It Ain’t Necessarily So

 

Capital buildingI do not know what really happened in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 . . . and neither do you. First reports are seldom conclusive, often confused, sometimes flat wrong. We live in an environment where people have learned to spin and twist every institution and form of media, seeking to shape our society through our ever more intrusive politics. Not only is history written by the victors, so is the entire current narrative, especially as supposed conservatives have joined the left in enabled a handful of billionaires to use the commanding communications high ground to silence and even drive out of business any effective dissent.

I first heard that Trump supporters had stormed Congress and someone was shot. Then I heard the shot was fired not by a “bitter clinger” with a gun but by a Capitol Police officer. Then I heard Congressman Louie Gohmert call the Sean Hannity radio show. He reported that he was on the phone with the Capital Police the evening of January 5, and was told they had intelligence that Antifa was showing up on January 6 wearing pro-Trump gear. Perhaps so. This too ain’t necessarily so.

Before all this, as I sipped my morning cup of coffee, I listened to Mike Rowe’s latest The Way I Heard It podcast episode, released on January 5. “Episode 181: Off by Roughly Two Trillion” was a thoughtful reflection of uncertainty in our world, occasioned by repeated errors or possibly learning across media, academics, politics, science, and medicine. Take a listen, if you will:

In such uncertainty, how might we judge what is so? Past performance does not necessarily predict future performance. Things change. Yet, we would be willfully blind not to notice the behavior of the very large March for Live every year for decades. We all know that the Tea Party movement, when it was a mass protest movement, was known for its tidiness and peaceful conduct. We all know, or should know, that Trump rallies have been boisterous but peaceful affairs.

We know, by contrast, that the left’s street wing has engaged in organized violence for decades. They refined their techniques and tactical skills over repeated operations against economic summits. The “mostly peaceful protests” of this past summer were vehicles for small, disciplined violent groups, coordinated by secure communications and supported with logistics and transportation. The small violent elements used the mass of peaceful people as cover.

False flag operations are a real thing. Disrupting and discrediting peaceful movements by infiltrating with violent actors and instigators is not mere fiction. In this instance, on Epiphany 2021, we just do not know.

AND. Whatever the truth of this day may be, there is a lesson that those who would resist creeping or rushing socialism must learn. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s was fiercely self-disciplined. It was not a bunch of volunteers just showing up in a mass. There was real organization and internal discipline to prevent the white supremacist Democrats and J. Edgar Hoover from discrediting them with violent acts caused by infiltrators or by hotheads. Civil disobedience is hard work. Conservatives/populists have stunk at consistent civic engagement and at sustained, organized action. This must change, and not in the form of another grift, another boondoggle with high-paid executives and staffs.

It appears that the breach of Congress occurred before President Trump finished speaking, miles away from the breach. Not that this inconvenient truth will matter, if it is the truth. No, those on the commanding heights have spent the last four years subverting the last election, while claiming their opposition was all very principled and not at all hatred of the great mass of American voters who produced the “deplorable” election result, that must be overcome by any means. Some of these, claiming to be conservative or Republican, have played the game of diplomacy:

Diplomacy frequently consists in soothingly saying “Nice doggie” until you have a chance to pick up a rock.

—Walter Trumbull

We are assured this is a matter of principle. We are told this is craven self-service. AND. It ain’t necessarily so.

On Twelfth Night, I offered a playlist for the twelve days of Christmas, ending with Epiphany. After Epiphany 2021’s rumors and reports, one very secular song comes to mind:

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  1. CarolJoy, Thread Hijacker Coolidge
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    In line with my reply # 30:

    So I wonder what wondrous things Kamala will be doing during her first year as President?

    Let’s take a  gander at possibilities for the Dem occupied Oval Office to dwarf both the number of Trump accomplishments they make in 365 days, as well as the intelligence of the coming decrees, when compared against Trump’s.

    The year is already off to a great start, with Nancy Pelosi bringing about the end of gender specific nouns and pronouns as far as official gov-speak.

    No worrisome need to call someone “Granma” or Granpa.” Just refer to them as Old Codgers, since it is so often  older people who are Conservatives.

    Second on the list will be mandating masks, vaccines, contact tracing, and a new decree stipulating  the labeling of any deaths from the coming vax programs as being due to a new mutant strain of COVID 19.

    Meat and dairy products will be hit with a hefty fine called a “sustainability tax.”  As will all fossil fuels.

    The USA will again join in with The Paris Accords, and Kamala, ever the environmentalist, will insist on doubling the usual 110 billion a year fee to us taxpayers up to a more reasonable 220 billion.

    Lockdowns will become more pervasive, as it is not possible to have all 7 billion people in the world vaxxed in a single year, per Bill Gates’ much announced protocol. After all, the Dems have made it known that no cost is too great, no liberty worth holding onto, in the face of a killer pandemic whose survival rate is around 99.089%, when if we hold off for a few more years, the survival rate might be 100.0%

    Police departments in our cities will continue to be defunded. However, expect by the 2nd quarter of the year, to find significant resistance  against that political activity. Local, state and Fed officials will realize that many more police will be needed as citizens begin to become angrier and angrier as the COVID restrictions will continue to prevent adults in the  households from feeding their children and keeping a roof over the family.

