Scattershots – 15jan21 (16jan21)

George Rebane

The Capitol assault reports are getting curiouser and curiouser.  Instead of quickly blaming Trump supporters for the mob action while labeling them ‘seditious insurrectionists’, and then quickly calling the case closed, we keep having reports coming out documenting feds who now admit that they knew in advance that Trump haters were planning to enter the Capitol and visit violence in the midst of Trump supporters who would follow them in.  Here is one such report that has yet to be censored.  Readers should contribute their own pros/cons to such reports.

Also, the entire timing and preparations for the assault viz Trump’s speech is turning into a mendacious muddle.  Law enforcement agencies report that the assault began significantly before Trump’s alleged call to march to the Capitol.  And also that stores of assault equipments like crowbars, etc had already been stored in convenient locations for the perpetrators of violent entry into the building.  We need to be reminded again of the House article that gave rise to the half-day snap impeachment.  From my perch it sure looks like a historical political hit job has just gone down with pre-orchestrated rallying cries coming from both sides of the aisle.  What the hell is going on?  Is this Deep State on parade, while the rest of us are threatened with re-education camps?

California’s C19 vaccine distribution system is, predictably, one of the worst in the land.  Last night FN reported on the relative amounts of received vaccines distributed by the states.  California was next to the lowest with only 26% of its vaccines having been administered.  With each passing day our political monopoly in Sacramento finds more ways to screw up and make life worse for every taxpayer within its borders.  All of this is invisible to our local leftwing lackies.

Big business is making a sharp left turn, as we have noted in these pages.  This is now being picked up (here) by national columnists like WSJ’s Kim Strassel who notes, “Corporate America took a big step this week, moving from captives of wokeness to active accomplices. The legal and political consequences may prove profound.”  One political consequence that will fit the Dem socialists to a tee is that already corporatist big businesses will become protected extensions of the state, taking their operations marching orders from relevant (and possible new) cabinet departments, bureaus, and agencies.  This is the established route from Hitler through Xi Jinping to America’s radical left now going through birthing pains as it spreads its tentacles over the land.  None dare call it capitalism.

Last night on FN’s Bret Baier program we noticed something very shocking to us.  The program’s balanced panel of commenters has recently ensconced Harold Ford Jr (former congress critter from Tennessee) as its reasonable liberal voice.  The panelists currently join the program online from their homes.  Ford broadcasts from his elegant living room from which the man accidentally and momentarily revealed his deeply held values.  He pulled back his video camera so that it showed the room’s center-piece fireplace, and over the mantle on the wall, centered over the fireplace hung a large (Andy Warhol) portrait painting of a smiling Mao Zedong.  The prominent place in a former congressman’s home afforded this killer of over 100,000,000 of his own people made our jaws go slack.  This camera shot was quickly corrected as it became his turn to speak again.  Nuff said.

Grand opening coming soon.

And then there's more suppressed news 'Media Mostly Silent As BLM Activists Clash With Capitol Police'.

[16jan21 update]  Today The Union saw fit to publish my censored 6jan21 KVMR commentary.  (more here)

The Left's cry of "Insurrection!!" continues as they have filled Washington with about two divisions of National Guard troops to counter the predicted assaults by armed citizens.  There will be no such assaults, any more than the mob in the Capitol was the launch of an insurrection.  As I've pointed out, those clowns didn't anticipate any success in getting into the building which was made possible by the mysterious melting away of the Capitol police.  A planned insurrection has a few attendant requirements to make such a label credible.  The most important would be to have a replacement government-in-waiting ready to assume the critical functions that communicates success to the tuned-in masses.  The people milling in the halls of the Capitol couldn't even organize a Sunday school picnic if their lives depended on it.

Comments

[RXCross]

The Capitol assault reports are getting curiouser and curiouser. --yes they are. Prosecution federal court filings state that rioters intended “to capture and assassinate elected officials.”
How does that fit into your narrative?

[scenes]

"Feds walk back claims Capitol rioters meant to 'capture and assassinate' elected officials"

"Federal authorities said Friday that there is "no direct evidence of kill and capture teams" among the Capitol rioters, walking back claims outlined in court documents that attackers sought to apprehend and "assassinate elected officials.""

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/15/capitol-rioters-accused-aim-capture-and-assassinate-officials/4174807001/

After a year of courthouse firebombing, Senate building invasions, nightly Kristallnacht, the Feds sure are hell on wheels investigatin' Buffalo Horn guy and his friends. I guess it's like sending down a jet full of FBI agents to look at NASCAR 3 inch garage nooses.

