"Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World."
This sounds like the rapist's pitch to female voters, which was essentially: "I will protect women whether they want it or not." Which sounds off w…
"Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World."
This sounds like the rapist's pitch to female voters, which was essentially: "I will protect women whether they want it or not." Which sounds off when coming from a rapist. I think Greenland is very aware this is the geopolitical analog of a rapist promising them protection, whether they want it or not.
"If American politics is ever to return to a condition of civic and political health, it will need to embrace an honest account of January 6th.
Which is why we need the release of the special counsel’s report."
Should we release the report? Yes. But expecting it to change anything is a bridge too far. The election is over, and this will change zero minds. Even if it did change any minds, it's too late. But it won't. Everyone is either dug into their interpretation of January 6 or just doesn't care, and a report four years after the events is not going to move the needle. If there is any impact, it will be to increase polarization, because one side knows what happened and is appalled, and the other side pretends it was something else and either ignores evidence to the contrary or uses that evidence to somehow blame the other side. Release it, but do so with zero expectations that it will break anyone out of their delusions or their indifference.
It is also the rapist’s unspoken promise that if you do not accept his proposal for your safety, he will make you pay for your insolence with some kind of violence.
I've got a copy of the Mueller report and have downloaded the Jan 6 subcommittee report. I'll do the same for Jack Smith's special reports if they become available. We need to save this history in widely distributed places because Trump will seek to obliterate them.
Trump wants what Putin (Ukraine) and Xi (Taiwan) have, but is a coward and wimp, so is going after two "easy" targets: Greenland and Panama. The EU would be seriously fucked if this went down, as would much of SE Asia.
Release the report for the sake of the written record alone. But there are also those who see themselves in the centre and can be persuaded by identifiable facts on the record of the day. Some still believe in primary source material as a plausible foundation for facts. Release the report into the world and see what happens.
I'm sure the indigenous population of Greenlanders will love how the US, especially magats, treat native peoples and their cultures. I'm sure they're all in for maga.
Fundamentally, the public obviously considered all of Trump's behaviors and the response to them by the "establishment" as a waste of their time. The "people" just want to be left alone to live their lives, which were tough in the wake of the pandemic. Most would rather politics didn't exist than engage with it. So the report, necessary to the historic record, will largely be ignored. As will Trump's obsessive attempt to discredit it, even if some honest folk are illegally imprisoned by that. Trump told them who he was over 50+ years. A minority like who he is, many of the rest just don't care. America gets what it has wrought. Politics as a rasslin' match.
Don, the Report needs to be released for the Historical Record, to show whatever is left of the US after his next tirade what really happened when an electoral college majority wanted to be blind because they did not look or chose not to look at what the fork they were doing.
Yes it should be released for the historical record, the SC regulations, and just the money and effort that went into it. There is a significant documentary trail of the events already though, with public hearings by the J6 Committee full of nicely produced visuals and shocking public testimony from Republicans in Trump’s own administration. The Smith Report would add somewhat to the current historical record, but I don’t foresee any bombshell revelations that go well beyond the J6 Committee.
Don, I get you, but not knowing who was interviewed under oath by the Special Counsel and his team, nor what they said, I am not willing to bet that no "bombshell revelations" will be forthcoming. Reinforcing that concern is the effort being made by the Old Convicted Felon to withhold it. Could be just his normal "not liking anything negative" getting into the mainstream, but, again, I'm not taking bets.
The Special Counsel report, and retention of the formality of receiving a criminal sentence, may be all the accountability our convicted felon ever gets, but it’ll go on his permanent record, a sizable asterisk in history books. That’s why he wants everything expunged and wiped away. The envelope of Mercian’s penalties may have no contents, but he still must receive the envelope.
That's the shame of it. I don't think the report will do much or say anything beyond the high level view. Unless there's the possibility of prosecuting in the future I would prefer we stop being nice and release a report with so much detail of the evidence that it will be insanely painful to Trump and those involved while redacting only the witnesses for safety (not that the new AG can't get the info anyway). Lay it out - this is EVERYTHING we had... all cards on the table. Then pardon Jack and his crew.
"Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World."
