07-28-2022, 07:59 PM
(07-28-2022, 07:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(07-23-2022, 03:55 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-20-2022, 03:30 PM)David Horn Wrote:(07-07-2022, 11:45 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Jan. 6th Committee painted a chilling and criminally insane portrait of the former president's attempt to steal the election by weaponizing the Department of Justice.
It seems to have worked. So far, we're seeing a few small fish get jail time, but no serious players even getting indicted. Now, it seems the Secret Service was totally compromised too, so it seems Trump did a bang-up job of destroying the government from the inside.
Which begs the questioin: where are the defenders of democracy? Sitting in their rocking chairs, apparently, becuase I don't see anyone going for ht jugler here at all. Why? And why support a bunch of milquetoast respondents? For the record: I'll certainly vote, but I'm not giving anyone a dime.
I will probably give out some dimes. Probably not that much more than that. But the midterms are crucial if we are to survive.
However, it seems like I mostly can't look at what I do as just me doing it. I need to feel that what moves me, moves others too, and those who act are like part of a larger organism or a larger spirit moving us. I have to look at it that way; as an individual alone I don't have too much power. Sometimes I think by writing to a politician or a pundit I can plant an idea. Just how much I can do as an individual I don't really know. But it seems like a rare feat.
Merrick Garland is a cautious chap. But he seems to be giving hints that some indictments may follow. I'd say it may be worth it from time to time to send some prodding emails or messages to folks in power like him.
Garland should be cautious, the ice that he's been standing/ treading on is getting very thin. So, how long do you think it'll be before we have the right to start killing you or the right to do nothing as you're killing yourselves and as others (foreign or domestic) are killing you for whatever reason? You and the others DESERVE what's coming to you. I'll see you sad sacks again in the fall and see if any of you have wised up aka "pulled your head out of your BLUE asses yet".
Garland is cautious, as is President Biden. Indeed the whole Democratic approach is to let dissident Republicans take out people who have done the really bad stuff. It's the FBI technique. Unlike the Gestapo, NKVD, or Satan Hussein's Mukhabarat, the FBI needs not beat out confessions. Innocent people talk so that they can clear themselves. The FBI may clear dozens of people to find the culprit, and eventually it finds someone who lies about his own innocence.
We have Trump's absurd speech in which he tells a mob that he is going to the Capitol with them to "stop the steal". People storm the Capitol, overpowering the Capitol Police. People do sundry crimes like bringing in unwelcome symbols such as partisan banners and Confederate flags. People even break into Congressional desks (which may have contained classified material). What's the point? The fake electors, which seemed preposterous at the time -- but that was the objective: to falsify the lawfully-obtained electoral results in which Joe Biden got 306 electoral votes and Donald Trump got 232.
The process is, so far, polite enough. There is no Roland Freisler or Andrei Vishinsky demonizing helpless people as creatures less than human. Democrats have let Republicans with impeccable credentials do polite questioning of people who balked at the scheme to falsify our election. That works for telling the story.
Maybe things will not be so polite in the end for Alex Jones, whose insane Infowars told people to go to the Capitol. Steve Bannon? Contempt of Congress may be the least of his problems. Mike Flynn? The Benedict Arnold of our time> I will stop there about him, because I have nothing to say about him that isn't incendiary. Trump himself? If he is lucky, then his bad habits will either kill him or make him unable to be tried.
Your idea of kllling people who disagree with you is what the criminal syndicate known as the Defence Forces of Myanmar does. The armed forces of Burma are the State and the economy, It is arguably the greatest criminal syndicate in existence since Nazi Germany. It just recently hanged several dissidents.
Classic X'er, if you believe in such stuff, then I suggest that you take a one-way excursion to Yangon (formerly known as Rangoon) in Myanmar. recently known as Burma. Mike Flynn's beloved "Minnamar" as he mispronounced it. If you like a government that hangs people for disagreeing with it, then that is your place!
A normal person would be delighted to escape "Minnamar" for Minnesota in the mid-winter.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.