2020 USA presidential election

Scary video being spread by the right!:

https://video.parler.com/D2/fo/D2fovQB1v4M2_small.mp4?fbclid=IwAR2SCqSbwk90dTn0Eu6qWvYq66d1Y4TLiZH58opD1Ok7sYVs7Rik5fqaT1c

NDPP wrote:

You should listen. You might learn something.

You should listen to what you are saying.

JKR wrote:

Scary video being spread by the right!:

https://video.parler.com/D2/fo/D2fovQB1v4M2_small.mp4?fbclid=IwAR2SCqSbwk90dTn0Eu6qWvYq66d1Y4TLiZH58opD1Ok7sYVs7Rik5fqaT1c

He's always babbling about the people.  But the people didn't support him in 2016, and told him to take a hike in 2020.  

NDPP wrote:

Wolff Responds: DC Rage

https://youtu.be/kvzgRCjN2NQ

"More coming unless basic economic changes made. Prof Wolff talks about the recent events in Washington DC and explains what has caused them:

'This is an economic system spinning out of control, and what was seen at the Capitol building in Washington on January 6 was just another manifestation of angry working class people.

https://viewfromthewing.com/woman-takes-private-jet-to-storm-the-capitol...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/tech-ceo-arrested-after-capitol-r...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/seattle-police-officers-investigated-inv...

I thought this article on the end of the trump presidency was interesting and I largely agree with the author's perspective:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/11/in-the-end-he-lost/

"Repeat: Trump never commanded a fascist party. He galvanized a disparate menagerie of white nationalists, neonazis, klansmen, conspiracy cultists, religious idiots, grandmas concerned about pedophile cannibals led by the lizard people kidnapping our children. But they never constituted a coherent, disciplined movement.

The Trump tour concludes January 20. It may be viewed in future as an era of flirtation with fascism, in which the nation came “this close” to abandoning the manifest goodness of constitutional democracy for the obvious evil of autocratic rule. But in the end Biden normalcy triumphs."  ..

"I would not downplay the evil a madman is capable of, given another 12 days on the throne. But he is just that—an isolated, sick, vile madman—not the leader of a movement poised to seize state power. Which is to say, he’s a fake fascist too.

The impending reign of Joe Biden will entail confrontation with China over its control over its own waters, Russia over its borders and NATO expansion, Syria over its desire to preserve its sovereignty versus U.S.-backed terrorists, Iraq over its people’s desire to expel unwelcome U.S. forces, etc. It will be back to Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton normalcy. Cable news anchors considered “left” including those adulating Black Lives Matter will find no contradiction in embracing Harry Truman and the Cold War conception of U.S. (exceptional) leadership of the Free World against “our adversaries.”

The idea is to reject the despicable Trump’s coup attempt by a return to the ferociously familiar. Not fascism; that threat was always over-rated. But war. Just watch. The return to normalcy under decent Joe—after the long dark night of Trump—will be illuminated by the traditional rocket’s red glare, and bombs bursting in air, giving proof that the U.S. flag is still everywhere. And as Joe always says: God bless our troops."

Mobo:   The rehabilitation of neoconservative pundits and politicans like David Frum, John Bolton, Bush Jr, and Colin Powell is one of the most disgusting and annoying aspects of this whole episode.    Trump's incompetance was the best thing about his presidency.    I find the prospect of a competant, united American ruling class terrifying, particularly when the crimes of the most atrocious actors from the past are actively disappearing down the memory hole.   

As far as I can see, left opinion in the U.S. is pretty much unanimous that more draconian laws are not the solution to the problem of domestic terrorism by right wing militias and similar. What is needed is better enforcement of existing laws and stronger focus on the right wing extremists who actually kill people, rather than water protectors and similar threats to capital.

From the 'Right': America Just Experienced a Coup, but it Wasn't by Trump

https://www.revolver.news/2021/01/globalist-coup-against-trump/

"In its aggressive reaction to the storming of the Capitol Building on Wednesday, the press, Democrats and even Republicans have settled on one preferred term. 'Attempted coup.' A coup d'etat has been carried out. The Trump presidency is over."

