The January 6th Commission To Investigate The Insurrection

[Bob in Mich]

3 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Typically I don't have to point out the obvious to those who read the articles.

 

 

“Now a central question is whether the attack on the Capitol was coordinated and planned,” said Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., while wrapping up questions. “What you witnessed is what a coordinated and planned effort would look like. It was the culmination of a months-long effort spearheaded by President Trump.”

Except Quested did not testify that the Proud Boys attended first as insurrectionists. To the contrary, Quested told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” Sunday that the group’s leader, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, was “very receptive” to the documentary crew’s embed.

 

“How did you get Mr. Tarrio and other members of the Proud Boys to say, ‘Yes. Film us. We want this on the record. Document what we’re doing?” Todd asked.

“Well, I had a colleague who gave me Enrique’s phone number and I called him,” Quested said, before going on:

 

He was very receptive to the idea. He liked the film that I had produced called Restrepo with my colleagues Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, which was a film about a deployment of veterans in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. So I think the veteran aspect of that was appealing to them.

 

The leader of a group plotting a coordinated insurrection would normally be hard-pressed to allow a documentarian to film it, let alone be receptive to an embed.

 

 

 

Now, you can disagree with that interpretation of course, but "pretending" that you couldn't see it was dishonest.

 

 

 

 

There was also a link to this often ignored fact. 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/

 

 

 

So, it’s too much for you to explain how the article debunks the coordination possibility?  I read the article. How copying and pasting it here helps anyone’s understanding is confusing at best.

 

I saw the article state some points, yes.  I don’t see how those points mean there was no coordination.  That was the explanation I was hoping you might give.  The author did a poor job connecting his facts with his assertion

[ChiGoose]

2 minutes ago, Bob in Mich said:

So, it’s too much for you to explain how the article debunks the coordination possibility?  I read the article. How copying and pasting it here helps anyone’s understanding is confusing at best.

 

I saw the article state some points, yes.  I don’t see how those points mean there was no coordination.  That was the explanation I was hoping you might give.  The author did a poor job connecting his facts with his assertion

 

It doesn't.

 

It does raise the question of why the Proud Boys would invite a documentarian if they were going to be committing crimes but there could be other reasons for it. Maybe they didn't think what they were doing was a crime.

 

Or maybe they're stupid. We're talking about people with an initiation ritual of trying to name cereal brands while being beat up.

 

The article raises the question, but it does not answer it.

[Coach Tuesday]

4 hours ago, DRsGhost said:

It sure can be. Especially when you bend the truth and plain just make ***** up in order to create your own mirage of staggering hypocrisy. 

 

 0.0 capitol police officers died during the three hour "insurrection"

 

Plenty were assaulted and those responsible should absolutely receive justice, Ray Epps included, but somehow I don't see that happening. .

 

I'm sure the J6 Committee is also looking to speak to those capitol police offices who unlocked and opened doors to allow the "insurrectionists" inside. 

 

 

 

See protesters allowed to break the law and demonstrate in front of SC justices homes.

 

 

 

You mean the multiple states that violated the Constitution by changing voting laws in 2020 by means other than their respective state legislatures?

 

 

 

See above and the resulting puking out of ballots and ballot applications everywhere to out of date voter rolls.

 

See previous bipartisan condemnations of universal mail in balloting as an open invitation for corruption. Yet somehow this election turned out to be the most "secure in US history" anyway. 

 

Please. 

 

 

" peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard"

 

 

The orange menace told people to storm the capitol! Coup! Insurrection! 

 

 

 

 

Lol. Because we sure need 9 different channels to choose from to watch this propaganda ***** show.

Lol fascist coups are ok as long as someone else broke laws too…

[Tiberius]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Typically I don't have to point out the obvious to those who read the articles.

 

 

“Now a central question is whether the attack on the Capitol was coordinated and planned,” said Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., while wrapping up questions. “What you witnessed is what a coordinated and planned effort would look like. It was the culmination of a months-long effort spearheaded by President Trump.”

Except Quested did not testify that the Proud Boys attended first as insurrectionists. To the contrary, Quested told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” Sunday that the group’s leader, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, was “very receptive” to the documentary crew’s embed.

 

“How did you get Mr. Tarrio and other members of the Proud Boys to say, ‘Yes. Film us. We want this on the record. Document what we’re doing?” Todd asked.

