Jan 14, 2021 02:00 AM
In the light of the links given by Syne I accept that "fight like hell" has a local meaning that may not be fully appreciated beyond the confines of the US.
Jan 14, 2021 02:00 AM
Jan 14, 2021 02:02 AM
Jan 14, 2021 02:14 AM
(Jan 14, 2021 02:02 AM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ]https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/13...19425?s=20
That was very, very good to see.
Jan 14, 2021 02:20 AM
(Jan 14, 2021 02:02 AM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ]https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/13...19425?s=20
Also, the Rep. Jim Jordan tweet on there (EDIT: Which has mysteriously disappeared now? 'Nuff said.)
The Left:
-Won’t let you go to church.
-Won’t let you go to work.
-Won’t let you go to school.
And now? They don’t want you to be able to speak.
Which somewhat jibes with this individual's complaint below.
- - - - -
Left-wing reporters demand Twitter silence conservative reporters that have done nothing wrong
https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing...hing-wrong
EXCERPTS: Left-wing reporters have started calling on Twitter to ban their conservative competitors after the social media giant permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account. [...] The calls from left-wing reporters come after Big Tech began its crackdown on Trump and his supporters. Twitter permanently banned Trump from its platform on Friday, claiming that Trump’s tweets about his supporters continuing to be heard and not attending President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration – neither of which included calls to violence of any kind – somehow violated Twitter’s guidelines on inciting or glorifying violence... (MORE - details)
Jan 15, 2021 02:18 AM
The lead up (the incitement?) has also gone - double edged sword.
Jan 15, 2021 03:21 AM
(Jan 15, 2021 02:18 AM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]The lead up (the incitement?) has also gone - double edged sword.
There was no incitement. As archives I've posted show, Twitter is only hiding the fact that Trump didn't incite anything. And morons believe them.
Jan 15, 2021 05:23 AM
Biden launches new Twitter account to build following before taking command of White House @POTUS on Inauguration Day
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021...168127001/
EXCERPT: "These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration," Twitter said. "People on Twitter who previously followed institutional White House Twitter accounts, or who currently follow relevant Biden or Harris Twitter accounts, will receive in-app alerts and other prompts that will notify them about the archival process, as well as give them the option to follow the new administration’s Twitter accounts."
The Trump administration’s @POTUS account will be publicly archived as @POTUS45 just as Obama was archived as @POTUS44, Twitter said... (MORE - details)
Pence Makes Unscheduled Trip To See National Guard Members Stationed At US Capitol
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/14/mike-...tion-riot/
INTRO: Vice President Mike Pence made an unscheduled visit Thursday to see National Guard members who are stationed at the U.S. Capitol as they prepare for President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration after Trump supporters stormed the building.
Pence visited the Guardsmen after a security meeting about the inauguration ceremony for Biden, which Pence is likely to attend and President Donald Trump will not, according to The Hill. “Thank you for stepping forward for your country,” Pence told the Guardsmen outside the Capitol. “It’s been my great honor to serve as your vice president, and I want to thank you for your service,” he added... (MORE)
The House impeached Trump again, but what about the trial?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...-the-trial
EXCERPT: J. Michael Luttig, a former judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (1991 to 2006), argued in the Washington Post that senators will run into legal challenges if they attempt to convict Trump to prevent him from holding office again.
"Once Trump's term ends on January 20, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him, even if the House has already approved articles of impeachment," Luttig wrote.
Democrats, and probably a few Republicans, hope that by impeaching and convicting Trump, they can block him from any future election to higher office.
But Luttig said Article I, Section 3 indicates that the Senate could only stop Trump from holding public office if it removes him as a sitting president.
"It is a constitutional impeachment of a president that authorizes his constitutional disqualification," Luttig wrote.
Some senators have already questioned the legality of a post-presidency trial... (MORE - details)
What is the endgame for Trump?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...-for-trump
EXCERPTS: Ten House Republicans voted with Democrats to impeach him for inciting an insurrectionist mob against the government. Obstacles remain to a Senate conviction, however.
In his impeachment last year, the White House counsel's office helped spearhead the president's impeachment defense strategy. Trump has no such support this time.
