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  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    The comment above about how these poor people traveled to DC:
    There were something like 170 buses chartering many of these people
    that were provided by Clarence "Coke Can" Thomas' wife - and Charlie Kirk
    provided something like 70 or 80 more and even offered to pay for accommodations.
    Remember, too, that there really were a large number of well-to-do delusionals as well.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    I hope "Fred Flintstone" reads his email tomorrow on his show that he surely got from the "Trump Army."

    It's freakin' hilarious.

  • American fascism: it ain't over yet   3 years 18 weeks ago

    We haven't even seen Erik Prince yet. This ain't over yet. Sister DeVos was probably warned to "Get outta Dodge" before the real show starts.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/hey-proud-boys-and-maga-patriots-what-fck

    The Trump administration just lowered the age to 65 to get the vaccine. At the rate that my state is receiving the Vaccine it will take 8 weeks with perfect distribution to vaccinate the population >70. Now you have just added another large block of the population. Plus the next step was supposed to be 60 to 70. So everybody now gets to recalculate.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    Are you saying that a private business should not be able to conduct business the way that it wants to. Parler is still available, Apple is just 1 company that does not want to carry it. Do you want to force Apple to carry it? Companies such as Twitter have standards that not followed results in denial of service. Happens in many forms.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    Thom, I find it interesting you fondly reference Facebook who is in the process of censoring individuals that THEY deem to be unworthy. You of all people should be totally against that practice. Apple wouldn’t unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter but in less than 24 hours they ban Parler?

    Right now there are two kinds of people in this country

    1. People who are celebrating their political opponents being purged from social media.
    2. Those who have studied history.

    You are a history buff and you should know better. Like or dislike the opposition, you embarrass yourself with your silence on big business censoring anything. You have spent the last decade railing on big business and now we hear nothing?

    What if I told you the left wing and the right wing belong to the same bird?

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    Deepspace, Thanks for the recognition. What I do not get is how do I understand this and so few others do? Part of it, is I do not watch Fox News. The number 1 spreader of fake news and opinion news. Now there is a worse media in Newsmax and OANN. Plus the web and right wing radio and podcasts. They are brainwashing America.

    https://news.yahoo.com/capitol-riot-republican-lawmakers-fanned-13022637...

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    Curious how others are battling this. News websites that want a subscription to read an article. Granted it is usually not much $$. In one recent case 99 cents for 1 month. They made money up until recently off of advertising. Now they want advertising plus a subscription. I personally do not want to place my credit card at risk for 99 cents. Plus lots of times these type of subscriptions are hard to cancel. To read the articles that I would want to read I would have to have dozens of subscriptions. Currently I am killing the site and moving on.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    The main reason so many Americans have had Covid is Republican Stupidity. Republicans that refused to wear masks in the Capitol spread Covid. The Republican terrorists did not wear masks and are easily identified. This virus does not just kill. It has long term affects. It will be a huge medical burden (including $$$$) for a long time.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    Where did the $$$$ come from? Thousands of low life people bought airplane tickets and flew to one of the most expensive cities in the world (in January) and stayed in expensive hotels. The people that they are arresting for the most part do not have jobs or have low paying jobs. When you are broke, flying to DC is not a normal thing. There is a lot to investigate.

    Remember when Trump lost to Cruz in the first Iowa primary. He called it election fraud. In 2016 he could not lose unless there was election fraud. Now it is election fraud again. Why do people even listen to this baffoon. Lots of people destroyed their lives on the 6th. Jail and lawyer fees will destroy them. Many have lost their jobs because of it. On the 20th others will probably join them. Why?

    On a side note, Sheldon Adelson, a Republican mega donor died at 87 years old. Reading his biography, he was Trumps largest donator and had huge losses in Las Vegas Casinos from Covid. Perhaps he is why Trump ignored Covid.