“Well, I had a colleague who gave me Enrique’s phone number and I called him,” Quested said, before going on:

 

He was very receptive to the idea. He liked the film that I had produced called Restrepo with my colleagues Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, which was a film about a deployment of veterans in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. So I think the veteran aspect of that was appealing to them.

 

The leader of a group plotting a coordinated insurrection would normally be hard-pressed to allow a documentarian to film it, let alone be receptive to an embed.

 

 

 

Now, you can disagree with that interpretation of course, but "pretending" that you couldn't see it was dishonest.

 

 

 

 

There was also a link to this often ignored fact. 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/

 

 

 

There is also talk of wire fraud for conning Trump supporters out of $250 million. Did you donate to Trump's election fraud fight? 

[Tenhigh]

6 hours ago, Bob in Mich said:

Why, this is Beau of course.  Beau has a YouTube channel and comments on current news events.  Of course I don’t agree sometimes but he has pretty good content.  I think his background is military or military intelligence

 

His point was that unquestionably it was a coup.  The classification within coups seems debatable.  

 

To those less educated in coups, it may not appear to be a coup because it did not look like coups that one has seen in movies.  That is because tanks and guns, like in the movie military coups, are unnecessary to retain power in this type of coup

Lol, I totally thought you Rickrolled me when I clicked that link.  He looks like a guyI would ask for smoker advice,  so I didn't bother to watch. Regardless, I am aware that not all coups are military.  But the other types aren't led by paramilitary organizations. 

[Doc]

5 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

I'd like Trump to go away because he's the wrong person at the wrong time in 2024.  A victory would mean another 4 year term of Democratic obstruction.  The country will need somebody in the White House, from either party, that is actually committed and capable of pulling everyone and the country together.  That means dumping the fringe ideologues on both extremes of the political spectrum and focusing on the core of American beliefs and values.  Unfortunately for all of us, 1 1/2 years into the term, Biden and his administration have already demonstrated they're not up to that task.  So expect things to do down hill from here until minimum 2024.   

 

You think the Dems will back-off any Repub?  What did they do to Romney?  Say he would put blacks back in chains and women in binders.

[Tiberius]

13 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

You think the Dems will back-off any Repub?  What did they do to Romney?  Say he would put blacks back in chains and women in binders.

Romney voted for impeachment. Now what do you say about him? 

[Doc]

13 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Romney voted for impeachment. Now what do you say about him? 

 

That his ego was hurt by Trump calling him out for being a loser.  Now he's a Dem hero.

[ChiGoose]

3 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

That his ego was hurt by Trump calling him out for being a loser.  Now he's a Dem hero.

 

Is he? I would be surprised if most Dems think he's a hero.

 

Like Liz Cheney, what I've seen from the Left is begrudging respect for doing the right thing.

 

Then again, you get people who want attention and say crazy things like they are now Democrats or that the Dems should run Cheney on their 2024 ticket.

[Doc]

5 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Is he? I would be surprised if most Dems think he's a hero.

 

Like Liz Cheney, what I've seen from the Left is begrudging respect for doing the right thing.

 

Then again, you get people who want attention and say crazy things like they are now Democrats or that the Dems should run Cheney on their 2024 ticket.

 

The point is that the Dems will make any Republican nominee look like a bigot.  And after they made Trump the boogeyman, will try and tie them to Trump.

[ChiGoose]

Just now, Doc said:

 

The point is that the Dems will make any Republican nominee look like a bigot.  And after they made Trump the boogeyman, will try and tie them to Trump.

 

...and? The GOP does the same. Any candidate the Dems nominate will be decried as an anti-American socialist who wants to open the borders and destroy the police.

 

In a two-party system, everything about elections is zero-sum and incentivizes our worst tendencies.

 

 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

1 hour ago, ChiGoose said:

 

...and? The GOP does the same. Any candidate the Dems nominate will be decried as an anti-American socialist who wants to open the borders and destroy the police.

 

In a two-party system, everything about elections is zero-sum and incentivizes our worst tendencies.

 

 

Yes, exactly. Everything. 

[BillsFanNC]

3 hours ago, Coach Tuesday said:

Lol fascist coups are ok as long as someone else broke laws too…

 

Fascists ignore FACTS in order to further their BS narrative. 

 

Duly noted that you didn't address any of the facts presented. 

 

In true Fascist order. 

[BillStime]

18 minutes ago, DRsGhost said:

 

Fascists ignore FACTS in order to further their BS narrative. 

 

Duly noted that you didn't address any of the facts presented. 

 

In true Fascist order. 

