeman and 2. Interrogate the killer of Ashli Babbit?

Zarathustra , says: January 11, 2021 at 6:24 am GMT • 10.2 hours ago

Little bit feverish article. And I do have to say no.
Civil war can happen only after hyperinflation accompanied with lawlessness.
And that will happen only if US looses its international position.
Everything depend now on Germany.
If Germany joins China Russia camp than US as a world leader will not mean anything anymore.
China now is courting Europe intensively. Particularly is courting Germany.
Nothing is set yet.
So everybody can relax.
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Biden is out of his mind. In his speech he said that he wants to increase minimum wage and reestablish unions. That could be a little help also.

shylockcracy , says: January 11, 2021 at 6:58 am GMT • 9.7 hours ago

People living in the core areas of Ziocorporate globalism, like the US/EU, remain mostly oblivious about the nature of their ruling regime than those living in the direct periphery of globalist power. Take Colombia for an example, like Mexico's, all its presidents are subservient to US Ziocorporate power. Last one, a Nobel peace prize winner under whose pre-presidential stint as "Defense" minister oversaw the US-serving Colombian military's systematic massacre of tens of thousands of lower class Colombian youths who were then disguised as guerrillas to cash in rewards paid US Plan Colombia dollars, proceeded, now as president, to negotiate the disarmament of the actual guerrillas under the Obama/Biden regime's orders. Massmurder and massacres maintained an average level.

Then, in 2018, right after the Trumpet, a shamelessly pro-US regime, even for Colombian standards, took over and massacres and massmurder picked right up again, to an average of 2 or 3 per week, with exploding cocaine production even for Colombia standards as well, and extreme political polarisation, and all the while the Ziocorporate mother ship in Washington, with its Qtard and MAGA bullshit, looked the other way except to accuse Venezuela of being undemocratic and of human rights violations.

If Americans weren't so stupid and daydreaming like fucktards that they live in "muh democracy/republic" instead of the Ziocorporate conglomerate regime that rules over them, they could take a clue or two from their own regime's foreign policy, not only did Trumpet do things like transferring $400 billion in weapons to ISIS/al-Qaeda royal Salafi patrons in Ziodi Wahhabia, he doubled-down on the Obama/Biden policy of Venezuela "is a national security threat to muh democracy and freedom"; to start pondering about the kind of manipulation and radicalisation Ziocorporate agents Trump/Republicans and Biden/Democrats have in store for them. Cointelpro certainly mutates far faster than Covid-1984.

Happy New World Order and Great Reset.

shylockcracy , says: January 11, 2021 at 7:17 am GMT • 9.4 hours ago
@catdog i-deep state" character is actually the opposite of:

"White House teams up with Google to build coronavirus screening site"
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/13/white-house-teams-up-with-google-to-build-coronavirus-screening-site/

What do Qtarts and the like need to realise this simple, evident facts? That the Trumpet himself comes on national TV telling you all "I and the Democrats have been playing divide and conquer with you dumbfucks for 4 years"?

Feeling that anti-deep state MAGA magick yet?

Miro23 , says: January 11, 2021 at 7:25 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago

The American Establishment is doing to President Trump exactly what it did to Ukrainian President Yanukovych in Washington's orchestrated "Maidan Revolution," called "the Revolution of Dignity" by the liars at Wikipedia, and precisely what it did to Chavez, Maduro, and would like to do to Putin.

What Trump and his supporters, and perhaps the Kremlin, do not understand is that real evidence no longer counts . The Establishment makes up the evidence that it needs for its agendas.

Their playbook "Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals" by Saul D. Alinsky, makes it clear that it's necessary to play dirty. This covers all aspects of their Regime Change projects and the current US project surely isn't any different.

It's a cocktail of lies, fabrications, subversion, threats, blackmail, false friendships – in fact any means to advance themselves.

For example: From Alinsky – "Means and Ends" His take on morality:

Rule 10) You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.

Rule 11) Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", "Of the Common Welfare, "Pursuit of Happiness" or "Bread and Peace".

So yes, this is why the most unpatriotic Patriot Act is called the Patriot Act and they operate from patriotic sounding places like the American Enterprise Institute.

If traditional America is going to get anywhere in the upcoming conflict they have to get used to playing by the same rules – difficult for them – but they have to do it. It's inevitably going to be a dirty war.

Abdul Alhazred , says: January 11, 2021 at 8:01 am GMT • 8.6 hours ago

Point of order- Russia is not the historic enemy, but the orchestrated one, rather it was the Soviet Union which is the historic enemy, as the sponsors of the destruction of Russia are behind the destruction of America.

Carlos22 , says: January 11, 2021 at 8:09 am GMT • 8.5 hours ago

We are already in a police state and you can kiss goodbye to the 1st and 2nd amendment soon as free speech becomes hate speech just like they did in Europe.

So this site and many others in the alt news universe will soon be gone.

There's not going to be a civil war as the current generation of young people are too weak and distracted and have been brainwashed into hating themselves.

There's a big elephant in the room and wild card that's been missed too and that's the new covid vaccines who's long term effects on health are unknown.

Vaccines need to be studied for about 10 years before their safety can be guaranteed.

If tens / hundreds of millions are willing to be injected with a new untested genetic engineered substance that could make them disabled or kill them in 5 years to save them against something with a 99% survival rate what does that tell you about the mental state of the Population?

The US as you once knew it is finished it's just that many are still in denial or haven't realized it yet.

noname27 , says: Website January 11, 2021 at 8:34 am GMT • 8.1 hours ago

I see no civil war in the USA. I see no organisation amongst the people in order to carry it out. They have no leader, they have no Hannibal, Boadicea or Adolf to rally them together for a major insurrection against The Beast Empire. Unless of course something is brewing secretly.

A French style form of resistance, as previously mentioned in these comments, also takes a lot of planning and organisational skills, and I see no inkling of that taking place amongst American patriots.

I also believe many do not realise how serious the matter is, they still, being bogged down in irrelevant party politics.

If however a large swathe of the police and US Military including officers were to desert their corrupt masters, things would look very different and a civil war could happen.

Ilya G Poimandres , says: January 11, 2021 at 8:39 am GMT • 8.0 hours ago

The civil was has been on since Crossfire Hurricane, the usurpers of the constitution simply kept it cold because they thought they could enforce their tyranny silently.

And if Trump surrenders then they would have been proven right, at least for the leadership fight.

Biden will likely launch a war because he already has his bay of pigs with his graft, and will need a moonshot for the misdirection.

I don't think they can fight half the nation (and the military will split), and Russia at the same time, so the only question is on whom the war will be launched. I still think the odds are higher that it will be a civil war, but the Russia option looms strong for sure.

TKK , says: January 11, 2021 at 9:39 am GMT • 7.0 hours ago

The US military is the most "woke" diverse incompetent organization in America.

Remember- contractors do all the heavy lifting "in theater"- from cooking to plumbing to firefighting to IT to combat.

This knowledge is hidden from view- kept on the down low.I only know because my brother has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan for KBR for the past 15 years. I have seen him accumulate well over Half a million in cash. What does he do? He makes sure the troops have water and food. He is in logistics. For the past decade I have heard hundreds if not thousands of stories of the jaw dropping incompetence, insouciance and laziness of the American military.

Rank-and-file Americans, indeed no one, talks about this very real infrastructure that props up every dumb, overweight enlisted. About 4 contractors to every enlisted.

Most of the contractors in theater are from Eastern Europe and sub Sahara Africa. If they were given orders to release biological or chemical weapons on the American populace, as long as the huge checks were hitting their account they would do it in a heartbeat

More than the military- fear the shadow military that knows the systems, does the work .. And will do whatever it is asked as long as they are paid.

Their mother doesn't live here.

Everywhere we turn, diversity and hiring people from the "other" never works out.

*** Side note: My brother revealed that when blacks came back from their R&R after the George Floyd insanity, most of them became more aggressive and entitled. Unable to do their work because they could not stop going to report others for incidence of racism.

This includes the American black contractors and enlisted.

These are dumb young black men and women who are making $92,000 a year to move pallets around. If they were asked to stop calling in sick every day, they would run to report their supervisor for-

Racism.

Many whites have lost their lucrative positions or been subject to discipline for having the audacity to ask blacks to come to work.

It's over. It's too far gone.

[Jan 10, 2021] The Failure Of Biden To Denounce This Impeachment Is A Missed Presidential Opportunity by ZeroHedge

This is "V for vendetta" from neoliberal Dems. They at last got Trump...
While ZH commenters are too harsh on Biden who currently is sitting between two chairs, it will be extremely difficult for Biden and his administration to navigate this minefield.
He really might face a national strike despite docile character of white working class... And no in no way Trump was a friend of the working class. He governed like Bush III and appointed a nasty clique of neocons and Wall street bankers in his administration. Just look at Pompeo. He is probably as evil as Cheney.
Notable quotes:
"... Biden has been a mediocre politician for 47 years, taking advantage of his office to skim money for his family when he could. At no point in those 47 years has he demonstrated moral or ethical fortitude. ..."
"... But equally as malicious, at no point did Biden ever condemn the acts by other democrats to undermine an elected government with a series of fabricated and fraudulent investigation, or years of calls for violence and harassment of opposition politicians, and even calls for outright assassination. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Ikiru 1 day ago

J. Turley said he didn't think this was a fraudulent election... If you can be so blind, irrational, and brainwashed as to not see the fraud and illegitimacy of this election, I really can't trust your judgment on other important matters.

Just Another Vietnam Vet 22 hours ago (Edited)

Bad Decisions : the Joe Biden Story... its all over the net......

joyful-feet 1 day ago

100% correct. To try to normalize any of the treachery that has taken place lately or these past four years is pure evil. To try to tell people at this point just to move on will not work...

deep-state-retired 1 day ago

He wants to stay in the cocktail party circuit. They all do.

Ex-Oligarch 1 day ago

If the elections are fraudulent, betraying their constituents won't end these politicians' careers. They'll keep right on pulling in "campaign contribution" bribes and playing footsie with the democrats, secure in the role they play in the system.

CheapBastard 1 day ago (Edited)

Biden also refused to denounce the riots and burning down of over 9 major cities across the nation. In fact, his Ho, Harris, was bailing out the arsonists and looters.

JohnGault 1 day ago (Edited)

Biden has been a mediocre politician for 47 years, taking advantage of his office to skim money for his family when he could. At no point in those 47 years has he demonstrated moral or ethical fortitude. Instead, he pandered to whichever populist forces prevailed to maintain his office.

Biden has recently called for "a return of decency" to Washington, in sharp contrast to his public statements about the current president saying "if we were in high school, I would take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him". How incredibly "decent" of Joe, isn't it?

But equally as malicious, at no point did Biden ever condemn the acts by other democrats to undermine an elected government with a series of fabricated and fraudulent investigation, or years of calls for violence and harassment of opposition politicians, and even calls for outright assassination.

Can you imagine the level of outrage by democrats and the media if a republican called for the assasination of obama or hillary? The uproar would be deafening.

No, Biden is just a mediocre shill with no moral or ethical compass to guide him. And that kind of rudderless leadership inevitably ends in disaster.

NoBigDeal 1 day ago remove link

Biden reads the words from the teleprompter that are written for him. I wouldn't expect much more from him than that.

bsdetector 1 day ago

I saw part of President Elect Biden's speech this week. He denounced President Trump for everything he believes is wrong in America. His speech was hateful and divisive and was made at a time when better words would have been helpful for America.

President Trump has many faults but he delivered a message during the last four years that resonates with many Americans. By attacking President Trump in this speech, Mr. Biden attacks the Americans that believe in President Trump's message.

It would be better for Mr. Biden to acknowledge that causes for election fraud allegations will be investigated.

donkey_shot 1 day ago

how can Biden denounce an impeachment when he`s not sure if it`s his own impeachment, or trump?

Sean7k PREMIUM 1 day ago

...that ship sailed when numerous courts failed to grant any relief on election fraud. It is the main reason courts exist. Therefore, the final nail in the coffin has been secured, the US is no longer anything but a banana republic...

Leguran@premium PREMIUM 1 day ago (Edited)

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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Biden is "America's" choice for president (lower case intended). In my opinion he has already sold out his country. His base is exclusively the cities where stupid people who go back and forth like hedonistic living dead believing that their future lies in a FASCIST Globalism...

My choice is to get my stuff out of reach and let these progressive idiots economically starve.

Snaffew 1 day ago remove link

Biden can't put two words together, let alone two thoughts -- the man is far more criminal and many levels dumber than Trump and "the people" believe this is the right "choice"...

Jon_noDough 1 day ago

Biden isn't and never was "presidential" material. Just a corrupt career politician mouthpiece for whoever is back there running the show...

Whodathunkit 6 hours ago

That was a presidential moment missed by the President-elect.

joe ain't too bright.

Engenie 12 hours ago

Biden will do exactly what he is told, when he is told. Thinking he can make his own decisions is laughable.

PGR88 1 day ago

Biden wasn't very smart to start with, and now he's suffering from dementia. He'll say whatever he's told to say.

gonediving 1 day ago

NOT Important says the Deep State...move along....nothing to see hear NY Times only reported it once so you would not miss it! Plausible deniability when needed.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/nancy-pelosi-tried-to-arrange-a-military-coup-and-thats-sedition/

[Jan 10, 2021] The fake outrage by politicians to score political points and justify additional control over the populace is pretty telling

Notable quotes:
"... More telling is the fake outrage by politicians to score political points and justify additional control over the populace. Chuck Schumer compared it to Pearl Harbor, calling it a date "in American history that will live forever in infamy." President-elect Joe Biden characterized it as "one of the darkest days in the history or our nation" and "an unprecedented assault on our democracy." ..."
"... Schumer and Biden conveniently overlook the irony of their statements. They may be accurate. But only for reasons they never intended. Lost in the ruckus was any candid consideration of election counting shenanigans. This is the real assault on democracy that will forever live in infamy. ..."
"... At the same time, the nation's leaders have little clue what's going on. Schumer. Pelosi. McConnell. All the clowns in Congress. They think that with that ogre Trump out of the way, they can let the good times roll again. They know not what they face. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The storming of the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday was a wacky and wild escapade. But it shouldn't be a surprise. These things happen when a nation's in decline. And, as Wednesday demonstrated, America's recline and flail goes on .

More telling is the fake outrage by politicians to score political points and justify additional control over the populace. Chuck Schumer compared it to Pearl Harbor, calling it a date "in American history that will live forever in infamy." President-elect Joe Biden characterized it as "one of the darkest days in the history or our nation" and "an unprecedented assault on our democracy."

Schumer and Biden conveniently overlook the irony of their statements. They may be accurate. But only for reasons they never intended. Lost in the ruckus was any candid consideration of election counting shenanigans. This is the real assault on democracy that will forever live in infamy.

But, again, proper perspective must be maintained. A fraud election should come as no surprise. These things happen when a nation's in decline. We don't like it. But these are the facts.

At the same time, the nation's leaders have little clue what's going on. Schumer. Pelosi. McConnell. All the clowns in Congress. They think that with that ogre Trump out of the way, they can let the good times roll again. They know not what they face.

[Jan 10, 2021] Natelson- There Is No Constitutional Ground For Impeachment Of President Trump - ZeroHedge

Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

So a "high misdemeanor" was a serious crime not meriting the death penalty. The icing on the cake from this conclusion was that it resolved some other questions that had puzzled scholars as well. And it explained the structure of the Constitution's Impeachment Clause: the words "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors" provide one example of a high crime (treason), one example of a high misdemeanor (bribery), and include generic clauses covering other crimes in the same two categories.

Observe what is excluded from the grounds for impeachment. Congress may not impeach and remove for a minor crime. Nor may it do so because an officer is reckless, negligent, or has obnoxious political opinions. The constitutional penalty for those breaches is, for lesser officers, removal by the president and, for the president and vice-president, re-election defeat.

While debate over the meaning of the term continued, the House of Representatives could reasonably assume that non-criminal behavior could constitute a "high misdemeanor." But that's no longer true. Now we can say unequivocally that whatever you may think of the president's speech, it's not a basis for impeachment.

Robert G. Natelson is a leading originalist scholar who served as a law professor for 25 years. He is a senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver. His research articles on the Constitution's meaning have been cited repeatedly by justices and parties in the Supreme Court.

4 hours ago remove link

There are many well intended supporters of Trump. Having voted for him in 2016, I understand some of the reasons. People that attended the events at the Capitol ranged from patriotic, passionate and peaceful Trump supporters to extremists who showed their hate with their symbols as well as their actions. YOU ARE ALL BEING LUMPED TOGETHER; to the good people - be careful of being pulled into the hate by the wolves in sheep's clothing. Flags, signs and symbols of racist, white supremacist and extremist groups were displayed along with Trump 2020 banners and American flags at Wednesday's riot at the US Capitol. They portray messages of tyranny, white supremacy, anarchy, racism, anti-Semitism and hatred. What haters were there: the Three Percenters flag was displayed, as was Release The Kraken flag, Kekistans flag, Gadsden flags, altered Confederate flag of hate, American First flag which sounds nice but are tied to violence, Camp Auschwitz flag - no explanation of what it glorifies is needed, Nationalist Social club - a Nazi group, and the PB okey sign - a militant group. ALL these groups were at the Capitol on Jan 6th. It's guilt by association, do you stand w hate groups in Unity? These hate groups are crafty, they need to trick good people to be among them to legitimize a show of force and hide like cowards in their shadow after instigating their hateful acts.

[Jan 10, 2021] Here It Comes- 'Patriot Act 2.0' Aimed At The UnWoke Enemy Within - ZeroHedge

Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,

In my article yesterday – "The Storming of the Capitol": America's Reichstag Fire? – I said this [my emphasis]:


Although there is not yet any talk of legislation [in response to the Capitol Hill riots], it's certainly true there are whispers of purges and other measures to "protect the constitution".

That quote did not age well, indeed it was wrong from the moment it went to print. Because, as it turns out, there has actually been "talk of legislation" for weeks – even months. Soon-to-be-President Joe Biden promised a new "domestic terrorism bill" back in November, according to the Wall Street Journal .

That is why you're seeing so much usage of the phrase "domestic terrorism" in the last couple of days.

It's the meme-phrase. The primary talking point for this whole exercise. It was underlined in all the memos sent out to all the media outlets.

That's why Joe Biden went to such lengths to distinguish "domestic terrorists" from "protesters" in his speech following the riots .

That's why the Council on Foreign Relations had an interview with a "counter-terrorism and national security expert" published within 24 hours of the incident, in which he spends 4 paragraphs arguing that the people who "stormed the capitol" were domestic terrorists.

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That's why the Washington Post has got an article dedicated to "lawmakers and experts" arguing that the Capitol Hill protest was an act of "domestic terrorism". And so have Vox . And Mother Jones .

That's why ABC had an article about how "domestic terrorism and hate crimes" were a growing problem in America a week before the riot took place.

And that's why #TrumpisaDomesticTerrorist is trending on Twitter.

Georgetown University, a well-known spook college , published a paper in September 2020 titled the "The Need for a Specific Law Against Domestic Terrorism" , and op-ed pieces bemoaning the lack of such a law have been dotted through the press going back to last summer and even late 2019 .

There was one published yesterday , in which a "senior FBI official" says "more could have been done" if there had been a "specific law outlawing" domestic terrorism.

"Domestic Terrorism" is clearly where it's at in early 2021, so we can expect a brand new law regarding it probably by March, at the latest.

What will "Domestic Terrorism" mean in this law?

The answer to that is pretty much always "whatever they want it to mean."

Certainly, it will include "incitement" and "hate speech", I would expect "denialism" to make an appearance, and be downright shocked if "spreading misinformation" doesn't get a mention. Don't be surprised if "questioning elections" or "bringing democracy into disrepute" is made an outright crime.

It will probably be tied into the Covid "pandemic" in some way, too. After all, what is discouraging people from taking vaccines if not the very definition of "terrorism", right? It's possible that even climate change will get a mention as well. They like to slide that into every issue these days.

Joe Biden has claimed multiple times to be the author of the original Patriot Act , saying it was based entirely on a bill he proposed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995.

Well now he has a chance to work on the reboot too, and they are always so much better when you can get the original creative team back together.

[Jan 10, 2021] Federal Prosecutor Opens Excessive Force Investigation Into Death Of Ashli Babbitt- Report

Some ZH commenters view killing of Ashli Babbitt a provocation to incite violence
Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Savyindallas 51 minutes ago remove link

There was no justification for the killing of babbitt. Agent provocateurs' were working the crowd crying to stoke up violence to create a serious incident. The same as with the Antifa riots in Portland and Seattle and elsewhere. In this case they were largely unsuccessful. The crowd was peaceful and non-violent. As a result, the provocateurs and behind the scenes organizers arranged for the Capitol Hill police to remove barricades and allow the crows to advance into the Capital where they were allowed (and even lead) into the Capital building. The paid provocateurs were trying to lead the crowd to violence, but with very limited success. With their plans for violent rioting and destruction unrealized, they arranged for the assassination of Babbitt and then ran their story anyway-totally misrepresenting and exaggerating the false "insurrection" as well as trump's alleged incitement of violence.

This was a setup. The American people have been played and conned. Most sheeple will not know any better and will believe and accept the Bolshevik media's account of what happened.

This is how revolutions are accomplished. Same playbook and modus operandi since the French Revolution. Bolsheviks have done this countless times over the past couple of centuries. The CIA has used an identical script in Iran in 1953, countless revolutions in South and Central America, Color Revolutions in the Middle east and most recently Ukraine. They have this down to a science. Very difficult to stop or prevent when a compliant media and crooked politicians have been lined up to support the narrative.

The establishment elites in charge will now use this bogus "insurrection" to press their white racist privilege narrative, suppress free speech and the internet and go on a expedited campaign for gun confiscation and repeal of the Second Amendment. The Covid hysteria fraud will get worse and lockdowns and forced mask wearing will be enhanced.

This will be used against all who dare question and challenge the establishment narrative-regardless of whether one is a Trump supporter or not. (I am not- I voted for Kanye) They have now conditioned all sheeple to identify all anti-establishment citizens with the sheeple's hatred of Trump. Very slick Deep state Psyop. People better be very careful. The Great Purge appears to have been unleashed.

Mamachief 45 minutes ago

They already have a 20,000 page "domestic terrorism" bill ready.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/amazing-they-magically-already-have-a-20000-page-domestic-terrorism-bill-ready/

Cardinal Fang 1 hour ago (Edited)

So who killed the cop?

They won't tell you because that was a confirmed Antifa kill.

Hurts the narrative.

You can't tell me they don't have a ******** of their own video surveillance.

manofthenorth 1 hour ago

Official narrative; "still determining the cause of death"

The story stinks to high heaven, does NOT pass the sniff test.

theendofish 1 hour ago

The story was possibly invented to overshadow the killing of an unarmed Ashli in my opinion. I have nothing to prove this but it's so convenient that it came out the same day. Whoever killed Ashli should go to prison since his life was hardly in danger. There were cops behind her at the time of shooting. They had long rifles and weren't saying anything. They appeared to be as surprised as anyone else there when she got shot.

TheWalrus22 58 minutes ago

Story I heard was that he died from a blood clot in the brain..

son of sam 42 minutes ago

Trump led his 'base' to the slaughter - in this womans' case, literally. No, he is not guilty of sending them to that building, organizing a 'riot,' or 'inciting violence' to intimidate representatives; his speech did none of those things.

His actual 'crime' was to pose as a person possessing values identical to those of his supporters - to pose as an upholder of 'traditional' values in a world gone mad with gender fluidity, mass fetal murder, profligate government spending, over-regulation, contempt for actual workers and enterprise, to pretend to be 'fighting for the little guy' instead of being himself a minion of financial powers angling for maximum influence over both government and the lives of its citizens.

A poseur who wasted zero time in changing the yardsticks in favor of those whom he 'owed' immediately upon arrival - the GOLDMAN ADMINISTRATION was an apt description of his administrative choices and legislative legacy - the Don was happy to use his gullible base of supporters as cannon fodder in a phony war against a cabal of which he was both an initiate and a lackey. Screened from accountability by a troll army the tattered remnants of which still infect these very pages with a pathetic 'chimera' of their once virulent strain of gaslighting disinfo and misdirection, the man was successful for four years in giving the appearance of being a 'victim' of the very choices he himself had made - to surround himself with dripping wet swamp critters like "Bushey Bandit Barr," the Dershowitz creature, the other cabinet member infamous for getting Jeffy off the hook in Florida,

while a phalanx of willing dissemblers continued to stretch it out so that 'just wait - it's coming - the dossiers are about to be released! etc., became the standard fare by which a large chunk of Americans were slowing starved of hope and belief, but kept hoping and believing anyhow, because the looming alternative - and this moments actual grisly REALITY - where simply to terrible to contemplate. The reality tv star played his role to perfection. There does not need be a 'second season' - the show has run its course, and his supporters into the ground.

The 1% are now ten times richer than they were when this wretched circus started 4 years ago, and "the base" is about to get introduced to a kind of grinding poverty - both mental and physical - which will make images of the dirty thirties look like a Catskills day camp; tru to his word, the Don has delivered on his slogan - Amerika is about to GRATE again - on the skewer of a BBQ of souls which the left has openly promised - and now proceeds to perform, in the HOLOMAR tradition so beloved to haters of humankind.

John Hansen 37 minutes ago

A lot of truth to what you say, but it isn't as if any of them are any better.

Trump was an empty suit but he talked the talk (sometimes), the rest of them can't even manage that.

UnhingedBecauseLucid 12 minutes ago (Edited)

His actual 'crime' was to pose as a person possessing values identical to those of his supporters - to pose as an upholder of 'traditional' values in a world gone mad with gender fluidity, <strike>mass fetal murder</strike>, profligate government spending, over-regulation, contempt for actual workers and enterprise, to pretend to be 'fighting for the little guy' instead of being himself a minion of financial powers angling for maximum influence over both government and the lives of its citizens.

I'd have to upvote you by 1 ... then downvote you by 1.

But for the pinpoint accuracy of the highlight, and since I'm in a good mood today, I'll upvote you by 0.5 ... which I can't do on this platform, so I'll just right it down in comment ... ... for the record . ;-)

pndr4495 49 minutes ago

This woman served our country and took an oath to uphold and defend our Constitution, our law of the land. The TRUTH about this shooting better be laid out in front of the American Public. Many people on ZH have children serving our country.

When was the last time, if ever, any of the cowering politicians considered upholding & defending our Constitution?

sijoittaja 1 hour ago

So can I break into the White House and expect the Secret Service to welcome me with open hands into the oval office?

Here are some relevant laws:

18 U.S. Code § 1361 - Government property or contracts

18 U.S. Code § 2112 - Personal property of United States

18 U.S.C. § 930 - Possession of firearms and dangerous weapons in Federal facilities

18 U.S.C. § 1752 - Restricted building or grounds

18 U.S. Code § 231 - Civil disorders

18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy

Ink Pusher 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

Oh so,cold the blooded murder of an unarmed Patriot Veteran by a poorly trained and frightened traitor is now conveniently reduced to an excessive force investigation?

A Fed Up Dude 1 hour ago

IF it was a white cop that shot a black BLM,,,,,,,,,OH MAN !!! can you imagine the charges ?????

Nature_Boy_Wooooo 1 hour ago (Edited)

In the time it took him to walk closer to her and line up his point blank shot......

He could have fled or fired a warning shot in the air.....or like Joe Biden says.....he could have shot her in the hand.

Handful of Dust 1 hour ago (Edited)

The murder was so deliberate ...slow, calculating, careful, and accurate.

What was the guy thinking?

Who paid him to kill?

Nature_Boy_Wooooo 1 hour ago remove link

He attacked her like a woman killing a spider. That was not professional and he should be removed from duty immediately if not charged with murder.

Pro_sanity 1 hour ago (Edited)

Anybody in antifa or blm shot by police? At any point all ******* summer long as they burnt businesses to the ground and wiped people out.

But already on day 1 of a protest by the conservatives and a woman was executed.

That oughta tell you all you need to know about things will unfold.

Neo2021 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

Excessive FORCE?? How about negligent homicide at the least. If you or I did this on the street we would be in prison for at least 10-15 years. She was an unarmed protester; trespassing would be the charge at most. I guess BLM and ANTIFA (which was created during WW1 by the fascists by the way) looting burning and injuring people without charges filed was ok. Fail

novictim 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

This is the Kent State massacre of our day. An unarmed patriot and veteran, a woman dedicated to the USA, was using civil disobedience no different from the folks who stormed the Judge Kavanaugh hearings and was executed for it.

(And the trigger person, very ironically, is a black woman with a badge who is clearly premeditated in her choice to execute Ashli).

So now that a person has been literally executed for Civil Disobedience , where is the MSM outrage ? There is none because we no longer live in a free nation. We literally had an election stolen from us and had no free speech leading up to this steal. Why would they let the truth out about their complicity with Communist China ever be known when they can stop it?

Free Speech and Moral Courage are reserved now only for those that the Oligarchy of Tech Giants and their Uniparty goons on Capital Hill/Chinese Embassy approve.

You will not hear the appropriate chorus of anger if you are listening to the MSM. If you are still taking your cues from FOX or MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NYTIMES then you must be incapable of seeing the cage you live in and the bars over your windows, the guards that deny you access to reality.

HER NAME WAS ASHLI BABBITT

[Jan 10, 2021] A Coup of Pelosi's Own

Notable quotes:
"... Mrs. Pelosi's call to Gen. Milley is itself a violation of the separation of powers by seeking to inject herself into an executive-branch military decision. She can offer advice all she wants, but this call at this time has the sound of an order. It might even be construed by some as its own little coup -- conniving with the military to relieve of command the person who remains the elected President. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.wsj.com

Mrs. Pelosi's call to Gen. Milley is itself a violation of the separation of powers by seeking to inject herself into an executive-branch military decision. She can offer advice all she wants, but this call at this time has the sound of an order. It might even be construed by some as its own little coup -- conniving with the military to relieve of command the person who remains the elected President.

What if an adversary leaps on the news and decides this is the moment to stage some military action when the U.S. is consumed with internal conflict? Does Gen. Milley now have to consult with the Speaker before he acts in America's defense? How anyone thinks her intervention would restore good constitutional order to government or some modicum of sanity to politics is a mystery.

Mr. Trump failed his constitutional test on Wednesday. But Mrs. Pelosi showed awful judgment with her grandstanding over the nuclear launch codes. Late Friday she announced that she's also revving up the impeachment machinery. So much for calming political tempers.

[Jan 10, 2021] If true, no wonder Pelosi is in full shrieking harpy mode, calling for the immediate invocation of the 25th Amendment or Impeachment #2.

Jan 10, 2021 | www.unz.com

Buck Ransom , says: January 9, 2021 at 8:36 pm GMT • 5.5 hours ago

@Roacheforque from the FBI or DOJ) who got into the offices of Pelosi and other Swamp elders.

These people appropriated a whole bunch of laptops that had been carelessly left behind in the scuffle, which could soon provide quite a window into the doings of America's august leaders throughout their several recent coup attempts. Imagine Hunter Biden's Laptop from Hell x 20.

If true, no wonder Pelosi is in full shrieking harpy mode, calling for the immediate invocation of the 25th Amendment or Impeachment #2.

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/fog-and-noise/

HeebHunter , says: January 9, 2021 at 9:53 pm GMT • 5.6 hours ago
@Buck Ransom

Yes, because that is how careless these swamp monsters are, just leaving laptops unguarded, as the MIGA hordes were approaching from miles away

I wouldn't expect a 10 year old to leave his digital devices unaccounted for. Man, you amis are a riot.

[Jan 10, 2021] 'Witch hunt'- Police officers firefighters probed, employees losing jobs for partaking in US Capitol protest-turned-riot

Jan 10, 2021 | www.rt.com

The probe comes as businesses and governments across the US look to jettison employees who may have taken part in Wednesday's violent protest in Washington to fight certification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral votes. The CEO of suburban Chicago-based data analytics firm Cogensia was fired on Friday after being arrested over his alleged role in the riot, as was the associate general counsel of Texas-based Goosehead Insurance. The latter claimed he was peacefully demonstrating.

READ MORE: USA Today asks to ID rioters in Capitol invasion. Readers question why summer unrest was treated differently

A Chicago real estate agent also lost her job after saying on social media that she took part in "storming the Capitol." A Saint Vincent College professor was cut loose by the Pennsylvania school after he shared pictures of himself outside the Capitol on Wednesday. The president of the Richmond Food Truck Association was forced to resign for participating in the protest.

And as the Seattle investigation shows, public-sector employers also are cracking down. The Allentown School District in Pennsylvania has a similar investigation under way of an employee who may have been involved in the protest.

...The crackdown is raising questions over whether people who took part in the DC protests peacefully and legally will be lumped in with law-breakers and punished.


Juan_More 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:51 PM

I think that firing someone for attending and being captured on video, in pictures or admitting to being there is over the top. Now if someone had been charged and convicted in a court of law then that would be another matter. Anyone loosing their job over being "seen" has been summarily dismissed where the employer has just cause to terminate an employee without any notice or pay in lieu of notice. Summary dismissal is the death penalty in employment law. Therefore, summary dismissal is only appropriate where there is serious misconduct. Is being there just case? IMHO, and under the legal rules, until someone has been through the legal process they are considered innocent.
RTaccount 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:35 PM
And there will be no unity and no peace. Democrats created this situation, they should no complain about it now.
GaravSG RTaccount 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 10:00 PM
They are in power position and hunting down the Republicans on make believe insurrection. Why would they complain ? They are enjoying every bit of it. Expect more to come.
1Just_Dessert 3 hours ago 9 Jan, 2021 08:08 PM
"The department fully supports all lawful expressions of First Amendment freedom of speech'..unless you are against fake democrats and fully support the current president of US - Mr Trump! US - you really are the worst country in the world.
CA_Sue 2 hours ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:09 PM
Does Chief Diaz understand the difference in meaning of demonstration, protest and the act of insurrection? Probably not.
Election_Fraud Biden CA_Sue 56 minutes ago 9 Jan, 2021 10:18 PM
Definitely not.
Paul Ericson 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:18 PM
Lose their jobs? Wow, unlike the leftist marauders, you mean these people actually had jobs? So the globalist collaborators are happy to wreck the already tottering economy out of political spite? Now we see the depth of hate they can mine while claiming to 'fight hate'.
Ally Hauptmann-Gurski 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:25 PM
We don't even know what they are really after, or do we? Better conditions within the US would require less expenses for the military. If they want to restore hegemony they need money and would have to spend more money on the military which always requires shortchanging the people.
Jewel Gyn 29 minutes ago 9 Jan, 2021 10:56 PM
Brace yourself America for a rough ride. Dems have total control come 20 Jan. President, House and Senate. Nothing to stop them from colluding with the big globalist corporations.
Tom_Callan 3 hours ago 9 Jan, 2021 08:02 PM
The USA sounds more like an old communist country everyday! Perhaps they'll even introduce a re-education camps like China. Afterall, 'China Joe' is going to be running the USA!
Paul Ericson Tom_Callan 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:25 PM
Too many 'boomers' I'm afraid sat back and let it happen while they binged on dumb consumerism. They let their kids be corrupted by the schools and even when the Web made information so easily available, they just turned-up their TVs and swallowed the propaganda poured into them by the global media cartels. I have sometimes found more info in the Times of India than any western outlet.

[Jan 10, 2021] Democrats 'beginning to sound like ISIS'- Candace Owens hits out at calls for pro-Trump crowd to seek 'redemption'

Jan 10, 2021 | www.rt.com

Demands for Donald Trump backers to seek "redemption" of sorts make Democrats look as intolerant as the most hardline Islamists, conservative political commentator Candace Owens has said.

Outspoken conservative Owens took to Twitter on Saturday, hitting out at calls for "redemption" in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill siege and Trump's social media ban. She condemned the "brown-shirt approach" exhibited by many Democrats, stating that the pro-Trump crowd won't just "magically disappear," and comparing their inability to cope with opposite views to the intolerance displayed by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group.

"Democrats are literally beginning to sound like ISIS. 'Recite the Quran or get your head chopped off, now!' Absolutely psychopathic. You will not make President Trump and his 75 million voters magically disappear or cower in fear."

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Owens' angry message came in response to a tweet from John Brennan, former CIA director and self-described "nonpartisan American," who mused about what should be done to the pro-Trump crowd. Merely ceasing to support the president is not enough, Brennan warned, suggesting that those seeking "redemption" must confess their 'wrong' views.

"Total denunciation of a despot's legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy," he stated.

ALSO ON RT.COM 'Witch hunt'? Police officers & firefighters probed, employees losing jobs for partaking in US Capitol protest-turned-riot

In fact, Brennan is far from alone in expressing such views, with multiple commentators urging the need for a religious-sounding "redemption" of sorts or the outright persecution of Trump-supporters, somewhat resembling denazification in post-WWII Germany. The calls for such measures have been greatly amplified by the recent Capitol Hill incident, which left five people including a law enforcement officer dead.

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Such calls were not taken lightly by Trump supporters, who told their opponents they were not going anywhere.

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Others accused the pro-Democratic crowd of acting like Nazis, sharing more ideas – straight from Hitler's Germany – about how they should try and punish the Trump supporters.

Trump supporters should have to wear an arm badge...that way if they're in a car accident EMS knows they should leave them to die.

-- Gulag Mouser Meownymous (@Meownymous) January 10, 2021

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Many hit out at Brennan personally, accusing him of just holding a grudge against Trump, who booted him from his CIA position back in 2017, and now simply seeking revenge. Moreover, his spiritual-sounding musings were not quite in-line with his spy career, they argued.

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Wazzup 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:17 AM

Owens has a valid point. It's a fair comparison.
Election_Fraud Biden Wazzup 26 minutes ago 10 Jan, 2021 12:31 PM
She surely does. It is the Democrats who need to seek redemption,. After applauding to all kinds of property destruction and looting all summer long by Antifa and BLM, including the Federal court houses. What else is left there for all of these immorals to do ? Kamala Harris called riots a movement this summer, and said > 'they should not stop'. youtube.c o m/watch?v=5XxLR2r5oPg ( enter the link without spaces )
Debra***** Wazzup 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:34 AM
She does. It is getting scarier and scarier.
White Elk 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:28 AM
It can still be considered and discussed what should be done to the pro-Trump crowds, while it is quite certain that Mr. J. Brennan should be serving his fair term for what he has committed. Same as many others in the Clinton-Bush-Obama administrations.
Franc White Elk 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:22 AM
Nothing should "be done to" the pro-Trump crowds. Why don't we just come out and acknowledge how authoritarian and dystopian it is to impose penalties on groups for their beliefs?
Hilarous 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:25 AM
People need to stop referring to Nazi Germany. If people would care to research the matter, they would find out that much of it is war propaganda and fake history to suit and excuse the victors. If any American needs an example of an evil empire or nation with a bloddy history, you don't need to look abroad.
JJ_Rousseau Hilarous 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:17 AM
Unfortunately, it is not allowed to research the matter. The Germans were fighting a very small minority that had complete control of banking and media, and was way over-represented in government as well as academia. Which small minority in USA today controls banking, the media, the politicians, courts, and academia?
RTaccount Hilarous 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:08 AM
The National Socialists were the good guys.
Jewel Gyn 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:25 AM
"Total denunciation of a despot's legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy." That's an extremist view from a sleazy former CIA director.
Grob_Hahn Jewel Gyn 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:15 AM
Brennan only exposes the sort of people that have been stabbing Trump and Americans in the back during his entire administration.
Franc Jewel Gyn 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:55 AM
He calls himself non-partisan, and I believe it. There's only one deep state.
1_WhoBenefits 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:03 AM
On side note by the way, an Iraqi politician said: " ....appreciated the role played by top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group, saying only Iran supported the Iraqi nation in its difficult times."
David 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:15 AM
Interesting article, I was talking about what going on American Society long time. Every where Americans believed they were betrayed by Congress and Senate. It was happening last 20 years. Hard working average Americans lost faith on government they realize politicians they send become corrupted after going to Washington. Does not matter they are conservatives and liberals, if they do not solve the problem they both will join together. People realize Trump talking behalf of them some extend it is true not all the time. Polanski done pumping tax payers money to rich criticizing others. That is what she done giving 1200 dollars to people giving more money to big companies. I always call Democracy on RUN
Charredcoal 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:40 AM
Oh C'mon, don't pretend you don't know ISIS is American funded and end product?
Franc Charredcoal 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:57 AM
And started under Obama, an establishment crony just like Biden and the Bush fam.
RTaccount1212 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:24 AM
The war on conservatives will be responded to by action. Civil war will put the democrats in their place and we will be victorious like Abraham Lincoln. We are prepared and we are ready. We will not be silenced you will hear the crackling of our return fire.
Karbonerus_99 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:11 AM
Storm the (((Federal Reserve))) and haang everybody there. That's the real "purge."
RTaccount1212 Karbonerus_99 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:00 AM
I'm also taking out every socialist on the street. We're at war with our enemies and we'll be victorious because we are men not soi boi socialist seeking handouts from tax payers.
James Bomb 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 06:59 AM
Repent for your 'whiteness' and your vote for Trump.. Give your money to the brown people... Or you will be cancelled, or beheaded.. Not hard to see where this is heading.
MeNot 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:36 AM
What we are fully aware of is that there was a fraudulent election arranged and orchestrated by the Democrats. The illegitimate presidency of a corrupted senile old man and his "Heels up Side Kick" will take over on 1/20/2021 and continue to take away the rights of citizens.
Franc MeNot 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:16 AM
1 20 2021 is a palindrome. Just noticed that, thanks for writing it out. Illuminati confirmeded.
T. Agee Kaye 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:34 AM
Younger Democrats have to start seriously wondering whether it is in their long term interests to keep following the fatwas of the septa- and octogenarian mullahs of the Democratic party. The tide is turning. When it comes, the geriatric Democrats will be able to retire, rich. But what about the rest of them? It may be time to cut a deal with the People while they still can.
Mike Smith 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:44 AM
Didn't brennon lie on oath? Or was that some other lovely man
ariadnatheo 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:52 AM
Trump's supporters are "sinners to be saved," says Levitz, which sounds like a jew's cringeworthy attempt to convince Christians to join his revenge bandwagon by speaking in what he thinks is their language.
Jack_O_Lantern 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:18 AM
How far are we from "Are you now, or have you ever been, a supporter of Donald Trump?"
Richland Yabitches" 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:40 AM
Putin wasted ISIS so there you go, follow the Good and you'll live a Long as Prosperous Life, unlike McCaine the Liberal Terrorist got buried Head First LOLOL"
shadow1369 Richland Yabitches" 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:12 AM
Iran also helped destroy ISIS.
Jeffrey Perkins 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:51 AM
trump people have been whipped up to a frenzy, mob mentality, a result of a problem..the politicians who have coveted their money, made laws protecting their rich buddys and themselves..they are also a result of a problem, dig deeper..the sets of laws set for the wealthy are different than the laws for the rest of us..not a specific party..ALL OF US , that is the root problem..they have been after trump for a long time because trump was never really one of them..hes a repeat bankrupt guy, who uses legal loop holes to promote his brand, he should of never been allowed to use twitter, or any public forum to communicate to the world..he should of went after those policies that keep the banks and corporate entities in charge of us..but it was all lost in the fog of democrat, republican name calling and finger pointing, keep everyone confused and chasing results of problems, further eroding our society. We are at each others throats, and the sad man through his twitter feed is stirring the pot..lets think of ways to fix the problem..not fight over the results of the problem
RTreaderCaribb 10 minutes ago 10 Jan, 2021 12:47 PM
There went so much wrong in the USA in the last decades that I even dont know where to begin. Even Trump made some mistakes as it is not possible to just start fresh. Also his approach to make the USA again a country was too simple as he underestimated his wrong advisers as Bolton and o many others. Also his his ways of financially crippling others states by sanctions is not smart, even so for China he did the right thing. He also failed to pardon Assange and Snowden and gives in when it does not matter to him. He should have been more calm. He made many enemies trying to do some of the right things. And Owens is right. Absolutely right.
RTaccount1212 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:17 AM
This is blatant war on conservatives. If the conservatives don't push back, then they will be silenced and remain obedient sheep.
shadow1369 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:08 AM
0bomber and co started more genocidal conflicts than any regime in BRA history. No need for redemption though. The DNC orchrstrated months of Burning, Looting and Murder across the BRA. No need for redemption though. Trump's supporters tried to resist a coup, a staged a couple of peacefuol protests. Round them up and k!ll them all!
Richland Yabitches" 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:32 AM
After all ISIS was created by Obama to Destabilise and Murder Syrians, wasn't he Liberal or Democratic ?"
Embla Richland Yabitches" 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:30 AM
When looking at ISIS representatives in Germany as they were presented in Media they look like natives. Whis means Obama and Merkel got it "well" together.
mucky 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:43 AM
its persecution. no truth.
Franc 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:54 AM
Hilarious to see the self-professed righteous ones now advocating for holocausts and re-education camps. Keep going; we're all laughing our guts out at your hypocrisy. "You have become the very thing you swore to destroy." - Obi-wan Kenobi "Are we the baddies?" - German SS soldier, WWII
Ibmekon Franc 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:02 AM
As a kid, I used to laugh at the cowboys and indians movies. When I realised the reality of deliberate, calculated genocide I lost all respect for the USA. Let us hope that the USA disintegrates, and Mexico and the native inidans can reclaim their lands.
Insulyn 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:23 AM
"Total denunciation of a despot's legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy" Ex-CIA shill Brennan. Brennan would have first hand knowledge of malignancy before Trump got rid of him. Sour grapes from a sour sick CIA man.
Embla Insulyn 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:27 AM
The corruption industry was thriving in Norway when Brennan was in CIA. It just seemed as if Bergen was some extended spot of the deep state; from Obama to Biden and executed by CIA and with "fullscale" Stoltenberg network of corruption. This does not exclude any other representatives of norwegian polical parties. Fjell of Arizona?
Mike Taylor 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:51 AM
Right you will have to say I am sorry I was so wrong and enabled, etc..... Where did I hear this before? Was it in China? Reeducation camps re coming too? Just like to know. U nity via censorship, shaming, etc. is hardly a good path, as it only works for limited time.
ctsread 1 hour ago 10 Jan, 2021 11:21 AM
Trump throws everyone under the bus eventually as long as he achieves his objectives. Trump has thrown his ardent supporters under the bus when they did not do his illegal bidding. Now, Trump throws his rioters under the bus after achieving his insurrection objective and claiming that it was not his fault that the riot had occurred. Trump uses people and then throwing them out. This guy Trump is the worst among the worse.
YankiGoHome 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:19 AM
Hey Joe, I know I'm white and male but I know how to lie, cheat and steal. Don't you have a job for me? I'm getting bored here at that televission station. Greetz, John
Tom_Callan 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:39 AM
John O Brennan....sounds like a despot.
JIMI JAMES Tom_Callan 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:50 AM
Yez,but one my favourite legions,very clever best anti communist double agent,eh'he!
Rogue One 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:54 AM
Democrats are literally beginning to sound like ISIS. "Recite the Quran or get your head chopped off, now!" Absolutely psychopathic. You will not make President Trump and his 75 million voters magically disappear or cower in fear. - Well said.
Enki14 56 minutes ago 10 Jan, 2021 12:01 PM
Redemption for? The rush to conclude that the rioters who entered the Capitol were all Trump supporters? One General has said those storming the Capitol were also Antifa, who may have been the first one's through, the guards opened the way and one guard is guilty of murdering an unarmed woman. The photos are available via security cameras and if the deep state publishes these then we will find out the truth....no rush to judgment or redemption for me....
Sebspace Enki14 48 minutes ago 10 Jan, 2021 12:09 PM
An armed mob chanting violent slogans was trying to break into the senate chamber and a woman got shot. Don't misrepresent what happened as if some innocent bystander was shot in cold blood. Did you even watch the videos?
sukmiwangyak 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:41 AM
Just think how many eyes rolled over to focus on what is the obvious hostile take over by Foreign election interference and mountains of evidence of voter fraud. The Deep state is the Media, Big-Tech, and rules over the house of Congress as well as the Senate. Don't fall for the Left & Right parties they both was involved in 911 and like today they both blocked forensic investigation as they roll back the constitution more and more. Think about it... Did the ISIS tell Biden to openly confess putting together the biggest voter fraud in history before the election or was it Russia, China, or the Supreme Court that refused to accept video, Forensic, & eye witness evidence to be placed on record. ISIS, Antifa, BLM is controlled by the same handlers at the top of the pyramid of deceptions. The real enemy of United States is sitting in office ripping up the Bill of Rights. All this, is just Controlling the how many are being depopulate around the word as more vaccinations are released into the public. Think about this........ all these Giant Corporations where intelligence company's that they run to fund their illegal war on humanity to fulfill their handlers wishes, they came out of nowhere's, and just declared the Authority over life, Justice, and Freedom for all. This is just part of the planndemic scheme to advance their end game. When is the world going to wake up and realize the Cabal has declared war on all of us.
daggo77 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:09 AM
Pretty sure The US will send them to re-education camps.
Insulyn daggo77 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:27 AM
The weight of the state is a heavy hand already, now it is getting worse. Time to choose and act.
Skeptic076 1 hour ago 10 Jan, 2021 11:45 AM
Yeah, redemption like happened on the 6th with them tucking tail and running only to be apprehended with in a day or two. Really smart folks. Go for it. Trump supporters are cleaning up themselves, lol.
JIMI JAMES 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:10 AM
Democrats are the ones who need redemption,only sin unforgivens of they unrepenteds, Indeed the greates genociders in history post ww2 on all accounts(period) via intimidation,false flags,bomb vietnam based on fake human living rights ethics right? Get Thee Behind Me Satan,Jesus Is Lord:
emnc 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:34 AM
Many of the CIA directors should have the same mindset of Mr. Brennan, that should be the reason behind all the missery the CIA have caused to a lot of people in the entire world.

[Jan 10, 2021] The US probably has been weakened on the international stage.

Notable quotes:
"... It has become a hopeless task to try to restore American deterrence and prestige. Rival powers will see new vulnerability in the US. Even the US' firmest allies in Europe are wondering why they should place trust in the trans-Atlantic alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its center when American politics has become so febrile.... ..."
"... The fault lines have become too deep to be papered over and there is growing likelihood that [both] the Republican and Democratic parties might split in a conceivable future, ending the [Duopolistic] system itself. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Jan 10 2021 22:59 utc | 60

At Asia Times , MK Bhadrakumar has a new article, "The Day American Democracy Died," a hyperbolistic title since such a thing as American Democracy never existed. However, Bhadrakumar does raise a few points:

"Without doubt, the US has been fundamentally weakened on the international stage.

"It has become a hopeless task to try to restore American deterrence and prestige. Rival powers will see new vulnerability in the US. Even the US' firmest allies in Europe are wondering why they should place trust in the trans-Atlantic alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its center when American politics has become so febrile....

..."The fault lines have become too deep to be papered over and there is growing likelihood that [both] the Republican and Democratic parties might split in a conceivable future, ending the [Duopolistic] system itself. The US has become that dreaded divided republic that George Washington and his successor John Adams warned about....

"The answer lies in multiparty democracy. But there is a vicious cycle, what with the elections clause of the constitution, which leaves states to decide their own rules, and reserves to Congress the power to intervene, a power that Congress has used over the years to keep the two-party system in place and ensure that elections largely remain uncompetitive.

"How could there be modern mass democracy without political parties? [There is; look at China!!] Most advanced democracies have moved to proportional representation, supporting multiparty democracies, whereas the US electoral system and voting rules that were imported from Britain without debate in the 19th century remain frozen in time."

Again, much is overlooked and Biden is too highly regarded by the writer. The nature of the Outlaw US Empire's political-economy and those running it are completely ignored. I've yet to read a proper holistic report on the reality within the Empire. And there's no questioning as to how with its dire economic issues the Outlaw US Empire can continue to support its Empire of Bases and numerous occupations that no longer have any rational purpose.

[Jan 10, 2021] Botched 9-11 Repeat -- This Time Targeting the First Amendment -- Don't Be Fooled

Jan 10, 2021 | larouchepac.com

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Even as they rush headlong to ban non-approved speech and prosecute thought crimes, and to attempt to impeach Donald Trump in order to prevent him from running for President again, his approval rating has held steady according to Rasmussen. And their failure to recognize just how weak they are means they are walking into a trap, provided we keep our heads. After all, all they really have is the media's shock and awe. It is the working and middle classes who keep this tattered economy up and running and over 75 million of them voted for Donald Trump, don't believe that Joe Biden is a legitimate president, know that the events at the Capitol on January 6 were a setup, and are not going anywhere.

As Silicon Valley moved Friday to ban the President permanently from all current social media platforms, and de-platformed Parler, the conservative free speech alternative to Twitter, the dumb ass Avatar illegitimate President elect spit out his teleprompter script, declaring Trump supporters, en masse, to be "domestic terrorists," compared Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to Joseph Goebbels, and said the Capitol police were racist in their response to the events at the Capitol on January 6. The addled Avatar seemed to have momentarily forgotten his message of condolences to the family of Officer Brian Sicknick, who died defending the Congress.

This is all designed to scare you or provoke you into violence based on your fears. Since the sole uniting principle of the fascist Democrats is hatred of Donald Trump, and the RINO Republicans are joined at the hip to the same Wall Street/City of London failing financial enterprise, they are compelled to keep it up lest they fall entirely apart, an event which is coming very soon.

That said, here are some urgent pointers and perspectives in the immediate term, the interim, before that happens:

(1). Continue to demand (not plead) that your Congressmen and Senators keep their, "Hands Off Donald Trump." You are not coming to them as an underling, a supplicant. You hold the power here and they are afraid of you. Calmly and serenely tell them that any action against Trump is absolutely unacceptable, they need to get a grip on reality, they need to act for the actual future of the country while the other side seeks to provoke a Civil War, like the one the British Empire worked in their last attempt to cancel the United States.

(2). Understand that anyone urging violence including violence at the inauguration is either a controlled asset of the intelligence community or a fool who will discredit the political movement to take the country back. Coming to Washington to "protest' the inauguration of the Avatar will be, at this point, walking into a complete prepared trap. The President ain't giving him the honor of his presence, why should you? Have you figured out yet that Q is an intelligence agency psyop based in the type of magical thinking that will get you killed and lose the nation? If not, you really aren't qualified to participate in what is currently hitting us. The enemy has your number.

[Jan 10, 2021] Sometimes you drain the swamp sometimes the swamp drains you OffGuardian

Jan 10, 2021 | off-guardian.org

rump sincerely thought that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term change to the way that America is run by "draining the swamp" that all of his supporters so deeply despise, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive steps that were necessary in order to execute this grand strategic vision due to several important reasons that deserve to be discussed at length.

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF CAPITULATES

The Trump Era is over after the incumbent announced in the day after Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol that "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power", which was widely interpreted by friends and foes alike as the tacit concession that he previously promised never to provide a little more than 24 hours prior during his speech at the Save America Rally .

At that event, he literally said that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", yet completely changed his tune following the day's tumultuous events and after mysteriously "going dark" for over 24 hours, during which time some speculate that he was forced by his enemies in the permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (" deep state ") to give up the fight.

BETRAYING HIS BASE

This totally devastated his supporters who elected him primarily for the purpose of executing his chief promise to "drain the swamp" that all of them so deeply despise. They truly believed that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term change to the way that America is run, something which Trump himself also sincerely thought he could do as well, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive steps that were necessary in order to do so.

Thus, he ended up getting swallowed by the same "swamp" that he attempted to drain, which is licking its lips after feasting on the political carcass that he's since become as a result of his capitulation. For as much hope as he inspired in his supporters and the respect that many of them still have for him, most of them are profoundly disappointed that he gave up and didn't go down fighting.

That's not to say that the vast majority of them expected him to forcefully resist Biden's impending inauguration, but just that they never thought they'd see the day where he publicly capitulated after carefully cultivating such a convincing reputation among them as a fighter who literally said a little more than 24 hours prior that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it just doesn't happen."

This prompted an ongoing soul-searching process among the most sober-minded of them who aren't indoctrinated with the cultish Q-Anon claims that Trump still has a so-called "master plan" that he's preparing to implement after this latest "5D chess" move. It's over, the Trump Era has ended, and the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement that he inspired is now at risk of being declared a " domestic terrorist " organization in the coming future.

TRUMP'S MOST FATAL POLITICAL MISCALCULATION

" Biden's America Would Be A Dystopian Hellhole ", like the author predicted a few months ago, and all of Trump's supporters know that. Some had already resigned themselves to its seeming inevitability after his efforts to legally reverse the contested results of the latest elections failed for a variety of reasons that most of them attribute to the "swamp's" corruption, but they nevertheless remained as positive as possible after having believed that their hero would go down with them to the end.

