op ed review 1/17
“I just don’t know why there aren’t more uprisings all over the country and maybe there will be.”
-Nancy Pelosi, urging insurrection against Trump, 6/14/18
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
House impeaches President Trump for a second time over riots at the US Capitol. An anonymous Republican strategist says “Mitch McConnell believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and considers the Democrats’ impeachment drive an opportunity to reduce the divisive, chaotic president’s hold on the GOP.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/13/house-impeaches-president-trump-for-a-second-time/
Ten Republicans betrayed the GOP to back the impeachment resolution, now facing heat from their local Republican parties for how they voted. Reps. Liz Cheney WY, Anthony Gonzalez OH, Jaime Herrera Beutler WA, John Katko NY, Adam Kinzinger IL, Peter Meijer MI, Dan Newhouse WA, Tom Rice SC, Fred Upton MI and David Valadao CA voted to impeach. Tucker Carlson says: “thank you for showing us you need a primary challenge.”
Alan Dershowitz: “In one day, (the House) violated six separate provisions of the Constitution.”
Poll: Republicans Side with President Trump over Mitch McConnell
Can’t make this up…Nancy Pelosi names Trump impeachment managers, including Eric Swalwell, who is accused of sleeping with a Chinese spy.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/12/nancy-pelosi-names-trump-impeachment-managers/
Trump Calls on Americans to Help Ensure Peaceful Transition: ‘NO Violence’ and ‘NO Lawbreaking’
Timing doesn’t line up for Trump to have incited violence.
Here comes the purge of conservatives. Facebook and Twitter ban President Trump.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-suspended-trumps-account-then-he-gained-almost-150000-likes
Facebook Is Purging Phrase ‘Stop The Steal’ From Platform
You’re next. Twitter Insider Records Twitter CEO Laying Out Roadmap for Future Political Censorship … ‘We Are Focused on One Account [President Trump] Right Now, But This is Going to be Much Bigger Than Just One Account’
“The public sector purge is beginning”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/the_public_sector_purge_is_beginning.html
Conservative social media site Parler shut down by Amazon Web Services, apps dumped by Apple and Google.
How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic
Trump and supporters likened to Nazis, Saddam's Ba'ath Party in cable-news demonization duel
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/14/trump-supporters-likened-to-nazis-saddams-baath-pa/
1984? AOC calls for the formation of a “Ministry of Truth”: “We need to 'figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-figure-out-way-rein-in-media
PBS Principal Counsel: We Need to Put Trump Supporters’ Children into Re-Education Camps
Marriot, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Commerce Bank suspend donations to lawmakers who objected to certifying Electoral College vote
Don Lemon Doubles Down; Says ALL Trump Supporters Are Complicit With The KKK.
Trump-supporting legal scholar resigns from university under duress, issues troubling statement.
Harvard students petition for Trump supporting graduates to lose degrees.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-students-petition-for-trump-allied-graduates-to-lose-degrees
CNN analyst says Trump is the 'leader of a terrorist organization'
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cnn-analyst-trump-leader-terrorist-organization
MSNBC: How Do We ‘Deprogram’ Millions of Racist, Violent Trump Supporters?
Roger Stone's Wife Hospitalized After Being Attacked By Leftist Goon While Walking Her Dog
Nancy Pelosi is now looking at the 14th Amendment as a way to expel Republican members of the House for supposedly taking part in an “insurrection.”
Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric
Conservative forum American Thinker, under threat of lawsuit, forced to issue statement apologizing to Dominion Voting Systems and declare that there is no evidence to support voter fraud. ?????
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/statement.html
Salesforce Clamps Down On RNC Email Campaign That “Falsely Claims Election Fraud”
Teacher Pays a Steep Price for Attending Trump Rally
Conservative commentator and former baseball star Curt Schilling says that AIG canceled his insurance policy over his “social media profile,” a new level of deplatforming not yet seen.
Tennessee Principal on Leave After Warning Kids about Twitter Censorship.
