So. On that piece about what didn't happen. We're really just absolving all the supposed R's that care about democracy, are we? There's been a lot of talk about Manchin, but as I recall, ZERO republicans supported his voting rights bill. Not Romney, not Murkowski, not Blunt, not Portman, not Toomey, not Shelby, not Burr. In case you're curious, the last five of those are retiring. In the house, neither Kissinger or Cheney support voting rights legislation, and actively voted to shut down the government during this pandemic we're in.
At some point, we need to call a spade a spade. Either there are no good republicans, or the standard of 'good' is so meaningless as to be useless. Because all the people we're told are 'good' are entirely geared towards supporting Trumpism. They might not publicly speak the hymns, but they vote accordingly. And what one does is always more important than what one says.
There's a lot of recriminations that the left would go after Manchin, a man who spends his time creating bills that will die, supporting measures that would put more of his constituents into poverty, and generally being a pain in everyone's rear. But he's got no answers for what he intends to actually do now. He made a bill that was meant to get GOP support, and not even Murkowski, who CO SPONSORED THE BILL, voted for it. Which means that any GOP officeholders are not willing to walk the walk when it comes to actually fighting Trumpism.
This, to me, seems apt. After all, this is how the conservative movement has always operated. It prizes 'respectability' over actually doing the right thing, which is how we get praise for Buckley, a man who said segregation was good and civil rights were bad, and how we get praise for Goldwater, a man who wanted to nuke Russia, and who was later seen as not conservative enough.
If we truly believe that democracy is in peril, then we should be raking people like Romney over the coals. We should be putting Blunt and Toomey's feet to the fire and asking 'what are you doing to save your own party?' If the answer is 'nothing' then they're no better than Trumpists like Hawley and Cruz.
I can’t bring myself to watch Fox “News”, so thanks for bring me this latest chapter in the self-abasement of Sen. Cruz. Can he really be so delusional to think that the MAGA world so enamored of strength would remotely consider his sniveling self to be Presidential material?
In the annals of the English language no one has personified the word "oleaginous" better than Ted Cruz. Nothing describes that unctuous Texan pol's character better unless it is the word "pusillanimous" -- can we still say pussy? -- after his groveling performance before Fox bad boy Tucker Carlson. Egad!
It has been obvious for years that the only person that Rafael Cruz represents is Rafael Cruz. He will do and say whatever he thinks is necessary to serve Rafael Cruz's ambition... including pretending that he isn't named Rafael. He is a man of absolutely zero principle. I do not understand how any self-respecting Texan could possibly vote for such a lick-spittle butt kisser. I thought Texan's had a tad more self-respect.
Hold up. Tucker called himself a reporter here!! So is it possible to can his ridiculous legal defenses about merely being a opinion host? Let the defamation suits resume, please.
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The interesting part of the story for a Republican Senator like Cruz is how he would have to put on an Oscar-winning crying performance like Adam Kinzinger before he got any positive press from the left media. So then, why fall for their absurd breathless hyperbole and lies about Jan 6?
The Democrat party, once the home of the American working class, is now committed to claiming all American working class Trump supporters as Nazis for their failure to capitulate to the Global New World Order Great Reset project. That is their well coordinated, Billionaire Boys Club-funded, dishonest corporate media-powered political propaganda strategy... generate copious negative character branding about Trump and his supporters leading up to the mid-terms. Because the American voters are clearly not buying the Democrat political platform dog food... they are abandoning Old Joe like the wealthy leaving the Titanic before it sunk.
Cruz, and any Republican that gives the smallest of indication that Jan-6 was anything more than a largely peaceful protest where a small contingent of protestors were whipped up into a frenzy in encouraged aggression by several still anonymous people within the crowd who somehow have not been arrested yet but seem to have connections with the FBI, and then who went through not very strongly capitol police defended barriers to occupy the Capitol... are only hurting: themselves, the Republicans and the Democrats who continue to think that this cult of anti-Trump supporters and anti-American working class is going to help the party. It is not going to do any of those things.
It was not an insurrection. It was not terrorism. It is not a 9-11 or D-Day. Those are absurd hyperbolic intellectually dishonest accusations. Cruz and all Republicans need to be on the opposite side of anything the Democrats claim about Jan-6 other than there are a few people that committed trespassing and assaults on law enforcement, and they should be arrested and prosecuted for those crimes. Nancy's partisan Commission is just political theater as was her putting fencing and military personnel around the capitol. All of this is just political media theater at this time, and Cruz should have recognized it and stayed completely out of the dishonest script.