None ever thought twice about his promise to "never give up, never concede", and they even expected him to have to be escorted from the White House on 20 January, yet his tacit concession is forcing many of them to re-evaluate their views about him in hindsight. Not only is he going out with a whimper on the "deep state's" terms, but he never fully "drained the swamp".

Trump's most fatal political miscalculation is that he thought that he could change the system from the "inside-out" after symbolically -- yet importantly, not substantively -- taking control of it as America's first modern-day "outsider" President. He immediately switched from an "outsider" to an "insider" shortly after his inauguration by capitulating to the "deep state's" demands that he fire former National Security Advisor Flynn, which was his "original sin" that paved the way for all that would later follow.

Trump the self-professed "deal-maker" thought that he could strike a "compromise" with his enemies through these means, but all that he did was embolden them to intensify their fake news-driven efforts to oust him and continue sabotaging him from within through many of the same "swamp" creatures that he naively continued to surround himself with.

RINOS + MSM = TRUMP'S DEFEAT

The most reviled among them in the eyes of his base is "Javanka", the popular portmanteau of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka. He continued listening to these "Republicans In Name Only", or RINOs as many MAGA members describe them, as well as many others such as those who still sit in Congress but pretended to be his friend just to win re-election.

Furthermore, the influence that his former reality TV career had on him resulted in Trump remaining obsessed with how his enemies might malign him in the Mainstream Media (MSM) for any decisive moves that he took to smash the "deep state". This weakness of character proved to be his greatest personal flaw since he should have followed his instincts instead of submitting to the egoistic desire to be "liked" by his foes.

So influenced was he by the MSM that his enemies were able to employ the most basic "reverse-psychology" tricks to manipulate him into "playing it safe" in his struggle against the "deep state". They fearmongered since even before he entered office that he'd turn into a so-called "dictator", yet he never seriously contemplated any such authoritarian moves in that direction despite always having the possibility of utilizing the immense powers vested in him by the Constitution to do so if he sincerely wanted.

His MAGA supporters passionately pleaded that he should have turned into his enemies' worst nightmare by declaring at least limited martial law in response to the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America finally going kinetic last summer after Antifa and "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) orchestrated nationwide riots to oust him.

TRUMP'S THREE GREATEST FAILURES

Bewildering his base, Trump also failed to revoke Article 230 despite now-proven fears that it would empower Big Tech to censor him and his supporters , nor did he thwart the Democrats' mail-in ballot and Dominion voting system schemes which they argue ultimately led to them stealing the election.

Just as concerning was his decision to not stop the Democrat Governors from locking down their populations for political reasons under the convenient pretext of COVID-19. The author addressed all of these issues in his analysis published shortly after the election about why " The Anti-Trump Regime Change Sequence Is Worthwhile Studying ". Trump could have legally exercised near-"dictatorial" powers to avert all of this and thus save America as his supporters see it, yet time and again he failed to gather the strength needed to do so due to his deep personal flaws.

THE HYBRID WAR ON AMERICA IS OVER

While Trump was unquestionably victimized by the "deep state" during his entire time in office, he's no longer as much of a martyr as he used to be after suddenly giving up the fight following Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol. He surrendered to the shock of his base, was subsequently swallowed by the "swamp", and is now being mercilessly destroyed in an ominous sign of what awaits the rest of the MAGA movement in the Biden-Kamala era.

Had he gone down fighting to the end and "never gave up" like he promised, then it would be an altogether different story, but instead his over-hyped "deal-making" instincts got the best of him at the very last minute and he foolishly thought that he could save himself by capitulating to their demands. The "deep state" is now showing their "thanks" by censoring him from social media and pushing for his impeachment.

The MAGA movement always believed that the country has already been at "war" for years even though most couldn't articulate the hybrid nature of it like the author did in his piece last summer about how " The Hybrid War Of Terror On America Was Decades In The Making ".

They truly felt that Trump shared their threat assessment after he was viciously attacked by the "deep state" from the second that he stepped onto the campaign trail, but it turned out that he underestimated the threat even though his enemies never did. To the "deep state" and their public Democrat proxies, this was always a "war" in its own way, which they never shied away from expressing.

The supreme irony is that while Trump lambasted the "weak Republicans" in his Save America Rally speech, he himself ultimately epitomized that very same weakness by later surrendering.

THE "DEEP STATE" WON

His opponents know no limits and believe in classic Machiavellian fashion that "the ends justify the means", whereas he thought that he could play by the rules -- and not even all of them as was early explained by pointing out his refusal to employ the near-"dictatorial" powers vested in him by the Constitution -- and still come out on top.

His naïveté will go down in history since it's what's most directly responsible for him failing to fully recognize the seriousness of the "deep state's" no-holds-barred war on him and the rest of America.

As a born-and-raised New Yorker, Trump perfected the art of slick talking, so much so that he even managed to dupe his base into believing that he shared their threat assessment about the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America. They fell for this charade since they desperately wanted to believe that there was still some hope left.

There isn't, though, since the war is over and the "deep state" won once and for all. The " Great Reset "/" Fourth Industrial Revolution " brought about by World War C is barreling forward at full speed ahead, and practically every domestic accomplishment that Trump has to his name will likely be reversed by Biden-Kamala during their first year in office, especially since the "deep state's" Democrat proxies control all branches of government now (remembering that the Supreme Court's supposed "conservative supermajority" really just consists of RINOs as was proven by their refusal to hear his team's convincing election fraud cases).

After " Analyzing The MAGA Movement's Democratic Security Failure " on Wednesday, it's clear that whatever "master plan" he and/or the MAGA movement might have had backfired and was actually exploited by their opponents.

THE REAL "MASTER PLAN"

In fact, the only real "master plan" was that of the "deep state", which effectively thwarted every one of Trump's moves and ultimately turned his supporters' "last hurrah" of a mostly peaceful rally into the nail that'll now be hammered into the MAGA movement's coffin.

It's extremely suspicious that the US Capitol was so poorly defended despite there being an ongoing session of Congress on such an historic day and after weeks of preparation to ensure the site's safety ahead of Trump's long-planned Save America March.

It's even more baffling that some of the police officers removed the barricades and even opened the doors to some of the protesters, which in hindsight suggests that the "deep state" wanted to tempt the most "overly passionate" among them (to say nothing of suspected provocateurs) into storming the site as the pretext for what followed.

The whole point in passively facilitating this scenario through the masterful exploitation of crowd psychology was to lay the basis for a comprehensive nationwide crackdown against the MAGA movement on the grounds that it's now "proven" to be a "domestic terrorist" group.

That explains the push behind impeaching Trump less than two weeks before he himself acknowledged just the other day that he'll be leaving office after ensuring the "transition of power".

Had he not surrendered, then he probably would still be a martyr to most of the MAGA movement, but now he's just a palace hostage awaiting his highly publicized political execution as the opening salvo of the "deep state's" Democrat-driven reprisals against his supporters in the name of "defending against domestic terrorism". That, not whatever Q-Anon imagines, is the real "master plan", and it succeeded.

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

Trump was swallowed by the "swamp" because he lacked the strength to drain it. Every MAGA member needs to accept this harsh truth no matter how painful it might be. Time and again, he failed to muster up the strength needed to meaningfully fulfill what many sincerely believed to be his destiny.

This was due to his fatal political miscalculation of transforming from an "outsider" into an "insider" in a doomed-to-fail attempt to change the system from within. He continued relying on RINOs despite their proven unreliability. Trump's obsession with how his foes portrayed him in the MSM also led to him never seriously countenancing the use of the near-"dictatorial" powers vested in him by the Constitution to save America.

He pathetically surrendered after the "deep state's" "master plan" succeeded, and now he can't even go down in history as a martyr.

Originally published on One World Press

aspnaz , Jan 10, 2021 11:47 PM

The 6 January protest march clearly shows that the majority of Trump voters had already given up on Trump so did not join the protest. There was originally talk of a possible one million people attending, it didn't get anywhere close. If half the nation was still behind Trump, this was a very puzzling showing.

Trump just did not have what it takes, or was not really trying, to ruthlessly cut out the cancer of corruption in government. History will show that he was a weak leader who allowed the deep state to distract him to the extent that he never did anything of note other than to reveal, through no action of his own, how extreme is the corruption that he had promised to drain.

The Democrat distractions, paid for by their oligarch owners, showed the world that extreme corruption is running the USA. Even the most loyal Democrats must be puzzled by the current purges and threats of extreme centralised thought control, the arrogance of the swamp now that it has gotten rid of the peoples' man.

To his credit, I am still willing to believe that Trump tried to do the right thing.

Although the author is trying to place Trump as a coward who resigned, going back on his word, I think this is not how his original supporters see him. From what I can see, the majority of his original supporters still support him and see him as a figurehead, but they recognise that he doesn't have the skills to do the job. He is not a coward, he did not cave in, he recognised, probably because of the low protest numbers, that he did not have what is takes to continue the fight, he could see that his base had already given up on him. He is still a figurehead in the patriot movement. He may have lost the far right, but he still has a lot of centre-ground supporters.

Jacques , Jan 10, 2021 8:49 PM

I don't know what Trump's intentions were, and I couldn't care less.

From where I'm standing, it appears that he was elected on a wave of populism, which seemed to be an alternative to the "liberal democracy" fakery, the swamp. An interesting presentation of that was here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA50BE7d1X8 ). IMHO, Bannon kicked Frum's butt in that debate.

It would appear that populism was a big enough threat for the "swamp" to unleash four years of a hate campaign against Trump, possibly, probably culminating with COVID. Hard to believe that it was a coincidence.

Be it as it may, and allowing for the possibility that this or that or the other thing has been staged this way or that way, Trump's presidency has certainly set things in motion, woken up people. Had somebody more slick been elected, the transition to the dystopia that seems to be in the pipeline would probably have been less noticeable, perhaps not noticeable at all. With the shitshow that has been going down since last February, all of a sudden there is a public debate. Perhaps misinformed, perhaps mislead, but there is a debate nevertheless. Will it result in something positive? Hard to say, hopefully.

Bottom line, Trump's presidency has been historically a good thing.

Dayne , Jan 10, 2021 8:40 PM

Peasants in 19th-century Russia clung to a notion of the Czar as a benevolent, fatherly figure. Even when he rained misery and oppression down on them, it was only because he was "misinformed", "surrounded by bad guys", etc.

It makes sense: Those were desperate, illiterate people living in misery. Hoping against hope was all they had. But why would anyone in 2021 think of Trump in essentially the same way is beyond me. An entrenched military-industrial-media-psychiatric-intelligence system, hundreds of years in the making and with untold trillions in funding, just stood by as a Robin-Hood-type hero and people's champion rose to take the Oval Office? Sorry. Trump might as well sprout wings and fly.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:10 PM Reply to Dayne

Thanx for your comment, Dayne – I've been trying to put this into words, and as I'm autistic, I could frankly, literally *Sperg'-out* over this, right now

- TL:DR version is this, tho': – Ever wonder why 'Populism' is such a dirty word for the establishment and their MSM bullhorn? – The argument I've heard thus far generally goes like the South Park underpants gnome's plan for world domination: – Phase 1: Popular Uprising (aka: 'Civil Unrest') Phase 2: ? . Phase 3: Fascist 'Strongman' Dictatorship – Why is that?

- Also that we're *Too Stoopid*(/ie: Self-Absorbed) – Like the Mud-Pickin' peasants in Monty Python' Holy Grail

- I would suggest 2 reasons for this:

- 1.) The Davostanis (Global Banksters/Oligarchs) never *merely* back the *winning horse* in the race, – In fact they back *every* horse that they *allow* to run (ergo: Trump was an Establishment-groomed *Stalking Horse* )

- 2.) The Davostanis (again), have *long since* seen to it that *most everyone*, from birth onwards, is psychologically conditioned, first with childhood myths and fairy-tales about Charming Princes and Fair Princesses, then with religio-spiritual 'adult' myths and fairy-tales about (In Judeo-Christian terms) Messianic, White-Knight champion/rescuer types who, if *we would only* put our lives and our *Utmost Faith* in their holy, heaven-sent hands, would *Save Us All* from all the terrible, terrible *Mess We've All Made* for ourselves down here on Earth, by collectively *Shitting The Bed*

*Obviously*, this is *All* just so much *Childish Nonsense*, and, more to the point, a *Writ-Large Con-Job*

- Cutting to the chase: – The 'Great-Man' theory of history is *Bunk* – Always *Has Been*, always *Will Be*

If you're still "Holding Out For A Hero", I invite you to stare *Long And Hard* into the nearest available mirror, *Take A DEEP Breath*, and then go out and *Elect Yourself* to the office – *Better Yet*, elect your family, elect your friends, elect your neighbors, elect *Everyone*

- And then let's *Do This Shit* – *Together*!

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:23 PM Reply to Dayne

It could have something to do with the fact that Biden is backed by every billionaire member of the Davos gang of criminals getting ready to use this event, coupled with medical martial law, to stage the "great reset" scheme. A wet dream of Malthusian eugenecists like Faucci & Gates, since it includes a drastic reduction in world population aka genocide of the elderly, vulnerable, poor and non compliant. This Globalist Technocracy will be led by un-elected bankers and corporate CEO's effectively ending any form of Democracy planet wide. MSM mockingbirds are completing the programming of the public to make Casey's statement to Reagan ring true" We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is wrong."

Mike , Jan 10, 2021 8:15 PM

Trump was never going to be Ameica's hero. He was played to depict America as a fascist, racist, neo-nazi country that needs to be saved by the [neoliberal] Left aka Joe Biden/Kamala Harris. The Left can now "save us all" from the "damage" caused by the MAGA movement and Trump. They can do this through heavily increased mass surveillance and what is essentially imprisonment, to make sure that we don't fall victim to the "domestic terrorism" that is represented by Trump and his fan base.

YouTube_censors_unfortuna , Jan 10, 2021 7:40 PM

Trump's racist fan base supported America's bogus War of Terrorism against blameless Muslim countries, did they not? What goes around, comes around.

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:40 PM Reply to YouTube_censors_unfortuna

I think you are getting fan bases mixed up. Trump inherited these conflicts from Bush, Iraq 2002 invasion & Obama's 2015 invasion of Syria and it was Trump that threatened to end the propping up of the endless war industry. In fact that played the major role in why Trump had to be removed at all costs including selling treason and vote rigging as Democracy to be defended against "domestic terrorists".

Geoffrey Skoll , Jan 10, 2021 7:25 PM

Right! The Donald was too weak and too stupid. A smarter president got shot for his troubles, but the rulers knew they didn't have to resort to that against the Donald. He was obsessed with his mirror. All those meeting between Ike and JFK, what do you think they were talking about?


MANUEL
, Jan 10, 2021 6:55 PM

Do u relly guys think Trump was a hope for all pf us? I am still amazed that people(including off-guard) still thinks in terms of left vs right, good vs bad, and all that narrative. I am afraid that nnarrativ has never been true. It is part of the game of "the matrix" to keep us entertained in shows programmed for tth masses, division, polarizaiomn, saviours and "heros". In my opinion it is time for a deep shift. Continuing to hope that some guy will save us all, it is just seeing a tree but not being able to see the woods. While some keep waiting for somebody to save us, they are moving forward with their plans really fast. But no problem guys. Sooner or later the rrality will knock on you door, and you will have to decide if you are going to be a slave or a free human. And it will be all about what you decide. No american hero or any messiah will do it for you.

Sophie - Admin1 , Jan 10, 2021 9:50 PM Reply to MANUEL

We have warned against accepting the Left/Right paradigm many times. This is NOT an editorial and therefore is not 'the voice of OffG'.

Some visitors here need to up their sophistication level to the point they understand we publish a SPECTRUM of dissident opinion that we consider merits discussion or a wider audience, without necessarily agreeing with all of it.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 11:15 PM Reply to Sophie - Admin1

"Some visitors here need to up their sophistication level to the point they understand we publish a SPECTRUM of dissident opinion "

- Yep, well that's as may be, but Andrew Korybko's position is *Lame As All Hell* – Every establishment talking point *Covered* – just from the 'Contrarian' side

- Trump was an 'Outsider' who 'Became' an 'Insider'?! – Aww Puh-lease! – He was a *Stalking Horse

- "He didn't have the *'Strength'* to 'Drain The Swamp'(tm)"??!?! – *No-One* *Indivudal* in all Creation could've

- Do you think we're *Children*?!


Cesca
, Jan 10, 2021 5:25 PM

Well written article but i just can't agree with its basic premise. Ok, the Scum killed JFK but they politically canceled/neutered Trump from day 1. Like him or not, what happened to him thruout 4 years of office was unprecedented, he was attacked constantly by the Scum puppets in the Capitol and MSM, this extended worldwide too.

He's human, don't think he gave in cos of the betrayal by Pence or the coup hoax, think it was cos he knew the Scum won. The coup hoax meant his only chance of presenting the facts about the Electoral Fraud on a public stage, had disappeared. Pretty sure that was the straw which broke the camel's back, all levels of the Courts refused to even look at the massive evidence given to them, just threw the cases out on vague technicalities.

He ain't a person i can personally admire, wld prefer him to have another 4 years than a glove puppet of the Scum who will be installed tho.


Dafis
, Jan 10, 2021 5:07 PM

Just consider – Trump is/was part of the swamp community, just a different segment from that occupied by Clintons and other long term manipulators. To see Trump in terms of radical revolutionary change agent is delusional. Personally I suspect that there are hidden links to a sector of organised crime, people who live by moving money about whether that money is clean or dirty. Another bunch of manipulators.

S Cooper , Jan 10, 2021 5:34 PM Reply to Dafis

"Valid point. Orange Hair Bozo was bribing those corrupt REPUBLICRAT political hack creeps for quite some time before he decided to go direct and eliminate the middle man and set up shop himself. Yes, that must have irked some of the corrupt greedy bastards."

https://www.deviantart.com/redamerican1945/art/Eugene-V-Debs-Republican-Democratic-Party-674343047

mr spam , Jan 10, 2021 4:39 PM

Jan. 6 will provide the pretext for a wide ranging, protracted crackdown, persecution of all opposition, comprehensive, rigid censorship, blanket surveillance, extensive repressive new legislation, shredding of civil liberties, and the imposition of one uniform viewpoint. In short, 1984 on steroids, or Germany in 1933.

Jan. 6 was obviously a staged and planned non organic event.
The complete absence of Antifa (except as provocateurs) proves the point adequately. Although a mass demonstration was publicised well in advance, only a skeleton crew of Capitol Police were present.
And this is the Toytown Police. It's not a real police force. It's a cushy job for people who don't want to have to do much. Normally all they do is check people are wearing their right badges. Occasionally they may have to eject Medea Benjamin and Code Pink from a hearing.

Something strange happened at the Pentagon a few weeks ago. Esper was kicked out and several rabid Zionist warmongers were moved in. At the time, this was thought to signal a last minute attack on Iran by Trump. Requests for 200 troops on Jan. 6 were flatly turned down.

It is a significant watershed moment.
People finally realise Trump is a fraud.
Elites were terrified by the sight of peasants with pitchforks.
This is likely to lead to further radicalisation.

There was an immediate howl of outrage. "Evil white domestic terrorists."
Cue an immediate Censorship/ Doxing/ Firing spree, ready to go, orchestrated by the Anti defamation league, Big Tech, FBI, and their Antifa catspaw.

About 70 people had been charged as of 24 hours ago.
Richard Barnett has been arrested for putting his feet up on Pelosi's desk. Like the others, he faces years in prison.
The charges carry 10 and 20 year sentences. A wave of repression on the scale of Germany in 1933 has to be expected. Ironically, the death of Ashli Babbitt will probably be used to justify longer sentences, as will the inevitable customary planted "pipe bombs."
This is the chutzpah from the Sanhedrin Power Structure to which we have become accustomed.
People like Graham and Pelosi have demanded that all the Capitol demonstrators be tracked down and thrown into dungeons, no matter how long it takes. Though to Pelosi, the petrol bombers who attacked the Hong Kong Parliament were "a beautiful sight."

We already see a wave of censorship. Trump and many of his supporters have already been banned from the MSM and the Internet.
Parler has been completely removed by Apple/ Google/ Amazon.
More will follow.

Trumpism is dead. Where will he go? Where will 70 million disenfranchised Americans go?

Those cheering on the Cancel Culture would do well to remember the old warning, "They're coming for you next."
All ideological deviations and impurities will be rooted out and punished.
The revolution always devours its own. Like the radical feminists who are insufficiently enthusiastic on the transgender issue.

Most people realise that Capitol Hill represents a dirty, disgusting, corrupt system that is incapable of reform.
And crackdowns generally have a bad outcome.
They lead to further radicalisation. The censorship and repression that is being implemented is unprecedented and will be rejected by a vast swathe of the population.
A potent stew remains.
The baby can't be rocked back to sleep.

Will Trump be impeached again/ removed from office? It seems a bit pointless, with 9 days left before Creepy Joe takes over. But they might try it, to ban him from holding office in the future.
Most Republican RINOs hate Trump more than the democrats, and they are spineless jellyfish who are easily intimidated. These people are incorrigibly vindictive and spiteful by nature, and this isnt going to change. Jail everybody, fire everybody, dox everybody,

Kathy Smith , Jan 10, 2021 3:24 PM

It wasn't failure to muster up strength, he was playing the role he's been groomed for over the past couple decades. He is a traitor just like obomber before him and biden will be after him.

James Sinclair , Jan 10, 2021 5:55 PM Reply to Chris

I could not agree more. Trump's biggest advantage is perhaps also his major weakness. As he lacks political experience (not being part of the swamp) he brings both a freshness and momentum into play. Nevertheless, his inexperience meant that his awareness, "marking" and ultimately failure to dispose of key adversaries could have fatally undermined his otherwise wondrous first term as President of the USA and leader of the free world. I now understand and hope that the "Italy gate" affair will shortly end the prospective Biden inauguration (in essence an Obama 3rd term). Lessons now learned, the real man of the people, will really be able to eliminate the dangerous threat from China, "drain the swamp" and eliminate the mistakes (most especially dealing with the media and Big Tech) that Monsieur Korbyko has outlined above, on Uncle Tony's behalf x

mr spam , Jan 10, 2021 2:05 PM

Some issues don't seem to have been considered adequately.

What are the implications of what happened?
How are they going to be (mis)represented?
What kind of a Crackdown should we expect to see now?
What will that lead to in turn?
What happens when 70 million plus realise they have been conned, Trump is a fraud and there is no place for them in the Punch And Judy Show/ Kabuki Theatre provided by the Jewish Power Structure as a harmless diversion?
What happens to Trump now? Where does he go?

Trump may do what favours he can for his wire pullers in his remaining time. He could pardon Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein. He certainly isn't going to pardon any of the supporters he has just thrown under the bus, who now face years and decades in jail.

"The Sacred/ Hallowed Temple Of Freedom has been defiled."
Cue multiple Jerk Off signs.
This place was never more than a Whore House of the most disgusting and corrupt individuals on earth.

The video of the unarmed woman being shot, apparently for doing no more than climbing through an open window, has already been taken down. Strange how all the Hollywood Luvvies and Liberals have gone from ACAB/ defund the police to "We Love Our Police." No condolences being sent by Mike Pence to the family of Ashli Babbitt, unlike career criminals George Floyd and Breanna Taylor. Instead we have the harassing of her family by the despicable, disgusting MSM. Ordinary, salt of the earth people may realise that the police are not their friends, just tools of a criminal elite. These are the people who were kneeling in submission to Antifa and BLM, after all. Nobody is going to go around demanding people say Ashli's name.

Whatever the wisdom of the events of 6 January, those who took part should be seen as heroes. They put the fear of God into a vile, evil criminal elite, just by going into the Belly of The Beast, staying within the velvet rope barriers.
Legitimate rejection of the system will intensify.
An archaic trust in "justice" and "democracy" will disappear. Normal people will be saying, "F**k the police." They are an oppressive, corrupt and politicised organisation. This is no longer a 1950s Norman Rockwell world.

Trump bloviated how "I'll be there with you." "We have to fight." "Fight much harder!" "Trial by combat!"
But Trump didn't lead. He went home.
Now he tells them, "You will pay."
They face long sentences, and persecution by a corrupt and politicised judicial system, for putting their faith in him.

zdb , Jan 10, 2021 7:57 PM Reply to mr spam

um
"They put the fear of God into a vile, evil criminal elite, just by going into the Belly of The Beast, staying within the velvet rope barriers."
Are you sure about that?
Agreed that legit rejection will intensify – at least as much as can be done.

When did Trump say
"Trial by combat!"

May Hem , Jan 10, 2021 9:34 PM Reply to zdb

I'd say Trump will be paid off by the billionaire's banker's boy's club (BBBC) for having played his part well. The crisis actors who 'stormed the bastille' will also be paid off (somewhat less than Trump), and released from jail after a short time.

They are all paid actors. Jan 10, 2021 1:59 PM

Surveying the comments below, I see we're having yet another round of that stale old debate as to whether Trump is getting his ass kicked by the swamp, or in fact is part of that swamp he claims to be fighting.

So let me just cut that whole debate short by saying this: it was never about Trump personally. It was always about us as a people. The votes that were stolen on Nov. 3, 2020 were ours , not his. It was a crime against us, not him. That's why this matters. Because a large percentage–probably a majority–of the American voters realize that the democracy is over. It's now either revolution or a 'great reset' trans-humanist dictatorship. It's now either victory or death.

Which option will the people choose? I wish I knew. But that is now the only choice they have left.

Dors , Jan 10, 2021 5:03 PM Reply to Seamus Padraig

It's now either revolution or a 'great reset' trans-humanist dictatorship.

That's what we're telling ourselves now. In a few years' time other paths may be visible: a trans-humanist dictatorship in one state, a revolution in another state, with possibly a war between them, or between now and then.

Joerg , Jan 10, 2021 11:12 AM

Here a little speech of Trump:
https://www.watergate.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Trump-Deep-State.mp4

Rhys Jaggar , Jan 10, 2021 9:32 AM

Here's a thought for the swamp journalists, MSM 'anchors' etc etc.

Given as how you have all stridently demanded the removal of all basic human rights of all humans across the Western World, how about you self-righteous presstitutes have one inalienable human right of 'journalists' removed too, eh?

Make it a criminal offence with 5 yrs in prison to publish a single article at any accredited 'media organisation' without publishing at the bottom a fully audited account of your current salary as an employee, your income from any specific groupings (like energy sector, green lobbies, the EU etc etc etc) over the past 5 years and the value of your house if you own it and the city/town that you live in. Furthermore, you will publish the exact value of your earnings since March 1st 2020.Finally, you will publish where you went on holiday since March 1st 2020, with whom you went and what it cost.

I think it would be very important for the general public to read: 'Oh, all those London-based bedwetters are on well north of one hundred grand a year. None of them saw a decline in salary during lockdown and half the b***ards were swanning off to the Caribbean over Christmas. And well north of half of them own houses worth more than a million quid. Nice ..'

I have zero tolerance for Andrew Marr et al claiming they any longer have any right to personal privacy. They called for lockdown, now they can live with their financial trousers firmly down around their feet ..

Pander Ralph , Jan 10, 2021 10:26 AM Reply to Rhys Jaggar

You totally misunderstand how the neoliberal conscientious works, it is not funded by demons, or a huge conspiracy, these people are not corrupt, they are just complicit. Like you are complicit with many of illusions and lies fed you by the propaganda machine. If you search your own soul you'll find you believe a lot of illusions created for you by the ideology you live in.

finklefacker , Jan 10, 2021 10:30 AM Reply to Rhys Jaggar

Publications by any one for any purpose are not the problem, in fact if the other side does not publish there is nothing to attack and no understanding about the intentions of the other side is made possible.

Publishing is a selection process.. The MSM merely says what the narrative will be and selects for publication, only those writings or art, that fit the narrative.

But can the audience find a weakness in the rule: <=to publish only writings or art that engage the appointed narrative ?

Does the audience have the technology, power, and strength to influence which contents will be published in response to the narrative selection process? IF not, why not, if so, how can that influence be applied? In my opinion the audience needs to gain control over what is published. so to me, the major problem for our society in 2021 is to discover how to use ourselves (the audience) to influence and even control the output from the publishing domain.

LoveEwe , Jan 10, 2021 11:55 AM Reply to Rhys Jaggar

Nice post as usual Rhys but the MSM racket has full 'Mob' protection as long as they keep taking the money. The new revolving door between the BBC and corporations in Britain alone is an indicator of how deeply corrupt they've become.

The BBC are no more than a misinformation racket that the general public have to pay for. Informing people how to rid themselves of the license ransom should be at full steam.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainment-arts-55561667

Moneycircus , Jan 10, 2021 9:04 AM

What goes on in Trump's head is not interesting -- nor is your opinion of the man.

As Willem says, we have no idea what's in Trump's mind, any more than we know of yours, or you of mine. We should abandon this 20th century style of history in which a Hugh Trevor Roper presumes to read Hitler's or Churchill's mind.

Trump's presidency exposed the wurst of the state and all the unspeakable parts that go into making it.

Peter Strzok stroked his stalk in the public's face.

Objectively Trump's presidency was a watershed . Historians and political analysts should seize upon this administration to expose how government really works (they'll claim they knew all along, and then consign the knowledge to the dustbin).

You can hate Trump (which politicians do you love?) but he served a valuable purpose. He showed us how government works in all our countries: the superiority of the bureaucrat, who conspires against the people, for the institution's benefit as the corporations pull the strings.

The key takeaways:

The Epstein scandal and cover up, which briefly exposed how sex trafficking is used to entrap and blackmail politicians. Epstein's collusion with "philanthropists" like Gates to buy scientists and the media. The utter corruption of the judiciary. A president cannot get a hearing, let alone justice. Not even a ruling on something as important as a general election. The evolution of the military industrial complex into the pharma-military-tech-media complex. The power of the biggest industries: warfare, drugs licit and illicit, trafficking and slavery and energy. The rise of the Corporatist State The subversion of sovereignty as Corporations cease paying tax, while demanding the right to set trans-national rules for their own benefit.

He smashed the two party paradigm forever. If you still believe in the party system after witnessing the RINOs kissing Biden's ring what is there to say?

History will probably airbrush the fraudulent election from the picture. We got to witness how the sausage is made, to paraphrase Bismark. I wonder what other history we imbibed with mother's milk that was thus contaminated at source?

Moneycircus , Jan 10, 2021 11:03 AM Reply to Moneycircus

CONTINUED AT: https://moneycircus.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trumps.html

Andre , Jan 10, 2021 11:36 AM Reply to Moneycircus

And he is not finished yet: how does the author know nothing can happen in this time till Jan.20th? Can he reveal Biden as a traitor? Military Tribunals instead of useless civil legal courts who don't dare to start a trial relating to fraudulent elections? Trump also exposed the opportunists who switched sides to save their positions. This author might be part of those who turn critical while pretending to always appreciated what Trump has actually done as is described here above (by "Moneycircus").

Laurence Howell , Jan 10, 2021 11:58 AM Reply to Andre

Insurrection Act.

Seamus Padraig , Jan 10, 2021 12:41 PM Reply to Moneycircus

Exactly, Money. That was the real benefit of the Trump presidency: finally exposing the system–to the satisfaction of tens of millions of Americans–for what it really is. But the swamp is far too powerful for one man (even a president) to stop. The 'storm' is going to have to be us .

mr spam , Jan 10, 2021 2:27 PM Reply to Moneycircus

Very well said.

Dayne , Jan 10, 2021 8:46 PM Reply to Moneycircus

20 years ago, the media was already carefully and systematically inserting him into popular culture like top-rated TV shows – from 'Friends' through 'Sex and the City' to his very own, you're-fired 'Apprentice'. Correct me if I'm wrong – this only happens with individuals who are very, very useful to the hidden elites.

James Robertson , Jan 10, 2021 8:49 AM Reply to Willem

Indeed, the first sentence had me retching. Unbelievable that people still think they can roll out this utter bullshit and people will lap it up. Still, it has worked until now.

Speculating about someone's intentions or sincerity is laughable four years into the leadership of the most powerful nation on earth.

It is perfectly clear that the Trump presidency was a complete non event save for a futile culture war, the circus that masked the fact that nothing of substance changed during this term.

It might as well have been Barack Obama or George W. Bush for all the difference there was on any fundamental issue.

I have never been a fan of this author but with this piece I lost all respect for him. The same goes for everyone who were accessories to conning the rubes for the past four years. I am genuinely stunned that these schmucks think they can keep pumping this bilge out.

Fred Harris , Jan 10, 2021 4:05 PM Reply to Willem

YesWillem, I agree, and he ignores what was the big delemma for Trump. He fell for the White House COVID Task Force lies. No government wants to lose power because they did nothing so he reacted to pressure and precaution not science and fact. That was the begining of his undoing. He was scared of loosing popularity. The tricked him using fear tactics. Similar to Johnsons capitulation.

He also fails to state In October 2019, President Trump signed an an executive order to curb what he called abuses of authority by unaccountable bureaucrats who were "imposing their private agendas" on Americans.

Thom , Jan 10, 2021 8:34 AM

The 'deep state' still needs a state, however. The military-industrial complex still needs to be funded. At the moment, they can rely on the tech stock market bubble but even these corporations are vulnerable, as they are reliant on US military power and influence to enforce around the world what are basically anti-competitive monopolies. As soon as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and the rest are subjected to proper competition, their value will collapse. And at that point, these corporations will have plundered the US economy so that there is nothing else left.

Edwige , Jan 10, 2021 9:38 AM Reply to Thom

True – but this only goes to show why the term "deep state" is a highly unsatisfactory one.

They openly tell us (e.g. through the WEF) that it's a fusion of public and private – and one of the takeaways from the Trump Presidency is that if the two clash the corporations win.

BTW I don't trust him but I thought Jospeh P. Farrell's insight that there seems to be a chain of literal swamps running through the world's main centers of power for many centuries was a good one. Venice, Amsterdam and D.C. were all undoubtedly swamps and the same is arguable about the City of London (which Farrell didn't argue – he took it as a metaphor). Whether this reveals that there is something in the argument about maritime law that some advocate I couldn't say.

Seansaighdeor , Jan 10, 2021 11:15 AM Reply to Edwige

The LaRouche Pac site offers the idea that London is the hub for this 'network' something I have an open mind about.

Certainly from their involvement in the Steele dossier and their role in trying to subvert the presidency it presents some interesting evidence.

[Jan 10, 2021] The Lafayette Park Protests And The Revision Of History by Jonathan Turley,

Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

One of the most unsettling aspects of the last four years is the intentional effort to rewrite history in the media to fit a narrative either by denying facts or echoing clearly false statements.

The recent stories on the riot in Congress is a good example.

Most of us denounced Trump's speech (as it was being given) and, of course, the rioting itself. Some, however, have noted that there have been violent protests for years, including the protest in Lafayette Square. The fact that there have been violent protests by the left does not take away from the disgraceful attack on Congress . Yet, there seems a controlling narrative that must be maintained at all costs -- portraying past protests by groups on the left as peaceful to magnify the criticism of the recent violence in Congress.

Even a site ironically called Media Matters published a piece not only calling the Lafayette protest peaceful but repeating a long discredited claim about the controversial Trump photo op.

I testified in Congress on the Lafayette Park operation and the revisionism surrounding the controversy is alarming.

The Lafayette Park protests occurred over multiple days and the clearing operation was ordered as a result of a decision made before the final day to establish a greater perimeter to protect the White House complex and immediate surrounding area -- much as the same fence perimeter was used last week on Capitol Hill. The operation was carried out, in my view, in an abusive way due to the level of force deployed and, as discussed below, the charging of the police line. They could have cleared the area without that level of force in my judgment, as I discussed in my testimony.

The Media Matters article by Bobby Lewis is illustrative an array of such media pieces. It was sent to my attention by a reader due to a reference to an interview that I did this week:

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"Fox contributor Jonathan Turley compared the Capitol attack to "the Lafayette Park incident," a June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest he falsely described as "an attack on the White House." What actually happened was federal security forces tear-gassed protesters and media, without warning or serious provocation, in order to violently clear a path for a Trump photo-op in front of a church whose leaders did not want him there ."

Other sites have described the Lafayette Park protests as " peaceful. "

One site called Quartz said the protests were " entirely peaceful " and objected that there was no "attack on the White House."

That is simply not true. Quartz was open in how it construed the protest as peaceful by referring to only the final day. While that claim is contested by law enforcement which showed objects being thrown at police , it simply ignores that the order to clear the area was due to the preceding violence of the prior two days.

As discussed in my testimony, there was an exceptionally high number of officers injured during the protests around the White House complex. Some 150 officers were injured during the protests and half of those were injured around the White House . The Justice Department claimed 750 injured officers during the various protests. What is clear that is dozens of officers were injured and there are videotapes of officers hit by frozen bottles, bricks and other missiles . For two days, the violence continued with the burning of a historic structure, extensive property damage and the attempted burning down of the historic St. John's Church. The attacks around the complex were so great that the President was moved into the bunker and officers said that they were concerned that the complex might be breached.

It is also untrue that the area was cleared "in order to violently clear a path for a Trump photo-op." A wide array of witnesses and documents detailed how the plan to clear the area was put into motion over 24 hours before the actual operation -- and long before any discussion of a photo op. The Park Police wanted to expand the perimeter to protect the White House and the plan was approved by then Attorney General Bill Barr. It was delayed because the officers were waiting for both fencing material and back-up personnel. When the personnel and fencing arrived, they proceeded with the operation. Barr repeatedly denied having knowledge of Trump's desire for a photo op which arose long after the plan was approved.

At the hearing, I testified that I believed that there were unlawful actions taken in the operation. The final police charge appeared unjustified as was an attack on a media crew. I also criticized with the level of force used and suggested an array of inquiries for Congress to pursue in these areas of possible illegality.

However, the record and videotapes demonstrate that there was a high level of violence and destruction in Lafayette Park. Indeed, there are analogies to the situation at the Capitol. As with the Capitol, National Guard personnel were brought in after the violence had occurred. Indeed, in Lafayette Park, there was violence for two days before the deployment and the clearing of the area. In both situations, fencing was added to protect an expanded perimeter.

The point is not to defend either law enforcement operation. Indeed, I was highly critical of the clearing of Lafayette Park due to the excessive force used by the Park Police. However, it is simply not true that the Lafayette Park protests were peaceful as demonstrated by the high number of law enforcement injuries and extensive property damage . Even on the day of the clearing of the area, there was some violence. However, when the park was cleared, there was not the violence of the preceding days. That is why the level of force was excessive. The reports of a "peaceful" protest intentionally omits the violence leading up to the plan to expand the perimeter. The clearing of the park was not to address the immediate violence in the park. It was approved earlier to clear the park to protect the complex. Thus, there had been considerable violence and destruction but there was not such violence at the time of the clearing of the park. That is what happened in Lafayette Square.

I fail to see why such facts cannot be recognized and still criticize actions in both operations. Indeed, you can make the valid point that the effort to stop a constitutional act in Congress is a far greater threat to our system. Yet, there is no need to revise the facts to make those points. Indeed, they are more compelling when presented in a frank and honest way. We cannot reach a consensus as a nation if we are demanding answers based on diametrically opposed facts. There is clarity -- and a truth -- to be found in these incidents but it will take people of good faith to reach achieve that vital goal.
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OceanX 3 hours ago

" We don't know what was going on in that laboratory ."

I bet if you 'squeezed' billy gates' and tony fauci's neck you could gain a LOT of insights!

skbull44 3 hours ago

So, where can we find archived copies that everyone can download to prevent total erasure and a reformulation of history?

https://olduvai.ca

Birdbob 2 hours ago

Exactly. Fauci moved gain of function to Wuhan when it was outlawed here...

vril PRO 2 hours ago (Edited)

It was never illegal per se, there was just a moratorium on its funding starting in 2014. Trump re-established it again in 2017.

vril PRO 1 hour ago

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research

What year was the funding moratorium lifted and who was the president that year?

Nemtsov 4 minutes ago

The moratorium went into effect in Oct 2014, meaning that the research had been underway for years prior (and Dr. Fauci would have been directly in the decision chain). What administration came into power in Jan 2009 I wonder. If you want to cast arrows, take it up with the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , which advised on the resumption after review of new protocols. Francis Collins signed off on all this, and this would not have been a line item sign-off that would have crossed the President's desk.

Mr. Rude Dog 2 hours ago remove link

The virus did not destroy our economy, or harm the United States...Simply put - it was our own reaction based on the information provided by our so-called experts.

We destroyed our own economy with bad medical advice, propagated by our own media...We should look at our so called experts and their connections to global government...The traitors are within our own walls..!!

vril PRO 3 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Except we do know what was going on the that lab...

You know who else does? Donny! Of course, globalist zio-pawn he is, Trump isn't willing to indulge us with the truth. He's guarded the NIH-funded GoF research as closely as the Epstein tapes. It's exactly why he's never been able to go after Fauci. Remember during the task force press conferences when he would allude to Obama starting those grants through Fauci?

It was true but the Obama administration put a moratorium on it in 2012 and again in 2014 when the funding pause became indeterminant in consideration of the level of risk the research presented.

However, the ban on that funding was lifted under Trump himself in 2017 when Fauci's NIH: NIAID had lobbied extensively for the ban to be lifted in the interest of "global health preparedness" against things such a pandemic threats. such as after the agency determined it was creating more effective safeguards against the risk of a biologically engineered virus "escaping."

The Trump administration willfully obliged . In the event the administration wasn't complicit why wouldn't their air the grievances against Fauci for not coming up with better safeguards? That alone would be appropriate grounds for termination...


I've already done this rather extensively but make sure to research Charles Lieber's network of labs . Lieber was given assimilation into the Harvard network, grants from the university , NIH and DoD , etc. Lieber was only one of at least 54 other scientists to receive grants despite their ties to foreign governments. Lieber himself was employed by the Wuhan Institute of Technology to the tune of about 50k a month. This came to light following his arrest when CCP spies who worked for several of his labs were arrested for attempting to smuggle biologically active material back to China via passenger airlines.

Many of Lieber's grants from the NIH were explicitly to set up a campus for his biological research in China at the Wuhan Institute of Technology. While most investigative research into the origins of the COVID-19 virus center around the Wuhan Institute of Virology, understanding the network of research labs it was a part of is key to examining the origins of the lab-made virus. Lieber creating the That was how those Chinese spies part of the Thousand Talents Program he employed were given student visas so easily.

The application of Lieber's research goes well beyond the ******** viral science. That was the basis by which his biological nanotechnology, like the nanolipids used to transport mRNA in these Covid-19 vaccines...

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[Jan 10, 2021] The Congress Has No Clothes: The "people," whom they love to claim they represent, went from being an ideological abstraction to an angry mob after they felt cheated and decided to take matters into their own hands by John Morgan

Notable quotes:
"... What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most were pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille! ..."
"... This is all pretty mild stuff. Useful to see that Washington is not so different to Kiev. With the Biden presidency you can certainly add the USA to the list of countries ruled by governments put in place by colour revolutions ..."
"... The images that arise from this event will remain iconic. It possibly was a shaperoned event, but the plan, that anger would be wide-spread and destruction abundant did not materialize. This is evident in the bizarre, concocted, pre-written M5M media reports. It was a trap, but it backfired. ..."
"... The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility. ..."
"... someone interfered with the proper deployment of officers around Congress ..."
"... I was surprised but pleased to see Americans demonstrating their contempt for the hostile elite government we live under. Assault against Democracy? BS. ..."
"... But nobody should delude themselves into thinking that Donald Trump is a patriot who will die for the cause. Hell, he already threw the people risking their lives and liberty protesting the fraudulent election under the bus. It is long past time the whores in Washington become acutely aware of the contempt sane Americans have for them. I do not support violent protests, but I do support a mass demonstration of people expressing their total and absolute contempt for the traitorous whores who rule over us. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.unz.com

But for me, I was no less happy to see the Republicans on the run. After all, it is they who have been stoking the anger and resentment of populist Americans, secure in their belief that they had conjured a monster they completely controlled and that they could endlessly exploit for their own purposes no matter what they did. Well, that monster turned around and bit them on their fleeing asses on Wednesday. The "people," whom they love to claim they represent, went from being an ideological abstraction to an angry mob after they felt cheated and decided to take matters into their own hands. It's important to remember that, according to reports , what first inspired the protesters to descend on the Capitol was when word reached them that Pence had refused to challenge the certification of the Electoral College result. They weren't just angry at the Democrats; they were angry at the whole lot of them.

... For me, the Capitol occupation was a spontaneous and dramatic expression of the white working class' frustration with the Washington establishment and an indication that they won't tolerate a return to business as usual. The Democrats -- and more than a few Republicans -- blocked and worked against Trump's agenda from the day he took office. Stealing the election was merely the final prong in their assault on him and on the wishes of ordinary Americans. If Washington doesn't begin to take populist demands seriously, violence is inevitable.

... This means they have to stop attributing the fact that working-class whites aren't on board with their agenda to the influence of scapegoats like Trump or conspiracy theories and instead finally recognize that our nation's yeomanry have legitimate grievances that won't go away just because Trump does.

For its part, the American Left, which now has Biden as its figurehead, really has no moral authority whatsoever to condemn the Capitol occupation given that they've been bending over backward to excuse the violence of BLM and Antifa for years now. Remember "punch a Nazi"?

Not that these are in any way comparable to what happened in the Capitol; BLM and Antifa violence has resulted in dozens of deaths , rapes, other violence, and untold billions in property damage across the United States. The Capitol protesters, by contrast, were mostly peaceful and caused very little serious damage (if there had been extensive damage it seems unlikely the House would have been able to reconvene so quickly). Most importantly, they were not attacking innocent bystanders' private property. There also doesn't seem to have been much looting apart from a few items taken as pranks; compare this to the scenes we witnessed from Minneapolis last spring , when we saw black rioters stripping entire shopping centers down to their frames.

The Left, of course, will never accept this logic; for them, the occupation was the next Charlottesville, if not the next 9/11 -- but we have to never cease from reminding them of their hypocrisy. In looking at the photos of politicians scurrying for cover as the protesters began to break into the House chamber, I was reminded of the mockery that Trump took from Democratic politicians back in May when word got out that he had been briefly sent to the emergency bunker beneath the White House after it had been besieged by BLM rioters . There's also a delicious irony in the fact that some of the politicians who have been calling for police departments to be defunded were hiding behind these very same police when their constituents came calling.

On Wednesday, the world heard the voice of American populism. It wasn't Trump's voice; it was that of the American people. And perhaps, just perhaps, the people are beginning to rule. This isn't about Trump anymore -- it didn't start with Trump and it certainly won't end with him. As for myself, all I can say is that, for the first time in a while, on that day I actually felt proud to be an American.


Roacheforque , says: Website January 8, 2021 at 11:27 pm GMT • 1.1 days ago

Mostly some good and correct points in this article. Yes, Antifa was there, and Capital police expected them. Yes, Washington's corrupt Capital police also did welcome surprised Trump supporters into the building and even to the area where Ashli was assassinated. How do you think there were no less than 5 videos of the murder from 4 angles? Trump supporters were flabbergasted, nonviolent and wondering for the most part how they got so far.

But the END RESULT was a bizarre attempt to REMOVE TRUMP IMMEDIATELY – by any means (25th or impeach – neither will succeed). Do you really think that end result is the product of chance or circumstance? Do you really think Pelosi is foaming at the teeth because she truly believes Trump is ready to enter the launch codes (give me a break)?

In point of fact, because the civilized legal process has been completely exhausted, we now reach the military option, as in executive order on foreign interference in US elections. This means, in the end, a military tribunal convened to prosecute treason. This is the reason certain conspirators are soiling their Depends undergarments.

But how it will end when you have the global banking interests of "the Guardians" as a foe, with their 10 trillion in play? This is a 5th generation world war unlike any before it. Humanity is at stake.

https://roacheforque.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-cards-will-be-shown.html

anonymous [342] Disclaimer , says: January 8, 2021 at 11:51 pm GMT • 1.1 days ago

Congress hasn't had any clothes for years. It was difficult to imagine anything that could make Americans despise congress more. But look at this.

(You need Tor Browser Bundle to see it, and if you don't have it, Why the fuck not?)

Physically cowering in fear of the people they've fucked for all these years.

This is the single most compelling evidence for CIA LIHOP. This quirky peasant uprising and its public happiness scared congress much more than CIA's anthrax attacks. Now congress will do what they're told, take their AIPAC bribes and hide behind high walls.

It's the USA [neoliberlaism] that has no clothes...

Priss Factor , says: Website January 9, 2021 at 5:09 am GMT • 21.0 hours ago

Congress has no clothes because it's the best little whorehouse in America.

By the way, Twitter banning Trump is a great thing. Mass purge is actually better for us.

The problem with limited purges was that most cons and patriots still stuck with Big Tech because there was still enough freedom and conservative material available. But when Big Tech goes whole hog and censors so many people, it will force a Techession(tech-secession or techxodus) among millions and millions of people, and this will make Alt Tech far more viable. Indeed, Alt Tech can turn into counter-tech and the Big Other Tech.

People who were too lazy to get off their butts and join Alt Tech will now have no choice.

Big Tech could maintain monopoly as long as they just banned people like Alex Jones. But when they ban the president and so many of his followers, they are forcing the creation of the Big Other Tech, and that will end the monopoly.

Anonymous [263] Disclaimer , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:31 am GMT • 20.6 hours ago

The people's anger is real. Trump is a false prophet. He's nothing but a Jew loving blowhard, a con man with a below average IQ. He campaigned on draining the swamp but staffed his entire cabinet with nothing but swamp creatures, because he *is* the swamp. He's just been cast aside because the puppet masters have found an even more corrupt puppet that they can extort. The patriots who have been protesting the election deserve someone better, a real deal like Kris Kobach.

This election exposes just how corrupt this country has become, from top to bottom, not just the Executive branch and the legislative branch, but even the judiciary branch is now completely corrupt from the very top, the Chief Justice of SCOTUS. Jews now have firm control on every institution of import in this country, from Wall Street to Hollywood, DC to SV and everywhere in between, media, academia, publishing industry, healthcare, everything. Patriots now have our backs against the Wall. There's no place else to turn to. We either fight our way out or die.

The Roman empire lasted 1,000 years, from 500BC to 500AD. In the first half, Rome was ruled by elected emperors, and in the second half, by unelected emperors. Rome ruled for 500 years, peaked for 200, and fell for 300 years. It was a long, slow death. America was on the ascendance for 300 years, peaked for 50 years (1945-1995), and has been on a decline the last 25 years. The next 75 will be a long, slow, increasingly painful death as we eventually get swallowed whole by huns and visigoths.

Garliv , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:37 am GMT • 20.5 hours ago

"But the END RESULT was a bizarre attempt to REMOVE TRUMP IMMEDIATELY – by any means (25th or impeach – neither will succeed). Do you really think that end result is the product of chance or circumstance? Do you really think Pelosi is foaming at the teeth because she truly believes Trump is ready to enter the launch codes (give me a break)?"

Strange they are unable to wait for less than two weeks for inauguration. These people are truly evil. It's like what did Trump ever do to them that is so personal?

Dan Hayes , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:44 am GMT • 20.4 hours ago

What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most were pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille!

Majority of One , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:50 am GMT • 20.3 hours ago

Were I an investor I'd be buying up stocks in private security firms. Just today I viewed a video of that hideous old quean, Lindsay Graham plodding and plunging through an airport passageway on the way (presumably) to his home in South Carolina. All the way he was being harassed, shouted at and called a "traitor" for his RINO collusion in the takedown of the Trumpster.

Then there is the case of Mike Pence. After his refusal to call the question on the Constitutional approach to denying any confirmation of electors from either party, making way for either a compromise (as was reached in a similar kerfuffle in the 1876 showdown between Democrat Samuel Tilden and Republican Rutherfraud Hayes) or to call for new elections in the challenged and conflicted swing states; Pence has been broadly excoriated as a traitor who weaseled his way out of supporting the president's back-up plan.

Next, we fast-forward to those photos of Congressional prostiticians cowering behind their seats as the "deplorables" streamed into the sacred chambers of the people's house. A lot of guilty consciences in that zoo. They well know they either sold out for hefty campaign contributions and money under the table or are being blackmailed through the workings of Epstein, Maxwell and Wexner on behalf I$rael's Mo$$ad or maybe a dozen other intel agencies, most specifically Britain's MI-6 and the shot-callers (think 11-22-63 in Dallas) who rule through other deep state organs, the CIA.

Private security agencies will be getting a.lot of calls from terrified prostiticians and many others who have been working for the enemies of WE THE PEOPLE. Consider those talking heads on boobtoob noose who are paid handsomely for constant repetition of a false reality paradigm which has entrapped all those suburban soccer moms who were mind-controlled into voting for the Kamala's Foote/Biden ticket. Awakeners by the millions have been curing themselves of the boobtoob noose habit. Do you think the teevee presenters are sleeping peacefully these days and soon about to enjoy high times at fancy resorts and pricey restaurants?

How about professors and other academics who get the call to appear as talking-heads on PB$ and spread erudite sounding barf and garbage as fast as they spread their legs for all those shekels and the public recognition?

Are gated communities with patrolling guards and cameras galore, places where powerful movers and shakers tend to live will those havens (or those high-rise apartment suites surrounding Central Park -- or placid neighborhoods in Georgetown or Bel-Air–) likely to feel safe from now on?

Private Security services. That's where I'd invest. The "Deplorables" are pissed off at the stolen election and even more so at the political duopoly constituting government of the prostiticians, by the deep $tate bureaucratic Administrators and for the plutocratic oligarchs.

As of January 6th, 2021 the status of our country devolved into a totally ruptured republic. Democracy? Fuggidaboutit.

Twodees Partain , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:51 am GMT • 20.3 hours ago

An Open Letter to Politicians:

https://ussanews.com/News1/an-open-letter-to-every-damned-american-politician-on-the-election-corruption-all-of-it/

globalist deepstate , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:07 am GMT • 20.0 hours ago

About 95% of the US media, and about 70% of US politicians are corrupt deep-state globalists (which makes them implicitly treasonous). The source of their deep-state globalist power is central banking, usury, and enslaving us goyim with debt and "the love of money". The last president who was not a treasonous globalist was Reagan (although most of his cabinet were globalists including VP Bush). President Trump has been constantly under attack by this deep-state globalist cult because he is not an obedient member of their club and has been irreverently exposing their hand.

Nothing will change: the US and the rest of the western civilization will eventually succumb to this cancerous globalist corruption unless the cancer is removed. This is not about politics: it's about removing the cancerous corruption before the cancer destroys its host.

Thank God President Trump has exposed their hand and has got the ball rolling. Now it is up to us: to step up and continue the populist movement that he started.

Dick French , says: January 9, 2021 at 7:01 am GMT • 19.1 hours ago

Beautiful take.

This truly is the end of the Banana Empire. I say "God bless Trump" only because he set into motion the end of this tyranny; like Kerensky he was largely clueless as to the extent of the rot.

This is the beginning of the end. Best case scenario the United States returns to democracy.

Exiled off mainstreet , says: January 9, 2021 at 7:21 am GMT • 18.8 hours ago

No matter what the cause, there was evidence of agents provocateurs present who inflamed the violence, and the reaction, calling those who opposed the regime candidate "terrorists" is going to lead to more serious unrest, particularly if as appears likely, kangaroo courts begin rounding up people for trial. The thing is, close to a majority already suspect that the fix was in in November, and the fact the same methods of fraud were successfully employed in Georgia's senate races inflamed the anger. Proof of agents provocateurs is abundant. Even the guy dressed up in a viking suit whose photograph is run with the article apparently was an antifa figure.

Since the regime's coordinated reaction is attempting to turn this into a sort of Reichstag fire to eliminate opposition to a consolidated deep state fascist regime, we are in for turbulent times. I suspect the tacticians, despite what the author says, actually are hoping for a serious response before the opposition can effectively organize, and the regime operatives are too arrogant to care about the economic consequences, and the likelihood that the numerous vassal states may use the instability as a means of securing a greater degree of independence from the yankee imperium.

Leander Starr , says: January 9, 2021 at 9:05 am GMT • 17.0 hours ago

This is all pretty mild stuff. Useful to see that Washington is not so different to Kiev. With the Biden presidency you can certainly add the USA to the list of countries ruled by governments put in place by colour revolutions

The best way for Trumps place in history to be magnified and consolidated would be for them to imprison him and take away all of his assets (he'd become like a mini Jesus), though I am guessing this is the only reason he has not been assassinated, yet.

hip, hip, hooray (x3) for the alleged rioters

9nope9 , says: January 9, 2021 at 9:19 am GMT • 16.8 hours ago

The images that arise from this event will remain iconic. It possibly was a shaperoned event, but the plan, that anger would be wide-spread and destruction abundant did not materialize. This is evident in the bizarre, concocted, pre-written M5M media reports. It was a trap, but it backfired. I for one likely would have ransacked the place. I must admit I am impressed with their disinterest in marauding. It was an important event, cherish its iconic imagery, for darkness, subversion and false flags will take our guns away and reduce the flame of patriotism to pilot size soon.

