Video evidence suggests Biden is a Potemkin president, without real support
When Catherine the Great of Russia traveled in the late 18th-century,
her former lover, Grigory Potemkin, would travel ahead of her and build
hasty facades along the main thoroughfares in impoverished, bedraggled
villages to create the impression of a prosperous nation. Thus, a
Potemkin village is a fake that artificially puffs up a leader’s
competence and popularity. Two recent videos, one of Biden’s fans
turning out to greet him in Michigan and another of Trump’s fans turning
out for him in Florida, show that Biden is a Potemkin president. It’s
all fake.
The first video shows Biden traveling
through Antrim County, which he purportedly won. And remember, as you
watch it, that we’re being told that Biden got more votes than any other
president in history, including Barack Obama:
As of the time of this writing, over 243,000 people have watched the
video and, as you can see, tens of thousands made the effort to attend.
People also watched the Rumble version, which had another 395,000 views:
And while we’re talking about Trump rallies, the video of his
appearance in Wellington, Ohio, at the end of June has been watched more than 1 million times.
Meanwhile,
if you go to Biden’s YouTube channel (and Trump, as you know is banned
from YouTube), you’ll discover that people are just a wee bit less
supportive of Biden than they are of Trump. For his July Fourth speech,
Biden managed to pull in a whole 16,000 views or, more accurately, Mrs.
Joe Biden managed to pull in 16,000 views and the Marine Corps band:
Also, note what the arrows highlight in the picture. The first arrow
shows Biden’s horrific ratio: 417 likes to almost 4,000 dislikes. The
second arrow hints that the comments matched that ratio because the
White House had to turn them off.
None of Biden’s videos are doing any better.
Check out his YouTube homepage and you’ll discover that (a) he can never
get more than 20,000 people to watch him; (b) the ratios are always
awful; and (c) the comments are always turned off. People are equal
parts bored and disgusted by this man.
Abraham Lincoln was famous for telling a joke that was already old when he was president:
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Biden, with his Potemkin presidency, is that four-legged
dog. No matter how much they try to tell us he’s something special,
he’s not. And knowing that he’s not, it’s forever going to be impossible
for the Democrat party and the media (but I repeat myself) to convince
normal Americans that Biden actually won the 2020 election and,
moreover, that he did so with more votes than any president in history.
House Democrats spent millions of tax dollars and wasted many years investigating Donald Trump.
The Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee has been trying for a while to get the U.S. Supreme Court to give them access to grand jury materials redacted in ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report from the Russia investigation.
Now, the witch hunt is over for good after the Supreme Court ended the Democrats’ attempts to gain access to the materials.
Congressional Democrats’ years-long attempt to nail down whether then-President Donald Trump lied to special counsel Robert Mueller effectively ended on Friday, with the US Supreme Court wiping away court decisions where the House Judiciary Committee was told it could access secret grand jury records from key witnesses in the Mueller investigation.
The House now won’t get those grand jury records — bringing to a close Democrats’ pursuit of what witnesses in the Mueller investigation said confidentially under oath about their interactions with Trump and others during the 2016 campaign.
Since 2019, the Judiciary Committee had sought access to records from the Mueller investigation’s grand jury proceedings, which were cited in Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The House had repeatedly said it wanted the records so it could consider whether to impeach Trump for attempting to obstruct the Russia investigation, which Mueller also documented.
The Mueller investigation took over two years and spent tens of millions of dollars trying to find Trump guilty of committing a crime.
The witch hunt came up empty.
During a press conference back in 2019, then-Attorney General Willaim Barr said Mueller found no evidence that Trump, his campaign, or any American colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Barr said:
So that is the bottom line. After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the Special Counsel confirmed that the Russian government-sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes.
Barr made it clear that the White House offered “unfettered access,” “no redactions,” and “didn’t exert any executive privilege, which would be within their rights.”
This means that Trump and the White House provided Mueller’s team with essentially all of the records and documents they requested.
Barr also said the White House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel’s investigation, providing unfettered access to campaign and White House documents, directing senior aides to testify freely, and asserting no privilege claims.
The president has been completely vindicated after the two-year Russia witch hunt.
Pope Francis has undergone successful surgery to treat a colon problem at a hospital in Rome, the Vatican says.
