There's no reason to think this is anything other than the show trial it seems to be. If they had anything at all, they would be doing this in a court of law where they could do some real damage. Of course, if they did that they would have to allow the defense to.......defend itself. And we can't have that from the party that claims to be defending democracy!
Not a Trump fan, and open to being convinced he committed an actual crime - but history to this point is that whatever the Democrats accuse Trump of doing, it turns out later that they were the ones actually doing it. Hookers and blow in Russia? Check. Taking six-figure checks from Moscow and Beijing? Check. Siccing federal agencies on political opponents? Check.
The January 6th committee is a gullibility test for the urban/suburban "knowledge" class ( I grew up in Swarthmore, PA and hold degrees from Northwestern and Yale. I know these people better than they know themselves. And they are artlessly unaware of their class hatreds and fundamentalist brand of left wing politics).
Anyone not in the sway ofBob Jones style cum Left Wing fundamentalism understands that if the Democrats had a case they would have arrived at the strength of their evidence early and often. Instead, what we get is a new development every 12 days as nothing takes hold. Cassidy overheard a conversation! The Secret Service deletes texts! Perry Mason has an 11th hour witness!
They have nothing. Things are drawn out (poor Benny Thompson and covid!) , because they need time to formulate a new twist back at the Goebbels Memorial Labs, where the their best xen have been on the job since 2016.
Serious prosecutions present a case up front. And they allows witnesses for the defense. What is happening is not serious. And quite evil. It is what totalitarians do. Simply make their political enemies, enemies of the state.
With good conscience you can be for single payer healthcare, ADC, student loan forgiveness, universal income, affirmative action, fear abortion bans. etc. I may disagree with these positions, but they are all debatable in a democratic society. And worthy of debate. I have no interest in declaring people who wish to debate left wing issues as undemocratic. This is at the heart of democracy.
What is undemocratic is what the current Democratic Party leadership is doing. Quite frankly they know they have no case. What they are doing is evil. It is high time those who feel they hold high-minded progressive values-values that are worthy of debate, throw away their "my political religion right or wrong" and call them on it.
The nutbags are running the asylum. Just today I saw that Glenn Greenwald is a liar and a Nazi because he reported something Gaetz said. These children don’t seem to understand the difference between reporting what someone said/did and actually doing/saying it yourself. But the social media oligarchy was allowed to brainwash people this way... so here we are. Good thing they donate to the DNC I guess.
Do you really believe the US secret service was involved in a coup attempt??? That’s nuts. If that was the case, then why doesn’t the pro Trump secret service depose the obviously mentally incapacitated President Biden??? Perhaps because the US Secret Service doesn’t do coups! This whole January 6th thing, like every other get Trump derangement escapade by the democrats and RINOs, is yet another sham. Talk about coup attempts? They spent all of Trumps
Tenure trying to impeach him…before, during, and even after his term. Now they are trying to preempt him before he even runs again!! Stop giving ANY possible credibility to this January 6th bs.
The United States is the most defended country on the planet, something Matt confirmed recently in his article about billions in defense-related pork that passed under a media blackout from both sides. Yet the same people want us to believe that a handful of conspiracy nuts, senior citizens, and racist tweakers almost overthrew the government of this country. More rioters died of overdoses and heart attacks than US law enforcement died from violence (that number being zero) btw. But holy shit guys, Existential Threat was Existential af. I just can’t listen anymore, my brain is dying.
I know it's hard to fathom but if you were following the "stop the steal" movement, as I was, listening to Steve Bannon's War Room podcast -- mainly out of curiosity, though my friends on the left would condemn for that curiosity -- it was clear what their intentions were. They genuinely believed that Trump could successfully make his case in congress, as Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz were doing. Trump believed that because that was the plan. Why would he then plan a violent riot if all it did was end his argument and hand absolute power to his enemies? It makes no sense. Also, and this is not reported anywhere or even investigated - Trump supporters, especially those who faithfully attend his rallies, are proudly non-violent. They don't want to destroy American property. They want to protect it. That is their only point of superiority over the left. The left protests violently, they don't.
Were there Trump supporters angry enough to bust into the Capitol? Well apparently so. But the head didn't know what the tail was doing because these two things ran counter to each other. Because of that, I was immediately skeptical about why that one time did the crowd become violent? This question was never asked because most people don't believe this. The riot was the best piece of anti-Trump propaganda our government has ever gotten and they're milking it for everything it's worth, at great cost to our country, IMO.
The reason it's a show trial -- though no one is getting shot or put in a gulag -- is that they came in with a conviction then went looking for any evidence they could find to prove it.
All Trumps's enemies and nobody on his side doesn't sound like anything but theater. Why isn't Marjorie Taylor Greene on the committee? Lauren Boebert? Because they might cross examine and who in the world would want that?
They really are terrified of him, and us too, I guess.
And Trump tried to grab the wheel of his limo and drive to the capital too.
Cmon Matt........the vast majority of us are WAY WAY beyond caring about the hearings or Jan 6th generally.