Anonymous [661] Disclaimer , says: January 9, 2021 at 10:49 am GMT • 15.3 hours ago

I've seen at least two videos of the Capitol police opening steel fences at one point and doors at another point only two stand aside and calmly allow protesters to pour in. Looked more like an invitation than an invasion. Obviously they had orders to stand back at those points.

What a wonderful moment to see all the Congressional rabble hitting the decks.

Next time the protesters should bring a guillotine!

Ugetit , says: January 9, 2021 at 10:55 am GMT • 15.2 hours ago

if anything dramatic would happen

Key word, there, "dramatic." And it apparently makes no difference how corny it is (goofball with the horns and even Trump himself) or how idiotic, (the masked moron response to COVID and installing senile Joe on the throne).

Drama is a force that gives empty heads meaning, or at least a bit of entertainment while our owners mock and manipulate us at their adolescent pleasure.

Enjoy the carnival and carry on.

GMC , says: January 9, 2021 at 11:28 am GMT • 14.6 hours ago

I would have enjoyed it more – had 2 million armed Iraqis, Afghanis, Syrians, Libyans, Yemenis, Ukrainians, and others , that have had their countries wasted by the USA , storm the Capital and get even with those that voted and supported those murderous invasions.

Lee , says: January 9, 2021 at 11:57 am GMT • 14.2 hours ago
@Craig Nelsen

CN said:

If he's out in 11 days anyway, why the push to impeach? Pure spite?

It has been suggested that if the Dems could get DT impeached before his time is up then they could attach legislation to his verdict stating that he could never run for any office again.

Some on the Left are terrified that he will come back in 2024 and the same 75M Maga people will be waiting to sweep him back in office.

IMO in 2024 KH as Prez is a sure thing -- -people will be shamed into voting for her to avoid being called a racist AND a sexist.

St-Germain , says: January 9, 2021 at 11:58 am GMT • 14.1 hours ago

Realizing that not only his political but also his personal future might be in jeopardy, Trump was quick to concede the election and promise a peaceful transition of power -- showing that when things get tough, it's his own hide that he's thinking of.

"Trump was quick to concede the election" -- That's the part I somehow missed hearing over here in central Europe, perhaps because not all the relevant news is reported here. Would the author quote the words the president used to do that?

Conceding the election, as I understand it, is something he could have done any time since Nov. 3, making our shadow government very happy. Since mainstream media spent the next two months loudly demanding that he "concede the election", they must also have missed those magic words.

Conceding the election not only acknowledges a valid election was held but also makes monkeys out of the skeptical people who voted for Trump and answered his call to rally in Washington Jan. 6. Are you saying that?

Or does conceding a U.S. election now equate to saying the election was rigged and it looks like not a damned thing we can do about it?

cranc , says: January 9, 2021 at 12:54 pm GMT • 13.2 hours ago
@Dan Hayes te>

A fitting end to the Trump movement, seeing as there was never anything in terms of a structure to organise the political base except for a ludicrous conspiracy prank (i.e. 'Qanon'). The whole thing has been a diversionary venture to corral dissent and neutralise it. It might 'feel good to see patriots in the Capitol Building' but -shorn of any genuine movement, all that really amounts to is .well feelings .
Real populism looks quite different surely, and so do real insurrections. There was no 'invasion', the security was stepped down and they opened the doors for the crowd to walk in. A spectacle to advance an agenda.

Moi , says: January 9, 2021 at 12:58 pm GMT • 13.1 hours ago
@Roacheforque

Trump bans Muslims–no problem
Trump hands over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to Israel–no problem
Trump murders Gen. Soleimani–no problem

Trump goads on his useful idiots to take over the Capitol–impeach the bastard

PS: the US is effed, no matter who's in charge.
PS: it's now China's turn to be #1, and lead a more peaceful world.

The Alarmist , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:00 pm GMT • 13.1 hours ago

I must admit as an American abroad that I felt a little Schadenfreude -- having watched the left burn America through the summer, it was about time the populists got a crack at it -- but I had this nagging feeling this would end very unpleasantly for all; there's an old adage that if you take a shot at the crown, you'd better not miss. That feeling was confirmed as CNN started trumpeting this as being an insurrection, which was picked up by the politicos in short order. It's hard to dismiss out of hand that this was a false flag because the leftists almost immediately had the language and narrative and an action plan in hand to finally put the populist genie back in the bottle. Then again, maybe they're just quick on their feet.

If this was planned, as some above suggest, then I'm really disappointed at the lack of thought given to this. Taking the Capitol was never going to seriously result in a change of government in a country that has been practising Continuity of Government exercises for three-quarters of a century, and at best would only be a symbolic protest. Having taken the Capitol, this was never going to end well for those participating in the frolic, as we will see in the coming weeks as more average Joes and Janes are dragged into court (do you think Buffalo-boy will stand in the dock?). So why not make the best of what was going to be a shit sandwich anyway?

Instead of walking through the halls of the Capitol, taking selfies, and then going home when "asked" to leave, they should have taken a page out of Occupy Wall Street and settled in for the long hall. The left would have shown up with pre-printed signs, some of which would have looked amateurish enough to seem authentic. Where were these guys' signs?

They should have filled every seat in "the Peoples' House" with real people holding signs saying "We are the People" with a few thousand more people sitting peacefully in all the corridors and steps and waiting passively for the the police or military to carry them away. That would have taken days, if not weeks, and would have put a serious damper on the inevitable inauguration.

Truly a missed opportunity.

elmerfudzie , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:01 pm GMT • 13.1 hours ago

Politicians and their fellow bureaucrats have opened the door to the real barbarians; corporate fascism, influence of special interest lobbies in Congress, foreign entanglements (Israel) , endless war, unaccountable government within the ever expanding sixteen Intelligence Agencies, secrecy in place of democracy, the authority to print currency handed over to oligarchs at the Federal Reserve Board, who are, in reality a collection of banksters and financiers- not an agency of the federal government as the organizations' name would have all of us believe.

If there ever was a time for revolution and dissolution of a thoroughly corrupted government (for every western Occident country) the time is now.

The corporate-fascist infection began under Ford the stumbler, he opened the door to The NeoCons followed by Reagan the Union buster who did everything he could to dismantle FDR's social democracy programs such as the CCC (infrastructure support), the social security safety net. Reagan had a close association with the barbarism of Thatcher, she had a set of horns much larger than that, so called "insurrectionist" buffoon who's face was plastered all over newsprint today. Chavez was correct and I add, that a waft of sulfurous odor behind Thatcher was shared by both Bushes. Strategies dedicated to endless war, endless predation(s) for dwindling resources rather than embracing a philosophy that nourishes support for human ingenuity and mutual trust between nations. Instead, adopting long range and global domination plans outlined by Admiral Cebrowski and his assistant, Thomas P. M. Barnett, who announced a new map of our world-according to the Pentagon that is. Visit Dr Henry Gaffney Jr of the CNA Corporation.

ASIDE: This is what happens when an entire people allowed a post World War II dream to die. The Kennedy Brothers dream of a new demilitarized era, and Western European style Marshal Plan for third world countries who desired to attach themselves to the tail of our kite (voluntarily) -Rest in peace John and Robert, I'll never let their guilt, control freakishness or rapacity to go free !

Rusting bridges, potholed autobahns, with an emphasis on who owns them, not when maintenance or repairs will be forthcoming-by extortion no doubt. Gaunt, vitamin deficient citizenry, homelessness, epidemic drug addictions, who needs "society" haven't you heard? Thatcher said there's no such thing as society!

Verymuchalive , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:04 pm GMT • 13.0 hours ago

Thus it seems improbable to me that the Deep State was willing to sacrifice the sense of American invulnerability it projects across the globe simply in order to discredit the populist movement when there are many other, less self-harming methods it could use instead.

America's aura of invulnerability has been gone since September 11th 2001. Civil airliners flown by a ragtag crew of "Islamists", if you believe the official story, smashed into the WTC and the Pentagon. No fighter aircraft made any attempts to intercept them: they were completely unhindered in their actions. The Deep State were willing to let thousands of civilians die in order to achieve its own purposes.
Letting a couple of hundred people occupy the Capitol building for a short period of time seems very minor in comparison.

Robert Dolan , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:33 pm GMT • 12.6 hours ago

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/01/08/i-was-at-the-washington-d-c-save-america-rally/

KMAC shares some observations on the rally.

As to the aftermath, I always ask, "Who benefits?"

theMann , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:35 pm GMT • 12.5 hours ago

Surely one of the first rules of the exercise of Power is to scrupulously avoid demonstrating that you are a low grade coward. Now that the entire US Congress has been videoed cowering in craven fear before an unarmed crowd, whose only "crime" is to seek redress for a stolen election, there are going to be serious consequences.

How many foreign agents, and foreign powers, are now coming to the realization "hey, these guys are bunch of pussies?" How many criminal organizations, in the USA or abroad, formerly operating with some restraint, will now be freed from any restraint? And how many citizens of the Republic, formerly circumspect to the Public Offices in our country, will now proceed to operate with complete contempt of sniveling cowards in Public Office who seek to rule us?

The absolute lowest level of Degeneracy demonstrated by the Political Class is not in their systematic sexual degeneracy, nor their relentless and despicable Negroaltry, nor their thievery of anything they can steal, nor their relentless, pervasive, and relentless dishonesty even when they would be much better served by the truth, but precisely in their pervasive fear of everything Decent, including decent Americans.

So here we are, in the land of the Zoo Monkey Shit-eaters, faced with the only choice that will ever have any real meaning for the rest of our lives:

Bravery, or Cowardice?

Realist , says: January 9, 2021 at 2:14 pm GMT • 11.9 hours ago
@mocissepvis

ANTIFA and BLM are cowards. Why would patriots want to "learn" anything from them? Why would they want any comparison to them at all?

Antifa and BLM are not in prison patriots are that's the reason.

Ugetit , says: January 9, 2021 at 2:50 pm GMT • 11.3 hours ago
@Dan Hayes

What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most were pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille!

True.

Just another PR stunt that benefits nobody except the globalists.

Davidoff , says: January 9, 2021 at 2:53 pm GMT • 11.2 hours ago

The US have no clothes After decades and decades of warmongering & murdering innocent people around the globe in the name of "democracy" (what a hypocritical sick joke!!!) to steal and loot other nation's territories and resources now the true face of the USA is visible to All: the face of a horrendous tyrannical evil monster serving not the american people but the interests of a few billionnaires, master puppeteers in the dark. We knew it all along: u are not a democracy and you are not an example to anyone.

All the contrary, you are an example of what not to be or what not to become.

You are and always have been a kleptocracy or something worse.

(wikypedia: Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία -kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule") is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to appropriate the wealth of their nation, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population.)

_dude , says: January 9, 2021 at 4:45 pm GMT • 9.4 hours ago
@globalist deepstate

About 95% of the US media, and about 70% of US politicians are corrupt deep-state globalists

I think you're being very generous.

BannedHipster , says: Website January 9, 2021 at 5:05 pm GMT • 9.0 hours ago

I didn't vote for Trump and I never supported him.

But I loved seeing the Congress hiding under their seats in fear of Americans storming the gates. It was beautiful.

http://bannedhipster.home.blog/2021/01/09/trump-maga-post-mortem/

Johnny Walker Read , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:10 pm GMT • 8.9 hours ago

One of the few among us who still is in possession of a functioning brain..

What should we expect in 2021?

So far, it looks like this year is going to be plagued by more of the same brand of madness, mayhem, manipulation and tyranny that dominated 2020.

Frankly, I'm sick of it: the hypocrisy, the double standards, the delusional belief by Americans at every point along the political spectrum that politics and politicians are the answer to what ails the country, when for most of our nation's history, politics and politicians have been the cause of our woes.

Consider: for years now, Americans, with sheeplike placidity, have tolerated all manner of injustices and abuses meted out upon them by the government (police shootings of unarmed individuals, brutality, corruption, graft, outright theft, occupations and invasions of their homes by militarized police, roadside strip searches, profit-driven incarcerations, profit-driven wars, egregious surveillance, taxation without any real representation, a nanny state that dictates every aspect of their lives, lockdowns, overcriminalization, etc.) without ever saying "enough is enough."

https://www.technocracy.news/technocrats-have-turned-america-into-ship-of-fools/

ChuckOrloski , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:12 pm GMT • 7.9 hours ago
@Mr. X.

The Zionist establishment vets & selects US presidential candidates...

Jus' Sayin'... , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:22 pm GMT • 7.7 hours ago
@Realist black shirt thugs never went to prison. Antifa/blm are the shock troops for elitists like George Soros, who are seeking to impose a new order, a global, neo-feudal system run solely by them and solely for their benefit.

Antifa/blm are part of the machinery for achieving this neo-feudal vision, as are the USA's Democrat-Republican establishment, DSMIC, and MSM. They will be dealt with when the new order is achieved, just as Hitler dealt with the SA when they had served their purpose. All populists, especially Trump supporters are an immediate threat to our would-be feudal masters. Their eradication is a compelling necessity. There will be no mercy.

anon [157] Disclaimer , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:24 pm GMT • 7.7 hours ago

The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility.

someone interfered with the proper deployment of officers around Congress

It is routine for the Capitol Police to coordinate with the federal Secret Service and the Park Police and local police in Washington, DC, before large demonstrations. The National Guard, commanded by the Department of Defense, is often on standby too.
On Wednesday, however, that coordination was late or absent.

The National Guard, which was deployed heavily to quell the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, did not show up to assist the police until two hours after the action started on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attempted-coup-federal-law-enforcement-capitol-police-2021-1

This is coordinated among different levels . ( think of 911 and lack of responses preparedness and abuses of the drill )

Trump is a psycho who has convinced the low IQ white of him being a savior facing off deep state which is against the poor white and which doesn't want Trump get elected . So the election must be stolen .

And what's not good about fighting a thief or stealing ?

Zarathustra , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:46 pm GMT • 7.3 hours ago
@Goddard

This article has even more clarity. (Some kind of writer called Nebojsa)
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511963-american-empire-capitol-resistance/

lavoisier , says: Website January 9, 2021 at 6:55 pm GMT • 7.2 hours ago

Excellent essay.

I was surprised but pleased to see Americans demonstrating their contempt for the hostile elite government we live under. Assault against Democracy? BS. Perhaps there is some fight left in the American people?

But nobody should delude themselves into thinking that Donald Trump is a patriot who will die for the cause. Hell, he already threw the people risking their lives and liberty protesting the fraudulent election under the bus. It is long past time the whores in Washington become acutely aware of the contempt sane Americans have for them. I do not support violent protests, but I do support a mass demonstration of people expressing their total and absolute contempt for the traitorous whores who rule over us.

Kolya Krassotkin , says: January 9, 2021 at 8:14 pm GMT • 5.9 hours ago
@follyofwar

Pelosi, Schumer et al. want to pretend this was the burning of the Reichstag, so they can take "appropriate" measures. They want to act with haste.

Pelosi and Schumer fear that people will realize, after looking at how for years Obama and the left stoked racial hatred, which resulted in riots, murder and arson causing billions in damage, this is, by comparison, a nothing-burger. Thus, haste is the order of the day.

Robert Dolan , says: January 9, 2021 at 9:13 pm GMT • 6.2 hours ago

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/flashback-storming-us-capitol-ok-2018-democrats-communists/

[Jan 10, 2021] Trump's Last Stand, by Israel Shamir

Highly recommended!
Trump run his election complain of 2016 as champion of common Americans. After he won the office the betrayed them all and governed like Bush III with his own cabal of neocons and neoliberals. \
He betrayed his followed again on Dec 6, when he first incited them for the action but did not provide organization, security and the plan needed to press Congress to appoint the commission for investigation of election "irregularities" for then days before Biden inauguration. He is now completely spent politically and his enemies and first of all, Ms Pelosi, are after him. Moreover he gave a shot in the arm for the gang of Russiagaters who were pursuing him since his inauguration.
The fact that Trump leaves the political scene is good. While useful as a wrecking ball for the neoliberal empire and neoliberal establishment he proved to be completely inept as a politician and lack courage necessary for the national leader. Which he proved again on Dec 6. Famous quote from Friedrich Schiller's play Fiesco "The Moor has done his duty. The Moor can go." is probably applicable. What is interesting is that Zionists betrayed Trump.
But the fact hat he will be replaced by neocon warmonger and staunch neoliberal Biden means that there is no light at the and of tunnel for the common people.
Like Trump, Biden was never Presidential material. He a a mediocre politician, by all accounts. And extremely corrupt in addition to that.
Notable quotes:
"... Donald Trump denounced the people whom he personally called to protest. His close political allies withdrew their support. ..."
"... The deck was stacked against President Trump from Day One. His orders were ignored. The US courts, judges, police, the whole system of law enforcement was against him; his orders were blocked or overturned, while the media made fun of him and the opposition relentlessly delegitimised him. ..."
"... On January 6, a massive demonstration in his support gathered in Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands Americans came to the capital to demand justice after the election fraud became obvious. They hoped that the Republican representatives would refuse to certify the fraud and appoint a commission to check and recount the votes. ..."
"... The horror and outrage of the Dem politicians and media were as faked as their news. During last year, many government buildings were taken over by Dem-sponsored BLM activists, and in not one case did the police use lethal weapons or even rush the protesters out of buildings. ..."
"... For them, it was an honest and funny way to express their indignation. But the real gambit plotters intended to frame them. They even murdered four protesters hoping they would respond with violence, but in vain. ..."
"... White American protesters are exceptionally non-violent lot; as with Occupy Wall Street a few years back the January 6 Capitol protesters were timid and obedient as lambs. For this reason, BLM was invented, for Blacks are able to riot violently, as opposed to well-trained whites. It is not a race thing: lily-white French Yellow Vests and Ukrainian nationalists have fought the police all right. But US whites are not prone to riot, not since the Civil War. ..."
"... Anyway, their non-violence didn't help them. The president-elect Biden begrudged them even the name of protesters: "Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists." Indeed, the name should be preserved for Deep State-authorised looters and their brethren all over the world, whether in Hong Kong or Minsk, in Seattle or Portland. ..."
"... researchers will argue whether duplicitous Biden's minions organised it or just capitalised on the Trumpers' sincere protest. ..."
"... There is no doubt that to an objective observer the 2020 elections were profoundly unfair. I won't trouble you with too many published details about the statistically impossible results, but here is one example of fraud. The city of Detroit gave 95 per cent of its vote to Biden/Kamala, a number that Mr Kim Jong-un would view with slight envy, while Mr Lukashenko would murmur, "How can it be done?" It is highly likely this mind-boggling result was achieved in the following way. ..."
"... The problem is, Trump was a poor organiser. He could win elections, if he could prevent Cynthia Stephens's kind of legislation, outlaw postal ballots, enforce obligatory IDs for voting, mobilise his people for election control. A formidable task, but not impossible, while dealing with a prone-to-cheat adversary. He could even do a revolution on January 6, tasking the right people to act, forming a revolutionary HQ, planning a strategy of takeover, but he didn't do anything of the sort. He probably thought Congress would see the vast crowds and allow for the checking of election results. ..."
"... Alternatively, he was so naïve that he believed revolutions just happen by themselves, as in the movies. They do not. Behind every successful revolution, there is a lot of planning, armed force, weapons ready for use, supply lines, logistics, media support, and communications. Trump had none of that. It was enough to turn off Twitter to make him deaf and dumb. ..."
"... There was no coup attempt, as correctly stated by Tyler Durden : "Trump has never had the concentration, organizational acumen, or ideological coherence to mount a bona fide "coup," and a mob intrusion which was swiftly dispersed by armed agents of the state doesn't change that. ..."
"... Many Trumpists believed in the QAnon and Kayfabe conspiracies; they posted reports of bad guys being arrested, of servers snatched by the FBI, of Clinton and Biden waiting for rough justice behind bars. This belief disarmed people who would otherwise have fought to achieve this very result. That is the problem with conspiracies: imaginary conspiracies prevent real action. ..."
"... He succeeded against enormous odds in improving the lot of American workers: for the first time since the 1970s, their incomes rose in relation to the other classes. He stopped mass migration to the US: legal immigration went down to a trickle. He avoided new wars; he tried to make peace with Russia. He refused to bomb Iran even in the last days of his presidency, though some pro-Israel supporters promised him a second term if he would. ..."
"... His fight against the corona madness was his great achievement. He was against the lockdowns that are about to destroy our world so completely that few things will survive. The last great US ruler who didn't wear the cowardly mask will be remembered. He could not defeat the mighty medical complex, or FAGMA, or the Masters of Discourse, but he tried. ..."
"... Israel Shamir can be reached at ..."
"... The Unz Review ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.unz.com

President Trump was decisively beaten, if not fair and square. The hopes of millions of American voters were squashed and extinguished. The saga of the Orange Man is over. The victors used a gambit: they sacrificed the sanctity and security of the Capitol, allowed intruders in, permitted them to take selfies in the Speaker's office, and then faked horror and outrage. The attempted calls for electoral transparency were deflated in real time as huge crowds were dispersed, electors were confirmed, and the ascendancy of Biden was assured, while Trump followers were branded 'domestic terrorists'.

Donald Trump denounced the people whom he personally called to protest. His close political allies withdrew their support. Within hours, or even minutes, this ruler of the world admired by millions became a non-person. Like a boy who posted an obscenity, he was banned by Twitter and Facebook. Time will tell whether he will go to prison, as so many Dems pray for, but his political life seems to have ended, even if his cause may live.

The deck was stacked against President Trump from Day One. His orders were ignored. The US courts, judges, police, the whole system of law enforcement was against him; his orders were blocked or overturned, while the media made fun of him and the opposition relentlessly delegitimised him. He was blocked even by Fox News. Dem-run states adjusted their laws to assure the elections' result. Trump was a lame duck from the very beginning of his presidency to its bitter end. He was kept on a short leash by the almighty Deep State, and when he tried to free himself, they pulled the leash.

On January 6, a massive demonstration in his support gathered in Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands Americans came to the capital to demand justice after the election fraud became obvious. They hoped that the Republican representatives would refuse to certify the fraud and appoint a commission to check and recount the votes. Some of the protesters managed to break into the Capitol, or were let in by the police. This peaceful Occupy Capitol action, the exercise of a natural right to protest, was met with lethal fire, and a young female protester from San Diego, Ashli Babbitt, was murdered by the plainclothes police. The Republican representatives were cowed and surrendered; Biden was confirmed to take office.

The horror and outrage of the Dem politicians and media were as faked as their news. During last year, many government buildings were taken over by Dem-sponsored BLM activists, and in not one case did the police use lethal weapons or even rush the protesters out of buildings.

"Shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the locked King Street entrance to the Capitol, chanting "Break down the door!" and "General strike!" Moments later, police ceded control of the State Street doors and allowed the crowd to surge inside, joining thousands who had already gathered in the Capitol to protest the votes. The area outside the Assembly, which is scheduled to take the bill up at 11 a.m. today, was crowded with protesters who chanted, "We're not leaving. Not this time."

Department of Administration spokesman Tim Donovan said although protesters were being encouraged to leave, no one would be forcibly removed. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said he had instructed Police Chief Noble Wray not to allow his officers to participate in removing demonstrators from the building."

This was what happened in Madison, Wisconsin in March 2011, as Steve Sailer reminded us. Indeed, this is what the protesters expected; some were dressed in flamboyant carnival attire; they behaved well and peacefully, within acceptable limits. It was not an insurrection; they didn't try to take over the Congress in any meaningful sense. For them, it was an honest and funny way to express their indignation. But the real gambit plotters intended to frame them. They even murdered four protesters hoping they would respond with violence, but in vain.

White American protesters are exceptionally non-violent lot; as with Occupy Wall Street a few years back the January 6 Capitol protesters were timid and obedient as lambs. For this reason, BLM was invented, for Blacks are able to riot violently, as opposed to well-trained whites. It is not a race thing: lily-white French Yellow Vests and Ukrainian nationalists have fought the police all right. But US whites are not prone to riot, not since the Civil War. Being a foreigner, I do not understand why the Americans want to keep their guns if they never use them, but that's the way they are.

Anyway, their non-violence didn't help them. The president-elect Biden begrudged them even the name of protesters: "Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists." Indeed, the name should be preserved for Deep State-authorised looters and their brethren all over the world, whether in Hong Kong or Minsk, in Seattle or Portland.

Russian social networks were comparing the Washington DC events with those nearer to home and complained of 'double standards'. The US media expressed no indignation when their appointee Boris Yeltsin shelled the Russian Parliament in 1993. The New York Times and the State Department had encouraged the nationalist mob to storm Ukrainian government offices in 2014. They cheered on the opposition in Minsk in taking over their parliament after failing to win elections. The Belarus protesters claimed their country's election results were rigged, just like Trump supporters did for the US elections, but Biden didn't call them "domestic terrorists". (Actually, neither did President Lukashenko: he called them 'protesters', and their violent demos were dispersed without a single shot fired.) In such cases, Jews respond with "How can you compare?!"

The Russians compared the Capitol 'coup attempt' with their own semi-staged 'coup' of 1991, a partly pre-planned provocation. In 1991, the feeble coup organisers could not detain Yeltsin and surrendered as if on cue; the wave of indignation removed Gorbachev and the Communist party from power. In the Capitol, too, police waved the 'invaders' in, as you can see on this video forwarded by the BBC. More videos suggesting Capitol police involvement in the ostensible provocation are presented here . The orchestrated indignation allowed the victors to censor and purge the defeated Trump and his followers. Just as the USSR went down in August 1991, Trump's America went down in January 2021, and the liberal elites representing the big corporations came to power. It was achieved by a provocation, but ordinary Trump followers were really angry with the Election Steal. Likewise, 1991 was a provocation, but ordinary Russian citizens were angry at Gorbachev's perestroika, while the liberal elites used it to dismantle the Soviet state and transfer all assets to their oligarchs.

People with a good knowledge of history refer to the Reichstag Fire of February 1933, the arson contrived by the newly formed Nazi government itself to turn public opinion against its opponents and to assume emergency powers. Alternatively, other researchers have contended that there was no proof of Nazi complicity in the crime, but that Hitler merely capitalised on the Dutch Communist van der Lubbe's independent act. The fire is the subject of continued debate and research, says the Encycopaedia Britannica . Probably the same will be said about the Capitol "invasion", and researchers will argue whether duplicitous Biden's minions organised it or just capitalised on the Trumpers' sincere protest.

There is no doubt that to an objective observer the 2020 elections were profoundly unfair. I won't trouble you with too many published details about the statistically impossible results, but here is one example of fraud. The city of Detroit gave 95 per cent of its vote to Biden/Kamala, a number that Mr Kim Jong-un would view with slight envy, while Mr Lukashenko would murmur, "How can it be done?" It is highly likely this mind-boggling result was achieved in the following way.

Detroit Dems outsourced ballot harvesting to local drug lords, offering them as a prize – recreational marijuana business licenses. These licences are the best thing since a licence to print money . Having such licenses is like having your own ATM. Here you can read about their profitability and the lengths criminals will go to obtain them. Detroit Dems had changed local laws allowing the sale of marijuana in their fine city (it was forbidden until November 2020). They changed local laws prescribing the issuing of marijuana licences to drug dealers with previous convictions for drug dealing. They let drug lords out of jail . They changed local laws to allow ballot harvesting; that is, collecting postal votes and assisting with the filling in of ballots. After that, the drug dealers went around collecting postal ballots and filling them in immediately, if they were conscientious, or just filling them in at their leisure, if feeling lazy. They had a judge at their disposal, Cynthia Stephens , who single-handedly changed Michigan election laws, and then rejected Trump's claims of fraud.

Yes, Virginia, there was election fraud in many American states. They are used to gambling; they aren't surprised by a beautiful hand of four aces, as Mark Twain suggested. Usually the two parties deal in turns, and cheat in turns. Only this time, Trump convinced many people that it is different; that this is their last chance.

The problem is, Trump was a poor organiser. He could win elections, if he could prevent Cynthia Stephens's kind of legislation, outlaw postal ballots, enforce obligatory IDs for voting, mobilise his people for election control. A formidable task, but not impossible, while dealing with a prone-to-cheat adversary. He could even do a revolution on January 6, tasking the right people to act, forming a revolutionary HQ, planning a strategy of takeover, but he didn't do anything of the sort. He probably thought Congress would see the vast crowds and allow for the checking of election results.

Alternatively, he was so naïve that he believed revolutions just happen by themselves, as in the movies. They do not. Behind every successful revolution, there is a lot of planning, armed force, weapons ready for use, supply lines, logistics, media support, and communications. Trump had none of that. It was enough to turn off Twitter to make him deaf and dumb.

There was no coup attempt, as correctly stated by Tyler Durden : "Trump has never had the concentration, organizational acumen, or ideological coherence to mount a bona fide "coup," and a mob intrusion which was swiftly dispersed by armed agents of the state doesn't change that. Shortly after the breach, he released a video instructing his followers not to take Senators hostage or imprison Mike Pence, but to "go home." No factions of the federal government joined the mob on Trump's orders, because he didn't bother issuing any. The whole episode never stood the remotest chance of preventing the certification of Joe Biden, much less overthrowing the government. It was just another goofball charade, and in that sense, a fitting end to the Trump presidency."

Conspiracy theories played their disappointing part in the debacle. Many Trumpists believed in the QAnon and Kayfabe conspiracies; they posted reports of bad guys being arrested, of servers snatched by the FBI, of Clinton and Biden waiting for rough justice behind bars. This belief disarmed people who would otherwise have fought to achieve this very result. That is the problem with conspiracies: imaginary conspiracies prevent real action.

Still, I do not want to finish this piece on such a sad and disappointing note. President Trump was a great leader. He succeeded against enormous odds in improving the lot of American workers: for the first time since the 1970s, their incomes rose in relation to the other classes. He stopped mass migration to the US: legal immigration went down to a trickle. He avoided new wars; he tried to make peace with Russia. He refused to bomb Iran even in the last days of his presidency, though some pro-Israel supporters promised him a second term if he would.

His fight against the corona madness was his great achievement. He was against the lockdowns that are about to destroy our world so completely that few things will survive. The last great US ruler who didn't wear the cowardly mask will be remembered. He could not defeat the mighty medical complex, or FAGMA, or the Masters of Discourse, but he tried.

The day of his defeat, January 6, was the Epiphany, or Adoration of the Magi, of the Three Wise Men who came to worship Jesus in his cave. It was also Christmas Eve for the Eastern Church. It is the darkest time of the year; from now on, the day will increase and so will our hopes.

Israel Shamir can be reached at [email protected]

This article was first published at The Unz Review .

[Jan 10, 2021] Her Name Was Ashli Babbitt by Gregory Hood

Jan 10, 2021 | www.unz.com

GREGORY HOOD JANUARY 8, 2021 2,200 WORDS 164 COMMENTS REPLY Tweet Reddit Share Share Email Print More A makeshift monument for Ashli Babbitt is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 7, 2021. (Credit Image: © Gripas Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA Press)

Anyone can see the footage . Ashli Babbitt was a young woman at Wednesday's protests. She had no weapon, not even a stick. There were armed police in front of her and behind her. She posed no danger to anyone. Still, a police officer, apparently black, shot and killed her.

I never thought I'd say this, but Shaun King is right.

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Joe Biden, allegedly quoting his granddaughter, said of Wednesday's protests:

No one can tell me if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true. And it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable.

That's true. And it is totally unacceptable.

If BLM took over the Capitol, once the mob went home, congressmen would kneel in submission. Journalists would praise the takeover. Corporations would give billions.

It's already happened. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, festooned in kente cloth, knelt for George Floyd. The Capitol Police knelt too. Washington D.C. symbolically renamed 16th Street Black Lives Matter Plaza. New York City painted a huge Black Lives Matter sign on the street just outside Trump Tower.

And we're supposed to think BLM got harsh treatment? In what must have been millions of man-hours of rioting, how many people did police kill? Not one. Did they shoot outright looters or arsonists? Only with rubber bullets, and only a handful. So far as I can tell, police did not even open fire and wound a single BLMer -- not one -- even in the 300 cities with such bad rioting there had to be curfews.

The very phrase "Black Lives Matter" has almost religious importance. The NYPD, unable or unwilling to stop the crime wave , cracked down on people who desecrated the phrase . Saying "All Lives Matter" can get you suspended , fired , maybe even killed .

In Minneapolis, the mob burned down an entire precinct station. In Seattle, anarchists set up an " autonomous zone " that police broke up only after paramilitaries shot two black teenagers. Rioters destroyed an incalculable amount of property. That wasn't just "stuff." Behind countless looted stores were small business owners and their employees. If the lockdowns didn't put them on the breadline, BLM did.

Homicides are rising in Chicago , Los Angeles , Jackson , Philadelphia , and many other major cities. There are several reasons why, but one is undoubtedly the " Ferguson Effect " on a mass scale. Police don't think doing their jobs is worth the risk. Policing blacks is dangerous. They hate cops. It's better to lie low and wait till you get a pension or just quit .

From what I can tell, journalists and the black "community" don't care about crime and disorder, even though blacks suffer from it the most. Journalists, activists, and politicians have defended violent protests and property destruction. The media cheered while mobs tore down monuments to our greatest heroes, including, George Washington , Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt , Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson . Not even the dead can rest in peace -- not white men, anyway. Hapless conservatives think it's about the "Confederacy." When even Lincoln is no longer safe, it's clearly about race.

So spare me the outrage from Tom Daschle , Dick Durbin , Andy Kim , Joe Scarborough , and others who lecture us about "sacrilege" and "desecration" because Americans trespassed in the Capitol. I'm far more offended at what's been done to the memory of Washington.

Police are offering up to $1,000 if you help them catch anyone who "desecrated" the Capital. Were there any rewards offered for turning in BLM arsonists? Or for the people who laid siege night after night to the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, setting fires, trying to blind officers with green lasers, and trying to kill them with commercial-grade fireworks? These are serious felonies. The people who "desecrated" the Capitol were trespassers.

One rabbi tells us "we lost something sacred" when the Capitol was "defiled," comparing it to the fall of the Jewish Temple. After months spent watching our cowardly leaders do nothing while our cities, history, and heroes were ransacked, I think a better parallel may be Jesus Christ driving out the moneychangers. Where have all the respectable people been, now that they're suddenly worried about national honor, civil debate, and the rule of law?

I can tell you where they've been.

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In 2017, a "Bernie Bro" opened fire on Republican congressmen, badly wounding Steve Scalise. Jesse Benn and Tariq Nasheed, both Twitter bluechecks, had this to say:

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It seems like a decade, but it was just two years ago that a mob occupied a Senate office building to protest Brett Kavanaugh . MSNBC called it "well-organized" and a " boost of energy to the opposition ." Organizers bragged they had preemptively shut down the Capitol . It wasn't "desecration" then.

Pollster Matt McDermott called it an "incredible scene." However, this week's action was "domestic terrorism."

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Feminist author Mona Eltahawy:

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When the George Floyd protests began, Chris Cuomo told his audience:

Now too many see the protests as the problem. No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets: persistent, poisonous inequities and injustice. And please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful. Because I can show you that outraged citizens are what made the country what she is and led to any major milestone.

That same month, the Democrats House caucus blocked a GOP resolution that "condemn[ed] violence and rioting" but also mourned the "tragic death of George Floyd."

Trevor Noah, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., said riots are the language of the unheard. He dismissed claims that involving children or "burning" is wrong. "There is no right way to protest because that's what protest is," he said . "It cannot be right because you are protesting against a thing that is stopping you."

Bluecheck Sally Kohn then and now.

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last month:

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Vox:

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Jacobin :

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Still, let's look beyond media hypocrisy. We're used to that. What about actual violence? Joe Biden said BLM protesters would have been handled differently. Really? Let's consider the cults that have grown out of BLM: George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor. "Say his name!" is a theological command. However, in each case, facts demolish the myth.

George Floyd , a career criminal whose violence against women is far worse than anything Harvey Weinstein did, died while lying to police and resisting arrest. He overdosed. Police came for Jacob Blake because of a domestic violence complaint (BLM trumps #MeToo). He ignored police commands and grabbed a knife . Police shot him, and prosecutors found no reason to charge them. Breonna Taylor , arguably the most sensational case, turns out to have been deeply involved in her boyfriend's drug operation. Her boyfriend opened fire before the police shot back.

Just imagine video footage of a white man shooting an unarmed black woman who was clearly no threat. It would be the biggest story in the country. It would be the biggest story in the world. Cities would erupt.

With Ashli Babbitt, we don't need to imagine. We can watch.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/AZ9oThRuMVs?feature=oembed

Here is a final exchange between her and a friend:

An officer shot her as she tried to climb through a door. The video shows there were armed police on her side of the door. An officer in front of her had plenty of time to evaluate the situation, take aim, and kill her with a single shot.

Another Twitter bluecheck:

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Why weren't BLM's far more destructive actions terrorism?

Should we remember Ashli Babbitt? Sorry, that's colonialism . Besides, she was an "active threat." A "white supremacist." A "terrorist."

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Exterminated? Well, it's just one deleted tweet from a fringe account. Maybe we shouldn't care.

The political director for ABC News, Rick Klein, tweeted that though President Trump will soon be gone, that's the easy part. "Cleansing the movement he commands is going to be something else," he said. Leftists like to complain about " eliminationist rhetoric ." Does this count, or is it just "fighting hate?"

Keep in mind, Joe Biden said the protesters were "domestic terrorists." USA Today has called on readers to doxx everyone there.

Will Republicans try to understand what motivated the protesters or speak for Ashli Babbitt? Rep. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, said the officer "didn't have a choice at the time." Senator Lindsey Graham wants a " Joint Task Force " to identify every person "who breached the security of the Capitol." Senator Ted Cruz called the demonstrators "terrorists."

Here's original cuckservative Erick Erickson:

Can you one imagine pundits and politicians talking like this about BLM? Vice President Mike Pence said this about George Floyd:

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He has never mentioned Ashli Babbitt.

If our leaders think trespassing justifies lethal force, we would have no problem with illegal immigration .

Political power in America is media power . It's the power to shape consciousness. Violence works when you have media power. It fails when you don't. The protest Wednesday was an example of " hyperreality ." There was no attempted coup by President Trump, nor by people wandering around the Capitol. The media created a story about an "armed insurrection," a putsch , and they seem to believe it.

Ashli Babbitt was also caught in a fantasy. The " QAnon" story told her President Trump was fighting a cosmic struggle against evil. She joined in that struggle. Unfortunately, as in The Matrix , if you die in the simulation, you die in real life. In his concession speech last night, President Trump didn't mention her. He wouldn't say her name.

If anything, QAnon is an opiate because it tells Americans the system still somehow works. It tells well-meaning, naïve people that their country still exists, the old values endure, the Founders' vision lives on, and everything will turn out fine. That illusion died with Ashli Babbitt.

Our rulers apparently believe what they are saying. They think they're fighting a dictator, that Ashli Babbitt and people like her deserve to die, and that there must be a cleansing before the egalitarian paradise arrives. We know what happens when fanatics stop at nothing in the name of equality.

People can try to live in a dream, but reality finally breaks in. For decades, President Donald Trump crafted his media image as a businessman, patriot, and strategist. He may believe himself to be a Great Man. Tens of millions of Americans who saw their country being stolen from them put their trust in him. He let them down -- not because he is an aspiring dictator, but because he is erratic, self-absorbed, and doesn't truly understand what is happening to the country.

Ahsli's surname is the same as Sinclair Lewis's title character in Babbitt , about a middle-class guy who seeks meaning in a conformist world. Babbitt rebels against middle-class values. Today, those values seem idyllic. Today, it is rebellion to uphold natural values of morality, family, and patriotism.

Perhaps Ashli Babbitt died for a false idol, a leader who didn't deserve her loyalty. Perhaps I'm too hard on President Trump, who has been continuously betrayed and sabotaged. Either way, Ashli Babbitt's sacrifice was not pointless. Whatever her mistakes, she was right to believe her country is ruled by a hostile elite. The form her rebellion took was wrong, but she died for her beliefs. Especially in a time when our rulers make saints out of thugs, we should remember Ashli Babbitt, who served a country that killed her.

President Trump can't save you . It was a dream to think he ever could. It's hard to cast off fantasy, but we have no choice. There's just us.

However, you are not alone. You are part of something greater than yourself, something that goes back to the beginning of time. There's no alternative but to accept your duty , face what's coming, remember the fallen, and have faith in victory.

Ashli Babbitt, RIP. We won't forget.

Dr. Robert Morgan , says: January 9, 2021 at 2:00 am GMT • 23.2 hours ago

Gregory Hood: "Perhaps Ashli Babbitt died for a false idol, a leader who didn't deserve her loyalty. "

Perhaps? LOL. That coward couldn't even acknowledge her death.

I have to wonder if she was influenced by the widespread Trump idolatry of the alt-right. People like Andrew Anglin, Kevin MacDonald, and blogger Paul Kersey, to name only a few, may have her blood on their hands.

[Jan 09, 2021] The Capitol Riot Wasn't A Coup. It Wasn't Even Close

ZH commenters overwhelmingly think that this was a false flag. Was it pre-planned with paid provocators insiting the crowd, or on the spot decision to user rioters to Neoliberal Dems advantage and to crush Trump is unclear. What is clear is cue bono part of this event.
Jan 09, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

On Wednesday, a mob apparently composed of Trump supporters forced its way past US Capitol security guards and briefly moved unrestrained through much of the capitol building. They displayed virtually no organization and no clear goals.

Five people reportedly died during the events - one apparently unarmed female protester died of a gunshot wound, three other protesters "suffered medical emergencies" that resulted in their deaths (one crushed, one heart attack, and one stroke); and a police officer died from a blood clot on his brain reportedly triggered while physically engaging with protesters.

[ZH: Here is one 'terrifying scene' from the clashes as 'rioters' began their 'coup']...

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Yet, the media response has been to act as if the event constituted a coup d'etat. This was " A Very American Coup " according to a headline at The New Republic . " This is a Coup " insists a writer at Foreign Policy. The Atlantic presented photos purported to be " Scenes From an American Coup ."

But this wasn't a coup, and what happened on Wednesday is conceptually very different from a coup. Coups nearly always are acts committed by elites against the sitting executive power using the tools of the elites. This isn't at all what happened on Wednesday.

What Is a Coup?

A gang of disorganized, powerless mechanics, janitors, and insurance agents running through the capitol isn't a coup. And if it was a coup attempt, it was so far from anything that might hope to succeed as a coup that it should not be taken seriously as such.

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So how do we know a coup when we see one?

In their article " Global instances of coups from 1950 to 2010: A new dataset ," authors Jonathan M. Powell and Clayton L. Thyne provide a definition:

A coup attempt includes illegal and overt attempts by the military or other elites within the state apparatus to unseat the sitting executive.

There are two key components of this definition. The first is that it is illegal. Powell and Thyne note this "illegal" qualifier is important to include "because it differentiates coups from political pressure, which is common whenever people have freedom to organize."

In other words, protests, or threats of protest don't count as coups. Neither do legal efforts such as a vote of no confidence or an impeachment.

But an even more critical aspect of Powell's and Thyne's definition is that it requires the involvement of elites.

This can be seen in any stereotypical example of a coup d'etat. This generally involves a renegade military detachment, military officers, and others from within the state apparatus who can employ knowledge, skills, influence, coercive tools gained through membership in the regime's elite circles.

The attempted coup in Japan in 1937, for example, was carried out by more than 1,500 officers and men of the Japanese imperial army. They nonetheless failed, likely because they miscalculated the amount of support they enjoyed among other officers. More recently, in the 2009 Honduran coup, the bulk of the Honduran Army turned on the president Manuel Zelaya and sent him into exile. That was a successful coup. More famously, Chile's 1973 coup was successfully led by Agusto Pinochet, the commander-in-chief of the Army, and this enabled him to shell the Chilean executive palace with military hardware.

Contrast this with nameless MAGA-hat-wearing flag wavers, and the inappropriateness of the term "coup" in this case should be blatantly obvious. With real coups, power is seized by a faction of the elite which has the ability to take control of the machinery of state indefinitely. Although some of Trump's critics claim he was somehow responsible for Wednesday's mob, it is clear that Trump was not coordinating or directing any sort of military operation through Twitter posts. There was no plan for holding power. Had those who invaded the capitol building managed to take control of the building for a time, there's no reason to think this would somehow translate into control of the state. How would it? The real coercive power remained well ensconced within an apparently undivided military apparatus.

Moreover, it has been clear for years that the permanent technocracy which controls the day-to-day execution of federal administrative power (i.e., "the deep state") has long been committed to undermining the Trump administration -- from high ranking FBI agents , to military diplomats , to Pentagon officials . From where would Trump draw the necessary cooperation from elites to overturn more than 200 years of established norms in transfers of presidential power? In any case, the Biden administration is likely to be better for the state's elites than the Trump administration. There is no reason for any group of them to contemplate a coup against Biden.

Thus, if any of Wednesday's capital rioters thought they were about to bring about a coup by smashing some windows in the capitol, they were engaging in thoroughly amateurish thinking. It's unlikely, however, that more than a few of the rioters thought there was a coup d'etat afoot. It's more likely most of them simply wanted to dramatically display their displeasure with the federal regime and to signal they weren't going to placidly submit to whatever the American bureaucracy decided to dish out.

Nonetheless, we should not be surprised that the media has rushed to apply the term to the riot. This phenomenon was examined in a November 2019 article titled " Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research? ," by Leiv Marsteintredet and Andres Malamud. The authors note that as the incidence of real coups has declined, the word has become more common, but with modifiers attached.

Examples of these modifiers include "soft," "constitutional," "parliamentary," and "slow-motion." Numerous critics of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, for example, repeatedly called it a "soft coup." The authors note this is no mere issue of splitting hairs, explaining that "The choice of how to conceptualize a coup is not to be taken lightly since it carries normative, analytical, and political implications."

Increasingly, the term really means "this is a thing I don't like." But the term's use paints the non-coup participants as criminals poised to seize power illegally. By applying this term to the acts of a disorganized group of Trump supporters with no base of support among state elites, the pundits know exactly what they're doing. 34,099 141 NEV


Cardinal Fang 9 hours ago

It was a glorified flash mob

RedDog1 8 hours ago

In the not too distant past...leftist mobs were glorified by the press/Democrat politicians for occupying Senate offices, attempting to occupy SCOTUS/White House and assaulting RNC nomination guest leaving the White House.

Instead of a coup, this weeks events are a Riechstag 2.0 that's being used to coverup a phony election and strip social media access from Democrats rivals.

The First Rule 3 hours ago

When Antifa/BLM/SJW's Burn, Loot, Destroy, even Murder, the MSM calls it "Peaceful Protests".

When Conservatives walk on Federal Property, after being motioned in by DC Police, its "Terrorism".

This is Orwellian Beyond Belief.

Banned Banana 5 hours ago

Indeed, my the crack journalists at my local paper cunningly uncovered this dangerous rebel, who apparently worked at a bulk mail company when he wasn't playing the game of thrones. Now he's been fired for having an opinion:

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/crime_and_justice/frederick-company-fires-employee-who-participated-in-capitol-break-in/article_56159239-a8eb-5c73-bdb9-976606a8cdbc.html

Justus_Americans 2 hours ago

Social media came for Alex Jones Social media came for Donald Trump now they will come for you
https://youtu.be/osgoT22i2ts

not dead yet 2 hours ago remove link

Like Covid the Dems are using this to their advantage. By screaming armed rioters attempting a coup instigated by Trump who should be removed by impeachment or the 25th it's giving the Dems weeks of cover to enact the biggest fokking in history. The kind of crap they are going to pull won't surprise any of us but will be a huge surprise to the Dem faithful and the media so they need to be distracted. There is no time to impeach or overthrow with the 25th and they know that but it's fodder for the faithful.

With the black racist bigot and China boy cementing the Senate for Bidenhoe they are going to start implementing their destruction of America as we know it policies as soon as Joe's hand comes off the bible. This effort will be in parallel to the destruction of Trumps legacy and undoing everything he did. Not everything. Wall Street and the rich didn't back Biden on a whim. Under Trumps tax cuts the rich paid MORE in taxes as many of their deductions were capped. So look for Joe to roll back the cut and restore full deductions and some other sweeteners so the rich pay less taxes than before Trump. To the sheep Joe will be hailed a hero for soaking the rich.

Cabreado 9 hours ago (Edited)

If I missed it, I apologize...

but did the author neglect to mention the most recent 4.5-year-long Coup attempt?

Ah... referred to as "undermining."
How grotesquely disingenuous -- said politely.

CommonsDeered 8 hours ago

Russiagate 2.0:

DONT mention Russiagate 1.0. I think I did once but, apart from being banned immediately, got away with it.

hegger 2 hours ago (Edited)

Having had family members who actually experienced Nazi Germany from the inside, from its birth to its death in 1945, and having heard their gut-wrenching first-hand accounts, I have no respect for the impetulant, blubbering children screaming coupe or comparing Trump to Hitler.

These children have no idea what a dictator actually is. They have no idea what it means to really live in that kind of terror, being surrounded by institutionalized, highly efficient non-stop, constant death.

Like the boy who cried 'wolf,' they'll eventually deprive terms of their meaning so that nobody cares to react to their screaming of "dictator!!!" or "coup!!!" when it really matters.

I have lost respect for these people.

bigdumbnugly 9 hours ago

it wasn't even a chicken coup.

Oh-Globits 8 hours ago

If it was a coup, there would be 535 nicely decorated lamp posts...one could only wish

skizex 28 minutes ago

Dr. Cynthia McKinney: NATO GLADIO joined CIA, Deep State to Steal Presidential Election

https://www.bitchute.com/video/HIUYTOMclafQ/

Charlie Ward & Simon Parkes What Happened on 6 January, What Happens Next, Trump Prevails

https://www.bitchute.com/video/AFmvCzf12wU9/

yeketerina velikaya 9 hours ago

No, it wasn't a coup. Just like there is no apocalyptic COVID-19 pandemic. Or like there is not an EPIDEMIC of violence toward trans women of color.

Liberals live with and by hyperbole. It's one of their less charming attributes.

Is-Be 9 hours ago

They have been taught to trust their feelz. (The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.)

CoraEn 6 hours ago

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safelyG 9 hours ago

as a member of the elite Capitol Security Staff, we would like to welcome you to a guided tour of the building. have a nice day!

Ms No PREMIUM 9 hours ago

They are trying to intimidate what could end up some of the biggest and angriest protests ever in the US. They false flagged to get ahead of it. They are trying to prevent those potential protests from exposing the US government as illegitimate. At least one clear motive...

rastanarchocapitalist 9 hours ago

RIP 1st Amendment

RedDog1 8 hours ago

Some animals are more equal...there's still plenty of 1st Amendment freedom for big tech's cronies.

Savvy 9 hours ago

They're identifying Trump supporters at Wednesday's rally and having them fired from their jobs

http://www.tathasta.com/2021/01/rioters-begin-losing-jobs-following.html

The level of malice is boggling.

CENSORBOT1 9 hours ago

they are the most vile humans not even worth reasoning with, show them no mercy if one day they are at the end of a barrel.

honest injun 8 hours ago remove link

It was a false flag. The police opened the gates, waved people into the Capital, and stayed with them until one of them was shot. People with Antifa tattoos put on hats similar to MAGA hats (but a different color) then took control of Pelosi's office. The gullible Trump supporters walked in and put the poles for the rope line that was knocked over by Antifa back in place. Then the media gives a false narritive and anyone with a different narritive is silenced.

Obamanism666 3 hours ago (Edited)

Riot when Trumps supporters are angry but Peaceful protests when BLM/Antifa protest.

So How many shops were looted in DC? How many Buildings were burned doewn?

Apart from a few windows broken and doors busted there was no damage.

journey80 37 minutes ago

Windows were busted by antifa actors, with actual protestors trying to stop them. Bicycle racks, the only "barriers" in the area, were set aside by Capitol police, or people dressed as Capitol police, who waved in the protestors, who were guided into and through the building by Capitol police and protestors, or actors dressed as Capitol police and protestors. Who told the police to stand down and let the protestors onto the Capitol steps, who told them to allow antifa actors to break a few windows, to climb a wall for the photographers, all undisturbed? Who OPENED THE DOORS of the Capitol to let in throngs of protestors? Where were the barriers that surround the Capitol when there is an event of any significance? Where was the real security that is always there, shoulder to shoulder in combat gear when a protest is in progress, or even expected?

iCdeadSheeple 8 hours ago

Take the narrative out of the issues at hand. Denying a platform for grievances by discrediting the source.

Joseph Goebbels

PGR88 5 hours ago remove link

It was the final act of a CIA color revolution

NumbNuts 5 hours ago

It was nothing more than raucous hooliganism, with a Patriotic spirit.

No insurrection. No domestic terrorism.

Xibalba 9 hours ago

It was a coup, by Pelosi

9.0ontherichterscale 7 hours ago (Edited)

demsheviks are getting a lot of mileage out of this flea circus. Whippng up fear in the he gullible and the stupid.

Southerly Buster 6 hours ago

A flash mob in the Capitol Building; not much else to say except 'vale' to the unfortunate lady murdered by trigger happy security.

Obamanism666 3 hours ago

False flag to divert the MSM away from how popular Trump is. so 80,000 protested peacefully but you only see images of the few hundred staged to enter the building.

nocturnal66 22 minutes ago

I am old. But this reminded me of watching the RFK assasination live on TV, Oswald getting shot too. And 58 years later they are still lying about it but we know the truth. Events like this never happen unless it's allowed to happen.

bustdriver 24 minutes ago

It's not about truth it's about optics.

Cogito_ergosum 8 hours ago

Are any of you considering the remote possibility that a huge series of staged events are being rolled out?? JAN 6th peasant uprising was the first! MAGA boomers are being herded into a series of false flag events and they already got saddam'd / AL Qaeda'd by the Bush deepstate and they dont even know it....yet!

2021 you will see a year of happenings. The CIA / military is going to stage a fake Qanon coup attempt to track target and remove all armed forces supporting MAGA / q anon theories. Trump may become a casualty in that conflict to explain away his death.

Trump is most likely dead or incapacitated. Trump never shows up live to his supporters after JAN 6th. THE DEAD CANT MAKE IT TO ANY HEARING OR INAGRUATION! Most likely black bagged and killed in TX airbase. He lost the petrodollar and Iran probably demanded his corpse or all out nuke war against Israel. His tweets videos are deepfakes!

https://www.wbap.com/news/iranian-president-declares-trump-dead-in-a-few-days-amid-mounting-tensions/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lets****WithAstrology/comments/j8sp7o/inauguration_day_****stivities_chart_for_the_day/

[Jan 09, 2021] I feel sad for some of the LEGIT protesters who may have allowed their emotions get the best of them. They let the Orange Man order them forward while Donny Jr. and company flew the coop.

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Trinity , says: January 8, 2021 at 8:15 pm GMT • 3.2 hours ago

@Zarathustra ith his boots on Pelosi's desk was an actor? Oh, my, my, I was laughing my ass off at that one. That there is funny, I don't care who you is. Hell, that one should even crack up Pelosi's cracked face. Some of these guys were so RIDICULOUSLY OVER THE TOP, the dude with the pelt and horns, the obvious Confederate flag waving troll, etc. I did catch an Israeli flag or two out there btw. Is any one out there investigating for Jewish Supremacist hate groups or Neo Bolsheviks?

KEEP THE FAITH BROTHERS AND STAY POSITIVE. I think this thing isn't that complicated, even dum-dums like yours truly and even dumber people KNOW WHAT THE SCORE IS, believe this.

[Jan 09, 2021] It is standard practice of ruling class to send agents provocateurs to any demonstration.

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Zarathustra , says: January 8, 2021 at 5:22 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago

@Trinity

It is standard practice of ruling class to send agents provocateurs to any demonstration.
There is no surprise there.

phillip sawicki , says: January 8, 2021 at 5:52 pm GMT • 5.5 hours ago
@Thomasina

As Oliver Stone's movie JFK point out, numerous safeguards to protect President Kennedy were omitted due to upper command interference. Same thing appears to have happened on Jan. 6.

[Jan 09, 2021] The oligarchy will do their very best to prevent the organization of the "Smellies" into a potent national force. If any small group act out they will be treated harshly

Jan 09, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

"Biden: "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable."" foxnews

Varney commented today on his show that the US is moving rapidly toward an environment in which deviant opinions and the expression of such will be punished by ostracism, loss of employment and ultimately - what?