Kunstler: Insurrection versus Insurrection

https://kunstler.com/klusterfuck-nation/insurrection-versus-insurrection/

"...By its work this weekend - starring Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Zuck (Facebook), Tim Cook (Apple), and Jeff Bezos (Amazon and WaPo), you know exactly what you would be getting with The Resistance taking power in the White House and Congress; unvarnished tyranny. No free speech for you! They will not permit opposing voices to be heard, especially about the janky election that elevated America's booby-prize, Joe Biden, to the highest office in the land."

From the 'Left':  Did Trump Walk into a Trap?

https://youtu.be/c-6-shE6YPY

'It's so damned obvious that it was deliberate'- Paul Jay /'The Deep State is in charge.' - Col Larry Wilkerson (ret)

"It was a piece of theatre that pulled off the real coup that almost everyone wanted, and that's the end of Trump. Perhaps even Chuck Schumer was involved. Credit him with the most exaggerated and ridiculous rhetoric, calling Jan 6, 'a day that will live in infamy,' 'on the scale of Pear Harbour'. But words like 'sedition', 'insurgency' and such are just attempts to intimidate the members of Congress that were still hitching their wagons to Trump's groteque megalomania. Insurgencies require guns, they require sections of the army. That isn't what happened...There should be an investigation into the leaders of Congress, who allowed this to take place. Perhaps then the word 'sedition' would be applicable..."

Johnstone: The Boot is Coming Down Hard and Fast

https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-boot-is-coming-down-hard-and-fast-...

"A lot's been happening really fast. Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot. Did you know that Biden has often boasted about being the original author of the US Patriot Act? The correct response to a huge section of the citizenry doubting an electoral system we've known for years is garbage would have been more transparency, not shoving the process through and silencing people who voice doubts..."

'When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar - you're telling the world you fear what he might say.'

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Another libertarian perspective on the social media blackouts of Trump accounts and assorted conservatives, from Ron Paul, who was recently locked out of his facebook page:

https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2021/01/11/the-war-on-terror-comes-home/

"After all, a look at Biden’s incoming “experts” shows that they will be the same failed neoconservative interventionists who gave us weekly kill lists, endless drone attacks and coups overseas, and even US government killing of American citizens abroad. Progressives who complain about this “back to the future” foreign policy are also sure to find their voices silenced.

Those who continue to argue that the social media companies are purely private ventures acting independent of US government interests are ignoring reality. The corporatist merger of “private” US social media companies with US government foreign policy goals has a long history and is deeply steeped in the hyper-interventionism of the Obama/Biden era.

“Big Tech” long ago partnered with the Obama/Biden/Clinton State Department to lend their tools to US “soft power” goals overseas. Whether it was ongoing regime change attempts against Iran, the 2009 coup in Honduras, the disastrous US-led coup in Ukraine, “Arab Spring,” the destruction of Syria and Libya, and so many more, the big US tech firms were happy to partner up with the State Department and US intelligence to provide the tools to empower those the US wanted to seize power and to silence those out of favor.

In short, US government elites have been partnering with “Big Tech” overseas for years to decide who has the right to speak and who must be silenced. What has changed now is that this deployment of “soft power” in the service of Washington’s hard power has come home to roost."

Not only that, but Big Tech also partnered with the Chinese government in the 2000s to help the Chinese government in censorship of political dissidents in that country. It may be our turn to experience that in this part of the world.

The fact that the right thinks they can lose elections by over 7 million votes but somehow have the election stolen from them by an 'overreporting' of votes in primarily black districts shows how far gone they are. We're not talking about millions of alleged 'overreported' votes either. This is shameless anti-democratic whinging about the rigged electoral college system not delivering for them. It's not surprising that the only move they have now is outright intimidation and shows of force. This is fascism but the other fascist ingredients, corporate control of the state and a militarized imperialism, are just as prevalent in the Democrats. The War Liberals should learn the lesson of  you reap what you sow and stop training and dispatching troops to terrorize overseas populations. Eventually they do come home.  

The Democrats cozying up with Liz Cheney does not bode well on this front.

