1. That riot looked more like a party than an insurrection
2. People have good reason to believe in conspiracy theories...
a) The government, across all institutions has lied to us over and over. That is just a fact. Think weapons of mass destruction.
b) The media lies or twists or exaggerates or does not cover all kinds of things to influence what we think about things. I do not care if it is the NYT, FOX News, PBS or Breitbart, they are ALL in the business of propaganda at this point. Worse, it is propaganda intended to make us distrustful and angry because that is good for ratings in whatever demographic they are targeting.
c) Corporations lie all the frigging time. Boeing and the 737 Max?
3. The country is split and largely ungovernable at this point. More Americans are willing to point a gun at someone down the street with a Trump or Biden sign than at a foreign soldier. The left, supported by the intel community, federal law enforcement and the tech monopolies are setting up a Chinese style social credit system and are going to control all media. Heck, look at what just happened with Kurt Schilling losing his INSURANCE for being a Trump supporter. Nope, we are headed for a one party state where there is right think and wrong think and you will be doxxed, threatened and unemployed for wrong think. (Apparently uninsurable too)
Me, I have just plain given up. Never thought I would say that. I'm a 55 yr old veteran and a federal worker who makes a good living but I just do not care anymore. The system is coming apart, our freedoms are being eroded and Silicon Valley and Wall Street run the show.
I have no interest in the news, social media or just about anything having to do with politics. DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT.
Funny, I have been planning to leave the US for about 3 yrs. I've been researching and planning where I am going and I am looking at buying a property there before I retire. The day I retire I am liquidating everything I own here and heading out. If it were not for my kids who will still be here, I could care less about what is going on or going to go on here so long as my paycheck shows up and people leave me the heck alone and my social security checks arrive when I get there.
What is interesting to me....the number of friends I have who ALSO are veterans and who ALSO work directly in the federal government or for a federal contractor who are ALSO now planning to leave. These are people who used to criticize my decision to leave and would spend time trying to convince me that it was a silly idea and would tell me all the benefits of staying here. Now, they are looking at places like Chile or Panama or Greece. Heck, one friend and his wife are looking at Prague and even Ukraine of all places. Another friend, also a government worker, just bought an acre in Ecuador to retire to. Another retired 18 months ago and is in Chile with his wife.
Time to go. I have even told my kids to think strongly about leaving. One is already bilingual and has a degree in neuroscience, a degree in economics and is finishing a law degree. She could go anywhere. The other is taking Spanish and I am pushing him to really become fluent so he has options.
It doesn't matter where you go. This isn't civil w@r. Its wwiii .the 3rd reich of Gates Soros UN and Chi lives and want total domination. Best you can do is go as wilderness AF and have nothing they want near you. That's it. Where there are ppl they will seek power.
Pray. This is good vs. Evil. Babylon will fall..biblically their structure lasts 1 hour. fear nought but the lord. If you have faith stay keen on your contact with spirit. The door of escape will open when it needs to, as long as your doing what your supposed to. God bless. Know your allies by their hearts and fruits.
Great article. Social media and its various political echo boxes have really challenged American democracy. I live in Australia. The problem is you don't have a respectable, centric top-down governmental voice (supported by institutional efficiency) anymore. You don't have enough people on the same conceptual premises. You can fix this. Re-establish traditional media power under reformed major, centric media entities (tv, radio etc)) with a strong governmental ownership model, focusing on editorial skills that centre on facts and leave left or right interpretations to the reader. The criticism of this effort will be 'freedom', but there hasn't ever been a successful society that doesn't have an efficient form of top-down communication. The division bell must be not be rung so much. You must restore some commonality via re-establishing a central media thread. After vaccinating and regulating big tech, I hope Biden is terribly boring - that will be the best start you can have 'for all Americans' as he says. Then set some large scale common goals (preferably non-military - infrastructure, education etc.). Start getting a few runs on the board and you will get back into the swing of it. Only by re-establishing a centric voice will you be able to see the absolutism in your very left or very right views.
