Happy Insurrection Day! says the left
My gut feeling is that most Americans who are not on the left are heartily sick of hearing about the horrors of January 6th from the Democrats’ perspective, and have Moved On to more pressing concerns like inflation and crime. Democratic leaders, however, would like to stoke the memory of that day, when they were riding high – having just taken control of the presidency and both houses – and were scoring an anti-Trump anti-right propaganda victory as well.
The good old days.
It’s been a slide downhill for Democrats ever since, but they’re hoping that they can “reform” America’s voting through HR! or similar executive orders, and keep themselves winning no matter what the majority of Americans may want.
As for today, I haven’t listened to the over-the-top, self-serving speeches. As regular readers here know, I usually can’t stand political speech-making anyway, although I usually read transcripts. But today, after reading the descriptions of Biden’s and Harris’s divisive and mendacious rhetoric, I’ll leave it at that.
I’ve written many posts already on the actual events of January 6th and their aftermath, but I would recommend brushing up on this from RealClearInvestigations as well as this video featuring Glenn Greenwald. I haven’t watched the latter yet, but Greenwald has been spot on about this topic and I’m going to assume this is more of the same.
In sum, I’ll quote commenter “Cappy” who earlier today wrote: “It’s a Woodstock for paranoid leftists.” I will add that some actually are paranoid, but I think most of them are not the least bit worried about January 6th but are merely coldly calculating and hoping that frightened Americans will give them more power, or at least allow them to take more power. That’s actually what this is all about.
Such a horrible, terrifying day that the Democrats are fundraising off it.
Jayapal is an especially odious person also.
https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1479178666441539585
The record of the illegitimate Harris/Biden administration and of their minions and their lickspittles in the media through propaganda and manipulation, is so spectacularly, so egregiously horrible by any and every metric (whether through stupidity and incompetence or, as is more likely, through evil design) that only hysterical obsession with J6 and the demonizing of those rational and sane enough to oppose their malignant agenda can possibly suffice to distract from the reality which should be apparent to any intelligent observer. Meanwhile, Harris (worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11) and Garland (endlessly hunting for “thought-criminals”) are ignoring the mounting evidence that this mostly peaceful protest turned unruly and shambolic was a “Fedsurrection” concocted by Pelosi and Schumer, by the Capitol Police, and by the alphabet agencies.
Fedsurrection day, seeing the murder of Ashlii Babitt and Rosanne Boyland, the only two murdered that day, no Capital Police were.
Along with Glen Reynolds, I am calling Jan 6 Ashli Babbitt Memorial Remembrance Day. And Ted Cruz can forget about votes or money from me.
murder of Ashlii Babitt and Rosanne Boyland
Ashli Babbit was shot to death under circumstances which would have provoked a criminal prosecution of the officer in a sane jurisdiction. The goods haven’t yet been produced to demonstrate that In Roseanne Boyland’s case. There would have to be a second autopsy and you have to have video and witness statements in hand.
I love the picture of buffalo horn guy with the caption: When the peyote wears off – trying to figure out where you are.
Simon Cottee this morning in Unherd: The liberal fantasy of the Capitol coup
The storming of the Capitol was to elite liberals what the destruction of the World Trade Center was to the neocons: a bracing vindication that they had been right all along, and a pretext for engaging in a battle that would give their lives a greater meaning and a chance to prove their virtue. What could be more exhilarating than taking on the historic forces of white supremacy now threatening to destroy the republic? And what could be more virtuous?
So when The New York Times publishes an editorial on how “every day is Jan. 6 now”, it is hard not to see this as a form of nostalgia for the kind of historical drama and contention that is clearly missing from the lives of the comfortable, Ivy-League educated, New-York based journalists who wrote it and who represent the vanguard of what Wesley Yang calls the “successor ideology”. Their hysteria, then, says more about themselves than the events of last year.
…what they desperately want to prove is their virtue — even if it means engaging in irresponsible fear-mongering and flagrant exaggeration.