Tech, Telecom Ban Donations to GOP Who Objected to Biden Certification
600,000 Join Free Speech Platform Gab- In One Day!
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/600000-join-free-speech-platform-gab-in-one-day/
GAB CEO: “I had very close relationships with Facebook and Twitter…”I got to see the evils of their business model for many years”…”What we’re seeing in America right now is the rise of Communism”
Good idea. Florida to divest all state funds from Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google!
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ron-desantis-for-the-win/
Lindsey Graham slams Mitch McConnell for backing impeachment
Pollster Frank Luntz Looks Visibly Disturbed When His Focus Group Proves People Still LOVE Trump
NRA driven into bankruptcy in New York, says it will reincorporate in Texas.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/nra-files-for-bankruptcy-says-it-will-reincorporate-in-texas.html
Joe Biden says he will defeat the NRA while in office
https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-says-he-will-defeat-the-nra-while-in-office_3650623.html
Trump Declassifies 'Foot-High' Stack Of Russiagate, Obamagate Documents; Set For Release Within Days
Biden Vows to Destroy Small Businesses with $15 Per Hour Federal Minimum Wage
CNN Was In On It! Reporter Disguised Herself As Trump Supporter And Plotted With BLM Member to encourage riots.
“I Saw Provocateurs At The Capitol Riot On Jan. 6”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/14/i-saw-provocateurs-at-the-capitol-riot-on-jan-6/
Analysis concludes Antifa provoked shooting of Ashli Babbitt at Capitol
https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/analysis-concludes-antifa-provoked-shooting-ashli-babbitt-capitol/
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against Joe Biden on January 21 Over Abuse of Power
Rush Limbaugh turns 70 years old. ‘I wasn’t expected to make it to October’
TEXIT? Texas lawmakers consider Brexit-like move in wake of socialism trend.
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
A MAGA Bay of Pigs
Christopher Roach 1/14
The domestic spying, impeachment, and election irregularities of the Trump presidency matter because of what they tell us about the managerial system. All the public talk of democracy is for show; the whole point of the bureaucracy and the party system is to prevent any popular, democratic movement that would threaten the ruling class’ privileges. As President Trump put it, “They don’t hate you because they hate me. They hate me because they hate you.”
In this, he was correct. After the lockdowns and election issues of 2020, the MAGA movement is now a full-on “anti-regime” movement rather than a Trump-focused one. And the ruling class and its managerial enforcers are self-consciously hostile to large swaths of the American people.
The Trump presidency was a mixture of both good and bad. The economy roared, immigration went down, and he did not start any new foreign wars. He also fought to stop renewed coronavirus lockdowns. He deserves a lot of credit for all of this. But he was a flawed vessel of populist nationalism. He made a huge mistake by putting standard-issue Republicans, globalists, and wealthy corporate types into positions of power. Predictably, they undermined his administration from within. And, while his plain talk was refreshing, he was frequently “all talk,” as with his promises to label Antifa a terrorist organization or to put Hillary in jail. He promised a wall, and we do not have a wall. He also spent too much time listening to his daughter and son-in-law, who share neither the concerns nor the economic struggles of the American middle class.
Trump’s weaknesses as a strategist and manager were particularly evident after the election. The Navarro reports are damning, as they document numerous irregularities, rule-changes, and statistical improbabilities that cannot easily be refuted. But instead of organizing and staffing a legal team to address the steal as it began to unfold months before the election, he was caught flat-footed. He preferred to spend much of the last few months on fundraising based on false promises of some eleventh-hour victory or similar magical thinking.
The legal strategy was further marred by the presence of grifters like Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, who overpromised and under-delivered and then went bonkers. To those who would label my assessment defeatism, ask yourself this: “Doesn’t a winning strategy actually win?”