I'm definitely wary of PATRIOT Act 2.0 coming as a result of this, and I don't think that the long-belated removal of Trump from Facebook/Twitter means they are absolved (and it's not like the antitrust cases currently going on, and the broader break-up-big-tech movement, is going away). But I still wonder the intent of those saying not to use the term "terrorist" to describe the 1/6 rioters. It's becoming ever clearer that this was at least at its core a coordinated mass-assassination attempt, and at the very least terror was one of the big things they accomplished. I really don't see an issue with giving the term "terrorist" a white face.
Really? Bare chested drunks in fur hats were the foundation of a coup?
Smiling goof balls in baseball caps taking selfies with cops were assassins?
Talk about melodrama.
More like a bunch of amped up idiots who happen to have some legitimate grievances btw who used their numbers to overwhelm a bunch of cops and get into a building to yell at people.
Were any congress critters attacked? No
Were any offices set on fire? No
Was ANYONE not a member of the crowd assaulted or shot? No
No...what we had are a bunch of pissed off and embarrassed congress critters and staff who had their dignity challenged on TV.
I'm reminded more of those crowds that pour onto a football field after a championship game and tear down the goal posts. Stupid. Dangerous. Unnecessary. Not a threat to the republic.
Now...the control that the social media and tech companies are showing is CLEARLY a threat but NOBODY on the left is gonna say a word so long as they only go after Trump supporter types. But then...by the time they come for other people who disagree with them it will be too late to stop them. Heck, we probably wont even know they are doing it because they control the information platforms and own the media companies.
Look, all I can think of since last week are the dudes with the tactical armor and the flex cuffs (and the nooses). If the chambers weren't evacuated in time Pence, Pelosi, AOC, et al. could've ended up held hostage and/or dead. This isn't saying that a bulk of the rioters weren't dingdongs in red hats, but there was definitely a planned effort to at least some of this.
Your giving a bunch of clowns in costumes who took advantage of a situation WAY too much credit.
Again....was ANYONE not a member of that crowd assaulted or hurt? No.
There was plenty of opportunity inside and outside the capital. You do not need to raid the capital building to assault a congress critter. Apart from the senior leadership you will find most of them walking around the capital area or the Hart Senate Office building or at any number of restaurants around town. They are NOT hard to find. If you want to bump them off their schedules are often published, where they live is not hard to find.
How do I know? I live just outside DC. I attend meetings at the capital and the Hart building and government facilities all the time. I eat and go out in Georgetown and other places in town all the time or at least I did before the pandemic.
No. The hysteria around this is overblown and its roots are in the fear that Trumps voters and Trump's policies are going to keep coming back. They are at threat to the neocons like McConnel and Biden and to the neoliberal economics types like Schummer and Romney. They represent an antiwar position that is bad for the government contractors. They represent anti free trade which is bad for Wall Street. They represent anti-unlimited immigration which hurts tech companies bottom lines and threatens the labor supply for farms, restaurants and other industries dependent on cheap labor. Resistance to all those things has to be killed off, broken. Too much money on the line. Too many military officers who need combat time to get promoted and who need jobs with defense contractors when they get out. Too many congress critters and staffers who need jobs and board seats when they get out or need inside information for their spouse or sibling to trade on. In short, they are a threat to the rich, the powerful and the politically connected who want the old order restored and for people to fall back in line.
They got rid of Trump. Next up....AOC and the progressive left. Trump was first and he was the low hanging fruit. NOW they have to keep his voters in check and keep the AOC lead left reined in. That progressive left was useful in getting rid of Trump but they are a problem and need to be brought under control. With Trump gone it will be easier by far to focus on them.
You watch, I give it about 6 months and you are going to see the DC establishment, supported by the media, working to stifle and sideline the progressives. It will happen as soon as they pose any real threat to important legislation that the DC consensus wants. That DC consensus is the McConnel/Romney/Pelosi/Schummer crowd. Neoconservatives on war and foreign policy. Neoliberal on trade and economics.
Your already seeing this with Biden's cabinet picks and his backing off on policies that he promised the progressives.
You want to know how things are gonna go? Look at who heads the Pentagon, CIA and the FTC.
