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.

Neo: Teddy could have backed off and apologized for his comment but that wouldn’t be very politician-like, would it? Politicians gonna politic.

https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-seen-weeping-over-her-grave-on-january-6th

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?

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?

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.

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.”

Obviously, keeping Americans ignorant is in the CommieCrats interest, a reflected by their Wholey Owned media vacuum on this story.

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.