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  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    You are absolutely correct. Another issue is that the Republican Party has become the "God party." When you truly believe that you are on God's team, compromise becomes very difficult.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    DrRichard, I think they absolutely know for a fact that Trump can turn on them at any time at the drop of a dime. However, the Republican party currently is riding the wave of the Trump supporters, both mainstream and fringe. As long as he has almost half the country, minus 7 million, voting for him, standing up to Trump right now is political suicide for Republicans unless a majority of Republican leaders do it in tandem, which is very unlikely even after the events of last Wednesday.

    They're literally between a rock and a hard place. If more of them had a spine, they would stand up for what's right as a group, but they're a convictionless, amoral, weasely, power-hungry, greedy, and hypocritical crowd that backed themselves into a corner and for whom I have less than zero sympathies.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    Certainly, the DNC lied like hell about Bernie in the 2016 primary. At least, some of the DNC officials (not all) were called out, albeit too late. But the dishonesty on the Democratic side of the aisle pales in comparison to the Republican side.

    Legend, at the end of the last thread, also drilled down to this basic truth of America's most corrosive element of political strife at the present time:

    "The real cause of these riots are Trumps lies. lies that get repeated by Guliani and his law team in court and shot down 60 times. But the lies continued. Repeated on mainstream media and right wing fringe media. Repeated on Social Media. Repeated by Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley before and after the riots. Repeated by almost every right winger until the base believed it. I will give an ounce of credit to Mitch to saying they were lies before the riots. Now many lives are destroyed by these lies."

    Absolutely!

    The Big Truth of Trump's Big Lie is that it's the primary glue that holds the disparate groups of radicalized wingers together -- a completely false conspiracy theory of widespread voter fraud that stole the election. Screaming hysterically across the fringe (now mainstream Republican) bubble-sphere, right-wing liars at all levels of society have supplied Trump with his personal army of irregular stormtroopers, spitin' mad, ready and willing to fight an asymmetric war against "da guvmut" -- meaning "DemocRATS", of course, those "child-molesting, baby-eating Satanists!"

    And, needless to say, they're also held together by shit-storms of racism, hate, lust for violence, and willful ignorance taken to the nth degree.

    Stirring up violence and chaos among their most extremist elements by constantly broadcasting the Big Lie -- Joseph Goebbels-style -- is also the common denominator of every treasonist strongman insurrectionist in the history of traitorous uprisings ("enemies within"). That is exactly what our founders tried so hard to prevent by formalizing the basic structure and laws that should govern a free and democratic yet civilized society, e.g., respecting the results of elections and the peaceful transfer of power -- the very core of the apple.

    Sure, it's the "People's House," as the Capitol insurgents repeatedly chanted. But you can't just come in and trash the place, or beat up and kill the guards and housekeepers ...or steal our favorite Speaker's podium, for chrissakes! This house belongs to the rest of us too, you stupid assholes, and we don't give you permission to break our rules. Now get out! Someone call the cops!

    The president, our most powerful public servant, broke the sacred trust, and so has every person in this country who, after everything despicable thing Trump has done, still supports him, including every Trumplican politicians in D.C. and all their brothers-in-arms running the Trumplican states. It can't just be remodeled and repainted; the entire Republican house of cards has to be torn down and rebuilt as a brand new party -- based on truth and factual reality.

    Realistically, are there even enough competent Republican elected representatives with hearts in the right place and brains left intact to attempt such a top-to-bottom recommitment to basic principles, i.e., following truth instead of lies? It's highly doubtful given that most red-state politicians live in primal (and primary re-election) fear of angry Frankenstein mobs of their own creation, called "The base" (fittingly, the literal translation of "Al Qaeda") ...and of losing greedy billionaire financial support.

    As complex as politics can be, it's actually based on pretty simple things, such as the ease of brainwashing gullible people trying to make sense of the economic and political unfairness of an American plutocracy, as DrRichard points out.

