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.
Happy Birthday to The Bulwark! I am grateful for you guys every day.
Happy Birthday, Bulwark. Being a Bulwark subscriber is money well spent as far as I am concerned. I wish you lot would develop an app for my phone to enjoy other podcasts available to Bulwark + members when I am out on my morning run or exercising at my gym.
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.
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.
Happy birthday, Bulwark!
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.
Happy Birthday to The Bulwark! I am grateful for you guys every day.
Happy Birthday, Bulwark. Being a Bulwark subscriber is money well spent as far as I am concerned. I wish you lot would develop an app for my phone to enjoy other podcasts available to Bulwark + members when I am out on my morning run or exercising at my gym.
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.
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.