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Jan6 - the ANNIVERSARY of the BIG INSURRECTION....

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  • #16
    I heard batty Nancy Pelosi was kneeling in front of a trashcan that day yelling "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi! You're our only hope"
    That's what
    - She

    Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
    - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

    I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
    - Stephen R. Donaldson

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    • #17
      I still believe a lot of the hyperbole of this event is that the elites in Congress were rattled by riff raff. "How dare these filthy cretins come into our offices and soil our lovely carpets! It is disgusting! Not to mention ... Orange Man Bad!"

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post

        Well, don't watch them even harder!
        I'll not watch them more than you will!

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        • #19
          Yeah, I started a thread on this yesterday --- Joe is making a LONG angry emotional OMB speech for the express purpose of passing their "We want to control all voting in the US" legislation.

          What an angry old fool --- who lied about being the "uniter".

          And, once again, he wanders off after his angry speech, forgetting to put his mask back on.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Ronson View Post
            I still believe a lot of the hyperbole of this event is that the elites in Congress were rattled by riff raff. "How dare these filthy cretins come into our offices and soil our lovely carpets! It is disgusting! Not to mention ... Orange Man Bad!"
            Reminiscent of the late and unlamented Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid's, complaint about smelly tourists visiting the capitol building and could also explain Pelosi's hysteria ("the filthy butt of some peon sat in MY chair!").

            I'm always still in trouble again

            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
              Yeah, I started a thread on this yesterday --- Joe is making a LONG angry emotional OMB speech for the express purpose of passing their "We want to control all voting in the US" legislation.

              What an angry old fool --- who lied about being the "uniter".

              And, once again, he wanders off after his angry speech, forgetting to put his mask back on.
              I was gonna post the OP yesterday but wanted to wait for the actual anniversary (today) to do so.

              I'm always still in trouble again

              "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
              "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
              "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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              • #22
                Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                Reminiscent of the late and unlamented Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid's, complaint about smelly tourists visiting the capitol building
                I don't recall that one, but it sure sounds right.

                and could also explain Pelosi's hysteria ("the filthy butt of some peon sat in MY chair!").
                This is the best thing to come out of that Jan 6 hullabaloo; Pelosi had her chamber soiled. I loved seeing Bubba with his big, dirty boots on her desk. Reminds me a bit of history ...

                https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...he-white-house

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                  I was gonna post the OP yesterday but wanted to wait for the actual anniversary (today) to do so.
                  I was predictive, not reactive!

                  Anyway, yeah - it's all a big show to try to sell their "we control who votes" legislation.
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #24
                    Hi. I just rejoined after a long absence, so forgive me if I ask too simple questions in an attempt to catch up.

                    Please choose one from the following list. Politically, you guys are ...

                    1. Conservative.
                    2. Very conservative.
                    3. Way out there on the right-wing scale.
                    4.So far out to the right that the James Webb space telescope can only just see you.

                    Thanks for your participation.



                    (Kidding. Well, somewhat.)

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                    • #25
                      The Congressional investigation into the riot on January 6 has been exposed as a joke. In spite of finding nothing (even when Adam Schiff got caught again tampering with evidence in an attempt to change that) they talk about continuing on through next summer.

                      Source: The Real Insurrection: The BLM Riots


                      The corrupt January 6 Committee ignores it.

                      Riots? What riots? Insurrection in American cities in 2020? Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

                      Thus it is with the Stalinesque show trial that is the January 6 Committee. As my colleague Melissa Mackenzie illustrated yesterday, “the Democrats are running their committee like a criminal trial.” It is indeed blatantly unconstitutional and no one is attempting to stop them. Why?

                      What is particularly telling about the hysteria over January 6 is that infinitely worse riots took place across America in 2020 — a series of genuine and decidedly violent insurrections in the name of Black Lives Matter — and there is nary an investigation in sight.

                      So as January 6 of 2022 is upon us, let’s do a little compare and contrast as the hysteria about January 6, 2021, is whipped up in the liberal media.