The
84-year-old "responded well" to the treatment, which was performed
under general anaesthetic, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.
It is the first time Pope Francis has been admitted to hospital since his election in 2013.
Earlier on Sunday, the Argentine pontiff addressed thousands of visitors in St Peter's Square.
In
an earlier statement, the Vatican said Pope Francis was being treated
at the Gemelli University Hospital for "symptomatic diverticular
stenosis" of the colon.
Diverticular
disease is a condition that involves bulges in the wall of the large
intestine. This can lead to a narrowing, of the colon.
Symptoms include bloating, recurrent abdominal pain and changes in bowel habits.
The Vatican did not provide further details about the surgery or how long the Pope would remain in hospital.
During his Sunday blessing in St Peter's Square, the Pope announced that
he would go to Slovakia in September after celebrating Mass in
Budapest, the capital of neighbouring Hungary.
Born in 1936 in Buenos Aires, Francis lost part of his right lung at the age of 21.
He also suffers from a hip problem and sciatica, which causes pain that radiates from the lower back to the legs.
In 2014, he had to cancel a number of engagements because of a reported stomach ailment.
First things first, it is not my intent to outline the entire history of how we got to this place where the intelligence community now acts as the superseding fourth branch of government. Such an effort would be exhausting and only take our discussion away from understanding the current dynamic.
History has provided enough warnings from Dwight D Eisenhower (military aspect), to John F Kennedy (CIA aspect), to Richard Nixon (FBI aspect), to all modern versions of warnings and frustrations from HPSCI Devin Nunes and ODNI Ric Grenell. None of those prior reference points are invalid and all prior documented outlines of historical reference are likely true and accurate.
A historic affirmation is not the point of these outlines, nor is it useful.
Here we pick up the intelligence issues as they manifest after 9/11/01, and highlight how the modern version of the total intelligence apparatus has now metastasized into a fourth branch of government. If we take the modern construct we can highlight how and why the oversight or “check/balance” in the system has become functionally obsolescent.
Factually, the modern intelligence apparatus uses checks and balances in their favor. The checks create silos of proprietary information that works around oversight issues. That’s part of the problem.
Ironically the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created in the aftermath of 9/11/01 expressly to eliminate the silos of information which they felt led to a domestic terrorist attack that could have been prevented. The ODNI was created specifically upon the recommendation of the 9/11 commission.
The intent was to create a central hub of intelligence information, inside the executive branch, where the CIA, NSA, DoD, DoS, and DIA could deposit their unique intelligence products and a repository would be created so that domestic intelligence operations, like the DOJ and FBI could access them when needed to analyze threats to the U.S. This, they hoped, would ensure the obvious flags missed in the 9/11 attacks would not be missed again.
The DNI office created a problem for those who operate in the shadows of proprietary information. You’ll see how it was critical to install a person uniquely skilled in being an idiot, James Clapper, into that willfully blind role while intelligence operatives worked around the office to assemble the Intelligence Branch of government.
♦ The last federal budget that flowed through the traditional budgetary process was signed into law in September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008 by George W Bush. Every budget since then has been a fragmented process of continuing resolutions and individual spending bills.
Why does this matter? Because many people think defunding the IC is a solution; it ain’t… not yet. Worse yet, the corrupt divisions deep inside the U.S. intelligence system can now fund themselves from multinational private sector partnerships (banks, corporations and foreign entities).
♦ When Democrats took over the House of Representatives in January 2007, they took office with a plan. Nancy Pelosi became Speaker and Democrats controlled the Senate where Harry Reid was Majority Leader. Barack Obama was a junior senator from Illinois.
Pelosi and Reid intentionally did not advance a budget in 2008 (for fiscal year 2009) because their plan included installing Barack Obama (and all that came with him) with an open checkbook made even more lucrative by a worsening financial crisis and a process called baseline budgeting. Baseline budgeting means the prior fiscal year budget is accepted as the starting point for the next year budget. All previous expenditures are baked into the cake within baseline budgeting.
Massive bailouts preceded Obama’s installation due to U.S. economic collapse, and massive bailouts continued after his installation. This is the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ aspect. TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery Program), auto-bailouts (GM), and the massive stimulus spending bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, ie. those shovel ready jobs) were all part of the non budget spending. The federal reserve assisted with Quantitative Easing (QE1 and QE2) as congress passed various Porkulous spending bills further spending and replacing the formal budget process.