This sounds like the rapist's pitch to female voters, which was essentially: "I will protect women whether they want it or not." Which sounds off when coming from a rapist. I think Greenland is very aware this is the geopolitical analog of a rapist promising them protection, whether they want it or not.
"If American politics is ever to return to a condition of civic and political health, it will need to embrace an honest account of January 6th.
Which is why we need the release of the special counsel’s report."
Should we release the report? Yes. But expecting it to change anything is a bridge too far. The election is over, and this will change zero minds. Even if it did change any minds, it's too late. But it won't. Everyone is either dug into their interpretation of January 6 or just doesn't care, and a report four years after the events is not going to move the needle. If there is any impact, it will be to increase polarization, because one side knows what happened and is appalled, and the other side pretends it was something else and either ignores evidence to the contrary or uses that evidence to somehow blame the other side. Release it, but do so with zero expectations that it will break anyone out of their delusions or their indifference.
It is also the rapist’s unspoken promise that if you do not accept his proposal for your safety, he will make you pay for your insolence with some kind of violence.
I've got a copy of the Mueller report and have downloaded the Jan 6 subcommittee report. I'll do the same for Jack Smith's special reports if they become available. We need to save this history in widely distributed places because Trump will seek to obliterate them.
Trump wants what Putin (Ukraine) and Xi (Taiwan) have, but is a coward and wimp, so is going after two "easy" targets: Greenland and Panama. The EU would be seriously fucked if this went down, as would much of SE Asia.
We, the taxpayers, paid for it. Release it.
I pray the videos will be preserved in a safe place so they cannot be altered or destroyed.
Release the report for the sake of the written record alone. But there are also those who see themselves in the centre and can be persuaded by identifiable facts on the record of the day. Some still believe in primary source material as a plausible foundation for facts. Release the report into the world and see what happens.
I'm sure the indigenous population of Greenlanders will love how the US, especially magats, treat native peoples and their cultures. I'm sure they're all in for maga.
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Fundamentally, the public obviously considered all of Trump's behaviors and the response to them by the "establishment" as a waste of their time. The "people" just want to be left alone to live their lives, which were tough in the wake of the pandemic. Most would rather politics didn't exist than engage with it. So the report, necessary to the historic record, will largely be ignored. As will Trump's obsessive attempt to discredit it, even if some honest folk are illegally imprisoned by that. Trump told them who he was over 50+ years. A minority like who he is, many of the rest just don't care. America gets what it has wrought. Politics as a rasslin' match.
Don, the Report needs to be released for the Historical Record, to show whatever is left of the US after his next tirade what really happened when an electoral college majority wanted to be blind because they did not look or chose not to look at what the fork they were doing.
Yes it should be released for the historical record, the SC regulations, and just the money and effort that went into it. There is a significant documentary trail of the events already though, with public hearings by the J6 Committee full of nicely produced visuals and shocking public testimony from Republicans in Trump’s own administration. The Smith Report would add somewhat to the current historical record, but I don’t foresee any bombshell revelations that go well beyond the J6 Committee.
Don, I get you, but not knowing who was interviewed under oath by the Special Counsel and his team, nor what they said, I am not willing to bet that no "bombshell revelations" will be forthcoming. Reinforcing that concern is the effort being made by the Old Convicted Felon to withhold it. Could be just his normal "not liking anything negative" getting into the mainstream, but, again, I'm not taking bets.
The Special Counsel report, and retention of the formality of receiving a criminal sentence, may be all the accountability our convicted felon ever gets, but it’ll go on his permanent record, a sizable asterisk in history books. That’s why he wants everything expunged and wiped away. The envelope of Mercian’s penalties may have no contents, but he still must receive the envelope.
That's the shame of it. I don't think the report will do much or say anything beyond the high level view. Unless there's the possibility of prosecuting in the future I would prefer we stop being nice and release a report with so much detail of the evidence that it will be insanely painful to Trump and those involved while redacting only the witnesses for safety (not that the new AG can't get the info anyway). Lay it out - this is EVERYTHING we had... all cards on the table. Then pardon Jack and his crew.
An extremely good point.
Thanks. 🥂