"The Democrat party, once the home of the American working class, is now committed to claiming all American working class Trump supporters as Nazis for their failure to capitulate to the Global New World Order Great Reset project. "
This is simply made up, there is no New World Order or Great Reset. Also, Democratic voters have slightly lower incomes than Republican voters so you might consider refining your definition of the working class.
"That is their well coordinated, Billionaire Boys Club-funded, dishonest corporate media-powered political propaganda strategy... generate copious negative character branding about Trump and his supporters leading up to the mid-terms."
Donald Trump is quite literally our first and only billionaire President. His biggest donor was billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who ran one of the world's largest casinos. If you watch Fox News, you are watching the largest and most profitable corporate media in world history.
Donald Trump doesn't need a conspiracy to wreck his character. He's been doing that since his first divorce, if not before.
But to your point yes, the Democratic Party also has billionaire donors, and favorable corporate news channels. This is one of the few ways the parties are similar, and it's a consequence of having a loosely-regulated capitalist market economy.
"Cruz, and any Republican that gives the smallest of indication that Jan-6 was anything more than a largely peaceful protest where a small contingent of protestors were whipped up into a frenzy in encouraged aggression by several still anonymous people within the crowd [etc.]"
This is actually what Cruz's statement says, but you are still mad about it. I too look forward to the arrest of these people, though if they are, I suspect they will have memberships in the Proud Boys, and the Oathkeepers, and the like.
You say this wasn't insurrection or terrorism? Here are the dictionary definitions:
insurrection
: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government
terrorism
: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
Violently assaulting a national capital, its police officers, and attempting to kill politicians sure seems to fit both definitions to me.
Huh? No, society will improve when we shrink government, reduce the volume and scope of small business killing regulations, change the tax code to enhance investment in job-producing production instead of passive selfish returns, stop exporting our jobs and industries, stop China from stealing all of our IP, get people back to work, reform the education system to develop economically self-sufficient adults instead of programmed clones of the woke sickness and Marxism. And provide tax and other incentives to spur job-producing investment in territories with low economic circumstances.
It all starts with a commitment to shrink government as big government colludes with big business to prevent all these other things, because they are the threat to big business. And we also should consider breaking up some of the larger corporations that are clearly into monopoly territory.
See, the thing is most of what you posted is respectable politics - just stuff I disagree with. Expect for the Marxist and woke sickness stuff, which again, is simply made up.
But none of that has to do with January 6th, an insurrection, or a committee. So maybe lead with this if you don't want people to roll their eyes at you.
Nor do it have to do with whatever you're trying to argue the Great Reset is.
Sorry, I'm doing a plain read of the article and not a conspiracist-read of the article. I just see a bunch of large organizations trying to create wealthy sustainable economies.
So you think there is nothing political behind the Democrat and media attention to the Jan 6 protests?
There are about 80 billionaires in the world. All but one is male. Most are white males. The have their personal assets managed by Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and several of the big banks. These trillion dollar asset management investment businesses own the controlling interest in most of the mainstream media, and also most of the multinational corporations. The CCP also has ownership in the much of the same through these investment companies.
Pay attention to the mainstream corporate media reporting... primarily the headlines and the lines delivered by the media talking heads... and the same lines delivered by leading Democrat politicians. They are all the same at the same time. There is a coordination that is undeniable and unmistakable.
Jan-6 was a planned political media circus that some idiot Trump supporters played right into. The Democrats have nothing going on that the voting republic wants, so they can only keep up a negative media circus to try and brand their opponent as deplorable so that other voters might vote for the slightly less stinking pile of crap.
But the Trump side is largely fake crap ginned up by a 24x7 negative news cycle. The Democrat side is real crap. Real economic misery, real embarrassing and needlessly deadly withdrawals from Afghanistan, real massive mistakes in pandemic related policy, real explosion in crime due to left extreme policies that are anti-law enforcement and pro criminal. The American public is much worse off today than when Trump was in office even considering the rational impact of the pandemic. The Democrats know it. The billionaire boys club knows it. They are all at risk for the hammer coming down in the mid-terms and likely also 2024. The wrath of the Republicans for what they have done will be profound. So they are stuck in desperation going full hyperbole on Jan-6.