 

👆🤡😅

Irony is dead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ChiGoose]

5 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

 

 

Anyone who saw yesterday's testimony would know that the election wasn't stolen. Trump's people, under oath, said it wasn't.

 

I would wager most of the GOP members of Congress cannot stand Trump (definitely in the Senate), but they will toe the line so long as it is profitable for them. I'm glad that at least Cheney isn't caving to the lunacy, even if it likely costs her her seat.

[Coffeesforclosers]

25 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

 

 

Anyone who saw yesterday's testimony would know that the election wasn't stolen. Trump's people, under oath, said it wasn't.

 

I would wager most of the GOP members of Congress cannot stand Trump (definitely in the Senate), but they will toe the line so long as it is profitable for them. I'm glad that at least Cheney isn't caving to the lunacy, even if it likely costs her her seat.

 

So everything about the election being stolen was false. Trump then bilked his supporters out of $250 million that went straight into his own pocket. Then he paid his son's fiance $60,000 for three minutes of work. That's about where we're at so far? 

 

Man, Joel Osteen should be taking notes. 

[ChiGoose]

1 minute ago, Coffeesforclosers said:

 

So everything about the election being stolen was false. Trump then bilked his supporters out of $250 million that went straight into his own pocket. Then he paid his son's fiance $60,000 for three minutes of work. That's about where we're at so far? 

 

Man, Joel Osteen should be taking notes. 

Pretty much, except the destination of all of the $250 million hasn't been made public as far as I'm aware. The hearing showed where about $7 million went. We know that there was no defense fund, so it'd be nice to learn where the remaining $243 million went.

 

I would hazard a guess that the lifetime grifter and conman managed to siphon a good amount of that into his own pockets but we'll have to wait and see. Only $200K was revealed yesterday to go to a Trump property specifically.

[Coffeesforclosers]

8 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Pretty much, except the destination of all of the $250 million hasn't been made public as far as I'm aware. The hearing showed where about $7 million went. We know that there was no defense fund, so it'd be nice to learn where the remaining $243 million went.

 

I would hazard a guess that the lifetime grifter and conman managed to siphon a good amount of that into his own pockets but we'll have to wait and see. Only $200K was revealed yesterday to go to a Trump property specifically.

 

Right? Well this should be interesting.

 

...But the ***** infuriating thing is that if all the stolen election stuff was false, then January 6th should never have happened.  If it was all false, the January 6th was about sour grapes and sore losers AT BEST. ***** grown ass men and women should have learned to handle in elementary school. 

Edited June 14, 2022 by Coffeesforclosers

[Beach]

so is it over?  can i start sharing my videos yet?  

[Doc]

15 minutes ago, Coffeesforclosers said:

Right? Well this should be interesting.

 

...But the ***** infuriating thing is that if all the stolen election stuff was false, then January 6th should never have happened.  If it was all false, the January 6th was about sour grapes and sore losers AT BEST. ***** grown ass men and women should have learned to handle in elementary school. 

 

You mean like the 2016 election?

[Andy1]

After all the court cases in front of judges appointed by Trump and other republicans, none found credible evidence of a stolen election. His closest advisors told him he lost. Any rational, sane, patriotic President would stop there and concede but his fragile psyche cannot accept defeat.  He alone decided to go ahead with Jan 6th, breaking the sacred American tradition of a peaceful transition of power. While it is not a story some want to believe, those are facts. 
 

[Coffeesforclosers]

5 minutes ago, Andy1 said:

After all the court cases in front of judges appointed by Trump and other republicans, none found credible evidence of a stolen election. His closest advisors told him he lost. Any rational, sane, patriotic President would stop there and concede but his fragile psyche cannot accept defeat.  He alone decided to go ahead with Jan 6th, breaking the sacred American tradition of a peaceful transition of power. While it is not a story some want to believe, those are facts. 
 

 

The evidence is piling up for a whole lot of criminal activity.  I dont know if they'll be able to prove things like seditious conspiracy, but if Trump is barred from office and doing 8-15 for wire fraud...Well Ron DeSantis will thank congressional democrats for the nomination. 

[Demongyz]

Just now, Coffeesforclosers said:

 

The evidence is piling up for a whole lot of criminal activity.  I dont know if they'll be able to prove things like seditious conspiracy, but if Trump is barred from office and doing 8-15 for wire fraud...Well Ron DeSantis will thank congressional democrats for the nomination. 