    All suicides to be catalogued as COVID deaths. In May 2021, CDC/NIH researchers prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that people are killing themselves not  due to unemployment, lack of income or despair, but because new mutant strains of COVID eat up people’s brains. (A phenomena first noticed regarding the brains of elected Dem officials & their supporters.)

    Having successfully seen to the slaughter of herds of dairy cows, the Left’s most ardent environmental scientists will publish studies showing dogs over 25 pounds also emit too much methane, & as useless eaters, need to go the way that Flossie the Cow went.

    Immigrants are again allowed in, as ICE is defunded.

    Reparations for African Americans are insisted upon. Doubling of state and fed taxes for any wage earners still insisting on calling themselves white will be enforced.

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  2. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    Sadly if Trump leaves my prediction will be wrong.  I figured they would kill him before he was out of office.  

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  3. The Reticulator Member
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Sadly if Trump leaves my prediction will be wrong. I figured they would kill him before he was out of office.

    Don’t normalize that idea.

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  4. Bob Thompson Member
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Sadly if Trump leaves my prediction will be wrong. I figured they would kill him before he was out of office.

    The drive by Schumer and Pelosi to invoke the 25th Amendment or else impeach President Trump appears geared to make sure he is not eligible to run for President in 2024. If this does not happen they may be compelled to resort to some other action once he’s out.

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  5. DrewInEastHillQuarantineZone Member
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Sadly if Trump leaves my prediction will be wrong. I figured they would kill him before he was out of office.

    They still might. Even here on Ricochet the bloodlust is obvious.

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  6. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Sadly if Trump leaves my prediction will be wrong. I figured they would kill him before he was out of office.

    Don’t normalize that idea.

    I think it might be good for the Left to prove itself.  

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  7. kedavis Coolidge
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Sadly if Trump leaves my prediction will be wrong. I figured they would kill him before he was out of office.

    Don’t normalize that idea.

    I think it might be good for the Left to prove itself.

    They’ve proven enough to suit me.

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  8. Flicker Coolidge
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Sadly if Trump leaves my prediction will be wrong. I figured they would kill him before he was out of office.

    Don’t normalize that idea.

    I think it might be good for the Left to prove itself.

    I put the odds at 15% that they remove him after he leaves the white house.

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  9. The Reticulator Member
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Sadly if Trump leaves my prediction will be wrong. I figured they would kill him before he was out of office.

    Don’t normalize that idea.

    I think it might be good for the Left to prove itself.

    I’d rather they didn’t.

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  10. Jules PA Inactive
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    This turn of the thread is dark, very dark.

    Unfollowing. 😳

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  11. The Reticulator Member
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    Bob Thompson (View Comment):
    The drive by Schumer and Pelosi to invoke the 25th Amendment or else impeach President Trump appears geared to make sure he is not eligible to run for President in 2024.

    Showing that they fear his continued popularity. 

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  12. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Bob Thompson (View Comment):
    The drive by Schumer and Pelosi to invoke the 25th Amendment or else impeach President Trump appears geared to make sure he is not eligible to run for President in 2024.

    Showing that they fear his continued popularity.

     

    well it is not like they will need any facts,  just the votes.

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  13. Clifford A. Brown Member
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    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Bob Thompson (View Comment):
    The drive by Schumer and Pelosi to invoke the 25th Amendment or else impeach President Trump appears geared to make sure he is not eligible to run for President in 2024.

    Showing that they fear his continued popularity.

    This is exactly right.

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  14. DonG (2+2=5. Say it!) Coolidge
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    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    Clifford A. Brown: False flag operations are a real thing.

    A-yup.

    Or an event gets spun into something that it wasn’t. 

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  15. Clifford A. Brown Member
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    DonG (2+2=5. Say it!) (View Comment):

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    Clifford A. Brown: False flag operations are a real thing.

    A-yup.

    Or an event gets spun into something that it wasn’t.

    Another form of “it ain’t necessarily so.”

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  16. TempTime Member
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    CarolJoy, Thread Hijacker (View Comment):
    CarolJoy, Thread Hijacker

    I am relieved to know Trump has announced he is making way for the New Administration.

    Why? Because I am certain that he would be deader than a Kennedy in Dealey Plaza if he didn’t move out.

    I am grateful he was in office for four years. Something I never believed would happen.

    …  here are just some of his accomplishments undertaken during his first year in office. (Source: Newsweek)

    100 percent vote by UN Security Council to sanction North Korea.