[...] as the week wore on, Trump's plans for a new impeachment defense had not emerged. "We better have one," Miller told the Washington Examiner of a potential strategy.
Trump may be in luck, however. The Senate does not resume until Tuesday, one day before he is set to leave office.
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz predicted that in light of this, there would not be much to come. "You can't impeach a president based on a speech that he made that's constitutionally protected," Dershowitz told the Washington Examiner. "And then, there'll be no trial because you can't have a trial once the president has left the office. So there's really no role for a lawyer."
Dershowitz, who aided Trump in his impeachment defense last year, said [...] he had not talked to Trump about a case. "This is just political theater, and I'm not an actor. I'm a lawyer," he told the Washington Examiner.
Banished to the internet's hinterlands, Trump is issuing statements through his press office, a rarity over the past four years that saw his tweets become virtual canon... (MORE - details)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021...168127001/
EXCERPT: "These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration," Twitter said. "People on Twitter who previously followed institutional White House Twitter accounts, or who currently follow relevant Biden or Harris Twitter accounts, will receive in-app alerts and other prompts that will notify them about the archival process, as well as give them the option to follow the new administration’s Twitter accounts."
The Trump administration’s @POTUS account will be publicly archived as @POTUS45 just as Obama was archived as @POTUS44, Twitter said... (MORE - details)
Pence Makes Unscheduled Trip To See National Guard Members Stationed At US Capitol
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/14/mike-...tion-riot/
INTRO: Vice President Mike Pence made an unscheduled visit Thursday to see National Guard members who are stationed at the U.S. Capitol as they prepare for President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration after Trump supporters stormed the building.
Pence visited the Guardsmen after a security meeting about the inauguration ceremony for Biden, which Pence is likely to attend and President Donald Trump will not, according to The Hill. “Thank you for stepping forward for your country,” Pence told the Guardsmen outside the Capitol. “It’s been my great honor to serve as your vice president, and I want to thank you for your service,” he added... (MORE)
The House impeached Trump again, but what about the trial?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...-the-trial
EXCERPT: J. Michael Luttig, a former judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (1991 to 2006), argued in the Washington Post that senators will run into legal challenges if they attempt to convict Trump to prevent him from holding office again.
"Once Trump's term ends on January 20, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him, even if the House has already approved articles of impeachment," Luttig wrote.
Democrats, and probably a few Republicans, hope that by impeaching and convicting Trump, they can block him from any future election to higher office.
But Luttig said Article I, Section 3 indicates that the Senate could only stop Trump from holding public office if it removes him as a sitting president.
"It is a constitutional impeachment of a president that authorizes his constitutional disqualification," Luttig wrote.
Some senators have already questioned the legality of a post-presidency trial... (MORE - details)
What is the endgame for Trump?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...-for-trump
EXCERPTS: Ten House Republicans voted with Democrats to impeach him for inciting an insurrectionist mob against the government. Obstacles remain to a Senate conviction, however.
In his impeachment last year, the White House counsel's office helped spearhead the president's impeachment defense strategy. Trump has no such support this time.
[...] as the week wore on, Trump's plans for a new impeachment defense had not emerged. "We better have one," Miller told the Washington Examiner of a potential strategy.
Trump may be in luck, however. The Senate does not resume until Tuesday, one day before he is set to leave office.
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz predicted that in light of this, there would not be much to come. "You can't impeach a president based on a speech that he made that's constitutionally protected," Dershowitz told the Washington Examiner. "And then, there'll be no trial because you can't have a trial once the president has left the office. So there's really no role for a lawyer."
Dershowitz, who aided Trump in his impeachment defense last year, said [...] he had not talked to Trump about a case. "This is just political theater, and I'm not an actor. I'm a lawyer," he told the Washington Examiner.
Banished to the internet's hinterlands, Trump is issuing statements through his press office, a rarity over the past four years that saw his tweets become virtual canon... (MORE - details)
Jan 15, 2021 06:57 PM
Trump Approval Hits All-Time Low In Latest Pew Poll
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/15/trump...g-pew-low/
INTRO: President Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit an all-time low during his presidency, according to a poll released by Pew Research on Friday, which found a steep drop in Republican support for the president.
