Posted on 01/06/2022 3:42:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Best advice for this anniversary of the events of last January 6: Turn off the TV.
Today will be a festival of drama-queen hand-wringing, the latest attempt to make Americans believe that democracy itself was on the brink of collapse, and remains threatened by voters poised to launch waves of insurrection and assaults on basic voting rights.
That fabrication has fueled a year of rhetorical excess and malicious maneuvering designed to do two things—destroy the political viability of Donald Trump, and savage the motivations of every voter who ever supported him.
Emotions following the 2020 elections ran so high, and the passions surrounding the questionable result were so hot that a firestorm of controversy was unavoidable. But shouldn’t the election itself, and the January 6 uprising that followed, settle into some gradually drying historical concrete by now?
That has been slow in coming, due to the agendas of a media and political culture seeking to silence any doubt as to the result, while taking the extra step of assigning criminal guilt to Trump for directly causing the Capitol incursion on a day meant to protest the acceptance of a voting tally that had been tainted in several states.
In reply, some corners of conservatism sought to downplay the breaching of the Capitol as if it were some guided tour gone slightly wrong-- an event that was not a particularly big deal, especially compared to the wanton rioting that had broken out in various cities in preceding months, with no shrieks of alarm from Democrats or their media stenographers.
The double standard is easy to find, but nonchalance was never the smartest reply to January 6. History requires acknowledging that the protesters who chose to break the law that day did a terrible thing, hurt the cause they sought to help, and sullied the effort to argue the flaws of the November result.
Look at the artillery that was handed to Democrats desperately needing to cement the Biden victory as the cleanest, most indisputable ever. Anyone seeking to cogently describe an election count poisoned by unconstitutional changes to various state laws was instantly portrayed as an insurgent at a Capitol window holding a brick. This has been the strategy since Day One—drown every thoughtful, valid element of skepticism about the election in the stigma of January 6 misbehaviors.
History must not allow this. Multiple things can be true at the same time. Here is a series of true things:
COVID opportunism led various states to change 2020 election laws on the fly, meaning many votes were counted that should not have been.
We will never know how many votes that was. No magic figure was ever going to arise enabling proof that Trump won a particular state. But that does not mean the doubts lack foundation; they are backed by fact and principle, and have inspired election security upgrades in various states.
Those upgrades have drawn panicked condemnation from the left, which slanders such attempts as attacks on the very right to vote, which is not at risk in any fashion.
The forces sworn to protect the 2020 result from even the slightest disparagement have spouted often about the failure to find “widespread fraud.” Fraud is not really the issue; the deciding votes were counted according to the procedures that existed on November 3. The problem is that those very procedures had been spoiled in improper non-legislative ways, which was an act of violence to the rule of law.
Fraudulent or not, there was no need for improper vote tallies to be “widespread.” A shift of relatively few votes in relatively few states would have yielded a different result.
That fact led millions of Americans to chafe at the notion that the 2020 electoral count should proceed as if nothing went wrong. Thousands with that opinion gathered in Washington on January 6 to protest. President Trump spoke to them, giving voice to shared frustrations, but saying nothing that can be remotely identified as an incitement to violence.
Nonetheless, some who marched to the Capitol made the choice to commit crimes, destroying the underpinning of what could have been a meaningful, impactful day displaying righteous indignation at the contaminated 2020 result.
There was never any hope of legally preventing the electoral count that day. Vice President Mike Pence had zero authority to simply wave off the count in any state.
The Supreme Court had the opportunity to examine constitutional objections brought by Texas and eighteen agreeing states. The justices gutlessly punted.
The January 6th committee is a stain on the history of Congress, a cheap, malevolent stunt designed to beat back Trump, any candidate like him, and millions of voters seeking his style of unapologetic conservatism.
The barriers erected around the Capitol after January 6 were wholly unnecessary, an act of political theater designed to fool America into thinking the halls of democracy needed daily protection from the next wave of riotous Trump supporters.
Valid questions persist about Capitol security and why the throng was able to reach the innermost spaces of the building. But much of this is 20/20 hindsight. On the morning of January 6, as protests gathered and Trump spoke, there was no palpable sense of alarm that things were about to go horribly wrong.