I sure as hell would love to vote for Desantis instead of Trump.  All day, every day 110%.  I still think this whole thing is BS.  The DOJ is doing their job, the FBI is doing their job.  Congress should do their job and knock this trash off.

[Coffeesforclosers]

10 minutes ago, Demongyz said:

I sure as hell would love to vote for Desantis instead of Trump.  All day, every day 110%.  I still think this whole thing is BS.  The DOJ is doing their job, the FBI is doing their job.  Congress should do their job and knock this trash off.

 

If Congress isn't providing checks and balances to the other branches, then it's not doing its job under the constitution. The executive and judicial have WAAAAAYYYY too much power because congress can't solve problems or get ***** done.  So I'm ok with Congress flexing a bit.

[Demongyz]

2 minutes ago, Coffeesforclosers said:

 

If Congress isn't providing checks and balances to the other branches, then it's not doing its job under the constitution. The executive and judicial have WAAAAAYYYY too much power because congress can't solve problems or get ***** done.  So I'm ok with Congress flexing a bit.

You don't think the Dem run exec can handle railroading the Dem's enemies without the Dem run House or Senate to help?

[ChiGoose]

20 minutes ago, Demongyz said:

You don't think the Dem run exec can handle railroading the Dem's enemies without the Dem run House or Senate to help?

 

At this point, I don't think the Dems could handle solving a 100 piece puzzle. 

[Coffeesforclosers]

24 minutes ago, Demongyz said:

You don't think the Dem run exec can handle railroading the Dem's enemies without the Dem run House or Senate to help?

 

I don't think anybody's getting railroaded, and I don't give a ***** if a "Dem" or a "Rep" (or whatever the cool kid words for our political parties are) scores the points.  Somebody has to stand up in Congress and stand up for Congress as an institution.  Otherwise we're down to 2 branches of government, each of them thinking they can basically rule by decree.

[SoCal Deek]

1 minute ago, Coffeesforclosers said:

 

I don't think anybody's getting railroaded, and I don't give a ***** if a "Dem" or a "Rep" (or whatever the cool kid words for our political parties are) scores the points.  Somebody has to stand up in Congress and stand up for Congress as an institution.  Otherwise we're down to 2 branches of government, each of them thinking they can basically rule by decree.

I don’t want to get into a back and forth here….but Congress has two really important jobs to do: author legislation and allocate funds to carry it out.  Unfortunately, they’ve decided instead to spend almost all of their time these days being the police department for the other two coequal branches. It’s one of the main reasons we have the structural problems we do. If Congress would get together and do their job there’d be a whole lot less policing required. (And I’m pointing the finger at both parties here!)

[Demongyz]

13 minutes ago, Coffeesforclosers said:

 

I don't think anybody's getting railroaded, and I don't give a ***** if a "Dem" or a "Rep" (or whatever the cool kid words for our political parties are) scores the points.  Somebody has to stand up in Congress and stand up for Congress as an institution.  Otherwise we're down to 2 branches of government, each of them thinking they can basically rule by decree.

Great!

 

Let's start looking at the 2020 riots, Hunter Biden, the borders, drugs, etc.

 

Why is it we only look at right wingers?

 

This whole thing is a joke.  It's embarrassing to say the least.  Our country has been torn apart by all these idiots in office and we just compound the problem. 

 

How about this, railroad Trump and conservatives and white guys and all that.  Then when the Republican's take office in a few months, perhaps we can fix the problems and skip all the bull####.  Please!!!  Republican's when you take office stop this ***** and fix the ***** problems!!! PLEASE!

[BillStime]

1 hour ago, Doc said:

 

You mean like the 2016 election?

Not like 2016 at all and you know it. The Trump campaign met with Russians 140+ times; Manafort exchanged campaign data and Roger coordinate with Wikileaks on the stolen DNC data dump - all to benefit Conald and his keeper, Vlad.

[ChiGoose]

51 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

I don’t want to get into a back and forth here….but Congress has two really important jobs to do: author legislation and allocate funds to carry it out.  Unfortunately, they’ve decided instead to spend almost all of their time these days being the police department for the other two coequal branches. It’s one of the main reasons we have the structural problems we do. If Congress would get together and do their job there’d be a whole lot less policing required. (And I’m pointing the finger at both parties here!)

 

The main reason Congress doesn't work is because there is a significant political movement to ensure that it does not work and those that oppose this movement are wholly incompetent.

