I saw that as a comment on some post somewhere referring to the “riot” at the Capitol in Washington, but it is exactly right. Alas, with ignorance so pervasive, hardly anyone will understand what is meant. Here is the Wikepedia entry to help you out: Reichstag Fire. There is no end of how much capital the American media and the far left (I know, the same thing) will make of it, but they will do their best. It really is amazing how politically stupid people are.
We are rushing into a Fascist America which will most assuredly be implemented during the next twelve months in the same way that the Reichstag fire allowed Hitler to consolidate power in the 1930s. In place of concentration camps or gulags will be the pervasive application of cancel culture, which is much better since it will cost much less to put in place.
The Chinese government has joined the chorus of countries accusing the US of double standards, by comparing the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump and last year’s often-violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, but noting that no one had died when demonstrators took over the legislature of the China-ruled city.
Clips of the chaotic scenes from Washington have aired repeatedly on Chinese state television.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily briefing that while events in Hong Kong in 2019, when the city’s legislature was stormed, were more “severe” than those in Washington, “not one demonstrator died”.
It’s the comparison in itself I find so appealing. The blending of the Democrats and the Communist Party of China is so clever that it has to have taken a genius to see it. Moreover, the point blank murder of a protestor did not occur in Hong Kong so draw your own comparisons is the point of the story from the Chinese perspective, filtered through Reuters which might as well have been Xinhua news.
I was going to leave this alone for a while but waking to The Oz and its front page banner story – Paul Kelly was never fit to be a journalist – has reminded me where so many of our problems lie. Let me therefore remind you that this was not the Storming of the Bastille, but a protest that ended up inside the Capitol. Stealing an election can get a lot of people hot under the collar. So let’s see if we can find a little balance. Start here.
It is being demanded that we view yesterday’s events in DC as if they occurred without precedent, in a vacuum, nothing of relevance preceding them. Right-wing Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, vandalized, fought with police, wreaked havoc, and there was no catalyst for any of it, no underlying reason, other than Donald Trump and his incitement. That is how we are meant to see it. But if we see it that way, whatever lessons we take from this week will be the wrong ones. We do not need to widen our lens very much to see that the rioting and violence on Capitol Hill this week happened after many months of violent left-wing riots, all of which were defended, even romanticized, by prominent voices in the media and government. It is not “whataboutism” to point this out. It is not “whataboutism” to observe that this latest bit of chaos did not erupt in a void, mysteriously disconnected from all events that came before it. The simple fact is that left-wing mobs spent the entire summer and much of the fall reigning chaos upon our cities and leaving burned buildings, looted stores, and dead bodies in their wake. They did this in DC as well — multiple times, in fact, over the summer — and the aerial shots of the city after their “protests” looked like something out of Baghdad in 2003.
Please, don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia, don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.
Filming the incident from behind Babbit, however, was Utah resident John Sullivan – founder of the far-left organization “Insurgence USA” who made headlines in July after he was arrested for intimidating drivers in Provo. Sullivan was interviewed by the Daily Mail and CNN following Wednesday’s shooting – both of which failed to provide a satisfactory answer as to why he was there in the first place.
House Democrats unanimously blocked a resolution condemning acts of violence and rioting—including the “deliberate targeting of law enforcement officers”—in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The resolution, which was introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R., Fla.) late Thursday morning, condemned Floyd’s killing at the hands of police, calling it “inconsistent with the values and conduct expected of law enforcement officers.” The resolution also supported peaceful protesters, but it noted that protests have been “exploited by violent extremists” carrying out “acts of violence, looting, destruction of business and personal property, and additional loss of life.”
The Saul Alinsky playbook “Rules for Radicals”, the roadmap to target political opposition, has been the primary strategic tool in the arsenal of Obama-era operatives for the past several decades. One of the key strategies outlined is “freezing your opposition” and contains three elements: Isolate, Ridicule, Marginalize. In the modern era these same strategies were applied over social media through the control mechanisms of Big Tech platforms. Today, that crew made their biggest move to date. Facebook Announcement.
Wednesday was proof that how corporate media and Democrat politicians report and comment on acts of civil unrest depends upon who is engaged in the rioting. Six months ago The New York Times, which has been described as the national “newspaper of record,” made excuses for rioters who attempted to take over the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon. It reported that “the nightly assault on the federal courthouse has been part of a much wider peaceful resistance … that began assembling nearly two months ago in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis police.” The Times continued, “the aim, as it has been in other cities, was to assemble for sweeping police reform and racial justice.” Reporting on Wednesday’s protest in Washington, D.C., The Times’ “peaceful resistance” suddenly became a “mob.” Instead of “assembling,” the protesters engaged in “rampage” and “chaos,” incited by President Trump, which became a “part of his legacy.”
BIDEN: "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, there wouldn’t — they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol." pic.twitter.com/h7uWsEa2UK
The media are liars and hysterics. Not a word they utter on politics can be trusted. It is like reading Pravda in the old days of the Soviet Union. You read what they say and want you to believe to work out what really happened instead and where the truth actually lies.
Media: quit labeling DC protestors “Conservatives, Republicans, Tea Partiers, Trump Supporters, etc” LOOK IN TO WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE who’d choose an apparent leaderless insane swarm to create a perception of condoned violence. KNOCK IT OFF. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/yodPLOsraR
As for what PDT thinks, the American “free press” has stopped his twitter account and will not report what the actual President of the United States is saying.
Plus a few comments picked up from elsewhere.