75 million dissidents voted for Trump. Their party actually grew stronger down ballot, much stronger. These Smelly dissidents are heavily armed. Gun sales are way up. Ammunition is hard to come by because of heavy buying.

President Joe and his "consort" think that the attitudes of the Smellies are "totally unacceptable?"

He should be very careful about condemning the mind set of the Smellies, very careful. The Dems think that they can extrapolate from the hooligans who broke into the capitol to the general attitudes of the Smelly Deplorables?

Be very careful President Joe. pl

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-gaslighting-capitol-hill-rioters-black-lives-matter

blue peacock , 08 January 2021 at 12:21 PM


Col. Lang,

This is just the beginning of cancel culture. Note that Trump has been cancelled by Facebook & Twitter. Obama's IRS went after conservatives, is another example. This is not just about the Democrats and their urban managerial class cohorts. The GOP establishment is part & parcel of this alignment and very much a part of the benefits system. They will be even more brazen in further accelerating market concentration to the benefit of the oligarchy. The past 4 years were just an aberration in their eyes. They've taken Trump down hard as an example to not challenge their authority. Using George Bush's maxim - either you're with us or against us - that's gonna be the attitude.

The next leader who will harness the frustration of the "smellies" will be far more competent & ruthless and likely an authoritarian. The philosophical principles of the primacy of the natural rights of citizens and the rule of law of our founding has long been gone. The oligarchy is firmly in control and will suppress dissent more harshly with a lot of support from the media-managerial class.

The oligarchy will do their very best to prevent the organization of the "Smellies" into a potent national force. If any small group act out they will be treated harshly. Since the "Smellies" cannot use the ballot box to push back, how do you think they will organize and counter the oligarchic forces who have all levers of power and have demonstrated naked exercise of it?

[Jan 09, 2021] STORMING OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING- False Flag Operation Executed by Deep State to Crush the Patriot Movement

This is the most common version of the events in alternative media
Jan 09, 2021 | themillenniumreport.com

The Democrats were desperate to shut down the congressional objections to the Electoral College votes. Once various U.S. senators expressed their objections -- battleground state by battleground state -- the truth about the brazenly stolen election was televised for the first time since the steal occurred. Deep State would not permit the evidence to be disseminated like this -- way too damning! The official record of the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6 would forever contain conclusive evidence of the stolen 2020 POTUS election.

So, they staged a dramatic swarming of The Capitol Building (TCB) in order to DISTRACT everyone's attention. This black operation was led by AntiFa anarchists disguised as Trump supporters. That's why the security at TCB was so lax -- to permit the storming of the building so that Trumpsters would look bad. It's true that there were many MAGA protesters among those who entered TCB, but they were there to STOP THE STEAL. Given the "soft coup by stolen ballot" that was being rubber-stamped by the U.S. Congress, the MAGA protesters have every right to shut down the unlawful, treasonous process.

The Democrats (and Deep State) had to do something quite scary in order to compel the Congressional Republicans to abandon their fight to decertify the Electoral College votes. What better way that to orchestrate a fake takeover of The Capitol Building. They even choreographed a number of photo-ops in Pelosi's office (see this photo ) and the well of the U.S. Senate chambers (see this photo ). Once these 'shocking' photographs make their way around the Congress, inside the Beltway and the Internet, the Left will use them as a false justification to crack down on the Right as never before.

The bottom line here is that the storming of TCB was a meticulously engineered false flag black operation overseen by the U.S. Intelligence Community to include the FBI, CIA, Capitol Police, etc. Which is precisely why the protestors faced virtually no resistance from law enforcement as they breached what little security was quite intentionally set up. In fact, the whole thing was an obvious set-up with several aims and purposes, some of which will become clear in the coming days. In a phrase, this globalist-manufactured false flag event will be used as the "Reichstag fire" was used by Hitler to consolidate his power right after he was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Biden was essentially installed as the Fuhrer of the Fourth Reich.

Sound familiar?!

-- Intelligence Analyst & Former U.S Military Officer

See also

Storming of the Capitol has all the hallmarks of a false flag operation.

This entire black operation was staged by Deep State to terminate the public objections to the Electoral College votes by members of Congress!

[Jan 09, 2021] USA Today asks to ID rioters in Capitol invasion. Readers question why summer unrest was treated differently

Jan 09, 2021 | www.rt.com

They might be up to some unpleasant surprises ;-)

USA Today asks to ID rioters in Capitol invasion. Readers question why summer unrest was treated differently FILE PHOTO: Supporters of Donald Trump climb on walls at the US Capitol during. ©REUTERS / Stephanie Keith USA Today newspaper has published 29 photos from the Capitol building takeover and asked readers to ID Trump supporters shown in them, leaving a few people puzzled and getting a sharp response from many others.

The paper said knowing the identities of those who stormed the US legislature on Wednesday will help them "report this important story."

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Considering the amount of anger that the Capitol invasion provoked, it's no surprise that USA Today's call was answered by many people. Some readily provided names and other details about the rioters, while others pointed to people they suspected of being involved.

#1 is a guy named Mike Hunt#2 is a guy in know from high school. Peter Gosinya.#3 is Jack Mehoff.#4 is Dick Fitzwell#5 is a gay man named Peter O'Stool.#6 is Heywood Jablomie. #7 is Harry AnissI'll keep working on the list. Hope this helps.

-- Denny Chad Halen (@DennyLoggins) January 8, 2021

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Quite a few of the tips were just links to reports by other major media outlets, while some replies seemed to gloat about the repercussions that the Trump supporters will now presumably face.

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Others came up with suggestions how one could identify the suspects – that is if they had privileged access to protected information like hotel reservations.

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A handful of commenters seemed really troubled by USA Today's inquiry. "Since when do journalists conduct police work?" one wondered. Another said it showed the "merger between press and state" in the US.

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Plenty questioned why the newspaper was so eager to learn the identities of the people who broke into the Capitol building, as they point out, it's hardly the only property damaged during mass protests lately.

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Did they find the people responsible for the fires in DC in June? Just curious. pic.twitter.com/nuxIhLtVaY

-- David Black (@David__Black) January 8, 2021

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And some tips will probably not help any investigation, since they focused on individuals that are long dead and only appeared in images picked by USA Today courtesy of their historic significance.

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Richland Yabitches" 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 04:06 AM

Thanks for the Heads up USA Today, but the World has already Identified Antifa BLM Leadership and Sponsorships since 2014, talk about 'Late for Lunch"
TAKEMYKNEE 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 09:12 AM
How did they get in there so easily and then security pose by a broken window with their guns drawn and one woman gets shot, The security allowed them in, this place is supposed to be the seat of power and authority and this happens, not without a certain amount of collusion by officials within the building and grounds security staff.
Brusselcat TAKEMYKNEE 22 hours ago 8 Jan, 2021 04:18 PM
DC Police Waving People Towards Yesterday's Riots (YouTube) Timed perfectly to halt presentation of vote fraud evidence from entering the senate record. Hired professional rioters from Antifa to lead the charge.
tolof14875 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 04:30 AM
Feels very good to see that the democracy USA supported in other countries is making a huge come back.
RonThePatriot tolof14875 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 09:49 AM
I am afraid to say that with a Biden (Obama, Clinton, Bush, Kerry) presidency, you will see a full blown war in the middle east or God knows where they pick......the warmongers and war -profiteers need to fill their coffers and their thirst for blood. Biden is their man.
Buster907 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 04:12 AM
It's about time the people of BRA (Banana Republic Of America) stood up against the corrupted system were the rich gets richer, and the poor get poorer.

[Jan 09, 2021] USA Today asks readers to rat on rioters while summer unrest was treated differently

They might be up to some unpleasant surprises ;-) Like John Sullivan
Jan 09, 2021 | www.rt.com

The paper said knowing the identities of those who stormed the US legislature on Wednesday will help them "report this important story."

[Jan 09, 2021] PolitiFact - No, the storming of the Capitol wasn't a false flag

It now get to Politfact
Jan 09, 2021 | www.politifact.com
Instagram posts

stated on January 6, 2021 in a Facebook post:

The storming of the Capitol was staged. true false

Ciara O'Rourke
By Ciara O'Rourke January 7, 2021 No, the storming of the Capitol wasn't a false flag

IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT

See the sources for this fact-check

Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed and occupied the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 . As the mob could be heard shouting outside the doors of the Senate, police escorted first Vice President Mike Pence and then senators out of the chamber. The intruders took turns posing for photographs at the dais.

But online, another narrative is unfolding as some deny what happened and instead push "false flag" claims. (False flags are supposed covert operations designed to deflect blame. They are frequently the subject of conspiracy theories.)

"The moment we realized this is a staged psyop," someone tweeted , sharing a video of a Capitol police officer retreating as a mob of people walks toward him.

Other social media users have shared an image of a man behind the dais in the Senate chamber with his arm raised. Standing above him in the gallery, a photographer is pointing his camera down.

The photographer is circled and a red arrow is drawn pointing to another red circle around the man at the dais.

"This look staged to you?" reads the text over the image. "Fist in the air classic Trump supporter signal, right?"

But text elsewhere on the photo seems to refute that illusion: "NOT MAGA," it says.

"I have friends in DC now and they are saying don't believe the media," said one Instagram post that shared the image . "Antifa is who stormed the capital through the back. Protesters are in the front praying and singing. They are looking to divide us even more. They are also blocking live streams from real people. Why on earth would they do that? They don't want you to see what's really going on."

This post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .)

[Jan 09, 2021] The tech oligarchs that supported the censoring and the eventual de-platforming the President on social media showed who had political power under neoliberalism

As the people who supported the censoring and the eventual de-platforming the President on social media are about to find out , if you can censor the President you can censor anyone or any group.
It's all been allowed to happen for an obvious agenda of compliance and control. From 'riots' of BLM/Antifa to the 'insurrection' of Trumpeteers, the point is to narrow accepted thought - to manufacture consent, which is much easier with an un or misinformed populace. A social credit system is coming to the west - call it the Karen Revolution. There will be some kind of unexpected blowback, as many "deplorable" are technically savy
Notable quotes:
"... Definitely staged event, whether the protestors knew or didn't. Going forward, I'm switching to Signal from WhatsApp and viber, have to rethink my use of Gmail as well. Don't use faceborg or Jill Dorsey's twat. Enough is enough! ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Down South , Jan 9 2021 19:17 utc | 15

As the people who supported the censoring and the eventual de-platforming the President on social media are about to find out , if you can censor the President you can censor anyone or any group.

But they were so caught up in the hysteria of the #OrangeManBad that they didn't take the actions of Big Tech , that they were supporting, and to its logical conclusion:


Humbert Humbert , Jan 9 2021 18:48 utc | 2

Definitely staged event, whether the protestors knew or didn't. Going forward, I'm switching to Signal from WhatsApp and viber, have to rethink my use of Gmail as well. Don't use faceborg or Jill Dorsey's twat. Enough is enough!

Digital Spartacus , Jan 9 2021 19:31 utc | 22

@18 James

Apropos to what you're saying? I'm certain that you have seen this before.

CIA and Google

[Jan 09, 2021] The events at the Capitol buildings was literally the closest the US has ever come to a working class revolution but woke pseudoleftists are completly blind to that since it didn't feature many black trans women and it wasn't sponsored by JPMorgan and Apple

Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Dr. George W Oprisko , Jan 8 2021 23:49 utc | 106

The events at the Capitol buildings was literally the closest the US has ever come to a working class revolution but woke pseudoleftists are completly blind to that since it didn't feature many black trans women and it wasn't sponsored by JPMorgan and Apple

A revolution it wasn't.

The protesters wanted the election nullified due to fraud....

Anyone who investigated the 2020 election knows fraud was rampant.

Question..... why was it so important for the Democrats to regain power??? Why did they pull out all the stops to hobble Trump these past 4 years...???

What do they intend to do????

INDY

PS: Why doesn't Trump have Biden declared incompetent???

William Gruff , Jan 9 2021 0:04 utc | 112

Dr. George W Oprisko | Jan 8 2021 23:49 utc | 106:

65% voted == 101 million

That leaves 27.5 million for Biden.

Counterargument: "But many states have same-day registration, so there!"

Same-day registration for mail-in ballots? I wonder how that works...

[Jan 09, 2021] The clip where Pelosi says that what remains if the Capitol crumbles is their support for Israel is gold!. Thank you for the link!

Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Norwegian , Jan 9 2021 9:09 utc | 211

J Swift | Jan 9 2021 2:15 utc | 158

I thought SyrianGirl had a pretty interesting take on the whole thing. First debunks some unlikely theories floating around, then points out in no uncertain terms that anyone who would label that shit terrorism has no idea what the real thing is like. Those who have been on the receiving end have no such delusions. She is quite hard on Trump for basically caving in, and predicts very hard times ahead for "deplorables" and all those who might be even tangentially linked to them--since after all, if we're calling it terrorism, you get all kinds of nifty new laws, surveillance, infiltration, and the like which become perfectly accepted.

Anyway, I think it's worth a few minutes of your time.
https://youtu.be/NkxmiANAQCk

That was very powerful from SyrianGirl! This should be viewed by everyone, she makes a lot of sense regarding the definition of what terrorism is and many other things. The clip where Pelosi says that what remains if the Capitol crumbles is their support for Israel is gold!. Thank you for the link!

gm , Jan 9 2021 11:27 utc | 234

@ Norwegian | Jan 9 2021 9:09 utc | 210

WOW!
Hear hear!

That Syrian Girl vid was earth-shattering in its clarity, simplicity and truth. Hope it gets widely viewed and copied saved and shared to other more durable formats, before the Body's bloody red gaze fall's upon it...

In addition to that Pelosi 'giving it all up for Israel' shot,

I also thought what she said about Trump was on target.

Which makes me wonder if the Borg continuum could have already quietly taken care of him, if you know what I mean?

[Jan 09, 2021] Maidan come home

Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Petri Krohn , Jan 8 2021 21:06 utc | 38

Nothing in this year's elections surprises me. I predicted all this over four years ago in August 2016. The only thing that surprised me was that Trump was sworn in on January 20, 2017. For a short time I believed that the United States was a democracy where elections could change policy. It is not!

(I originally wrote this as comment to Andrew Korybko's Facebook post on August 15, 2016.)

Why Trump can't win

Even if Trump gets a majority of the votes the chances of him actually becoming President are slim. Here are some of the tactics and tricks the Hillary camp could use to block his election. I cannot say what is the probability of these options, but they have all been tested in previous US sponsored color revolutions.

  1. Massive propaganda campaign will pressure the electorate to vote against their favorite candidate.
  2. If Trump still gets over 50% of the vote, the vote count will be falsified. (Something similar seems to have happened in the Austrian presidential election.)
  3. If the election results actually show a victory for Trump, the results will be annulled. DNC will claim that "Putin" hacked the voting machines. The Supreme Court will declare Hillary the winner.
  4. If all else fails, Hillary will call for a Maidan-style occupation of Washington DC. The revolutionaries will take over the Capitol and the White House -- with the support of pro-Hillary officials.

I continued in the original post on August 16, 2016.

Trump cannot be allowed to win precisely because -- as you say on the video -- he represents the non-system opposition. He does not even have the support of his own party. This is not a simple question of counting votes. For him to actually become president, he has to win by a large margin.

Andrew, you are an expert on hybrid war. Why would Hillary not unleash the full array of hybrid war weapons on Trump? In fact they are doing it already. Trump has been labeled the "Manchurian Candidate". Ukraine fell to Maidan because no one in Ukraine was willing to defend the institution of the presidency or the Ukrainian constitution. Why would the US be any different.

You write: "4 wouldn't fully succeed because of the counter-Color Revolution technology that the Trump supporters could organize in their own demonstrations and movements" You are wrong. These are not "Trump supporters" but "Putin Trolls". Why would any mainstream media give any voice to these people?

For an anti-Trump Maidan or coup to fail, Trump would personally have to lead the opposition. In doing so he would be putting his life, liberty and fortune at risk. He can be pressured or "advised" to give up the fight. In fact it would be easiest to just assassinate him.

Many things can happen before we are at scenario 4. The simplest option is to escalate a crisis or war with Russia, Hillary's anti-Trump strategy is already framing the election as between her and Putin. In a crisis scenario Trump would simply be dismissed as a Russian enemy agent.

***

Why am I writing all this delusional stuff about a coup in the US or even of potential civil war?

Democracy requires a free press. That no longer exist in the West. Instead the Powers that Be have created an enormously powerful hybrid war machine that they have turned on Libya, Syria, Russia (and on European democracy). They are able to manipulate reality like never before. They are a huge danger to any state or any democracy.

I am just trying to imagine what would happen if these tools were turned on the USA.

[Jan 09, 2021] Democrats Use Capitol Incident To Suppress Political Dissent

Highly recommended!
Digital police state as a logical evolution of neoliberalism in the USA
Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Humbert Humbert , Jan 9 2021 18:48 utc | 2

Definitely staged event, whether the protestors knew or didn't. Going forward, I'm switching to Signal from WhatsApp and viber, have to rethink my use of Gmail as well. Don't use faceborg or Jill Dorsey's twat. Enough is enough!


Down South , Jan 9 2021 18:53 utc | 5

It's what I said would happen in the other thread:

Watching the spectacle from a far a couple of things stand out for me.

This event has really put the fear of God into the DC political class. When you see the photos of the politicians during this event you see real fear. I bet not one of them ever thought that the people would be so fed up with the DC political class that they would storm the Capitol to show their frustration. Such behaviour was simply un-American. It was things you saw on TV happening in far away places. Never would such scenes ever happen in the good ole' USA.

The second thing that stands out for me is that the American people have reached their wits end with the political class and are prepared to do what no-one ever thought they would do. Storm the Capitol! Disorganised as it was. What can they achieve with real organisation!

So now the people realise they have power in a collective and this power has put the fear of God in the people they despise. This has truly been a transformative event both for the political class and both for the people.

You can see this fear in the hysterical way the DC political class has reacted to this event. I don't think this hysteria is fake. I think it is quite real. They are so desperate to regain control of the "narrative" that they are flooding this forum (as pointed out eloquently by William Gruff, and no doubt many other forums) with sock puppets to denounce anyone who disagrees with the establishment view.

This hysteria is going to lead to an over reaction which will in turn spur these people not just to lob a Molotov cocktail (politically speaking) at the DC political class but to become one themselves.

There is nothing so dangerous as a person with nothing to lose and nothing so fearful as a man with everything to lose.

How it will play out I don't know, but the old normal has been shattered.

vk , Jan 9 2021 18:57 utc | 7

One thing is for sure: it has nothing to do with political party rivalry:

President-elect Joe Biden: "We need a Republican Party. We need an opposition that's principled and strong."

That the USA is a single-party with two branches that play "good cop, bad cop" already is consensus among serious historians, sociologists, political scientists etc. The news here is that this system won't change with Biden.

The Vandal sack of Rome of 455 CE was a completely different scenario. By that time, Rome had only symbolic importance to the Empire, and already was at an advanced stage of economic decay. Indeed, that's the main factor that differentiates the High from the Late Empire: the end of Italic hegemony, and the economic rise of the Eastern cities (Nicomedia, Antioch, Constantinople, Nicephorum etc.). Or, on a second thought, is it? Is the USA in really such advanced stage of economic decline? Only time will tell.

One last observation is that people usually confuse change with revolution. A given society doesn't need to go through any revolution in order to change itself. On the contrary: societal change is always happening, as we talk. What makes revolutions special is the fact that the previously exploited class becomes the dominant class; they turn the society upside down (hence the name).

But even a society that avoids any revolution will still change and eventually degenerate and die. Personally, I like prof. Moniz Bandeira's "Mutazione dello Stato", literally "mutation of the State", which describes a situation where the contradictions of society (development of the productive forces and the relations of production) continues to develop without a revolutionary situation or scenario. In this case, the USA is "mutating".

gottlieb , Jan 9 2021 18:58 utc | 8

We've been in this environment since 911. It's been one continual project, not something new being being imposed. It's a continual tightening of society, including the Pandemic.

It's all been allowed to happen for an obvious agenda of compliance and control. From 'riots' of BLM/Antifa to the 'insurrection' of Trumpeteers, the point is to narrow accepted thought - to manufacture consent, which is much easier with an un or misinformed populace. A social credit system is coming to the west - call it the Karen Revolution.

Democracy is not an option, and never has been. Time to network with slow-mail and smoke signals, because as an organizing principle beyond sales and marketing, the internet's days are numbered.

NemesisCalling , Jan 9 2021 19:05 utc | 10

@8 gottileb

Yes, the only difference is that one side, the deplorables, are speaking truth to power. The other side is conviently putting its head in the sand right now and begging for more federal overreach.

Couldn't be more obvious.

Blue Dotterel , Jan 9 2021 19:08 utc | 12

I have tried to explain over the past while, that what we are seeing in the US is an ongoing coup, This is a coup against the US people by the US corporate and financial oligarchs. Clearly, they are benefiting by not simply enriching themselves at taxpayers expense, but securing their own criminal amoral behaviour through the supression of human rights and what is left of the freedom of speech in the US. This is accelaerating exponentially and has been going on long before Trump came on the scene.

Avoid paying attention to the distractions, and keep your eye on the ball.

dh-mtl , Jan 9 2021 19:08 utc | 11

Stealing the election. Trying to remove Trump from office, with two weeks to go, and 'erase' him from the internet (and politics and whatelse?). Turning the U.S. into a de-facto police state. And the rush to do this all very quickly.

This smacks of desperation.

What are their Dems (rather their Deep State and 'Globalist' bosses) afraid of?

Blue Dotterel , Jan 9 2021 19:08 utc | 12

I have tried to explain over the past while, that what we are seeing in the US is an ongoing coup, This is a coup against the US people by the US corporate and financial oligarchs. Clearly, they are benefiting by not simply enriching themselves at taxpayers expense, but securing their own criminal amoral behaviour through the supression of human rights and what is left of the freedom of speech in the US. This is accelaerating exponentially and has been going on long before Trump came on the scene.

Avoid paying attention to the distractions, and keep your eye on the ball.

[Jan 09, 2021] What the Constitution REQUIRES Congress to do on January 6, 2021

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

TFS , Jan 8, 2021 3:56 AM

What the Constitution REQUIRES Congress to do on January 6, 2021, by By Publius Huldah (an opinion piece)

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/01/05/what-the-constitution-requires-congress-to-do-on-january-6-2021/

[Jan 09, 2021] What is the US elite so afraid of? What do they fear that Trump might do in the last days of his presidency?

Notable quotes:
"... They are not afraid. It is about creating the atmosphere for the last evisceration of civil liberties, of legalized censorship, the crushing of any dissent, a one-party state (in the service of global capitalism). This is not really just about Trump or his supporters (although, unlike Biden, Trump has genuine mass support). This will be used against all of us. ..."
"... It is stunning to watch now as every War on Terror rhetorical tactic to justify civil liberties erosions is now being invoked in the name of combatting Trumpism, including the aggressive exploitation of the emotions triggered by yesterday's events at the Capitol to accelerate their implementation and demonize dissent over the quickly formed consensus. ..."
"... Within hours of the Capitol being cleared, we heard truly radical proposals from numerous members of Congress. Senators and House members who objected to Electoral College certification, or questioned its legitimacy, should be formally accused of sedition and removed from expelled from the House if not prosecuted, argued Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), with other House members expressing support. Even those unarmed protesters who peacefully entered the Capitol should, many argued, be hunted by the FBI as domestic terrorists. ..."
"... Greenwald doesn't expose what happened yesterday as a filmed, orchestrated psychological operation to create a false narrative to allow for the restrictions on civil liberties that were already written years ago and require manufactured incidents such as this staged coup and all the other staged events like 9-11, terrorism and fake pandemics to justify their passage. ..."
"... This entire farce is playing out exactly as the Transition Integrity Project outlined. ..."
"... The problem I have with people like Greenwald and others who have connections to the Intelligence Community, is that the 20% they don't reveal is far more valuable than the 80% we already know. ..."
"... The crazed attempt by the establishment to completely censor Trump, and then to take down Trump via 25th Amendment or impeachment with just 2 weeks left in his administration, smacks of something they desperately fear: His release of extremely damaging classified materials or the dissemination of other information that he can only do as president. ..."
"... But the idea that he can unilaterally order the careerist members of the armed forces to take over the country, never mind a bunch of yahoos supposedly controlling the capitol building (without inside help), for his benefit is beyond ludicrous. Not for a president whose administration had widespread open insubordination, trumpeted without consequences by MSM. ..."
"... With all the tens of Billions of dollars pumped into State Security and the massive surveillance industry, we are told that the Capitol was unprepared for a rally that had been announced weeks in advance. ..."
"... Every event is conducted with an eye to promoting the same themes in the press. Military intelligence is disciplined not creative. You will know psyops by their familiar M.O., the familiar beneficiary and the familiar headlines in the press. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

Steve Hayes Jan 8, 2021 1:52 PM

What is the US elite so afraid of? What do they fear that Trump might do in the last days of his presidency?

George Mc , Jan 8, 2021 2:26 PM Reply to Steve Hayes

They don't fear Trump at all. He's the necessary "nasty Right Wing COVID denier" to set up as anti-Pope to the new Green "post capitalist" wonder world.

May Hem , Jan 8, 2021 9:28 PM Reply to George Mc

Correct. Its all a puppet show to easily convince the gullible. And to make the path easy for the planners of this game. Trump is also playing his part, no doubt paid off and laughing at it all.

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 3:07 PM Reply to Steve Hayes

They are not afraid. It is about creating the atmosphere for the last evisceration of civil liberties, of legalized censorship, the crushing of any dissent, a one-party state (in the service of global capitalism). This is not really just about Trump or his supporters (although, unlike Biden, Trump has genuine mass support). This will be used against all of us.

From Glenn Greenwald yesterday:

It is stunning to watch now as every War on Terror rhetorical tactic to justify civil liberties erosions is now being invoked in the name of combatting Trumpism, including the aggressive exploitation of the emotions triggered by yesterday's events at the Capitol to accelerate their implementation and demonize dissent over the quickly formed consensus. The same framework used to assault civil liberties in the name of foreign terrorism is now being seamlessly applied -- often by those who spent the last two decades objecting to it -- to the threat posed by "domestic white supremacist terrorists," the term preferred by liberal elites, especially after yesterday, for Trump supporters generally. In so many ways, yesterday was the liberals' 9/11, as even the most sensible commentators among them are resorting to the most unhinged rhetoric available.

Within hours of the Capitol being cleared, we heard truly radical proposals from numerous members of Congress. Senators and House members who objected to Electoral College certification, or questioned its legitimacy, should be formally accused of sedition and removed from expelled from the House if not prosecuted, argued Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), with other House members expressing support. Even those unarmed protesters who peacefully entered the Capitol should, many argued, be hunted by the FBI as domestic terrorists.

Calls proliferated for the banning of the social media accounts of instigators and protest participants. Journalists and politicians cheered the decision by Facebook and Twitter to temporarily bar the President from using their service, and then cheered again when Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the ban on Trump extended through Biden's inauguration. Some journalists, such as CNN 's Oliver Darcy, complained that Facebook had not gone far enough, that more mass censorship was needed of right-wing voices. The once-radical 2006 Gingrich argument -- that some opinions are too dangerous to allow to be expressed because they are pro-terrorist and insurrectionary -- is now thriving, close to a consensus.

These calls for censorship, online and official, are grounded in the long-discredited, oft-rejected and dangerous view that a person should be held legally accountable not only for their own illegal actions but also for the consequences of their protected speech : meaning the actions others take when they hear inflammatory rhetoric. That was the distorted mentality used by the State of Mississippi in the 1970s to try to hold NAACP leaders liable for the violent acts of their followers against boycott violators after hearing rousing pro-boycott speeches from NAACP leaders, only for the Supreme Court in 1982 to unanimously reject such efforts on the ground that "while the State legitimately may impose damages for the consequences of violent conduct, it may not award compensation for the consequences of nonviolent, protected activity," adding that even "advocacy of the use of force or violence does not remove speech from the protection of the first amendment."

The complete reversal in mentality from just a few months ago is dizzying. Those who spent the summer demanding the police be defunded are furious that the police response at the Capitol was insufficiently robust, violent and aggressive. Those who urged the abolition of prisons are demanding Trump supporters be imprisoned for years. Those who, under the banner of "anti-fascism," demanded the firing of a top New York Times editor for publishing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) advocating the deployment of the U.S. military to quell riots -- a view deemed not just wrong but unspeakable in decent society -- are today furious that the National Guard was not deployed at the Capitol to quash pro-Trump supporters. Antifa advocates are working to expose the names of Capitol protesters to empower the FBI to arrest them on terrorism charges. And while Rep. Cori Bush's proposal to unseat members of Congress for their subversive views went mega-viral, many forget that in 1966, the Georgia State Legislature refused to seat Julian Bond after he refused to repudiate his anti-war work with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, then considered a domestic terrorist group.

Those who argued in the summer that property damage is meaningless or even noble are treating smashed windows and looted podiums at the Capitol as treason, as a coup. One need not dismiss the lamentable actions of yesterday to simultaneously reject efforts to apply terms that are plainly inapplicable: attempted coup, insurrection, sedition . There was zero chance that the few hundred people who breached the Capitol could overthrow the U.S. Government -- the most powerful, armed and militarized entity in the world -- nor did they try.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 4:23 PM Reply to Tom Larsen

But once again Glenn plays the divide and conquer narrative instead of exposing the obvious psychological operation against both sides so they demonize each other instead of the structure that imprisons them through legal fraud.

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 4:46 PM Reply to Researcher

How do you get that out of what Greenwald says? Yes, GG stays clear of anything with a CIA conspiracy theory label on it. OTOH, his expertise is Consitutional law and he has been documenting the concentration of power of abrogation of civil liberties for twenty years. And that is really what this response to the "coup" is all about. He is right about that.

There's one quote that I think sums up this moment:

"Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement." -Huey Long

Anti-anti-fascism to be formally inaugurated on 1-20-2021.

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 5:31 PM Reply to Tom Larsen

Anti-fascism is the new fascism.
It makes perverse sense if you follow the Corporatist money. Many of the giants of the Corporatist State were persecuted by the Nazis. The fascist titans like Monsanto-Bayer-Exxon are back but they seek a new cloak.
So they are trying the 1940s Corporatist State trick once again, but it cannot be seen in the same light: it should be presented as the opposite.
So anti-anti-fascism will be demonized if not banned.
True anti-fascists, such as those who cling to the Constitution, will be called right wing. Defenders of the family or religion in the face of the state will be called white supremacists. This has already begun.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 5:38 PM Reply to Tom Larsen

"How do you get that out of what Greenwald says?"

Because of his pretense that voting matters or the law matters. The law is ignored, applied or restructured according to whom it serves, which is the cabal who run the world through governments, the monetary system, the legal system and NGOs that hide the criminal acts and the fraud behind their use of the law.

Greenwald doesn't expose what happened yesterday as a filmed, orchestrated psychological operation to create a false narrative to allow for the restrictions on civil liberties that were already written years ago and require manufactured incidents such as this staged coup and all the other staged events like 9-11, terrorism and fake pandemics to justify their passage.

This entire farce is playing out exactly as the Transition Integrity Project outlined.

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 7:19 PM Reply to Researcher

RE: Because of his pretense that voting matters or the law matters. The law is ignored, applied or restructured according to whom it serves

Well, I guess everything is hunky dory then, same as it ever was. Fascism is just a state mind, right?

Greenwald clearly leaves open the possibility that this was orchestrated. At the time of his writing, there was not enough info to say that. He's not you , he requires decent sources.

This was not how the TIP script was written. They anticipated a perceived Trump win. Not that it matters much anymore.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 9:54 PM Reply to Tom Larsen

TIP did not anticipate a Trump win. Did you read the scenarios?

My observations are based on understanding that fascism presented with illusory voting is still fascism. Whatever political flavor it's marketed as, is irrelevant.

Greenwald's lies including those about Reality Winner and her fake NSA-Russia hacking documents make him a completely unreliable source, period. Also his insistence that Trump was set up with the Russia hacking and collusion story when Trump and his team were part of the entire plot from its inception and Russiagate was used to make Trump appear like he was a victim of the "Deep State" and liberal media, reveal Greenwald's dishonesty.

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 10:07 PM Reply to Researcher

RE: TIP did not anticipate a Trump win. Did you read the scenarios?

I don't remember seeing a scenario where Trump loses. It was months ago and a very long article. If you can point it out, that would be appreciated.

RE: My observations are based on understanding that fascism presented with illusory voting is still fascism.

Then I would say that you make no distinction between fascism and liberal democracy. I am an anti-capitalist, so I see fascism as a subset of capitalism. Structurally, the differences between them are not huge, nonetheless there are important differences especially regarding civil liberties. As to voting, I would refer to Emma Goldman.

RE: make him a completely unreliable source,

You are entitled to your opinion. I think that is a self-limiting and unwise position to take. That means you'll only consider sources that you agree with 100%. You're making your own information silo.

Bob the Hod , Jan 8, 2021 5:36 PM Reply to Researcher

I guess he just doesn't see it like that, and that's fine, it's his right to have that opinion, and it's his right to not to divulge all of his personal opinions if he thinks that some of them could alienate him from his readers or land him in trouble in some way.

I think you're right. But I think he's speaking a lot of truth too, on another level.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 7:18 PM Reply to Bob the Hod

But surely that's his purpose. To provide 80% truth and 20% untruth through purposeful omission of the most important points. I don't know the exact proportion, I am only using the 80%-20% as a tool for demonstration purposes because I don't read any Greenwald at all since he started working for the Intercept.

The problem I have with people like Greenwald and others who have connections to the Intelligence Community, is that the 20% they don't reveal is far more valuable than the 80% we already know.

SCHOPENHAUER'S LAW OF ENTROPY -- If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel of sewage, you have sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel of wine, you have sewage.

George Mc , Jan 8, 2021 1:35 PM

I suspect things will start moving fast now. Our overlords may suspect that the COVID maneuver has weaknesses and cannot be prolonged indefinitely unless an acceleration is applied. And I hear yet again about the ambulance service being stretched to the utmost of cliché mongering.

Yup there it is: "unprecedented pressure that the NHS is facing" etc. Hospitals too busy with cases but hang on – some good news: a new vaccine from Coke or is it Pepsi?

No matter – the "completely unforeseen and not at all forced" pressure on the NHS will continue. And that won't matter because we have innumerable vax chancers to grind out well as much vax as is needed to keep the gravy train going.

Donald Tute , Jan 8, 2021 2:21 PM Reply to Arby

I was never in any doubt, that this is just a GCHQ operation.

Norm , Jan 8, 2021 12:50 PM

The crazed attempt by the establishment to completely censor Trump, and then to take down Trump via 25th Amendment or impeachment with just 2 weeks left in his administration, smacks of something they desperately fear: His release of extremely damaging classified materials or the dissemination of other information that he can only do as president.

But the idea that he can unilaterally order the careerist members of the armed forces to take over the country, never mind a bunch of yahoos supposedly controlling the capitol building (without inside help), for his benefit is beyond ludicrous. Not for a president whose administration had widespread open insubordination, trumpeted without consequences by MSM.

Only in a nation half in denial, which is their cognitive dissonance resolution for the incessant "news" stream supporting Big Lies that is jammed down their throats 24/7, can this occur.

Asylum , Jan 8, 2021 2:06 PM Reply to Norm

The elephant in the room which you left out

...D.C. National Guard to be mobilized for 30 days, including for Biden inauguration
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/national-guard-mobilized-for-30-days-including-biden-inauguration.html

Bilejones , Jan 8, 2021 12:48 PM

Paul Craig Roberts gets it about right.
What happened, Why and what's next.
https://www.unz.com/proberts/americas-color-revolution-2/

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 1:28 PM Reply to Bilejones

This was a Charlottesville-style set up. Expect more of them.

With all the tens of Billions of dollars pumped into State Security and the massive surveillance industry, we are told that the Capitol was unprepared for a rally that had been announced weeks in advance.

Every event is conducted with an eye to promoting the same themes in the press. Military intelligence is disciplined not creative. You will know psyops by their familiar M.O., the familiar beneficiary and the familiar headlines in the press.

K Ford , Jan 8, 2021 12:44 PM

Today I am afraid.

Not for me, but for the people I see around me.

The return of the thousand yard stare – a symptom of those who feel fear, from whatever cause, or from a situation which is perceived as beyond any kind of optimism. Usually seen from photos of Vietnam conflict.

The German photographer, Ute Mahler, portrays this in her photo series from the former East Germany. Her subjects unintentionally have the look in their eyes – the lost look – the knowledge that the future is undetermined and unfathomable.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/06/ute-mahler-images-real-east-germany-in-pictures

[Jan 09, 2021] The Storming of the Capitol - America s Reichstag Fire

NO, not everybody behaved as "visitors". There were violent hooligans as well who got into lawmakers offices and stole things. Were they provicators or onot God knows. But this was a mob. Mass of people without organization., without leadership and without any program.
Notable quotes:
"... ... what happened was an classical highjacking of an event proclaimed in days before it was due to happen, and they where prepared, bussed in the storm troops, and the event that followed was allowed to happen ..."
"... Operation Gladio America? A false flag with a state sponsored murder of an unarmed young woman for flavor? The elites including the Republicans and Democrats staged the event-me thinks. Pence was their man in place. An elitist. Good cover for not wanting to verify the election results which, either way it had gone, would have at least brought closure. Like the results or not. ..."
"... They want control. ..."
"... Lets stop pretending that the far-right as represented by that crowd yesterday are the cuddly freedom lovers and that the democrats are the hateful tyrants. Politically they are are both faces of the corporate fascist state that uses the people as tools in their greedy claims to power. ..."
"... Obviously, these "protests" were a staged event, and participants had the same minuscule mental caliber as the persons who put them up to it. These types of disruptions will make passage of needed legislation and corrections of improper Laws next to impossible. ..."
"... The protests were genuine, peaceful and quite possibly organic. However, the "storming", the "insurrection", the "coup" of the Capitol building was orchestrated to create a climate of fear (like 9/11) to serve a political end. ..."
"... As the Establishment spins it this will be used to concentrate their power, criminalize dissent and crush any organized opposition. They don't want to repeal the Patriot Act, they want to expand it! That is exactly why Tulsi's principled bill will go nowhere. ..."
"... like Cuomo said, "Where does it say protests have to be peaceful?" ..."
"... Trump was never more than a bloviating, empty vessel. He expected other people to fight for him, but never fought for himself. Millions who put their faith in him and supported him now face persecution and worse from a vengeful democrat establishment controlling Congress and the presidency. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

The media are already spinning a narrative around the events in Washington DC. One that bears no resemblance to reality, does not hold up to any kind of scrutiny and will have massive, far-reaching consequences for all of us.

They're calling it "one of the darkest days in our nations history", a day that will "live in infamy". It will likely be memed into a shorthand date – 1/6/21, like 9/11 and 7/7. It will be the day "American democracy was attacked and prevailed", the day the nation nearly fell to "fascists".

It will become just one more grand sweeping illusion upon which the teetering structures of US Imperial power are built.

The story we are being told goes as follows:


Yesterday, as congress was preparing to pass the vote endorsing Joe Biden's election victory, thousands of violent right-wing thugs stormed the Capitol building.

Acting according to Trump's wishes, and with his endorsement, these domestic terrorists overran the police barricades in an attempt to overthrow the senate and preserve Trump's presidency.

Fortunately the police were able to secure the situation, drive the violent rioters out and the democratic process was able to continue.

Not one single part of this story is true:

There was no "storming" There was no "incitement" There was no "violence" And the riot effectively ended Trump's presidency.

Let's tackle them one at a time.

* * *

1. There was no "storming". Rather videos show police opening barriers to let the "rioters" in.

In the entrance hall, the "violent thugs" respected the velvet ropes and kept in orderly lines, took a few selfies with the cops , posed for the press and – when the main events were over – they were quietly allowed to leave .

Compare and contrast the police's treatment of those people inside the capitol, with their later treatment of protesters breaking curfew on the streets .

2. There was no "incitement". All of Trump's social media posts on the subject instructed people to "go home" "with peace and love".

Is that inciting violence?

Twitter and facebook took the totally unprecedented step of completely removing those posts, and blocked him posting any further. They claimed to be preventing further violence, but it looks more like they concealed Trump's denunciations of violence.

3. There was no violence. Indeed whether or not Trump "incited" anything is moot, because there was no violence. Disregard the reports of chemical weapons, pipe bombs or IEDs – none of which ever appeared. None of the "rioters" are as yet shown to have hurt anyone.

The only person reportedly killed or injured was a protester allegedly shot by the police. Compare and contrast the attitude of the media to this "violence", vs the "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests all last summer.

4. The riot ended Trump's presidency. Although the Congressional session was widely described in the press as the "confirmation vote" for Joe Biden's election victory, it was actually rather more than that.

VP Mike Pence was chairing a joint-session which intended to allow full speeches from those opposing the election and maintaining there had been fraud.

The violence brought this session to an end prematurely, totally undermined Trump's legal and procedural challenges and killed any chance he had of overturning the electoral college vote. No sooner was the "attack" over, than many of the Republicans in both houses who were planning to oppose Biden's election backed-down

More than that, it seems Trump's "incitement" of the rioters means he may well be removed from office by enforcement of the 25th amendment , which would end not just this term, but make it illegal for him to run again in the future .

Facebook and Twitter have outright banned him from posting . The press and television pundits are openly accusing him of treason and sedition.

So, who has really benefitted from the "chaos at the Capitol"? Because it surely isn't Donald Trump.

One should always be wary of any event which "accidentally" achieves the exact opposite of its stated or apparent intent.

* * *

In the title, I refer to this as America's Reichstag fire , and that's not just emotive language, the parallels are pretty clear: A staged attack on a political building, deliberately misattributed to political enemies and used to consolidate the power of a freshly installed leader.

Even the media coverage is similar, the Nazi government and their tools in the press talked about it in the same exact terms as the US establishment is describing this farcical "coup attempt". Aiming to terrify people into thinking they were on the verge of an all-out civil war.

Read this quote, and ask yourself if it couldn't be lifted almost completely from the front page of the Washington Post or New York Times today:

The burning of the Reichstag was intended to be the signal for a bloody uprising and civil war. Large-scale pillaging in Berlin was planned for as early as four o'clock in the morning on Tuesday. It has been determined that starting today throughout Germany acts of terrorism were to begin against prominent individuals, against private property, against the lives and safety of the peaceful population, and general civil war was to be unleashed

Within 24 hours of the Reichstag burning, the German President had passed the Reichstag Fire Decree , which declared a state of emergency that totally reversed every civil right the Weimar Republic had guaranteed its citizens:

Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of (opinion) expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications.

While these freedoms have already been severely undermined in the US by the Patriot Act and its successors, those few rights left to American citizens will definitely be under threat once Trump is finally removed and Biden (or Harris) is put in his place.

Although there is not yet any talk of legislation, it's certainly true there are whispers of purges and other measures to "protect the constitution".

Some prominent voices are calling for all lawmakers backing Trump to be expelled from office . The Washington Post claimed "seditious Republicans must be held accountable" .

The anti-social media campaign has begun again in earnest too, with Parler and GAB already being blamed for allowing "violent language" on their platforms.

As Twitter and Facebook limit discussion, alternative platforms will be shutdown. Enforcing a corporate monopoly that cooperates with the state the very definition of fascism.

All this in the name of protecting the nation from "neo-nazi thugs" or "white supremacists" or other phantom threats. In the name of "protecting the constitution", they are tearing it to pieces. In the name of "preventing a coup", they are carrying one out in front of our eyes.

It puts in mind Huey Long's famous quote when asked if fascism would ever come to America:

Sure, we'll have Fascism in this country and we'll call it anti-Fascism."



Robbobbobin
, Jan 9, 2021 12:52 AM

1. Rather videos show police opening barriers to let the "rioters" in.

The linked video starts with a section the fence already removed and, if it were ever there, where it is when the shot opens. No evidence of who removed (?) it – protesters or the police or no-one. Maybe there is a clip which resolves the question, but the linked video is not it and the commentary reports only police-protester 'squabbling'. Stopped reading there. There is 'evidence' of something and there is 'not-evidence'. This is 'not-evidence'. Waiting for an update that includes a either a definitive clip or that presents no such unsupported claim as 'evidence'.

mikael , Jan 9, 2021 12:09 AM

Once again OffG you nailed it thruoutly, realy good.

Some advices, I dont jump on some for me an bit over the top nonsense, events like this have been highjacked before, it happens regulary all over the world even in Norway, even when they where demostrating about issues as AGW, where 99.9% was peaceful, the problem starts when the Gov dont want it to be to big, or for whatever reason, they put provos and civil clouthed Cops in the front and have them to create the havoc needed to end this demonstration, or pays others, incl so called "anarcist" groups to do just that, like in the YW in France, black clad people creating violence, and thereby the reasons to intervine, its standard procedure, back in time as far I can remeber.

To them drool something about operation Gladio is dragging it a bit to far, this was nothing but an standard tactic for creating an false flag and then the reasons to engage into protective issues as we are experiencing right now when the MSM and others are creating narratives as rightwinged domestic terrorists, etc, and focuses in an small group witch highjacked everything and killed the genuine cause and reason for this demonstartion witch took place, since it was an coup, we all know that.

Yea, fascinating isnt it, some can riot, create no go zones unless of course if only BLM and f . everything ellse, and burns down inner citys, police stations, smal bizzenizzes, kill inocent people, incl blacks, execute cildren, harass anyone whom they dont like, attack with violence people whom they find to be politicaly not on their side and accuses them for been everything from Nazis, racists, white ass supremacys, rightwinged, etc, you name it, and all thru this months of unrest, the same people and MSMs whom is now hyping uh . iligale ciolent protests or even better, domestic terrorism, rightwinged terror, etc, what could possibly go wrong, yup, reality is derailing in real time, even the radical fake left, by the way, they are not left, nor socialists, maybe an commie or two, but the fake lefts job was to make sure this times, the last year, was to marginalise and polarize society, with of course promisses never intended to be kept, and right before this uh . event, even the DNCs ignored them, but now, once again they can roam free with narratives as cleansing, etc to rightwinged, of course anyone whom dont suck up their bullshit have to be an nazi.
Hallelujah.

So, why do you apologize, tell me, why, you sould never, never, never apoligize, never, bitches.

Thousands of people did the right thing, protested non voilently, took an stand and went there to make sure we all saw it, and did nothing, absolutely nothing wrong, never forget that, so why the bloody hell do you crawl in front of the scumbags in charge and apologize, people with no spine do that, even when they have to admit things that wasn't done by anyone of them, because they didn't do anything wrong.

... what happened was an classical highjacking of an event proclaimed in days before it was due to happen, and they where prepared, bussed in the storm troops, and the event that followed was allowed to happen because of what you experience now, in the aftermath of the protest, read the MSM, witch the corpoRat bitches and general fake left scums howl, the tech facists cencures everybody whom isnt pimping their propaganda, even an president, and the political theater where they compet about been the best butt cheek spreader for the elite, yeah, what did you expect, they did what their masters told them to do, throw the people of the UssA under the buss, for an fist full of shekles.

Never, forget and never ever forgive the teason you watch unfold this days, they think in short terms, and forgets there comes an time when they will be elected again, what you must never forget is that when that time comes, you must have your options ready, fight back, and kick them all out.
But, never apologize, it was your god dammed duty to protest, because we all know this was an coup.

peace

Leo , Jan 8, 2021 11:50 PM

Operation Gladio America? A false flag with a state sponsored murder of an unarmed young woman for flavor? The elites including the Republicans and Democrats staged the event-me thinks. Pence was their man in place. An elitist. Good cover for not wanting to verify the election results which, either way it had gone, would have at least brought closure. Like the results or not.

But, They don't want closure, they want chaos. They want control.

The good thing is that the Republican Party is now dead, may it rest in pieces. Losing over 74 Million voters plus ( Trump obviously won by a landslide, hence the overt and obvious theft, and add to that atrocity; the overt prevention of an open, honest inquiry of the election). Huge loss never to be gained back. A Trump comes around only once in a crumbling empire. No RINO was (or will) attract those many and diverse votes.

But, the other Silver lining is the implosion of the brain dead Democratic Party can I get an "A-woman!" re "A-women" "A.. . Gender Fluid Woman". Sheesh! Underway is an emerging progressive party that is fully aware of the fraud going on in the "Bizarre -O- World of the Zombies" Leadersh*t.

So America did do extremely well at least as far as "Woke – ness" is concerned. The operation of the Idiocracy of a Harris Administration is "swamp business as usual" with an avalanche of oppressive acts. The sis woman has no morals. Lucky us.

Geoffrey Skoll , Jan 8, 2021 8:32 PM

US Reichstag Fire was 9/11. Of course this Jan 6 event was a show. The Constitution was burned long ago. First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law . . abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble . . ." It does NOT say "except when some people are sick." By the way, for both right and left wing trolls, I am a revolutionary communist and Wobbly. This is not Germany 1933, 1934, or even 1938. The USA is Germany 1942, on the eve of the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution January 20 1942. Watch for it.

To Kit: Keep up the attempts to keep people rational.

Ken Garoo , Jan 8, 2021 8:04 PM

Some strange goings on happened at the protest, for sure

Someone published a photo of the protestors at the White House, framed through a gallows with a noose hanging down from the gallows. This symbol was used by radical right Zionists in Israel to frame images of Yitzhak Rabin shortly before he was assassinated by a zealot.

https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/06/democracy-the-noose-and-the-coffin/

There is also an interesting back story to one of the more outlandishly dressed protestors.

This guy, wearing a raccoon skin cloak and a bullet-proof vest marked 'police' is Aaron Mostofsky, a Brooklyn Orthodox Jew whose father is New York State Superior Court judge and powerful Democratic Party leader.

https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/07/at-maga-rally-israeli-flag-and-neo-nazis-co-exist-awkwardly/

Kathryn Barbour , Jan 8, 2021 7:43 PM

Great encapsulation of our situation. Compared to the 2014 (?) overthrow WE fomented in the Ukraine, where legislators and the president fled for their lives through flames and flying bullets, it was tame. Joe Biden has bragged about his leadership role in it all. And carpetbagged there during Obama's presidency, something Biden is still unapologetic about.

Luckily dark clouds have their silver linings:

Trump's supporters are getting a chance to experience the ire and negation of their patriotism that he has had to endure since getting into office.

Mad with bloodlust, the warmongers from DC to Tel Aviv are lining up new wars to wage now that Trump is not there to obstruct them. Meanwhile, to the calm and clear-eyed the moral high ground is more obvious than ever, and they long ago stopped listening to the propaganda that rules the airways. This is an opportune time for alliances among conservatives and progressives to coalesce and form a solid base for a third party that will rise from the dust of the Democratic and Republican dross.

Taking a long look back at 2020, it is clear now that COVID was launched on the world with the precise goal of removing Donald Trump from office. Live free or die must now be our only aim, to preserve the Republic. To all who read these words, know that you were born for this moment. We will and must win this, or say goodbye to humanity as we know it.

Love conquers all.

George Mc , Jan 8, 2021 7:41 PM

One tell-tale sign of media bullshit is the story which is assembled suspiciously quickly and never varies thereafter. As in the case of the Oswald-shot-Kennedy or bin Laden "did" 9/11, the story comes along with preternatural haste and remains impervious to later findings until enough time passes for it to become a historical curiosity.

So Trump "instigated" this "coup" and this story gets endlessly recycled and so I caught a bit about how "we" can get Trump to "admit what he's done" etc.

...

Andre , Jan 8, 2021 6:52 PM

Spot on and again it is about the Dems projecting, i.e. blaming Trump for their own coup(first attempt being the RussiaHoax, projecting their own acts on to Trump)...

Capture , Jan 8, 2021 6:39 PM

Lets stop pretending that the far-right as represented by that crowd yesterday are the cuddly freedom lovers and that the democrats are the hateful tyrants. Politically they are are both faces of the corporate fascist state that uses the people as tools in their greedy claims to power.

Paul Vonharnish , Jan 8, 2021 6:15 PM

Obviously, these "protests" were a staged event, and participants had the same minuscule mental caliber as the persons who put them up to it. These types of disruptions will make passage of needed legislation and corrections of improper Laws next to impossible.

Tulsi Gabbard introduces bill to REPEAL PATRIOT Act – House Bill lnumber HR8970 December 16, 2020 JUST IN: Tulsi Gabbard introduces bill to REPEAL PATRIOT Act – YouTube

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 7:43 PM Reply to Paul Vonharnish

The protests were genuine, peaceful and quite possibly organic. However, the "storming", the "insurrection", the "coup" of the Capitol building was orchestrated to create a climate of fear (like 9/11) to serve a political end.

As the Establishment spins it this will be used to concentrate their power, criminalize dissent and crush any organized opposition. They don't want to repeal the Patriot Act, they want to expand it! That is exactly why Tulsi's principled bill will go nowhere.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 8, 2021 5:33 PM

"Nan's Nuclear Meltdown!", or: "Nan' Jumps Shark!" – Film At 11'

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-pelosi-called-military-chief-about-unhinged-trump-s-access-n1253501

Capture , Jan 8, 2021 5:32 PM

Nobody in America is prepared to fight for democracy because they do not understand like their ancestors did, why it is like to live in a tyranny, That goes for all western countries now.

Ger , Jan 8, 2021 6:50 PM Reply to Capture

WW1 and WW2 the goy were brainwashed just like today , msm is still in the same hands .

paul , Jan 8, 2021 4:52 PM

Within less than 24 hours, it was clear that many things were not quite right, and this was obviously a staged, engineered event.

"Buffalo Man" has already been shown to be a professional actor from Arizona. The whole thing had a theatrical quality.

Nobody was hurt (at least not by the demonstrators.) There was no significant damage to property. A few doors and windows were damaged. Papers were strewn around. People helped themselves to a few souvenirs. No politicians were assaulted, threatened or taken hostage.

Compare this to the protracted rioting over the summer, CNN's "peaceful protests." Entire city blocks looted and burnt out in multiple cities over 100 consecutive nights. Thousands of grocery and liquor store businesses belonging to Mr. Singh and Mr. Patel gone. People murdered for wearing MAGA hats. No Go Areas set up with complete impunity. A "Summer Of Love." No sanctimonious hand wringing and pearl clutching then. But like Cuomo said, "Where does it say protests have to be peaceful?"

All the senators and congressmen cheered themselves hoarse when incomparably greater violence was directed at legislatures in Ukraine, Hong Kong, Bolivia and Venezuela. They deserve little sympathy. They are vile, evil, corrupt people.

Trump wanted a mass demonstration at the Capitol in the hope that it might put some backbone into spineless Republican jellyfish for the first time in their lives. A noisy but peaceful mass protest was in his interests. A violent one was not. There would have been a challenge to a blatantly rigged and stolen election. This did not take place. Instead, we have a blanket dismissal of the evidence by the MSM, condemning "Trump's lies", "Trump's baseless allegations", "Trump's fraudulent claims."

This will just be a new episode in the consensus reality that is created, immune to any evidence, like 9/11, Wmd in Iraq, Skripal, Russiagate, Corbyn's anti semitism, White Helmets, and all the rest. If in doubt, we can always turn to Johnson or Merkel or Trudeau for moral guidance on the issue.

We can already see the uses to which the incident is being put. Rigid censorship by the MSM and Silicon Valley, starting with Trump himself. Sweeping new powers for the FBI against "domestic terrorists." Surprisingly, Putin has not yet been blamed. No doubt this omission will soon be rectified. More calls for Impeachment/ Pence to remove Trump.

Surprisingly, there has been little interest in the dead woman, who seems to have been memory holed already. This seems to be an echo of Charlottesville, where a woman was also killed at another staged and manipulated event. Charlottesville was crawling with operatives of the Trump-hating FBI. The leader of the "Tiki Torch Nazi Rally" was a democrat activist.

Trump was never more than a bloviating, empty vessel. He expected other people to fight for him, but never fought for himself. Millions who put their faith in him and supported him now face persecution and worse from a vengeful democrat establishment controlling Congress and the presidency.

Trump's appointments, apart from early ones like Tillerson and Sessions, which weren't just bad, were almost uniformly disastrous. Pompeo, Bolton (on orders from Adelson), Pence, Kushner, Ivanka peddling her knickers and jewellery, the list is long and undistinguished. They ignored him and actively undermined him to promote their own agendas. Instead of just sacking them, or never appointing them in the first place, Trump was reduced to whining and bleating about them on Twitter, like a latter day King Lear with the benefit of modern technology. And even that consolation is no longer available to him.

Perhaps he would have done better with Bannon and Giuliani, however reptilian they may be.