    "There is no redemption without repentance. There is no repentance without accountability. There is no accountability without consequences." - David Frum

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    This scenario already happened in the 2016 primary against Bernie Sanders including the direct video evidence, media collusion, well documented proof and it happened in state after state, but because it was the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign against the Bernie supporters, the blame was flipped on its head.

    The irony is that the Bernie supporters would have had a legitimate reason to storm the capital, but they quietly retreated when faced with the relentless shaming that claimed how rude they were. Some Bernie supporters even tried the legal route (for example in Florida), but the DNC claimed that they didn't have a legitimate claim because the primary vote is only a recommendation and the DNC can nominate whomever they like no matter what the voters say. The result of the election fraud was that the DNC medaling resulted in the nomination of one of the least popular candidates in modern times over an enormously popular candidate with a YUGE following, practically handing Donald Trump the election. Yes HRC won the popular vote in California by 5 million votes, but lost the popular vote by 2 million votes outside of California and Trump legitimately won the electoral college vote and the election in 2016.

    Bush vs Gore is another glaring example where the left had a legitimate reason to storm the capital. In that case Gore won both the popular vote and the electoral college vote, but refused to fight and as a result we got Bush Jr along with his campaign promise of a war in Iraq and all of its fallout.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    Of course he didn't, Shadow. Trump is, like most bullies, a coward. Whenever something horrible happened because of what he said he could "plausibly deny" he ordered it. And yes, he has contempt for the world. What I don't understand is why all his enablers--and these are smart people--didn't get that he would turn on them in time. His wives, his investors, his contractors, his earlier associates in government, every one of them was shafted by him. Why should Pence or Graham think they were immune?

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    You are absolutely right but it's hard to see the bulk of these people getting the traction and support they needed if there wasn't a deep level of frustration and despair in this country. Americans who are afraid of losing what they have (that is, the Middle Class) know they are being screwed even if they cannot quite articulate it. Wages are stagnant, power seems to be slipping away, and the country is steadily losing its primary influence in the world. Trump exploited this in the most vicious way, but whether he's here or not these conditions are not suddenly going to change.

    Sadly the Democrats haven't done much to turn any of this situation around either. Indeed, the arrogance showed by Hilary Clinton not only cost her the election but hardened the lines. We should definitely go after the people who perpetrated, encouraged and laid the groundwork for this outrage. But if we don't get at the fundamental problems beneath it then another, more effective, Frankenstein's monster will arise.

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    Thom,

    I enjoy your show on youtube and on siriusxm. I also donate to free speech tv

    I have a question. Who runs your chat board on youtube each day? and assume on any other format you broadast on for the day. I was very disappointed in the rude attitude by the person that stated he was moderator for the chat. Something like the letters gabbert but not that word for certain. Anyway, he did not like I was correcting Judy for her saying that U.S. during 30's or whenever way back when people were concerned about taxes. I thought this sounded like a right wing statement and called her out on the tax statement. I said that was a lie that right wing always use against people and meant it was unfair. Judy then corrected herself and stated the tax issue correctly and I praised her for that. This man that claimed he was moderator on your chat scolded me again for telling him that I did not like rightwingers that always use the tax issue and try to scare people. He then proceded to ban me from the chat for a few minutes for mainly using the lie word to Judy even after Judy and I were getting along just fine. I would like to see someone else moderate your chat on youtube instead of this person. He sounds righwing to me. Dont like him

  • Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains   3 years 18 weeks ago

    the rich are out in force. They are petrified that people are on to their lies and are working together to get justice for all people. and the rich pay their fair share.

    We as a people cannot let the right wing and the mob get away with their tactics and hate. Killing that police officer was insane! I believe in peaceful protest and we as a people have to stand against these domestic terrorists. Don't let the terrorists scare us! we are the majority and want to help all people not just a those with hate and killing and crazy ideas and follow a leader that treats them like fools-he did not join them when he said he would last week

  • American fascism: it ain't over yet   3 years 18 weeks ago

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