1. That riot looked more like a party than an insurrection
2. People have good reason to believe in conspiracy theories...
a) The government, across all institutions has lied to us over and over. That is just a fact. Think weapons of mass destruction.
b) The media lies or twists or exaggerates or does not cover all kinds of things to influence what we think about things. I do not care if it is the NYT, FOX News, PBS or Breitbart, they are ALL in the business of propaganda at this point. Worse, it is propaganda intended to make us distrustful and angry because that is good for ratings in whatever demographic they are targeting.
c) Corporations lie all the frigging time. Boeing and the 737 Max?
3. The country is split and largely ungovernable at this point. More Americans are willing to point a gun at someone down the street with a Trump or Biden sign than at a foreign soldier. The left, supported by the intel community, federal law enforcement and the tech monopolies are setting up a Chinese style social credit system and are going to control all media. Heck, look at what just happened with Kurt Schilling losing his INSURANCE for being a Trump supporter. Nope, we are headed for a one party state where there is right think and wrong think and you will be doxxed, threatened and unemployed for wrong think. (Apparently uninsurable too)
Me, I have just plain given up. Never thought I would say that. I'm a 55 yr old veteran and a federal worker who makes a good living but I just do not care anymore. The system is coming apart, our freedoms are being eroded and Silicon Valley and Wall Street run the show.
I have no interest in the news, social media or just about anything having to do with politics. DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT.
Funny, I have been planning to leave the US for about 3 yrs. I've been researching and planning where I am going and I am looking at buying a property there before I retire. The day I retire I am liquidating everything I own here and heading out. If it were not for my kids who will still be here, I could care less about what is going on or going to go on here so long as my paycheck shows up and people leave me the heck alone and my social security checks arrive when I get there.
What is interesting to me....the number of friends I have who ALSO are veterans and who ALSO work directly in the federal government or for a federal contractor who are ALSO now planning to leave. These are people who used to criticize my decision to leave and would spend time trying to convince me that it was a silly idea and would tell me all the benefits of staying here. Now, they are looking at places like Chile or Panama or Greece. Heck, one friend and his wife are looking at Prague and even Ukraine of all places. Another friend, also a government worker, just bought an acre in Ecuador to retire to. Another retired 18 months ago and is in Chile with his wife.
Time to go. I have even told my kids to think strongly about leaving. One is already bilingual and has a degree in neuroscience, a degree in economics and is finishing a law degree. She could go anywhere. The other is taking Spanish and I am pushing him to really become fluent so he has options.
It doesn't matter where you go. This isn't civil w@r. Its wwiii .the 3rd reich of Gates Soros UN and Chi lives and want total domination. Best you can do is go as wilderness AF and have nothing they want near you. That's it. Where there are ppl they will seek power.
Pray. This is good vs. Evil. Babylon will fall..biblically their structure lasts 1 hour. fear nought but the lord. If you have faith stay keen on your contact with spirit. The door of escape will open when it needs to, as long as your doing what your supposed to. God bless. Know your allies by their hearts and fruits.
What comes next liar ...watch
Great article. Social media and its various political echo boxes have really challenged American democracy. I live in Australia. The problem is you don't have a respectable, centric top-down governmental voice (supported by institutional efficiency) anymore. You don't have enough people on the same conceptual premises. You can fix this. Re-establish traditional media power under reformed major, centric media entities (tv, radio etc)) with a strong governmental ownership model, focusing on editorial skills that centre on facts and leave left or right interpretations to the reader. The criticism of this effort will be 'freedom', but there hasn't ever been a successful society that doesn't have an efficient form of top-down communication. The division bell must be not be rung so much. You must restore some commonality via re-establishing a central media thread. After vaccinating and regulating big tech, I hope Biden is terribly boring - that will be the best start you can have 'for all Americans' as he says. Then set some large scale common goals (preferably non-military - infrastructure, education etc.). Start getting a few runs on the board and you will get back into the swing of it. Only by re-establishing a centric voice will you be able to see the absolutism in your very left or very right views.