Here is the thing... committed left leaners will lap it up. But they already hate Trump and his supporters. However, the rest of the voting population can do the critical thinking. They can compare the government and media response to the months of burning cities from leftist protests and riots. They can see that the full on partisan AG has put these Trump supporters in jail for over a year without charges and without reasonable due process after liberal DAs across the land have let off and failed to prosecute the violent thugs of Antifa and BLM.
Americans hate these massive displays of power abused unfairness.
"So you think there is nothing political behind the Democrat and media attention to the Jan 6 protests?"
Yes, Democrats have a political interest in the country not collapsing. Because if the country collapses, there is no Democratic Party. All you've noticed here is they have a healthy sense of self-preservation.
"There are about 80 billionaires in the world. All but one is male. Most are white males. The have their personal assets managed by Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and several of the big banks."
No, according to Forbes there are more than 2,000; many of them Chinese, and many of the non-US ones probably have little affiliation with the companies you described. And even so, "billionaires manage their assets via large banks" is about as revelatory as "people who have to haul RV's drive trucks."
"Pay attention to the mainstream corporate media reporting... primarily the headlines and the lines delivered by the media talking heads... and the same lines delivered by leading Democrat politicians."
No, these people spend half their days criticizing the Democratic Party for not being liberal enough. If you ever happened to wander over to MSNBC you might notice that.
"Jan-6 was a planned political media circus that some idiot Trump supporters played right into."
Yeah, Donald Trump planned it, and his supporters listened to him. The "media circus" is Fox News and the lame influencer class that exists to make money from them.
"The Democrat side is real crap. Real economic misery, real embarrassing and needlessly deadly withdrawals from Afghanistan, real massive mistakes in pandemic related policy, real explosion in crime due to left extreme policies that are anti-law enforcement and pro criminal."
$1,200 checks and 3.9% unemployment are economic misery? You and I have very different definitions of misery.
I am not sure if you understand how withdrawals work but when you lose a war they usually result in misery. Perhaps you would have liked to stay in Afghanistan forever.
Most of our mistakes in pandemic-related policy relate to a lack of testing and inability to contain the virus. And while Biden hasn't been perfect, he passes over the low, low bar of not wanting to inject bleach to fix it.
Finally, crime has risen ultimately almost every jurisdiction in the US. The state with the highest murder rate in 2020? Louisiana, a state with plenty of local corruption, guns, and no liberal bail laws.
"The billionaire boys club knows it. They are all at risk for the hammer coming down in the mid-terms and likely also 2024."
Please, the billionaire boys club will do the same thing in these years as they do every year: lobby hard for policy that increases their wealth, see it pass, and enjoy it. Donald Trump will be right up there with them, because he's a member.
Finally, "the rest of the voting population" may or may not be doing critical thinking - I can't read their minds - but they are in fact Trump's chief enablers, and the results next time will be the same as the results this time: bankruptcy, opioid deaths, pandemic deaths, and more crime.
80 multi-billionaires. I own three small businesses I have to run and type over 100 words a minute and unlike you who are probably retired on a government pension, sometimes I don't have time to re-read and re-edit my comments.
There are about 80 multi-billionaires that attend the world economic forum with all the government administrators, etc. They are not considering your self interests.
You seem to be quite unknowing about the facts here... and based on your comments it makes sense because it indicates you get your information from the same sources owned by the billionaire boys club.
Let me illustrate an example. Today, more than half of our top medical science and MDs have known that the government, most governments, were getting the pandemic response completely wrong. Well they did not know at first, but after about 6 months of data, they knew. But they could not say anything in public. They could not say anything in public because of the money that flows to hospitals and other medical research from government... in the US and a few other countries, the NHI provides a large share of the funding. The WHO also provides funding. Fauci, Brix and Redfield are all long-term professional administrators that pull these NHI funding strings. They all three have deep ties with big pharma. Big pharma is largely owned by the billionaire boys club though Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street and others.
The pandemic is their Great Reset, "Build Back Better" opportunity and they need it to last.
These are not conspiracy theories, they are facts. The money and power corruption connection at the top is strong. But even if you want to genuflect to Fauci as your COVID God, there is a breathtaking conflict of interest that goes unreported and unchallenged.