Just 29% of poll respondents said they approve of Trump’s presidency, with 68% saying they disapprove of how he is handling his job.
Pew surveyed 5,360 American adults from Jan. 8-12, days after mobs of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol to protest the results of the presidential election... (MORE)
Conservatives accuse liberals and Big Tech of using Capitol assault as pretext for censorship
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...lt-pretext
INTRO: Conservatives say Big Tech companies, pressured by liberals, are using the Capitol attack to justify the unfair censorship of Republicans and the removal of platforms like Parler.
Nathan Leamer, former adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, said there was a “cabal of reporters, writers, influencers, who generally work at places like MSNBC, the New York Times, and such” who get to decide what is or isn’t allowed on social media and who is or is not censored.
“Through their influence, they have a direct line to those in charge of the moderation practices of Twitter,” said Leamer, who is now a vice president at the Republican strategy firm Targeted Victory.
[...] Peter Navarro, Trump’s top trade adviser, told the Washington Examiner that most Big Tech companies have been aggressively moderating certain violent content “as a way of building goodwill, with the Biden administration and Democrats on the Hill, in the hopes of fending off what, until recently, had been a bipartisan challenge to their collusive oligopoly."
Navarro claims that the combined powers of Big Tech companies, primarily Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, and Google, represent a "collusive oligopoly" that is weakening the First Amendment through content moderation.
Although most conservatives disagreed strongly with the Capitol attack last week and acknowledge the role some Republicans played in encouraging it, many see a double standard in how the content created by liberals and conservatives is censored by the Big Tech gatekeepers... (MORE - details)
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/15/trump...g-pew-low/
INTRO: President Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit an all-time low during his presidency, according to a poll released by Pew Research on Friday, which found a steep drop in Republican support for the president.
Just 29% of poll respondents said they approve of Trump’s presidency, with 68% saying they disapprove of how he is handling his job.
Pew surveyed 5,360 American adults from Jan. 8-12, days after mobs of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol to protest the results of the presidential election... (MORE)
Conservatives accuse liberals and Big Tech of using Capitol assault as pretext for censorship
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...lt-pretext
INTRO: Conservatives say Big Tech companies, pressured by liberals, are using the Capitol attack to justify the unfair censorship of Republicans and the removal of platforms like Parler.
Nathan Leamer, former adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, said there was a “cabal of reporters, writers, influencers, who generally work at places like MSNBC, the New York Times, and such” who get to decide what is or isn’t allowed on social media and who is or is not censored.
“Through their influence, they have a direct line to those in charge of the moderation practices of Twitter,” said Leamer, who is now a vice president at the Republican strategy firm Targeted Victory.
[...] Peter Navarro, Trump’s top trade adviser, told the Washington Examiner that most Big Tech companies have been aggressively moderating certain violent content “as a way of building goodwill, with the Biden administration and Democrats on the Hill, in the hopes of fending off what, until recently, had been a bipartisan challenge to their collusive oligopoly."
Navarro claims that the combined powers of Big Tech companies, primarily Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, and Google, represent a "collusive oligopoly" that is weakening the First Amendment through content moderation.
Although most conservatives disagreed strongly with the Capitol attack last week and acknowledge the role some Republicans played in encouraging it, many see a double standard in how the content created by liberals and conservatives is censored by the Big Tech gatekeepers... (MORE - details)
Jan 16, 2021 07:48 AM
Fuhgeddaboudism
https://spectator.org/capitol-riot-fuhgeddaboudism/
They Can’t Leave the Bay Area Fast Enough
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/techn...oving.html
INTRO: Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you. If you lived in San Francisco, you might have commuted an hour south to your job at Apple or Google or Facebook. Or if your office was in the city, maybe it was in a neighborhood with too much street crime, open drug use and $5 coffees.
But it was worth it. Living in the epicenter of a boom that was changing the world was what mattered. The city gave its workers a choice of interesting jobs and a chance at the brass ring.
That is, until the pandemic. Remote work offered a chance at residing for a few months in towns where life felt easier. [...] They fled. They fled to tropical beach towns. They fled to more affordable places like Georgia. They fled to states without income taxes like Texas and Florida.
