The Show Trials Begin

American Thinker ^ | 11 Jum, 2022 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

[MtnClimber]

Thursday evening's disgraceful spectacle concocted by congressional Democrats and the media will go down in history -- but not in the way they intended.

Thursday evening's disgraceful spectacle concocted by congressional Democrats and the media will go down in history -- but not in the way they intended.

Far from shocking Americans with “new” testimony from a visibly terrified Ivanka Trump or a know-nothing Capitol police officer who described the Jan. 6 confrontations as “a war scene,” which it most certainly was not, Thursday's spectacle only reinforced the national divide between Trump supporters and the Democrats and the media elites.

Even Democrat strategists and media commentators admit that the hearings are not aimed at changing public opinion. "Instead, the committee's work is most clearly aimed at the top brass at the Department of Justice who will decide whether to bring charges against Trump and members of his inner circle," Jonathan Allen wrote in a commentary for NBC News.

That in itself should be enough to terrify any American who lived through the Cold War, or who read Kafka in high school or college.

We have entered an era of show trials, just like the extravaganzas produced by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in the 1930s.

[MtnClimber]

Our Joe does not want to be outdone by the USSR Joe.

[Its All Over Except ...]

Nancy Pelosi handpicked the January 6th committee.

Secondly, while this sham is supposed to be presenting evidence, it is reminiscent of Soviet-style, one-sided show trial hearings where the state accepted the info mthey wanted and omitted what they didn’t want, which Democrats are doing now.

Third, average $5 gas.
40-year high inflation.
74% of baby formula out-of-stock.
15,000-person migrant caravan.

What are Democrats doing to solve this? Holding a partisan, Soviet-style January 6th show trial hearing.

Americans have no bread, so Democrats give them circuses instead.

[PIF]

American who lived through the Cold War, or who read Kafka in high school or college

—
not many of the former left and given US education system, the later is rapidly shrinking also; even people on FR have a difficult time discerning sarcasm and satire without visual aides - just imagine trying to read classical literature like Alexander Pope without little visual indicator tags sprinkled all over the pages.

[Dan in Wichita]

From the article:

How was it, in the most tech-savvy country in the world, that most of us went to bed at midnight on election night with TV images of unassailable Trump margins of victory in all five swing states with 98% of the vote counted, and woke up the next morning to see those margins had collapsed and somehow only 92% or 94% percent of the votes had now been counted?

I was one of those people. When I went to bed after midnight on Nov 4, 2020, I was feeling rather certain Trump was going to win re-election, though the vote counting stoppage in the swing states gave me an uneasy feeling.

The next morning, when I realized what had happened while most of us slept, there was a knot in my stomach... it was clear to me the US was in deep doo doo. Things have only gotten worse since.

[joethedrummer]

“The goal of the show trial is to intimidate and to deflect.“

-Which is what one does after THEY’VE committed a crime quite sloppily, raising questions…

[cymbeline]

“the committee’s work is most clearly aimed at the top brass at the Department of Justice”

Then there was no need to broadcast it to all of us over multiple networks,