Every day there'll be a new Reichstag fire to nail down the establishment of Ingsoc. Ms. Cross is getting those cool looking leather boots all shined up.

[🐠]

Posted by: scenes | 15 January 2021 at 12:11 PM

Ms. Cross is getting those cool looking leather boots all shined up!

.......please tell me they’re thigh highs like in all the movies!

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Posted by: scenes | 15 January 2021 at 12:11 PM

Our very own Wine Aunt enjoying a little “me time”.

https://bootlovers.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452747269e2017d3ce92a8a970c-pi

[Don Bessee]

Re@1211 -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/15/doj-official-no-direct-evidence-of-plot-to-kidnap-kill-lawmakers-in-capitol-riot/

;-)

[Walt]

And the Commie instigator gets set free?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-utah-conditional-release-john-sullivan-bail
"John Sullivan released conditionally without bail by Utah federal judge"

"Inside the building, he told rioters that "We got to get this s--- burned," and "it’s our house m------------," according to an affidavit signed by FBI Special Agent Matthew Foulger."

Any bets he would be held without bond if he had a MAGA hat on?

[Barry Pruett]

Mr. Criss Cross. Where was your faux indignation when one of your progressive buddies tried to literally assassinate republicans congressmen with a rifle? And where was your faux indignation all summer when the federal courts were under real siege by your compatriot liberal hoards. Violence is always unacceptable. Period. Not just when it fits your bullshit narrative. What a tool. Lol.

[Bill Tozer]

Barry, Barry, Barry. Stop it. You are comparing apples to apples. :). They call that Whataboutism and it is apparently a cowardly way to argue. Like, hearing, “Bush did it too!”.
We must not point out the 900 pound gorilla double standard hypocrisy staring us in right the face. They set the rules, not be.

Mr. Cross: I am trying to school my fellow knuckledraggers here whom Joe Biden rightly called the “Dregs of Society”, but they have cotton in ears or something and they simply will not listen. I bet if you were King of the World, you would ban Whataboutism. But, your deepest fears have proven correct. DC is a military encampment right now and circling the Capital Building and WH because Trump declared martial law and will appoint himself Dictator for Life!!

You called that one right, Bobbie. Kudos. Gimme five on the white side. Now your finally got some cred, homeboy. I will take the cotton out of my ears, Mr. RX, when you put some cotton in your mouth. Another healing moment.

[scenes]

re: 'Whataboutism'.

It appears to be going up with a bullet right now looking at google search results.

'Handmaid' seems to be cyclical and 'dog whistle' grows over time.

'Nazi' doesn't appear to have budged over time. Dunno if it's because of the snappy uniforms or it's just that 49.9% of the country appears to be one.

[Bill Tozer]

Scenes: ‘Whataboutism.’

Crying ‘whataboutism’ doesn’t make the left’s support for rioting go away

https://nypost.com/2021/01/15/crying-whataboutism-doesnt-make-lefts-support-for-rioting-go-away/
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re: “the Lefties cry for Insurrection”

Yep, that is what insurrectionists do. Walk into the Capital Hill lobby, stay within the velvet ropes to not mess with any of the marble statues and treasures of the people’s house, go upstairs, stop everything to take selfies. Selfies, selfies, selfies...selfies on me sitting on a chair, selfies of me with the empty Capital Police desk in the background, selfies of doing a thumbs up. Yeh, that usually happens when an insurrection is going down.

There is no way THAT Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight could be any sane person’s image of an insurrection, or even a riot. You could not even charge those masquerader with conspiracy because they could not even organize a circular firing squad.

Seems to be the majority of the unruly mob said within themselves once they did the MAGA Breech was, ‘Start the Revolution without me. It’s Selfie time, a d then back to the hotel to get a bite to eat. And, yes, to take pics of the restaurant entre to send off to friends on FB or some throwaway.....er......free glossy restaurant coupon magazine.

Just didn’t have quite the same feel as the pitchfork and torches mob stormed the Bastille. Or even Castro’s boys taking over rural radio stations in bloody shootouts and bombing on his march from the hills into Havanna.

Seen a lot more organization, mayhem, and carnage by drunken holligans after a Western European soccer match than that “insurrection”. The reserved by nature Brits are the worse.

My goodness, if they call that 1/2 day of protest taking over the Dean’s office an insurrection, wonder what the will call a rebellion? A revolt? Probably call it the darkest day in our history, knocking the latest insurrection off the top spot.

Oldie but goodie.