That’s where the story of the Bay Area’s latest tech era is ending for a growing crowd of tech workers and their companies. They have suddenly movable jobs and money in the bank — money that will go plenty further somewhere else.
But where? The No. 1 pick for people leaving San Francisco is Austin, Texas, with other winners including Seattle, New York and Chicago, according to moveBuddha, a site that compiles data on moving. Some cities have even set up recruiting programs to lure them to new homes. Miami’s mayor has even been inviting tech people to move there in his Twitter posts.
I talked to more than two dozen tech executives and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the country over the last year [..] Here are some of their stories... (MORE)
Trump’s Support Is More About Policies Than Personality
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/14/tru...rsonality/
INTRO: Anti-Trump “conservatives” [...] all have something in common. They almost always attack the president’s tone or personal actions and almost never his administration’s actions and policies. This isn’t an accident. It is because in many cases they do not share Trump’s policy preferences, but those policies are far more popular with voters than theirs are.
On issues such as global trade, aggressive opposition to China, ending foreign wars, growing American manufacturing, securing the border, and using government to fight the culture wars, Trump has transformed the Republican Party. Trump is not a Chamber of Commerce Republican; in fact, the Chamber denounced him this week and threatened donations to pro-Trump Republicans. Like most things, this decision was all about money and power, not about any dedication to democracy.
The hope for this small but very influential group of Republicans and former Republicans over the last four years has been that if conservative voters come to dislike Trump, they will also stop liking his policies. In fact, many are blunt about the fact that they think most of his voters are too stupid to even know what his policies are. That is wrong, and it’s why their past efforts to wrest back Republican voters have failed and why this one will too.
There are, of course, voters in the thrall of Trump’s cult of personality, just as there were under Obama. But I have talked to a lot of Trump voters all over the country in the past several years, and most of them take a transactional view of Trump. They know he can be petty and vindictive, but they also know he has achieved wins on their issues — the ones listed above, not the Chamber of Commerce issues — that would have been impossible for the GOP to achieve before Trump.
What exactly constitutes Trump’s political philosophy is hotly debated, with some people arguing he has none. But it’s actually very simple. Trump echoes almost exactly the 1990s politics of Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and the Reform Party. From Perot, he takes his skepticism on global trade, immigration, and foreign wars. From Buchanan, he borrows a unique and fearless willingness to fight against political correctness. These issues have always had a big constituency, just not previously one big enough to compete with the Democrats and Republicans. Now they are the Republicans... (MORE)
Collective Guilt And The New Witch Hunt
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/...itch-hunt/
INTRO: Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” was the question used in congressional hearings in the 1950s in what was portrayed as a witch hunt against leftists that blighted American freedom of speech. A new witch hunt is sweeping Washington, Silicon Valley, and much of the media based on the following question: “Do you currently have any doubts or have you ever written or said anything disparaging the vote counts of the 2020 presidential election?”
Anyone who questions the final vote of that election is now literally being derided as a traitor. Regardless of 65 million mail-in ballots (for which fraud is “vastly more prevalent,” according to the New York Times), regardless of the last minute changes in election procedures in key swing states, and regardless of controversies about computer voting software, anyone who does not attest to the final proclaimed vote count is finding themselves forever damned – or at least that is the intent of Democratic activists and social media companies.
The definition of treason has been vastly expanded in the past weeks to include members of Congress who filed a lawful challenge against the 2020 electoral tally. Even though Democrats vigorously challenged Republican presidential victories in 2000, 2004, and 2016 (Nancy Pelosi declared in May 2017, “Our [2016] election was hijacked… Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy”), any challenges to last November’s results suddenly became intolerable. Forty-eight Democratic members of Congress have co-sponsored a resolution calling for expelling potentially more than a hundred Republican lawmakers who pledged to object to certifying the 2020 election results. The resolution claims that those Republican lawmakers are guilty of violating the 14th Amendment’s provision prohibiting federal officeholders from having “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the [United States], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Expelling all those members of Congress would disenfranchise all the voters in those states and congressional districts in the name of punishing anyone who raised questions about the national vote count. While Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tx) maintained that America needed healing, she also declared that “accountability comes before healing.” [Pg. 136 of transcript]
Both before and after the 2020 election, the dominant media narrative endlessly recited that voter fraud was a myth. Facebook earlier this week deleted all posts that included the phrase “Stop the Steal.”