The Capitol protest of January 6 was the farcical end of the Trump presidency and election fight. While it was no insurrection or coup, it was more than a mere protest. It was a declaration of no confidence for the elected officials in both parties, whom Trump rightly labeled the Swamp. But winning takes more than a noble cause or aroused emotions: it takes an effective and realistic strategy. The Capitol protest will continue to do more harm than good, not least because it was tainted by violence. While Trump is not legally responsible for violence done by his supporters, his post-election rhetoric and calls for a march on the Capitol led his supporters into a trap. These people believed that somehow if they were numerous and energetic enough, their efforts and their presence would have to change the results. This is not how things work.
If Trump didn’t mean for there to be violence and confrontation, he should have directed his and his supporters’ energies into a more productive direction when his legal challenges failed. By January 6, there was no real way for him to accomplish anything without far more violence than he or the American people were prepared to accept, such as martial law or its equivalent. It’s telling that President Trump told his supporters on their way to the Capitol that “he’d march with them” and then just went home……
The attack on the Capitol…..has made the ruling class enraged and a little scared. They are now acting accordingly. Everyone involved will be prosecuted, and many will be charged with serious offenses that carry long prison sentences. Adjacent people and institutions will also feel the heat. Denying Biden’s electoral legitimacy will be deemed the equivalent of denying the Holocaust.
We have already seen the strength of this effort with the coordinated censorship of social media, the mass arrest of demonstrators, financial harassment of right-leaning organizations and figures, and the suddenly bellicose rhetoric of the Defense Department. The FBI hinted at the coming crackdown with the ludicrous suggestion that right-wing terrorism is a bigger threat than Antifa and BLM. This is like the Reichstag Fire for the Left.
In other words, the crackdown in response to the Capitol protest will far exceed the event’s magnitude. This is certainly not the worst violence our country has seen, nor is Trump alone in loose talk. Former President Obama bears a lot of responsibility for the BLM murders, including those of five Dallas police officers for his similarly incendiary rhetoric. Moreover, last summer, many prominent Democrats now calling mere trespassing an “insurrection” were encouraging violent action in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Selectively condemning violence because of the offenders’ political affiliation, along with the overwrought talk of a “coup” and pious incantations of how the protests defiled the sacred “House of the People,” is all a little too much to bear. The Capitol has long been a den of thieves, replete with sexual offenders, crooks, and sycophants for the oligarchic class. What happens there on an average week is a greater offense to the Constitution and principles of democracy than the January 6 protest.
Moreover, if the Capitol were so sacred, Jimmy Carter would not have pardoned the Puerto Rican terrorists who attacked the Capitol and shot five congressmen in 1954. Both sides have their crazies, but only Democrats turn theirs into law professors or feel the overwhelming obligation to pardon them for political violence.
Jumping in front of a speeding train doesn’t make you brave or committed. It does not help the cause. Effective activism encourages our side and discourages the other side. A half-hearted attack that gives an excuse for the security state to ramp up and be deployed against the Right is not a win. Contrast the Capitol protest with the large, peaceful protest by Virginia gun owners last summer; in its wake, even the Democratic governor and legislature failed in most of their outlandish gun control plans.
The Capitol protest will mean that the Democrats and the national security apparatus they control emerges more powerful and more encouraged than they were before, while the MAGA movement will be demoralized, deplatformed, defunded, and possibly disarmed. The only way forward now is also quite predictable: the ruling class will overplay its hand. Just as the Capitol protest eclipsed discussions of election fraud, the heavy-handed response will soon overshadow the protests themselves. The maudlin propaganda and repression efforts will encourage those on the fence to see themselves more and more as dissidents, without a means of redress within the system and with no incentive to preserve it.
