My point was that they have chosen the wrong hill to die on. If they were correct that Trump won it wouldn't matter, nothing will happen. Don't confuse that thought with me thinking Trump won. I do look at things that I don't agree with (ht Sun Tzu) and your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right scares me a biโฆ
My point was that they have chosen the wrong hill to die on. If they were correct that Trump won it wouldn't matter, nothing will happen. Don't confuse that thought with me thinking Trump won. I do look at things that I don't agree with (ht Sun Tzu) and your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right scares me a bit. The link to small fries being prosecuted for election fraud was not an attempt to claim that the election was stolen (I sure hope that you know that), but rather some insight into how people can make leaps in their opinions = election fraud exists, therefore the election was stolen.
A bit of background. I was trained in riot control while on active duty. Unforgettable words from the training, "They are your fellow Americans. Use the minimum force necessary, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐." I was in Vietnam when the 1969 Moratorium took place but one of the Marines in the training who was stateside was in Washington DC for that event for the "all that is necessary." Thank Zeus it wasn't. How 6 Jan 21 was handled was shocking to me.
Jan 6 was just like in the training all those years ago. Mostly protestors, but some agitators there to turn a protest into a riot. In this case, I suspect that they knew who they were while they were planning. The National Guard was not utilized. Where were the Marines?
Shortly after the event, people sent links to me that showed government people unlocking doors and apparently directing people to the chambers. They were quickly scrubbed from the internet. Now, two years later they are reappearing on Fox. I don't know who directed them to give them easy entry. Could have been Trump or trump loyalists for all we know. It should give anyone pause who knows the standard protocols for defending Federal offices.
Did the investigation attempt to determine who the Feds were that let them in and led them? They sure as hell should have. If I was running the investigation, it would have been at the top of my list. Now that it's too late to scrub them again, will we get answers about that question?
None of what I just wrote gives any credibility to the notion that the election was stolen. It does shine a light on how extraordinarily strange the response was, and why the hell the answer to who they were is not a part of the revealed findings. It does make it odd that Fox would show it since it is potentially damning about Trump. We don't know, or has it been revealed what was found out about that? It should damn someone(s).
Did Fox say it was a tourist excursion or it looked like one? I haven't watched their commentary on the videos, but hyperbole is the norm.
The newsertainment shows know their audience and know that their sponsors know the audience. And that is certainly left and right since commercial newsertainment is about money. That's not giving Fox, or anyone else a pass, just an acknowledgement of how things work. "Trump won" is the most egregious but disingenuous/half-truth coverage has no monopoly source.
"your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right"
It's not as simple as that. I don't have time to read everything and I do have some respect for my own time and Heritage Foundation is simply below the salt. Fer chrissake, they believe in "market forces." They're nuts.
Let me draw a parallel. I don't know it this is still observed but back in the HIV epidemic I went to donate blood and was turned down because I was gay. OK, nobody ever said that all gay men were HIV+ and not all HIV+ men were gay but the correlation was robust enough that it was simply prudent to not take blood donations from 5% of potential male blood donors.
Not everything on heritage.org is going to be batshit right-wing economics (one of the very lowest bars there is) but the same prudence applies there. Heritage promotes apologia for some of the most unhinged conservative ideas there are. And frankly I am going through soe serious emotional challenges right now and don't need to be aroused to murderous anger by reading this stuff. So I deliberately make myself a little less open-minded for my own mental health as well as out of respect for my increasingly limited time.
You know me well enough to know that I'm not too tribal in my liberalism. I'm a gay liberal who would gleefully throw the Woke "unterm Rad," I hold beliefs about personal responsibility that don't dovetail with the infinite tolerance andโughโinclusivity so in vogue.
And it's simply part of my outlook that I draw lines perhaps a little too comfortably. There are ideas like creationism, the morality of abortion, the history of the singular they, Lafferism, that I am unwilling to ever discuss again.
