George Rebane
The Capitol assault reports are getting curiouser and curiouser. Instead of quickly blaming Trump supporters for the mob action while labeling them ‘seditious insurrectionists’, and then quickly calling the case closed, we keep having reports coming out documenting feds who now admit that they knew in advance that Trump haters were planning to enter the Capitol and visit violence in the midst of Trump supporters who would follow them in. Here is one such report that has yet to be censored. Readers should contribute their own pros/cons to such reports.
Also, the entire timing and preparations for the assault viz Trump’s speech is turning into a mendacious muddle. Law enforcement agencies report that the assault began significantly before Trump’s alleged call to march to the Capitol. And also that stores of assault equipments like crowbars, etc had already been stored in convenient locations for the perpetrators of violent entry into the building. We need to be reminded again of the House article that gave rise to the half-day snap impeachment. From my perch it sure looks like a historical political hit job has just gone down with pre-orchestrated rallying cries coming from both sides of the aisle. What the hell is going on? Is this Deep State on parade, while the rest of us are threatened with re-education camps?
California’s C19 vaccine distribution system is, predictably, one of the worst in the land. Last night FN reported on the relative amounts of received vaccines distributed by the states. California was next to the lowest with only 26% of its vaccines having been administered. With each passing day our political monopoly in Sacramento finds more ways to screw up and make life worse for every taxpayer within its borders. All of this is invisible to our local leftwing lackies.
Big business is making a sharp left turn, as we have noted in these pages. This is now being picked up (here) by national columnists like WSJ’s Kim Strassel who notes, “Corporate America took a big step this week, moving from captives of wokeness to active accomplices. The legal and political consequences may prove profound.” One political consequence that will fit the Dem socialists to a tee is that already corporatist big businesses will become protected extensions of the state, taking their operations marching orders from relevant (and possible new) cabinet departments, bureaus, and agencies. This is the established route from Hitler through Xi Jinping to America’s radical left now going through birthing pains as it spreads its tentacles over the land. None dare call it capitalism.
Last night on FN’s Bret Baier program we noticed something very shocking to us. The program’s balanced panel of commenters has recently ensconced Harold Ford Jr (former congress critter from Tennessee) as its reasonable liberal voice. The panelists currently join the program online from their homes. Ford broadcasts from his elegant living room from which the man accidentally and momentarily revealed his deeply held values. He pulled back his video camera so that it showed the room’s center-piece fireplace, and over the mantle on the wall, centered over the fireplace hung a large (Andy Warhol) portrait painting of a smiling Mao Zedong. The prominent place in a former congressman’s home afforded this killer of over 100,000,000 of his own people made our jaws go slack. This camera shot was quickly corrected as it became his turn to speak again. Nuff said.
Grand opening coming soon.
And then there’s more suppressed news ‘Media Mostly Silent As BLM Activists Clash With Capitol Police’.
[16jan21 update] Today The Union saw fit to publish my censored 6jan21 KVMR commentary. (more here)
The Left’s cry of “Insurrection!!” continues as they have filled Washington with about two divisions of National Guard troops to counter the predicted assaults by armed citizens. There will be no such assaults, any more than the mob in the Capitol was the launch of an insurrection. As I’ve pointed out, those clowns didn’t anticipate any success in getting into the building which was made possible by the mysterious melting away of the Capitol police. A planned insurrection has a few attendant requirements to make such a label credible. The most important would be to have a replacement government-in-waiting ready to assume the critical functions that communicates success to the tuned-in masses. The people milling in the halls of the Capitol couldn’t even organize a Sunday school picnic if their lives depended on it.
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