No doubt a lot more will emerge about this distinctly non-organic event in the near future, to be dutifully ignored by the MSM. They will seek above all to preserve the illusion of democracy to impress the simple minded.

ray , Jan 8, 2021 10:12 PM Reply to paul

Good analysis. Donald never brought in the strong new blood he needed, and said he would hire during the first campaign. Then he sets up Ivanka and Jared as the power-couple of his admin, to rule over the WH.

This guy is supposed to be some genius and finding the right people and retaining them, but couldn't get that job done in his own WH and admin.

lynette cracknell chaplin , Jan 8, 2021 10:20 PM Reply to Jacob Paul

There is virtually no difference between the 2 American parties, they are both ruled by the muili billionaire oligarchy, but the 75 million people who voted for Trump are mostly middle class God fearing and patriotic people who at long last saw Trump as a president who represented them.

George Mc , Jan 8, 2021 4:37 PM

Disasters are always excellent opportunities for re-shaping in the most drastic ways. Hard won and long-time held protections can be undone very easily under conveniently mutable "extreme situations". And any objections can be met with "Don't you know there's a war/ crisis/ pandemic on?"

Edwige , Jan 8, 2021 4:17 PM

Biden's election win finally certified at . 3.33am.

exiled off mainstreet , Jan 8, 2021 6:22 PM Reply to Edwige

That is funny. It is just about the same time the vans with forged ballots arrived simultaneously in various states where the counting had "stopped' until the result could be remedied.

Paul Vonharnish , Jan 8, 2021 5:37 PM Reply to Moneycircus

Hello Moneycircus: All planned by DNC players, and the planned purpose of the flag event:

"CONGRESS WAS HEARING OBJECTIONS TO THE ELECTION
PROTESTERS SHUT DOWN HEARING
Evidence of voter fraud was being submitted to the record – cancelled
Petitioning for a 10-day investigation – cancelled
Not expecting to overturn results but wanted to pursue process – cancelled
Goal was transparency – cancelled"

Excellent analysis.

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 5:56 PM Reply to Paul Vonharnish

It's cynical beyond belief.

S Cooper , Jan 8, 2021 4:05 PM Reply to TFS

"Pathetic that the Republicrats (the criminal racket so corrupt it needs two aliases) have decided to descend to the level of a rather bad soap opera before they take SHAM DEMOCRACY USA full Third Reich. Here is a thought, the WAR RACKETEER CORPORATE FASCIST OLIGARCH MOBSTER OLIGARCHS should give back everything that they have stolen from WE THE PEOPLE (HUMANITY ). Then turn themselves in to be held accountable for their many CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. The World will be a better and more peaceful place after they do.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsL6mKxtOlQ

https://www.deviantart.com/redamerican1945/art/Eugene-V-Debs-Republican-Democratic-Party-674343047

Mr Y , Jan 8, 2021 3:24 PM

In case my fellow commenters think I'm a troll etc: Deleting that Trump video where he tell people to go home is a very alarming act; there's def something fishy going on.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 6:15 PM Reply to Mr Y

How is it alarming? Because they can censor any speech, no matter how seemingly innocuous? We know, thanks.

Social media corporations operate through government contracts and licenses, feeding all the data you input into secret files on you and everyone on earth. They then profit by reselling that info without your consent or knowledge and by targeting you with ads and disinfo, 24-7. They are not publishers, they are not social. They are spying networks that function as legal profiteering entities directly partnering with corrupt governments, to manage their distracted ignorant populaces like chattering, mimetic mind monkeys, by playing useless games of online telephone called "retweeting" which is just another word for re-dissemination.

Why do people want to be part of that mind control system? That's more worrying to me than a cabal spokesperson being faux silenced.

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 2:46 PM

Whitney Webb :
"If one of these guys is an actor it's more likely they are paid provocateurs who go to rallies on the left and the right. That does not mean they are Antifa or BLM. It's more likely they are on the FBI payroll.

"If you are Trump supporter you should be aware you are walking into a trap with this crap. If you are a critical thinker on the left you should be freaked out that the crazy Biden administration is full of evil neocons like Victoria Nuland, who is back, and they have control of the House and the Senate so they are going to ram through the most authoritarian, 6uild 6ack 6etter, Great Reset imaginable We need to divert the path away from this clusterfuck that they are arming."

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 3:54 PM Reply to Moneycircus

They always have control of the House and the Senate because both parties work for the same side. Political parties have to appear oppositional, otherwise the scam would be exposed for everyone to see.

Bob the Hod , Jan 8, 2021 4:41 PM Reply to Researcher

While that is true to an extent, it isn't nearly that simple. There are individuals within those parties working against one another and with one another, factions within factions pulling in different directions. There is subtlety and nuance within power structures that is easily missed if you regard the whole thing as one homogenous blob. It is never, ever that simple. There are out and out psychopaths there, there are decent people there, there is every shade in between. The system favours psychopaths, that's for sure. The news that they try to feed us is nothing but theatre, but behind the scenes there is a lot that goes on that we don't know about, human flaws and egos abound.

Shit certainly rises to the top, and backstabbing shit at that. Human history is littered with examples of it. We've got where we are because psychopaths rule. Their main loyalty is to themselves. That's why the absurd horseshit espoused by Ayn Rand has come to be mainstream political doctrine. It's always worth remembering that these apparently monolithic power structures are built on the shoulders of inherently flawed individuals and they can and do collapse.

Paul Vonharnish , Jan 8, 2021 5:56 PM Reply to Bob the Hod

Hello Bob the Hod: I agree with the notion that certain individuals within these organizations often uphold their own sense of nuance and decency. Tulsi Gabbard would be an excellent example These persons are overridden by others who are more privy to lobby/PAC interests and media attention

I totally disagree with your assessment of Ayn Rand. If you read her work "Atlas Shrugged", she is warning the audience against the inherent collapse of systems which are corrupted by money, title, and "special" influence. The final chapters detail the dire consequences quite well.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 6:28 PM Reply to Bob the Hod

I don't agree. At all. Those individuals are there only to provide the illusion that there are individual views or beliefs being proffered. Whatever power structures exist within those various groups is normal infighting that occurs within hierarchical structures where people jockey for position based on personal objectives whether that be greed or narcissism. None of that infighting is connected to the functionaries and system that controls policies or agendas because those are predetermined decades ahead.

If you step outside the system, you will be ousted. If you can't be immediately ousted, you will be taken out one way or another. A scandal. A threat. An accident. A political challenger. Access and privileges rescinded. Donations dried up. Unanswered phone calls and emails. Everybody knows this before they get into politics. The only reason they're there is to get in on the gravy train.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 2:24 PM

The silencing and censoring is part of the faux drama. If social media can appear to censor the president, it justifies the broader censoring already taking place. Countries already restrict which sites we are allowed visit or know exist through our ISP's and our search results. The cyber pandemic and faux hacking is created to censor and restrict our access even more, which will morph into approved words, approved sites, approved and monitored online activities.

The president has never once gone off script. Everything is staged. They stage "events" and script "narratives" to justify the laws they already intend to pass that were written years ahead.

Voting doesn't matter. Governments are legal constructs that protect criminal racketeering. Nobody gets near the presidency who isn't born into the club. The same goes for Prime Ministerial positions.

All sides work for the same people. They are in a club of criminals and psychopaths and there is no movement within that milieu. Presidents have no agency. They are figureheads. Spokespeople for the criminal cartel.

Trump is a long time money launderer for the Rothschild-Rockefeller cartel. And a reality show actor on television.

Trump has no reason whatsoever to be deposed other than it was planned this way by the people who hired the Transition Integrity Project to write the script to create the staged coup.

Gwyn , Jan 8, 2021 4:09 PM Reply to Researcher

Very concisely (and accurately) put. It's all just staging, actors and scripts. Those who run the show have got it all sewn up (and they have done for a very long time).

Donald Tute , Jan 8, 2021 2:17 PM

Trump looking weak, failed and dejected hides what could have been. It could have been scary and it could all have got very out of control very quickly if his demands had have been met.

Aniesush , Jan 8, 2021 2:08 PM

Trump looking weak, failed and dejected hides what could have been. It could have been scary and it could have got very out of control very quickly if his demands had have been met.

It was clear for anyone to see that Trump has been fishing for support for a coup over the past few months, but it never came to anything. The military kept their powder Dry for reasons best known by them.

God only knows what calls were being made behind the scenes between politicians, the military and big tech during these past few weeks, but in the end the coup failed. I suspect because the traditional power bases who might have gained from the overthrow of this 'democracy' are already doing very well inside the corrupt system, So why overthrow it.

I totally disagree that the new fascist will be anti-fascists. Traditional fascists are still the real danger, despite your many attempts to make them the heroes, and despite Trumps failure, are growing in influence every day as the CIA & groups like you clears a path for them in the media, in parliament and in every day life.

[Jan 09, 2021] It might well be a joint operation staged by the Republicans and Democratsand managed by the CIA, and FBI infiltrators that would have been among the extreme Trump supporters from the beginning of his presidency.

Notable quotes:
"... Whatever pantomime is being played out – trump has to be part of it. There is simply no way his team would not have foreseen this. Just another distraction to keep the people fighting each other – and conveniently bring in the further restrictions we could all see coming. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

IanGB , Jan 8, 2021 1:02 AM

Is it not just as likely that this was staged by the Republicans and Democrats as a joint operation and managed by the CIA, FBI infiltrators that would have been among the extreme Trump supporters from the beginning of his presidency.

Mitch McConnell and the 'sane' Republicans want shot of Trump. They don't want him going around the country for the next four years rallying his supporters for a second shot at the presidency for himself or Jared. They want to get back to business as usual and Biden will go along with them if they finish off Trump.

What better way than painting support of Trump being an attack on the constitution and its symbols, almost a sacred text and icons for a large numbers of Americans. This way they cut away large swathes of his regular Republican support who see this as crossing a line. Then start planning for the next election without the distraction of Trump.

Martin , Jan 8, 2021 2:38 AM Reply to IanGB

You make a good point for why it might have been joint effort – thanks for that thought. I even wonder if Trump was part of it as well. But to the Republican's detriment – we who supported Trump are as sick of the Repub traitors as the Democrats. Cotton, Paul – shitheads. I think disguised antifa scum were the provocateurs here but hurray for all Patriots there that were emboldened to enter on their heels. You should check out the Tiktok photo showing the Congress overrun. Good for them! Hell, there's nothing in that building worth respecting anymore. The party system is corrupt beyond repair.

Serf , Jan 8, 2021 12:48 AM

That could well be a Rehearsal rather than an actual staging. The clue being, the number of casualties was kept at a very strict minimum. You might argue, the loss of prestige for this militaristic country is enormous, but that can be easily fixed by our skillful Media.

4 killed, i would say, if I borrow from Obama's wisdom, this number is not worth talking about it.

Despair! , Jan 7, 2021 11:53 PM

Whatever pantomime is being played out – trump has to be part of it. There is simply no way his team would not have foreseen this. Just another distraction to keep the people fighting each other – and conveniently bring in the further restrictions we could all see coming.

What is there left to do. Accept our lot in life, the cycle of humanity. Reflect and look within – its not what I want materially – spiritually maybe – but either way it feels that really is all we can do.

Cal , Jan 7, 2021 11:55 PM

Obama said 'Trump incited violence at Capitol' https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1347014070096957443?s=20

S Cooper , Jan 8, 2021 12:15 AM Reply to Cal

That coming from the war criminal that had Gaddafi lynched. What a slimy crocodile teared hypocrite, liar and charlatan. "We came, we saw, he died." https://ewn.co.za/2011/10/22/Tutu-slams-Gaddafis-killing

[Jan 09, 2021] Except ANTIFA are government employees

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

Jan 8, 2021 11:14 AM

According to one of my US sources "ANTIFA members stormed our capital building. They dressed as Trump supporters (I'll call them MAGA for short)." My source supplied this video which shows MAGA supporters begging with Antifa actors to stop.

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media?thread_id=637455114&attachment_id=1541417792717407&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAAFtLc99Etvowl24ZY6Lsfxu

You can clearly hear them shouting "No Antifa", 5 -6 Reply

Cal , Jan 8, 2021 12:44 PM Reply to John Goss

Except ANTIFA are government employees

[Jan 09, 2021] Evidence of voter fraud was being submitted to the record cancelled; Petitioning for a 10-day investigation cancelled; Not expecting to overturn results but wanted to pursue process cancelled; Goal was transparency cancelled

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 4:01 PM

UK Column News – 8th January 2021
PART ONE

CONGRESS WAS HEARING OBJECTIONS TO THE ELECTION; PROTESTORS SHUT DOWN HEARING
Evidence of voter fraud was being submitted to the record – cancelled
Petitioning for a 10-day investigation – cancelled
Not expecting to overturn results but wanted to pursue process – cancelled
Goal was transparency – cancelled

TRUMP REALIZED THE ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT THE SITTING
Called on followers to "go home now. We have to have peace."
There is no incitement in any of his speeches – MSM is fake news.
Twitter deleted the Tweet. Big Tech did not want evidence Trump called for peace.
That disrupted the narrative that Trump was inciting riots.

POLITICS IS THE NEW HOLLYWOOD
David Corn: Donald Trump is now a Terrorist Leader
Rep David Trone: hysterical victim selfie in boy-in-bubble helmet.

BBC EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
Comparing headlines to video evidence is like two different worlds.

SUSPICIOUS DEATHS
Unarmed Air Force veteran was executed by a kill shot to head by plainclothes assassin.
Real story is unknown: to set an example. Was she a liability?
Gunman was roughly five feet behind her he could see she was unarmed.
She was a Trump supporter among a band of provocateurs.
MSM smeared her reputation, talked of domestic issues, painted her as "unstable woman."
No information on other four deaths. Left vague
Police officer also supposedly died after returning to his office.

ZUCKERBERG DELETE'S TRUMP'S FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS
JOINED TWITTER IN SHUTTING DOWN PRESIDENT

Here's the full post from Zuckerberg:

The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden. His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect -- and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence.

Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms.

Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.

We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.

What Zuckerberg asserts this is his media communication channel. You are privileged to use it even if you are the democratically elected president of the U.S. We shall decide if you communicate with the public.

Zuckerberg labels this violent insurrection yet the only violence was from the police. This is hugely partisan and anything but objective.

Patrick Henningsen: The U.S. has never before used this wording "the peaceful transition of power" -- it was a transfer of elected governments. In this new class of politicians it is only about power. We are entering a post-democratic society.

Mark Zuckerberg and spouse Priscilla Chan spend $400 million in the key six swing states to impose Dominion Voting Systems and to pay pollsters to influence voters in those same states.

FACT CHECKERS ASSERT WITHOUT CHECKING

Reuters, USA Today, Fact Check -- all insist members of Antifa were not identified in the Capitol by facial recognition using random insertion of "recognition" to glaze over the narrative. They had not spent any time investigating these individuals: it was all assertion.

DEMENTIA JOE CONDEMNS DOMESTIC TERRORISTS
"They were not protestors"
By denying civil disobedience he effectively condones a coup d'etat.
Crowd changed for people not to break windows, not to storm Capitol.
Attacks assault on the citadel of American liberty.
Joe Biden slurred his speech throughout. The man is barely lucid.

GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS PUT WHITE HOUSE ON LOCKDOWN
In June 2020, mobs burned White House church, tried to breach security
Joe Biden had nothing to say.
Democrats supported these actions when they didn't control government.

LUSTRATION – SHUTTING OUT RIVAL PARTIES
Patrick Henningsen: Democrats are calling for GOP to be broken up.
"Hold anyone linked to Trump accountable." – Hari Sevugan
"Draw up lists and hold them accountable" – AOC
Remove Congressmen who challenged election results
Simon & Schuster cancelled Josh Hawley's book contract.
This is a policy used in Ukraine after the coup to shut out parties that the new ruling clique did not like.

GUARDIANS OF DEMOCRACY CRITICIZE U.S.
ATTACK PEOPLE DEFENDING ELECTION INTEGRITY
Charles Michel – EU Council President (unelected)
Jans Stoltenberg – NATO Sec Gen (unelected)
Jacinta Ardern – NZ PM (authoritr*ns)
Nicola Sturgeon – Scotland PM (authoril*z)
Sociopathy toward the majority seems to be relevant.

UK Column News – 8th January 2021

https://www.youtube.com/embed/P6UAGpRGcQM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent

[Jan 09, 2021] BLM activist identified in mob that stormed Capitol, was present at veteran's killing, later detained by DC police

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 4:44 AM

BLM activist identified in mob that stormed Capitol, present at veteran's killing, later detained by DC police

"One of the men who was part of the siege of the Capitol building is John Earle Sullivan, an extreme BLM activist from Utah. He was arrested & charged in July 2020 over a BLM-antifa riot where drivers in Provo were threatened & one was shot." -- Andy Ngo

Sullivan was one of those filming US Air Force Veteran, Ashli Babbitt, as she was shot dead. Babbitt seems to have entered the Capitol on the coattails of a group of provocateurs, perhaps not realizing that she was the odd one out.

The prominent BLM activist said he was not at the Capitol as part of the protest but did not specify what exactly brought him there. Sullivan said he was able to get inside through a broken window.

The Daily Mail and CNN have both interviewed Sullivan.. neither asked what he was doing in the building in the middle of a group of supposed Trump supporters .

Numerous BLM/Antifa 'eventers' and the actor 'Viking horns' identified in the Capitol by Michael Snyder.

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 5:12 AM Reply to Moneycircus

"Interviewed last night by Anderson Cooper, who never asked this fellow why he was in the Capitol. "Two people who saw the shooting, left-wing activist John Sullivan and documentary filmmaker Jade Sacker, provided CNN with video of the incident and described the moment." -- Alan Burks

More on the progressive documentary maker Jade Sacker. A young lady, based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, who usually focuses on migration and women in conflict

[Jan 09, 2021] A police report on the Reichstag fire (1933)

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

DM: , Jan 7, 2021 11:23 PM

Hmm! Interesting report here:-
A police report on the Reichstag fire (1933) – document extract (alphahistory.com)

I pulled Göering aside; but he did not let me start. 'Police on an emergency footing; shoot to kill; and any other emergency regulations which might be appropriate in such a case.' I said again that a police radio message would be sent to all police stations in his name, putting the police in a state of alert and ordering the arrest of those Communist officials whose imprisonment had been intended for some time in the event of a ban on the Party. Göering was not listening: 'No Communist and no Social Democrat traitor must be allowed to escape us' were his last words.

When I met Schneider again I tried to collect my thoughts: 'This is a mad-house, Schneider, but apart from that the time has come: all Communist and Social Democrat officials are to be arrested, big raids, a state of alert and all that goes with it!'

Schneider forgot the Social Democrats when he passed on Göering's order as a radio message. When I returned to the 'Alex' after midnight it was buzzing like a beehive. The alerted operational battalions of the police stood lined up in long rows in the entrance drives with steel helmets and rifles. While squad vans arrived and whole troops of detectives with registers prepared many years before jumped on the ramps, joined by uniformed officers, the first cars were arriving back at the entrance of the building with dazed prisoners who had been woken up from their sleep.

[Jan 08, 2021] These people were invited into the Capitol, most of them had no idea what the legal ramifications of this would be. They were angry and they were in a frenzy.

Jan 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
violsijeapca

These people were invited into the Capitol, most of them had no idea what the legal ramifications of this would be. They were angry and they were in a frenzy. It was total mob psychology, something that we understand well. None of them had bad intentions – which we know, because there wasn't even any vandalism, let alone violence against people.

And now they're being accused of being seditionists. And apparently, the president is going to leave them in the lurch.

It's Over: Trump Condemns Capitol Patriots, Surrenders to Democrats

Catullus 25 minutes ago

Sedition by Selfie.

[Jan 08, 2021] Jeffery Prather - Storming Capitol Was False Flag

One of first broadcasters who instantly sensed that this was a false flag operation
Notable quotes:
"... Also, like we are supposed to believe, with protests outside there is only ONE security officer blocking them with a baton going up the stairs INSIDE the CAPITAL. Suuuuuuuure. Anyone that believes that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell them. ..."
"... Was it Trump supporters or Antifa? ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com

HolyLand Fan , 23 hours ago

Also, like we are supposed to believe, with protests outside there is only ONE security officer blocking them with a baton going up the stairs INSIDE the CAPITAL. Suuuuuuuure. Anyone that believes that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell them.

Evan Owen , 10 hours ago

The whole thing did seem contrived as did the last election and this one.

Kathy Cote , 12 hours ago

The people are waking, United We Stand. Gardens, Groups, God, and two or three other g's and b's.

Billy Gribble , 1 day ago

When we do this for real we will be armed. #hoax #falseflag #purgetheleft

rob drexel , 14 hours ago

DO you really think Biden will get anywhere near the power buttons?? never never happen - the horned guy is a MARINE WHITE HAT BTW - do a bit more research and update this post -

assassinate evil now , 1 day ago

Pence unfollowed Trump weak n also shows it's a false flag

White Rabbit , 1 day ago

Was it Trump supporters or Antifa?

assassinate evil now , 1 day ago

Trump should have invoked the insurrection act long ago. We have lost confidence in Trump due to his non action to round up traitors.

[Jan 08, 2021] False flag im Kapitol- Eine These

This is German language site. Google translation of selected comments follows.
Notable quotes:
"... Always ask: to whom does it benefit? Can protesters really enter the Capitol without anyone wanting to? Look at the behavior of the "security forces"! ..."
"... False Flags have a long tradition in America. ..."
"... In the opening scene, the friendly security forces "forget" the meaning of the barrier. An Actor, completely untroubled behind the police, wants to animate Trump Fans and Furrows wildly, they may finally run. Quite unusual for marauding gangs planning the" storm "or" coup". But prefer to be pretty sweet with police officers. Not to mention the Wanted film scenes in the Capitol. ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com

karoy52, 17 hours ago (edited)

Always ask: to whom does it benefit? Can protesters really enter the Capitol without anyone wanting to? Look at the behavior of the "security forces"!

Captain, 16 hours ago

Of course.. this was a copy of the Storming of the Reichstag steps

Emma Pol, 17 hours ago

The constructors will always tell the media-listening masses: there is a dangerous Mob out there that wants to abolish the Liberal basic order. They will do it in the way of truth reversal...

Collect images against political dissenters and use them later for their own purposes..perfidious reversal devised by well-paid think tanks, who work from morning to night only to destroy the opponent and thus democracy...

Ibiza Video also planned by langer Hsnd and used at useful time....they also know they can't deceive everyone, but most of the crowd believes the hoax

Dio, 17 hours ago

The Plan is to create absolute Kaos in order to get around the corner with a false world peace (after which everyone should sigh). People will then accept things that they would not have accepted before.

Dante, 16 hours ago

False Flags have a long tradition in America.

Info Scout, 16 hours ago (edited)

In the opening scene, the friendly security forces "forget" the meaning of the barrier. An Actor, completely untroubled behind the police, wants to animate Trump Fans and Furrows wildly, they may finally run. Quite unusual for marauding gangs planning the" storm "or" coup". But prefer to be pretty sweet with police officers. Not to mention the Wanted film scenes in the Capitol.

A president surrounded by puppeteers and swamp creatures who have dropped their mask.

Liam v. d. W., 17 hours ago

That's how easy it is to storm one of the safest buildings in the world ....

Rico S, 15 hours ago (edited)

Of course, a False Flag as with every "color Revolution" and every other war so far.
Only probalm is that voluntarily these deep-State criminals will never clear the field.

a shag, 16 hours ago

Steep These? Completely understandable and probable. Recognize patterns and connect dots.

Rainhard, 16 hours ago

Yes, the Western "democracies" are appalled. Well, then take your populations seriously and not just those who speak to you. This happens when the" pressure " in the boiler discharges. Be happy if there is no 1989 Romanian Nicolae Ceaușescu "solution"!


Ralf Schmidt, 15 hours ago (edited)

When it comes to Jo Biden,the following names come to Mind:Hunter Biden, Victoria Nuland.........Does that ring a bell?

Keyword: Ukraine/Eastern Ukraine! It seems to me that some important persons are to be put in "position"......! Mir schwant so much! Let's see who else emerges so everything from the sink!

Red Pill German, 14 hours ago

Reichstag was the test run...

Sybille Kühn, 11 hours ago

An obviously staged spectacle!! If our Public reports in the media about something indignant, everyone can draw his conclusions

ks coco, 16 hours ago

Nothing is as it seems...
Poorly incised acting, slowly let down in the quality of Incination (I only say September 11 that I had still believed) Once again a diversionary maneuver to distract from the problems and the Installation here as well as worldwide and then to pronounce martial law. We enter a new Level in their perfidious game with humanity...

I am curious if you use the Project Blue Beam. Mentally one is already prepared for it on the net on some channels... The Messiah, etc., will come and bring salvation... People don't fall for it and don't let it drive you crazy.

Use your life energy for yourself and your fellow human beings and try to survive the crisis, because every system has its gaps and currently too little has woken up to stop it. Nothing is as it seems...

Michael Kohler, 7 hours ago

My feeling also says. False Flag. Staged. Like almost everything they show us. The Satanists world takeover gang at their work.

Cancel that bacta, Commando, 11 hours ago

In the end, an intelligence service can manipulate everything possible, infiltrate whole political movements or even recreate them, no matter which movement you belong to there is usually the risk that you do not know for whom you are active or which goal is actually achieved with any actions. I think but some things are not disputable about events eg the amount of people that was in D.C., as well as the amount that was in Berlin. So it is already bubbling, but the question whether there was anything manipulated can answer no normal mortal, even people in leadership of movements or parties are never safe from insidiousness or informed about everything.

Hammer 2020, 16 hours ago (edited)

The same as in August last year...I was in Berlin.....we never keep this......none of our people was there with possibly one or the other thought it was real....all set by our government to manipulate the people who still believe in everything the government tells us! Never would a storming of the Bundestag / Reichstag building have gone so smoothly with 3 Federal Police without equipment.....

[Jan 08, 2021] False Flag At The Capitol Cowards In Congress

Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com

HeWalksWithUs Everywhere , 10 hours ago

The doors also had not been breached on the Capitol steps when they were evacuating the chamber. Kept saying it's been breached but the doors were still shut well after they were evacuated meaning the ones they guarded as they led them in were absolutely staged.

Lady Blue , 14 hours ago (edited)

It was the Capital Police that shot her. The CP has federal jurisdiction and are immune. Look it up. Biden was certified. I knew he would be. Nothing in government happens by accident.

[Jan 08, 2021] Looks like capitol riot was false-flag operation by neoliberals designed to destroy Trump election fraud narrative that became quite popular and delitimizedbiden administration, making it a neoliberal junta

Notable quotes:
"... Several others have latched onto the false-flag narrative, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, televangelist and Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns, and Fox News political analyst Brit Hume, as well as some popular QAnon promoters with large Twitter followings. Franklin Graham, a leading Trump supporter among evangelicals, also raised the specter of antifa, without evidence. ..."
"... Zack Vorhies, a self-described former YouTube and Google engineer turned whistleblower... posted an interview with a man outside the Capitol who claims to have overheard antifa activists "dressed as Trump supporters" discussing how to make Trump fans look bad before smashing a window. The video had received over 100,000 views in just four hours. ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | news.yahoo.com

Originally from: Capitol riot was false-flag operation by leftists, Trump backers claim, with no basis

One of the first to push this narrative was Rep. Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican and part of a small group of Trump loyalists who'd pledged to challenge the Electoral College results from several states during Wednesday's joint session of Congress in an ill-fated final attempt to undo Trump's defeat. "Rumor: ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats," Brooks tweeted from the locked-down Capitol where he was taking cover from the mob. "Time will tell what truth is."

Yet it was Brooks himself, addressing Trump supporters at the rally that morning, who had dramatically removed his camouflage cap and replaced it with a bright red one emblazoned with the words "Fire Pelosi" and urged fellow Republicans in Congress to back the effort to overturn the election results, declaring, "Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass."

When the House eventually reconvened Wednesday evening, one of those colleagues, the firebrand Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, declared on the floor that he had seen "some pretty compelling evidence from a facial-recognition company showing that some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters, they were masquerading as Trump supporters, and in fact were members of the violent terrorist group antifa."

Lawyer and Trump ally Lin Wood, who has become a devout proponent of the president's baseless and conspiratorial voter fraud allegations, tweeted out several pixelated photos and screenshots Wednesday afternoon that he touted as proof that "Trump supporters are peaceful" and antifa was responsible for storming the U.S. Capitol. One particularly egregious example featured an edited split screen of two images which he described as "Indisputable photographic evidence that antifa violently broke into Congress today to inflict harm & do damage. NOT @realDonaldTrump supporters."

In one photo is a man who had already been widely identified as Jake Angeli...

... ... ...

Several others have latched onto the false-flag narrative, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, televangelist and Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns, and Fox News political analyst Brit Hume, as well as some popular QAnon promoters with large Twitter followings. Franklin Graham, a leading Trump supporter among evangelicals, also raised the specter of antifa, without evidence.

Zack Vorhies, a self-described former YouTube and Google engineer turned whistleblower... posted an interview with a man outside the Capitol who claims to have overheard antifa activists "dressed as Trump supporters" discussing how to make Trump fans look bad before smashing a window. The video had received over 100,000 views in just four hours.

[Jan 08, 2021] Maybe people are waking up that this is just neoliberal regime change operation

Notable quotes:
"... It is almost as if the Deep State vampire squid would prefer to bring the Republic that threatens it to 3rd world status in order to protect the oligarchy. ..."
"... If it's any consolation, they have probably tinkered with the voting machines already. Only problem is if different agencies back different candidates! I'd be astounded if they let themselves be caught off guard like they did in 2016, particularly since Biden has to be one of their assets. ..."
"... "The corporate Democrats think they can contain progressive forces; the Trump Republicans believe they should be crushed. ..."
"... Democrats are so cute. First you had your divisive resistance in 2016, but the divisiveness wasn't your fault. Then you moved on to Russia, Russia, Russia. I get the Clinton machine and bipartisan cronies had unfinished business in the raping of post Soviet Russia. Damn that Putin for demanding legitimate tax payment. I always thought you guys loved taxing the rich. ..."
"... Heck, they might even be the secret owners of many of these voting machine manufacturers. ..."
"... In addition, we know that some intelligence services went for Hillary in 2016–former CIA Director Mike Morrell helped kick off RussiaGate with an op-Ed in 2016. CIA Director John Brennan led the interagency charge against Trump's unproven collusion. Now Trump has vowed to make a lot of heads roll if he wins. ..."
"... There is no "left" in America, including BLM and antifa brownshirts blackshirts, so no aspersions that I may cast can land upon real leftists. The US political spectrum starts somewhere around "Baby Doc" Duvalier on the left and goes downhill from there. ..."
Nov 05, 2020 | attempter.wordpress.com

Russ | Nov 3 2020 18:41 utc | 10

It's very weird in DC. The language around it all:

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/11/02/these-are-the-protests-happening-around-dc-this-week-3/"> All the protests planned in DC this week

And crazy discussions on https://www.foxnews.com/us/election-day-white-house-demonstrations-zoom-calls-shutdown-dc/">Zoom meetings. (Surprised one Fox News commenter compared it to Ukraine -- maybe people are waking up that this is just neoliberal regime change operation chickens coming home to roost?)

Paul Damascene | Nov 3 2020 20:13 utc | 52

It is almost as if the Deep State vampire squid would prefer to bring the Republic that threatens it to 3rd world status in order to protect the oligarchy.

Rutherford82 | Nov 3 2020 20:14 utc | 53

@32 EoinW

Voting in the U.S. is manipulated at all levels. Fortunately the results probably don't matter due to the financial stranglehold on politics so, except for the those employed by the political candidates, it isn't worth losing sleep over. But if there was a functional government in place then it would be a big deal.

The truth is that the facade of the Democrats is falling while the Republican brand has not changed very much in a long time. Democratic support is an all time low and it is getting harder and harder to spin that brand to a society which is not stupid enough to believe everything anymore, especially in the face of two consecutive Presidential elections rife with internal DNC corruption.

The donors really just want the electorate divided, so any real vote manipulation is inconsequential in the scheme of things if all policy trends in the direction of finance and that sort of thing.

I predict you will see more scandal and spectacle over elections on television and every issue will have its emotional appeal magnified to try and bolster support for a feckless Left, while policy continues to feel like it was written by Count Dracula. Ultimately, violence will be stoked by news media in this subtle way until the "violent left" is used as an excuse to enact law and order policies aimed at shutting down protests of all types.

karlof1 | Nov 3 2020 20:26 utc | 59

Paul Damascene @52--

Yes, that's exactly their plan. They use the government to wage war on the nation and gorge themselves on the ever increasing debt load citizens must carry just to keep their standard of living at a 1970 level while privatizing as many assets as possible. What percentage of protesters are in the streets because of the ongoing Class War is unknown. Regardless the winner, I expect protests to continue.

JohnH | Nov 3 2020 20:36 utc | 65

Josh@32said: "My honest hope is that the more or less responsible elements of military, security, and intelligence, will keep things from getting out of hand,"

If it's any consolation, they have probably tinkered with the voting machines already. Only problem is if different agencies back different candidates! I'd be astounded if they let themselves be caught off guard like they did in 2016, particularly since Biden has to be one of their assets.

Here's a list of voting machine manufacturers: https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/registered-manufacturers

karlof1 | Nov 3 2020 20:46 utc | 66

Upthread, I linked to the Paul Jay podcast with Michael Hudson. Here's the essay he penned that's rather well done. Try this:

"The corporate Democrats think they can contain progressive forces; the Trump Republicans believe they should be crushed.

"This election isn't just about choosing the lesser evil; it's about choosing a more advantageous field upon which to wage battle . Without creating illusions about who Biden represents, the Left should vote for him for President and support progressives in down-ballot races.

"Trump needs to lose, and he needs to lose big." [My Emphasis]

I agree with the bolded point and others made by Jay as well as his analysis of our overall condition:

"While the far-right form of fascism is exceptionally dangerous, it has developed within an 'acceptable' form of fascism that's been evolving for decades right before our eyes."

That's it for the distractions I'll be providing--a lecture, a podcast, and an analytical essay.

JohnH | Nov 3 2020 20:54 utc | 70

"Antiquated, seriously flawed and vulnerable to failure, breach, contamination and attack," U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg wrote of Georgia's aging DRE system before ordering the state to replace it in 2019... Georgia's replacement system for DREs had been rejected by Texas and is the subject of a court battle over accuracy."
https://news.yahoo.com/news/ballot-safe-computer-experts-sound-100129923.html

IMO if Trump wins, it means that the intelligence services have got him under control.

Old and Grumpy | Nov 3 2020 21:29 utc | 78

Democrats are so cute. First you had your divisive resistance in 2016, but the divisiveness wasn't your fault. Then you moved on to Russia, Russia, Russia. I get the Clinton machine and bipartisan cronies had unfinished business in the raping of post Soviet Russia. Damn that Putin for demanding legitimate tax payment. I always thought you guys loved taxing the rich.

Guess not, but the bigger question are you getting any kickback from the global predatory crony system? Probably not. Now it is Trump won't leave. He will. Trump will suppress the vote. No he wants a big turnout. Here in PA our dear AG Josh Shapiro has said a couple days ago that Biden has the early votes to win the state. Kinda sounds like Josh plans on suppressing election day voting...no? Why can't you just win the vote with your positions? Why can't you accept when people don't like your positions? More importantly when did you decide to hate working class people, especially the white ones? They use to be your base. Everyone please stay safe from the deep state's planned insanity.

JohnH | Nov 3 2020 21:38 utc | 80

Gruff@71: The problem is that you have a perfect situation: undercover services and a secret activity with no auditing possible in many cases. I'm sure that the intelligence services understand full well what the margin of error is, and know how to work within it in the places where it can tip the balance.

Heck, they might even be the secret owners of many of these voting machine manufacturers.

In addition, we know that some intelligence services went for Hillary in 2016–former CIA Director Mike Morrell helped kick off RussiaGate with an op-Ed in 2016. CIA Director John Brennan led the interagency charge against Trump's unproven collusion. Now Trump has vowed to make a lot of heads roll if he wins.

Lots of motivation and lots of secret tools, along with a perfect opportunity...

EoinW | Nov 3 2020 23:18 utc | 101

Old and Grumpy @ 78

They don't have any positions! They are the [neoliberal] Democratic Party, therefore entitled to rule America forever. What support they have is from the Looney Left who, spoiled by winning every issue in the culture war, will throw a temper tantrum any time they don't get their way. Because they get there way practically all the time, they freak out if you just look at them the wrong way. No wonder we've had a 4 year meltdown since Trump appeared on the scene. And they'll double down on their hissy fit as we begin another 4 years.

Funny, I used to be left leaning. Certainly could find common ground with Liberals on many issues. Now all you get from the activists and the left wing media is a monotonous virtual signal.

laodan | Nov 4 2020 3:16 utc | 147

_K_C_ @125

There is no "left" in America, including BLM and antifa brownshirts blackshirts, so no aspersions that I may cast can land upon real leftists. The US political spectrum starts somewhere around "Baby Doc" Duvalier on the left and goes downhill from there.

The ACLED organization that you linked only aggregates data from the corporate mass media, so all it can do is concentrate existing bias and disinformation that big business is feeding to the public.

Please note that there is not a single 'leftist' corporate mass media organization in existence on the entire planet Earth. In fact, big business is the antithesis of the left.

How do you think a "Peaceful but fiery" riot is categorized by the corporate mass media? Hint: You don't have to guess because the answer is right in the quote. This is the data that ACLED is working with, and it happens to not support the assumptions that you are working from.

But you are correct that the corporate mass media (and capitalist financed NGOs like ACLED) have division of the population into mutually antagonistic groups as their objective. Where you lose the scent is in thinking that the groups you imagine to be on the side of light are immune to that manipulation. On the contrary, these groups are created by that manipulation.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 4 2020 2:09 utc | 137

"Why all this fuzz? The difference between the two major parties is slim. Whoever wins will be constrained in his policies to fit the general imperial trends the U.S. follows. "

Yes this is right.
But who is setting the agenda of "the general imperial trends the U.S. follows" ? Who are these actors that "the US follows" ?
________


Pepe had this pearl in the article he published yesterday : "Big Capital – from East and West – is very much in tune with where all of this is going". This answers the question " Who are these actors that "the US follows" ? "

But the problem is that it is difficult to identify who these "big capital holders" are.
Too often the academic world loses itself in the surface appearances. In the case of studies about power by academics I wrote the following in 2018 in "A growing disconnect between East and West" (in 8.3.1.Global capital or control by the biggest Western capital holders) :

" The Swiss Federal Institute published a study in 2011 that analyzed the different forms of ownership between 43,060 trans-national corporations (TNCs). The team of researchers found that some 1,318 companies form the core of the global economy while 147 control 40% of their total wealth. What's more the top 25 among these 147 are the world's top asset management firms. These 25 can "be thought of as an economic 'super-entity' in the global network of corporations".

By pointing to the role of asset management firms as the real decision makers, the authors of the Swiss Federal Institute are hiding the role of the minority, among capital holders, that owns the controlling stake of the world's total capital base. The owners, of the assets played by asset management firms, are indeed hidden. Furthermore their investments outside of those asset management firms are invisible in the study.

But there is no escaping the fact that the ownership, of the controlling stake of the world's total capital base, procures its holders with 'the ownership' of the Great Game of Power. "

In his study titled " Giants " Peter Phillips further states that some 66% of the world's wealth is owned by EU and US capital holders! This shows how the weight, of past capital accumulation, is still weighing very heavily on the present reality...

So we are in a situation where we know for a fact that -- big capital exists and is represented by a few families -- big capital owns the Western decision making process -- but we can't put family names on what is "big capital" because those family names are hidden by the world's top asset management firms...

What does this imply in terms of Geo-political security ?

I venture to suggest that -- in the short term we'll see Western big capital imposing a quietening of the tone in the public discourses of its servants' -- within a few short years Western big capital and Chinese state capital will eventually find a 'modus operandi' -- that 'modus operandi' will initially be managed within Regional Economic Blocks and then the interactions between blocks will generate a new global architecture in which East-Asia will be dominant.

Today's "governance-world", or "Geo-politics", is driven by the competition between "Western big capital holders" and "China's state capital". But this never appears front page in the mainstream media because, while deciding for the world, Western big capital holders want to remain hidden. And so the Western media shows us the "surface appearance" of Western power but political decision-makers, and the rest of the Western establishment, are merely the servants of "Western big capital". Elections are thus merely a show to blind the peasants.

The shit show of Western governance of these last few years is now concluding with a new "governance-world" reality that can be summed up as follows :

2.1. the Western Geo-political architecture imposed on the world after 1945 has been dynamited by Trump and there is no going back to this architecture. China is confirming this with its "dual circulation" concept while it is reaffirming the priority of state owned enterprises in the Chinese economy (see the last public humiliation of Jack Ma and Aunt financial).

2.2. the only remaining semblance of Int'l order today is found in the Regional Economic Blocks [ North-America, South-America, EU, African Union, Eurasian Economic Union, East-Asia (ASEAN, Chinese civilizational space, North-East Asia), ... ].

Over the following years these blocks are going to go into overdrive trying to strengthen their internal institutional build-up while also trying to coordinate their activities with neighboring blocs. The China-Russia entente has to be analyzed in this particular context to discover what is really going on... and check how the US is trying to destabilize this great game of the century (India, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, ...) and India will rapidly have to adjust to this reality otherwise it will be marginalized in the Great Game of Power of the Century.

Cynica | Nov 4 2020 14:04 utc | 251

It should be painfully obvious by now that the goal of electoral politics in the US - by those who manage it - is to maintain a balance of power between two revolutionary extremes. Of course, balances of power never last forever. It may be instructive to look at the fate of the Concert of Europe , which collapsed when its primary beneficiary (the British Empire) no longer saw it as useful.

Comparisons to professional wrestling are often made as well. It's important to keep in mind the goal of professional wrestling, which is to make as much money as possible. It's a business, after all. There are certain "angles" - narratives - that are marketed, but they don't always work out as expected. Sometimes the audience boos at the face and cheers for the heel. What happens then? A new angle, more favorable to the audience, is adopted. The show must go on.

In both 2016 and this year, Trump has either been trying to play the heel or at least is being used as the heel. Why would that be? To diminish and defuse the revolutionary "right". The revolutionary "left" is hardly any threat these days. Smashing storefront windows and setting police cars on fire does not a revolution make. On the other hand, the revolutionary "right" routinely organizes itself into heavily armed militias. And there's been brewing opposition in the military, mainly from the "right", against the establishment's foreign-policy objectives. It would seem, then, that the "right" is the bigger threat than the "left" these days - to the establishment.

Whether Trump leaves office next year or in 2025, if he's not prosecuted for anything afterwards (notwithstanding pardoning himself), then one can only conclude that he was a part of the kayfabe from the beginning. But to paraphrase his one-time opponent, what difference does it really make?

Cynica | Nov 4 2020 14:04 utc | 251

It should be painfully obvious by now that the goal of electoral politics in the US - by those who manage it - is to maintain a balance of power between two revolutionary extremes. Of course, balances of power never last forever. It may be instructive to look at the fate of the Concert of Europe , which collapsed when its primary beneficiary (the British Empire) no longer saw it as useful.

Comparisons to professional wrestling are often made as well. It's important to keep in mind the goal of professional wrestling, which is to make as much money as possible. It's a business, after all. There are certain "angles" - narratives - that are marketed, but they don't always work out as expected. Sometimes the audience boos at the face and cheers for the heel. What happens then? A new angle, more favorable to the audience, is adopted. The show must go on.

In both 2016 and this year, Trump has either been trying to play the heel or at least is being used as the heel. Why would that be? To diminish and defuse the revolutionary "right". The revolutionary "left" is hardly any threat these days. Smashing storefront windows and setting police cars on fire does not a revolution make. On the other hand, the revolutionary "right" routinely organizes itself into heavily armed militias. And there's been brewing opposition in the military, mainly from the "right", against the establishment's foreign-policy objectives. It would seem, then, that the "right" is the bigger threat than the "left" these days - to the establishment.

Whether Trump leaves office next year or in 2025, if he's not prosecuted for anything afterwards (notwithstanding pardoning himself), then one can only conclude that he was a part of the kayfabe from the beginning. But to paraphrase his one-time opponent, what difference does it really make?

[Jan 08, 2021] Let's turn the clock back a bit: At the 11th hour of the Obama administration, they were holding secret meeting plotting how to destroy Trump, while Samantha Powers was demanding hundreds of FISA unmasking orders that served absolutely no known purpose that late in the game

Neoliberal Dems try to play Bolsheviks... One party, one ideology, one allowed opinion, one official newspaper.
Jan 08, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

"Biden: "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable."" foxnews

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Varney commented today on his show that the US is moving rapidly toward an environment in which deviant opinions and the expression of such will be punished by ostracism, loss of employment and ultimately - what?

75 million dissidents voted for Trump. Their party actually grew stronger down ballot, much stronger. These Smelly dissidents are heavily armed. Gun sales are way up. Ammunition is hard to come by because of heavy buying.

President Joe and his "consort" think that the attitudes of the Smellies are "totally unacceptable?"

He should be very careful about condemning the mind set of the Smellies, very careful. The Dems think that they can extrapolate from the hooligans who broke into the capitol to the general attitudes of the Smelly Deplorables?

Be very careful President Joe. pl

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-gaslighting-capitol-hill-rioters-black-lives-matter


Deap , 08 January 2021 at 11:15 AM

Let's turn the clock back a bit:

At the 11th hour of the Obama administration, they were holding secret meeting plotting how to destroy Trump, while Samantha Powers was demanding hundreds of FISA unmasking orders that served absolutely no known purpose that late in the game.

Obama brought down America in secret, and did far more damage than this momentary street theater takeover of the Capitol Building two days ago, curiously facilitated by the Capitol Police union members. Obama's theft of America was slow and steady and did not let up one minute during Trump's four long years under constant Democrat siege.

The Obama and Democrats dual systems of justice is what cannot stand. The seeds of insurrection were sown in the 11th hours of the Obama administration; not the final hours of the Trump administration.

blue peacock , 08 January 2021 at 12:21 PM

Col. Lang,

This is just the beginning of cancel culture. Note that Trump has been cancelled by Facebook & Twitter. Obama's IRS went after conservatives, is another example. This is not just about the Democrats and their urban managerial class cohorts. The GOP establishment is part & parcel of this alignment and very much a part of the benefits system. They will be even more brazen in further accelerating market concentration to the benefit of the oligarchy. The past 4 years were just an aberration in their eyes. They've taken Trump down hard as an example to not challenge their authority. Using George Bush's maxim - either you're with us or against us - that's gonna be the attitude.

The next leader who will harness the frustration of the "smellies" will be far more competent & ruthless and likely an authoritarian. The philosophical principles of the primacy of the natural rights of citizens and the rule of law of our founding has long been gone. The oligarchy is firmly in control and will suppress dissent more harshly with a lot of support from the media-managerial class.

The oligarchy will do their very best to prevent the organization of the "Smellies" into a potent national force. If any small group act out they will be treated harshly. Since the "Smellies" cannot use the ballot box to push back, how do you think they will organize and counter the oligarchic forces who have all levers of power and have demonstrated naked exercise of it?

Steve Ogle , 08 January 2021 at 01:16 PM

If this is the the hill the democrats choose to stand and fight on.....instead of solving the problems of our country being shutdown for almost a whole year and counting...

Eric Newhill , 08 January 2021 at 01:20 PM

This post is an important warning for all of the Democrats that now rule us and seek to fundamentally change the country while condradulating themselves for their cleverness in twisting Tuesday's events into a condemnation of half of the country. I'm sure it will be ignored.

In the context of analysis not being advocacy (please!), Tuesday's breaching of the Capitol, IMO, hardly merits the level of pearl clutching that it has generated; whether genuine or opportunistic. It could have been a true Constitutional crisis. Rather than a group jesters breaking in, dancing around and generally mocking our politicians, it could have very easily been serious men with guns blazing and Molotov cocktails/bombs being hurled and lots of dead congress people along with dead Capitol security. That with a simultaneous destruction of the power grid and cell phone communications, roads blocked, trucking into the city disrupted, food and other essential goods and services stacked and disrupted and assassinations of bureaucrats and media personalities in key locations - an armed siege of Washington DC and a bloody attack on the establishment; very easily. All it would take is a couple hundred thousand seriously pissed off Deplorables; some percent with military background. Such an uprising would probably spontaneously spread to capitols in democrat governed states across the country; "spread" if not pre-coordinated. There have more than number of MAGA types in DC in recent months airing grievances. In Michigan crowds of armed men were in the capitol last year.

Some will say that such an event is impossible. I don't think so. Make Americans desperate enough and they could very well go all 1776. Would they ultimately prevail? I have no idea. But at least they would show the swamp that they are the men they thought they were.

Some will say the answer is to take away the guns. Attempting to do so will actually greatly increase the odds of the above occurring. The only answer is to truly come together as a people, find a middle ground and to dispense with radicalism on both sides of the aisle. Politicians and whoever is pulling their strings must give up dreams of hegemony and victory. When they thinking act in those terms, it is they who have declared war and there will be a proportional reaction.

Oilman2 , 08 January 2021 at 01:58 PM

"There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution." – John Adams

We have been headed down this binary road for a few generations. Outside of defending the overall borders of the USA, the military has been used based on lies for decades. That simple fact has always reminded me of Rome... Congress has been in gridlock or else playing seesaw between parties, yet executing similar strategies.

One other quote that people ought to digest, remembering this was a REPUBLIC, not just a democracy...

"Democracy while it lasts is more bloody than aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." - John Adams

I am going to go reread some Tacitus - it's a fine collection for perspective management.

There will be NO going back to anything like 2016 friends...change is baked in on every front.

[Jan 08, 2021] The arrival of CIA regime change events in the US is met with a perfect display of hypocracy by the likes of Pelosi and Pompeo. A beautiful sight to behold - Nancy Pelosi

Notable quotes:
"... As the duly selected leader of Binomo, I will be having serious words with my Head of Intelligence over this embarrassing political imbroglio. ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 22:25 utc | 81

The arrival of CIA regime change events in the US is met with a perfect display of hypocracy by the likes of Pelosi and Pompeo.

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 22:16 utc | 79

Oh noes, I am totally gutted. It turns out the Viking Man is a GRU agent all along, and this is all a last ditch effort by Russia to keep their man in place.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErPQbpTXEAAMxLD?format=jpg&

As the duly selected leader of Binomo, I will be having serious words with my Head of Intelligence over this embarrassing political imbroglio.

[Jan 08, 2021] Neoliberals from Dem party took care that Trump can leave in style

What is a better way to organize a false flag as to remove security and let the mod do what they want
Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Cemi , Jan 7 2021 15:43 utc | 112

I found this reminder on the German blog "nachdenkseiten.de":

This is how it looked in Washington DC during the BLM demonstrations in May:

Quite a difference to the resistance against protesters yesterday, huh?

;-)

[Jan 08, 2021] How founders viewed similar revolutionary situations: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Ilya G Poimandres , Jan 8 2021 15:31 utc | 21

'But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.'


The train of abuses (short, 4 year recap)

Crossfire Hurricane delegitimised peaceful handover of executive power.

Fake impeachment delegitimised the impeachment process.

Executive overreach due to covid delegitimised the authority of state legislatures.

Scam election delegitimised the election process.

Putting Trump on trial will delegitimise executive privilege.


These plus the previous suspentions of habeas corpus, due process death of the first amendment, imply that the constitution is for the most part de facto dead.


The protest should have been a sit in instead of some larking around, Tiannamen style (for the inevitable lols US hypocrisy would reveal).

Still, Congress has had single digit approval ratings for decades, so it's odd to say these were insurrectionists attacking the people's representatives.


Sadly America is finished, and what is left can only be called 'the nation formerly known as America'.

The incoming fascists and their unwitting kapos won't have much time even with those embers, as its economy was long carved out, in ikizukuri fashion.

[Jan 08, 2021] How do pacify 72 million voters, many of whom are convinced that they have been cheated? How do you stop them ALL from marching on the White house? Easy, you just allow them to capture Capitol building andbrand then as insurrecionalists

Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Stonebird , Jan 7 2021 16:39 utc | 130

How do pacify 72 million voters, many of whom are convinced that they have been cheated?. How do you stop them ALL from marching on the White house?

Answer; You stage a psyop . You let in a number of colourful figures disguised as "Manhatten-cowboy style trappers " - add a bit of shoving and pushing, lots of shouting. Cameramen(or women) at the ready. and bingo... everyone can go home afterwards saying "we tried" or "we did our bit".

Item one, a clip: Notice the two cameramen, one following the "break-in+, and the other at the top of the stairs. All filmed in glorious technicolour and HD by professionals)

https://twitter.com/IndigoLeo10/status/1346941327720796166

I love the first demonstrator signaling the cop to retreat, small hand signal.

The MSM and "Governments" can all now play the " we support Democracy, look how we are above all this mayhem ". Visible moral fibre on tap and statements prewritten?
Zuckerberg and mass media can silence any comment including Trumps or those that come from the "deplorables". Which is what they have done to silence any revision of the narrative, before it gains traction. (Zuckie rules, he must do as he wasn't elected, probably got there by hereditary means )

The bit-parts were played by members of the house who had their masks ready under their seats.

The unfortunate lady was probably an accident as the Police there just can't resist shooting someone.


Stonebird , Jan 7 2021 16:45 utc | 133

Item two; the police open the gates.
https://twitter.com/cevansavenger/status/1346920924310867968

foolisholdman , Jan 7 2021 16:47 utc | 135

psychohistorian | Jan 7 2021 6:31 utc | 6

Read Trump's earlier stuff from Reuters
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chaos in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday unfolded after President Donald Trump spent weeks whipping up his supporters with false allegations of fraud in the Nov. 3 election, culminating in a call to march to the building that represents U.S. democracy.

The real question is was the election stolen? On balance, I would guess that it was and that is why the courts all refused to examine the evidence, instead of allowing the evidence to be presented and refuted. Trumps case was never answered only trashed and ridiculed.

michael , Jan 7 2021 16:51 utc | 136

Turka #125
I also find it incredibly disingenuous that protestors/"rioters" made it into the Capitol building despite sturdy doors, and the police couldn't stave it off.

the pair , Jan 7 2021 17:03 utc | 141

just another addition to the "both sides are assholes" exhibit: the first comment on the NPR tweet about the unarmed woman killed by a cop is "coups have consequences".

even putting aside the whole (valid) "if it was a black woman killed by a cop" argument, i've loved seeing the past 4 years of so called "liberals" slowly losing their mask of humanity. they complain about the MAGA types as if they're the barbarians at the gate but they're ALL americans and therefore have violence and hatred of the "other" baked in from birth.

also, if that shitbag thinks this was a "coup" then they're even less informed than their idiotic comment would suggest.

J Swift , Jan 7 2021 17:11 utc | 143

@ William Gruff 57

Very well said. It's amazing how much you can tell about the agenda of the deep state just by careful reading and noticing the words chosen--especially when you keep seeing the same words repeated incessantly.

And incidentally, at first I was a bit curious about all this over-the-top sudden calls to impeach Trump and that sort of nonsense...I was thinking it was just a matter of continued venting of hatred at him for his "gift" of exposing the hypocrisy and duplicity of the deep state, and the US in general. But it just occurred to me that no, it's because it has dawned on them that a Trump drummed out of office by a clearly fraudulent election (i.e., righteously indignant) could be quite a rallying point for the disenfranchised regular citizens of the US. So, they're hoping to spend these last two weeks doing everything they can to tarnish his reputation and try to destroy his ability to rally the troops, so to speak. I don't think it will work, but then again who knows to what depths they will sink to permanently sink Trump. Expect a lot more craziness these last two weeks.