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems. While the Capitol protest was a provocative gesture without any hope of success, the crackdown may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory . . . for the Left.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/14/a-maga-bay-of-pigs/
Greenfield: “If conservatives distributing information becomes as onerous as Chinese political dissidents bypassing the Great Firewall, what will be left of the conservative movement online? It will take more manufactured emergencies to unlock some of these options, but there should be little doubt that they will be. The Democrats and their media allies invented the threat of “disinformation” out of thin air and still can’t properly explain what it means. But they successfully used it to engage in a massive online purge of their political opponents. Direct deplatforming is only the crudest tool. Pressure campaigns have targeted advertising and payment options for conservative sites. Google, again, controls 37% of the digital ad market. Payment options at the top are controlled by the same old team of players. That’s what happened when the David Horowitz Freedom Center was cut off by Visa and Mastercard. The ‘killer app’ though won’t be direct internet censorship, but corporate cancel culture. Instead of Facebook deleting your post, you will be fired from your job for posting it. If you own a small business, larger suppliers and companies will no longer work with you. If you belong to a trade association, you’ll be ousted. If your business requires a license, you will lose it. This isn’t a paranoid fantasy. It’s happening right now. Cancel culture isn’t a new phenomenon, but this is the industrialization of cancel culture which takes it from an isolated phenomenon to a collective system of enforcement like China’s social credit score. This includes monitoring social media profiles and flagging employees, renters, or businesses with conservative views as a potential risk…….Facebook and Twitter censorship may be what conservatives see immediately, but the big picture is the erasure of conservatism as a movement from America.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/how-conservatives-get-erased-internet-daniel-greenfield/
Incompetence or a setup? “The Capitol Police have over 2,000 sworn officers…..The media claimed that the Capitol Police were overwhelmed by a massive riot. Except that the number of violent rioters was, at most, in the hundreds, while the Capitol Police could deploy a force the size that protects entire cities to protect a few buildings from hundreds of people. Media narratives have blamed President Trump….but the military should not have been needed to supplement a police force as big as those of Atlanta or Denver…..and really only had one simple job. And it catastrophically failed at that one job.”
China’s, Not Sweden’s Or Denmark’s, Is The Government Democrats Want
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
An Ascendant Left Silences and Excludes Its Enemies
https://www.theepochtimes.com/an-ascendant-left-silences-and-excludes-their-enemies_3653630.html
CNN’s Cuomo, Lemon argue “our riots were cooler than yours” and ‘justified’
The president of the Pasco Association of Educators (PAE) claims reopening schools for in-person learning is an example of “white supremacy,” and compares listening to concerned parents to following rioters breaking into the U.S. Capitol. He even says concern over student suicide is an example of “white privilege.”
Biden Pick For Civil Rights Chief Promoted Racism and Anti-Semitism at Harvard
Virginia Plans For All Public Schools To Allow Boys In Girls' Bathrooms
Chamber of Commerce Delighted to Work with Joe Biden on Expanding Immigration
Former RINO Republican Sen. Bob Corker: “Never allow someone like Trump' again”
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ELECTION
Trump Team's Peter Navarro Drops Third Major Report on Historic Election Fraud -- Confirms "Trump Won"
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COVID
“The People’s Republic of China may have (used) not nuclear, but biological weapons, to secure a strategic victory while avoiding any retaliation for its biowarfare attack. Instead of escalating military tensions, the PRC made itself economically indispensable to America’s elites allowing it to carry out an attack under the cover of plausible deniability. The purpose of the first biowarfare strike wasn’t mass death…..Communist China’s goal is economic supremacy. Its biological attack wasn’t aimed exclusively at America, but at the high-functioning economies in open societies who are its customers and enemies. And the attack succeeded in crippling the world’s top two economies while making them more dependent on China’s economic machine….”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/chinas-coronavirus-cold-war-daniel-greenfield/
Experts Warn Lockdown Is Creating ‘Unprecedented’ Mental Health Crisis
https://summit.news/2021/01/13/experts-warn-lockdown-is-creating-unprecedented-mental-health-crisis/
Goya Foods CEO: The Left ‘Weaponized’ Pandemic To ‘Shutdown Economy’ For ‘Political Gain’
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ARTICLES
Widburg: In 2020, Democrat riots caused billions of dollars in property damage, destroyed historic sites, and assaulted and murdered dozens of people. Meanwhile, on January 6, President Trump asked patriots to walk peacefully to the Capitol to cheer politicians who, copying Democrats, objected to Electoral College votes. Some hotheads (encouraged by Antifa plants?) entered the Capitol, as Democrat protesters have done many times before. This time, though, Democrats demanded that Trump leave office immediately under the 25th Amendment or be impeached and that all Trump-supporting politicians across America be expelled from office.