Trump should have spoken out against the excesses of the mob earlier in the day. But the notion that this would have screeched the most amped-up protesters to a halt in their tracks is hard to imagine.
And finally, a matter of language regarding the so-called “Big Lie.” The deployment of that term against Trump and anyone who doubts the 2020 result is a masterful psychological operation designed to smear anyone who dares to address the concerns still properly harbored by millions.
So on this January 6, let history record that the doubts are real, and not unwarranted; that the states working to improve voting security are protecting, not offending our right to reliable elections; and that the purpose of Democrat and media fulminations about the events of a year ago are not based on any civic desire to reach understanding or progress. They are an act of desperation, a roadblock seeking to smother the conservative energies of this election year, where public revulsion toward Joe Biden’s policies and media corruption could spell a wave election for the ages.
Here is a sample of dem “sanity”. Dem do not mind calling for insurrection. Here is a sample. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgPVkcLBjK8 So it is OK for the dems to call for violence and OK for BLM and Antifa to DO violence but NOT OK for repubs to actually “peacefully” protest. Yeah, sounds fair to me.
Here is what the desm are REALLY doing. Jan. 6 inmate starving to death, attorney says https://denvergazette.com/news/jan-6-inmate-starving-to-death-attorney-says/article_6838ea25-3558-5303-b2df-98c11fc11c47.html
The dems are calling it an “insurrection” so they can eliminate repubs from office. Here is the text of the 14th ammendment. THIS is why they are using that language.
Fourteenth Amendment
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Amdt14.S3.1 Disqualification from Holding Office
Amdt14.S3.1.1 Disqualification Clause
A good piece at legalinsurrection.com about Marc Elias attempting to use this clause to remove or refuse to seat members
Sound advice that I'll be following.
The steal was and still is real.
Dead beat joe lost all day on November 3, 2020 and they can’t convince the nation that he somehow magically came from behind to win after the count was over everywhere but a few critical state democrat majority late late late reporting cities.
“or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. “
That’s extremely vague and nebulous and easy to be used against any oneone who agrees in any way with those to breached the building.
Have all the celebrations of the “American Reichstag Fire” day gotten under way yet?
Many of the elements by which Adolf Hitler consolidated power were built around the “false flag” of the Reichstag fire, first by getting culpability shifted fully away from the Nationalist Socialist party, then by swiftly moving to capture indict, put on trial and execute the supposed ringleader. Once this mass formation psychosis was loosed upon the German people, it was but a short step to issue a number of what were essentially executive orders by the newly installed Chancellor Hitler, who then styled himself to be the Reichsfuehrer, head of state for the now established Third Reich.
Does anybody see any parallels to what has happened in the United States in the past year?
The concentration camps cannot be far behind. There is already one operating in the DC area, defendants held without bail in the decrepit DC prison. Not charged yet with a crime, or charged with a crime that is a relative misdemeanor, “Trespassing on Government property”, but not one, not a single one, charged with insurrection.
Joe won all the states he did, and most importantly got over 270 electoral votes. That was the final call, and it’s impossible to undo it.
This was all done early Nov 4. It sucks hard, but that’s just how it happened. The states sent their electors which are the final say for a majority biden vote. To do anything else would mean revolution.
If the Reps can win well in VA, they can win well elsewhere too. IMO.
A lot of the Democratic leadership and a whole host of RINOs and their behind guys need to be settled into some of that drying concrete.
Sanity? That ship sank years ago. And BTW, what’s a “TV”?
Watch out for incoming.
I think what this piece says is best: the real fraud was the illegal change of rules. Not so much how many votes came.
When I see posts comparing Jan 6th to ‘a threat to democracy’, I remind those folks if it was a REAL insurrection, there would have been MILLIONS of us, armed, and motivated.
Many cons want revolution over republican state EVs it seems, what can you do.
J6 is Ashli Babbitt Memorial Day.
Just tell them none of the perpetually jailed evil prisoners have been charged with insurrection.
Bunch of asses.
AMEN
Joe won all the states he did,
Why the iterative, “he did he did he did”?
The Winning by stealing was and is still being hidden with continued wrongs and all to foist the installed joe .
Enjoy delusional victory he is as ap declared him president elect and that is all he’ll ever be.
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