I'm definitely wary of PATRIOT Act 2.0 coming as a result of this, and I don't think that the long-belated removal of Trump from Facebook/Twitter means they are absolved (and it's not like the antitrust cases currently going on, and the broader break-up-big-tech movement, is going away). But I still wonder the intent of those saying not to use the term "terrorist" to describe the 1/6 rioters. It's becoming ever clearer that this was at least at its core a coordinated mass-assassination attempt, and at the very least terror was one of the big things they accomplished. I really don't see an issue with giving the term "terrorist" a white face.
You emasculated cuckold....the only domestic terrost are antifa and black liars matter
Looked more like a block party to me.
Really? Bare chested drunks in fur hats were the foundation of a coup?
Smiling goof balls in baseball caps taking selfies with cops were assassins?
Talk about melodrama.
More like a bunch of amped up idiots who happen to have some legitimate grievances btw who used their numbers to overwhelm a bunch of cops and get into a building to yell at people.
Were any congress critters attacked? No
Were any offices set on fire? No
Was ANYONE not a member of the crowd assaulted or shot? No
No...what we had are a bunch of pissed off and embarrassed congress critters and staff who had their dignity challenged on TV.
I'm reminded more of those crowds that pour onto a football field after a championship game and tear down the goal posts. Stupid. Dangerous. Unnecessary. Not a threat to the republic.
Now...the control that the social media and tech companies are showing is CLEARLY a threat but NOBODY on the left is gonna say a word so long as they only go after Trump supporter types. But then...by the time they come for other people who disagree with them it will be too late to stop them. Heck, we probably wont even know they are doing it because they control the information platforms and own the media companies.
Look, all I can think of since last week are the dudes with the tactical armor and the flex cuffs (and the nooses). If the chambers weren't evacuated in time Pence, Pelosi, AOC, et al. could've ended up held hostage and/or dead. This isn't saying that a bulk of the rioters weren't dingdongs in red hats, but there was definitely a planned effort to at least some of this.
Your giving a bunch of clowns in costumes who took advantage of a situation WAY too much credit.
Again....was ANYONE not a member of that crowd assaulted or hurt? No.
There was plenty of opportunity inside and outside the capital. You do not need to raid the capital building to assault a congress critter. Apart from the senior leadership you will find most of them walking around the capital area or the Hart Senate Office building or at any number of restaurants around town. They are NOT hard to find. If you want to bump them off their schedules are often published, where they live is not hard to find.
How do I know? I live just outside DC. I attend meetings at the capital and the Hart building and government facilities all the time. I eat and go out in Georgetown and other places in town all the time or at least I did before the pandemic.
No. The hysteria around this is overblown and its roots are in the fear that Trumps voters and Trump's policies are going to keep coming back. They are at threat to the neocons like McConnel and Biden and to the neoliberal economics types like Schummer and Romney. They represent an antiwar position that is bad for the government contractors. They represent anti free trade which is bad for Wall Street. They represent anti-unlimited immigration which hurts tech companies bottom lines and threatens the labor supply for farms, restaurants and other industries dependent on cheap labor. Resistance to all those things has to be killed off, broken. Too much money on the line. Too many military officers who need combat time to get promoted and who need jobs with defense contractors when they get out. Too many congress critters and staffers who need jobs and board seats when they get out or need inside information for their spouse or sibling to trade on. In short, they are a threat to the rich, the powerful and the politically connected who want the old order restored and for people to fall back in line.
They got rid of Trump. Next up....AOC and the progressive left. Trump was first and he was the low hanging fruit. NOW they have to keep his voters in check and keep the AOC lead left reined in. That progressive left was useful in getting rid of Trump but they are a problem and need to be brought under control. With Trump gone it will be easier by far to focus on them.
You watch, I give it about 6 months and you are going to see the DC establishment, supported by the media, working to stifle and sideline the progressives. It will happen as soon as they pose any real threat to important legislation that the DC consensus wants. That DC consensus is the McConnel/Romney/Pelosi/Schummer crowd. Neoconservatives on war and foreign policy. Neoliberal on trade and economics.
Your already seeing this with Biden's cabinet picks and his backing off on policies that he promised the progressives.
You want to know how things are gonna go? Look at who heads the Pentagon, CIA and the FTC.
Trump is a cancer. Only worked for his benefit.
Says the unconscious confirmation boi pussi