Posted on 06/20/2022 7:58:00 AM PDT by Moseley
t is widely seen that the U.S. House Select Committee about January 6 is falling flat. See, e.g., Breitbart's article, "January 6 Committee's Third Hearing So Boring NBC Cut to Golf Instead." (For golf to be more interesting, it's bad.)
What's more amazing is that no clue has penetrated the fog of Democrats, establishment Republicans, the news media, or far-left activists about why. Our political class is so out of touch that it could not see this collective yawn coming.
And no, this is not about interviewing that one magic witness. It is the fundamental concept of their entire effort that the American people see through like a windowpane. There are no additional witnesses or documents that can save an enterprise doomed from the start.
First, the Committee is convincing us that this is only a political disagreement. Trump and his leadership team and MAGA voters are "guilty" of having incorrect political views and committing "wrongthink." (I encourage all to re-read George Orwell's 1984.) The Committee is trying to prove that Trump was just wrong.
The Committee is violating the First Amendment constitutional rights of millions of Americans, including by chilling, intimidating, and frightening U.S. citizens from expressing their political views. You are not allowed to believe that the 2000, er, 2016, er, 2020 presidential election was stolen — as Al Gore and then Jill Stein claimed.
Other than running up the body count of witnesses, the Committee is clearly obsessed with criminalizing political differences. But "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." Congress has no valid legislative purpose to cut the First Amendment out of the Constitution.
Second, the left-wing conspiracy theory of a January 6 "insurrection" could work only if people don't think about it too much.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Regardless of the charges faced, every incarcerated human being is to be treated humanely and with due consideration of their rights. Evidence of 8th Amendment violations and denial of basic medical needs has been brought to the attention of Congress. We, the undersigned, are officially advising you, Director Carvajal, that you are to immediately address the abhorrent persecution of American citizens being held in pre-trial detention under your watch,” wrote the lawmakers. “We demand that you use your authority to investigate this abuse, or we will use our authority to investigate your failure.”
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Higgins, Greene Demand Humane Treatment for January 6 Prisoners | Congressman Clay Higgins
http://clayhiggins.house.gov/media/press-releases/higgins-greene-demand-humane-treatment-january-6-prisoners
Totally cheering for the J6 committee. I hope they present all their material for prosecution before election day and get tons of msnbc face time.
Walls moving in, and all that.
Vice President - human conveyor belt.
Congress too, I suppose.
“The function of the Vice President (as President of the Senate) is to COUNT the electoral votes that have already been certified.
Anyone who thinks the VP of the United States has the authority to unilaterally reject even a single electoral vote is delusional.”
The strawman is “unilaterally reject”
the US Constitution 12th Amendment, 20th Amendment, and 3 USC 1 through 20
REQUIRE disputes about the legitimacy of Electors to be addressed and resolved by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The gag here is the trick of saying Pence would “UNILATERALLY” or on his own initiative or whim accept or reject anything.
Nobody asked him to do that.
Nobody suggested that Pence do that.
There are elaborate procedures — multiple pathways — for the legitimacy the Electors in the Electoral College to be dhallenged and disputes resolved.
As the presiding officer of the Joint Session, Vice President Mike Pence was
R E Q U I R E D
to use and administer those procedures fully and completely.
Not just he could.
He was REQUIRED TO to fulfill his Constitutional duties.
But not based on his own personal whim. That is a fake straw man argument.
Our Constitution gives the power to choose the Electors of the Electoral College EXCLUSIVELY to each State Legislature.
Not to any other part of the State government.
Only to the legislature.
If a slate of electors is “certified” by the Governor, and the State LEGISLATURE says “Naw, we don’t think so,” the certification evaporates into dust in thin air.
The only correct constitutional method is for the State legislature to have 100% exclusive control at every stage of the process.
Remember that under our original Constitution, that’s how Senators were chosen. U.S. Senators were appointed by the State legislatures.
That’s how the election of the President works.
But Pence was too uninformed to know what his duties were.
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The Democrats are like a door-to-door salesman trying to sell an over-priced shitty product. It’s much easier if you are selling something people actually want.
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