So I haven’t watched cable news in like 2 weeks. Did we actually learn anything new? Or did we just get clips of parts of the capital with a few people loitering around calmly while 200 yard away the mob was beating cops with flag poles and spraying them with bear spray, crapping in the speakers office, and trying to find the VP so they could murder him? Like what else is there really to learn here by the footage unless they had footage inside the Willard hotel the night before with audio of the real coup plotters (Bannon, Stone, etc) having a meeting on how they could overturn our Democracy?? That’s the focus of the investigation I care about learning more about. Merrick Garland and co. really have missed the mark the past two years in not right away going hard at these guys with the full force of the justice department. These are the real assholes behind the political instability in our democracy. These are the guys who see Donald Trump as their pawn to serve their ideological and financial interests to remake the US in the image of Hungary and Russia where they get to be setup for life as corrupt elites.
First off why would the police be involved with certifying the election? In the states certifications of results were done by civilians usually the Secretary of the states. As we saw in Jan. 6. It is done by an act of Congress.
It bears repeating that Pelosi offered McCarthy the opportunity to have an even number of Republicans as Democrats. Her only condition was that Jim Jordan, Paul Gossar and others who there was evidence supported the insurrection wasn’t on it. There were plenty of other Republicans though who could’ve been on it. He turned that down. I won’t deny that the committee had an anti Trump bias. These are politicians and by nature they will push a POV. What matters though is that nearly all of the evidence they provided was corroborated and more importantly from Trump officials. This wasn’t just outside critics but insiders.
I was a an eye witness to the looting and the storming of the Third District PD Precinct in Minneapolis following the killing of George Floyd. It wasnt consistently violent and appeared orderly at times. The MPD withdrew from the precinct and security and LE pulled back very early and allowed people to loot the Target and many other stores. When I first got to the scene on the night he precinct fell it looked like a street festival rather than a riot. it would be very easy to put together a video and paint a narrative that those weren’t riots and that the people who looted and assaulted the precinct were really just peaceful protesters. Some people have tried to present that narrative. The problem though is that there is also a lot of video and other evidence of rioters fighting with LE, destroying property and even setting fire to property. Those people are rightfully being prosecuted.
It's the typical TC straw man attack on the Captial Police for not doing their job on Jan6. It's hilarious how TC (at least the fake version) and his minions think the Capital Police were not prepared for something that wasn't a big deal.
The January 6 Whitewash Will Backfire - The Atlantic Tucker Carlson and the GOP are trying to erase a dark day. Their public-relations gamble is already failing. By Tom Nichols House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox News access to thousands of hours of video from the events of January 6, and Tucker Carlson’s effort to rewrite history isn’t just laughably incompetent; it’s already falling flat. ...
on the serious questions surrounding the Chansley video footage The Curious Story of QAnon Shaman: Fox Footage Raises New Questions Over the Chansley Case https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/...-raises-new-questions-over-the-chansley-case/
Is turkey a white nationalist? Yes. Why? Because he only covers criminal justice issues when it comes to people of his tribe. Were is this veracity to criticize our criminal justice system in his multiple decade career when it comes to people outside his tribe?
Why is that? What is it about the Dominion story that deters you from clicking that link? Tucker Carlson isn't "disagreeing" with Chuck Schumer. He is telling his viewers things he himself thinks are lies. Not sure it matters too much to him whether this gambit changes the Jan 6 narrative. He needs to drown Fox viewers in enough fodder to talk about to distract them from the Dominion case as it passes through the news cycle. Don't give their customers time to reflect on Fox's admissions that they intentionally lied to and manipulated them. It might be worth remembering that there is more raw evidence -- most of it boring -- than one person can possibly consume. While the J6 committee made editorial choices in providing their view of it, and Carlson will do the same, we nevertheless have to put our trust in somebody to boil it down and present what is true and important. We physically cannot do it for ourselves even if we had access to all the footage and all the testimony. That's why we have House committees and court systems and the media -- to look at evidence and report to everyone else what happened.