The whole setup, right from the beginning was a show trial designed to keep Trump from running again. It was never about "finding out what happened". It was just nail Trump. We get it. We give the damn thing no credibility and we are perfectly prepared to move on and have been for a long time.
Most of us do not find it to be any worse than all the riots the summer before.
We get it...Trump is an asshole and everyone on the democrat side, to include never Trump republicans is terrified that he might actually be able to get elected again. They should be. God help them, if after all this, he gets in again. BUT....if by some chance he DOES get in again, they have nobody but themselves to blame. They have screwed the pooch on SO many things and then tried stuffing noxious progressive social policy and cultural mores down our throats. Never mind they have cried wolf so many times that it is just background noise now.
I am sorry - but from my view in Canada this entire commission makes the US look like a tin pot dictatorship. To call this a show trial would denigrate show trials. At least they have show judges and show defendants who are allowed to respond to the allegations. If Donald Trump broke the law then prosecute him. If you can’t then move on. You are embarrassing yourselves.
It's really quite easy to understand, Matt, though I wonder if you are hoping the landscape will change if for no other reason than it would be "fun" to write about it:
Matt wrote: "For six years now, investigators of every stripe and hue, from the FBI to the CIA to the NSA to Intelligence Committees in both the Senate and the House, have been pursuing Donald Trump......... (speaking of tonight's Democrat show) Part of the reason multiple previous impeachment and prosecution efforts failed is because investigations often failed to deliver evidence at moments just like this." (IMHO, Matt should have written "always" instead of "often".
The reason the Demos, Rino's, never-Trumpers, the corporate media, social media etc. have "failed to deliver evidence" is that after "6-years" THEY HAVE FOUND NOTHING!!! Tonight will be no different, as Matt tacitly admits.
AOC faking being cuffed with her hands behind her back. That is just another example that the entire Democrat party has been corrupted to a bad Hollywood act. The Jan-6 show trial is just a really bad Netflix series. And for most voters it reminds them of someone washing their dirty dishes while their neighborhood is on fire.
Are you covering this for posterity? Literally no one I know has paid one second of attention to this side show. It appears to be directly focused at a small subset of low information Democrat base voters that they know will believe anything they say.
From a historical perspective it is a black mark on our history. I would have never believed we would have Soviet style star chambers in my lifetime in the United States.
There's no reason to think this is anything other than the show trial it seems to be. If they had anything at all, they would be doing this in a court of law where they could do some real damage. Of course, if they did that they would have to allow the defense to.......defend itself. And we can't have that from the party that claims to be defending democracy!
Not a Trump fan, and open to being convinced he committed an actual crime - but history to this point is that whatever the Democrats accuse Trump of doing, it turns out later that they were the ones actually doing it. Hookers and blow in Russia? Check. Taking six-figure checks from Moscow and Beijing? Check. Siccing federal agencies on political opponents? Check.
Maybe they'll prove me wrong this time ...
The January 6th committee is a gullibility test for the urban/suburban "knowledge" class ( I grew up in Swarthmore, PA and hold degrees from Northwestern and Yale. I know these people better than they know themselves. And they are artlessly unaware of their class hatreds and fundamentalist brand of left wing politics).
Anyone not in the sway ofBob Jones style cum Left Wing fundamentalism understands that if the Democrats had a case they would have arrived at the strength of their evidence early and often. Instead, what we get is a new development every 12 days as nothing takes hold. Cassidy overheard a conversation! The Secret Service deletes texts! Perry Mason has an 11th hour witness!
They have nothing. Things are drawn out (poor Benny Thompson and covid!) , because they need time to formulate a new twist back at the Goebbels Memorial Labs, where the their best xen have been on the job since 2016.
Serious prosecutions present a case up front. And they allows witnesses for the defense. What is happening is not serious. And quite evil. It is what totalitarians do. Simply make their political enemies, enemies of the state.
With good conscience you can be for single payer healthcare, ADC, student loan forgiveness, universal income, affirmative action, fear abortion bans. etc. I may disagree with these positions, but they are all debatable in a democratic society. And worthy of debate. I have no interest in declaring people who wish to debate left wing issues as undemocratic. This is at the heart of democracy.
What is undemocratic is what the current Democratic Party leadership is doing. Quite frankly they know they have no case. What they are doing is evil. It is high time those who feel they hold high-minded progressive values-values that are worthy of debate, throw away their "my political religion right or wrong" and call them on it.
I can't imagine watching something this contrived, deceitful, and poisonous to our culture. But have fun!
The nutbags are running the asylum. Just today I saw that Glenn Greenwald is a liar and a Nazi because he reported something Gaetz said. These children don’t seem to understand the difference between reporting what someone said/did and actually doing/saying it yourself. But the social media oligarchy was allowed to brainwash people this way... so here we are. Good thing they donate to the DNC I guess.
