As Kamala Harris compares 1/6 to 9/11 and Nancy Pelosi introduces the cast of Hamilton to sing about democracy, today's inanity should not obscure its dangers.
"On @MSNBC , far-left "historian" Douglas Brinkley compares January 6th to the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11"
My response: "As an amateur historian I liken Jan 6th to 6/4/74, when drunken Indians fans stormed the field in the 9th inning against the Rangers on $0.10 beer night."
Whatever disagreements can be made with my analysis, I believe my comparison is way closer to what happened than historian Douglas Brinkley.
The thing that gets me the most is that on both 9/11 and on Pearl Harbor we were attacked by enemies of the United States. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Potus and Veep for EVERYONE WHO MARCHED IN DC THAT DAY TOO. They are American citizens and thus, Biden and Harris have an obligation to treat them as such, even if they condemn their criminal behavior. Today highlights for the majority of Americans yet another example of how out of the touch the ruling elite have become in this country. To most Americans they're thinking - yeah, a riot just like the cities that burned over the summer. They can see plainly through the hypocrisy on the Left over almost everything. Democrats can question the results of any election. Democrats can protest, often violently, any time they want over anything they want - they can follow people into elevators and bathrooms, they can scream them on the street any time they want, they can kick them out of restaurants - they can scream from the rooftops anywhere they want FUCK TRUMP and are rewarded for it. Yet time and time again, when the people they have dehumanized do it - then they clutch their pearls and act horrified that anyone would ever dare say fuck the POTUS. Biden had an opportunity, yet another, to try to heal a wounded nation. He chose instead to declare war against half the country. It is a war backed by money and influence and make no mistake, they will be waging it. The only upside is that -- at least for now -- there are such strong voices of dissent like yours and others.
As an independent voter, I strongly dislike both major parties. And I didn't vote for Trump either time. But now more than ever, I can really sympathize with the bull-in-a-china-shop, "F U" rationale animating so many MAGA supporters. In fact, if we held a national election today, I would probably vote for Trump -- not something I would have said a year ago.
Feels weird to be somehow in agreement with Ann Coulter, but...it is what it is.
"Meanwhile, coddled journalists who have never broken meaningful stories have finally found a way to claim that they stared down dangerous and risky situations — as if they spent years in the middle of an active war zone or were persecuted and prosecuted by a corrupt and authoritarian state for their intrepid reporting — and have converted Brian Stelter's CNN show into a virtual therapists's couch where they all get to go and talk about how they are still coping with the deep trauma of spending a few hours in the Capitol last year."
So tired of the blue check drama queens and their hyper-sensitivity to every hangnail while the rest of America is crushed by the greed and corruption the presstitute class protect.
I love this paragraph of Glenn's so much. I am incapable of improving upon its beautiful sapphiric luster except to add that it is utterly devoid of falseness: "That the January 6 riot was some sort of serious attempted insurrection or "coup” was laughable from the start, and has become even more preposterous with the passage of time and the emergence of more facts. The United States is the most armed, militarized and powerful regime in the history of humanity. The idea that a thousand or so Trump supporters, largely composed of Gen X and Boomers, who had been locked in their homes during a pandemic — three of whom were so physically infirm that they dropped dead from the stress — posed anything approaching a serious threat to “overthrow” the federal government of the United States of America is such a self-evidently ludicrous assertion that any healthy political culture would instantly expel someone suggesting it with a straight face."
The most disturbing thing about this is the whole naked politicization of it. This is a desperate and pathetic attempt to gain power. However, Biden is becoming one of the most despised presidents in American history, quite an achievement considering the kind of press his predecessor got. Harris is even more despised. I know people who are moderate liberals, who voted for Obama who say that they will never vote for a Democrat again for the rest of their lives. It's easy for me to sit from the Republican side and cheer, but the collapse of the Democratic Party is a serious issue. So entranced by their own narcissism they have become that they are destroying themselves. This a political horror show at this point.
Dear God! I cannot thank you enough for your rock solid honest reporting of this particular event and the state of the democratic party in general, including its many failures. And its pathetic desperate attempts to hold onto power. Power as an end in itself... that's a baaaaaaad thing.
The most repulsive part of the Vice President's comparison of "1/6" (I hate giving this date the same kind of meaning similar to 9/11 has universally come to be known as) to September 11th, is it spits directly in the faces of those who lost loved ones that day. Many have explicitly asked to not make this comparison. Nearly 3,000 people immediately died, and the number who have become sick from breathing in the toxic air at Ground Zero is soon to surpass that death toll. It is insultingly histrionic.
And today the C.I.A. is shielding the Major Multinational Companies. Sure our media and politicians are a bunch of over paid over actors, but these major multinational corporations are the root of neoliberal and neoconservative globalization.
I think that it is so very interesting that none of the hysterical throng or media talk about the armed attack on Republican congressmen in June 2017 in Alexandria, VA as an insurrection, even though the Bernie Sanders supporter/campaign volunteer who did the shooting literally almost murdered Steve Scalise, who was the House Majority Whip. If the shooter had succeeded in his plan, having shot 50 rounds, he would have wiped out a good chunk of the House Republican majority. Interesting that so many pass this little moment of history over, given that one could reasonably consider a politically-motivated, armed assassination attempt on multiple members of congress, in which shots were actually fired and hit their intended targets, as a "threat to democracy".
Saw this today via Twitter from @kjdrennen:
"On @MSNBC , far-left "historian" Douglas Brinkley compares January 6th to the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11"
My response: "As an amateur historian I liken Jan 6th to 6/4/74, when drunken Indians fans stormed the field in the 9th inning against the Rangers on $0.10 beer night."