Dick Illyes:
Are you assuming that they believe that it actually was some sort of very dangerous threat to our entire republic? I think that many if not most of them don’t believe anything of the sort, and that’s it’s just a cynical propaganda point they think they can exploit enormously.
I went on an errand this morning, and my car radio was tuned to an AM station that was carrying The Big Guy’s speech live.
I was struck by the way they hold citizens’ — even their own supporters’ — intelligence in profound contempt, as though people actually buy into their imbecilic narrative. Well, actually, many buy into it. I imagine it’s related to the yearning to be a part of, a witness to, something larger than themselves*, like 06 December 1941 or 11 September 2001.
* given the rampant small-mindedness on that side, that’s not hard to do
And then there are the credulous, willing believers. Bla bla bla, neo and so many of us here have plowed that ground more than enough: I need not elaborate.
And the *divisiveness* of the speech [another overused word, but it is what it is]. At least there’s no longer a pretense of unity. Dubya truly wanted a unified USA, but we already were far too split apart and far too far gone for that to ever be the case; Obama gave it sniveling lip service (“that’s not who we are”), Trump ripped away the veil, and The Big Guy is gleefully wallowing in salting our national wound.
I never was a superpatriot, although I always genuinely appreciated our country and I would react very negatively when someone would run us down. But I have gotten to where I can no longer be proud of our country. No, not because a few hundred undisciplined hotheads got carried away a year ago, following the lead of the orange hothead (I’ll call a spade a spade**) — but ashamed of how The Big Guy, his Clown Assistant, and his entire *ilk* has transformed us into a sick parody of what we once were (or aspired to be). A “fundamental transformation” indeed.
** yes, he called for people to demonstrate peacefully, but after four years of those bastards’ lying and gaslighting and subterfuge, what did he expect? Once again, he was his own worst enemy.
Remember the last words of Charlton Heston at the conclusion of the movie “Planet of the Apes”? — GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! That’s my sentiment right now, as applied to the enemy within.
Neo:
I don’t think it works as propaganda, it is too ludicrous. When the NYT actually says “every day is Jan. 6 now” it can only be seen as a manifestation of class identification.
It is an “In Group” Luxury Belief as described by Rob Henderson: “The chief purpose of luxury beliefs is to indicate evidence of the believer’s social class and education. ”
The Blue Bubble is so opaque that it is impossible to see out through it, and doing so may endanger your class identity. Those in the Blue Bubble actually believe it, the political prisoners are an example.
IMO this is good in the sense that it is forcing those encountering it to defend the truth. If the claims were not so ludicrous and pressed so relentlessly they would just ignore it.
It is utter nonsense to imagine that the actual Trump supporters engaged in any property damage whatsoever. Any pushing of cops by them would have been in reaction to police attacks upon them.
These are people who cherish our country as founded and our liberties. They were there to petition for redress of grievance, specifically the clear electoral fraud that had stolen a Presidential election. Protesting against a refusal by the judicial system to investigate the obvious disparities that had emerged.
The imprisonment and treatment of the Jan. 6th protestors is a crime both against the protestor’s Constitutional Rights and Crimes against Humanity.
There must and one way or another will be consequences for the perpetrators of this injustice.
This is pure power politics, and it’s disgusting.
I figure you all might enjoy the Intrepid Reporter’s thoughtful take:
https://bigcountryexpatoriginal.blogspot.com/2022/01/insurrection-my-fucking-ballsack.html
Click at your own risk.
Fact-checking myself (5:34 pm): not “06 December 1941” but “07 December 1941”!
As if the summer of BLM and Antifa riots never happened….
In my dark heart of hearts, I really and truly hope every progressive and media member suffers from PTSD every waking hour of their day. They have not seen the death and destruction many police, EMTs, firefighters, and military vets have, but they’re weak of character and lack perspective, so it must be very traumatic for them.
Happy Insurrection Day! they say.