Note: There has never been a budget passed in the normal/traditional process since September of 2007.
♦ While Obama’s radical ‘transformation‘ was triggered across a broad range of government institutions, simultaneously spending on the U.S. military was cut but spending on the intelligence apparatus expanded. We were all distracted by Obamacare, and the Republican party wanted to keep us that way. However, in the background there was a process of transformation taking place that included very specific action by Eric Holder and targeted effort toward the newest executive agency the ODNI.
The people behind Obama, those same people now behind Joe Biden, knew from years of strategic planning that ‘radical transformation’ would require control over specific elements inside the U.S. government. Eric Holder played a key role in his position as U.S. Attorney General in the DOJ.
AG Holder recruited ideologically aligned political operatives who were aware of the larger institutional objectives. One of those objectives was weaponizing the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) a division inside the DOJ that had no inspector general oversight. For most people the DOJ-NSD weaponization surfaced with a hindsight awakening of the DOJ-NSD targeting candidate Donald Trump many years later. However, by then the Holder crew had executed almost eight full years of background work.
♦ The second larger Obama/Holder objective was control over the FBI. Why was that important? Because the FBI does the domestic investigative work on anyone who needs or holds a security clearance. The removal of security clearances could be used as a filter to further build the internal ideological army they were assembling. Additionally, with new power in the ODNI created as a downstream consequence of the Patriot Act, new protocols for U.S. security clearances were easy to justify.
Carefully selecting fellow ideological travelers was facilitated by this filtration within the security clearance process. How does that issue later manifest?… just look around at how politicized every intelligence agency has become, specifically including the FBI.
♦ At the exact same time this new background security clearance process was ongoing, again everyone distracted by the fight over Obamacare, inside the Department of State (Secretary Hillary Clinton) a political alignment making room for the next phase was being assembled. Names like Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton were familiar on television while Lisa Monaco worked as a legal liaison between the Obama White House and Clinton State Department.
Through the Dept of State (DoS) the intelligence apparatus began working on their first steps to align Big Tech with a larger domestic institutional objective. Those of you who remember the “Arab Spring”, some say “Islamist Spring”, will remember it was triggered by Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo – his first foreign trip. The State Department worked with grassroots organizers (mostly Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar and Libya. Obama leaned heavily on the organizational network of Turkish President Recep Erdogan for contacts and support.
Why does this aspect matter to us? Well, you might remember how much effort the Obama administration put into recruiting Facebook and Twitter as resources for the various mid-east rebellions the White House and DoS supported. This was the point of modern merge between the U.S. intelligence community and Big Tech social media.
In many ways the coordinated political outcomes in Libya and Egypt were the beta test for the coordinated domestic political outcomes we saw in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community working with social media platforms and political operatives.
Overlaying all of that background activity was also a new alignment of the Obama-era intelligence apparatus with ideological federal “contractors“. Where does this contractor activity manifest? In the FISA Court opinion of Rosemary Collyer who cited the “interagency memorandum of understanding”, or MOU.
Hopefully you can see a small part of how tentacled the system to organize/weaponize the intelligence apparatus was. None of this was accidental, all of this was by design and the United States Senate was responsible for intentionally allowing most of this to take place.
That’s the 30,000/ft level backdrop history of what was happening as the modern IC was created. Next we will go into how all these various intelligence networks began working in unison and how they currently control all of the other DC institutions under them; including how they can carve out the President from knowing their activity.
[SEE Also The Declassification Conundrum ONE and TWO.]
Article by Eileen F. Toplansky in The American Thinker
Wokeness in Art and Music
Daily the Marxists/Leftists/Communists among us infiltrate every aspect of our society. Consequently, "the individual
shrinks in proportion as the state grows" yet the Left continues to
work towards an alleged utopia even though "this 'ideal society' would
be the graveyard of human greatness."
Biden and Harris speak as if "confused
ideas and muddy ponds appear deep" when, in fact, they are empty
rhetoric. As Nicolas Gomez Davila pointed out "stupidity is the mother
of revolutionary atrocities; savageness is only the godmother" and "the
greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe
that the devil has died."
