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Where Were You on June 9, 2022?
On the ninth day of the sixth month, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Two, the American House of Representatives convened a television show about a political protest some years earlier. The clips from this show will be used as “facts” for elections in 2022 and 2024. These clips will be used by Democrat campaigns, of course, but more to the point, they will be used by the state-run media to condition voters and vote managers. The more people in on the next steal, the less work each plotter involved must do.
I cannot rate the show very highly. It has terrible pacing and features weak performances from the usual crew of identical new faces who for some reason keep showing up on our screens. It wasn’t like this in the old days. It used to be that a show needed some strong performances and tight writing to get popular. There was a kind of platinum age of television heralded by the beloved but now-unwatchable “Babylon 5,” which was a watershed in long-arc, multi-season plotting of a broadcast series. Shows followed in different genres: “The Sopranos,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Dexter,” “Game of Thrones,” “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul.” This current offering from the House is poorly done. It’s amazing it got greenlit.
I never watched the Sopranos until these days. I’m midway through the fourth Season.
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Just the idea that Pence was going to be captured and killed by these rioters is laughable.
Nobody sane believes that. It’s amazing that you think Trump was silently approving of such a thing. More mind-reading. Please stop.
I’m glad you are so confident of your opinions what Trump did or was capable of doing. No doubt you were there Jan. 6, you’ve read all the credible sources, and you know Trump is of sufficient high character that he’d never wish ill on another.
I will stop now, because the conversation with you has reached its nadir.
It’s funny that after 6 or 7 years and two spurious impeachments, and now in the run-up to a crucial election, we have a TV show, produced and promoted much like a Gilligan’s Island reunion, asking questions of what happened a year and a half ago, produced by a cohort of biased Democrats, and people are actually saying: Oh, good! Let’s see what testimony they can produce!
I don’t know why this line keeps ringing in my ears.
“Now would I say something that wasn’t true? I’m asking you sugar, would I lie to you?”
Not me. The facts will not prove my case. They haven’t so far, and just as with Benghazi, the truth does not matter. Let us plan our defenses accordingly.
Your problem is that you always reach for the extremes. If I disagree with you that Trump wished Pence would be killed, then obviously my view is that Trump is a paragon of virtue.
I see this with a lot of mind-reading NeverTrumpers. Everyone who disagrees with their views of Trump “worships the Orange God” or some dumb thing.
I agree that this conversation has reached its nadir.
But this whole show trial is the nadir of American politics.
It is, in fact, Soviet.
Hah! The most heavily armed population – Republicans – forgot their weapons on the day they planned “an insurrection”. And DJT had a “seven-part plan” to overturn the election. Seven parts? Unlikely in the extreme for anyone. Laughable on the part of DJT.
But it’s others who speak in extreme terms. Got it. Thanks.
I’d love to know who the organized contingent was. I’ve seen video of obvious antifa-types dressed in black, changing into red hats (and probably khakis!) , before heading to the Capitol. But don’t know the timeline.
There were also feds there – this has never been denied, though there’s no admission (as far as I know) as to how many or what they were up to. After seeing things unfold in MI, it’s not too much of a leap to assume they were up to no good.
I know people who were in DC on Jan 6, and to a one they were to protest a very suspicious election. They were there hoping to hear that the election was going to be audited, they were there to support their president.
So it’s ironic that they were protesting the very thing they’re accused of. A threat to democracy.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-house-committees-grand-unified-theory-of-jan-6
Byron York puts it in perspective.
Anyone giving credence to this farce is a moron.
Maybe even a fruitcake.
I lack the required naivete required to believe that will ever happen. The 2022 elections either won’t happen, or they’ll be stolen. We’ve let something important slip away. Rule of law, justice, the belief that people’s votes count and will be counted accurately.
And I agree with @dbroussa; the GOP (with a few exceptions) doesn’t have the will or the spine or the desire to do anything but make this go away as quickly as possible.
If you can’t see what’s wrong with this show trial, we cannot find common ground.
My country is at the point of no return. You just see it as a little speed bump before we get back to the status quo — a status quo where we simply change from D-elitists to R-elitists.
That’s a luxury you have that I do not.
He doesn’t have authority over the Capitol Police – congress does.
This is all pipe-dreaming. Encouraging people to protest does not equal urging people to riot or break stuff. If that were true, where is your outrage for every political actor – who shares those same authorities you seem to think simply adhere to people you don’t like – who actively urged people to protest and literally break stuff, during the BLM riots?
What about the other protests at the Capitol over the years, actively supported by politicians? Million Woman march comes to mind – they “stormed” Senate office buildings. Here, let me search Ricochet for your historical outrage posts, and….nothing.
Oh, and President Barry actively urged physical confrontations with the political “others”. Guess that was fine. No impeachment for Barry!
How and where would they throw it both from and to, exactly?
They don’t do anything in Congress. There are no magic levers of governmental control hidden in the cloak room. All you’d do is disrupt the vote, which they can literally do anywhere, vote from their offices, vote the next day, not cower and just vote, etc.
Pick one. But the nation can’t crumble because chowderheads walk the halls of Congress. If that were true, our 535 stallwarts would have crippled the nation years ago.
How can testimony show what he privately approved of? They’ll subpeona the small devil that lives on his left shoulder?
How about you provide links to support yours, or just use that Google thing?
Jesus.
Also – if you think guardsmen who were told to stand down could muster in the space of a couple of hours from their disparate homes in the surrounding areas, you have an outmoded idea of what Minutemen are.
DC police shares security responsibility in the district, along with Capitol police.
You could ask around.
Schiff is planning to get to the bottom of this immediately, as soon as he eats another pint of cookie dough ice cream.
Yeah. National Guard troops showing up to disperse the already-dispersing crowd, with guns, sounds like a great idea.
It’s amusing to me people sounding like they’re just discovering this information about Pelosi refusing Trump’s request for beefed up security, or the National Guard, or Bowser refusing to let them use the DC police. We’ve known that and have been asking questions about their roles since right after the incident. But somehow, people are still going “What? Did that really happen?” Yes, . . . yes it did. I understand that if you only watch CNN, you probably didn’t hear about it.
I mean, when I talk about the Capitol Police beating Roseann Boyland to death, I’m guessing a large number of you have no clue about it. So when this committee blames the rioters for the deaths of seven people, you just nod along like bobbleheads, because obviously if this committee said it, it must be true.
Do you not understand that this committee is made up of known liars?
The ruling class really does depend on the media keeping people in the dark, don’t they?
Liz Cheney says “We will prove…” and it as though Shiff and his empty promises – which turned out to be provable lies -never happened…
The very fact that Adam Schiff is on this committee makes it illegitimate. Then add in the rest of this group of evildoers, and you have inner circle of hell stuff.
You won’t be able to afford bananas in a few months.
I would like to hear you elaborate on this. I think the Breitbart editorial position is always right on everything. Sirius XM podcast/broadcast is outstanding and I’m glad to pay for it.
From what I heard they don’t have very much new so far for some reason.
What’s to elaborate? Basically, anyone who ever showed the slightest bit of support for President Trump is cast into eternal flames.
It doesn’t go deeper than that.
The Democrat bots on twitter go crazy when you say this.
This is accurate.
How is it possible that this isn’t cleared up?
12 proud boys and 15 oath keepers. Effectively no weapons.