Will a long history of electoral frauds by Tammany Hall and other political racketeers be expunged like a bunch of Confederate monuments toppled in the middle of the night? After the backlash to challenges to the 2020 election, must Americans now unquestioningly accept the vote count in every state, county, and dog patch in every election? Why is it now impious to suspect that politicians who brazenly lie on the campaign trail and in office would also connive to illicitly win elections?
On top of the new thought prohibitions, anyone who criticized or protested the election results is now collectively guilty for any violence that occurred during the January 6 clash between Trump supporters and police at the U.S. Capitol. After a policeman suffered fatal injuries from that during the melee, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the House Democratic Caucus chair, declared on Tuesday, “Blood is on the hands of every single House Republican sycophant. Who perpetrated the big lie. That Trump won the election.” [Sentence breaks accurate for the tweet.]
Most Americans support vigorous prosecution for the individuals who violently attacked police during that clash but that is not enough for many Democrats or Justice Department officials. They seek harsh punishments for the hundreds if not thousands of people who walked into open doors at the Capitol and did no violence prior to peacefully exiting the building... (MORE)
https://spectator.org/capitol-riot-fuhgeddaboudism/
They Can’t Leave the Bay Area Fast Enough
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/techn...oving.html
INTRO: Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you. If you lived in San Francisco, you might have commuted an hour south to your job at Apple or Google or Facebook. Or if your office was in the city, maybe it was in a neighborhood with too much street crime, open drug use and $5 coffees.
But it was worth it. Living in the epicenter of a boom that was changing the world was what mattered. The city gave its workers a choice of interesting jobs and a chance at the brass ring.
That is, until the pandemic. Remote work offered a chance at residing for a few months in towns where life felt easier. [...] They fled. They fled to tropical beach towns. They fled to more affordable places like Georgia. They fled to states without income taxes like Texas and Florida.
That’s where the story of the Bay Area’s latest tech era is ending for a growing crowd of tech workers and their companies. They have suddenly movable jobs and money in the bank — money that will go plenty further somewhere else.
But where? The No. 1 pick for people leaving San Francisco is Austin, Texas, with other winners including Seattle, New York and Chicago, according to moveBuddha, a site that compiles data on moving. Some cities have even set up recruiting programs to lure them to new homes. Miami’s mayor has even been inviting tech people to move there in his Twitter posts.
I talked to more than two dozen tech executives and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the country over the last year [..] Here are some of their stories... (MORE)
Trump’s Support Is More About Policies Than Personality
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/14/tru...rsonality/
INTRO: Anti-Trump “conservatives” [...] all have something in common. They almost always attack the president’s tone or personal actions and almost never his administration’s actions and policies. This isn’t an accident. It is because in many cases they do not share Trump’s policy preferences, but those policies are far more popular with voters than theirs are.
On issues such as global trade, aggressive opposition to China, ending foreign wars, growing American manufacturing, securing the border, and using government to fight the culture wars, Trump has transformed the Republican Party. Trump is not a Chamber of Commerce Republican; in fact, the Chamber denounced him this week and threatened donations to pro-Trump Republicans. Like most things, this decision was all about money and power, not about any dedication to democracy.
The hope for this small but very influential group of Republicans and former Republicans over the last four years has been that if conservative voters come to dislike Trump, they will also stop liking his policies. In fact, many are blunt about the fact that they think most of his voters are too stupid to even know what his policies are. That is wrong, and it’s why their past efforts to wrest back Republican voters have failed and why this one will too.
There are, of course, voters in the thrall of Trump’s cult of personality, just as there were under Obama. But I have talked to a lot of Trump voters all over the country in the past several years, and most of them take a transactional view of Trump. They know he can be petty and vindictive, but they also know he has achieved wins on their issues — the ones listed above, not the Chamber of Commerce issues — that would have been impossible for the GOP to achieve before Trump.