What I saw at the US Capitol on January 6

https://twitter.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1349266968298336256

"The deadly riot at the US Capitol bore the markings of an organized operation that was planned well in advance of the January 6 joint session of Congress. In reconstructing the confusion, I saw four different cells of organized militants. There was no incitement. The violence was planned. Here's the long version of what I witnessed..."

Trump violated the cardinal rule of ruling class politics in the US and stripped the empire bare of its 'aura of durability and legitimacy' during last week's takeover of Congress  (and vid)

https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1349127565647228928

Grayzone's Anya Parampil and Brian Becker discuss the implications of Stop the Steal.

After receiving death threats, Republicans say they’re afraid to vote to impeach; Vox; January 13, 2021

Quote:

There is a disturbing reason Republicans in Congress are giving for refusing to break with President Donald Trump: They fear for their lives. 

According to Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), this is a major reason why more House Republicans aren’t voting to impeach Donald Trump in the wake of the attack on the Capitol.

“The majority of them are paralyzed with fear,” Crow said in a Wednesday MSNBC appearance. “I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues last night, and a couple of them broke down in tears — saying that they are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment.”

Did Trump encourage his supporters to riot? You decide. (and vid)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56182.htm

"Everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Eyewitness details first-hand account of Jan 6 riot (and vid)

https://rumble.com/vcrhx9-eyewitness-details-first-hand-account-of-jan.0...

Timeline contradicts official narrative.

Pepe Escobar: 9/11 was the prelude - 1/6 is the holy grail

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56181.htm

"...What matters is the end result: The manufactured product - 'Trump Insurrection' - for all practical purposes buried the presentation, already in progress, of evidence of electoral fraud to the Capitol, and reduced the massive preceeding rally of half a million people to 'domestic terrorism.' Whether civil war is coming will depend on the degree of stoicism prevalent among the Deplorable multitudes..."

JKR wrote:

After receiving death threats, Republicans say they’re afraid to vote to impeach; Vox; January 13, 2021

Quote:

There is a disturbing reason Republicans in Congress are giving for refusing to break with President Donald Trump: They fear for their lives. 

According to Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), this is a major reason why more House Republicans aren’t voting to impeach Donald Trump in the wake of the attack on the Capitol.

“The majority of them are paralyzed with fear,” Crow said in a Wednesday MSNBC appearance. “I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues last night, and a couple of them broke down in tears — saying that they are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment.”

These same people have voted time and time again to fund right wing groups in countries like Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia etc etc. Many legislators in the south have been murdered as a result of those votes.

NDPP wrote:

The Navarro Report Vol III

https://navarroreport.com

Yes, President Trump Won: The Case, Evidence and Statistical Receipts

The Big Lie. 
 

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1349874399361449984?s=20

More 'big lies', 'fascists' and 'insurrectionists': Shameless... Quick. Cancel them.

https://youtu.be/3RV57sFsojA

https://youtu.be/EjbAFuoQOvo

https://youtu.be/uSfbEiV-Uxg

NDPP wrote:

More 'big lies', 'fascists' and 'insurrectionists': Shameless... Quick. Cancel them.

https://youtu.be/3RV57sFsojA

https://youtu.be/EjbAFuoQOvo

https://youtu.be/uSfbEiV-Uxg

For once I agree with you, 100%.  And whatever happened to that Kracken woman?

'Revoke Their Degrees!': Thoughtcrime and Blacklists at Harvard

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1350080004181389312

"...This is beyond outrage. It is opportunism to use this tragedy to settle scores and purge opposing voices. The alternative is free speech. We can continue to engage each other in civil and respective dialogue - the very antithesis of what occurred on January 6th."

Nonsense. Your pro Biden position has always been abundantly clear, as is the reason for your equivocating now. Given what we know about the Biden crime family's activities in Ukraine, Trump's questions on Biden's corrupt and dodgy dealings were entirely proper - hardly 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors'.

Further, had the Dem-suborned FBI, who well knew the pertinent details of the Bidens' illicit and crooked Ukraine dealings and more were true, (having knowledge of the full extent of same, being in possession of Hunter's laptop, not 'a Russian disinfo op' as Biden lied in a desperate attempt to extricate himself ) advised the executive branch as they should have, Trump would have been redeemed, and that earlier bogus 'impeachment', designed like this latest one, first and foremost to protect Joe Biden's stolen election,  would have immediately collapsed like the corrupt concocted Dem souffle it was.