[Jan 08, 2021] By Wrongly Calling The Capitol Rabble 'Terrorists' Joe Biden Will Likely Create Some

Notable quotes:
"... That Biden now falsely declares that the people who enter the capitol are terrorists, who thereby need to be handled as such, will deepen the rift within the U.S. society. It guarantees that some of the 'deplorables' who Biden designates as terrorists will become real ones. The U.S. military has ample experience with doing that in Iraq and elsewhere. During the early years of the occupation it designated legitimate resistance to the occupation as terrorism and thereby sowed the seeds for real terrorism. ..."
"... That Lego is superb. I want one. Note that Pelosi and others are pushing for "impeachment" to stop, legally, Trump from standing for President in four years time. That is what they fear, a return of the Orange with 75 million voters for starters. Pelosi is obviously planning her own return as well. Immortality for the queen Bee? ..."
"... By allowing the protesters into the Capital Building, the chance to challenge the certification of the various states' electors was lost. This was Trump's and his supporters' last chance. They have been played like a piano. Quite brilliant, in its way. Game over. ..."
"... The conspiracy view would acknowledge that Trump walked right into a trap that he himself set. No one knew it would be so easy to stroll into the Capitol building, and therein lies the judo throw to the mat - and if that was planned, then credit is due to the planners. If it was contrived in any way then it happened through whomever/whatever was dictating Capitol security. ..."
"... In our discussion of this last night, the wife and I agreed that the primary actor in this is the "Security Services" since they stand to benefit ASAP as with 911. I posted the following to Escobar's FB earlier this morning: ..."
"... "Biden called the protesters 'Terrorists;' but, how could Biden make such a huge mistake when he was up to his neck in the facilitation of genuine terrorists in Libya then Syria? I'll bet there's lots of dirt connecting Biden to the development of Daesh and support for Al-Ciada and kin. No one has really looked thanks to the various Hunter Biden sideshows." ..."
"... they are not left or even pseudo left. Their party currently serves global, the most predatory kind of capital, and they constantly invoke 'racial' grievances. That's typical far-right shit. ..."
"... You shouldn't be surprised at the rhetoric of the Democrats. It is their corporate identity to call black white and white black. BLM savages, smashing shops, looting and burning cars are "peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators." A white (already guilty!), unarmed woman, Trump supporter (doubly guilty!) shot at point-blank is a "terrorist". ..."
"... The same thing happened in Ukraine (which is the zone of responsibility of the Democrats) after the coup - residents of Donbass who refused to accept the coup were declared "terrorists". ..."
"... One guy wearing an animal skin cloak is actually the son of a New York State Superior Court judge and powerful Democratic Party leader. https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/07/at-maga-rally-israeli-flag-and-neo-nazis-co-exist-awkwardly/ ..."
"... This election, they took no chances, ensuring Trump could not use social media, and although he may well have lost simply due to his policies - covid, china ..."
"... And what's important is that with Rs now jumping Trump's ship, the working class must feel that they don't have any political representation at all. ..."
"... The US Capitol is hardly a "sacred temple of democracy," it's the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments. Who are they kidding? ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

By Wrongly Calling The Capitol Rabble 'Terrorists' Joe Biden Will Likely Create Some

The hyperventilating over Wednesday's MAGA cosplay in the Capitol Building continues :

In a blistering speech one day after pro-trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented security breach, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said the perpetrators should be considered 'domestic terrorists'.

"Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple."

That the incoming president declares a number of activist from the opposing party to be 'terrorists' demonstrates how unqualified he is for that job.

Is this a terrorist?


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Those rabbles were in no way terrorists. They were not even a mob. Most of them were out-of-town rednecks who felt that they had been wronged. They wanted to express that. They were surprised when they found how easy it was to enter the Capitol and they apparently took more time to take pictures than to rearrange the furniture.

This was not a coup attempt either. These folks had no weapons, no training and, most importantly, they had no plan of what to do except to maybe enter to then leave:

And yet, and yet . This was no Vietnam-level rioting. This wasn't even a serious occupation, which one would think was the point, to keep Congress from executing the final ratification of the Biden win. Could you image the spectacle of democracy chastened if the Trump mob had held the Capitol and forced Congress to scramble find a hotel ballroom in which to finish their official business?

Nope, Congress was back in business by 8:00 PM, roughly seven hours after the barbarians stormed the walls, albeit with pretty much everyone badly rattled and some Trump supporters rapidly backpedaling from their former positions.

Despite the gravity of the event, if you look not very hard at what happened, both sides in their different ways were shambolic.

Another such view :

[L]et's be clear about what did not take place at the Capitol Building last night. This was not a fascist coup, as so many shrill, supposedly liberal commentators are claiming. Their flagrant use of the word 'fascist' to describe every political movement they disapprove of is an insult to reason and history. This wasn't a coup full stop. The National Guard suppressed the morons, the barricades were put back up, and even their hero Donald Trump told them to go home. A coup is a conscious effort to illegally seize power from the government. These people couldn't even believe they made it into the Capitol Building. They were like children finding a candy store unguarded.

A children's game. Indeed.


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There was also a curious lack of resistance from the relevant authority:

[Rep. Anna] Eshoo also blasted the Capitol Hill police, calling their lackluster response a "failure across the board" and describing the barricades outside the Capitol complex "like doggy doors it was like, 'Welcome, I'm taking you on a tour.' "

Lawmakers, she said, had gotten a detailed memo about street barricades and procedures, but when she arrived and looked across the Capitol Hill plaza, "I thought, where is everyone?"


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These were not terrorists but tourists who came from all over the states to Washington for fun and to register their disagreement with the 'elites'. The Capitol Hill policeman correctly recognized that the protesters were not enemies of the state but rather normal Americans:

Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT - 4:16 UTC · Jan 8, 2021
Cops gave rioters directions to Schumer's office but aimed a gun at a photographer and didn't believe she was a journalist. Astonishing this is the level of security in the halls of a co-equal branch of government in the post-9/11 era.

Yet Biden and others are furious about the stunt because it lifted the veil off their vaunted U.S. 'democracy' and its empty rituals:

Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes - 21:01 UTC · Jan 7, 2021
The US Capitol is hardly a "sacred temple of democracy," it's the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments. Who are they kidding?

Congressional processes are dirty fights about the distribution of the loot. There is nothing sacred about it. Just consider the massive bribes that were taken during the Georgia Senate races. Those hundreds of millions of 'donations' will have to be paid back in kind.

The real danger to the people does not come from those 'deplorables' who walked into the Capitol but from the 'elite' who will use the incident for their purposes :

The threat inflation, the wild claims about a fascist coup, are transparent efforts by the cosseted political and cultural elites to endow their project with moral importance; to give their restoration of managerial, technocratic power after the four-year populist experiment – which is fundamentally the project that Biden and his influential supporters are currently engaged in – the gloss of historical urgency. It is mission creation.

Worse, this narrative-building will allow the elites to circumscribe even more forms of political thought and speech than they already desire to do , on the basis that the latent fascism among the American rabble is likely to be stirred up by inflammatory ideas and commentary. Indeed, we've already been given a chilling glimpse of this post-incursion clampdown on 'violent' speech in Twitter's extraordinary decision to ban, outright, three of Trump's tweets last night and to lock him out of his account for 12 hours.

It strikes me that this unilateral use of corporate power by Silicon Valley to prevent the democratically elected president of the United States from engaging with millions of his voters and supporters, to physically forbid him from partaking in online discussion, is a grave assault on democracy, too. More grave, I would say, than the immoral and anti-democratic incursion of the Capitol Building. Already, right away, we are seeing that the threat-inflating response to last night's events will likely have longer-lasting negative consequences for open debate and democratic norms than the thing itself.

It is even worse than that. The Democrats reaction to the slapstick action is likely to create more strife.

That Biden now falsely declares that the people who enter the capitol are terrorists, who thereby need to be handled as such, will deepen the rift within the U.S. society. It guarantees that some of the 'deplorables' who Biden designates as terrorists will become real ones. The U.S. military has ample experience with doing that in Iraq and elsewhere. During the early years of the occupation it designated legitimate resistance to the occupation as terrorism and thereby sowed the seeds for real terrorism.

An even worse strategy is to blame the whole incident on the 'terrorist leader' Donald Trump. During the rally that preceded the Capitol incident Trump did not tell the people to enter the building:

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard ," Trump told the crowd on Wednesday.

After the people had unexpectedly entered the Capitol building Trump asked them to leave :

He said: "I know your pain, I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us, it was a landslide election and everyone knows it especially the other side.

"But you have to go home now, we have to have peace, we have to have law and order, we have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anybody hurt."

Some 74 million people voted for Trump. What will they do if the Democrats now unfairly try to impeach him over an incident he did not cause?

Do not expect them to ignore it or to change their opinions. This analogy is apt.

Max Abrahms @MaxAbrahms - 14:21 UTC · 5 Jan 2021
Careful what you wish for.
My research shows leaders often restrain lower level members.
So taking out the leader tends to make the group more -- not less -- radical in its tactical choices.
I have loads of empirical & theoretical work on this finding if you'd like to discuss.

Even the Islamic State foresees that this will lead to more strife within the U.S.:

[T]he bitter feeling of defeat that the supporters of the 'Taghut' Trump have expressed during their recent protests- which followed the protests of their adversaries from the supporters of the 'Democratic Party' during the past year- will push them to exert more effort and offer more support for their Taghut during the next four years or whoso stands with him alongside the seat of the presidency, in order to achieve revenge for themselves and achieve victory over their adversaries again. This means that the conflict between the two parties and their supporters inside America will be very intense, and the focus of the policies of the two parties during this time will be greater on the internal issues to guarantee gaining more electoral votes.

By using the 'terrorist' moniker Biden, and the media, are taking this thing into the wrong direction. It creates more extremism and will likely have bloody consequences.

Posted by b on January 8, 2021 at 19:00 UTC | Permalink


Norwegian , Jan 8 2021 19:23 utc | 5
That Lego image makes the whole thing a total farce, great catch. The world is laughing. Compare Actual Capitol Image with Capitol Invasion Some terrorists!
Stonebird , Jan 8 2021 19:36 utc | 7
That Lego is superb. I want one. Note that Pelosi and others are pushing for "impeachment" to stop, legally, Trump from standing for President in four years time. That is what they fear, a return of the Orange with 75 million voters for starters. Pelosi is obviously planning her own return as well. Immortality for the queen Bee?
Norwegian , Jan 8 2021 19:43 utc | 9
Senator Lindsey Graham Confronted And Chased Out Of DC Airport By Trump Supporters
Nev , Jan 8 2021 19:46 utc | 10
There will not be another election since the deplorables know that the system and the elections will be stolen. As we proceed into 2021 and the economy slows, the ungovernables will do their best to counter the deep state at every turn. 70 plus million people will be thinking of ways to turn the ivory castle to ashes. If only 3%, more than 2 million carry out acts as acts of opportunity, then the elites will be in agony.
Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 8 2021 19:47 utc | 11
"it's the sleaziest brothel in the world"

Whoa, I like this. To the post, I'd add that a woman-protester was martyred (so to say). Shot dead. That's an important moment, in context you're presenting here...

Down South , Jan 8 2021 19:50 utc | 12
Why is anyone surprised ? The first thing they did after the election was start the Trump Accountability Project seeking to blacklist staff who worked for the Trump administration. They tried to derail his administration before he even took office...
Hal Duell , Jan 8 2021 19:53 utc | 14
By allowing the protesters into the Capital Building, the chance to challenge the certification of the various states' electors was lost. This was Trump's and his supporters' last chance. They have been played like a piano. Quite brilliant, in its way. Game over.
Grieved , Jan 8 2021 19:55 utc | 16
This will be one for history to try to decide: Conspiracy or Fuck-up? The shambolic fuck-up view is already very well articulated in b's article, and parses well.

The conspiracy view would acknowledge that Trump walked right into a trap that he himself set. No one knew it would be so easy to stroll into the Capitol building, and therein lies the judo throw to the mat - and if that was planned, then credit is due to the planners. If it was contrived in any way then it happened through whomever/whatever was dictating Capitol security.

hazard9 , Jan 8 2021 20:05 utc | 17
Maybe this is the new type of terrorist: One who is too dumb to even realize that he is one. In these hours the U.S. maybe took a step to a new form of government: The Idiocracy ...
librul , Jan 8 2021 20:05 utc | 18
For four years the Democrats tried to defile the Constitution and disenfranchise those Voters that gave Donald Trump their vote in 2016.

An attempted coup - make that coups, plural.

The Voters noticed. They witnessed the treachery, the endless Russiagate lies, the attempt to nullify their votes. All the while they were also told 24/7 that the President was a racist and by extension so were they the Voters.

The ***reaction*** that occurred was not blamed on the Deep State, nor it's echo chamber the MSM, nor the treacherous Democrats. No, it was blamed on Donald Trump so that they could attempt to coup him one more time. Today Voters witness the Democrats attempt *another* coup. What reaction from the Voters do they seek this time?

Shaun , Jan 8 2021 20:06 utc | 19
First of all, I agree this was not a coup, it was a bunch of literal LARPers messing around. However I think trying to absolve Trump from this is silly, do you really think that if he hadn't spent 2 months whining about how the election was stolen from him and his supporters needed to "stop the steal" this would have still happened? That being said, I think impeaching him (again) is silly, it's just a symbolic act that distracts from more pressing issues.
Chevrus , Jan 8 2021 20:08 utc | 20
Gee Mike #3, what about that cop who got his head bashed? How about the cops who got KIA'd over the summer during the mostly peaceful protests? Where is the outrage? From a few steps back, this whole thing serves many purposes but the one thing for sure is that it will in crease the Red vs. Blue BiPolar divide in the US of A!
karlof1 , Jan 8 2021 20:23 utc | 22
Grieved @16--

In our discussion of this last night, the wife and I agreed that the primary actor in this is the "Security Services" since they stand to benefit ASAP as with 911. I posted the following to Escobar's FB earlier this morning:

"Biden called the protesters 'Terrorists;' but, how could Biden make such a huge mistake when he was up to his neck in the facilitation of genuine terrorists in Libya then Syria? I'll bet there's lots of dirt connecting Biden to the development of Daesh and support for Al-Ciada and kin. No one has really looked thanks to the various Hunter Biden sideshows."

The economic situation I described in my reply to Gruff @350 in the Leaving in Style thread is ripe to generate many more protests. And the protests will retard attempts to crush COVID and thus worsen the Depression further. It would be wise to review how social unrest progressed during the First Great Depression to get an idea of what will come.

Abe , Jan 8 2021 20:27 utc | 24
It was fun to watch "upper cast" (politicians) trembling in fear hiding behind their seats while mob was trying to break doors. They thought they were above it all and that they are under protection from their masters, yet they found out they are just as expendable. This is the shock they are feeling now.
James Cook , Jan 8 2021 20:28 utc | 25
Next up will be people (terrorists) who very publicly point this out this "Anti-Narrative" - like you have just done. Censorship is on the way, because facts have become the enemy and now there is justification. YOU ARE INCITING VIOLENCE BY EXPOSING THE FACTS!!!!!!!!!!! And if censorship does not work, then you WILL become a member of the Julian Assange Club!

Watch your back out there, because this will get worse before it becomes better.

CitizenX , Jan 8 2021 20:34 utc | 28
"These were not terrorists but tourists who came from all over the states to Washington for fun..."
...

Official US Policy is Terrorism.
Economic sanctions are Terrorism.
Military "interventions" and outright bombing invasions are in fact Official US policies OF Terrorism.
US media condones and supports US War Crimes of Terrorism.

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
― Martin Luther King Jr.

The US govt left/right and its propagandized complicit citizens are the "greatest" terrorist on the f'n planet.

foolisholdman , Jan 8 2021 20:39 utc | 29
It seems from the comments the the barflies are all convinced that the election was NOT stolen from Trump. I wonder why? The unanimity of the MSM that it WAS stolen and the unanimous refusal of the various courts to even consider hearing Trump's case, seems very fishy to me. Maybe he lost, but I would not care to bet on it.
Passer by , Jan 8 2021 20:40 utc | 30
@AntiSpin | Jan 8 2021 20:15 utc | 21

I noticed that Democrats increasingly sound Nazi like too, calling their opponents "Low IQ", "Dumb", "Rabble", with "lower education", etc. It sounds increasingly pro-elite and anti-working class.

Note that the left of the 20th century never sounded like that, and embraced "the poor", the "lowly educated", the "rabble", the "low classes", etc. vs the "highly educated" and the "elite", that had the highest education possible.

It again reminds me that actual Left does not exist in the US, rather a heavily propagandized and brainwashed by the local elite pseudo left that is mostly controlled by the elite.

Atreides , Jan 8 2021 20:43 utc | 31
I was watching live footage from Status Coup while the protesters were fighting the cops at the gates, literally had a front row seat of what was going on, and all I could think of was how undermanned and ill prepared the cops were with a bunch of bike cops and very few cops with full riot gear. The mayor had been begging for days if not weeks for more equipment and men but he never got it. It really seems like this was a planned event for some reason, maybe to try and impeach the orange wonder so he can't come back in 4 years and ruin Biden's day. Not that it matters much because neither of them are really in charge of anything important and they're both scumbags anyway, but it would be nice to see the dem elites humiliated in 2024.
TimmyB , Jan 8 2021 20:46 utc | 33
This certainly wasn't a coup. However, the murder of a police officer means it wasn't a peaceful protest either. Exaggerations on one side or the other do no good. It was a crowd of protesters who, in part because of the lack of security, got out of control.
Jen , Jan 8 2021 20:51 utc | 34
Is there video evidence of the protesters attacking and bashing the police officer with the fire extinguisher? This is quite important to know. The police officer (Brian Sicknick) was able to walk back to his station after the attack and it was there where he collapsed. He was known to be a Trump supporter himself. Until there is visual evidence or witnesses to the attack are able to speak freely, we cannot say who or what was responsible for his collapse and death. It may be that something else unrelated to the attack happened later on that caused his death.

Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 8 2021 21:09 utc | 39

@ Passer by | Jan 8 2021 20:40 utc | 30

Well said.

Imo, it's because they are not left or even pseudo left. Their party currently serves global, the most predatory kind of capital, and they constantly invoke 'racial' grievances. That's typical far-right shit.

alaff , Jan 8 2021 21:11 utc | 40
That the incoming president declares a number of activist from the opposing party to be 'terrorists' demonstrates how unqualified he is for that job.

You shouldn't be surprised at the rhetoric of the Democrats. It is their corporate identity to call black white and white black. BLM savages, smashing shops, looting and burning cars are "peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators." A white (already guilty!), unarmed woman, Trump supporter (doubly guilty!) shot at point-blank is a "terrorist".

The same thing happened in Ukraine (which is the zone of responsibility of the Democrats) after the coup - residents of Donbass who refused to accept the coup were declared "terrorists". Despite the fact that it is the Kiev regime that is terrorist - it arranges a blockade of Crimea and Donbass, blows up power transmission towers, tries to enter Crimea to commit terrorist acts, makes successful and not very successful attempts to kidnap people in Donbass and even in Russia, etc. Not even talking about the murders of political and military leaders of the LDPR, secret fascist prisons for torturing people...
But with all this, it is the inhabitants of Donbass who are "terrorists".

You know, absolute hypocrisy as a way of being.

the pair , Jan 8 2021 21:12 utc | 42
well said. random thoughts:
Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 21:12 utc | 43
The Viking Guy has an online profile - on the Backstage talent promotion website https://archive.vn/mIW6p
lex talionis , Jan 8 2021 21:17 utc | 46
@ 36 - I don't think b is at all supporting Trump. He is just pointing out some of the absurdities of this whole situation. And I am a Latino citizen of the USA.
This whole spectacle has made me very sad. Guy Debord hopefully is laughing. I always expected this moment. Chickens come home, taste of our own medicine, etc.

I fear what the future holds for the entire planet with the Bidet administration. At least the orange one created enough discord that we didn't start any new wars. And to me, he seemed sincere in ending some of the ones we have been engaged in for decades. I think the color of our revolution will be rainbow.

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 21:19 utc | 47
teri @35

"Some of these "everyday, average" people hung a noose on a gallows outside the Capitol building." This imagery was used by radical right Israelis who opposed Yitzhak Rabin shortly before his assassination in 1995. https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/06/democracy-the-noose-and-the-coffin/

One guy wearing an animal skin cloak is actually the son of a New York State Superior Court judge and powerful Democratic Party leader. https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/07/at-maga-rally-israeli-flag-and-neo-nazis-co-exist-awkwardly/

The stench of shenanigans is overwhelming.

bevin , Jan 8 2021 21:22 utc | 49
".. the left of the 20th century never sounded like that, and embraced "the poor", the "lowly educated", the "rabble", the "low classes", etc. vs the "highly educated" and the "elite", that had the highest education possible..."
Passer by@30

I agree, B's analysis is spot on in this instance. Congress has been more or less taunting the people for years, daring them to show the displeasure that the oligarchy has ensured cannot be communicated through the ballot box.

Was the election fraudulent? Of course it was- the Green Party cannot even get onto the ballot in many states. The whole system is corrupt and 'the fix' is in in every election. This has been the case for a long time but never more than during the cycles beginning in the Bush 'win' in 2000, since when there has been a rapid and general deterioration in the enforcement of civil rights acts relating to voter suppression and the regulation of election spending. During the same period the Democrats have taken several measures to prevent primary voters from selecting candidates and elected Convention delegates from controlling conventions, policy and party elections.

So when Trump said that the election was corrupt-echoing the claims Clinton made in 2016- it is not surprising that millions took him seriously, because except for the detail that he actually did not win, what he said confirmed what everyone knew.

The surprising aspect of the election is the complete solidarity of the oligarchy, its media and bien pensant opinion that the 2020 Presidential Election was absolutely fair, a model of democracy.

Hell, if what took place in the US had happened in Bolivia the same oligarchs, media etc would have been urging the people of La Paz to storm the Assembly. And they'd have paid the army to back them up and kill.

... ... ...

Peter AU1 , Jan 8 2021 21:29 utc | 52
Reading around the blogs, some authors believe there was no vote rigging and others believe there was something in Trumps claims. Last election Clinton was put up as the face of the Us deep state - Five Eyes Anglosphere and they believed that the controlled media would carry her to victory.

This election, they took no chances, ensuring Trump could not use social media, and although he may well have lost simply due to his policies - covid, china, ect ect, it is also inconceivable to think the powers that be did not tinker with votes. If I could eat the stuff, I would have a big supply of popcorn. This is like watching the headchoppers of Idlib blowing each other away.

Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 8 2021 21:30 utc | 53
"It will polarize the parties in the conflict even more."

And what's important is that with Rs now jumping Trump's ship, the working class must feel that they don't have any political representation at all. Thus, it could turn into the early-to-mid-nineties model with organized armed militias and all that.

Idiocrates , Jan 8 2021 21:41 utc | 59
Could be an interesting spectacle if true: https://www.rt.com/usa/511982-trump-insurrection-impeachement-draft-leaked/ Looks like a 2nd attempt to impeach Trump. I reckon chances are it will succeed. Everyone wants to increase the pressure it seems.

james , Jan 8 2021 21:45 utc | 63

BRW I highlighted this very comment from Biden in the previous thread... it is totally whacked! Biden needs to be taken to a care home..

"Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple."

_K_C_ , Jan 8 2021 21:52 utc | 66
Posted by: Heironymous Dosh | Jan 8 2021 21:19 utc | 47

My information on the son of the judge contradicts yours. I'm not sure of the father's party affiliation, but he's an orthodox pro-Zionist Israel high ranking member of the orthodox Jewish community in New York.

That synagogue has been unwavering in its support for Trump and his pro-Zionist Israeli policies in the past.

Aaron Mostofsky, whose father is Kings County Supreme Court Judge Steven (Shlomo) Mostofsky, entered the building wearing fur pelts and a bulletproof vest and carrying a riot shield he said he found, Gothamist reported, citing the New York Post.

Mostofsky was photographed several times on Wednesday next to Jake Angeli, a QAnon supporter who also wore a horned hat and furry outfit, though it is not clear that their outfits were coordinated.

He was among the many Orthodox Jews who came to the Capitol to protest, telling the Post that he wanted "to express my opinion as a free American that this election was stolen" from President Donald Trump. Mostofsky is one of dozens of "persons of interest" sought by Washington police for unlawful entry to the building.

"We were cheated," he said. "I don't think 75 million people voted for Trump -- I think it was close to 85 million."

Mostofsky's brother Nachman, the executive director of Chovevei Zion, a politically conservative Orthodox advocacy organization, as well as a Brooklyn district leader and vice president of the South Brooklyn Conservative Club, also attended the rally Wednesday but did not enter the Capitol.

More Here

So here we are again. One side simply refusing to believe anything that contradicts the viewpoint they wish was true. I have seen nothing to indicate his father was a Democrat and I'm not going to go out on a limb and say he isn't. But it hardly matters in the orthodox Jewish community as they will support any politician or party that benefits themselves and preserves the Israeli occupation of Palestine, just like Trump's administration bent over backward to do for 4 years.

Jeffrey Kaye , Jan 8 2021 21:53 utc | 67
This posting appears to make an inverse error from those of media and pol accounts that exaggerated the event. There are multiple instances of social media and interviews that show people travelled to this event with the intent of a showdown or even a "revolution" against what they perceived as a socialist takeover and fraud concerning the presidential election.

The US ruling class has ample experience in overturning governments and overturning legitimate elections. There's no evidence that Trump lost by these means. But Trump's insistence that he was cheated out of his landslide victory has mobilized a primarily racist and reactionary core of followers. These protesters are not people who care about democracy in, say, Venezuela!

There are a number of videos of protesters fighting cops at the Capitol. We have the fact as well that some 5 cops were hospitalized, and one has now died. One protester, attempting to break through a barricaded door inside the Capitol, appears to have been shot point-blank by police.

Given Trump's ongoing insistence that the country was being stolen from his supporters and that he won in a landslide, in what fashion does b feel this was going to end?

The issue boils down to what extent one feels that even the shell of a rotten democracy matters when forces are gathered to stop its processes. Up until nearly the invasion of the Capitol, Trump was saying that VP Pence needed to stop the counting of what Trump maintained were fraudulent electoral college votes.

In fact, it matters a good deal. When the corrupt "democratic" Provisional Government that replaced the Russian Czar in Feb. 1917 was threatened with military ouster by a Czarist general six months later, the Bolsheviks defended the government against forces that promised a return to oppressive autocracy, if not fascist rule. A few months after that the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government with the help of soldiers and sailors who hated the fact the PG was still prosecuting the extremely bloody World War.

Today, there is no powerful Bolshevik Party on the left (certainly not in the U.S.). But the Democratic Party has blood on its hands just as the Russian social democrats in the PG did 100 years ago. The issue is also not about a military takeover. But let us look at what would occur if the forces that temporarily occupied the Capitol were to implement their program with a series of victories. These forces are not really populist, but are a plebeian group of rightists who share one thing in common, their hatred and fear of BLM and the idea of black equality in general. It has not been helpful that the Democrats, in administering capitalist austerity for years, have turned a deaf ear to issues such as jobs, leaving poorer whites and lower middle class vulnerable to poverty to turn to racist demagogues like Trump.

To overturn the election in favor of Trump would be to embolden the right and racists. There is a small group of right wing reactionary racists in the military, and it's not impossible that they could gather more power if society were to descend into more chaos.

Hence, while portraying the takeover of the Capitol as an "insurrection" is hyperbole, underplaying it as just an accidental event with no real harm intended is also incorrect. Trump's victory in overturning current electoral processes would represent a huge victory for the Right and increase racist attacks. Biden's win does not bode much lite than a turn back to the status quo, which also has very little to recommend it, for workers, for minorities, and certainly not to the millions who suffer terribly under US sanctions and US-backed oppressive governments abroad.

What we lack is real leadership that can unite both black and white and other minorities with those struggling against US imperialism abroad and bring an end to the rule of the 1% who don't care how many they kill, or what cynicism or bloody manipulations they use to maintain the rule of their Capitalist class.

Outlaw Historian , Jan 8 2021 21:59 utc | 70
I offer this article as something to peruse and think about. When considering the author's sources, remember that today's voices that provide truths are often marginalized in an attempt to delegitimize those truths -- Think of Hudson's political-economic history and his entire corpus of research as an excellent example of the contemporary dismissal of salient Truths.

Also it must be acknowledged that real conspiracies do occur, thus those trying to expose them aren't "theorists" but investigators. Also recall the maxim that all plans fall apart as soon as they meet concerted opposition when rethinking the rise of Trump and the 4 years of certain conspiratorial opposition against most everything he tried to do. And also remember that only Trump knows why he made the choices he made, and that the vast majority of speculation remains just that.

gm , Jan 8 2021 22:02 utc | 71
Very interesting and perceptive take on the Jan 6 Capital Building incident, from a youtuber name Joe Leonard: Chaotic Protest at the Capitol in Washington DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLxX3Rn_EyQ (13 min)

Joe notes the 'photogenic' heavily tattooed Mr. 'Buffalo-Head' alleged MAGA/Q supporter person shown prominently in photos in the Capital Bldg hallways and Rotunda, seems to also have an "actor's resume" web page, and sports a prominent triangular 'Pedo-love' tattoo on his chest. Not very MAGA Deplorable-ish of Mr. Buffalo/Viking Head, Joe wonders.

Mike from Jersey , Jan 8 2021 22:03 utc | 72
Great quote:
The US Capitol is hardly a "sacred temple of democracy," it's the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments. Who are they kidding?

That really says it all.

lysias , Jan 8 2021 22:08 utc | 74
The police were stood down to allow the crowd into the Capitol. All in order to discredit Trump and his supporters.
Canadian Cents , Jan 8 2021 22:08 utc | 75
Great post b, lot of gems. Loved the great "Is this a terrorist?" image and the Lego / candy store point.

For those that mentioned that a cop was killed, that unfortunate fact does not mean that the majority of the protesters were a "mob" or "terrorists" as opposed to being "like children finding a candy store unguarded" - any more than the fact that an unarmed female protester (the Air Force veteran) was unnecessarily shot dead make all of the Capitol police bad. Both were very unfortunate, but to go from that to calling this "terrorism" makes no sense.

Biden urgently instructed the Western media "Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists."

If these protesters were "terrorists", what then were those in Hong Kong who went around for months armed with umbrellas, pipes, and bricks, and brutally beat and even threw oil and lit fire to people and infrastructure? Those terrorists, always presented by our hypocritical establishment-serving media as "pro-democracy protesters", were sponsored and encouraged by the US. Five Eyes countries like the US, UK, Canada, and I presume Australia, New Zealand, then offered citizenship as reward for their terrorist services, (along with White Helmets Islamic extremist proxies from Idlib, Syria.)

Also loved the Nick J. Fuentes quote: "The US Capitol is hardly a "sacred temple of democracy," it's the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments. Who are they kidding?"

Or in Biden's classic words, "The citadel of Liberty".

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 22:11 utc | 76
_K_C_ @66

"My information on the son of the judge contradicts yours. I'm not sure of the father's party affiliation, but he's an orthodox pro-Zionist Israel high ranking member of the orthodox Jewish community in New York"

I don't see the contradiction. You agree on the cultural aspect, and say you have no idea of the political aspects. The information is not mine. It is reported by Richard Silverstein who seems to be well up on these things - and a fervent anti-Trumper. If you have reason to believe his information is incorrect, you could contact him with a correction. I'm sure he is a nice enough chap and would welcome the clarification.

Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 8 2021 22:14 utc | 78
"Thank you for clarifying American idiom. Now when the police say 'X was injured after making physical contact with the protesters' it really means that 'X was beaten to death with baseball bats'. "

Meh. For all we know, he could've made physical contact with the protesters, slipped, fallen, broken his neck.

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 22:25 utc | 81
The arrival of CIA regime change events in the US is met with a perfect display of hypocracy by the likes of Pelosi and Pompeo.

[Jan 08, 2021] Sarah Palin Accuses Antifa of False Flag Op in Capitol Attack

Jan 08, 2021 | www.mediaite.com

Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin leapt right into the conspiracy theory slipstream on Fox News, claiming that she suspected the rioting, looting, and gunshots unleashed inside the Capitol by pro-Trump supporters was actually a false flag operation by... Antifa.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Palin did not share any of this supposedly blockbuster evidence with host Martha MacCallum , who asked her about earlier comments condemning the rioters as "fake patriots"

"Anyone who would storm the Capitol and create this, at least the perception of condoned violence, is not a true patriot," Palin insisted, before quickly pivoting to explicitly blame the media for being partly responsible for the unprecedented attack. "How dangerous it is, in our time, society, to not be able to trust the media. I've been saying this for them years and years, when we cannot trust, on either side, the nformations being fed to us, then, yeah, things like this will be a result because there is so much frustration out there that some misguided -- very, very wrongheaded yahoos are out there causing this mayhem, and we don't -- and a lot of it is the media's fault."

"But Martha, keep in mind, we don't know who all were the instigators in this, these horrible thing that happen today. I think a lot of it is the Antifa folks."

Palin claimed, diving right into the deep end of the conspiracy theory pool with pure, politically-convenient speculation. "I've been sent pictures of the same characters, whom were captured on images today storming the Capitol, as had been in protests on the other side of politics earlier in the summer. So I don't know, there is a lot of questions out there, and I wish that we could trust the media to do its job to do the research and report all these people are."

Watch the video https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sarah-palin-baselessly-accuses-antifa-of-false-flag-op-in-capitol-mob-assault-citing-some-pictures-people-sent-her/?jwsource=cl

[Jan 08, 2021] At the moment, many Americans actually think it makes a difference which puppet of the neoliberal oligarchy is declared the winner. For sure it's being used as distraction from our real fight against TPTB and it may be used for disturbances that will lead to martial law

Jan 08, 2021 | off-guardian.org


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Penelope , Nov 16, 2020 3:00 AM

Absolutely. At the moment, many Americans actually think it makes a difference which mask for the oligarchy is declared the winner. For sure it's being used as distraction from our real fight against TPTB– and it may be used for disturbances that will lead to martial law.

We are possibly the most propagandized people in the world. I have been awake since 1963, and the really surprising thing is that uneducated people saw through it even then– but not so many of the well-educated. That holds true even today. There ARE well-educated who see through it– but those who don't are disproportionately among the educated.

I suppose they've just had more years of propaganda at university, or that they feel themselves to be part of "the system". I've not met a single Mexican immigrant who hasn't seen through it all– from covid to the election. Greatly to my surprise the the group most attached to the covid story are the doctors– but not the nurses & menial hospital workers.

A larger percentage has been sucked into electoral theatrics.

[Jan 08, 2021] FALSE FLAG CONFIRMED- "Viking" stormed the Capitol Building photographed at BLM rally

Jan 08, 2021 | coercioncode.com

The only violence committed today was the Capitol Police shooting and reportedly killing an unarmed female Trump supporter who was shot in the neck.

Jeffrey Prather has confirmed through his intelligence networks that the people who led the storming of the Capitol Building were Antifa / BLM operatives. The entire attack was a false flag event .

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/c5255645-b7d1-4589-aeb6-44c1162d16f0

It's the police, in other words, who are committing the violence, not Trump supporters.

Given that Leftists have rigged everything else -- the media, Big Tech, the elections, U.S. history, etc. -- no one would be surprised if they also rigged the events at the Capitol Building.

Patriots are polite. It's the radical Left that uses violence for political purposes.

Here's a video of the Capitol Police shooting an unarmed female Trump supporter in the neck:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/e72d4a04-d595-43c0-af15-f8dd32147fbc

BREAKING: After the staged "storming" false flag event, Congress to RE-CONVENE tonight and finish its final act of betrayal against America, under the cloak of darkness

( Natural News ) The storming of the US Capitol Building today is now being pounced upon by the left-wing media to demonize Trump supporters as violent terrorists. Yet the same media outlets described Antifa / BLM violence as "mostly peaceful," even when those left-wing actors were hurling Molotov cocktails and wielding blinding lasers against law enforcement.

Update: We have now confirmed that the storming of the Capitol Building was initiated by left-wing provocateurs who met with Capitol Police yesterday and planned the event. A photo has emerged of the "Viking" individual who led the storming action today (shown on the right side of the photo below). This same person -- wearing the same outfit and nearly identical face paint -- was also reportedly spotted at a BLM rally earlier this year.

Note the identical tattoos, facial hair and costume:

This short video shows Capitol Police actively waving a group of protesters to "breach" the Capitol building. It was all coordinated:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/fc6da51b-02d3-4b05-878f-29302cd4f541

You can then see from this video that they were allowed to stream right in, without any police attempting to stop them:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/2f5a4f1a-ef37-4e65-8b1c-4fa2872380a9

[Jan 08, 2021] Were Antifa masquerading as Trump supporters?

Notable quotes:
"... "Our cause is to obtain an honest vote and to end voter fraud before it becomes a permanent tactic of the enabled and media-protected Democrat Party," he wrote. "Violence is rejected, condemned and counterproductive. Antifa involvement is no excuse. It contradicts our values." ..."
"... Alabama Representative Mo Brooks labelled rioters: "ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats." ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | independent.co.uk

Ms Palin was far from the only Trump ally to promote the refrain that the pro-Trump rioters were "infiltrated" by outside "agitators", namely Antifa, in an effort to embarrass the president.

Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani also took to Twitter on Thursday to suggest that Antifa had been involved in the violence, adding that this was "no excuse". Top Articles 'It is what it is:' No regrets from Trump supporters after Capitol siege READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE SKIP AD

"Our cause is to obtain an honest vote and to end voter fraud before it becomes a permanent tactic of the enabled and media-protected Democrat Party," he wrote. "Violence is rejected, condemned and counterproductive. Antifa involvement is no excuse. It contradicts our values."

Alabama Representative Mo Brooks labelled rioters: "ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats."

The Daily Beast reported that Newsmax, a far-right station that has ardently supported Mr Trump and pushed misleading claims about election fraud , also pinned the violence on Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

Fox News host Sean Hannity also cast doubt on the identity of "agitators" in the riots, saying "those who truly support President Trump do not support those that commit acts of violence".

Following hours of chaos, Mr Trump issued a statement telling the rioters to "go home in peace" before adding that he loved the mob, calling them "special".

"We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens you see the way, others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home and peace," he said.

Overwhelmingly, US commentators condemned the violence and Mr Trump's muted response to rioters, with CNN anchor Jake Tapper calling the evening an "absolutely disgraceful moment in American history".

"In my 60 years covering national politics, I've never seen anything like it. And frankly I hope I never do again. It's pretty disturbing," Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace said, according to USA Today.

Washington DC police said four people died during the violent pro-Trump riot in the city, including a woman who was shot inside the Capitol. At least one improvised explosive device was said to have been found.

[Jan 08, 2021] Why did one of the police officers wave people onto the Capitol grounds?

Jan 08, 2021 | www.citizenfreepress.com

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Why did one of the police officers wave people onto the Capitol grounds?

[Jan 08, 2021] Was the assault on the Capitol building a false flag?

Jan 08, 2021 | canadafreepress.com


'm writing this hours before posting it, so events may unfold that add more information.

The first thing you need to ask yourself: was the break-in at the Capitol, while Congress was in session holding a debate about election certification, an attempt to stop a transfer of power to Biden, or an attempt to stop the debate itself -- -during which legislators would have laid out evidence of fraud?

The assault did achieve a stoppage of the debate, which was being carried live on television. False flags do work

For the next 20 years, media will play up Wednesday, January 6, 2021, as the dark day America almost broke apart. You can bet a few dozen production companies are already editing footage for "stunning, award-winning" documentaries.

Democrats are feeling a burst of confidence that Trump's career as a politician is over -- -since he will forever be linked to "The Insurrection of January 6."

In their eyes, this is far better than a physical assassination.

On the night of February 27, 1933, a fire was set in the German Reichstag, the national parliament. It burned a significant portion of the structure. Many historians state Hitler's people set that fire -- -which at the time was successfully blamed on his main political opponent, the Communist Party. The tactic allowed Hitler to consolidate his final needed piece of national power.

Alongside the endorsement and support of IG Farben, the biggest pharmaceutical and chemical cartel in the world, the Reichstag false flag gave Hitler control over the fate of Germany.

False flags do work.

( The link to this article posted on my blog is here .)

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[Jan 08, 2021] Bill Barr accuses Trump of 'orchestrating' Capitol mob scene in shocking statement

Inciting mod is a crime unless this is done neoliberals to achieve their goals. Where has he been during Antifa violence?
Looks like Barr is trying to hide this false flag: Barr released a statement through former Justice Department spokeswoman Keri Kupec, saying: "The violence at the Capitol Building is outrageous and despicable. Federal agencies should move immediately to disperse it."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.bizpacreview.com

In an extraordinary statement, former Attorney General Bill Barr has completely thrown President Donald Trump under the bus, accusing him of "orchestrating" the storming of the U.S. Capitol and calling his alleged actions "inexcusable."

"Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable. The president's conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters," he reportedly said in a statement to the Associated Press on Thursday.

... ... ..

While there was nothing inherently wrong with the rally, it eventually dissolved into a riot as the president's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and commandeered the House and Senate chambers. Barr is clearly among the myriads of Trump critics who believe the president bears responsibility for this.

Another theory, according to the president's most ardent supporters, is that Barr was never loyal in the first place -- that it'd all been an act.

[Jan 08, 2021] Mind blowing hypocrisy! by Saker

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... No country and no regime can stand on such truly galactic levels of doublethink, hypocrisy and cowardice. This is the beginning of the end of this regime. My thoughts tonight are with the "deplorables". In the prophetic words of George Orwell: ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | thesaker.is

I just listened to Trey Gowdy and a few others GOP big-shots condemn the "terrible violations of the law" committed by the protestors today and I take my hat off to these folks: they are truly world class hypocrites.

But when the people, literally, those whom the elected officials are supposed to represent, demonstrate all day peacefully and then a few, not necessarily even Trump supporters (false flags are very easy to organize with crowds!), storm the halls of Congress, then the GOP bigshots take to the air and lament the "tragedy" of the law being violated.

No country and no regime can stand on such truly galactic levels of doublethink, hypocrisy and cowardice. This is the beginning of the end of this regime. My thoughts tonight are with the "deplorables". In the prophetic words of George Orwell:

"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it."

Orwell's "proles" are our "deplorables". And for all the self-evident weaknesses and delusions, they are the only ones left, literally, and they will have to be the soil from which the liberation of the USA will have to begin.

The rest of them make me feel nauseated.

The Saker

teranam13 on January 06, 2021 , · at 7:53 pm EST/EDT

Trump did not fight for the "deplorables" . He allowed Antifa to trash the cities of America with impunity, he allowed the techno-fascist elite to blatantly violate the first amendment and he did not withdraw troops from foreign wars but rather shuffled them around a bit to look like he was doing something, and he shut down and destroyed middle American businesses in favor of Walmart and Amazon and even when warned, he allowed an election steal. What a feckless f-ck head!

Why should "we" fight for him? And anyone with half a brain and a careful reading of history knows that the VP is always the ace in the hole for the deep state . always. So what is the surprise? Don't suborn!! -- Organize!!!

Katie on January 07, 2021 , · at 3:20 am EST/EDT

Trump didn't allow the cities to be trashed by Antifa and BLM. It was the Democrat Governors who allowed the chaos and destruction. Get an education of what really happened and who caused it. If you watched the crooked liars of CNN no wonder you are deceived!

[Jan 08, 2021] Amid The Hysteria, Here Are Two U.S. Coups That Already Quietly Happened by Rabobank

Jan 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Rightly, the conversation still revolves around what happened in D.C. on 6 January. What we do not hear are the usual American homilies about coming together and unity. Quite the opposite. There is talk of the 25th amendment or impeachment, and of " domestic terrorism ". That is as an opinion poll showed 20% of all voters and 45% of Republicans supported the siege of the Capitol. Heuristics elsewhere show that you cannot expect to run 'democratic BAU' with those kind of numbers saying they don't buy into the system. As Philip Marey underlines again in his latest note , this is a bitterly polarized society that no economic stimulus package is a solution for .

Tablet Magazine also has a worrying take in " The Five Crises of the American Regime " by Professor Michael Lind. Agree or disagree, it is worth a serious read:

"In the past eight months, two Capitol Hills have fallen [Seattle and D.C.]. Two shocking events symbolize the abdication of authority by America's ruling class, an abdication that has led to what can be described, not without exaggeration, as the slow-motion disintegration of the USA in its present form Many Democrats claim that Republicans are destroying the republic. Many Republicans claim the reverse. They are both correct . As a rule, comparisons between the US and Weimar Germany or late republican Rome are misleading, but when rival elite political factions tolerate or encourage mob violence in the streets, the comparisons might be forgiven."

Lind then goes on to list the US' Five Crises:

Political: " the centralization of power in a small number of ambitious elite factions and coteries American politicians today tend to be picked by the small number of zealots of various kinds who show up to vote in party primaries. The national parties themselves are no longer functioning organizations, but mere brands. ";

Identity: "Neither America's partisan leaders nor their militant followers are any longer restrained by a common sense of cross-party solidarity and shared American patriotism.";

Social: "People who are rooted in real communities do not make good foot soldiers in partisan armies deployed by remote elites who are battling for control of government offices. They have jobs they can't miss and children they have to pick up from school and errands to run..";

Demographic: "The rise of unmarried and childless young Americans in their 20s and 30s who can be mobilized by left and right for unrestricted partisan warfare "; and

Economic: "The strategy , encouraged by neoliberal Democrats and libertarian conservative Republicans alike since the 1970s, has been to lower labour costs in the US American business has also driven down wages by smashing unions in the private sector, which now have fewer members -- a little more than 6% of the private sector workforce -- than they did under Herbert Hoover."

For now the public debate and headlines remain instead of the latest " coup d'état " (and even Hitler's 1923 failed Munich Beerhall putsch); and of the " coup de grâce " of removing Trump from office, surely risking further polarisation when he will leave in less than two weeks anyway. Fortunately, there was no risk of an actual coup of the kind seen in Thailand dozens of times (and it deserves noting that in the Thai case recent coups were against populist outsiders, not led by them.)

Indeed, Edward Luttwak --the author of the literal handbook on coups -- has criticized Trump for not being conciliatory, and earlier, but also argued " during the Capitol Hill riot, Wall St went up – traders were unmoved by TV hysteria " as there was never any chance that Biden would not be sworn in on 20 January. Ask yourself, would the markets really have rallied Wednesday if an *actual* US coup had been happening?

Perhaps! Because to add another crisis to Lind's list, two coups arguably already happened:

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As Lind concludes:

"The painstaking reconstruction of the United States, if it takes place, is not one to be met by 10-point plans and PowerPoints. First we must agree on the causes of the collapse of the latest in a series of historic American regimes."

Well, Wall St does *not* like things that don't involve 10-point plans or PowerPoints; it usually doesn't even like 9 points of a 10-point plan. Yet Lind's proposal would be a good start, even if it isn't going to happen.

In the meantime, either buy into the reflation trade on the presumption that the new administration will at least attempt to use economic stimulus to bridge the political divide; or expect the worse and just buy Bitcoin , which is at over USD40,000 as even conservative pension funds are apparently now getting interested. (" So, Mr and Mrs Smith, we've looked at your risk appetite and retirement date, and we think that overall it's best to plan for a post-nuclear apocalypse scenario. Have you considered studded-leather hot pants and bondage mask producers? And have you thought about gasoline and water at all? They are going to be quite the ticket!" )

But to end a troubling week on a positive note, Elon Musk is now the world's richest man - provided he never sells any of his shares. So nature is healing.

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eatapeach 5 minutes ago

It became all that fraud and lies that when Kennedy was murdered. Now *that* was a real coup. Mossad, LBJ, and the MIC have bloody hands. LBJ got the Presidency, AIPAC did not have to register as a foreign agent, and the MIC got more war. We've had insiders running the show ever since. That includes Trump (a freemason) and Pence (a freemason) and Biden and almost every other 'elected' official.

PGR88 31 minutes ago (Edited) remove link

American's don't yet seem to grasp that they just experienced a top-down color-revolution / coup. Tech oligarchs, big business and the media have fully revealed themselves as tools of the statist, globalist elites.

NoDebt 30 minutes ago

Half the country does.

[Jan 08, 2021] After the staged storming false flag event, Congress to RE-CONVENE tonight and finish its final act of betrayal against ordinary Americans who expect fair and transparent elections by Mike Adams

Jan 06, 2021 | yournews.com
After the staged "storming" false flag event, Congress to RE-CONVENE tonight and finish its final act of betrayal against America, under the cloak of darkness

Mike Adams

( Natural News ) Today's "storming" of the Capitol Building has already been confirmed as a false flag operation run by Antifa / BLM troops and pre-coordinated with Capitol Police as a way to discredit Trump supporters in the media.

We now know that the people who led the storming of the building are the very same people who have previously been photographed as active individuals at BLM rallies, matching their tattoos, facial hair and even worn equipment.

In addition, Antifa / BLM operators were transported to the event for the sole purpose of carrying out provocateur / false flag operations. "According to a former FBI agent on the ground at the US Capitol, at least one bus load of Antifa goons infiltrated the Trump rally as part of a false flag operation," reports The Gateway Pundit .

Now, we have learned that the treasonous Congress, led by traitors Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell were secretly plotting all along to complete their act of betrayal against America under the cloak of night.

They have issued a press release found at this link, from the office of the Speaker of the House (Pelosi):

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/1621-0

It begins, "Dear Colleague to All Members on Continuation of the Joint Session of Congress" and then claims the attack on the Capitol Buliding was a "shameful assault on our democracy," blaming it fully on President Trump.

Then the letter explains how treasonous members of Congress plan to vote to accept the fraudulent Biden slate of electors later tonight, after Capitol Police had cleared out the protesters with tear gas and by shooting at least one unarmed protester in the neck . From the letter:

To that end, in consultation with Leader Hoyer and Whip Clyburn and after calls to the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the Vice President, we have decided we should proceed tonight at the Capitol once it is cleared for use. Leader Hoyer will be sending out more guidance later today.

We always knew this responsibility would take us into the night. The night may still be long but we are hopeful for a shorter agenda, but our purpose will be accomplished.

They planned this all along

First, they use BLM and Antifa operatives to "storm" the Capitol Building with the help of police, who coordinated the entire thing. Watch the following videos that show the Capitol Police openly ushering "protesters" into the build. They actually invited them in!

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/fc6da51b-02d3-4b05-878f-29302cd4f541

You can then see from this video that they were allowed to stream right in, without any police attempting to stop them:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/2f5a4f1a-ef37-4e65-8b1c-4fa2872380a9

Once the "storming" was complete, the Capitol Police deployed tear gas to remove all the protesters, while Trump was forced to tell everybody to go home.

With the Capitol Building now cleared out, they call the joint session of Congress back into existence, with no one around to observe what they are doing , and they commit their final act of treason against America by accepting the Biden slate of electors to install CCP puppet Joe Biden as president.

Note that this is exactly how they rigged the elections in the first place: By removing all GOP observers, blocking windows and acting like they had "paused" the counting when, in reality, they re-convened the rigged counting in the middle of the night and kept feeding fraudulent votes into Dominion machines until they had produced enough votes to "win."

This is how Democrats and the deep state operate: It's 100% staged, always carried out in the dark of night, always based on deception, false narratives and a complicit media that's happy to lie to the American public.

Your country is being stolen from you tonight. They are doing it while they think the nation is asleep. And by the time you wake up -- just like on November 4th -- you will discover that you've lost your country to a group of pedophile criminal thugs who desire power above all else.

Pray for God to intervene, or this nation is finished at the hands of filthy, treasonous betrayers like Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell.

[Jan 08, 2021] Remove Trump from Office by DANIEL LARISON

Daniel does not understand that the problem is the loss of legitimacy of neoliberal elite. Which staged a false flag operation with ransacking the Capitol to swipe under the rug election fraud charges.
And the problem is not only due to cooked elections. The problem is Biden administration which consists of all rabid neoliberals and warmongers. This is a silly hysterical reaction on events, no so much of analysis that we would expect from this author.
This was a protest that was hijacked for nefarious purposes, which is python for any color revolution. Probably infiltrated and subverted but still a protest against Washington neoliberal political elite. Against all those Schumers, Pelosis, McConnells, Romeys and other enablers of financial oligarchy in both parties
A large part of the nation does not accept the election as legitimate. That's the fact.
Jan 07, 2021 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Joe Black4 hours ago

I take serious offense to this article regarding Trump. You say this cannot be tolerated? Can the following actions by the democrats be tolerated:
1) dead people voting
2) people putting in change of address forms in order to be able to vote but are not legal residents of the state
3) changing voting laws so that its impossible to confirm the identity of the voter (fraud)
4) how about hiding boxes of ballots under tables and then telling the tabulators and observers to go home before scanning them multiple times (caught on video)
5) how about voting machines using the internet to send voting tabulations to Germany and China
But wait...you say fraudulent voting can be tolerated because its an issue for courts, governor, legislature, election officials...so lets take a look at the antifa/black lives matters riots in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Ferguson, NYC, Baltimore and elsewhere
1) how about obstructing vehicle traffic, pulling people out of cars and trucks to assault/murder them
2) how about obstructing vehicles with mothers and children...beating the car with fists and bats and pipes
3) how about harrassing people at eating at public restaurants, intimidating them to kneel or raise a fist or apologize for being white
4) how about vandalizing businesses and residences, tearing down statues
5) how about acts of violence and arson
5) how about shooting civilians and cops, or burning down police precincts with police still inside the building which is an act of pre-meditated murder.
6) how about autonomous zones which are acts of sedition and treason against the country
WHOSE ACTIONS DESERVE TO BE SCRUTINIZED BECAUSE THEY ARE INTOLERABLE IN A DEMOCRACY BECAUSE THE WAY 40-50% OF AMERICANS SEE IT...IT IS THE DEMOCRATS THAT ARE DESTROYING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC AND THEN ACTING LIKE THE VICTIM WHEN THEIR ACTIONS RESULT IN A BACKLASH....and if Trump is punished or impeached then your going to initiate an even greater backlash...because it is very clear that the actions of the democrats will never be held accountable and the actions of the republicans will be scrutinized, demonized, criminalized and prosecuted. That is best described as a totalitarian dictatorship, a one party state ruled by a permanent aristocracy. The democrats are closer to Hitler and Stalin than they are to our once pluralistic nation of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, social mobility, objectivity in the press and transparency in our elections.

B-Dog The Man 4 hours ago • edited

Total BS article...that looks like the norm on this silly fake-conservative site.

Just look at the Author..a Leftist...LOL...what a JOKE of a website

B-Dog The Man 4 hours ago

The Capitol Hill Keystone Kops shoot an innocent bystander...I don't see any mention of it on this satirical fake- conservative site.

coldjoint 3 hours ago

To the author of the article, you are a POS. People were praised who rushed the Supreme Court during the Kavanaugh bullshit. These people have looked to others sources than the media and know there was fraud. And if you do not you are one dishonest SOB.

r minty an hour ago • edited

Inciting violence?
Rubbish. DJT called for protesters to return home
Steal the election?
Absolute rubbish. All DJT was for was an accurate tally. There is more than enough evidence of voter fraud.
Negative votes, ballots run through tally machines multiple times, observers ejected from facilities, underage voters, voters with illegitimate addresses, illegal rule modifications, more voters in precincts than adults (much less eligible voters), etc. One hundred people have signed affidavits attesting to having witnessed voting/tally abuses (risking prison once submitted to Congress or courts) and a thousand others have declared their intent to testify if so called
And when adhering to the law becomes an "abuse of power" we no longer have a representative government

You've got nothing except illusions and delusions

[Jan 08, 2021] Partisan media sources, Taibbi added, are driving different groups to hate each other

That's the essence of identify politics. The key idea is put various groups at each other throat so that neoliberal oligarchs are safe. If you do not understand this you understand nothing...
Jan 08, 2021 | thehill.com

Journalist Matt Taibbi joined Hill.TV's "Rising" on Thursday and suggested that partisan media circles resulted in echo chambers that have left many Americans without factual, reliable sources of information.

Taibbi told hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti that those who stormed the U.S. Capitol grounds on Wednesday were victims of misinformation and conspiracy theories resulting from these echo chambers.

"We have two basically conflicting media ecosystems...and what ends up happening when people get an uninterrupted stream of information of this type for long enough, is they just completely lose their ability to assess situations rationally, and they will eventually lash out," Taibbi said.

Partisan media sources, Taibbi added, are driving "different groups to hate each other."