Do you really believe the US secret service was involved in a coup attempt??? That’s nuts. If that was the case, then why doesn’t the pro Trump secret service depose the obviously mentally incapacitated President Biden??? Perhaps because the US Secret Service doesn’t do coups! This whole January 6th thing, like every other get Trump derangement escapade by the democrats and RINOs, is yet another sham. Talk about coup attempts? They spent all of Trumps
Tenure trying to impeach him…before, during, and even after his term. Now they are trying to preempt him before he even runs again!! Stop giving ANY possible credibility to this January 6th bs.
The United States is the most defended country on the planet, something Matt confirmed recently in his article about billions in defense-related pork that passed under a media blackout from both sides. Yet the same people want us to believe that a handful of conspiracy nuts, senior citizens, and racist tweakers almost overthrew the government of this country. More rioters died of overdoses and heart attacks than US law enforcement died from violence (that number being zero) btw. But holy shit guys, Existential Threat was Existential af. I just can’t listen anymore, my brain is dying.
I know it's hard to fathom but if you were following the "stop the steal" movement, as I was, listening to Steve Bannon's War Room podcast -- mainly out of curiosity, though my friends on the left would condemn for that curiosity -- it was clear what their intentions were. They genuinely believed that Trump could successfully make his case in congress, as Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz were doing. Trump believed that because that was the plan. Why would he then plan a violent riot if all it did was end his argument and hand absolute power to his enemies? It makes no sense. Also, and this is not reported anywhere or even investigated - Trump supporters, especially those who faithfully attend his rallies, are proudly non-violent. They don't want to destroy American property. They want to protect it. That is their only point of superiority over the left. The left protests violently, they don't.
Were there Trump supporters angry enough to bust into the Capitol? Well apparently so. But the head didn't know what the tail was doing because these two things ran counter to each other. Because of that, I was immediately skeptical about why that one time did the crowd become violent? This question was never asked because most people don't believe this. The riot was the best piece of anti-Trump propaganda our government has ever gotten and they're milking it for everything it's worth, at great cost to our country, IMO.
The reason it's a show trial -- though no one is getting shot or put in a gulag -- is that they came in with a conviction then went looking for any evidence they could find to prove it.
All Trumps's enemies and nobody on his side doesn't sound like anything but theater. Why isn't Marjorie Taylor Greene on the committee? Lauren Boebert? Because they might cross examine and who in the world would want that?
They really are terrified of him, and us too, I guess.
And Trump tried to grab the wheel of his limo and drive to the capital too.
Cmon Matt........the vast majority of us are WAY WAY beyond caring about the hearings or Jan 6th generally.
The whole setup, right from the beginning was a show trial designed to keep Trump from running again. It was never about "finding out what happened". It was just nail Trump. We get it. We give the damn thing no credibility and we are perfectly prepared to move on and have been for a long time.
Most of us do not find it to be any worse than all the riots the summer before.
We get it...Trump is an asshole and everyone on the democrat side, to include never Trump republicans is terrified that he might actually be able to get elected again. They should be. God help them, if after all this, he gets in again. BUT....if by some chance he DOES get in again, they have nobody but themselves to blame. They have screwed the pooch on SO many things and then tried stuffing noxious progressive social policy and cultural mores down our throats. Never mind they have cried wolf so many times that it is just background noise now.
The whole thing is preposterous. The witch-hunt to get Trump has been the biggest threat to our democracy.
I am sorry - but from my view in Canada this entire commission makes the US look like a tin pot dictatorship. To call this a show trial would denigrate show trials. At least they have show judges and show defendants who are allowed to respond to the allegations. If Donald Trump broke the law then prosecute him. If you can’t then move on. You are embarrassing yourselves.
It's really quite easy to understand, Matt, though I wonder if you are hoping the landscape will change if for no other reason than it would be "fun" to write about it:
Matt wrote: "For six years now, investigators of every stripe and hue, from the FBI to the CIA to the NSA to Intelligence Committees in both the Senate and the House, have been pursuing Donald Trump......... (speaking of tonight's Democrat show) Part of the reason multiple previous impeachment and prosecution efforts failed is because investigations often failed to deliver evidence at moments just like this." (IMHO, Matt should have written "always" instead of "often".
The reason the Demos, Rino's, never-Trumpers, the corporate media, social media etc. have "failed to deliver evidence" is that after "6-years" THEY HAVE FOUND NOTHING!!! Tonight will be no different, as Matt tacitly admits.
What's Liz Cheney going to get out of all this? Will she be the new Ukraine Reconstruction Czar vis-à-vis her father's ties to Haliburton?
AOC faking being cuffed with her hands behind her back. That is just another example that the entire Democrat party has been corrupted to a bad Hollywood act. The Jan-6 show trial is just a really bad Netflix series. And for most voters it reminds them of someone washing their dirty dishes while their neighborhood is on fire.
Are you covering this for posterity? Literally no one I know has paid one second of attention to this side show. It appears to be directly focused at a small subset of low information Democrat base voters that they know will believe anything they say.
From a historical perspective it is a black mark on our history. I would have never believed we would have Soviet style star chambers in my lifetime in the United States.