This is just one of many examples of how big western government is colluding with the 80 multi-billionaires to effectively eliminate the independent middle class... and lock everyone into economic dependency. You might like that if you are already living off the government teat. The problem is that in all attempts to get everyone living off the government teat... the system collapses and then you, if still alive, will claim you just did not know, it isn't fair, and that someone needs to go to war to save you and your family from starvation.
Ender, you deserve some sort of award. I think a free year's subscription to Bulwark Plus is in order. Your responses are incisive, but will they be enough for someone with the febrile imagination of Boone?
1/6 was definitely terrorism (contrary to what the OP asserts with no supporting argument:
“the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives” (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).
It also qualifies as insurrection as it was violence and threats of violence intended to interfere with the operation of the government.
I am as equally happy to apply these definitions (and their consequences) to those of the political left that do these things as to the political right.
I remember watching coverage of the activities on Jan 6 and "a small contingent of protestors" was not what I saw, unless you define "small" as greater than 5000. There were a LOT of people at the Capitol and they were not having a picnic.
Much of the BLM protests started off peacefully, then became violent for a number of reasons. They were in response to the impact of police on black people. To me, Antifa are the same as the Proud Boys, 3%ers, Oath Keepers, up for agitation. I can't equate the BLM protests with what happened on Jan 6, but violence will never be the answer regardless of the issue. The world is changing, to my mind, for the better. We all need to discuss issues to better understand each other. Beating the crap out of the other person is not conducive to that end.
My man, the BLM protests lasted roughly the summer. Where are you getting 18 months from? 18 months from January 2021 would mark them as going continuously since mid-2019.
The picture of LIz Cheney and her dad in the Houses Chamber is breathtaking. It is stark and moving and the best visual statement about the entire Republican party. Not only the tea party members, but the cowards and crazies refusing to come to the Chamber of their own House to support the Officers that saved their lives on January 6, 2021. Front page picture should appear every day in every newspaper and on every piece of social media.
Ted Cruz is such a tragic and unsympathetic character. I think part of the reason is because he thinks he is the protagonist of an Aaron Sorkin type story when in reality he is the supporting character in a Coen Brothers film.
It occurred to me while reading this, that we have texts from Hannity and Ingraham on the day asking the President to stop things... but we never heard Tucker's take because he was in favor or did he just have Trump's direct line.
Tucker condemned the law-breakers immediately on air. The same for the previous almost 2 years of Democrat BLM and Antifa violence. He is consistent in his belief to hold all law-breakers fairly and justly accountable for their acts of political violence.
Happy Birthday to the Bulwark! I was with you guys from the start and have never regretted it. Re: Ted Cruz - I feel that the ads write themselves if he should run again for president. You can put anyone against him and see him grovelling - Putin, Kim Jun-Un, Xi, Big Bird..... Trump will still win at disgracing America with foreign leaders, but I think Ted will give him a run for his money.
Happy Birthday y'all! Thriving without an ad on any page in sight. Well done.
I was surprised to see that the top story in Bulwark history was a piece on Rapinoe (I figured it would be something by Tim Miller for sure). I wonder what Ms. Rapinoe thinks of Lia Thomas at UPenn. I wonder what she would think about competing against a team full of Lia Thomases out of Germany in the World Cup.
Ted Cruz knows he screwed up bad. You can go to Cancun during a once in a millennium Texas snowstorm, abandoning your primary voters who deny the climate-change that started the whole thing, but you cannot refer to people who assaulted the US Capitol in service to Trump as terrorists. You do that, and GOP primary voters in Texas might even choose Beto over you, Ted.
Charlie, please comment on the Dems running in the WI Senate primary. Anyone substantial who could beat Johnson?
Happy B-Day to all at The B. A great piece of worthwhile work all around. Best wishes for many more!
So. On that piece about what didn't happen. We're really just absolving all the supposed R's that care about democracy, are we? There's been a lot of talk about Manchin, but as I recall, ZERO republicans supported his voting rights bill. Not Romney, not Murkowski, not Blunt, not Portman, not Toomey, not Shelby, not Burr. In case you're curious, the last five of those are retiring. In the house, neither Kissinger or Cheney support voting rights legislation, and actively voted to shut down the government during this pandemic we're in.
At some point, we need to call a spade a spade. Either there are no good republicans, or the standard of 'good' is so meaningless as to be useless. Because all the people we're told are 'good' are entirely geared towards supporting Trumpism. They might not publicly speak the hymns, but they vote accordingly. And what one does is always more important than what one says.