[Jan 07, 2021] Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester

Looks more and more like pre-planned provocations that spontaneous breach of Capitol security
Notable quotes:
"... Filming the incident from behind Babbit , however, was Utah resident John Sullivan - founder of the far-left organization "Insurgence USA" who made headlines in July after he was arrested for intimidating drivers in Provo. Sullivan was interviewed by the Daily Mail and CNN following Wednesday's shooting - both of which failed to provide a satisfactory answer as to why he was there in the first place. ..."
"... What was Sullivan doing there? ..."
"... Because it was all scripted theater. Wake up people, you've been trapped in a mind cage your entire life. ..."
"... and within hours the building was secured and highest officials, the most cherished assets of our democracy (cough cough) went back and resumed the process. My local grocery store has a 24 hour clean-up law if they suspect a Covid case entered the premises ..."
"... They Capitol Police did their job alright.... https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/vision-emerges-of-police-moving-barricades-to-allow-rioters-into-us-capitol-taking-selfies/news-story/45a9be3adf9b447b53d23cf5536c5d02 ..."
"... Note the guy who is already behind the barricades (in a hoodie) who is waving the people forward. And it DOES look like the cops let them in. Unbelievable. If only there were real investigative journalists working on this story. ..."
"... Cui bono? ( Who benefits? ) Who benefitted from yesterday's event? Who was harmed? "Trump supporters" or conservatives certainly did not benefit. Leftist who want to expedite an increasingly totalitarian regime certainly did benefit. ..."
"... But it's obvious that the braintrust who concocted this event also wanted to twist the knife into Trump when he only has 12 (!) days left in office. It was clear he is/was a lame duck. Again, what else is going on here? Or is this simply an example of kicking a man who's already virtually out the door? What's with this 25th Amendment talk? ..."
"... To be fair, the CIA et. al. have been researching mind control since at least 1900 and they used WWI and every other conflict since as testing grounds for their theories and techniques. ..."
"... The whole scene stinks of a setup. The police pulled the barricades aside and invited them through. BLM thugs were on scene to video (and who knows what else). People breaking windows (whoever they might be) were booed by protesters. Were they antifa acting as agents provocateurs? The media and Democrat politicos were all set to demonize the protesters. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

During yesterday's protest in Washington D.C., a Turmp-supporting US Air Force Veteran, Ashli Babbitt, was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer ( who has been placed on leave ) as she attempted to climb through a broken window to bypass a barricade, along with other Trump supporters.

Filming the incident from behind Babbit , however, was Utah resident John Sullivan - founder of the far-left organization "Insurgence USA" who made headlines in July after he was arrested for intimidating drivers in Provo. Sullivan was interviewed by the Daily Mail and CNN following Wednesday's shooting - both of which failed to provide a satisfactory answer as to why he was there in the first place.

Sullivan told the Mail that "he was not at the Capitol as part of the protest but did not specify what exactly brought him there. "

Update: Sent in to ZH tips by reader Tony G.

Meanwhile, Trump supporters physically stopped someone from trying to break into the Capitol Building.

What was Sullivan doing there?


LeadPipeDreams 3 hours ago remove link

Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester?

Because it was all scripted theater. Wake up people, you've been trapped in a mind cage your entire life.

Mtnrunnr 3 hours ago

Or maybe agitators for both groups are just agitators and aren't there to progress society.

4DegreesOfSeparation 3 hours ago

Who was in the Capitol, all you need to do is look at social media:

On the Proud Boys' Parler account - which is a Twitter-style social media platform - an image of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk was posted along with the message: "We will not back down."

And on their Telegram site, the militia group boasted of terrifying politicians.

They wrote: "For several hours, our collective strength had politicians in Washington in absolute terror.

"The treacherous pawns (cops) were also terrified."

Karen Durden 29 minutes ago (Edited)

Got this a few minutes ago: https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1610054572353.png (interesting read, sums up:

  • - demoralize conservatives by convince them of fraudulent elections
  • - false flag
  • - white conservatives are vilified
  • - website to publicly identify who's a "white supremacist"
  • - eliminate the problem: Q mentioned " sealed indictments " are YOU, not the pedo elites.

If we consider today's Pelosi's Trump impeachment idea, now in his last 14 days, then it all makes sense as a Farce to Rattle the White Conservatives and vilify us to have an excuse to corral us. Even so called conservative talking heads (Ingraham 4eg) are condemning the peaceful visit to the Capitol where the police opened the barricades and guided the crisis actors around the building. The 4chan autists tend to be right more often than not.

Kiss_My_Schnitzel_Again 1 hour ago

I find it ironic that you clowns didn't read the article clearly stating with facts that ANTIFA was disguised as Trump supporters. Do liberals even read and comprehend?

champ2top 37 minutes ago (Edited)

Its about time the politicians experienced some fear. They don't seem to mind American business owners, police, woman and children in their homes being terrorized and murdered in their places of business by the Democrat Antifa and BLM groups. Why should Pelosi who is voted in by a small handful of people in Northern California be treated differently than the people who voted her in? She shouldn't. She is a root cause of the division we have today. Maybe Pelosi should have come out and addressed the crowd and earned some Kudo's from the Trump supporters. Not her style as a dictator.

Fluff The Cat 6 minutes ago (Edited)

As I've repeatedly said, Proud Boys are a controlled opposition outfit. Gavin McInnes is one of the co-founders, a self-described "pro-gay, pro-Israel, virulently anti-racist libertarian." He shoved a dildo up his rear on video and kissed Milo Yiannopoulos. Up until a short while ago he was a contributor to (((Rebel Media))).

C'mon folks, sort it out.

joyful-feet 2 hours ago (Edited)

Viking man is a professional actor. The protest was bait and lure for conservatives. Link to his backstage actor profile.

https://archive.vn/mIW6p

They already scripted what was going to happen and you can see by the coordinated rapid response in action to now condemn and steal more freedoms and liberties of Americans as a response. You can bet from now on the full power and weight of the US government will be to monitor, track, and surveil YOU patriot.

Democrats and Republicans have been working together since 2016 to craft this whole situation out scene by scene. How many know that Steven Mnuchin of the Treasury is also an Actor/Director? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6518391/

champ2top 33 minutes ago

I thought I recognized Susan Serandon in Trump garb amongst the crowd in the Capitol. I guess during Covid Actors will take just about any job for a few dollars.

Giant 1 hour ago

Old commie tactic, infiltrate real movement and act as agent provocateur to further the goals of your cruel paymasters, if hijacking is not possible. On the up side, this will ''red pill'' every person with brains. Trump might have been a fool to try to ''make deals'' with sociopaths, but he sure ripped the curtain and showed people what really goes on behind the stage. Sad to say, but people who can not see what's going on are too stupid to be reliable and should be treated like that. ''Re-unification'' my arse!

Son of Loki 3 hours ago (Edited)

Looking more and more like an assassination. She was not armed and obviously no threat to anyone. In fact, she was standing between several police and SS guys in suits. Yet that guy took aim and shot her point blank aiming for her head but got her in the neck with one lethal bullet. Who was the killer?

walküre 3 hours ago

the follow-up question should be, was she the intended target?

BigMama 1 hour ago

Based on the New York Post video it appears credible that Ashli Babbitt was the likely intended victim. Her assassin was approximately 20-30 feet away from a clear target framed in the top shattered glass panel of the cross-corridor separating partition.

Billy the Poet 2 hours ago

So if it looks like the woman was murdered for no apparent reason ...

snatchpounder PREMIUM 3 hours ago

Sullivan is an agent of the state and he was there to make the snuff film of Ashli Babbitt. This is so obvious Stevie Wonder could see it and Antifa and BLM scum bags are jerking each other off after watching said snuff film. Sullivan and other degenerates like him will be used up and when they're of no use to TPTSB he'll be the star in a snuff film.

Make_Mine_A_Double 33 minutes ago

Staged litbard version of the Reichstag fire - with the complicity of the Feds and Donkeytards.

Banned Banana 3 hours ago

As someone pointed out in another thread, inside the Capitol there were men calmly and clearly explaining why the election was a fraud. He was inside to help stop that, and they succeeded.

walküre 3 hours ago

and within hours the building was secured and highest officials, the most cherished assets of our democracy (cough cough) went back and resumed the process. My local grocery store has a 24 hour clean-up law if they suspect a Covid case entered the premises

Banned Banana 3 hours ago

Well yeah but the pigs in Congress weren't worried about Covid because they were protected. Here's my congressman's tweet from yesterday:

https://twitter.com/RepDavidTrone/status/1346909364859277317/photo/1

Ms No PREMIUM 3 hours ago

Because your rulers own the intelligence agencies. That's why. They have been working against the American people all along and they are dangerous as hell.

Remember September 11, the dancing Mossad agents, Larry Silverstein, Mossad Epstein Honeypot, etc?

Remember the ISIS compound NM local police discovered and the feds saved? Remember weapons of mass destruction and the US weapons grade anthrax letters? Remember all the mass shootings that turn on and off like a light switch while pushing for taking your second amendment?

Remember the Corona hoax with killer lockdowns, threaten to starve 160 million already?

Get sophisticated quick. Nobody has time for stupid.

BangDingOw 2 hours ago

Speaking of the fake mass shootings...hardly anyone has noticed that there have been no mass shootings since covid. We were averaging one a month since the propaganda act repeal in 2012 (averaged one a year before 2012). Covid hits...poof, gone. So I ask the sheep: are mass shooters that afraid of covid or was it all fake to start with? Logically , those are the only possible explanations. The sheep don't have much of an answer for that question.

daveO 2 hours ago

Remember weapons of mass destruction and the US weapons grade anthrax letters? From Ft. Detrick, which was shut down on August 1st, 2019 ahead of this Scamdemic...

nope-1004 3 hours ago (Edited)

Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester? Because the left war machine hired them, and the police were told to allow entry.

Richard Chesler 3 hours ago

It'll show as "professional services" in the Clinton Foundation balance sheet.

mr1963 3 hours ago

Raise your hand if you think all this evidence will make a bit of difference? The die is cast people. You're on the most wanted list now and forever. Wake up, they are manipulating the whole of the country against people who freely elected a man to the office of the President -- TWICE -- because you had the audacity to elect him. They have destroyed him and you're next.

USAllDay 3 hours ago

Truth be told, Antifa and Trump supporters do have some common ground. I (jokingly) said two years ago if Antifa burned down the capital I might have to go buy some black cloths. I think talk of Antifa its a distraction. Antifa doesn't hold the keys to the Capital. This goes way above Antifa. The Capital is a fortress, it only gets breached if its allowed to be breached. Notice there is zero outrage at the Capital Police utterly failing to do their job.

floosy 3 hours ago

They Capitol Police did their job alright.... https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/vision-emerges-of-police-moving-barricades-to-allow-rioters-into-us-capitol-taking-selfies/news-story/45a9be3adf9b447b53d23cf5536c5d02

Give Me Some Truth 3 hours ago

Note the guy who is already behind the barricades (in a hoodie) who is waving the people forward. And it DOES look like the cops let them in. Unbelievable. If only there were real investigative journalists working on this story.

putaipan 2 hours ago

two things i am hearing most in all msm coverage- 1) repeated use of the word "insurgents", thereby negating the effect of any trump potential use of said act (btw...i never heard for certain if the insurgency act was in fact withdrawn in the 5000 pages of the covid relief bill) and 2) way more important, and hearing it everywhere- the stoking of racial tension by describing the white priviledge shown towards the protesters. stoke stoke stoke that civil war baby.

BigJim 1 hour ago (Edited)

Yes, the unfortunate Ms Babitt certainly got treated in accordance with her White privilege.

sun tzu 3 hours ago

Antifa are deep state

Give Me Some Truth 3 hours ago

The Deep State uses Antifa.

sun tzu 3 hours ago

Just like all Qaeda and ISIS

domoga 2 hours ago

Based on what I see, that was one cold blooded murder.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

Cui bono? ( Who benefits? ) Who benefitted from yesterday's event? Who was harmed? "Trump supporters" or conservatives certainly did not benefit. Leftist who want to expedite an increasingly totalitarian regime certainly did benefit.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago (Edited)

God no. Which actually makes me wonder what's really going on here and why? I get that the "Trump supporters" have now been besmirched and casts as villains. But it's obvious that the braintrust who concocted this event also wanted to twist the knife into Trump when he only has 12 (!) days left in office. It was clear he is/was a lame duck. Again, what else is going on here? Or is this simply an example of kicking a man who's already virtually out the door? What's with this 25th Amendment talk?

daveO 1 hour ago

Because P!zz@G@te is real. See General Flynn's persecution. His last judge was named Emmett Sullivan and an Obama appointee.

Meanwhile, McConnell's wife just resigned from the Cabinet, no doubt to help the 25th amendment invocation and blacklisting Trump from running again.

montanaconserv 2 hours ago

The left did benefit.. they are currently trying to arrange for an impeachment of a Lame-duck President with only 2 weeks left to go... they have successfully shut out any conservative thought or opinion on most social media applications.... how can you say the left hasn't benefited from this?

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago (Edited)

I did say the Left was the clear beneficiary for the reasons you gave, plus others. So people and organizations in the Left are the obvious "primary suspect."

Zero-Hegemon 2 hours ago

Why was he there? Because the whole thing was staged to derail the congressional evidence and protests to out all of the election fraud. The surrender caucus folded like a house of cards at the first hint of bad breath.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago (Edited)

It seems to me the real story here is that the mainstream press WON'T investigate real stories.

Everything I've seen so far comes from independent or alternative news sites.

Needless to say, Drudge doesn't have any of these headlines.

GRDguy 2 hours ago

That's because MSM major holders are the same sociopaths that control CME, which controls Comex, which manipulates the price of precious metal. Leading sociopaths all work together when it benefits them and destroys the 96% who are not sociopathic.

daveO 2 hours ago

Meanwhile, CME open interest on BTC has grown over 15X's in last year. Pumping it up.

SomethingClever 1 hour ago (Edited)

Your comment made me think of the 1% who must all be members of the 4% sociopath group. Now that makes a lot of sense.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

Once upon a time, though, he would have been running at least some of these headlines. I doubt he even picks the stories to run or not run anymore. Someone else - who he sold out to (literally or figuratively) now makes the site's editorial decisions.

ExpressConcerns 2 hours ago

he was there for the same reason that the DC police invited protesters inside -- for the show

rjk0279 2 hours ago (Edited)

That was the nothing fence but what about getting in the building. It's not an automatic door like grocery store.

SomethingClever 1 hour ago

To be fair, the CIA et. al. have been researching mind control since at least 1900 and they used WWI and every other conflict since as testing grounds for their theories and techniques.

Their diligence and persistence has paid off with remarkably effective brainwashing capabilities. For many brainwashed sheep, it was not their fault, the technologies are expertly applied and the results are repeatable - look at all the 'color revolutions' around the world.

Ruff_Roll 2 hours ago

The whole scene stinks of a setup. The police pulled the barricades aside and invited them through. BLM thugs were on scene to video (and who knows what else). People breaking windows (whoever they might be) were booed by protesters. Were they antifa acting as agents provocateurs? The media and Democrat politicos were all set to demonize the protesters.

CriswellSpeaks 1 hour ago

Don't they have a ultrasonic weapon that's supposed to be able to drive crowds away from the capital buildings? They probably didn't have it turned on because they wanted the attack happening.

USAllDay 3 hours ago

Remember what that child molester Mike Pence said yesterday "Violence is never the answer" ... you know except for the:

and never mind Waco or Ruby Ridge. And this is a very very short list.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

Violence WAS the answer when the Trump administration bombed Syria twice because Assad "gassed his own people" and blew up an Iranian general in his car for the crime of going to Iraq, where he was invited.

fnsnook 2 hours ago

you seem to think the original miga party is going to be different.

GRDguy 2 hours ago

Nice list of leading sociopaths fighting other sociopaths over control of the masses, financed by sociopathic financiers to whom lyin' and stealin' is their way of life.

creviceCaress 2 hours ago

speaking of the greatest purveyor of violence recorded history has seen, for a more insightful look at an exhaustive track record of u.s.s.a.(and friends) take a look at

on the justice of roosting chickens - ward churchill

and if you happen by a thrift store buy all the black tactical-looking gear/clothes you can find.

Goat of Steverino 48 minutes ago (Edited)

PERHAPS HE MISTOOK THE CAPITOL BUILDING AND THE CROWD AS PEOPLE LOOTING A SNEAKER STORE ..... AND DECIDED TO JOIN IN

deus ex machina 31 minutes ago

That was pretty funny queerino. You feeling okay?

TryingSomethingNew 19 minutes ago

He's a GS-6 equivalent for the CIA. He comes from a military family (thus, hired preferentially)???

Nasgob 2 hours ago

I mean its pretty obvious what happened... Establishment needed a contingency plan to never allow Trump to run again or have a chance at staying in the White House so they enabled and incited his followers to break into the capitol so they could frame him for use of the insurrection act. Not hard to figure out. Open the gates to enable "breach," leave weapons all around the ground for any who are feeling extra emotional, break a few windows and tell supporters to go in, lead supporters down specific hallways guarded by 1 police officer in order to create desired imagery for use in the media. Sprinkle a few Soros funded Antifa actors to make things run smoothly... Wouldn't be surprised if they try to put Trump in prison for a while too, of course citing their self incited "insurrection."

Give Me Some Truth 1 hour ago

They "sprinkled" more than a few Antifa professional instigators into the crowd. And all of them seemed to make their way to the exterior walls of the Capitol before just about everyone else.

domoga 2 hours ago

This is all from George Soros playbook

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

And the CIA has probably staged the same type of events in countless countries at countless "protests."

domoga 2 hours ago

Yep

Buck Fanks 2 hours ago

Crisis actors and agent provocateurs as far as the eye can see. Not denying the woman shot was a patriot, but I fear she died for another agenda.

fanbeav 3 hours ago

Everyone needs to turn off any news. They are all scripted theater and their job is to make you think the opposite of what is actually happening. Communism and Socialism will be implemented and you will never be told the truth again!

Tigbits 2 hours ago

Haven't watched in months. It's all lies and propaganda.

ThomasJefferson69 1 hour ago (Edited)

I think one of the terms is called a frame up. They instigate the violence and film it. I am sure he was well paid. Guessing Soros wrote the check.

1CSR2SQN 1 hour ago

I bet Uncle Sam wrote the check with your money.

ThomasJefferson69 1 hour ago

Well considering everyone is getting checks I can't disagree that he got money from the government. However I am sure he got paid extra, through one of Soros many "charitable" organizations. Obviously that man saw a lot of human pain as a Nazi, and gets off on it.

Snaffew 2 hours ago

If you watched the actors break the window to get into the capitol...they were extremely careful to just break the glass and not the wooden muntins that separate the panes. Then they were escorted by police to the house chambers.

This is just like Pelosi's false flag garage door event where no paint made it onto the bricks because shielding was in place.

Can the Dems do anything right? Even false flag events are pathetic in their authenticity---

chiquita 2 hours ago

There were a bunch of jokes made about how protesters were walking around *inside* the velvet ropes and they were taking pictures--videos of it too. Clearly, these were not violent people who were in there trying to do bad things--fits that narrative about some people thinking they were led in there to go on a tour.

Ms No PREMIUM 3 hours ago

They want you to see that the Intel agencies and their proxy groups did this.

This is a show of force and attempt at demoralization of the many that know. They want you to see them as all powerful.

They have been displaying this in many ways for a while now, uncloaking. What is sad is that even when they display it some can't see it still due to their filters.

daveO 1 hour ago

Yes, that's it. They will now target right wing personalities. Jerome Corsi said last night, on the radio, that he was being shut down. January 13th is coming up. I suspect they will "remove" one that day, like they did Scalia on 2/13/16.

Oliver Klozoff 3 hours ago

Narratives no longer matter.

The US is a captive nation.

Ms No PREMIUM 3 hours ago

An occupied people. Have been for a long time.

ComradePuff 3 hours ago

why? because the groups are the same: deep state agents playing both sides. It is a deep state LARP to infiltrate, misdirect, co-opt and discredit actual activism.

paxmundi 3 hours ago

Maybe we need to ratchet it down and go back to Occam's Razor.

It's not a false flag.

It's not the Deep State.

It's MAGA retards.

No_Pretzel_Logic 3 hours ago

A rube in denial. ^^^ Gotta love useful idiots.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

Okay. Prove it. Question all of these people and see if the really are "MAGA." It shouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to find these people with all the photos and videos of them. If someone did do this, we'd learn who the instigators really are. But this probably won't happen.

sun tzu 2 hours ago

Same thing happened to the Occupy Wall Street and anti-globalist movement in Seattle during the 90's

Bay of Pigs 16 minutes ago

As usual, the official government narrative is falling apart.

Funny how that happens?

youshallnotkill 12 minutes ago

So Trump is not part of the government now?

Leonard T. Bayard 17 minutes ago

The Democrats stole the election. Antifa infiltrated stop the steal rally.

I have to ask, are the Democrats really that smart? Or is the average Republican just not that bright...

gilhgvc 11 minutes ago

not bright at all

nomad943 10 minutes ago


[Jan 07, 2021] The participant of the events: These people were not violent per se, they just want the Senate and House to feel thier presence. Looks like it was turned into provocation with the temporaty and meaningless occupation of Capitol deliberatly and using infiltrated agents

Notable quotes:
"... These people were not violent per se...there was very much a feeling of - we are going to be a presence while the senate does their thing ... we want them to know that this election is ******** and we want them to act accordingly. ..."
"... I couldn't see everything happening but people definitely wanted to get up on the capital steps and that was via the scaffolding etc... ..."
"... It almost seems like this was allowed to happen. ..."
"... I can't discount people freaking out and wanting to be inside. it's OUR HOUSE (one of the chants being chanted). But... with some planning nobody would have put one foot on those steps. ..."
"... They had a very small police force there and the big force didn't get there until the breach. They could put a cop ever 5 (oops 6) feet and we wouldn't be talking about this at all. ..."
"... We were to be a presence to say 'hey...we are here, watching you.' ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

LawOfBass

I WAS THERE

These people were not violent per se...there was very much a feeling of - we are going to be a presence while the senate does their thing ... we want them to know that this election is ******** and we want them to act accordingly.

Yes...there were some people that wanted to storm the gates and all but most of all it just seemed like a logical push forward. I couldn't see everything happening but people definitely wanted to get up on the capital steps and that was via the scaffolding etc...

The police were tear gassing and flash banging but it was not keeping people from doing what they were doing.

I was on the inauguration side on one of the sides that curve in towards the middle. Couldn't see all that much because there was another terrace in front of me. The cops were trying to get people off a tower (5-8 ppl) that was in the middle of the lawn, near the steps going up. Tear gassing etc...they were moving to push people back. Not that many cops...20??? That riled people up and they started climbing up. NOT tons of people...more tear gas. This riled up people more. It was intense at times. At some point someone on 'our' side got a hold of tear gas/mace device and started spraying the cops that were in some sort of island that could not be reached from either side.

1. I watched at least 50 cops who were in front of me on the other side of the scaffolding just *leave*. They went right and were gone. They were all wearing yellow vests so it was easy to see. IF they had moved to the center NO ONE would have gotten through without major violence.

2. Around 4pm, when the police decided to make their presence felt, they cleared out the other side of the Capital VERY easily. I mean...it went from protest to 'I guess this over' VERY quickly. There were cops from Fairfax County, VA (didn't see any) and I saw at least 20 VA State police. I have never seen that many police cars....they were *everywhere*

3. It almost seems like this was allowed to happen. There is no question that there were 10s of 1000s of people there. I can't count them... a LOT OF PEOPLE headed towards the Capital. This could have been easily avoided with a major police presence but that didn't happen until after the breach. I don't know what to say, I can't discount people freaking out and wanting to be inside. it's OUR HOUSE (one of the chants being chanted). But... with some planning nobody would have put one foot on those steps.

They had a very small police force there and the big force didn't get there until the breach. They could put a cop ever 5 (oops 6) feet and we wouldn't be talking about this at all.

I have been to a lot of big events (concerts etc...) and the 2 most peaceful events I have ever been to are the 1/20/20 VCDL event in Richmond, VA and yesterday's rally. Big crowds always get pushy people that want their way...that was not the case at all at either event. These are not people that want to assault the Capital. They [are] people that know "something" must happen eventually...but yesterday was not that day.

We were to be a presence to say 'hey...we are here, watching you.'

Side note: There were tons of anti-CCP Chinese there. They know what happens with communism.

[Jan 07, 2021] They had no plan, no leadership, few allies and no clear agenda.They were united by anger and a desire to fix something that was obviously broken - yet impossible to fix without the buy-in of entrenched special interests and they were played by usual color revolution specialists, pursuing simister aganda

So they tried to prevent delegitimization of Biden, by de-legitimizing Trump via association of his speech with ransacking of the Capitol building. Trump orived to be a coward who misses his change to go with people to Capitol and stand on the steps watching the proceedings.
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Yesterday, January the 6th, a motley band of MAGA, Antifa and what appears to be a Minotaur, entered Congress uninvited.

They had no plan, no leadership, few allies and no clear agenda.

They were united by anger and a desire to fix something that was obviously broken - yet impossible to fix without the buy-in of entrenched special interests.

After spending a few hours pissing off the establishment and taking plenty of selfies, they became distracted - focused on other personal goals, like securing beer and smokes. During their time occupying national attention, they accomplished little and likely caused long-term harm to their causes. They won't be forgotten, but they won't really be remembered either. In many ways, their hours spent in Congress were a metaphor for the past four years of Trump's Presidency.

Trump isn't going to disappear, but after today, he's politically spent.

His own party, far more focused on lucrative insider dealings than serving the American people, have cast him astray.

As a result, we're clearly back on the "Project Zimbabwe" model and it's about to accelerate.

I expect money printing, more election rigging and a good deal of self-enrichment for the Biden family. When you include all the mandatory nap time, it will look quite similar to Robert Mugabe's later years in office.


Blankone 5 hours ago

So now that Trump is not president is he going to prosecute the Clinton's. Now he is going to start doing things?

Trump played his supporters from day 1. He hired swamp and tribe creatures, he increased the wars, the illegals have increased,

He derailed the movement to take back America, that was the job he was tasked with.

He never used the FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security to investigate and prosecute Antifa/BLM or even the election fraud. He just made a show and made noise.

He made big talk to encourage the rally in DC, hinted at something BIG he would do, implied a bold move would occur -- all to lure them in for their destruction.

He stirred them up to action, and then made them into the bad guys to be shunned. His Vice Pres. called them criminals to be prosecuted, the repubs rejected them, they were shot dead, Trump told them to obey orders, Trump called in the military to prepare to shoot more of them if they approached the White House and Trump called in the FBI to shoot them if they did not leave congress building (funny how Trump can use the FBI quickly when he wants to)

And then Trump CONCEDES at the perfect time for the full effect.

Thus destroying their momentum and belief in their movement. They now go home with their tails between their legs, their strong talk silenced with the deaths of their members, spat upon by those they thought were their heros, their idolized hero surrenders, their military called in to shoot them if they continue ---

Trump played them perfectly, from the beginning to the very end. Now they are lost.

UselessEater 3 hours ago remove link

But he moved The Embassy.

takeaction 5 hours ago (Edited)

The photo is all ANTIFA/BLM members that infiltrated the Trump rally.

You know that right?

See the Antifa Tattoo on his hand....

Also...the POLICE INVITED THEM IN....there was no storming of the capital...LOOK

This was planned. It will get real good from here on out.

This movie has just started.

UnicornTears 5 hours ago

The viking dude is not Antifa. He has the volknut and the Yggdrasil tattooed on his chest.

Isecede 5 hours ago

That changes everything

misgivings 5 hours ago (Edited)

https://twitter.com/KelemenCari/status/1346943586810531843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1346943586810531843%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fquestions-about-chaos-capitol-desperately-need-be-answered

(Viking dude: Jake Angell)

Roacheforque 5 hours ago

He's just a paid media stooge. Who knows who funds him, who cares? Fake plants, designed to be noticed.

Blankone 4 hours ago remove link

It was a black plain cloths capital police or FBI agent who shot the woman.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/FdZ0HJR36gpM/

cvp 2 hours ago

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/questions-about-chaos-capitol-desperately-need-be-answered

[Jan 07, 2021] There was nothing that this women did to deserve being shot by another coward in uniform

Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

1CSR2SQN

So next time a black guy gets dropped on the street by the cops we'll remember the quotes on this killing from the left that it was deserved. That about sum it up because there was nothing that women did to deserve being shot by another coward in uniform. The only people who deserved to be shot yesterday are the liars perpetuating a Biden election was honest.

Karma is going to exact a big price for this one.

The CIA is very experienced in overthrowing governments and I believe they enjoyed overthrowing their own. They are cursed.

maximin thrax 5 hours ago

Like the man said, the only standards a liberal has are double standards. Spin to where it's always the right's fault and you have to contort the essence of the story whichever way accomplishes that goal.

[Jan 07, 2021] Officer Who Shot Killed Veteran During Capitol Chaos Placed On Leave, Faces Internal Probe

Was it deliberate provocation to incite violence like Maidan sniper shootings with the goal to invite the crowd to storm of the building, or what ?
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Nearly 24 hours have passed since yesterday's chaos on Capitol Hill, which left one individual dead from a gunshot wound, and three others dead from unrelated medical emergencies on the Capitol grounds, and finally the Capitol Police have published a statement.

In it, Chief of Police Steven Sund denounced the thousands of demonstrators who later participated in the storming of the Capitol as criminals, condemning their "criminally riotous behavior."

Though the demonstrators were determined to cause "great damage," Sund said, the officer - who was not named - responsible for shooting and killing a demonstrator named Ashli Babbitt has been placed on administrative leave. Their police powers have been suspended "pending the outcome of a joint Metropolitan Police and USCP investigation."

[Jan 07, 2021] President Trump should go. He should go now!

I think Colonel is out of depth here
Notable quotes:
"... Trump did not stir up Antifa yesterday. Antifa was waiting in the wings. Rahm Emanuel lingering words more likely stirred up Antifa - "never let a good crisis go to waste". ..."
"... He should have finished up his speech by saying he will walk together with the Deplorables over to the Capitol building where they and he together would peacefully stay behind the barriers just so the legislators knew they were there watching. Oh well. ..."
"... Breaking away from a peaceful million-man demo, a few provocateurs enlisted others to break into the Capitol with them. Cui bono? The President called for them to go home and abandon violence. Your post is a an over-reaction. ..."
"... It also has to be explained why the Capitol Police allowed this break-in to happen. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

IMO President Trump did a lot of good things in his term until he was torpedoed by COVID-19 and the tangled skein of threads involved in the November 3rd election. This electoral circus will be puzzled over for a long time. I take note that Ossoff won in Georgia by just enough to avoid a re-count.

Nevertheless, The president's actions since November 3 have grown more and more erratic and have now culminated in what can only be called an incitement of mob violence directed at the Congress.

People ask why the Capitol Police and other federal authorities were not better prepared to defend the Capitol complex against attack. Well, pilgrims, nobody expected the president of the US to whip up crowd anger and then to send the mob to the Capitol.

I wrote some days ago that Trump's rage and pain were serious factors to consider in a moment of political crisis. These things and his "one man show" mentality" overwhelmed him yesterday and in acting out his personal agony he did serious damage to the country. He is done. Stick a fork in him, maybe over-done.

The Democrat leadership will not want to pursue him although his actions yesterday might make him criminally liable. The squaddies will howl for his blood, but Schumer, Pelosi, etc. are not going to want to do anything that rash.

IMO he should leave the scene. A retreat to Mar a Lago is what should happen. He can let the clock run out there. He can resign and let Pence deal with the mess, but he should go.

The populist revolt that he led is not dead. It is not anything like dead. The 75 million citizens who voted for him are still here. They still want the same things, but he should depart and let a new leadership of the Deplorable Smellies emerge. pl


Deap , 07 January 2021 at 11:33 AM

Trump did not stir up Antifa yesterday. Antifa was waiting in the wings. Rahm Emanuel lingering words more likely stirred up Antifa - "never let a good crisis go to waste".

There was absolutely nothing in Trump's small speech even remotely incinderiary. It is time to get past blaming one person for the systemic violence Democrats have ginned up for four long years against this one man. Stop drinking the media Kool-Aid.

Fred , 07 January 2021 at 11:34 AM

Col.,

I think you are right. He's got a pen and pardon authority so he should get busy. He should fire a few people like Fauci while he's at it.

BillWade , 07 January 2021 at 11:35 AM

I heard a lot of talk about "crossing the Rubicon" lately and found myself thinking yesterday while watching President Trump's speech that he could have easily "crossed the Rubicon". He should have finished up his speech by saying he will walk together with the Deplorables over to the Capitol building where they and he together would peacefully stay behind the barriers just so the legislators knew they were there watching. Oh well.

What's he gonna do now? Like the Colonel suggests, slink off to Mar a Lago. The problem with that is his neighbors there hate him and want him to move out.

I still have some hope Trump has something up his sleeve but it's fading away.

Tony Papert , 07 January 2021 at 12:18 PM

Breaking away from a peaceful million-man demo, a few provocateurs enlisted others to break into the Capitol with them. Cui bono? The President called for them to go home and abandon violence. Your post is a an over-reaction.

It also has to be explained why the Capitol Police allowed this break-in to happen.

Bobo , 07 January 2021 at 12:49 PM

Its only 24 hours and emotions on all sides are still hot so whatever words I could say would be tempered in time.

Yes, Donald said to the crowd "now to the Capitol" but not into the Capitol, granted there is not much difference. He and his family were shocked at the crowds entering the Capitol and his son did attempt to stop or turn the crowd. Except for the rowdys and idiots it seemed to be a very peaceful and orderly stroll through the Capitol as one would be hard pressed to smear the whole crowd negatively. I saw neighbors, plumbers, beauticians, truck drivers and every other sort of hard working people in that crowd. Just good old American people.

Oh, Donald will get the blame but if one sits back and thinks then one realizes people are not satisfied with how our Republic is functioning and their are a good number of people who want change. After yesterday that change will occur but it will take time and a lot of hard days.

Donald has 13 days to go let him be.

Deap , 07 January 2021 at 01:44 PM

No more lies, Democrats. This is who we are: I'm with Mark Steyn https://politicrossing.com/mark-steyn-blisters-the-left-for-hypocrisy/

No more faux calls to unity - you made your bed Democrats four years ago. Sleep in it on your own. You are not cutting off my arms, legs and head to fit into yours now. We are out, but we are not down. Sleep on that.

Horace , 07 January 2021 at 01:58 PM

I agree with Col. Lang. There is no organized disciplined movement behind Pres. Trump. He attempted to remake the Republican Party, and while he has had enormous success with the rank and file, the party operatives and leadership are still overwhelmingly servants of corrupt internationalist oligarchy. We Americans are the most numerous people on Earth not only to not have our own country, but we don't even have a single country-level institution representing our collective interests. We need one.

The Republican Party and Establishment Conservatism (Republican-flavored globalists) have failed to conserve anything but their personal wealth. They will fail at that too, if the communists whose rise their misrule has enabled manage to escape the lassoes with which their Democrat-flavored globalist counterparts in the Democrat Party have managed to bind them.

I hope Pres. Trump will play a leading role in the formation of a replacement for the Republican Party. It would never win at the country level (neither will Republicans at this point: we now live in a one party state), but we need reliable political machinery to produce sheriffs, DA's and governors to protect our rights and preserve our political and social culture in institutions of local governance. "Chapter 1 Fake Democracy: de facto one party state" is over and we are now beginning "Chapter 2 The Oligarchy Revealed: de jure one party state" in what will be a multi-generational civilizational war.

The tut-tutting over violence and mob rule is silly. There was one killing. The shooter was police and the victim was one of us. Our ruling class might have a leg to stand on calling us lawless if they hadn't just carried out the most brazen full-court-press vote fraud operation in American history in collaboration with hostile foreigners. This after not only tolerating but encouraging communist BLM and Antifa thugs from wrecking several American cities over the last year, preceded by decades of utterly lawless tolerance of foreign drugs and illegal immigrants pouring into and corroding our communities.

Making safe our American communities has never been a priority of theirs, so making safe their imperial capital is not one of ours. If they feel they are surrounded by hostile people and have to make their city an armed camp, then maybe they are simply recognizing a new reality (of their own creation) more quickly than many of the rest of us.

AK , 07 January 2021 at 02:03 PM

Edward Goldstick,

" I just hope we can finally discover as a nation how to fully engage in political discourse and debate on the basis of facts and logic and without disparaging people simply because they disagree with us or do not share our path in life or our place in society. "

I share your sentiment, but I and anyone who is watching and listening with two eyes and two ears knows this will not be the case. The mainstream media and tech oligarchs will not permit this, and the more vicious and demagogic members of the partisan Left (which is to say the partisan Left writ large) will happily use this as yet another cudgel to bludgeon the reputations and very souls of the people with whom they disagree politically. We are in for a violent period in American history and I for one will be very surprised to see the country last beyond 2030. Culturally, we are simply too far apart.

Facebook and Twitter are now engaged in full-scale communication suppression of any views contrary to the official media narrative of the events of yesterday. According to this narrative, I and everyone here who voted for Donald Trump are responsible and must be condemned and punished, forthwith. You can only expect this activity to expand and broaden in scope in the coming months to include any speech, thought, or sentiment that goes against the official Left narrative. The hardcore suppression of 74 million people is about to commence in earnest, and what happened yesterday is but a grain of salt what will prove to be an over-boiling cauldron of civil violence in the next few years as the Left seeks its vengeance on the Deplorables. The problem is the Left most certainly does not have a monopoly on violence.

Sixty years of the radical Left hammering away at the foundations of our institutions has led to a fundamental collapse in the public trust of said institutions, and they have now moved on to eroding the personal trust between neighbors and friends by castigating opposition to their diktats as morally reprehensible or " deplorable ". COVID is a microcosmic example of this general erosive process at work. It is only natural that a reciprocal loathing and mistrust of the opposition is emerging among the Deplorables, with the adjoining view that their political adversaries are their enemies. After all, if they openly espouse their desire to see me personally destroyed and silenced for my political views, why should I not treat them as a threat and an enemy?

We will soon rely only our own intuitive sense of self-preservation and those like-minded people closest to us whom we choose to trust. Personally for me, it will be very few. I currently have left wing friends whom I lie to about being a previous gun-owner (tragically, I lost all my guns in a boating accident this summer). They will gradually be phased out of my life completely out of protective necessity. General public trust in institutions is broken. Public trust in and agreement upon the common philosophical and moral foundations of the country is broken. Reciprocal trust among friends and neighbors, to say nothing of trust among strangers, is broken. The country is broken. Perhaps time and distance from these events will prove me wrong, but I'm not optimistic.

Ed Lindgren , 07 January 2021 at 02:50 PM

Spengler (aka David P. Goldman) has some sobering analysis in his column in today's Asia Times Online (open access and not behind a paywall):

https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/american-democracy-died-on-capitol-hill/

He ends his column with the following .

"The US Treasury can still borrow at negative real yields to send a $2,000 check to every American. If the popular mood is ugly today, what will happen when the US can no longer borrow at cheap rates, and the government is compelled to retrench?"

Yes indeed, what will happen then???

[Jan 07, 2021] As Pelosi said about similar protests in Hong Kong: "It is a beautiful sight to behold."

From comments: "The lady martyr, a 14 year air force veteran will be a rallying cry to bring down the corrupt swamp. As Pepe says, the deplorables will become the ungovernables. The real red necks from the intermountain west were not represented. They will be there next time and angry."
Notable quotes:
"... Since the global private finance elite can't start a global war they have to resort to manufactured civil warfare to keep the masses under control and brainwashed against the private finance TINA. ..."
"... The election was stolen. The fraud was blatant, in your face. The election process, the only peaceful means for a transfer of power according to the wishes of the electorate is seen as fatally undermined by a significant portion of the electorate. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.speaker.gov

psychohistorian | Jan 7 2021 5:59 utc | 2

Here's what Steve Bannon's MAGA war-room had to say on today's events..."...What people need to understand is that there's a growing sense among the Deplorables that they've been betrayed not only by their political leaders, but the very institutions that were designed theoretically to protect their liberties."

Who by the way knew that members of Congress have gas masks under their seats ?

Tear gas was deployed in the Capitol rotunda, so the order came down for lawmakers to ready gas masks that are stored under their seats. Allred helped some his colleagues take out their masks as Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Marine Corps veteran, provided instruction.

"When you put your mask on, breathe slowly or you'll hyperventilate," Gallego said, according to Allred.

There surely is a lot of hyperventilating right now. Trump is accused of inciting violence.

It doesn't read like that . In fact Trump spoke out against violence and called on the people to leave peacefully only to get censored by the blue tick monopoly:

If this was the nakedcapitalism web site I would have no question about what the TINA referenced (private finance) but in this posting I am not so sure that is so clear.

How can America have an epiphany moment about the mythological left/right when top/bottom is the reality that TINA should be all about?

Since the global private finance elite can't start a global war they have to resort to manufactured civil warfare to keep the masses under control and brainwashed against the private finance TINA.

A shit show civil war to keep focus off the real TINA of global private finance......and b wants to call that style.....

Down South | Jan 7 2021 6:36 utc | 8

The election was stolen. The fraud was blatant, in your face. The election process, the only peaceful means for a transfer of power according to the wishes of the electorate is seen as fatally undermined by a significant portion of the electorate.

SCOTUS washed their hands of it.

So if their votes don't count and the highest court in the land won't remedy the situation then the only alternative is either dissolve the union or a radical overhaul of the union. Personally I don't think the latter will ever happen.

The only question is will the dissolution of the union be peaceful or violent!

gm | Jan 7 2021 6:52 utc | 13

Full text of Trumps speech at Jan 6 2021 DC Save America rally:

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6

[~75 min long speech--no added color commentary or spin]

I'm sure video of his full speech can also be found with a little searching on internet.

[Jan 07, 2021] Looks like tsnsacking the Capitol builing was an orchestrated 'false flag' designed to derail Trump attempt to uncover the election fraud and scare the senators into dismissing the clear evidence

Jan 07, 2021 | www.rt.com

questionall 1h ago

It was an orchestrated 'false flag' designed to embarrass Trump (falsely) and scare the senators and congress people into dismissing the clear evidence of fraud. The attack on Trump - who had nothing to do with the violence - is disgusting, but entirely predictable. The 'rioters' were not Trump supporters but agents of the CIA or other forces (Antifa?).

They should be compared to the members of the "stay behind" armies in Europe during the 1970s and early '80s - paramilitaries trained and armed by the CIA and British MI6 for the specific purpose of destabilizing post-war western Europe by claiming that their assassinations and bombings (which killed hundreds) were the work of "communist" groups wishing to overthrow governments.

All admitted in the Italian parliament (read the classic expose of this by Swiss historian Daniele Ganser). This clumsy operation - which caused the death of four possibly innocent people (though we may never know how and why they died) - will not prevent Trump from being re-elected. The game is not yet over!

JackOliver1414 1h ago

The whole extravaganza was managed - they are professionals at manipulating public opinion !!

That's how they got away with the Barry and Mike show for 8 years !

"The perpetrators of the crimes against Russia - OWN the media" ~Solzhenitsyn

[Jan 07, 2021] What's happening in DC is pure false falg operation. Staged spectacle. There is no even remote possibility of a coup. It is not in the interests of the ruling class,

Notable quotes:
"... What's happening in DC is pure spectacle. I'm sure many of the protestors feel that the election was illegitimate, and perhaps some of them even think they're part of a movement that has a chance at overthrowing the results. But the media coverage of the event, and the DC police allowing some of them to 'break into' the capitol magnifies their importance to a ludicrous degree. ..."
"... no elements of the US ruling class, in the present moment, would support a coup against Joe Biden in favor of Donald Trump. Regardless of partisan disagreements on strategy, it's obvious that Joe Biden will represent and try to advance the interests of the ruling class much more effectively than some coup government could. ..."
"... A fourth possible benefit, and this is very speculative, is that this present spectacle might be an effort to crush Trumpism as a movement. ..."
"... Allowing the mob to 'Storm the US capitol,' as CBS is reporting presently, gives the US Government an excellent justification for repressing an anti-government right. This would dovetail nicely with the FBI's recent noise about white supremacy (which is certainly a fundamental problem in the United States, but it is not one the FBI would ever be interested in solving). ..."
"... If there is a crackdown on right wing militia groups over the next few months, there would be a further benefit to the ruling class, which is that they would most likely go underground and serve as a pool of highly infiltrated disposable assets. This would be helpful for maintaining a strategy of tension domestically. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Peltast , Jan 7 2021 14:39 utc | 102

I haven't got time right now to catch up with the comments, but I'm reposting my comment from yesterday.

TLDR, there is no possibility of a coup, there never was, and the threat is being overblown to serve the interests of the ruling class

What's happening in DC is pure spectacle. I'm sure many of the protestors feel that the election was illegitimate, and perhaps some of them even think they're part of a movement that has a chance at overthrowing the results. But the media coverage of the event, and the DC police allowing some of them to 'break into' the capitol magnifies their importance to a ludicrous degree.

There is no remote possibility of a coup. It is not in the interests of the ruling class, and there is certainly no other entity in the US today that could carry out a coup. Casting doubt on the integrity of the election serves the interests of some elements of the ruling class. After all, claims of election fraud have served the Republicans extremely well in the past few decades, as part of a larger strategy of demonizing immigrants. But no elements of the US ruling class, in the present moment, would support a coup against Joe Biden in favor of Donald Trump. Regardless of partisan disagreements on strategy, it's obvious that Joe Biden will represent and try to advance the interests of the ruling class much more effectively than some coup government could.

So how are the interests of the ruling class advanced by this spectacle? I have a few ideas. The first should be obvious to any reader of MoA. Russia, China, or Iran will be blamed for the 'attempted coup.' Intelligence agencies will find proof that they somehow stoked the protests. This also provides a neat way to continue demonizing Russia even with Trump out of the way. I'm sure it won't be hard to find some Facebook posts that prove that Russia, China or Iran spread disinformation about the election and that they are therefore to blame. Check out what the 10 former Defense secretaries said:

"Transitions, which all of us have experienced, are a crucial part of the successful transfer of power. They often occur at times of international uncertainty about U.S. national security policy and posture. They can be a moment when the nation is vulnerable to actions by adversaries seeking to take advantage of the situation."

The second benefit is that by magnifying the threat to American democracy, the ruling class can reasonably expect people to rally behind biden. When Biden, with a Democratic majority in house and senate, still fails to improve people's lives and it is clear that he does not care about the welfare of the great majority of the people, some will still defend him because his presidency will symbolize the victory of democracy over authoritarianism, racism, etc.

The third benefit is that every perceived 'threat to America' provides cover for enhancing the powers of state repression.

A fourth possible benefit, and this is very speculative, is that this present spectacle might be an effort to crush Trumpism as a movement. I do not imagine that Trump ever cared much about the interests of the American people, and he certainly never did much to advance those interests, but I think the political movement that brought him to power came as a surprise to the ruling class and that his presidency often damaged the interests of the ruling class at home and abroad. If Trump is to be done away with, the movement that identifies with him must be done away with as well. Allowing the mob to 'Storm the US capitol,' as CBS is reporting presently, gives the US Government an excellent justification for repressing an anti-government right. This would dovetail nicely with the FBI's recent noise about white supremacy (which is certainly a fundamental problem in the United States, but it is not one the FBI would ever be interested in solving).

If there is a crackdown on right wing militia groups over the next few months, there would be a further benefit to the ruling class, which is that they would most likely go underground and serve as a pool of highly infiltrated disposable assets. This would be helpful for maintaining a strategy of tension domestically.

These are my thoughts on present events in DC. There is no coup. There is no overturning the election. There is only the question of who benefits and how.

[Jan 07, 2021] The military and GOP establishment are against Trump, and staged this flase flag operation

Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Muslim_Dude , Jan 7 2021 12:55 utc | 61

My first post (to not have comments that are overly lengthy) on Capitol hill.

1. The Capitol Hill storming shows to even the most apolitical, low-IQ person that America and its politics is dysfunctional and is going through a crisis.

2. The military and GOP establishment are against Trump, the ground level Republicans and right wing (deplorables) are with Trump. Whether Trump starts his own party or media remains to be seen, whether he runs in 2024 (if not imprisoned, tried for any offence ranging from violations of political office, financial irregularities etc) or passes the baton on to one of his children or some pro-Trump republican remains to be seen.

3. This is just a prelude to greater instability in the US and tension between red and blue America....

...One thing is indisputable though, the US is in crisis...but what some don't realize, this is just a picnic compared to what lies in store.

Muslim_Dude , Jan 7 2021 13:03 utc | 65

2nd comment, this time on foreign affairs.

1. Biden/Harris regime will attempt to restore some form of 'Pax Americana' on the global stage and will fail to do so. More and more states realise the weakness of the US and are creating their own local regional security structures in concert with the major powers of that region e.g. China, Russia etc.

2. The US is still the most powerful country in the world and has the huge amount of power or clout to get half of the Arab world to recognise and normalise relations with Israel e.g. Morocco, UAE, Sudan etc. So we should not be dismissive of the fact that it is still and will be for the next few years the most powerful country in the world.

3. Having said that even the US establishment or a wing of it e.g. Trump/Pompeo etc know the US empire is over e.g. the US is essentially absent in:
- Libya
- Turkey's struggle for eastern Mediterranean maritime waters which has involved tension with Greece, Egypt EU states etc (US is quiet on this).
- south China sea, local ASEAN states know that China is the main power and has to be worked with.
- Caucacsus e.g Armenia, Azerbaijan conflict where the US was essentially a non-player.


4. Vicky - F**k the EU - Nuland is being brought back by Biden in to the state department, the key figure behind Maidan 2014. However American adventurism in the Ukraine will fail as Putin has secured Crimea permanently for Russia, will never give up the Donbass, the once glittery EU which held such allure for pro-west Ukranians is now seen as a failing organisation, jaded and a shadow of itself.

5. US will do nothing against Venezuela.
6. US will carry out no military action against Iran and may see a resumption to Obama era deal-making with Tehran.

So Biden/Harris will try to be more aggressive in foreign policy and promote pax Americana and things like Globo-Homo, LBGT and possibly paedophilia which some in the US and other parts of the left in the west support, they are going to fail in the long run. If the US does break up in the mid-2020s it's obviously the end of pax-Americana.

[Jan 07, 2021] The establishment/Deep State/big business are deliberately delegitimizing the protests.

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... A key to distinguishing what is organic from what is manufactured by the establishment/Deep State/big business ruling elites is to parse the mass media narrative. The narrative about events that is accepted by the public is more important than the events themselves. ..."
"... Now scan the news aggregator sites just for the headlines and assemble a ratio of the use of the words "protest" or "protesters" to the use of the terms "riot" or "rioters" . The narrative that the establishment/Deep State/big business is trying to build about the events in DC should stand out rather starkly. The establishment/Deep State/big business are deliberately delegitimizing the protests. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

William Gruff , Jan 7 2021 12:40 utc | 57

A key to distinguishing what is organic from what is manufactured by the establishment/Deep State/big business ruling elites is to parse the mass media narrative. The narrative about events that is accepted by the public is more important than the events themselves.

All last year we were treated to the spectacle of violent riots complete with arson, looting, and senseless assaults which the corporate mass media very insistently labeled as "protests" , legitimizing and inciting the behavior of the rioters. All headlines for articles on the events included the word "protest" and the word was repeated multiple times throughout each article to pound the point into the reader's mind. From this we can see that last year's riots were aligned with the agenda of the establishment/Deep State/big business. It is not essential to understanding of this alignment to be able to prove that the establishment/Deep State/big business organized and financed the riots with professional event organizers and free marketing, but it is useful to know that big business has the tools to accomplish this and regularly uses those tools to sell products and brands. Using those tools to build narratives to restructure society into a form that is more profitable for the establishment/Deep State/big business is a no-brainer.

Now scan the news aggregator sites just for the headlines and assemble a ratio of the use of the words "protest" or "protesters" to the use of the terms "riot" or "rioters" . The narrative that the establishment/Deep State/big business is trying to build about the events in DC should stand out rather starkly. The establishment/Deep State/big business are deliberately delegitimizing the protests.

To understand just how extremely inverted the use of the terms are that the establishment/Deep State/big business are using to try and build their narratives note that yesterday's "riots" did not involve arson, looting, or violence, and they occurred in broad daylight. In each of these points the "Fiery but Peaceful Protests" of last year are in complete and diametric opposition.

Finally, how do we know that the election was fraudulent just from the establishment/Deep State/big business narrative-building? This should be so obvious to readers that it abrades their credulity. Every single mention in the mass media of the fraudulent nature of the elections is immediately and without exception preceded by "unsubstantiated" or "unfounded" , regardless of what substantiation or foundation is provided. The mass media is doing the hard-sell on this narrative because they are entirely complicit in the election fraud. If the disagreement were over evolution versus creation, or anthropogenic global warming versus just weather, or the Earth being flat or spherical, the corporate mass media would meticulously walk a center position between the issues to avoid the appearance of bias, even when evidence is overwhelming for one position or the other. Now on the issue of the election of the leader of the "Free World©" they throw that effort at impartiality to the wind? Yeah, right!

Whether there will be a civil war now depends upon the stoicism of the "Deplorables" . Without someone like Trump in a position like President that makes him impervious to being "cancelled" and silenced there will be nothing disempowering and subverting with ridicule the psychological assault by the establishment/Deep State/big business on the population. The soporific "wokeness" that will be forced on the population by the establishment/Deep State/big business will now be largely unopposed except by the "Deplorables" as isolated individuals. All of the institutions that the establishment controls, from schools to the mass media to workplace rules, will be used to bludgeon the "Deplorables" into submission. Will they be able to pull together, organize and mount a resistance? Probably not, but it will be fascinating to see what spirit the American people have left!


A.L. , Jan 7 2021 12:52 utc | 59

Mohamad Safa, the Lebanese Permanent Representative to the United Nations: "If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States."

Oh the Schadenfreude....

Though I can't work out if this was the season finale, or the pilot episode....

...A reality show masquerading as a country

expat , Jan 7 2021 12:59 utc | 63

@ 57 William Gruff

Brilliant summation of the full-court press being applied by the media.

It's so overwhelming I find myself wondering if others who are less used to being skeptical of the official narrative won't pick up on it.

I mean, how many times do they have to say things like "totally unproven" and "unsubstantiated" in every sentence before people start to think that they're being treated like idiots?

Curmudgeon , Jan 7 2021 13:28 utc | 73

In reply to William Gruff @57

Well said. Trollhunters are improving the art now. Soporific? Nobody talks like that, well maybe Tolkien, but the contrast with 'wokeness' (or my thought is 'fulness') and the putting together of the two is genuine genius. I can't decide whether it's irony or dissonance, I suppose a new word is in order to express ironic dissonance. Whether or not we're entertained is a matter of subjective reality. I realize I just don't give a shit about the outcome, but I can't stop watching.

Norwegian , Jan 7 2021 13:39 utc | 77

@William Gruff | Jan 7 2021 12:40 utc | 57

Finally, how do we know that the election was fraudulent just from the establishment/Deep State/big business narrative-building? This should be so obvious to readers that it abrades their credulity. Every single mention in the mass media of the fraudulent nature of the elections is immediately and without exception preceded by "unsubstantiated" or "unfounded", regardless of what substantiation or foundation is provided.

Yes, exactly. The incessant denial and extreme censorship is the best confirmation you can get that these guys know very well what the truth is and where an honest investigation into the facts would lead. If they thought they had all the arguments there would be no problem looking into the issues. But no.
If the disagreement were over evolution versus creation, or anthropogenic global warming versus just weather, or the Earth being flat or spherical, the corporate mass media would meticulously walk a center position between the issues to avoid the appearance of bias, even when evidence is overwhelming for one position or the other.
Actually, this is not true. If you question Darwinism you will lose your job (ask Dr Günter Bechly ). If you point to the political bias and the weakness of the scientific basis for the claims of anthropogenic global warming you will be hounded and censored for years (ask me about it). The similarity between these cases and the current election fraud case is much greater than most people think. If you present arguments questioning any mainstream dogma, you will be hounded and censored by the media and establishment in general. The establishment methods are all the same in these areas: astroturfing, trolling, character assassinations, shadow banning and sometimes much worse. It does not matter if you have solid arguments and fact to back up your position, if it goes against the dogma of power you are in for a very rough ride. Personally, I was banned from a local MSM discussion forum for simply stating that many people in the US considered the election to be fraudulent, and backed it up with links to data, and inviting an open discussion about it. For that I was called a nazi and much worse. The 'moderators' banned me, deleted my references and let all the personal attacks stand. I have seen the same thing happen when discussion about climate science, and I could point to other fields as well (history). You can lie and cheat as much as you want if it fits the power dogma, but do not ever tell the truth because you will be punished.

I agree with your final paragraph.

Prof K , Jan 7 2021 13:54 utc | 82

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212180.shtml

Global Times editorial on the rampage in the Capital.

Key points:

- It wasn't just a farcical spectacle by Trump
- Biden's confirmation won't set things straight
- It shows the severe division in US society
- Indeed, a severe crisis, if not collapse, of US democracy
- US elites are too arrogant, and dishonest, to serve the country
- US politics has no national purpose, just partisan affiliation
- Institutional decay is a consequence of this
- US needs to focus on internal development instead of empire

vk , Jan 7 2021 13:57 utc | 87

NYT piece 'propaganda for China?' US elites too fragile to face reality

Ruth , Jan 7 2021 14:00 utc | 91

I have little doubt the election was fraudulent. The US deep state wouldn't have wanted Trump back. Their influence to hide rigging would permeate through many departments and courts.