I don't wish to add to your stress or divert the conversation further. Someday we'll have to discuss economics since that is where the "left" seems to be the most in denial of reality to me. Your disdain for "market forces" always gives me pause. Another time, stay mellow now.
My point was that they have chosen the wrong hill to die on. If they were correct that Trump won it wouldn't matter, nothing will happen. Don't confuse that thought with me thinking Trump won. I do look at things that I don't agree with (ht Sun Tzu) and your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right scares me a bit. The link to small fries being prosecuted for election fraud was not an attempt to claim that the election was stolen (I sure hope that you know that), but rather some insight into how people can make leaps in their opinions = election fraud exists, therefore the election was stolen.
A bit of background. I was trained in riot control while on active duty. Unforgettable words from the training, "They are your fellow Americans. Use the minimum force necessary, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐." I was in Vietnam when the 1969 Moratorium took place but one of the Marines in the training who was stateside was in Washington DC for that event for the "all that is necessary." Thank Zeus it wasn't. How 6 Jan 21 was handled was shocking to me.
Jan 6 was just like in the training all those years ago. Mostly protestors, but some agitators there to turn a protest into a riot. In this case, I suspect that they knew who they were while they were planning. The National Guard was not utilized. Where were the Marines?
Shortly after the event, people sent links to me that showed government people unlocking doors and apparently directing people to the chambers. They were quickly scrubbed from the internet. Now, two years later they are reappearing on Fox. I don't know who directed them to give them easy entry. Could have been Trump or trump loyalists for all we know. It should give anyone pause who knows the standard protocols for defending Federal offices.
Did the investigation attempt to determine who the Feds were that let them in and led them? They sure as hell should have. If I was running the investigation, it would have been at the top of my list. Now that it's too late to scrub them again, will we get answers about that question?
None of what I just wrote gives any credibility to the notion that the election was stolen. It does shine a light on how extraordinarily strange the response was, and why the hell the answer to who they were is not a part of the revealed findings. It does make it odd that Fox would show it since it is potentially damning about Trump. We don't know, or has it been revealed what was found out about that? It should damn someone(s).
Did Fox say it was a tourist excursion or it looked like one? I haven't watched their commentary on the videos, but hyperbole is the norm.
The newsertainment shows know their audience and know that their sponsors know the audience. And that is certainly left and right since commercial newsertainment is about money. That's not giving Fox, or anyone else a pass, just an acknowledgement of how things work. "Trump won" is the most egregious but disingenuous/half-truth coverage has no monopoly source.
"your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right"
It's not as simple as that. I don't have time to read everything and I do have some respect for my own time and Heritage Foundation is simply below the salt. Fer chrissake, they believe in "market forces." They're nuts.
Let me draw a parallel. I don't know it this is still observed but back in the HIV epidemic I went to donate blood and was turned down because I was gay. OK, nobody ever said that all gay men were HIV+ and not all HIV+ men were gay but the correlation was robust enough that it was simply prudent to not take blood donations from 5% of potential male blood donors.
Not everything on heritage.org is going to be batshit right-wing economics (one of the very lowest bars there is) but the same prudence applies there. Heritage promotes apologia for some of the most unhinged conservative ideas there are. And frankly I am going through soe serious emotional challenges right now and don't need to be aroused to murderous anger by reading this stuff. So I deliberately make myself a little less open-minded for my own mental health as well as out of respect for my increasingly limited time.
You know me well enough to know that I'm not too tribal in my liberalism. I'm a gay liberal who would gleefully throw the Woke "unterm Rad," I hold beliefs about personal responsibility that don't dovetail with the infinite tolerance andโughโinclusivity so in vogue.
And it's simply part of my outlook that I draw lines perhaps a little too comfortably. There are ideas like creationism, the morality of abortion, the history of the singular they, Lafferism, that I am unwilling to ever discuss again.
I don't wish to add to your stress or divert the conversation further. Someday we'll have to discuss economics since that is where the "left" seems to be the most in denial of reality to me. Your disdain for "market forces" always gives me pause. Another time, stay mellow now.