 

Congress doesn't really *do* anything because doing anything meaningful would require satisfying the filibuster in the Senate. Since we have a two-party system, doing something bipartisan is bad and therefore, anything proposed by one party will generally be opposed by the other, regardless of the merits. One of the many exceptions to the filibuster is the reconciliation rule, which allows a majority threshold for bills that are only about money.

 

This works because McConnell does not care about anything except power and the transfer of wealth to corporations and the donor class. He can accomplish his entire agenda through reconciliation and the party is fine with that. The Dems want to do things that they believe will make things better for people (give them healthcare, prevent businesses from taking advantage of them, etc). They can't do these things because they'll never have enough votes to beat the filibuster, so they torture the hell out of the language of the bills to try to make them qualify for reconciliation. And sometimes even that doesn't work.

 

This is how you end up with a Congress that really doesn't do much legislating, which means a lot of the responsibility is thrown to the judicial system. This is the other part of the plan, and it's why McConnell blocked as many Obama judges as he could so there were a ton of vacancies for Trump to fill in when he won. It's also dramatically heated up any SCOTUS appointments because now much of our governance has to run through SCOTUS due to the complete dysfunction of Congress. And despite Chevron deference originally being a Reagan-era conservative thing, the current plan of having SCOTUS water it down or eliminate it means that even Executive Agencies will not have the power to carry out their mandate. That is, of course, exactly McConnell's plan.

 

The Dems are too scared, lazy, or incompetent to do anything to fix this.

 

So in the meantime, we have plenty of time for hearings and naming post offices.

Edited June 15, 2022 by ChiGoose

[SoCal Deek]

2 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

 

The main reason Congress doesn't work is because there is a significant political movement to ensure that it does not work and those that oppose this movement are wholly incompetent.

 

Congress doesn't really *do* anything because doing anything meaningful would require satisfying the filibuster in the Senate. Since we have a two-party system, doing something bipartisan is bad and therefore, anything proposed by one party will generally be opposed by the other, regardless of the merits. One of the many exceptions to the filibuster is the reconciliation rule, which allows a majority threshold for bills that are only about money.

 

This works because McConnell does not care about anything except power and the transfer of wealth to corporations and the donor class. He can accomplish his entire agenda through reconciliation and the party is fine with that. The Dems want to do things that they believe will make things better for people (give them healthcare, prevent businesses from taking advantage of them, etc). They can't do these things because they'll never have enough votes to beat the filibuster, so they torture the hell out of the language of the bills to try to make them qualify for reconciliation. And sometimes even that doesn't work.

 

This is how you end up with a Congress that really doesn't do much legislating, which means a lot of the responsibility is thrown to the judicial system. This is the other part of the plan, and it's why McConnell blocked as many Obama judges as he could so there were a ton of vacancies for Trump to fill in when he won. It's also dramatically heated up any SCOTUS appointments because now much of our governance has to run through SCOTUS due to the complete dysfunction of Congress. That is, of course, exactly McConnell's plan.

 

The Dems are too scared, lazy, or incompetent to do anything to fix this.

 

So in the meantime, we have plenty of time for hearings and naming post offices.

You have got to be kidding me. Your partisan colors are turning deeper blue every day. This is not the fault of a single person or party. 

[BillsFanNC]

6 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

 

The main reason Congress doesn't work is because there is a significant political movement to ensure that it does not work and those that oppose this movement are wholly incompetent.

 

Congress doesn't really *do* anything because doing anything meaningful would require satisfying the filibuster in the Senate. Since we have a two-party system, doing something bipartisan is bad and therefore, anything proposed by one party will generally be opposed by the other, regardless of the merits. One of the many exceptions to the filibuster is the reconciliation rule, which allows a majority threshold for bills that are only about money.

 

This works because McConnell does not care about anything except power and the transfer of wealth to corporations and the donor class. He can accomplish his entire agenda through reconciliation and the party is fine with that. The Dems want to do things that they believe will make things better for people (give them healthcare, prevent businesses from taking advantage of them, etc). They can't do these things because they'll never have enough votes to beat the filibuster, so they torture the hell out of the language of the bills to try to make them qualify for reconciliation. And sometimes even that doesn't work.

 

This is how you end up with a Congress that really doesn't do much legislating, which means a lot of the responsibility is thrown to the judicial system. This is the other part of the plan, and it's why McConnell blocked as many Obama judges as he could so there were a ton of vacancies for Trump to fill in when he won. It's also dramatically heated up any SCOTUS appointments because now much of our governance has to run through SCOTUS due to the complete dysfunction of Congress. And despite Chevron deference originally being a Reagan-era conservative thing, the current plan of having SCOTUS water it down or eliminate it means that even Executive Agencies will not have the power to carry out their mandate. That is, of course, exactly McConnell's plan.