The true sadness is that "violence is
not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from
indifference toward the unique values which created it." Hence,
literature, history, statues, children's books, humor, film, art and
music are now under attack by those whose only aim is the total
evisceration of America and her exceptional values.
Consequently, in the lunacy of wokeness, how long will it be before Winslow Homer's
images of blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction years come
under attack? After all, Winslow Homer was a white man who dared to
paint black figures during this tumultuous time period.
According to the exhibition text titled Winslow Homer'sImages of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years
by Peter H. Wood and Karen C.C. Dalton, "[W]hen Winslow Homer displayed
'The Bright Side in New York City' in April 1865 -- only days after
Lee's surrender and Lincoln's death -- black persons were still not
allowed to enter the galleries of the National Academy of Design."
Clearly this was racism in full bloom and it would be a "full century
before art depicting black people would appear on the walls of museums."
Yet, Winslow Homer's paintings of black America during this period
"stood apart from the 'average artist's minstrel-show conception' of
black people."
Although Homer called them his "darkey pictures" --
clearly offensive to modern ears, by "placing black children in the
role of pupil and/or initiate, the artist was making allusions to the
remedial training (both personal and political growth)" that was
incumbent upon this new generation of emancipated black people.
Homer's black imagery introduced the changing attitude of America towards its black citizens. In essence, art served as the nonverbal patina of how a society evolves.
But
fast forward to woke America -- who will be the first Marxist-trained
individual to claim that a white man has no right to paint black
figures? Who among the communist agitators will claim that the
paintings of Homer, a reclusive New Englander, need be removed from art
museums because a young white man born in 1836 could not possibly have
any sensitivity to the issue of black servitude and discrimination in
this country? After all, the level of melanin one is born with is now
the only gauge by which one is deemed a racist.
As a matter of fact, Critical Race Art History is currently taking center stage. Camara Dia Holloway states
that "Critical Race Art History (CRAH) draws on the insights of social,
feminist, and queer histories of art [as well as] critical race theory,
postcolonial theory, and African diaspora studies…. that gained
traction in the 1980s and 1990s building on the scholarship of Derrick
Bell and others."
It should be noted that "the late Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. is considered... the godfather, of 'critical race theory,'
an academic discipline which maintains that society is divided along
racial lines into (white) oppressors and (black) victims, similar to the
way Marxism frames the oppressor/victim dichotomy along class lines.
Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its
core [.]"
But art is not the only discipline under attack from those who see everything through the lens of race. In the December 2020 First Things article titled "Colorblind and Tone-Deaf,"
author Bruno Chaouat writes how in November 2019, Hunter College
professor Philip Ewell, "alleged the existence of elitism, color
blindness, Eurocentrism, racism, and xenophobia in the field of music
theory in North America. Ewell's main target was Heinrich Schenker, an
Austrian Jewish music theorist of the early 20th century who founded a
school of classical music theory. Ewell objected to the 'white racial
frame' that dominates Schenkerian music theory."
According
to Ewell "if racism is a structure, then the 'white racial frame' --
classical music in its European incarnation -- must be destroyed."
Instead Ewell suggests that the "study of rap in music theory will
result in promoting social justice by fostering awareness of racism."
As
is so often the case with leftist thinking, the fact that rap lyrics
are often violently anti-Semitic and sexist is ignored. But since Jews
are now construed as part of the power structure -- as white -- this
means nothing to the Critical Race Theory proponents and those who crow
about their anti-racist credentials.
'Teaching Inequality: Problems with Traditional Music Theory Pedagogy'
described how the near exclusive and yet unnecessary reliance on
Western art music, institutionalized as white and as male, upholds white
supremacy within the music theory classroom. In 'Promoting Equity,' we
present strategies on how to begin disrupting
[emphasis mine] this normalization of whiteness, starting with making
it visible. We should think of this disruption as a process rather than a
product -- antiracist describes actions, not states of being.
And with perfect activist virtue signaling, Dave Molk continues:
As a white man, speaking of whiteness in the effort to de-center it
runs the seemingly paradoxical risk of re-centering whiteness. Even in
the midst of calling out unearned privilege, I reap its benefits -- the
presumed authority associated with this aspect of my identity ensures
that my voice sounds louder and carries further than the majority of
those who do not share it.