Happy Patriots Day! I say.
Ted Cruz was just on Tucker backpedaling as fast as he could from his assertion that 1/6 was an act of terrorism. Tucker wasn’t really having it. Cruz must be getting a ton of crap right now because he sounded like a man who just realized he may have ended any future political ambitions he had.
@GregoryHarper:
Sounds like good television, watching the Worm Squirm!
The silver lining to Trying Times is that they, well, Try the Up-and-Comers.
Doktor Zaphodstein’s Patent Philtre for a Happy Polity? Why, I’m glad you asked! It’s simple: Must. Try. Harder:
“The hatch, removed from the top of the works, now afforded a wide hearth in front of them. Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of the pagan harpooneers, always the whale-ship’s stokers. With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet. The smoke rolled away in sullen heaps. To every pitch of the ship there was a pitch of the boiling oil, which seemed all eagerness to leap into their faces. Opposite the mouth of the works, on the further side of the wide wooden hearth, was the windlass. This served for a sea-sofa. Here lounged the watch, when not otherwise employed, looking into the red heat of the fire, till their eyes felt scorched in their heads. Their tawny features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works. As they narrated to each other their unholy adventures, their tales of terror told in words of mirth; as their uncivilized laughter forked upwards out of them, like the flames from the furnace; as to and fro, in their front, the harpooneers wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged forks and dippers; as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul.”
I’m trying. Really I am!
This is evil. Plain evil.
I agree with M J R. America as a political entity is not only broken; it is dangerous.
January 6 = Progressive Festivus (according to somebody on Twitter). That’s what I’m calling it from now on — that is, whenever I am not talking about the real significance of January 6, which is the date in 1912 when my adopted home of New Mexico was admitted to the Union as the 47th state.
Tucker Carlson grilling Ted Cruz was awesome. Cruz’s justification for his terrorists comment is pretty weak.
Geez. It’s like the Left is overlaying a new calendar of important dates and saints.
I’m reminded of the French Revolution’s replacement of the Gregorian Calendar. In order to break with the past and its religions and royalty, their calendar had 12 months (named after plants and weather) each with three 10-day weeks.
Consequently, Napoleon’s coup is remembered as the “Coup of 18 Brumaire,” Brumaire being the autumnal month celebrating “mist.”
The Encyclopedia Britannica site has quite a beautiful page on the French Revolution calendar. I wonder if EB regrets the loss of Revolutionary France.
https://www.britannica.com/list/the-12-months-of-the-french-republican-calendar
MollyG:
I like the Festivus idea for Jan 6!
I’m in New Mexico. I’ve already met a couple of Neo friends in Abq. I’m often at the Satellite Cafe on Central opposite UNM.
If you’re in Abq and would like to meet, it wouldn’t be hard.
@huxley: Thanks, I would very much like to meet you and the other Neo friends — let’s do that next time I’m in ABQ. I live in Las Cruces. Supposedly by midsummer the little airport here will reopen to commercial flights, starting with flights up to your part of the state.
MollyG:
Great! Let me know in Open Thread.
Las Cruces-Abq is a ways.
@Huxley:
Don’t forget Robespierre’s Festival of the Supreme Being!
He came a cropper not long after that. Overreach is a Bitch. Eventually your enemies will push their luck too far. Everyone does given enough time.
I spent this evening with fellow J6’ers talking with young people about what happened and how the Deep State engineered the coup. American Thinker today had a wonderful article about it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/there_was_no_insurrection_but_there_was_a_coup.html
“The debate is over. After a year spent investigating claims of election fraud, the media has determined that any fraud in the 2020 election was too insignificant to have changed the outcome and Joe Biden legitimately won. Now we can get back to our normal lives, or whatever passes for normal now…except that’s fiction.
In 44 BC, Roman Senators murdered Caesar, claiming they acted to protect the Republic. In fact, they simply sought power. Their coup d’état put the final nail in the coffin of a republic that had been dead in deed, if not name, for decades.