Non sire, ce n’est pas une révolte, c’est une révolution.
No sire, it’s not a revolt; it’s a revolution.
This was said by the François Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of La Rochefoucauld, a French social reformer, the morning after the storming of the Bastille when Louis XVI asked him, “Is it a revolt?”

[Bill Tozer]

PS: "Whataboutism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

[Barry Pruett]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/kremlin-foe-alexei-navalny-returns-to-russia

The Russians arrest Navalny after redirecting his flight from Vnukovo to Sheremetovo and arrest all of his supporters at Vnukovo. This example is where censorship leads.

[Douglas Keachie]

Can't resist adding this in. "Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate broker who took a private jet to Washington to join the attack on the US Capitol, pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon her after she was arrested by federal authorities. Ryan said she thought she was following what her president ‘asked us to do’ and that she had been 'displaying my patriotism' in travelling to Washington DC, where she filmed herself entering the Capitol building. 'I'm facing a prison sentence,' she told CBS 11 News at her home in Dallas. 'I do not deserve that'"

[Steven Frisch]

Posted by: Barry Pruett | 17 January 2021 at 11:07 AM

Perhaps Trump, whom you support Barry, should have attempted to curb Putin's authoritarianism as a matter of policy instead of being Putin's puppet.

[George Rebane]

Trump is Putin's puppet - that refrain has been a constant refrain from the Left for the last 4+ years. Have they ever presented even a smidgen of evidence to back up their Big Lie? Given Trump's record with Russia (especially compared to Obama's), what kind of stupid pills have the Dems been taking to keep believing that tripe?

[Barry Pruett]

Open your eyes Steve. We are at the edge of totalitarianism. It is not Trump. It is the government and quasi-government entities which are seeking to subjugate the people. Such subjugation is morally wrong and will destroy our nation. But cheer it on if you must.

[Don Bessee]

Perhaps frischy should take a minute and read the recently released declassified docs that show it was all bullshit and an exercise by them 0 to steal an election based on lies. Naw too much like work that would upset his koolaide soaked tummy. LOL

;-)

[Walt]

I see the head of the ministry of propaganda showed up.
Still seeing a Russian behind every tree?

The Democrat Communist party meeting end early?

[Walt]

See what the Commiecrats want now? Silence andy and all Conservative views.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/17/alex-stamos-facebook-security-chief-verizon-att-deplatform-oann-newsmax/

Former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos called for carriers like Verizon, AT&T, and others to deplatform One America News Network (OANN) and Newsmax during a Sunday morning appearance on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
Discussing the ongoing political polarization in America in the wake of the November election and the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Stamos suggested that since people now “are able to seek out the information that makes them feel good,” an incentive exists for some outlets to “become more and more radical.”

The PROGGY PRESS is the ONLY thing people should hear.

Kinda like what Russia and China do.
Ya... Trump was a Russian stooge... Yet just which side is acting like "them"?

[Barry Pruett]

No doubt. There are folks that want overthrow the government. There is a percentage on both sides that want something new. One side wants freedom from government. One side wants subjugation by government and “silent compliance.” Whoever gets to 51% first wins. This situation is not a game. It is real. People are going to choose. We will be all one thing or all the other. There is really no middle ground that I can see. If anyone could show me a middle ground and as your brother, I am all hears, because we love my fellow Americans. All of them. Black/white. Gay/straight. Male/female. Or whatever. Almost all of us just want to coexist, but the choice between freedom and subjugation is binary. Which path will we choose? I don’t know, but I prefer freedom as the only path to abundance and prosperity for our fellow brothers and sisters.

[Bill Tozer]

Feds Arrest ‘Hardcore Leftist’ Who Planned Attack On Pro-Trump Demonstrators At FL Capitol

https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-arrest-hardcore-leftist-who-planned-attack-on-pro-trump-demonstrators-at-fl-capitol

[Bill Tozer]

RE: The Left's cry of "Insurrection!!" continues. Er, Dr. Rebane, you might need to update the cry on “Insurrection”.

‘Incited An Erection’: Schumer Gets Excited About Trump’s Role In Capitol Breach

https://www.dailywire.com/news/incited-an-erection-schumer-gets-excited-about-trumps-role-in-capitol-breach

[Walt]

And not to be left out, the Neo Socialists had their tune played.(just to rub it in)
And the Native Americans are pissed.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/01/22/native-americans-criticize-jennifer-lopez-singing-this-land-is-your-land-at-biden-inauguration/

"“This Land is Your Land” was written by Woody Guthrie in the 1951 as a direct rebuke to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,” and as a protest against what he saw as Berlin’s “glorification” of America, notes Breitbart News’ John Nolte."