Whatever disagreements can be made with my analysis, I believe my comparison is way closer to what happened than historian Douglas Brinkley.
The thing that gets me the most is that on both 9/11 and on Pearl Harbor we were attacked by enemies of the United States. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Potus and Veep for EVERYONE WHO MARCHED IN DC THAT DAY TOO. They are American citizens and thus, Biden and Harris have an obligation to treat them as such, even if they condemn their criminal behavior. Today highlights for the majority of Americans yet another example of how out of the touch the ruling elite have become in this country. To most Americans they're thinking - yeah, a riot just like the cities that burned over the summer. They can see plainly through the hypocrisy on the Left over almost everything. Democrats can question the results of any election. Democrats can protest, often violently, any time they want over anything they want - they can follow people into elevators and bathrooms, they can scream them on the street any time they want, they can kick them out of restaurants - they can scream from the rooftops anywhere they want FUCK TRUMP and are rewarded for it. Yet time and time again, when the people they have dehumanized do it - then they clutch their pearls and act horrified that anyone would ever dare say fuck the POTUS. Biden had an opportunity, yet another, to try to heal a wounded nation. He chose instead to declare war against half the country. It is a war backed by money and influence and make no mistake, they will be waging it. The only upside is that -- at least for now -- there are such strong voices of dissent like yours and others.
1/6 is the left's Reichstag Fire and the only thing they can possibly talk about because everything else they touch turns to shit.
Meanwhile the real reporters out there are slowly piecing the facts together -- and it looks more like a fedsurrection than insurrection.
As an independent voter, I strongly dislike both major parties. And I didn't vote for Trump either time. But now more than ever, I can really sympathize with the bull-in-a-china-shop, "F U" rationale animating so many MAGA supporters. In fact, if we held a national election today, I would probably vote for Trump -- not something I would have said a year ago.
Feels weird to be somehow in agreement with Ann Coulter, but...it is what it is.
"Meanwhile, coddled journalists who have never broken meaningful stories have finally found a way to claim that they stared down dangerous and risky situations — as if they spent years in the middle of an active war zone or were persecuted and prosecuted by a corrupt and authoritarian state for their intrepid reporting — and have converted Brian Stelter's CNN show into a virtual therapists's couch where they all get to go and talk about how they are still coping with the deep trauma of spending a few hours in the Capitol last year."
So tired of the blue check drama queens and their hyper-sensitivity to every hangnail while the rest of America is crushed by the greed and corruption the presstitute class protect.
I love this paragraph of Glenn's so much. I am incapable of improving upon its beautiful sapphiric luster except to add that it is utterly devoid of falseness: "That the January 6 riot was some sort of serious attempted insurrection or "coup” was laughable from the start, and has become even more preposterous with the passage of time and the emergence of more facts. The United States is the most armed, militarized and powerful regime in the history of humanity. The idea that a thousand or so Trump supporters, largely composed of Gen X and Boomers, who had been locked in their homes during a pandemic — three of whom were so physically infirm that they dropped dead from the stress — posed anything approaching a serious threat to “overthrow” the federal government of the United States of America is such a self-evidently ludicrous assertion that any healthy political culture would instantly expel someone suggesting it with a straight face."
A ray of truth through a cloud of bullshit.
Erection Day for the democrats. We won’t hear the end of it.
The most disturbing thing about this is the whole naked politicization of it. This is a desperate and pathetic attempt to gain power. However, Biden is becoming one of the most despised presidents in American history, quite an achievement considering the kind of press his predecessor got. Harris is even more despised. I know people who are moderate liberals, who voted for Obama who say that they will never vote for a Democrat again for the rest of their lives. It's easy for me to sit from the Republican side and cheer, but the collapse of the Democratic Party is a serious issue. So entranced by their own narcissism they have become that they are destroying themselves. This a political horror show at this point.
I had to keep the TV off today so as not to vomit
Dear God! I cannot thank you enough for your rock solid honest reporting of this particular event and the state of the democratic party in general, including its many failures. And its pathetic desperate attempts to hold onto power. Power as an end in itself... that's a baaaaaaad thing.
The most repulsive part of the Vice President's comparison of "1/6" (I hate giving this date the same kind of meaning similar to 9/11 has universally come to be known as) to September 11th, is it spits directly in the faces of those who lost loved ones that day. Many have explicitly asked to not make this comparison. Nearly 3,000 people immediately died, and the number who have become sick from breathing in the toxic air at Ground Zero is soon to surpass that death toll. It is insultingly histrionic.
Thank you, Mr. Greenwald, for being a voice of reason and sanity
Back in 1975, "C.I.A. Covert Activities Abroad Shielded by Major U.S. Companies" https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/11/archives/cia-covert-activities-abroad-shielded-by-major-us-companies.html
And today the C.I.A. is shielding the Major Multinational Companies. Sure our media and politicians are a bunch of over paid over actors, but these major multinational corporations are the root of neoliberal and neoconservative globalization.
I think that it is so very interesting that none of the hysterical throng or media talk about the armed attack on Republican congressmen in June 2017 in Alexandria, VA as an insurrection, even though the Bernie Sanders supporter/campaign volunteer who did the shooting literally almost murdered Steve Scalise, who was the House Majority Whip. If the shooter had succeeded in his plan, having shot 50 rounds, he would have wiped out a good chunk of the House Republican majority. Interesting that so many pass this little moment of history over, given that one could reasonably consider a politically-motivated, armed assassination attempt on multiple members of congress, in which shots were actually fired and hit their intended targets, as a "threat to democracy".
Another excellent article.
These people and their followers are truly delusional! It’s mind blowing!
Doesn’t matter if it’s on the left or right or any other cause.
Back in the day, part of being “liberal” was to “question authority “