There's a lot of recriminations that the left would go after Manchin, a man who spends his time creating bills that will die, supporting measures that would put more of his constituents into poverty, and generally being a pain in everyone's rear. But he's got no answers for what he intends to actually do now. He made a bill that was meant to get GOP support, and not even Murkowski, who CO SPONSORED THE BILL, voted for it. Which means that any GOP officeholders are not willing to walk the walk when it comes to actually fighting Trumpism.
This, to me, seems apt. After all, this is how the conservative movement has always operated. It prizes 'respectability' over actually doing the right thing, which is how we get praise for Buckley, a man who said segregation was good and civil rights were bad, and how we get praise for Goldwater, a man who wanted to nuke Russia, and who was later seen as not conservative enough.
If we truly believe that democracy is in peril, then we should be raking people like Romney over the coals. We should be putting Blunt and Toomey's feet to the fire and asking 'what are you doing to save your own party?' If the answer is 'nothing' then they're no better than Trumpists like Hawley and Cruz.
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I can’t bring myself to watch Fox “News”, so thanks for bring me this latest chapter in the self-abasement of Sen. Cruz. Can he really be so delusional to think that the MAGA world so enamored of strength would remotely consider his sniveling self to be Presidential material?
In the annals of the English language no one has personified the word "oleaginous" better than Ted Cruz. Nothing describes that unctuous Texan pol's character better unless it is the word "pusillanimous" -- can we still say pussy? -- after his groveling performance before Fox bad boy Tucker Carlson. Egad!
It has been obvious for years that the only person that Rafael Cruz represents is Rafael Cruz. He will do and say whatever he thinks is necessary to serve Rafael Cruz's ambition... including pretending that he isn't named Rafael. He is a man of absolutely zero principle. I do not understand how any self-respecting Texan could possibly vote for such a lick-spittle butt kisser. I thought Texan's had a tad more self-respect.
Hold up. Tucker called himself a reporter here!! So is it possible to can his ridiculous legal defenses about merely being a opinion host? Let the defamation suits resume, please.
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The interesting part of the story for a Republican Senator like Cruz is how he would have to put on an Oscar-winning crying performance like Adam Kinzinger before he got any positive press from the left media. So then, why fall for their absurd breathless hyperbole and lies about Jan 6?
The Democrat party, once the home of the American working class, is now committed to claiming all American working class Trump supporters as Nazis for their failure to capitulate to the Global New World Order Great Reset project. That is their well coordinated, Billionaire Boys Club-funded, dishonest corporate media-powered political propaganda strategy... generate copious negative character branding about Trump and his supporters leading up to the mid-terms. Because the American voters are clearly not buying the Democrat political platform dog food... they are abandoning Old Joe like the wealthy leaving the Titanic before it sunk.
Cruz, and any Republican that gives the smallest of indication that Jan-6 was anything more than a largely peaceful protest where a small contingent of protestors were whipped up into a frenzy in encouraged aggression by several still anonymous people within the crowd who somehow have not been arrested yet but seem to have connections with the FBI, and then who went through not very strongly capitol police defended barriers to occupy the Capitol... are only hurting: themselves, the Republicans and the Democrats who continue to think that this cult of anti-Trump supporters and anti-American working class is going to help the party. It is not going to do any of those things.
It was not an insurrection. It was not terrorism. It is not a 9-11 or D-Day. Those are absurd hyperbolic intellectually dishonest accusations. Cruz and all Republicans need to be on the opposite side of anything the Democrats claim about Jan-6 other than there are a few people that committed trespassing and assaults on law enforcement, and they should be arrested and prosecuted for those crimes. Nancy's partisan Commission is just political theater as was her putting fencing and military personnel around the capitol. All of this is just political media theater at this time, and Cruz should have recognized it and stayed completely out of the dishonest script.
Let's roll through some obvious factual problems:
"The Democrat party, once the home of the American working class, is now committed to claiming all American working class Trump supporters as Nazis for their failure to capitulate to the Global New World Order Great Reset project. "
This is simply made up, there is no New World Order or Great Reset. Also, Democratic voters have slightly lower incomes than Republican voters so you might consider refining your definition of the working class.
"That is their well coordinated, Billionaire Boys Club-funded, dishonest corporate media-powered political propaganda strategy... generate copious negative character branding about Trump and his supporters leading up to the mid-terms."