Coup d’états differ from revolutions in that they’re generally orchestrated by or include people within government who seize power—often by narrowly using or just threatening violence—resulting in a rapid transition of power. Revolutions are often longer affairs that include much of a country’s population and exponentially more bloodshed.
Most coups try to keep much of the society and government apparatus intact, merely changing who’s in charge. This illusion of continuity is intended to gain the population’s acquiescence by avoiding the appearance of a bloody civil war.
And that’s exactly what we got. While Donald Trump does not lie in a bloody toga on the floor of the Senate, America witnessed a coup d’état equally as vicious. Many will deny one took place because their guy won but, make no mistake, virtually every American knows one did, even if only 56% admit it.”
I am Sparticus:
Well put and great link.
I am Sparticus:
Well put and great link.
Well General White Rage (aka Mark Milley) was worried he says about a coup. But I think he was worried that their coup would fail. There are some severe penalties for what he did, so he still may be worried about 2022. Hence the push to federalize elections, ASAP, and by any means necessary.
Griffin:
Yes, it seemed weak. But Cruz actually has been relatively good prior to this in terms of defending Trump and Trump supporters, so the remark seemed to come out of the blue. That indicates to me it may indeed have been carelessness – uncharacteristic carelessness because Cruz usually (as Carlson said) chooses words very carefully. But everyone slips up some time. Can you imagine never being allowed to make an error? His explanation would have been stronger, however, if he had shown clips of himself in the past referring to other people who attacked police as “terrorists.”
@ Spartacus –
So glad to hear from you!
I was beginning to think they had stuffed you in the Gulag with the Trump Tourists.
From the American Thinker post, which was an excellent summary of the background and issues:
I suggest a simple new rule, Federal statute or Constitutional amendment: if any state or county stops counting, EVERYBODY stops counting.
Alternatively, counts go into authorized databases only (every state gets a copy but they are NOT available to any election official or presstitute in any capacity), and numbers are not released until everyone stops counting.
No fun for the networks, but I really don’t care about their ratings.
Cue Rhett Butler’s final line.
Directly relevant to this topic, on Monday (I think) Fox Business channel cited some new poll of over 2,000 people asking what the American people though had happened at the Capitol one year ago.
74% said a protest that got out of control.
OK, I noted it and ignored more source data: the people get it, not the propaganda claim.
I naively thought such sensible results would get around. Apparently, it hasn’t.
PS A real coup would witness the scale of violence going on in Kazakhstan right now.
Some 2500 Russian troops have been airlifted to quel the revolt.
SEE AL Jazeera. The internet’s been blocked, but cam footage shows serious widespread violence in Almaty, the Capitol city of 19 million.
Twitter sources (eg, Pablo Escobar) suspect MI6 instigated the “fuel hike protest.” Or else directed the subsequent revolt to distract Russia from Ukraine, given that the Autocrats in Authoritarian state are very friendly to both China and Russia.
The word is that the last President of Kazakhstan controls much of the wealth in this oil and uranium rich (41% of world market) nation.
So, I mark this claim as plausible, given the convenient timing with the Putin, Russian troops-West Ukraine standoff.
But the scale of violence, the multiple places of sudden arson, looting, and protests — the burning of Parliament, 19 police admitted killed and dozens of protesters admitted “neutralized” (ie, killed) — and the protest’s shift from fuel price hikes to outright rebellion in one day — is evidence that the decades of seeming stable “peace” in Kazakhstan masked a deep seated and widespread hostility to these authorities.
That is, political legitimacy there is seen as much much weaker than the manufactured one in the US.
At any rate, while the federal authority of the Xi-Den regime is doubted by a majority of Americans, the federalized system of the US means that state and local government retains greater (if far from universal) legitimacy. This meliorates the range of outrage that’s manifest. So far.
I wish this were not so. But it is.