                      There were five deaths in the Capitol riot. One, Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed woman, was shot to death by a Capitol police officer. The other four deaths included three who died of natural causes and one from a drug overdose. One of the fatalities, whose death was ruled as from natural causes, was a Capitol Hill police officer. Altogether there were 138 police officers injured, 73 of them from the Capitol Hill Police and 65 from Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police.

                      According to the Major Cities Chiefs Association, 574 riots took place across America between May 25 and July 31 of 2020 after the death of George Floyd. The report states that “more than 2,000 officers sustained injuries in the line of duty.” Say again, not 138 injured police officers but more than 2,000 police officers were injured — and not a blink from the January 6 Committee.

                      The MCCA also reported this, bold print for emphasis supplied:

                      In cities where violence did occur, assaults on police officers, looting, and arson were the most common criminal activities. Approximately, 72% of major city law enforcement agencies had officers harmed during the protests. This included nearly every agency that experienced at least one violent protest. In total, over the course of the civil unrest from May to July, more than 2,000 officers sustained injuries in the line of duty. One agency reported 50 officers being injured in a single week of protests. Another agency reported that 462 of their officers were injured during the protests in their jurisdiction.

                      Looting was also a common occurrence (2,385 instances), with 62% of major city law enforcement agencies indicating that at least one incident of looting occurred in their cities. This activity was primarily clustered during the first few days of protests. Of note, several agencies reported that in some instances, the looting appeared to be coordinated and organized. For example, some cities encountered ‘looting caravans’ that moved throughout different neighborhoods. One agency reported 115 commercial burglaries occurred in just one day. Two other agencies reported $927,000 worth of damage as a result of looting in each of their jurisdictions, and another agency reported a single looting event at a shopping mall that resulted in over $70 million in damage.


                      And speaking of damages done financially in these insurrections? Here’s the headline for those 2020 BLM riots per Axios: “Exclusive: $1 billion-plus riot damage is most expensive in insurance history.”

                      Suffice it to say this astronomical cost far exceeds the estimated $1.5 million of damage done in the Capitol riot.

                      No one is defending the Capitol riot. Period. Those who are alleged to have participated have been arrested and charged. But the double standard for those who participated in the 2020 riots boggles the mind. Here’s a headline from the New York Post: “Charges against hundreds of NYC rioters, looters have been dropped.” The story reported this:

                      Hundreds of alleged looters and rioters busted last year in protests over George Floyd’s murder by police have had their charges dropped, according to NYPD data — figures ripped as “disgusting” by a local business owner.

                      In The Bronx — which saw fires in the street and mass looting in June 2020more than 60 percent of arrestees have had charges dropped, according to the investigation by NBC New York.

                      Seventy-three of the 118 people arrested in the borough had their cases shelved altogether, another 19 were convicted on lesser counts like trespassing, which carries no jail time, the report said.


                      In St. Louis, KSDK TV reported this:

                      Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt says St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has not charged any of the people that St. Louis police officers have arrested during recent violent protests and, as a result, they’ve all been released.

                      To see that kind of level of violence and rioting that went on, police officers being shot and shot at, a retired police captain being murdered, people throwing rocks and gasoline and frozen water bottles at police officers, firefighters being assaulted and blocked from doing their job, businesses that have served the community for years being burned to the ground, it’s unfathomable that every single person arrested that night has been released.


                      Then there was this news out of Portland, Oregon per the New York Post: “Most charges against Portland protesters won’t be prosecuted, DA says.”

                      Reported the Post:

                      Hundreds of Portland, Oregon, protesters arrested during two months of clashes with law enforcement won’t be prosecuted, the city’s district attorney announced.

                      Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt unveiled the policy change Tuesday regarding hundreds of the 550 protest-related arrests since late May.

                      Under the new policy, Schmidt’s office will ‘presumptively decline’ to prosecute cases that don’t fit his criteria, including interfering with a peace, parole or probation officer; second-degree disorderly conduct; first- or second-degree criminal trespass; third-degree escape and harassment. Rioting charges will also not be prosecuted unless accompanied by another crime not included in the list, Schmidt said.


                      On and on and on go the stories like these. And not a peep from the January 6 Committee, including Republican members Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger. Say again, not a peep.

                      Why aren’t Cheney and Kinzinger out front demanding the January 6 Committee investigate this massive 2020 insurrection? Here is the definition from the Merriam-Webster dictionary of insurrection: “An act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.”