So it was, upon the laptop's reveal by the NYPost that all the Dems' corrupt msm accomplices collaborated to suppress and silence all these incriminatory revelations on 'the big guy's' son's computer. No doubt Uncle Joe will now move quickly to squelch any further investigations. Problem solved. The perfect crime.

Hunter Biden Failed to Disclose $400 k in Burisma Payments

https://nypost.com/2020/12/12/hunter-biden-failed-to-disclose-400k-in-bu...

NDPP wrote:

Nonsense. Your pro Biden position has always been abundantly clear, as is the reason for your equivocating now. Given what we know about the Biden crime family's activities in Ukraine, Trump's questions on Biden's corrupt and dodgy dealings were entirely proper - hardly 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors'.

Further, had the Dem-suborned FBI, who well knew the pertinent details of the Bidens' illicit and crooked Ukraine dealings and more were true, (having knowledge of the full extent of same, being in possession of Hunter's laptop, not 'a Russian disinfo op' as Biden lied in a desperate attempt to extricate himself ) advised the executive branch as they should have, Trump would have been redeemed, and that earlier bogus 'impeachment', designed like this latest one, first and foremost to protect Joe Biden's stolen election,  would have immediately collapsed like the corrupt concocted Dem souffle it was.

So it was, upon the laptop's reveal by the NYPost that all the Dems' corrupt msm accomplices collaborated to suppress and silence all these incriminatory revelations on 'the big guy's' son's computer. No doubt Uncle Joe will now move quickly to squelch any further investigations. Problem solved. The perfect crime.

You're rambling and babbling.  And becoming increasingly divorced from reality.  Maybe your tinfoil hat is on too tight.

No 'Direct Evidence' of Plot to Kidnap or Kill Lawmakers in US Capitol Attack

http://reut.rs/3iiXsuH

"A US Justice Department official on Friday said there is currently no direct evidence of efforts to capture or assassinate lawmakers in the Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol."

I'm a Canadian and not pro-Trump, pro-Biden, nor pro-chump gullible to whatever the msm says.

The Political Class At War with Each Other and the Rest of Us

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/15/the-political-class-at-war-with-...

"..If you're looking for good guys, you won't find them on either side of this fight. It's a fight between two factions of the political class, with Big Tech trying to appease and co-opt one of those two factions. It's neither a revolution nor a fight for freedom. It's just a schoolyard brawl over which gang gets to rule. The interests of ordinary Americans aren't represented..."

JKR, what are you going to do when Trump finally leaves office? Will politics be over for you? 

I do think Biden stole the election and I find the evidence for that anything but 'baseless', therefore I do think 'Trump's coup' is fake news. The coup is Biden's and the 'CIA Democrats',  and furthermore, they've been trying for a while.  And unlike you and the babbleactionary cult of believe whatever they tell you -  I have been highly critical of both of these American monsters. You only one.

In reviewing some of my old postings I came upon this from 2017 by the great American leftist James Petras. How prescient he was...

Regime Change Comes Home: The CIA's Overt Threats Against Trump (2017)

https://petras.lahaine.org/?p=2124&print=1

"...The worst catastrophe that could fall on the United States would be a conspiracy of leftist and rightist politicos, the corporate mass media and the 'progressive websites' and pundits providing ideological cover for a CIA-architechted 'regime-change'.

Whatever the limitations of our electoral norms - and there are many - they are now being degraded and discarded in a march toward an elite coup, involving elements of the militarist empire and 'in 'telligence' hierarchy, mass propaganda, a 'red-brown' alliance, salacious gossip and accusations of treason - ('Trump - the Stooge of Moscow') resemble the atmosphere leading to the rise of the Nazi state in Germany.

A broad 'coalition' has joined hands with a most violent and murderous organization (The CIA) and imperial political leadership, which views overtures to peace to be high treason because it limits their drive for world power and a US dominated global political order."