And yet, the problem of not speaking up is a form of complicity in
the face of ongoing oppression. Calling attention to an injustice forces
a decision from those who practice willful ignorance: a decision
between confrontation and conscious evasion.
As whiteness becomes noticeable, it becomes noteworthy, and we can recognize its ubiquity as unnatural and intentional.
How would they explain their perspective to the many black composers whose compositional foundation was in the world of classical music, e.g., José Silvestre White, Florence B. White?
Chaouat
writes that it should be remembered that "the barbarity of the [Nazi]
SS system was characterized by the destruction of culture and by a
language that had lost its syntax, a language of chaos and noise and
bestial immediacy. Restoring civilization meant, among other things,
retrieving language as a mediated form of communication."
In reality,
Both identity and politics have played major roles in musical expression throughout history, but 'identity politics'
in the music theory field today is not about revealing how they are
communicated in the music. Instead, it has become a belief that there is
a fixed amount of intellectual space in the music theory world, and
that fixed space has too many white males in it. It is a belief that the
only way to achieve equity in music theory is to silence not just
'problematic' voices but to diminish entire 'problematic' modes of
thinking. This is a false and immoral belief.
There should not be any limit to the ideas we can explore, nor should
there be any arbiters suppressing them. With calls like these, however,
leftists once again reveal they do want limits on ideas, and they do
want suppression of the 'problematic' ones. That is because they enjoy
being the suppressors.
When juxtaposed against the wanton ravaging of artistic
creations, i.e., statues, and the increasing meaningless of language, it
becomes crystal clear that those who destroy the cultural icons care
not a whit for the sensitivities and nuances of historical evolution and
artistic creativity. They should be called out in every venue and
exposed for their disingenuousness and their malevolence.
U.S.—Journalists across the country are struggling to fill broadcast time and newspaper space today. According to sources, there is almost nothing interesting or important to cover in the news, since Biden hasn't eaten an ice cream cone yet.
"Ugh... why is this so hard?" said Washington Post correspondent Sethro McBubbles as he banged his head against the keyboard. "Crimewave in Chicago? Meh. Crackdown in Hong Kong? Boring. Oh, WHY can't President Biden go get another chocolate chocolate chip waffle cone? Now THAT would be newsworthy. I hate slow news days."
According to sources, McBubbles was torn between filling space with coverage of a local story where a rabid squirrel disrupted a pie-eating contest, or starting an investigation into why tube socks are racist.
His thoughts were interrupted by a blaring siren and red light in the newsroom indicating breaking news.
"Biden's making a stop at Dairy Queen! WE NEED SOMEONE ON-SITE TO FIND OUT WHAT FLAVOR HE ORDERED!"
"Yes! Here we go!" said McBubbles while grabbing his equipment and running out the door as fast as he could. "I love my job!"
We must stop them from turning this into a government of the elitists, by the elitists, for the elitists
Article by Oliver North (Lt. Col. USMC Ret.) in Townhall
July 4, 1776: Sacrificing for Freedom
Every year on July 4, Americans celebrate a miracle: the founding of
the United States of America. Our Declaration of Independence has 1,337
eloquent words, crafted by Thomas Jefferson and the 56 members of the
Second Continental Congress. Those words turned the world upside down.
To
this day, our Declaration of Independence is the only seminal document
of any nation on earth to pay homage to God Almighty. No other founding
instrument reflects on "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," nor
does any other proclaim all people are "created equal" and "endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."
No other national
manuscript appeals to the "Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude
of our Intentions." Nor does any such proclamation place the fate of its
founders in the hands of God with a prayer: "For the support of this
Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes,
and our sacred Honor."
Our Founders' stirring prose, their
affirmation of "self-evident," God-given "Truths" and their carefully
constructed "bill of particulars" listing 27 tyrannical offenses
perpetrated by Britain's monarch are without parallel in justifying
independence. And there is more -- the extraordinary assertion:
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from
the Consent of the Governed."
In 1776, it was one thing to express these concepts on
parchment but quite another to make them reality. Standing in the way of
achieving the Founders' vision was the largest, best-equipped and
best-trained military land and sea forces in the world. The Americans,
on the other hand, had no Army or Navy; just patriots determined to be
free.