Donald Trump is quite literally our first and only billionaire President. His biggest donor was billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who ran one of the world's largest casinos. If you watch Fox News, you are watching the largest and most profitable corporate media in world history.
Donald Trump doesn't need a conspiracy to wreck his character. He's been doing that since his first divorce, if not before.
But to your point yes, the Democratic Party also has billionaire donors, and favorable corporate news channels. This is one of the few ways the parties are similar, and it's a consequence of having a loosely-regulated capitalist market economy.
"Cruz, and any Republican that gives the smallest of indication that Jan-6 was anything more than a largely peaceful protest where a small contingent of protestors were whipped up into a frenzy in encouraged aggression by several still anonymous people within the crowd [etc.]"
This is actually what Cruz's statement says, but you are still mad about it. I too look forward to the arrest of these people, though if they are, I suspect they will have memberships in the Proud Boys, and the Oathkeepers, and the like.
You say this wasn't insurrection or terrorism? Here are the dictionary definitions:
insurrection
: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government
terrorism
: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
Violently assaulting a national capital, its police officers, and attempting to kill politicians sure seems to fit both definitions to me.
Not time to refute almost everything written here. It is the standard deflection.
But let's just start here with some education. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/klaus-schwab-nature-jobs-great-reset-podcast/
So your complaint is that society might improve somewhat at the hands of governments, multinational corporations, and NGOs?
Huh? No, society will improve when we shrink government, reduce the volume and scope of small business killing regulations, change the tax code to enhance investment in job-producing production instead of passive selfish returns, stop exporting our jobs and industries, stop China from stealing all of our IP, get people back to work, reform the education system to develop economically self-sufficient adults instead of programmed clones of the woke sickness and Marxism. And provide tax and other incentives to spur job-producing investment in territories with low economic circumstances.
It all starts with a commitment to shrink government as big government colludes with big business to prevent all these other things, because they are the threat to big business. And we also should consider breaking up some of the larger corporations that are clearly into monopoly territory.
See, the thing is most of what you posted is respectable politics - just stuff I disagree with. Expect for the Marxist and woke sickness stuff, which again, is simply made up.
But none of that has to do with January 6th, an insurrection, or a committee. So maybe lead with this if you don't want people to roll their eyes at you.
Nor do it have to do with whatever you're trying to argue the Great Reset is.
See the topic of the article. It is all connected.
Sorry, I'm doing a plain read of the article and not a conspiracist-read of the article. I just see a bunch of large organizations trying to create wealthy sustainable economies.
So you think there is nothing political behind the Democrat and media attention to the Jan 6 protests?
There are about 80 billionaires in the world. All but one is male. Most are white males. The have their personal assets managed by Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and several of the big banks. These trillion dollar asset management investment businesses own the controlling interest in most of the mainstream media, and also most of the multinational corporations. The CCP also has ownership in the much of the same through these investment companies.
Pay attention to the mainstream corporate media reporting... primarily the headlines and the lines delivered by the media talking heads... and the same lines delivered by leading Democrat politicians. They are all the same at the same time. There is a coordination that is undeniable and unmistakable.
Jan-6 was a planned political media circus that some idiot Trump supporters played right into. The Democrats have nothing going on that the voting republic wants, so they can only keep up a negative media circus to try and brand their opponent as deplorable so that other voters might vote for the slightly less stinking pile of crap.
But the Trump side is largely fake crap ginned up by a 24x7 negative news cycle. The Democrat side is real crap. Real economic misery, real embarrassing and needlessly deadly withdrawals from Afghanistan, real massive mistakes in pandemic related policy, real explosion in crime due to left extreme policies that are anti-law enforcement and pro criminal. The American public is much worse off today than when Trump was in office even considering the rational impact of the pandemic. The Democrats know it. The billionaire boys club knows it. They are all at risk for the hammer coming down in the mid-terms and likely also 2024. The wrath of the Republicans for what they have done will be profound. So they are stuck in desperation going full hyperbole on Jan-6.
Here is the thing... committed left leaners will lap it up. But they already hate Trump and his supporters. However, the rest of the voting population can do the critical thinking. They can compare the government and media response to the months of burning cities from leftist protests and riots. They can see that the full on partisan AG has put these Trump supporters in jail for over a year without charges and without reasonable due process after liberal DAs across the land have let off and failed to prosecute the violent thugs of Antifa and BLM.
