It’s been five years since J6
Time flies; things change.
There’s still plenty that we don’t know about J6. One thing we do know is that the Democrats made sure their narrative of the day got cemented in people’s minds very early.
Here’s Victor Davis Hanson with a few remarks on J6, in a video I think was made fairly recently but before his surgery (hat tip: commenter “huxley”):
…a video I think was made fairly recently but before his surgery…
neo:
I think that’s a good bet since the video is based on a date and VDH could well have put it together beforehand and had it cued up for the anniversary.
It was a total Democratic Party-run op.
The Democrats have shown they will stop at absolutely nothing to destroy their political opponents and perceived enemies.
And they continue to show this (just to remind us, I guess).
Unfortunately, they have adopted the position that the country—and anything decent, honest and healthy—is their enemy.
Which leaves one where, exactly…?
The Borg creature of which the Democratic Party is the electoral vehicle lies. All the time and about everything.
I keep wondering if there are any Democrats who look at all this and either speak out against it, or at the very least stop working to elect Democrat candidates. Do any of them think this is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created this form of government? We’ve all heard it said that “politics ain’t beanbag,” but this is truly corrupt politics. I know they hate him, but do you destroy our electoral integrity to keep him out of power? I am stunned that no Democrat stands up and say’s “that’s enough.”
@Barry Meislin:It was a total Democratic Party-run op.
Lindsey Graham isn’t a Democrat. Not yet anyway.
He went on to accuse the Biden Administration of illegitimately exploiting the event, but he seems to have believed it was what they said it was. We don’t get to blame this one on Democrats, plenty of Republicans piled on.
We are surprised at the lying, corrupt evil of the Democratic party’s leadership? NO.
They have followed Antonio Gramsci, a founder of the 1920s Italian communist party, who advocated peaceful seizure by leftists of education, entertainment, and the media. Mussolini had him shot, but he lives on, beyond the grave.
All praise to VDH, the oracle of our times.
Can’t have memory of J6 without this:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/developing-lt-michael-byrd-who-shot-ashli-babbitt/
@cb:Can’t have memory of J6 without this
Already debunked. Jim Hoft is an idiot and you shouldn’t help him spread misinformation.
Hoft has been stealth-editing the headline too, it originally said Byrd “pocketed” $190 M but now says the daycare is “tied” to $190 M.
This kind of thing is why I keep saying, everybody has to check everything they read because even people who we think are on our side can be dishonest.
It’s a good policy to never rely on Gateway Pundit.
Art Deco,
Yeah, in the last 20 years or so, the Ds certainly resemble the Borg. The leftist people i know certainly act like drones following the queen. They just repeat all the left mantras from the D leadership and MSM without an original thought in their head.
So, um, yer sayin’ that Lindsey Graham helped plan it?
Set it up?
Intentionally covered it up?
Ran non-stop interference for it?
Or are ye’ sayin’ that he was duped (like a great many others)?
Help me out here….
TIA
Related:
“BREAKING: The White House has published a page revealing the full TRUE story of January 6 — before, during, and after.”—
https://instapundit.com/767461/
I would say lindsay is an easy mark, some like ted cruz, eventually came around,
lindsay enable the so called Arab Spring, which led to the debacle about Benghazi, he and McCain, Goose and Maverick you might say, his enthusiasm get the best of him, and they are usually expensive to the public treasury,
the Arab Spring, was a maskirovna, that toppled allies of the US, like Mubarak’s Egypt and Qadaffi’s Libya, one might say, allies of convenience in some regards,
@Barry Meislin:ye’ sayin’ that he was duped
If Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, just to name three from the top of my head, have repudiated their earlier remarks on what J6 was and what legal consequences should happen to those who participated, I haven’t yet seen it.
Like I said above, plenty of Republicans piled on to the J6 narrative. I’m not counting the never-Trump ones, of course.
Cruz:
Rubio:
If they were fooled, ask them how it happened and what opened their eyes. I’m pretty sure they were all at the Capitol that day.