Democrats Launch Their Assault on Red State America
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/01/12/democrats-launch-their-assault-on-red-state-america/
“It is Republicans who romanticize democracy, not Democrats. Democrats romanticize outnumbering, overwhelming, and overtaking their opposition; their modus operandi isn't very different from that of Islamic supremacists or the Chinese. Republicans have to work much more to drive voter turnout than do Democrats. This is because too many Republicans live in a world created by George Will, Willard Romney, and William Kristol, where democracy is an endeavor of Arthurian nobility, in which the finest traits of man manifest for all the world to see. Democrats? Nah, they don't bother with any of that drivel — outnumber, overwhelm, and overtake….We lost Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin by a combined 43,000 votes. A total of 4.3 million registered voters in these states stayed home on Election Day, and I promise you the majority weren't Democrats. Furthermore, the Libertarian candidate received more votes in each state than was each's margin of victory for Biden. Libertarians are romanticizers of democracy as well.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/will_america_survive_her_attempted_suicide.html
Thomas Sowell: “It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong -- when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year. For too many people, especially in the media, what is right and wrong, true or false, depends on who it helps or hurts politically. Too many media people who are supposed to be reporters act as if they are combatants in political wars.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2021/01/12/is-truth-irrelevant-n2582977
Dennis Prager: In my last column, I described how I have come to better understand the moral problem of the "'good German,' the term used to describe the average, presumably decent German, who did nothing to hurt Jews but also did nothing to help them and did nothing to undermine the Nazi regime." Watching America accept the rationally and morally indefensible physical and economic lockdown of the country, I concluded: "Apathy in the face of tyranny turns out not to be a German or Russian characteristic. I just never thought it could happen in America." In one week, it has gotten worse. Now we are faced with a lockdown on speech the likes of which have never been seen in America. And the parallels with Germany are even more stark. The left-wing party (the Democrats) and the left-wing media (the "mainstream media") are using the mob invasion of the Capitol exactly the way the Nazis used the Reichstag fire.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2021/01/12/the-good-american-n2582982
A First-Hand Account of The Trump Election Protest: The true story is getting lost in the propaganda.
https://spectator.org/first-hand-account-trump-riots/
Here’s another: “Covert Cadre: What I saw leading up to the US Capitol attack…..The deadly riot at the US Capitol bore the markings of an organized operation planned well in advance of the January 6 joint session of Congress.”
Here's the List of Powerful Companies Cutting Off Trump and His Supporters After Capitol Siege.
VDH: Assault on the Capitol Has Let Loose the Electronic Octopus
“Are the end times near?” Review of books predicting the fall of western civilization.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/are_the_end_times_near_.html
Cops, Kids, Reporters & Activists Were Murdered As Democrats Incited 2020 Riots... Now They've Accused Trump of Their Tactics.
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SATIRE
Trump uses Dominion machines to count crowd size: 9 billion in attendance.
https://genesiustimes.com/trump-uses-dominion-machines-to-count-crowd-size-9-billion-in-attendance/
Congress Upset, As They're The Only Criminals Allowed In The Capitol
https://babylonbee.com/news/congress-upset-as-theyre-the-only-criminals-allowed-in-the-capitol
Peaceful protests: "Breaking into private property to voice your opinion while harassing those inside and causing damage", synonym: warm expression of one's feelings, people doing what people do (cfr Pelosi, 2020).
Domestic terrorism: "Breaking into wherever politicans work to voice your opinion while harassing those inside and causing damage"; synonym: Coup attempt, right wing violence.
Please forward to the comrades at CNN.
https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/check-yourself-peaceful-or-not-peaceful-t22133.html
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