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Liz Cheney and the J6 Committee Are Dangerous Jokes
The walls are closing in! This past week, they had Cassidy Hutchinson talk about her second-hand reports of Trump’s alleged actions on J6. The Secret Service agents who were there contradict her story. Any reputable committee would have asked her about that. In fact, a reputable committee would have not called since the people who were there disagree.
I’m an amateur historian and I know how important primary sources are. Presumably, there are staffers to the J6 committee who are also aware of this. The J6 committee is either incompetent, fraudulent, or both. They don’t care about the truth. They’re a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.
Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan told Ali Velshi that the Pelosi-Picked Panel is "taking some heat" for failing to do the "very basic step" reporters do, and checking this "Trump lunged for the wheel" claim with the Secret Service before rushing it onto national TV. pic.twitter.com/cCBuQmDEGq
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 3, 2022
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And they love the virtue-signalling spotlight!!
Here is my response to ABC “News”.
Jim, I always say, based on my experience with the amazing way juries have of coming up with something at least close to the right answer (that definitely includes cases I’ve lost, by the way) , that politicians, academics, media people, Corporate donors, etc., underestimate the wisdom and common sense of the American people at their peril, and I believe they are about to see a dramatic illustration of that in November.
TDS. We see more than our fair share of it right here on Ricochet. And with reference to McCarthy, I once had a huge amount of respect for him; read his books and was impressed by his writings and the experience he drew on as an actual, as opposed to the billboard-TV variety, trial lawyer. When I saw that column all but slobbering all over that [_____] and her “testimony” which was right out of a novel–which would have been laughed out of the Editor’s office — I truly could not believe my eyes. TDS, indeed. Guess it’s a job requirement at National Review.
I think there was some legitimate accusations of a non-sexual nature to be made at Bill Clinton.
But to address another point, Trump has exposed how incredibly petty and vain everybody else is. I think Trump a flawed narcissus but so many pols aren’t much better.
What does “Center-Right” even mean? Doesn’t sound good.
This is a good question. Does that mean they subtract all of the Pedro Gonzalez philosophy? Does it mean that they don’t think all of our institutions are a disaster? Does it mean that we haven’t done that many things wrong in the face of wage deflation and job destruction from automation and globalized labor? Does it mean we don’t screw up foreign policy that much?
I just heard Pedro Gonzalez on Charlie Kirk yesterday. It was actually pretty instructive.
I don’t have a big opinion, but those are my questions.
Is it “socialism, but at the speed limit”?
The problem with secession is that may states are conservative, but they have huge liberal populations condensed into a city or two, and also these cities are pretty much where the power is. For example, how does Georgia secede while encompassing Atlanta? Cut off food and water to force conversion to conservative principles?
And another thing is that even if some states have naval facilities and army and AF bases, and these might be fully staffed by conservatives, how do they get parts from largely big government MIC suppliers?
And there are other problems. I have thoughts of how the nation can be restored, but if I can think of it, so can those in power. As depressing as it is, BDB has come the closest I think to outlining how secession could, or couldn’t, be done in his A Republic of the Heart.
I get that you are being very thoughtful when you say that, but I don’t think most Republicans get it. And I don’t think we can make a straight line back to HR Gross. What I object to is the way Gary thinks about this stuff. It’s to simplistic and idealistic.
TDS, exposed for all to clearly see. A ‘prosecutor’ who has pre -judged the case. There is no effort to get to the truth.
OK, In the interest of being fair I watched the first 6 minutes. Nothing new here. If anyone cares, I did a partial transcription, leaving out a bunch of “ums”.
So, the DOJ could make a criminal referral, regardless of the hearings.
Oh. The hearings aren’t political. Glad to hear it.
Prescient, aren’t you. Look at the next comment.
Sounds good to me!
Simplistic, yes. Idealistic? Yes, but towards an ideology is distinctly unAmerican.
But he isn’t on the right. He’s not even “Center-Right.” At best he’s “Center-left,” but the most accurate description is “Mind-controlled.”
Boiler plate conservative economics even though we are way past that. Boiler plate civics even though that’s obviously all wrong. Not skeptical about foreign policy mistakes.
So basically, “Griller-cons.”
Is this really you?
COL (chuckle out loud). With Atlanta’s 5 million people, if food and water were severely limited I would foresee riots, burning, and armed robbery at the very least. In other words, the cities and the suburbs would burn.
Rufus passed away in the early 90s. I was absolutely addicted to watching him when I was a kid. lol
One time he was losing and I was getting really upset. Then the bad guy made the mistake of hitting him over the head with a folding chair. He woke up and pinned the bad guy in like five seconds. lol
I am armed. And trust me, the suburbs are not with the city.
Outside the Perimiter people are different.
Well. Bryan did use quotes around the word right.
Say something original about public policy.
What are David Stockman, Pedro Gonzalez, Pat Buchanan, Mises.org, etc wrong on?
There is not a straight line back to Rep. H.R. Gross.
How did this happen? —->
https://mises.org/wire/were-living-age-capital-consumption
Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™
http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2017/07/26/the-roundtable-insight-george-bragues-on-how-the-financial-markets-are-influenced-by-politics/
The greatest human beings that have ever lived in order:
Don Rickles
Sherman Hemsley
Joan Rivers
G. Gordon Liddy.
Rufus R. Jones
You could have had a completely independent “9/11 Commission” to investigate January 6th, but Trump vetoed the idea of it and McCarthy and McConnell fell into line.
You could have had five Republicans on the Select Committee, but McCarthy had to nominate Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, and then withdrew the other 3 Republicans.
Since you are tired to Liz Cheney, how about some Adam Kinzinger?
Trump was president for fifteen days after 1/6. He couldn’t veto anything with respect to a commission in that short time span. Let’s see all of Pelosi’s emails leading up to 1/6 and all of the video they’re hiding. And let’s have the FBI and DOJ come clean about what agents and provocateurs they had in the crowd. For example, the need to find out more about the curious case of Ray Epps. And why is there no progress about the pipe bombs.
@garyrobbins
Mitt Romney in the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/mitt-romney-republican-denial-biden-election/661468/
Yeah I don’t think I want Mitt Romney to have more power than Mike Lee. That makes zero sense.