For those not paying attention: This two to three minute NBC News video report gives us an excellent montage of the violence, the counter force, and the nationwide scale of the past three or four days in Kazakhstan.
https://youtu.be/_ru–iNroJQ
Obviously, keeping Americans ignorant is in the CommieCrats interest, a reflected by their Wholey Owned media vacuum on this story.
Hourly updates on Kazakhstan via Al Jazeera HERE:
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/1/7/more-killed-as-kazakh-leader-says-order-restored-live-updates
FROM three hours ago (and what CommieCrats say they want to do to us):
Al Jazeera’s Robin Forestier-Walker, reporting from Georgia, says Tokayev’s televised address was centred on “very aggressive … fighting talk”.
“There was very little in the way of sympathy for those who are protesting and demanding democratic reforms … and reforms to the country that will help them and ordinary people enjoy the benefits that they should be getting from Kazakhstan’s oil-rich economy,” said Forestier-Walker.
“He did say those … demands had been heard, but at the moment it sounds as if President Tokayev is determined to wipe out whatever opposition he now faces.”
CORRECTION at 7:24 post:
It ought to read ‘Pepe Escobar” NOT Pablo Escobar.
The events of Jan 6 are to the demonkrats what the Reichstag fire was to Hitler and the Nazis.
The Reichstag fire – probably a false flag operation conducted by the Nazis – was used by Hitler to suspend all individual rights and to tighten his control as Chancellor.
He had taken office, in free and open elections despite getting only about 38% of the popular vote, only 4 weeks earlier.
It really is no surprise that the democrats are using Covid and Jan 6 as a means to destroy all their opponents and limit/remove individual rights.
Then again, just like the Nazis and Bolsheviks, socialists do what socialists do.
It’s who they are.
Overreach is a Bitch. Eventually your enemies will push their luck too far. Everyone does given enough time.
Zaphod:
I’m reminded of this scene from “Limitless.” Eddie Mora is a loser writer who has tripled his IQ with an underground drug and made a killing in the stock market. He discusses his trades with a broker friend:
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Eddie Morra:
[at a party]… Well sure, you’d get a short-term spike, but wouldn’t that rapid expansion devalue the stock completely in two years?
Kevin Doyle:
No, ’cause there are safeguards!
Eddie Morra:
Against aggressive overexpansion? There aren’t because there are no safeguards in human nature. We’re wired to overreach.
Look at history, all the countries that have ever ruled the world – Portugal, with its big, massive navy… All they’ve got now are salt cods and cheap condoms. [crowd laughs] And Brits? Now they’re just sitting in their dank little island, fussing over their suits. No one’s stopping and thinking, ‘Hey, we’re doing pretty well. We got France, we got Poland, we got a big Swiss bank account… You know what? Let’s not invade Russia in the winter, let’s go home, let’s pop a beer and let’s live off the interest.’
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/1034307
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Fun movie. A bit ruined by a chase subplot, but an intriguing premise, reasonably carried out.
Have you had any success with nootropics?
As is often the case, perfect satire from Babylon Bee:
https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-seen-weeping-over-her-grave-on-january-6th
Here’s a fresh report on the poll I referred to above, posted at 6:54:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-buries-poll-results-showing-most-americans-of-both-parties-think-jan-6-was-a-protest-that-went-too-far
TJ: Almaty’s population is 2 million, not 19 million. The latter would be the population of the entire country. Given that the area is roughly 1/3 the size of the lower 48, that is sparsely populated indeed.
Neo: Teddy could have backed off and apologized for his comment but that wouldn’t be very politician-like, would it? Politicians gonna politic.
Marisa:
He did back off on Tucker Carlson’s last night. He added that the reason he used the word “terrorist” was that he was referring to the small segment who attacked police, and that for many years he has uniformly termed people who attack police (who are of course mostly on the left) as “terrorists.” He agreed that in this case, because of what the left is doing propaganda-wise, what he said was an error and just fed into their garbage.