Americans hate these massive displays of power abused unfairness.
"So you think there is nothing political behind the Democrat and media attention to the Jan 6 protests?"
Yes, Democrats have a political interest in the country not collapsing. Because if the country collapses, there is no Democratic Party. All you've noticed here is they have a healthy sense of self-preservation.
"There are about 80 billionaires in the world. All but one is male. Most are white males. The have their personal assets managed by Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and several of the big banks."
No, according to Forbes there are more than 2,000; many of them Chinese, and many of the non-US ones probably have little affiliation with the companies you described. And even so, "billionaires manage their assets via large banks" is about as revelatory as "people who have to haul RV's drive trucks."
"Pay attention to the mainstream corporate media reporting... primarily the headlines and the lines delivered by the media talking heads... and the same lines delivered by leading Democrat politicians."
No, these people spend half their days criticizing the Democratic Party for not being liberal enough. If you ever happened to wander over to MSNBC you might notice that.
"Jan-6 was a planned political media circus that some idiot Trump supporters played right into."
Yeah, Donald Trump planned it, and his supporters listened to him. The "media circus" is Fox News and the lame influencer class that exists to make money from them.
"The Democrat side is real crap. Real economic misery, real embarrassing and needlessly deadly withdrawals from Afghanistan, real massive mistakes in pandemic related policy, real explosion in crime due to left extreme policies that are anti-law enforcement and pro criminal."
$1,200 checks and 3.9% unemployment are economic misery? You and I have very different definitions of misery.
I am not sure if you understand how withdrawals work but when you lose a war they usually result in misery. Perhaps you would have liked to stay in Afghanistan forever.
Most of our mistakes in pandemic-related policy relate to a lack of testing and inability to contain the virus. And while Biden hasn't been perfect, he passes over the low, low bar of not wanting to inject bleach to fix it.
Finally, crime has risen ultimately almost every jurisdiction in the US. The state with the highest murder rate in 2020? Louisiana, a state with plenty of local corruption, guns, and no liberal bail laws.
"The billionaire boys club knows it. They are all at risk for the hammer coming down in the mid-terms and likely also 2024."
Please, the billionaire boys club will do the same thing in these years as they do every year: lobby hard for policy that increases their wealth, see it pass, and enjoy it. Donald Trump will be right up there with them, because he's a member.
Finally, "the rest of the voting population" may or may not be doing critical thinking - I can't read their minds - but they are in fact Trump's chief enablers, and the results next time will be the same as the results this time: bankruptcy, opioid deaths, pandemic deaths, and more crime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkcaeaD45MY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshJn7lgVsY
80 multi-billionaires. I own three small businesses I have to run and type over 100 words a minute and unlike you who are probably retired on a government pension, sometimes I don't have time to re-read and re-edit my comments.
There are about 80 multi-billionaires that attend the world economic forum with all the government administrators, etc. They are not considering your self interests.
You seem to be quite unknowing about the facts here... and based on your comments it makes sense because it indicates you get your information from the same sources owned by the billionaire boys club.
Let me illustrate an example. Today, more than half of our top medical science and MDs have known that the government, most governments, were getting the pandemic response completely wrong. Well they did not know at first, but after about 6 months of data, they knew. But they could not say anything in public. They could not say anything in public because of the money that flows to hospitals and other medical research from government... in the US and a few other countries, the NHI provides a large share of the funding. The WHO also provides funding. Fauci, Brix and Redfield are all long-term professional administrators that pull these NHI funding strings. They all three have deep ties with big pharma. Big pharma is largely owned by the billionaire boys club though Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street and others.
The pandemic is their Great Reset, "Build Back Better" opportunity and they need it to last.
These are not conspiracy theories, they are facts. The money and power corruption connection at the top is strong. But even if you want to genuflect to Fauci as your COVID God, there is a breathtaking conflict of interest that goes unreported and unchallenged.
This is just one of many examples of how big western government is colluding with the 80 multi-billionaires to effectively eliminate the independent middle class... and lock everyone into economic dependency. You might like that if you are already living off the government teat. The problem is that in all attempts to get everyone living off the government teat... the system collapses and then you, if still alive, will claim you just did not know, it isn't fair, and that someone needs to go to war to save you and your family from starvation.