 

The Dems are too scared, lazy, or incompetent to do anything to fix this.

 

So in the meantime, we have plenty of time for hearings and naming post offices.

 

Extensive verbiage from the guy who wanted to be above all the partisan rancor.

 

[Tiberius]

 

 So, after Barr split DOJ Trump got busy trying to get them to declare fraud and have the election flipped. Trump is such a POS I really hope he gets jail time, though I know elites don't get prosecuted too often 

 

Quote

 

Rosen told Trump that the Justice Department could not “flip a switch and change the election,” according to notes of the conversation cited by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“I don’t expect you to do that,” Trump responded, according to the notes. “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” The president urged Rosen to “just have a press conference.”

Rosen refused. “We don’t see that,” he told Trump. “We’re not going to have a press conference.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/inside-explosive-oval-office-confrontation-three-days-before-jan-6/

 

 

 

[Tiberius]

From the post article 

 

“And we’re not the only ones,” Donoghue said he told Trump. “You should understand that your entire department leadership will resign. Every [assistant attorney general] will resign. ... Mr. President, these aren’t bureaucratic leftovers from another administration. You picked them. This is your leadership team. You sent every one of them to the Senate; you got them confirmed. What is that going to say about you, when we all walk out at the same time?”

“That’s right,” Donoghue said he responded. “You’re an environmental lawyer. How about you go back to your office, and we’ll call you when there’s an oil spill.”

[Tiberius]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Gee, I hope the latest video "presentation" is ready by tomorrow.

 

😇

 

 

[BillStime]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUT the cult told us there were no tours…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

ROGER KIMBALL: Show Trials, Then And Now.

 

Powerline’s Scott Johnson quoted a TV Guide reporter who described the viewership of the first January 6 House Committee’s prime-time television extravaganza as “decent.”

 

In context, “decent” means “dismal” since, as Johnson notes, “the networks graciously handed their prime-time slots over to the committee’s motley crew in unison, Soviet style.”

 

A show trial is a mock or make-believe trial in which the guilt of the party is predetermined.

 

The trial is just a form of theater.

 

Lenin called them “model trials.”

 

The aim was not to discover the truth—which was supposedly already known—but to stage a propaganda exhibition.

 

The Soviet Union specialized in the genre as did Communist China, Nazi Germany, and other totalitarian countries.

 

As the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland put it, it was always “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”

 

If you turned on the television on June 9 and you weren’t tuned in to Fox News you were watching—or “watching”—a couple hours of Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney conducting a show trial.

 

They vilified Donald Trump while airing a few misleadingly edited clips from the events of that day.

 

As I have noted elsewhere, the Democrats went all out on this show.

 

They hired a former ABC consultant to make sure the production values were high.

 

It was only the substance that was clumsy, amateurish, unconvincing.

 

“The issue is never the issue.”

 

That’s what Democratic demigod and house philosopher Saul Alinsky taught.

 

If nothing else, the first episode of the January 6th show confirms that the actors have absorbed that lesson.

 

The announced issue was the protest at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

 

But the real issue was the person of Donald Trump and the populist movement he embodies.

 

That was the half-articulated obbligato that underlay the entire proceeding.

 

As The Wall Street Journal put it, the House Committee “made clear in its first hearing that its main goal is showing Donald Trump was to blame for the attack on the Capitol, raising the question of what legal or political consequences the former president might face at the end of the probe.”

 

They made it clear, but they did not really acknowledge it.

 

Why? Because the ultimate legitimacy of the Committee requires that it be seen as something other than what it in fact was: a nakedly partisan witch hunt.

 

The Democrats face several problems in putting over this blind.

 

For one thing, most of the American people do not really care about a brief protest in Washington, D.C., a year and a half ago.

 

Maybe the carefully curated clips broadcast by the Commission are dramatic.

 

But many commentators instantly pointed out the tendentious—i.e., untruthful—editing, as when Trump’s direction that protesters make their way “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol was clipped to omit the word “peacefully.”

 

 

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/show-trials-then-and-now_4528243.html

 

 

[Tiberius]

Pretty easy case. Trump raised $250 million for a fund that didn't exist, lol 

 

 

 

48 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUT the cult told us there were no tours…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lock that scumbag up!!