The reason our country even exists today can be summarized
in one word: sacrifice. The Founders and Gen. George Washington's
intrepid citizen-soldiers risked everything for freedom.
All 56
visionaries who signed the Declaration of Independence were declared to
be traitors to the British crown, tried in-absentia, hunted, hounded and
sentenced to death if caught. Fourteen of the signers didn't live to
celebrate our victory over the British at Yorktown, Virginia, on Friday,
October 19, 1781. By then, Washington's citizen-soldiers endured seven
years of starvation, crippling wounds, frostbite, disease, exhaustion
and continual defeats, yet persevered to win American independence.
Contrast
this with what's happened since Joe Biden became president. Washington
and our Founders did everything in their power to build the meager
American military. Biden seems determined to tear down our military.
Rather than properly funding national defense, Biden proposes major
budget cuts and diverting funds to his pet social programs. Instead of
ensuring America's soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen and Marines are
the best equipped, best trained troops in the world, Biden and his
"progressive" puppet masters are using our military as a laboratory for
social experimentation and indoctrination in leftist orthodoxy. Sadly,
pension-protecting politicians, masquerading as generals, are going
along to get along.
While Communist China is building a navy surpassing ours
in both size and capabilities, U.S. military leaders are indoctrinating
American troops in critical race theory and supposed "white privilege."
Chinese military leaders are equipping and training the largest standing
army in the world while U.S. military leaders provide sex reassignment
operations to transgender troops at taxpayers' expense. As Chinese
Communist officers use extensive budgets to buy influence around the
world, U.S.-elected officials are undermining America's credibility by
refusing to honor commitments to allies like Afghani interpreters who
have faithfully served our nation's military for nearly two decades.
If Biden and his fellow "progressives" were in charge on July 4,
1776, there would never have been a Declaration of Independence and
America would still be a British colony.
No one has milked the events of January 6 more than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). She set the official narrative early and often, a storyline her scribes in the news media have dutifully repeated without question or scrutiny.
“[Y]esterday, the president of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America, the gleeful desecration of the U.S. Capitol, which is the temple of our American democracy,” Pelosi lamented in a hyperdramatic press conference the day after the raucous protest. She accused President Trump of “sedition” and urged his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him just two weeks before he officially left the White House.
Nearly every word in her opening statement that day is untrue. The president didn’t “incite” the violence; it was not an insurrection, armed or otherwise, and the only person who used a firearm was a still-unidentified Capitol police officer who killed an unarmed female veteran.
Aside from a few smashed windows, no one gleefully desecrated property—one could convincingly make the argument that the daily presence of lawmakers such as Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Cori Bush (D-Mo.), among others represents the true desecration of the property—and America isn’t supposed to believe in sacred “temples” of governmental power. It’s also the same place where Democrats plotted for four years to “attack our democracy” by attempting to remove the duly-elected president of the United States.
To the contrary, buildings paid for by taxpayers to conduct the official business of taxpayer-funded employees once considered public servants but who now consider their taxpaying constituents the servants to their heavy-handed mastery is the ideal location to rise up against the U.S. government.
It has always been this way. For example, it was just fine when thousands of hysterical protesters occupied the Hart Senate Office building and stalked U.S. senators in 2018 to try to stop the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, screaming from the Senate gallery then pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court in an effort to disrupt his swearing-in ceremony. An MSNBC reporter at the time called the chaos “an extraordinary moment,” not an “insurrection.”
It also was totally cool when thousands of climate activists, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), occupied Pelosi’s office that same year to demand action on the environment. Pelosi didn’t scold those activists for desecrating the temple of democracy; she quickly acquiesced to their public pressure campaign.
Pelosi has lied about what happened to Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, orchestrating optics such as his memorial service in the Capitol rotunda and subsequent procession and burial at Arlington National Cemetery. She has incorrectly said on numerous occasions that “multiple people” died in the melee. (Again, the only person killed was Ashli Babbitt.)
Her henchmen in Congress executed a second impeachment trial against Donald Trump after he left office based on a number of her falsehoods about January 6; she has referred to Republican House members as the “enemy within.”
That’s just a short list of Pelosi’s lies, hyperbole, and political machinations tied to the events of January 6. Fearful she’ll again lose the speaker’s gavel after next year’s midterm elections, Pelosi hopes to weaponize the Capitol protest against Republicans in 2022.