That is how this play ALWAYS works out.
Ender, you deserve some sort of award. I think a free year's subscription to Bulwark Plus is in order. Your responses are incisive, but will they be enough for someone with the febrile imagination of Boone?
Ah the troll brings more alternative history.
1/6 was definitely terrorism (contrary to what the OP asserts with no supporting argument:
“the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives” (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).
It also qualifies as insurrection as it was violence and threats of violence intended to interfere with the operation of the government.
I am as equally happy to apply these definitions (and their consequences) to those of the political left that do these things as to the political right.
And yet your vile diatribe does not get removed. https://jboone.substack.com/p/dont-subscribe-to-the-triad
ROFLMAO. Just own the fact that you are a troll... and not a very good one.
I remember watching coverage of the activities on Jan 6 and "a small contingent of protestors" was not what I saw, unless you define "small" as greater than 5000. There were a LOT of people at the Capitol and they were not having a picnic.
The Park Service estimates 45,000 protestors. It is estimated that somewhere between 600-700 entered. Out of that 600-700, most were not violent.
When I watched the TV footage of the previous 18 months of BLM and Antifa protests, it looked like all of it was violent looting with cities on fire.
18 months? I mean, I ignore most of what you write because it is remarkably ignorant and nonsensical rambling, but 18 months?
May 2019 through November 2020. Come on now, you can count.
where were there BLM protests in 2019?
Much of the BLM protests started off peacefully, then became violent for a number of reasons. They were in response to the impact of police on black people. To me, Antifa are the same as the Proud Boys, 3%ers, Oath Keepers, up for agitation. I can't equate the BLM protests with what happened on Jan 6, but violence will never be the answer regardless of the issue. The world is changing, to my mind, for the better. We all need to discuss issues to better understand each other. Beating the crap out of the other person is not conducive to that end.
My man, the BLM protests lasted roughly the summer. Where are you getting 18 months from? 18 months from January 2021 would mark them as going continuously since mid-2019.
The kind of pseudo intellectualism strikes again.
Boongino also maintains that Trump had the largest crowd at his inauguration in the history of inaugurations.
Thank the gods for The Bulwark! And happy birthday!
I live in Texas and I remind people that Ted Cruz does not represent Texas in the Senate. Ted Cruz represents Ted Cruz in the Senate.
The picture of LIz Cheney and her dad in the Houses Chamber is breathtaking. It is stark and moving and the best visual statement about the entire Republican party. Not only the tea party members, but the cowards and crazies refusing to come to the Chamber of their own House to support the Officers that saved their lives on January 6, 2021. Front page picture should appear every day in every newspaper and on every piece of social media.
Happy Birthday to The Bulwark!
Ted Cruz is such a tragic and unsympathetic character. I think part of the reason is because he thinks he is the protagonist of an Aaron Sorkin type story when in reality he is the supporting character in a Coen Brothers film.
It occurred to me while reading this, that we have texts from Hannity and Ingraham on the day asking the President to stop things... but we never heard Tucker's take because he was in favor or did he just have Trump's direct line.
Tucker condemned the law-breakers immediately on air. The same for the previous almost 2 years of Democrat BLM and Antifa violence. He is consistent in his belief to hold all law-breakers fairly and justly accountable for their acts of political violence.
So why did he stop? That isn't consistent.
Happy Birthday to the Bulwark! I was with you guys from the start and have never regretted it. Re: Ted Cruz - I feel that the ads write themselves if he should run again for president. You can put anyone against him and see him grovelling - Putin, Kim Jun-Un, Xi, Big Bird..... Trump will still win at disgracing America with foreign leaders, but I think Ted will give him a run for his money.
Happy Birthday y'all! Thriving without an ad on any page in sight. Well done.
I was surprised to see that the top story in Bulwark history was a piece on Rapinoe (I figured it would be something by Tim Miller for sure). I wonder what Ms. Rapinoe thinks of Lia Thomas at UPenn. I wonder what she would think about competing against a team full of Lia Thomases out of Germany in the World Cup.
Ted Cruz knows he screwed up bad. You can go to Cancun during a once in a millennium Texas snowstorm, abandoning your primary voters who deny the climate-change that started the whole thing, but you cannot refer to people who assaulted the US Capitol in service to Trump as terrorists. You do that, and GOP primary voters in Texas might even choose Beto over you, Ted.