These so called pundits, bloggers, writers. elites, media, and congress idiots don’t care what happens to anyone but themselves. I didn’t used to believe it but 50 years after my first vote was cast I have come to believe it. Sure they espouse the correct beliefs and write or speak about them at length. But they are as removed from the majority of people as the Far Left is. The people who have lost their jobs, their businesses, their contact with family and friends, their right to disagree with so called PC/SJW, their ability to travel and shop, their right to worship as they want, and now their vote. What did they expect people to do? They still have their jobs, etc. so it’s easy to sit back and shake their finger and make inane suggestions. I say inane because at this point it is too late. The die is cast and you can’t stop the roll. So McManus, Powerline. Hot Air, etc. and all those so-called Conservative politicians, we just don’t care what you think.
The truth is that neither the Democratic or Republican Party denounces violence by the left. And both the Democratic and Republican parties denounce “violence” by the right … even when the only “violence” which has occurred is an unarmed conservative woman getting gunned down by police while petitioning for redress of grievances.
We have been denied the soap box. Big Tech is deplatforming us. We have been denied the jury box. The courts refuse to hear our cases. We have been denied the ballot box. The voting process is broken, fraud is rampant. We only have one more way to counter this crap. There is only one more box.
The realist in me says that I’ve never seen more scared Democrats than since Biden “won” the election. I think the reality of what happened with the vote is messy, but I do know that it sure looks like the left is losing on every single front.
– People are fleeing blue states – Blue cities burning to the ground – Gun rights more popular than they have been in a very long time – Democrats super unpopular with small business owners – People moving in with families – Big Tech being assailed for their cronyism and abuses – Teacher’s unions less popular than ever – People wanting private schools because the public schools are closed – Lockdowns have even people in LA disliking their government
Why today? Political violence has been a tool in this country for the last year, used with precision to take down Donald Trump. But today, the waves shifted. And suddenly we all have to condemn political violence because the people who own the megaphone demand it? Because the left demands it?
And just for the record: The Media Is Lying About Trump’s Call with Georgia Secretary of State. The American media is more corrupt than the old Soviet press. It is all agenda and zero truth. Whatever lie is necessary, they will provide it, and their followers will believe it. If we hadn’t seen it before our eyes, it would have been impossible to believe.
Biden needs 270 Electoral votes or more to come out of the basement and become the first chief executive of the most powerful force on the planet with early stage dementia. It is a civil rights thing so deal with it. If you think that is wrong, you are a racist. The 290 Electoral vote total includes 20 from Pennsylvania. There is a ton of fraud in that state and you are seeing all kinds of reports of ballots coming in at 4:00 AM and all that. Skip it. That does not matter. Focus people on the Justice Alito Supreme Court Order. Justice Alito, not a man with whom to trifle, is in charge of day-to-day activities for a group of states and Pennsylvania is one of them. The Justice told Pennsylvania to “segregate” any vote that came in after 8:00 PM on election night. You will recall, DJ was winning bigly (a Scott Adams word) at that point.
Our papers and the press generally are a disgrace. Journalists are the ventriloquist dummies of the people who pay them. Except for the ABC where they are just a bunch of ignorant socialists.
The media with few exceptions is all-in for Joe Biden. Biden was chosen for a number of reasons but part of it I think is to pick someone so unelectable that when he won it would be more than just a preference for, but an absolute declaration of how bad Donald Trump is. Biden is the ultimate anti-Trump candidate since there is nothing there to vote for. A choice for fools and idiots. Incomprehensible why anyone would prefer Biden, but there we are. Nevertheless, let’s look at two of the more well known of the magazines one might once have included on the right side of politics.
Let’s start here with the late William F. Buckley’s National Review as he spins in his grave: Hell, No – “The case against Trump in 2020 is a lot like the case against Trump in 2016 but bolstered by the accumulation of evidence and experience.” The entire article lacks any seriously coherent thread, but the shame is on the magazine for even including it in its pages. I will try to find a sample of what he argues that makes at least a veneer of sense.
One of the many perversities of Trump’s presidency is that Donald J. Trump’s core deficiencies as a chief administrator — his ignorance and his laziness — are the chief practical virtues of his presidency. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and doesn’t want to know, and this has created the opportunity for some of the people in his administration to get some useful things done. For this reason, the conservative advances that have accompanied the Trump presidency (and it won’t do to pretend that these do not exist) mostly have been in the fields in which the president has the least engagement and interest, whereas the catastrophes of the Trump presidency (and it won’t do to pretend that these do not exist) are strongly associated with those few areas of policy in which he takes an active interest or is personally and strongly engaged with ex officio….
The Trump administration has succeeded most where Trump has the least to do with it. The nat-pops may turn up their noses at “Conservative Inc.” but that is who has delivered such benefits as we have received from the Trump administration. All Peter Navarro and the rest of those crackpots has done is bankrupt a lot of farmers and drive up the expenses of beer brewers and manufacturers.
Make of that what you will. The case against Trump must be the Case for Biden. And here we have The Economist stepping up to the plate: Why it has to be Joe Biden.
Our cover this week sets out why, if we had a vote, it would go to Joe Biden. The country that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was unhappy and divided. The country he is asking to re-elect him is more unhappy and more divided. After almost four years of his leadership, politics is even angrier than it was and partisanship even less constrained. Daily life is consumed by a pandemic that has caused almost 230,000 reported deaths amid bickering, buck-passing and lies. Much of that is Mr Trump’s doing and his victory on November 3rd would endorse it all. Mr Biden is Mr Trump’s antithesis. He is not a miracle cure for what ails America. But he is a good man who would restore steadiness and civility to the presidency. Were he to be elected, success would not be guaranteed—how could it be? But he would enter the White House promising the most precious gift that democracies can bestow: renewal.
This election is a political judgement test and like most of the media, The Economist has failed badly. If there is a case for Biden, it has not yet been made. If I hadn’t long ago cancelled my subs to these publications, I would do it again right now.
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