I have little doubt that the 2019 election in the UK was fixed. Pre-election there was wholesale smearing of Corbyn in the MSM. Within the Labour party there was movement to damage the leader and put in place one to mirror the Establishment's policies. The Tories won by 80 seats when on the ground there was nothing like this support but because of the MSM smearing people accepted the result. I strongly suspect there was massive rigging of the postal vote in the marginals and traditional northern Labour seats

[Jan 07, 2021] Rioters aren't that organized in the US to set up a revolution. We lack a US embassy

Looks like Trump walked into the trap.
From Zerohedge: This Is The Exact Moment Ashli Babbitt Was Shot While Storming The Capitol Was it a pre-panned provocation designed to to lure the mob to storm the building and inflict some damage do that it can be later played as a pretext of destroying Trump movement?
Dangerous time with a lot of false-flags on both domestic and foreign fronts,
Notable quotes:
"... Good post that calls out the hypocritical way the establishment media responds to civic unrest. When it happens in an "adversarial" country it's all about freedom and democracy (Hong Kong, color revolutions) but when it happens in a "friendly" country it is ignored (yellow vests) or denounced in no uncertain terms (the Capitol riot). ..."
"... Trump is nothing but an egotistical wannabe mobster/strong man who gets off on agitating his followers from afar. He's a LARPer who would shit his pants in a situation where he is faced with physical violence. The fact that such a blatant clown has so many people projecting their hopes and ideals onto him shows how far America has fallen. ..."
"... ...Keep the masses fighting tribe vs. tribe and their attention away from deeper issues of money and power. "Shock Doctrine" therapy sold as necessary to hold back the Barbarians...look for even greater censorship of dissenting views. If the proles won't stick to the script, the time-honored tradition of engaging in a new war may be employed. ..."
"... Dangerous time for false-flag fuckery on both domestic and foreign fronts, hope we can keep our antennas tuned as well as our heads thinking clearly. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
lex talionis , Jan 7 2021 7:52 utc | 26

...If we follow the Maidan / Gene Sharp playbook, though, we will need our first sacrificial victim. Maidan's first victim They aren't that organized in the US to set up a revolution. We lack a US embassy. I agree with Grieved that Orange Man Bad will experience his peripeteia. He was only some half rate shegetz in their opinion.

With so many anti orange man people who have shown up lately, I am surprised Woody Guthrie's song about Orange Man's father hasn't been posted. This one's for you Mark2, you muppet tosser! Work on your spelling, too. ( or grow a pear )

Ain't got no home / The Ballad of Old Man Trump

Dork , Jan 7 2021 7:53 utc | 28

Good post that calls out the hypocritical way the establishment media responds to civic unrest. When it happens in an "adversarial" country it's all about freedom and democracy (Hong Kong, color revolutions) but when it happens in a "friendly" country it is ignored (yellow vests) or denounced in no uncertain terms (the Capitol riot).

However, B's defense of Trump makes no sense. Tiny hands Trump egging on his supporters with inflammatory rhetoric about the "stolen" election and "taking back" the country but then when they storm the chambers of government telling them to "go home" in the name of law and order is completely cowardly.

Trump is nothing but an egotistical wannabe mobster/strong man who gets off on agitating his followers from afar. He's a LARPer who would shit his pants in a situation where he is faced with physical violence. The fact that such a blatant clown has so many people projecting their hopes and ideals onto him shows how far America has fallen.

What no MSM commentator dares say is that the United States is unravelling in real time, live on the internet for all the world to see. The United States is turning into a failed state yet the media pretends it's just a matter of one crazy guy (Trump) and his nasty supporters. (Those Russian Fakebook memes sure are powerful!) They can't say what anyone with half a brain knows: that decades of economic mismanagement and a history of imperial overreach are destroying the United States from the inside out. There is no honest or sober analysis of the issues at play. The media only cares about clicks and propaganda and its inability to report the truth reflects that.

The chickens are coming home to roost and until the American leadership class recognizes the dire straits the country is in, the chaos will continue and scapegoats will be found.

gm , Jan 7 2021 8:07 utc | 29

Re: "Who am I going to be killed by, the left or right?"

-psychohistorian | Jan 7 2021 7:25 utc | 20

Well, my guess is some element of our own "Gain of Function" government will likely find a way to do in the useless ones and the troublemakers first. And then there will be unavoidable collateral damage...so sorry.

And the more conspiracy-minded among us might even wonder if they have already taken some 400K of us off the stage (~same as # of US soldiers killed in WW2) on the past year, thru their 'Shock Doctrine' manipulation of covid pandemic.

Kabobyak , Jan 7 2021 9:02 utc | 32
...Keep the masses fighting tribe vs. tribe and their attention away from deeper issues of money and power. "Shock Doctrine" therapy sold as necessary to hold back the Barbarians...look for even greater censorship of dissenting views. If the proles won't stick to the script, the time-honored tradition of engaging in a new war may be employed.

Dangerous time for false-flag fuckery on both domestic and foreign fronts, hope we can keep our antennas tuned as well as our heads thinking clearly.

b , Jan 7 2021 9:12 utc | 33
The show is over ... but must go on.

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Electoral Certification :

Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our...
...fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!

The Trump2024 campaign has begun.

[Jan 07, 2021] Jimmy Dore questions how easily the protesters were let inside the Capitol by the police

Notable quotes:
"... Well that was easy, so easy as to show how unimportant it was. ..."
"... Demand free bananas for everyone! Banana for all! ..."
"... Trump Supporters or "crisis actors"? Don't believe anything being reportd in the U.S. Where are all the pallets of bricks and ninja outfits? ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Mao , Jan 7 2021 9:50 utc | 39

The Saker: Mind blowing hypocrisy!

Mina , Jan 7 2021 9:59 utc | 40

what I love about FB and Twitter censoring Trump "to preserve democracy and prevent violence" is that when similar events happen everyday in what Trump calls BS countries, the social media pretend that they have no power to suppress the messages inciting to killing or racism... and no one in the MSM establishment protest ....
Norwegian , Jan 7 2021 10:15 utc | 41
Jimmy Dore questions how easily the protesters were let inside the Capitol by the police: Capitol Stormed by Protestors! Trump's Twitter Suspended!
Norwegian , Jan 7 2021 10:20 utc | 42
Biden should be able to easily handle this situation. He has experience from Maidan in Ukraine. All that is missing is the part where they were shooting both sides from the rooftops. Or is it?
Sunny Runny Burger , Jan 7 2021 10:39 utc | 43
Well that was easy, so easy as to show how unimportant it was. Where does these "representatives" and "senators" feel safe? It was funny reading the (false afaik) rumor about them being evacuated to military bases where their location would be far beyond top secret and the keys lost within hours.

Meanwhile Trump is being ignored by parts of "the government" (and censored by puny low-tech "programmer" companies that are the digital equivalent of passing notes in class) while parts of "the government" don't even bother talking to Guaido Biden, the president-to-be of "something".

Demand free bananas for everyone! Banana for all! #b4A :)

par4 , Jan 7 2021 10:52 utc | 44
Trump Supporters or "crisis actors"? Don't believe anything being reportd in the U.S. Where are all the pallets of bricks and ninja outfits?
Blue Dotterel , Jan 7 2021 11:09 utc | 45
I really find it difficult to believe that the duoploy would steal an election from itself. What we are seeing is a continuation and acceleration of the oligarch coup against the US people.

More and more rights and protections, as well as wealth have been removed from the people in the US and globally. In the US, roughly starting with the Clinton admin and Glass Steagall. Then through the Bush and the Patriot Act, followed by the looting of the plebs after the 2008 "crash", down through the war profiteering at the expense of the taxpayer, more looting by the banksters to the COVID heists by the oligarchs and the lockdowns extracting wealth from small business and people trying to make a livling. We see blackmail and the curtailing of the freedom of movement through COVID "passports" and "social distancing", profiting big tech.

All distractions from war to "racism", to "culture wars" to "party politics". All to ensure that the rich get richer and the rest of us continue to enrich these parasites at our own expense. What a racket!

vk , Jan 7 2021 11:21 utc | 46
[...] then why should other civilisations not reject western Enlightenment values?

This phrase is wrong. Modern Western liberalism doesn't descend from Enlightenment. It descends from vulgar economics, which was a separate string of thought that existed parallel with the Enlightenment current of economics (Political Economy). After Marx's critique of Political Economy, the bourgeoisie effectively gave up Reason (the cornerstone of Enlightenment) and started to feed religious-mysticism (vulgar economics, the death of philosophy, nazifascism etc. etc.).

The most you could say is that Western Democracy is an ossification of some old Enlightenment structures of State (e.g. separation of power in three branches, the parliament etc.).

The only ideology/economic theory in existence nowadays that is undoubtedly a direct descendant of the Enlightenment is Marxism - which would make modern China one of its last remnants, ironically.

Sunny Runny Burger , Jan 7 2021 11:22 utc | 47
par4 if all those people are actors they're better than anything out of Hollywood, especially the guy with the brilliant smile lugging Nancy Pelosi's lectern around. Have a look at that and the pictures of the "lawmakers" with their plastic bin bag style gas masks, it's god damn hilarious :D

Too bad anyone got hurt and died but considering the amount of guns and ammunition and hostility/anger they all basically just walked in. Not even a weekend in Chicago.

What they did prove is "the government" (and media etc.) deserves no respect.

[Jan 07, 2021] As a back payment for Russiagate, Russian govement should try to call an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and discuss the oppression of peaceful protesters and the repression by the American totalitarian power machine.

Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

alaff , Jan 7 2021 14:00 utc | 90

Oh, this is so undemocratic!

Peaceful protesters only want democracy, freedom, and the realization of their civil rights. The totalitarian American machine suppresses them, one citizen was even shot in the chest. Monstrous barbarism and encroachment on the rights of people to peacefully protest! So awful. It is the duty of the free world to support civic activists and sternly condemn the American oppression machine of freedom!

I think it would be nice for the Russian Foreign Ministry to make a corresponding statement. It would be very appropriate to troll the "western partners" well. The most splendid trolling would be to try to call an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council because of the events in the United States and discuss the oppression of peaceful protesters and the repression of the American totalitarian power machine.

A resolution is also absolutely necessary urging the American authorities to immediately end the harassment of peaceful protesters and to release the detainees. Of course, sanctions are also needed in connection with the oppression of civil liberties by the American authorities.

Well, the boomerang returned to those who threw it. That's wonderful.

[Jan 07, 2021] American democracy died on Capitol Hill

Notable quotes:
"... The leadership of the Democratic Party, its allied media, and the Bush-Romney wing of the Republican Party decided to play dirty to expunge an obstreperous, incalculable outsider from the political system. And in doing so, this combination, America's establishment, destroyed public trust in the Congress and the media. It's no surprise that two out of five Americans now believe that a vast conspiracy rigged the 2020 presidential elections. ..."
"... A handful of FBI and CIA agents could create a false narrative about Russian collusion with the help of the infamous Steele Dossier, and the credulous media broadcast it out of rancor against Trump. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | asiatimes.com

...The trouble is that the popular belief in a vast and nefarious conspiracy has a foundation in fact: Starting before Trump's term in office his political opponents abused the surveillance powers of the intelligence community to concoct a black legend of Russian collusion on the part of his campaign. The mainstream media, staffed overwhelmingly by Trump's enemies, slavishly repeated this black legend until large parts of the population refused to believe anything it read in the newspapers or saw on television.

The leadership of the Democratic Party, its allied media, and the Bush-Romney wing of the Republican Party decided to play dirty to expunge an obstreperous, incalculable outsider from the political system. And in doing so, this combination, America's establishment, destroyed public trust in the Congress and the media. It's no surprise that two out of five Americans now believe that a vast conspiracy rigged the 2020 presidential elections.

The spectacle of a serving president inciting a mob against the US Congress to stop the certification of his successor held the world in morbid fascination. But the biggest problem isn't Trump's misbehavior, egregious as it is, but the eruption of popular rancor against the constitutional system that has made America a model of governance for the world. Leftist mobs last spring burned police stations and destroyed shopping districts in a rampage against supposed systemic racism, and Trump supporters desecrated the Holy of Holies of American democracy, the chamber of the United States Senate.

... ... ...

Sometimes there is a conspiracy and sometimes there isn't. But Trump's political supporters, bombarded daily by fake news about Russian collusion and other alleged misbehavior, have come to distrust any criticism of their president. If Trump was right that the whole impeachment business was an extra-legal conspiracy on the part of his enemies, why shouldn't they believe that the election was rigged?

...Assume that Trump is right, and the election was rigged. In that case the United States has become a banana republic and American democracy a twisted joke. Assume that he is wrong, and that nonetheless – as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) intoned to justify his refusal to accept the election outcome – 39% of Americans nonetheless believe that election has rigged, because their president told them it was rigged. In that case the public trust that makes democracy possible has collapsed. The people, as Bertolt Brecht observed after demonstrations against the Soviet puppet government in East Germany, have lost the confidence of the government...

... ... ...

There is extensive evidence of vote fraud, but (in my view) not sufficient evidence to justify preventing an orderly transition of power. I have difficulty believing that the Democrats invented votes for Biden and destroyed votes for Trump while at the same time Republican candidates for the House of Representatives showed a surprising gain. In the US presidential system, voters choose the executive and the legislature separately, and they do so on the same ballot. Why would the Democrats, whose local political organizations depend more on the Congress than on the presidency, fake votes for one and not the other?

Aha, say the conspiracy theorists: the mainstream Republican Party doesn't like Trump any more than the Democrats, so it conspired with the Democrats to elect legislators while cheating the president. That is possible, but improbable in the extreme: It would require a conspiracy involving thousands of people sworn to secrecy. No such conspiracy is possible. The trouble is that the American public can't be asked to apply a high degree of discernment to the probability of different sorts of conspiracies. A handful of FBI and CIA agents could create a false narrative about Russian collusion with the help of the infamous Steele Dossier, and the credulous media broadcast it out of rancor against Trump. Stealing an election through interference in tens of thousands of polling stations would require a conspiracy on an industrial scale.

The problem isn't Trump, or Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris, or any other politician: It is the popular response to the gut-wrenching realization that America is hollowed out, that it is living on borrowed money (which is to say borrowed time), that it lacks both the material and organizational resources to protect its population during an emergency. Hospitals in Los Angeles have told emergency workers not to administer oxygen to patients who are not gravely ill, because the city is running out of oxygen under a deluge of Covid-19 patients. Earlier the United States clothed healthcare workers in garbage bags because it couldn't manufacture protective gear; now it can't produce sufficient oxygen.

For all the talk of making America great again, the deterioration of US industry continued under the Trump Administration (see The Wizard of Wuz , Dec. 7). It isn't simply that the US produces no telecom equipment at all, let alone a world-class product that can compete with China; it can't produce essential medical supplies ...

Americans are frightened for their future, with good reason. They see enormous rewards accrue to a handful of tech companies, and stagnation and decay in large parts of the rest of the country. Donald Trump gave them a frisson of hope, and the Establishment reaction against Trump confirms the popular suspicion that a malevolent global elite has seized control of their country. Trump shamefully exploited this suspicion to direct a popular storm against the Congress.

The US is living off borrowing from the rest of the world. Its net international investment position fell by about $12 trillion during the past 10 years. And the federal deficit is now 15% of gross domestic product, the highest since World War II. What can't go on forever, won't (in the late Herb Stein's famous formulation).

The US Treasury can still borrow at negative real yields to send a $2,000 check to every American. If the popular mood is ugly today, what will happen when the US can no longer borrow at cheap rates, and the government is compelled to retrench?

[Jan 07, 2021] Questions About The Chaos At The Capitol That Desperately Need To Be Answered by Michael Snyder

Notable quotes:
"... And there are multiple reports that Antifa activists were brought in by bus. In fact, one patriot actually recorded video of the Antifa buses that were brought into the heart of Washington D.C. with an escort. So who arranged for those Antifa buses to have that sort of an escort? It is almost as if someone was extremely determined to get those Antifa activists to their location so that they could do their job. Once they got inside the Capitol, the Antifa activists could have done a much better job of disguising themselves. ..."
"... And did you notice that the police let the vast majority of the "protesters" go without arresting them once it was all over? The mainstream media is insisting that "they will be arrested later", but a lot of people aren't buying that. All of this just seems very odd to me. Just as a debate about the evidence of election irregularities was about to begin in the halls of Congress, these riots conveniently broke out. ..."
"... When proceedings finally resumed, the entire atmosphere had completely changed, and all of a sudden hardly anyone was interested in debating whether the election results were legitimate or not. ..."
"... Fear not, our heroic and tireless FBI is on the case. They'll sort it all out pronto. /s ..."
"... "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- CIA Director, William J. Casey ..."
"... Yes, and quite possibly on the US Government Payroll. The way the camera captured the shooting actually looked somewhat staged. Maybe another Sandy Hoax type incident? ..."
"... I noticed that there were 8 cameras waiting at the 3rd floor rotunda. All eight followed the protestors around while they visited the chamber, offices and hallways - posing for pics in Pelosi's chairs. I thought that was odd. ..."
"... Another oddity is that the group stayed the same size, no additional people joined the 3rd floor group. ..."
"... Exactly...I don't like everyone labeling this ANTIFA. Those mindless idiots cant follow a script. I can think of a few NGOs or alphabet agencies that could pull this off with their actor agent provocateurs. If the real Antifa was truly unleashed in that building it would have been devastatingly vandalized and fighting would have ensued between them and the true protesters. ..."
"... The police feigned retreat worked beautifully to draw everyone in. And you know the rest of the story. ..."
"... Just who do you think leads antifa? If you think antifa is just street thugs then you are the one who is not paying attention. ..."
"... Not duped. This is how it has been done in many countries. You are watching The Resistance™ triumph in their revolution/coup with the aid of the captured state security apparatus, and the MSM and social media conglomerates.. The political managerial class and 1%ers don't want to relinquish their globalist gravy train rice bowls. ..."
"... I mean, Trump had an "America First" policy and then filled his administration with Mossad operatives. If people couldn't see through that then it wasn't going to be hard to fool them. ..."
"... Yes, it was predicted there would be agent provocateurs (there ALWAYS is) and so we had the "show" yesterday. Ever notice that when tptb have a "show", it happens in broad daylight? But when they want to perform some sleight of hand, it happens in the wee hours? ..."
"... A very small group went into the Capitol. The main perpetrators' motive - followed in by some young Trump supporters who felt it was a lark - was so the media could make a big deal out of it. ..."
"... You're not even covering the big question. How was security of the building restored so quickly after the security breach. Consider that any one of the people who invaded the capital building yesterday could have been a foreign agent. They would have had the greatest opportunity to plant listening devices, radiological, chemical or biological weapons. ..."
"... Yet just 2 hours after the protesters were kicked out, the Senate was back in session. No security officer should allow that to happen. Not if the breach was real. ..."
"... That and the fact that the front door was never even breached. Someone let the protesters in a side entrance or service entrance out of view of the cameras. Its really some sick, sad ****. ..."
"... You do not just walk into the US capital building. That is an armored building with unlimited funding for security. People got into the capital because it was allowed to happen. The doors were left open on purpose. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,

Like most Americans, I was absolutely horrified by the violence that I watched at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. But I had a difficult time trying to understand what I was witnessing. Trump supporters are almost always extremely peaceful, but many of those that were storming the Capitol were being very violent. That didn't make sense to me. And how in the world did protesters get into the U.S. Capitol in the first place?

Well, it turns out that police actually opened up the barricades that were surrounding the U.S. Capitol and purposely allowed protesters to storm the building. You can see this on video right here

I have never seen anything like that in my entire life.

And once they were inside the building, they were herded toward particular areas. For example, you can watch one "guard" actually lead protesters up several flights of stairs right here

Either the U.S. Congress has the worst security personnel that any of us have ever seen, or this was allowed to happen on purpose.

And there are multiple reports that Antifa activists were brought in by bus. In fact, one patriot actually recorded video of the Antifa buses that were brought into the heart of Washington D.C. with an escort. So who arranged for those Antifa buses to have that sort of an escort? It is almost as if someone was extremely determined to get those Antifa activists to their location so that they could do their job. Once they got inside the Capitol, the Antifa activists could have done a much better job of disguising themselves.

In fact, one has already been positively identified as a member of Philly Antifa. If he wanted to pass as a "Trump supporter", he probably should have covered up the hammer and sickle that are tattooed on the back of his hand. Perhaps the most famous "protester" from the chaos on Wednesday is "the guy with the Viking horns". Well, it turns out that he was photographed at a BLM rally in Arizona wearing the exact same outfit back in June. Apparently his name is Jake Angeli and he is a "shamanic practitioner". But on Wednesday he was posing as a hardcore Trump supporter.

So why can't the mainstream media put any of these pieces together? It shouldn't take too much detective work to identify a lot of these people. So why won't they do it?

And did you notice that the police let the vast majority of the "protesters" go without arresting them once it was all over? The mainstream media is insisting that "they will be arrested later", but a lot of people aren't buying that. All of this just seems very odd to me. Just as a debate about the evidence of election irregularities was about to begin in the halls of Congress, these riots conveniently broke out.

Members of Congress were quickly evacuated, and the millions of Americans that were watching never got to see an honest debate about the 2020 election.

When proceedings finally resumed, the entire atmosphere had completely changed, and all of a sudden hardly anyone was interested in debating whether the election results were legitimate or not. So who actually benefitted from the riots? Also, it is important to note that these riots have dealt a severe blow to any political future that President Trump hoped to have.

So with one stone, activists have neutered the debate over the legitimacy of the election and they have devastated the Trump movement as well. It appears that someone really was playing "3D chess", and it wasn't Trump and his supporters. And this is just the beginning. As I keep warning , the radical left will never be satisfied until they accomplish all of their goals. Electing Joe Biden was just a way to get rid of Trump. The radical left actually doesn't like Biden either, and they will fight him bitterly if Biden does not go along with their full agenda.

In the end, what they want is a full-blown "revolution" in this country. And as we witnessed on Wednesday, they will go to extreme lengths in order to get what they want.

* * *

Michael's new book entitled "Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America" is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.

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media_man 4 hours ago

Fear not, our heroic and tireless FBI is on the case. They'll sort it all out pronto. /s

Chaco Cortes 1 hour ago

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- CIA Director, William J. Casey

eatapeach 7 hours ago (Edited)

Yes, and quite possibly on the US Government Payroll. The way the camera captured the shooting actually looked somewhat staged. Maybe another Sandy Hoax type incident?

Quite a few of these scumbags study mass psychology and use it to guide their actions with the intention of control. 9/11 is straight out of Gustav LeBon's 'The Crowd'. Reichstag Fire was similar.

4DegreesOfSeparation 7 hours ago

Wow, you are so cognitively lost

SamAdams 6 hours ago (Edited)

I noticed that there were 8 cameras waiting at the 3rd floor rotunda. All eight followed the protestors around while they visited the chamber, offices and hallways - posing for pics in Pelosi's chairs. I thought that was odd.

Are all of the photos and videos of capital breach coming from the fake media Huff Post, MSNBC, etc? How convenient that they were in the right place at the right time?

I also noticed that the confederate flag was waiting for the protestors before they got to the 3rd floor, and was subsequently used as a prop in the photos.

Another oddity is that the group stayed the same size, no additional people joined the 3rd floor group.

What happened to the protestor that led the group to the 3rd floor? He seems to have disappeared once the 3rd floor group had congregated for photo ops.

What about that photo of two suited men with guns drawn and aimed at a wall? Meanwhile, a "protestor" sits calmly nearby like nothing is going on?

Yet another peculiar thing is that congress returned to the capital building the same day it was vandalized and a woman was shot. Does this make sense to you?

One more thing, the pipe bomb makes no sense. Did the guy carry the pipe bomb to the protest with hopes he could plant it if they ever made entry into the capital? Are people walking around with pipe bombs "just in case". Besides, what was the trigger for the pipe bomb? A Bugs Bunny alarm clock? How fortunate that "bomb squad" was able to find and defuse it so quickly?

Whiteman_Sachs 7 hours ago

Exactly...I don't like everyone labeling this ANTIFA. Those mindless idiots cant follow a script. I can think of a few NGOs or alphabet agencies that could pull this off with their actor agent provocateurs. If the real Antifa was truly unleashed in that building it would have been devastatingly vandalized and fighting would have ensued between them and the true protesters. They've had a couple weeks to plan this out. The police feigned retreat worked beautifully to draw everyone in. And you know the rest of the story.

TheReplacement's Replacement 7 hours ago

Just who do you think leads antifa? If you think antifa is just street thugs then you are the one who is not paying attention. On the other hand, what you say about the police drawing them in is spot on.

Doom Porn Star 4 hours ago

Not duped. This is how it has been done in many countries. You are watching The Resistance™ triumph in their revolution/coup with the aid of the captured state security apparatus, and the MSM and social media conglomerates.. The political managerial class and 1%ers don't want to relinquish their globalist gravy train rice bowls.

The prize is multi-fold: control of the world's reserve currency and associated printing press, the world's largest military, the worlds, most powerful MSM and social media conglomerates, the most powerful computing hardware and software companies, and much more...

It may have been a Republic once, before the vote was diluted, before the currency debauched, before the manufacturing was off-shored, and before the laws were abrogated; -but, it isn't one now.

Raccoon Army 6 hours ago (Edited)

After doing a some cursory research, I'm finding conflicting info. For example, the viking BLM picture appears to be cropped to cut out the Q-anon sign he's holding; however, he's also apparently a paid actor... so who know where his allegiance lies? Additionally, the dude on the Philly Antifa site links to an article about him being a white supremacist, not part of Antifa.

How do people decide what to believe on the internet when anything can change at any moment?

HowdyDoody 3 hours ago remove link

Definitely same guy - based on tattoos on left and right arms.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/10/37686638-9119427-Trump_supporters_stand_in_the_Capitol_before_storming_the_House_-a-1_1610014565410.jpg

Dude on left appears to be wearing brand new clothes and why is the dude on the right wearing an id tag?

vova_3.2018 1 hour ago remove link

the dude on the Philly Antifa site links to an article about him being a white supremacist, not part of Antifa.

The same viking, a growling-voiced MAGA rebel who attracted much attention after the Capitol siege, is a voice actor and minor celebrity in Arizona. His name is Jake Angeli & he has been a prominent fixture of pro-Trump and anti-lockdown rallies since at least 2019.
https://cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/l/5ff6e0dd2030270fdc50e57f.JPG

Jake Angeli (viking) has a video message in Twitter for the Venezuela extreme-right opposition:
"You can take back your country too. We are setting the example, we are setting the bar, we are setting the precedent,

"You can take back your country. You can put an end to communism and to globalism. You too can take back your nation from this evil. You can win your country back, Venezuela,"
https://twitter.com/LeonardoEFA/status/1347035563635986432

This man offers a perfect example of just how confused America's Right Wing is.

He fights and opposes what he regards as government interference in his own election, but then he completely buys into the lies of that same government concerning Venezuela.

It doesn't even occur to him that the government of Venezuela – including the current President's late predecessor – was elected seven times in clean elections with international observers.

It is the very government he opposes that says otherwise, including the absurd man he supports as President in the US.

vril PRO 5 hours ago remove link

I mean, Trump had an "America First" policy and then filled his administration with Mossad operatives. If people couldn't see through that then it wasn't going to be hard to fool them.

Aqualung 5 hours ago

God you are dumb Snyder. Philly Antifa guy is Matthew Heimbach from the traditionalist workers party. Sickle and hammer symbol, which doesn't look like the sickle and hammer, is actually from a video game called Dishonored. Buffalo guy has a tattoo which is said to be some pedo symbol but if you look closely you will see it's an old pagan symbol. And yes, Trump supporters can actually attend climate rallies, doesn't make you a commie ffs.

LetThemEatRand 8 hours ago

Another conspiracy theory proved conspiracy fact (in less than 24 hours), which will nonetheless be portrayed as a conspiracy theory by MSM until the end of time.

The_Dude 7 hours ago (Edited)

One point... The video of pantifa being bussed in is from another, older protest. Someone mentioned Minneapolis but I can't find it yet.

Check your sources people... This is how you burn your credibility.

Stranded Observer 7 hours ago

Thanks for the heads up on that

Carlin was RIGHT 7 hours ago

Yes, it was predicted there would be agent provocateurs (there ALWAYS is) and so we had the "show" yesterday. Ever notice that when tptb have a "show", it happens in broad daylight? But when they want to perform some sleight of hand, it happens in the wee hours?

Anyway, I have been saying here for years that this is all a show, and the "believers" were being played. Perhaps after witnessing this 4 year long "performance", conservative and freedom loving people will finally realize that politics is theatre - nothing more. And once realized, never allow themselves to be fooled or distracted by this nonsense going forward.

This is truly a war folks. It has been ongoing for decades - certainly since 1913, arguably for centuries. Your enemy is NOT some political ideology. Your enemy has been stealing your rights, freedoms, and most importantly (to them) your wealth. When you rally against someone "on the left", you are disengaged from your true enemy.

This is a war between the top and the bottom - not left vs. right. Elections are designed solely to focus your displeasure in the wrong direction. Your true enemy HATES ALL OF YOU. He wants you to kill each other. He wants the "useless eaters" off the planet. That is YOU.

Take heed and think/plan wisely.

IF VOTING MATTERED, IT WOULD BE OUTLAWED

Mr. Bones 7 hours ago (Edited)

Same thing happened to the tea party. (I was there, I saw the busses) And the left claims the same happened with occupy. The establishment protects itself.

DennisR 7 hours ago

I like the part where only a handful of police were there on a day both houses of Congress and the VP were in the building, and mass protestors were in the area.

Seems legit... /s

Blaster09 7 hours ago

Completely staged to kill the Nationalist movement!!!

Walter Melon 7 hours ago

1. The Viking horn guy has a poedo tattoo on his belly

2. A million people expected, biggest event happening down the street at the Capitol, they put a few police in riot gear to protect the building.

3. The police instigated and escalated the violence by pepper spraying (from what I saw)

4. Why didn't the police use de-escalation tactics in such a volitile and public event?

5. Why did the cop behind the lady who was shot give a "thumb's up" to the shooter after she was shot? And why were 4 police escorting these people up the stairs instead of impeding them?

I could go on.

mrjinx007 7 hours ago

That is called behind the stage activities.

Agent P 7 hours ago

Repost from another thread:

The tattooed hipster in the Buffalo headdress and the long haired dude walking out holding the podium and smiling for the camera? No, I don't think they were Trump supporters. Notice how many were at the Capitol, yet how few went inside once access was granted...yes, I said granted...I've been on two private tours of the Capitol, one with an aide and one with the head of Capitol security (back in the late 80s)...that building is a ******* fortress. Yesterday's events were 100% staged for the TV cameras.

lambda PREMIUM 7 hours ago remove link

So, the Americans got fooled by a bunch of actors and a few compliant police officers. In a civilization maturity scale from 0 to 10, I give it a honorable 1.

9.0ontherichterscale 7 hours ago (Edited)

Trump supporters don't get hammer-and-sickle tattoos. This was staged bulls hit.

Garciathinksso 7 hours ago

my guess it was a mix of both camps, but I dont trust anyone

NAV 6 hours ago

It depends on the motive. A very small group went into the Capitol. The main perpetrators' motive - followed in by some young Trump supporters who felt it was a lark - was so the media could make a big deal out of it.

finehowdoyoudo 7 hours ago (Edited)

You're not even covering the big question. How was security of the building restored so quickly after the security breach. Consider that any one of the people who invaded the capital building yesterday could have been a foreign agent. They would have had the greatest opportunity to plant listening devices, radiological, chemical or biological weapons.

It would have been a great time to just scatter some ricin on the carpets or upholstery. While I was watching one of the big three networks yesterday doing live coverage I heard one of the reporters state that it would take a long time to sweep the building to make sure it was secure before they could let congress back in and that the earliest would be sometime the next day before they could resume.

Yet just 2 hours after the protesters were kicked out, the Senate was back in session. No security officer should allow that to happen. Not if the breach was real.

Cardinal Fang 7 hours ago remove link

Lol, good point. I was at my local DMV a few years back and a bomb threat was called in. They closed the place for the rest of the day. And that was some backwater DMV.

L Bean 6 hours ago

I watched a livestream from AZ where they were filming him close up, asking him questions trying to pin his politics down and he just kept reciting the same canned 'kooky' responses and never actually engaged in conversation with anyone. The first chance he got he wandered off to go act silly to another group.

So yes, hes clearly an agent. Having him there again..to the point of posing for pics in the speaker's chair in the middle of the house shows just how dumb they think we are

That and the fact that the front door was never even breached. Someone let the protesters in a side entrance or service entrance out of view of the cameras. Its really some sick, sad ****.

Fabelhaft 7 hours ago

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/exact-moment-ashli-babbitt-was-shot-while-storming-capitol

This Is The Exact Moment Ashli Babbitt Was Shot While Storming The Capitol

44magnum 7 hours ago

In the vid, the cop holding the AR brought it to ready pointing it where the shot came from .He was just as confused as every other by stander. To bad he didn't open up at the shooter.

Tarheel 7 hours ago

That cop can be heard actually yelling "active shooter". was surprised to hear that on the video last night.

USAllDay 6 hours ago

You do not just walk into the US capital building. That is an armored building with unlimited funding for security. People got into the capital because it was allowed to happen. The doors were left open on purpose.

[Jan 07, 2021] I m not a conspiracy theorist, but how does a bloke in a Chewbacca bikini outwit the nation s finest and storm the Capitol by Dr Lisa McKenzie

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... In a country that spends about 900 billion dollars a year on security and defence, that has made its name as the (often uninvited) police officer of the world, that loves going into other countries and 'helping' prop up one regime over another, or get rid of another it doesn't like, all in the name of 'democracy'... how is it possible that a couple of thousand of badly dressed and quite frankly weird folks break into the USA's centre of power? ..."
"... Because that's what it was, in my view: a show. A stage-managed event. That's the only explanation as to how this ramshackle group of people got into the Capitol building to disrupt political business regarding the transition of their most sacred of symbols, the POTUS. ..."
"... I wondered if it was the deep state orchestrating a more sinister power grab ..."
"... Clearly orchestrated and both parties are a part of it. Take the time to look into the history of what has happened under both parties leadership and how both of their actions brought to this point in time. ..."
"... The media continues to claim the rioters to be "Trump supporters" without any real evidence other than people smashing stuff whilst carrying pro-Trump flags and banners. This is obviously a pre-arranged event ..."
"... For so, so very long now, Americans have played mind games amongst themselves and with the rest of world.... this is the end result.... nothing can be taken at face value.... ..."
"... his staged show was so obviously the work of the Small Hat Production Company, yet, as usual, everyone fell for it. ..."
"... The same way it was possible on 911 to attack the Pentagon, which has the most secure airspace in the world. It was a staged event! ..."
"... There's an image floating around of the bearded guy (standing beside Chewy) hanging with Antifa. That may be meaningless, as both of them could be employed by some intelligence outfit or other. Did anyone actually get arrested? ..."
"... Corporate US get to decide and influence the presidential puppet to preserve the animal farm narrative ..."
"... The deep state have shown their hand openly over the last few months. Chutzpah or necessity? ..."
"... David Icke was right with Trump on Day 1. He was part of the swamp. He was against the deep state just to win the election in 2016. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.rt.com

It's hard to believe how the angry mob of Trump supporters managed to do what they did yesterday and the absence of police and security guards. Was this the deep state's final humiliation of a president it hated?

I watched the astonishing breaking news from Washington yesterday like billions all over the world, our mouths agape, as the citadel of Western democracy was breached – Capitol Hill falls to the angry mob – and pondered one question.

In a country that spends about 900 billion dollars a year on security and defence, that has made its name as the (often uninvited) police officer of the world, that loves going into other countries and 'helping' prop up one regime over another, or get rid of another it doesn't like, all in the name of 'democracy'... how is it possible that a couple of thousand of badly dressed and quite frankly weird folks break into the USA's centre of power?

I'm not a political or a historical expert on the USA, but I do love the country. It has always fascinated me – the opportunity, the dream, its brashness and its bollocks – and I especially love Las Vegas. The USA knows how to put on a good show – it's what they do best – and yesterday's was right up there with them.

Because that's what it was, in my view: a show. A stage-managed event. That's the only explanation as to how this ramshackle group of people got into the Capitol building to disrupt political business regarding the transition of their most sacred of symbols, the POTUS.


Semechki 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:15 PM

I wondered if it was the deep state orchestrating a more sinister power grab, whereby Republicans will now be vilified and condemned as violent extremists that will allow the Biden administration to enforce greater control over citizens by passing restrictive laws, more surveillance, social profiling, loss of civil liberties, and no doubt reducing gun ownership.
Galactic666 Semechki 12 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 05:04 PM
Everything pertaining to politics is planned and scripted and designed to create a narrative to fulfill their NWO agenda.
B Flat 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:02 PM
Clearly orchestrated and both parties are a part of it. Take the time to look into the history of what has happened under both parties leadership and how both of their actions brought to this point in time. Listen then to all the same catch phrases being parroted by many government leaders and world media. This is not organic. This is the unfolding of agenda's. Well published agenda's that the public has access to.
Sérgio Gomes 1 hour ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:19 PM
There are a lot of videos shedding light on what happened. - capitol refused help from DOD to deploy national guard. - capitol police let them occupy the stairs - rogue actors trying to break windows while supporters trying to stop them - only one guard inside the capitol leading the way through the stairs while someone behind him was filming the show. - supporters follow rogue actors inside the capitol - police shoots 14 years Air Force veteran point blank in the neck through a door. - blame Trump... See more
Chelsea Yorkshire Sérgio Gomes 37 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:40 PM
Add one more fact: a man filmed black police cars who helped large white vans park near the protests, and were filled with "protesters." Some recognized them as "Antifa," and we all know WHO sponsored those idiots.
TAKEMYKNEE 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:41 PM
What no one has yet mentioned nor compared is that riots occurred the day Trump was elected, and continued virtually for his whole tenure, yet this is of no relevance. This more and more looks to me like a democrat coup.
Swanster6450 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:19 PM
The media continues to claim the rioters to be "Trump supporters" without any real evidence other than people smashing stuff whilst carrying pro-Trump flags and banners. This is obviously a pre-arranged event put on by never Trumpers and designed to smear even the last days of the presidency. All the media seem to be playing along with the DNC narrative.
LoveYouLoads Swanster6450 1 hour ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:33 PM
For so, so very long now, Americans have played mind games amongst themselves and with the rest of world.... this is the end result.... nothing can be taken at face value.... if the Americans had their way we'd all end up being googly-eyed, frothy-mouthed paranoids
Vidarr Kerr David Ireland 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:31 PM
This staged show was so obviously the work of the Small Hat Production Company, yet, as usual, everyone fell for it.
Reilly 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:11 PM
The same way it was possible on 911 to attack the Pentagon, which has the most secure airspace in the world. It was a staged event!
MisterBlaine 50 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:27 PM
There's an image floating around of the bearded guy (standing beside Chewy) hanging with Antifa. That may be meaningless, as both of them could be employed by some intelligence outfit or other. Did anyone actually get arrested?

And: "You can stage your insurrection until 6PM, and then you have to go home." "Oh. Okay." Why not just say "Until the streetlights come on"? What I find amazing is the instantaneous media pivot from "protestors/mostly peaceful" to "rioters/insurrection". A long time ago I read of a 19th Century Indigenous leader who had apparently travelled to Washington or London. While there he learned English. Upon returning home he noted that "English is good language for telling lies".

KingSnorlax 1 hour ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:53 PM
Video evidence does show the Capitol Police opening the barricade and welcoming the rebel mob into the Capitol. There's also plenty of footage of them palling around and taking selfies with the rebels inside.
Bill Rice KingSnorlax 36 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:41 PM
The common-sense question that should be asked, but largely is not being asked, is "Do these people really fit the description of a "Trump supporter?" Or: Do they fit the description of radical, professional rioters and protestors? Honest reporters: Simply identify the core people involved and tell us their real bios and backgrounds.
Bill Rice 44 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:33 PM
Most of the alleged "Trump supporters" look like people who would be part of the Manson family, or extras on the set of a Mad Max movie. Any high school journalist who looked into the backgrounds of these people (if they were ever identified) could confirm that the vast majority of the pro-active instigators had never voted Republican in their lives, probably did not own their own homes, probably didn't have a real job and probably had participated in many such rallies and protests before (for Leftist causes). And, yes, the defenders of the Capitol couldn't have been more casual and nonchalant in abandoning the barriers set up around the Capitol grounds. The real "dark" part of this story is that the REAL story won't be told by the MSM.
Jewel Gyn 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:49 PM
Corporate US get to decide and influence the presidential puppet to preserve the animal farm narrative. Trump tried but failed to dethrone the establishment. Next will be Biden. Reminds me of Bourne Identity... At the closing, the swamp declared that Treadstone is "all but decommissioned" before discussion turns to a new project codenamed "Blackbriar".
Commenter719 1 hour ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:44 PM
The deep state have shown their hand openly over the last few months. Chutzpah or necessity? Surely there will be many millions who will never trust facebook / twitter / the media / the fbi / the cia again.
RaelianRay 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:35 PM
Well said McKenzie and I may add, divided the world too by breaking up and re-doing all accords, treaties, agreements and hand shakes in favor of America first (which we all know is more like "me" first). "Divide and conquer", now the stage is set for another war ordered by a new presidential puppet.
WhatToBelieve 26 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:51 PM
David Icke was right with Trump on Day 1. He was part of the swamp. He was against the deep state just to win the election in 2016. If the deep state plans against him now, is because he has completely isolated US from the rest of the world, except for some allied countries. I never trusted the man, to become a billionaire you must trample on others.
Rustofur 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:40 PM
bugs me people still refer to America as the world's policeman when it's so obviously the world's psychopathic axe murderer
Tango 58 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:21 PM
The same false flag modus operandi as when a single man stormed the UK Parliament. I'm no fan of Trump especially after the pardoning of the Blackwater assassins instead of Assange. However, there is little doubt in my mind that the election was stolen and all this staged theatre is a coup against the democratic system or whatever litte was left of it.

Dr Lisa McKenzie is a working-class academic. She grew up in a coal-mining town in Nottinghamshire and became politicized through the 1984 miners' strike with her family. At 31, she went to the University of Nottingham and did an undergraduate degree in sociology. Dr McKenzie lectures in sociology at the University of Durham and is the author of 'Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain.' She's a political activist, writer and thinker. Follow her on Twitter @redrumlisa .

[Nov 12, 2020] Trump allies clash with top intelligence officials in quest to declassify more Russia documents by Zachary Cohen, Jamie Gangel and Evan Perez

Notable quotes:
"... Nunes, the panel's top Republican, repeatedly made that claim on Lou Dobbs' Fox Business program last month, while alleging that the "intelligence services in this country have been corrupted by the Democratic national party and their propaganda arm in the media." ..."
Nov 12, 2020 | www.msn.com

CNN 2 hrs ago

As President Donald Trump and his allies continue to publicly dispute the outcome of the election, they are also quietly seeking to discredit the Russia investigation that has cast a dark cloud over the administration for more than four years.

© Pool/Getty Images North America/Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 24: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting Polish President Andrzej Duda in the Oval Office of the White House on June 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Duda, who faces a tight re-election contest in four days, is Trump's first world leader visit from overseas since the coronavirus pandemic began. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

Before Election Day, senior career intelligence officials and congressional Democrats braced for Trump's handpicked director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, to release highly classified documents related to the FBI's Russia probe, which they feared would expose critical sources and methods.

Those concerns roared back this week in the wake of a flurry of personnel changes at the National Security Agency -- and the Pentagon -- as Trump installed political loyalists in key positions where they could help turn the tide in the behind-the-scenes battle over declassifying documents, which has raged for weeks.

Trump believes the documents in question will undermine the intelligence community's unanimous finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 race to help him win, by exposing so-called "deep state" plots against his campaign and transition during the Obama administration, according to multiple current and former officials.

But CIA and National Security Agency career officials have strenuously objected to releasing certain information from the Russia interference assessment, arguing that it would seriously damage sources and methods in a way that the intelligence community doesn't believe can be easily repaired.

Both agencies have also cited concerns about cherry-picking information to release and the politicization of their work as they fight against Ratcliffe's recent efforts to satisfy Trump's promises to declassify thousands of pages of documents.

Multiple sources familiar with the classified materials have downplayed the significance of these documents, telling CNN the administration won't make political hay by releasing them despite the President's fixation.

While Ratcliffe and former acting DNI Richard Grenell have sought to declassify documents related to the Russia probe and Hillary Clinton's emails, CIA Director Gina Haspel and National Security Agency chief Gen. Paul Nakasone have fought those moves.

Several batches of documents have been declassified, including the release of unverified Russian intelligence from 2016 that suggested Clinton's presidential campaign was trying to tie Trump to Russia . Trump and his allies have seized on the documents to attack the Obama administration -- and President-elect Joe Biden -- during the 2020 campaign.

The National Security Agency and the CIA have repeatedly opposed Ratcliffe's declassification of the unverified intelligence.

Behind the scenes, Haspel has defended the work of career officials who have come under criticism from Trump and allies over 2016-era intelligence work behind the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

Haspel's job in jeopardy while Trump elevates loyalists

The standoff has led the President to become increasingly frustrated with Haspel, in particular, who he blames for delaying the release of these documents despite the fact that he and Ratcliffe have the authority to declassify the additional intelligence at their own discretion. At the end of the day, if Trump wanted these documents declassified, he could do it himself.

A senior administration official and three former administration officials with knowledge of the situation told CNN they expect the President to fire his CIA director, as he did Defense Secretary Mark Esper .

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, have attempted to protect Haspel from Trump's wrath in recent days, providing public displays of support for the CIA director amid speculation of her possible ouster.

Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas voiced his support for Haspel in a tweet Tuesday, saying: "Intelligence should not be partisan. Not about manipulation, it is about preserving impartial, nonpartisan information necessary to inform policy makers and so the can protect the US."

The post prompted immediate backlash from the President's son Donald Trump Jr, who called Haspel a "trained liar."

"Have you or @marcorubio or @senatemajldr actually discussed this with anyone in the Admin. who actually works with her, like @DNI_Ratcliffe or @MarkMeadows or @robertcobrien, to get their perspective, or are you just taking a trained liar's word for it on everything?" he tweeted, tagging McConnell and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who serves as acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

While Haspel's immediate future as CIA director remains uncertain, Trump moved several political allies into new roles at the Pentagon and National Security Agency this week -- placing them in career positions, which come with civil service protections. They could also have an immediate impact on the release of classified documents.

Michael Ellis, an official on the National Security Council , shifted over to the National Security Agency as legal counsel, which puts him in a civil servant role at an agency at the forefront of the declassification dispute.

Ellis is widely considered to be a partisan Trump loyalist and has little intelligence experience despite being elevated to the job of the White House's top national security lawyer under the President.

He was part of several White House controversies, including overruling career officials over classified information in the book written by former national security adviser John Bolton.

CNN has previously reported that Ellis came under scrutiny for his alleged roundabout role in providing information to GOP Rep. Devin Nunes of California, then-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which showed members of Trump's team were included in foreign surveillance reports collected by US intelligence.

Another former Nunes aide, Kash Patel, will become chief of staff to acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, according to an administration official and a US defense official.

The House impeachment inquiry uncovered evidence connecting Patel to the diplomatic back channel led by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, and the efforts to spread conspiracy theories about Biden and coerce Ukraine into announcing an investigation of the former vice president.

A third Trump loyalist with ties to Nunes, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, was also elevated to a senior role at the Pentagon this week.

Cohen-Watnick gained notoriety in March 2017 for his alleged involvement with Ellis in providing intelligence materials to Nunes, who went on to claim that US intelligence officials improperly surveilled Trump associates.

In his new post as the Pentagon's acting under secretary for intelligence, Cohen-Watnick could find himself at odds with Nakasone, a military officer, if he pushes for additional classified materials to be released.

While it remains to be seen if Trump will ultimately fire Haspel, the elevation of officials like Ellis and Patel has raised concerns that the President is clearing the way to release documents despite previous objections from intelligence leaders.

"The motives of his recent moves at DoD and NSA remain unclear and are of course speculative, although the partisan personnel he put in place certainly suggest that he is stacking the deck, ultimately to win the fight over further declassification of intel related to the 2016 Russian investigation," Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA officer who oversaw operations in Europe and Russia before retiring last summer, told CNN.

"If he did the same at CIA, install a new hyper-partisan director who would agree to further declassification efforts, it would not only expose and compromise highly classified sources and methods, but also taint the agency in the eyes of our international partners. Simply put, that puts America at great risk," he added.

House Republicans leading campaign to declassify secret documents

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have also pushed the narrative that Haspel is personally preventing certain documents from being released.

Nunes, the panel's top Republican, repeatedly made that claim on Lou Dobbs' Fox Business program last month, while alleging that the "intelligence services in this country have been corrupted by the Democratic national party and their propaganda arm in the media."

Some of the additional intelligence Nunes wants released comes from classified documents based on a report compiled by Republicans on the committee he chaired in 2018, according to a source familiar with the materials.

The House Republican report on the Russia investigation disputes the intelligence community's finding that Russia was trying to help Trump in the 2016 campaign, raising issues about the tradecraft behind the intelligence assessment.

The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee, however, confirmed the intelligence community's assessment in its bipartisan investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference.

Current and former officials have maintained that if there were something revelatory in the documents that remain classified, it would have been included in either the unclassified House or Senate reports and in a way that did not compromise sources and methods.

Yet House Republicans and Trump still believe the information in these secret documents will help validate their criticism of the CIA and FBI's handling of the probe -- raising more questions about whether this is just an attempt to cherry-pick intelligence.

Either way, the documents are so sensitive that they remain under lock and key at CIA headquarters in Langley, according to a source familiar with the matter. House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee stored the materials in a lockbox, which this source compared to a gun safe. The lockbox was then placed in a CIA vault -- prompting some officials to characterize it as a "turducken" or a "safe within a safe." The New York Times first reported on the "turducken."

Republicans on the House panel have long accused the CIA of blocking access to the documents and have encouraged Ratcliffe to declassify the materials despite objections by the CIA and the the National Security Agency, multiple sources told CNN.

In a letter sent to the intelligence community's inspector general last month, Ratcliffe said he has asked that the documents undergo a formal declassification review at the request of Nunes but also has asked the watchdog to review whether the 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian interference "adhered to proper analytical tradecraft."

At the same time, Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee have accused Haspel of stonewalling their oversight efforts by refusing to produce CIA documents that were requested as part of the panel's own review of the Russia probe.

[Nov 12, 2020] The "Intelligence" community is openly calling for a "coup" by VP Pence.

Nov 12, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

Stonebird , Nov 11 2020 21:22 utc | 78

There is claimed proof. (Examples below and part of McENanay's statement). OK, these will now be followed through. So we will see if they are enough to cause any changes in the final outcome.

In more news, Twitter censored 12 of trumps Tweets today.

The amount of newcomers trying, rather desperately, to decry anything about the voting fraud that may have happened is a sign that a bit of "hot-under-the-collar-desperation is setting in.

The "Intelligence" community is openly calling for a "coup" by VP Pence. They are in the process of really panicking as many of the originators of Russiagate, Pizzagate would face real prison terms if Trump wins. (Brennans statements to the Press) (I would love to add "billsgate" but that would be off topic)

Quote;
"We keep hearing the drumbeat of 'where is the evidence?' Right here, Sean, 234 pages of sworn affidavits, these are real people, real allegations, signed with notaries," McEnany said.

"They're alleging - this is one county, Wayne County, Michigan - they are saying that there was a batch of ballots where 60 percent had the same signature," she told host Sean Hannity.

"They're saying that 35 ballots had no voter record but they were counted anyway, that 50 ballots were run multiple times through a tabulation machine."

There were a lot more.

[Nov 12, 2020] Initiators or Russiagate panicking about the possibility of additional disclosure

Highly recommended!
Nov 12, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

Stonebird , Nov 11 2020 21:22 utc | 78

There is claimed proof. (Examples below and part of McENanay's statement). OK, these will now be followed through. So we will see if they are enough to cause any changes in the final outcome.

In more news, Twitter censored 12 of trumps Tweets today.

The amount of newcomers trying, rather desperately, to decry anything about the voting fraud that may have happened is a sign that a bit of "hot-under-the-collar-desperation is setting in.

The "Intelligence" community is openly calling for a "coup" by VP Pence. They are in the process of really panicking as many of the originators of Russiagate, Pizzagate would face real prison terms if Trump wins. (Brennans statements to the Press) (I would love to add "billsgate" but that would be off topic)

Quote:

"We keep hearing the drumbeat of 'where is the evidence?' Right here, Sean, 234 pages of sworn affidavits, these are real people, real allegations, signed with notaries," McEnany said.

"They're alleging - this is one county, Wayne County, Michigan - they are saying that there was a batch of ballots where 60 percent had the same signature," she told host Sean Hannity.

"They're saying that 35 ballots had no voter record but they were counted anyway, that 50 ballots were run multiple times through a tabulation machine."

There were a lot more.

[Apr 21, 2020] Say what you want about Trump, (and I mostly agree), but the impeachment was a grotesque farce and low point (which is saying a lot!), of American sewer politics.

Apr 21, 2020 | www.unz.com

Rurik , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:42 pm GMT

... ... ...

*If* Trump really was a Putin agent, then it not only would have been legal to investigate, but Obama's duty to do so. When it turns illegal, is when they cynically and knowingly use bullshit dossiers from partisan hacks to enlist the power of federal law enforcement to spy on your political opponents, and leak classified documents, and generally engage in a concerted effort to subvert the duly elected president of the United States because you personally hate him, and especially his 'irredeemable' Deplorable, Red State white Christians – as so many 'racists' and 'homophobes' who don't deserve to have any voice in America's democracy, because Bill Maher and Adam Schiff doesn't like them.

that led to Donald Trump's impeachment, so Atkinson had to go and Horowitz might just be next.

Say what you want about Trump, (and I mostly agree), but the impeachment was a grotesque farce and low point (which is saying a lot!), of American sewer politics. Atkinson and Horowitz need to be tossed out on his arses. There's no dearth of things Trump should be impeached for. Bombing Syria for one. But asking for an investigation into the den of snakes in the Deepstate, including Biden and his POS son, was a patriotic and honorable thing to do. The more the rats in the 'Russia-gate' treasonous idiocy are exposed as criminal scum, the better.

The captured U.S. government regulators now represent the interests of the corporations, not the public. This is more like government by a criminal oligarchy rather than of, by and for The People.

Wasn't it Obama who appointed a Monsanto lobbyist to head up the FDA?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810

The reason, I suspect that Trump is so popular with the Deplorables, is because the hatred for Trump is so invariably irrational, personal, and so often not based on anything Trump actually did wrong, but rather for what he's doing right.

When they were screeching the loudest over Trump's 'treason', was when Trump was at his best, conducting diplomacy with the Russia's Putin.

Red State America wants a rapprochement with Russia, not a second cold (or hot) war. Red State America likes Vlad Putin. Even with his 'homophobia' and blitzkrieg into Crimea to enslave the denizens there.

So as the Deplorables see the media in their seething, drooling Trump Derangement syndrome hysteria, blubbering about Trump the 'racist monster' for shutting down travel from China on one day, and on the next day blaming him for not closing it all down sooner, we all see that it simply doesn't matter in the slightest what Trump does or does not do. It's the same as being a straight, American white male (or female),Michelle Obama (and the left) don't hate us for anything we do, she (they) hate us for what we are.

And the Deplorables understand that leftists and progressives and Democrats and media's startling hatred for Trump, is just a thinly veiled hatred for traditional America. Not for anything they did or are doing, but for being what they are. Just like with Trump. They don't hate him for conspiring with Putin to destroy our democracy, or anything else he's "done". They hate him for what he represents. That America from their nightmares

Trump has simply leveraged the last remnants of heritage America into a political alliance with uber-Zionists and evangelicals and financial swindlers extraordinaire, and others in order to prevail in current modern American politics. Where his biggest strength is the unhinged lunacy of his opponents, seeming as they do to resemble the very worst elements of America's putrescent rot most foul.

BL , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:44 pm GMT
@A123 If you were in his position who would you have bet on these last four years?

The Obama administration was engaged in widespread surveillance of its political enemies long before Trump came down the escalator. You don't have to believe me, read between the lines and redactions of the declassified FISC opinion:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf

This followed Brennan engineering his rise to a position he never should have been allowed anywhere near, CIA Director, by using these surveillance tools to compromise and cow everyone, including president Obama.

So I understand why PG is keeping his head down and mouth shut, except for an occasional mumble about how Trump "hates" the intelligence community.

Maybe he or someone else will explain or look into this:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-cia/cia-boss-brennan-visited-moscow-in-early-march-interfax-idUSKCN0WU0S5

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