What exactly constitutes Trump’s political philosophy is hotly debated, with some people arguing he has none. But it’s actually very simple. Trump echoes almost exactly the 1990s politics of Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and the Reform Party. From Perot, he takes his skepticism on global trade, immigration, and foreign wars. From Buchanan, he borrows a unique and fearless willingness to fight against political correctness. These issues have always had a big constituency, just not previously one big enough to compete with the Democrats and Republicans. Now they are the Republicans... (MORE)
Collective Guilt And The New Witch Hunt
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/...itch-hunt/
INTRO: Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” was the question used in congressional hearings in the 1950s in what was portrayed as a witch hunt against leftists that blighted American freedom of speech. A new witch hunt is sweeping Washington, Silicon Valley, and much of the media based on the following question: “Do you currently have any doubts or have you ever written or said anything disparaging the vote counts of the 2020 presidential election?”
Anyone who questions the final vote of that election is now literally being derided as a traitor. Regardless of 65 million mail-in ballots (for which fraud is “vastly more prevalent,” according to the New York Times), regardless of the last minute changes in election procedures in key swing states, and regardless of controversies about computer voting software, anyone who does not attest to the final proclaimed vote count is finding themselves forever damned – or at least that is the intent of Democratic activists and social media companies.
The definition of treason has been vastly expanded in the past weeks to include members of Congress who filed a lawful challenge against the 2020 electoral tally. Even though Democrats vigorously challenged Republican presidential victories in 2000, 2004, and 2016 (Nancy Pelosi declared in May 2017, “Our [2016] election was hijacked… Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy”), any challenges to last November’s results suddenly became intolerable. Forty-eight Democratic members of Congress have co-sponsored a resolution calling for expelling potentially more than a hundred Republican lawmakers who pledged to object to certifying the 2020 election results. The resolution claims that those Republican lawmakers are guilty of violating the 14th Amendment’s provision prohibiting federal officeholders from having “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the [United States], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Expelling all those members of Congress would disenfranchise all the voters in those states and congressional districts in the name of punishing anyone who raised questions about the national vote count. While Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tx) maintained that America needed healing, she also declared that “accountability comes before healing.” [Pg. 136 of transcript]
Both before and after the 2020 election, the dominant media narrative endlessly recited that voter fraud was a myth. Facebook earlier this week deleted all posts that included the phrase “Stop the Steal.”
Will a long history of electoral frauds by Tammany Hall and other political racketeers be expunged like a bunch of Confederate monuments toppled in the middle of the night? After the backlash to challenges to the 2020 election, must Americans now unquestioningly accept the vote count in every state, county, and dog patch in every election? Why is it now impious to suspect that politicians who brazenly lie on the campaign trail and in office would also connive to illicitly win elections?
On top of the new thought prohibitions, anyone who criticized or protested the election results is now collectively guilty for any violence that occurred during the January 6 clash between Trump supporters and police at the U.S. Capitol. After a policeman suffered fatal injuries from that during the melee, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the House Democratic Caucus chair, declared on Tuesday, “Blood is on the hands of every single House Republican sycophant. Who perpetrated the big lie. That Trump won the election.” [Sentence breaks accurate for the tweet.]
Most Americans support vigorous prosecution for the individuals who violently attacked police during that clash but that is not enough for many Democrats or Justice Department officials. They seek harsh punishments for the hundreds if not thousands of people who walked into open doors at the Capitol and did no violence prior to peacefully exiting the building... (MORE)
Jan 16, 2021 08:15 AM
(Jan 16, 2021 07:48 AM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]Fuhgeddaboudism
https://spectator.org/capitol-riot-fuhgeddaboudism/
"Any invocation of double standards regarding the Capitol Hill riot elicits calls of whataboutism, kind of a tu quoque for people who flunked Latin, from the New York Times and other redoubts of fuhgeddaboudism. This latter phenomenon seems the more relevant to the current situation. Fuhgeddaboudism, a kind of Jedi Mind Trick for people who did not watch Star Wars, demands that we collectively erase context and develop amnesia for not only history but for what happened every night last summer."
Exactly what I said, minus coining the term, to MR's moronic use of tu quoque: https://www.scivillage.com/thread-7059-p...l#pid41371