At this point, getting any clarity about who did what when, died with the J6 Commission and the pre-emptive pardons by the AUTOPEN.
Democrats are the more sophisticated party of spin and subterfuge, while Republicans still think they are attending the College Debate society of 1955.
Link to the White House J6 page mentioned above:
“January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
A note about the video: some time ago I called into question a purported video by Hanson, that was revealed in the “more” section to be an AI-generated “report in the style of…not intended to imply it was really…” — a bare-faced lie of course.
The tip-off to me was that, although the face on the screen was clearly Hanson, and he was saying things not out of the way for Hanson’s known beliefs, he just didn’t sound right.
The video Neo linked is a good “benchmark” to use against any other suspicious videos.
If you are seeing other well known people in videos that seem “off,” look for a couple of things: (1) the link is NOT from that person’s known channel; (2) the “more” details reveal the scam (which is is; they know most people don’t check; (3) have a known legitimate video to compare to.
/end PSA
@ Barry in re your Instapundit link: scroll through the comments for some great memes and cartoons, as well as a screencap of the post on 2021-01-07 by David Bernstein.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fbc04c2c4ce8d984009a3ccec574d15d19c856da6837d07ba0c085c1a2c78b16.png
Graham, Cruz, and Rubio were in good company.
All of them rushed to comment without remembering the 72-hour rule on controversial news, and that anything about Trump published by the Regime Media is a lie.
They all should have known better.
You all should watch the candlelight vigil by Congressional Ds from last night….available many places. Truly cringe and shows how unserious they are. When I first saw it, I laughed out loud.
Niketas:
Here’s what Rubio said about it in 2022, pushing back against the “insurrection” narrative. And he called the J6 committee a “complete partisan scam,” among other things.
In 1/22, a year after the attack, Cruz took back his earlier statements:
As for Graham, as far as I can see he never took it back.
Related (from the horse’s mouth):
“Jack Smith reveals Jan. 6 committee charade”—
https://jewishworldreview.com/0126/york010726.php
H/T Powerline blog.
Reveals under oath, that is…(but characteristically weaselly—IOW dishonest—at that…)
@neo: To me it looks like both Cruz and Rubio are not really “taking back” anything, and are applying their words retrospectively for the people at the Capitol on J6 who were in their judgement genuinely violent. I have no idea what either of them think the proportion of peaceful to violent protest was or if their views on that have changed.
Note Cruz’s words “I was talking about people who commit violence against cops”, implying he thinks some people were doing that. In what you call Rubio’s “pushback” he says it was “It was a riot. It was a dangerous riot. It was a violent one. It should have never happened and it should never happen again.” He was also saying that it just didn’t rise to “insurrection”, contra Mitch McConnell, another Republican who piled on at the time: “It was a violent insurrection with the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election.”
Both have consistently been against the politicized investigation of J6, but both also appear to be consistently of the opinion that there really was a violent riot at the Capitol that day.
And of course the reality is there is a huge middle ground between “everyone there was trying to overthrow the government” and “nobody there did anything wrong”, with everyone drawing the “truth”/”lie” distinction in a different place. I think it would be hard to show that there was no violence from the protesters whatever, but I do think the “insurrection” narrative is an exaggeration.
Good that Rubio and Cruz moderated their views in some way in at least somewhat for at least some of the people in J6.
How does an ‘insurrection’ proceed without weapons?
Has anything ever come out of the (I believe) Revolver video(s) showing some folks removing fencing and the “restricted area” signage, or related barriers, in front of the Capitol entry prior to the arrival of the main group from the Trump speech at the Ellipse?
Or anything about the guy with the megaphone at the top of the scaffold urging people to enter the Capitol Bldg?
Presumably if there had been a properly organized protest, and assembly to present grievances to the government, some form of chanting like “Pause the certification” or whatever would have been heard. The legislators would have clearly heard just how dissatisfied a large group of their constituents were about the questionable elements of the election proper, and the failings of the judicial system to respond to suits as well. The case before SCOTUS by the group of state AG’s questioning the validity of the PA elections comes to mind.