    41 percent decline in illegal southern border crossings

    97,482 illegal immigrant arrests, 70 percent convicted of additional crimes, 52,169 expelled

    Adopted a resolute policy on Afghanistan

    Advocated for practical tertiary education, to bring back trade schools

    Advocated for skills-based immigration policies

    American companies now expanding rather than shipping jobs overseas

    Announced sanctions targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

    Appointed a Transportation Secretary who is modernizing air traffic control

    Appointed an Education Secretary who is correcting abuses of Title IX

    Appointed an EPA administrator who has rescinded over 30 regulations

    Appointed an FDA Director to facilitate generic drug competition

    Constructed test models of the border fence

    Convinced Japan and South Korea to increase defense spending

    Convinced NATO members to honor minimum financial commitments

    Decertified Iranian nuclear treaty and sent it to Senate as constitutionally required

    Designated North Korea as a state-sponsor of terrorism

    Eliminated prohibition on interstate health insurance sales

    Ended abuses of the student loan forgiveness program

    Ended forced provision of contraception by Catholic nunneries

    Ended requirement for state funding of Planned Parenthood

    Ended research into Y2K preparedness

    Ended rule requiring employers to report pay data by gender and race

    Expanded school-choice efforts

    FCC has begun to dismantle unnecessary Internet “Neutrality” regulations

    Foreign firms building plants and creating jobs in the U.S.

    Improved rules of engagement for military in combat situations

    Initiated resistance “sue and settle” tactics against EPA

    Initiated sanctions on Venezuelan dictatorship

    Introduced regulatory budgeting requiring agencies to rescind 2 rules to issue a new one

    ISIS bombing ramped up from about 20 to 500 or more airstrikes per week

    ISIS ground campaign intensified; Raqqa captured, its fighters surrendering in large numbers

    Issued a National Security Strategy

    Kate’s Law passed House now pending in Senate

    Leveraged U.S. contribution to UN budget to force 5 percent budget cut; reduce staffs

    NLRB reversed rule making indirect employee control sufficient to be “joint employees”

    Nominated 60 judges, 21 confirmed, none yet denied

    Nominated new Fed chief

    Nominated one SCOTUS judge, who was confirmed

    Obtained release of Aya Hijazi after 3 years in Egyptian prison

    Obtained release of Caitlan Coleman & husband from Haqqani

    Obtained release of UCLA basketball players from China

    Raised awareness of Opioid addiction crisis

    Recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital, announcing plan to move U.S. embassy there

    Reduced excess size of 2 national parks in Utah

    Reduced permanent staff in all Cabinet agencies except VA, HS & Interior

    Reduced WH staff by 110

    Appointed an Interior Secretary to improve forest management and expand users of public lands

    Approved Keystone pipeline

    Called for international support of Iranian protesters

    Canceled school lunch program that failed to force children to eat unpopular foods

    Initiated resistance “sue and settle” tactics against EPA

    Worth giving NTs another reminder

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  17. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    MichaelKennedy (View Comment):

    Clifford A. Brown (View Comment):

    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    We will never know what really happened today. Unfortunately what we will be told will in no way reflect the truth but will be what the popular culture believes. It will be Trumps fault and all his races white followers that showed up today, stormed the streets with blood in their eye and hate in their soul.
    If anybody was foolish enough to go today they better keep it secret and off social media if they know what best for them.

    While I do not generally agree with your default posture of cynicism, your last sentence is sadly on point.

    Ashli Babbitt was not available to comment.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woman-shot-and-killed-in-storming-of-us-capitol-named-as-ashli-babbitt/ar-BB1cyoYh?c=10654320709832488692%252C7840040449682147769

    That article says it was a capitol policeman that shot her. I’ve watched the video and that was no accident. It was murder. I wonder if any investigation will ever be done?

    Yes, it will be done and seen as justified.  The paperwork must be filled out.

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  18. MarciN Member
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    This is the YouTube video of President Trump’s speech today, January 13, that he gave in response to the demonstrators’ breaking into the Capitol on January 6. It’s very well done.

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  19. Boss Mongo Member
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):
    Yes, it will be done and seen as justified. The paperwork must be filled out.

    We’ll see.

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  20. Saint Augustine Member
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    MarciN (View Comment):

    This is the YouTube video of President Trump’s speech today, January 13, that he gave in response to the demonstrators’ breaking into the Capitol on January 6. It’s very well done.

    Pretty lousy leader of an insurrection.

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  21. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Clifford A. Brown (View Comment):
    so they were hardly going to contradict Democrats and actually impose real identification requirements and ballot security.

    We won’t get it for the next four years for sure.  Why would the Dems cut off a large percentage of their voter base?

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  22. MarciN Member
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    Saint Augustine (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    This is the YouTube video of President Trump’s speech today, January 13, that he gave in response to the demonstrators’ breaking into the Capitol on January 6. It’s very well done.

    Pretty lousy leader of an insurrection.

    What I thought was neat was his using the term “movement” to describe his relationship to the people at the rally. This is the first speech I’ve listened to since before the election, so perhaps he has been using that term all along. But if it’s new, I’m thrilled. It’s a good idea. 

     

     

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  23. Clifford A. Brown Member
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    MarciN (View Comment):
    YouTube video of President Trump’s speech today

    I archived that off YouTube, noting it was on an alternative news channel.

    It is also on the official White House channel:

     

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