Pelosi has now announced Democrats will go it alone—with the exception of turncoat Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)—to investigate January 6. Describing the four-hour disturbance “one of the darkest days in our history,” Pelosi confessed that she is suffering from “trauma she can never forget.” (Apparently many of Pelosi’s Democratic underlings and even Capitol Police officers cannot get past the Saigon-like siege of the Capitol on January 6. USCP officers are receiving comfort from the department’s new emotional support dog, Lila.)
“Nearly six months later, many questions regarding the circumstances of this assault on our democracy and the response to it remain,” Pelosi said during a June 24 press conference announcing the formation of her select committee. “It is imperative we seek the truth.”
For once, I agree with Pelosi. Americans indeed deserve the unvarnished truth about what happened before, during, and after January 6. The overheated spin cranked out on an hourly basis by none other than Pelosi herself should be set aside and replaced with reality.
To start, Pelosi’s commission should demand the release of the 14,000 hours of USCP surveillance footage the government wants to keep secret. Americans need to see minute-by-minute what unfolded on January 6. The commission should also demand to see all the materials related to the now-closed investigation into the killing of Ashli Babbitt. The full autopsy results for Babbitt, Sicknick, Roseanne Boyland, Kevin Greeson, and Benjamin Phillips should be made public; ditto for autopsy reports on the two police officers who allegedly committed suicide.
Additionally, here are just a few questions Pelosi’s inquisition should answer:
1) Why were requests made by USCP, a federal agency under the purview of Congress, for extra security ahead of January 6 denied?
2) Why did law enforcement including USCP and D.C. Metro Police show up wearing full riot gear including gas masks and batons?
3) Who authorized police to attack the peaceful crowd with flashbangs, sting balls, and tear gas around 1:00 p.m.?
4) Have any police officers been charged with assault?5) Who seeded the lie that Brian Sicknick was killed in the line of duty and who told the New York Times he was murdered by a Trump mob with a fire extinguisher?
6) Did any FBI agents or informants infiltrate groups such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters before January 6?
7) Who were the officers caught on tape allowing protesters into the building?
8) Who opened the doors on the upper west terrace at approximately 2:30 p.m. at the direction of an unknown USCP officer?
9) How much damage did the building sustain? The architect of the Capitol originally claimed $30 million in damages. But in court filings, the government claims the building only sustained about $1.5 million in damages.
10) On January 7, Pelosi called the Capitol riot an “armed insurrection?” How many people have been charged with carrying a firearm into the building?
11) Why was Pelosi’s son-in-law reporting from the scene that day?
12) How many Americans have been charged with sedition?
13) How many Americans remain incarcerated under pre-trial detention orders awaiting delayed trials that won’t start until next year?
14) Who authorized the opening of the “pod” in the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility jail to house January 6 defendants specifically?
15) Are there reports of mental and physical abuse of January 6 detainees by D.C. prison guards, including solitary confinement conditions for months on end and lack of access to defense lawyers?
16) How much money is being spent on the various investigations into January 6?
17) Should social media companies including Facebook and Twitter be criminally charged for allowing protesters to organize the “insurrection” on their platforms?
18) Who are the anonymous “proud members of the United State Capitol Police” threatening to withhold security from members of Congress who did not support a commission?
19) How many “white supremacists” have been identified by law enforcement?
20) Who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt?
It’s unlikely, of course, that Pelosi’s truth-seeking mission will result in anything more than reheated political spin, recriminations, and fuel for nonstop media attention. But Americans, and Republican leaders including Donald Trump, should keep asking legitimate questions and demanding truthful answers.
History has provided enough warnings from Dwight D Eisenhower (military aspect), to John F Kennedy (CIA aspect), to Richard Nixon (FBI aspect), to all modern versions of warnings and frustrations from HPSCI Devin Nunes and ODNI Ric Grenell. None of those prior reference points are invalid and all prior documented outlines of historical reference are likely true and accurate.
The people behind Obama, those same people now behind Joe Biden, knew from years of strategic planning that ‘radical transformation’ would require control over specific elements inside the U.S. government. Eric Holder played a key role in his position as U.S. Attorney General in the DOJ.