                      What was taking place in all those American cities in 2020 was exactly a revolt against the civil authority in those cities.

                      What is taking place in Washington with the January 6 Committee is a sham, and as mentioned, a Stalinesque show trial. The obvious point of the committee is to smear former President Donald Trump. The Trump-hating Cheney has said that the former president was “clearly unfit for future office” and “can never be anywhere near the Oval Office ever again.” News flash? That is a decision to be made by the American people in a free — and fair — election.

                      In fact, based on their own performance, it is Cheney and Kinzinger who are “clearly unfit for future office” and should never be anywhere near public office again.

                      The political seers are predicting a Red Wave in November. If that comes to pass and Republicans take back the House, the very first thing on the agenda should be an investigation of the January 6 Committee, its members, and staff. Not to mention that an investigation into the massive violence that swept through American cities in 2020 should be opened pronto.

                      Much hysteria is about to roll out as January 6 of 2022 dawns. All of it is a reminder that the January 6 Committee is really a corrupt and massive abuse of power, unconstitutional from start to its estimated summer-before-the-elections finish.

                      And if Republicans are on the ball, they will use the Committee and both its operation and report as a central reason why the Pelosi-run committee and the Pelosi-run House should be dismissed in November.

                      Post-haste.



                      Source

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                      Meanwhile, over on CNN Jeffrey I-swear-I'm-not-playing-with-myself Toobin, criticized Attorney General Merrick Garland's statement that he will prosecute political violence no matter what political party is involved. Toobin proclaimed that "in this effort to seem bipartisan he engaged in some bogus both sider-ism."


                      I'm always still in trouble again

                      "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                      "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                      "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Alien View Post
                        Hi. I just rejoined after a long absence, so forgive me if I ask too simple questions in an attempt to catch up.

                        Please choose one from the following list. Politically, you guys are ...

                        1. Conservative.
                        2. Very conservative.
                        3. Way out there on the right-wing scale.
                        4.So far out to the right that the James Webb space telescope can only just see you.

                        Thanks for your participation.



                        (Kidding. Well, somewhat.)
                        I'm conservative. An Independent, not a Republican, though I would align more with the Republican Party for sure.

                        I think the Democrats are really going off the rails from their "God and Country" past.

                        They do their best to ignore God except when they can use him (like Joe just did) to try to shame people into voting for their "we control voting" legislation.
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Alien View Post
                          Hi. I just rejoined after a long absence, so forgive me if I ask too simple questions in an attempt to catch up.

                          Please choose one from the following list. Politically, you guys are ...

                          1. Conservative.
                          2. Very conservative.
                          3. Way out there on the right-wing scale.
                          4.So far out to the right that the James Webb space telescope can only just see you.

                          Thanks for your participation.



                          (Kidding. Well, somewhat.)
                          I'm a small L libertarian who votes for both Democrats and Republicans (I voted for several Democrats in local elections in 2020), except in presidential elections where I tend to vote third party.

                          I'm always still in trouble again

                          "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                          "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                          "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                          • #28

                            I'm always still in trouble again

                            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Ronson View Post

                              I'll not watch them more than you will!
                              Harrumph. I'm gonna turn them on just so I can turn them off, unplug the set and then go into another room.

                              I'm always still in trouble again

                              "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                              "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                              "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                              • #30
                                "I am so disappointed in Trump for canceling his January 6th press conference... It just shows how far we have fallen. Where is our rally tomorrow? There should be a hundred thousand people in D.C. tomorrow at the very minimum… I am so disappointed with Trump and the American people at large that just do not get behind the January 6 political prisoners. President Trump, where are you? You better do a press conference, man. We are rotting in jail because we stood up for what you told us to stand up for!” - Edward Jacob Lang during a January 5, 2022 phone interview

                                Lang was arrested and jailed on January 16, 2021. He remains in jail, while he awaits trial on the charge of attacking a police officer with a baseball bat.
                                "My favorite color in the alphabet is three." - Donald J. Trump
                                "The 'J' in my middle name stands for 'Jenius'" - Donald J. Trump

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