Why so few police at January 6th March to the Capitol?

The enormous crowd that surged toward the siege and overran of the Capitol police, while planned as a Hail Mary option for the “Green Bay Sweep”, hurried to the Capitol to riot without police interference. The whipped up crowd had been promised “will be wild!” and it sure enough had been, so far. The best was yet to come.

They stormed straight down to the Capitol without encountering lines of police, as marches everywhere always do, because the Stop the Steal organizers had not applied for or obtained a permit to march from the mass rally at the Ellipse down to the riot at the Capitol.

No planned march, hence minimal police presence along the unannounced parade route.

Any emotional mass march is always closely supervised by police, if authorities know about it, if the proper papers have been filed, if the law has been followed.

So the path of the quick march of incensed patriots, down to fight like hell and take the under-policed Capitol and give courage to fainthearted Republicans in Congress to “Stop the Steal”, was very different than anything you’d ever see on any parade route in DC, or in any other city or town, or in any rural or suburban area, for that matter.

The Trump riot was not an overwheming law enforcement failure. It was lawless by design. Had the law been followed and a permit sought for the march, enabling authorities to protect the public and prevent traffic nightmares, the riot would have been prevented. Defeating the whole purpose of inciting the violence and making the leader and MAGA nation look weak!

Yeah, so we didn’t apply for a stinkin’ permit, boo fucking hoo. Yeah, we planned to teach those f-ing traitors a lesson, so we kept our secret, illegal plan quiet…

Duh!

“What don’t you motherfuckers get about ‘by any means necessary’ or the ‘ballot or the bullet’? Next time the boys will go down there armed with their sacred Second Amendment… and we’ll see what those weak, corrupt, elite, lying, cowardly blood drinking pedophiles have to say then…”

USA! USA!!! etc.

Short bio of Lyin’ Ted Cruz, and legal update on Cruz’s role in MAGA’s Jan. 6 Alamo stand

First a well-done light-hearted highlight tour of the career of Tea Bagger Ted Cruz, the most universally hated person in the Senate (with apologies to also-ran Josh Hawley) from Trevor Noah’s Daily Show.

And a more serious discussion of Cruz’s Trump-related craveness, and his direct involvement in Peter Navarro and the war room’s “Green Bay Sweep” strategy to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory due to “unprecedented allegations of fraud” believed by FOX nation.

Cruz executed the opening play in the “sweep” on January 6 as the start of a coordinated Hail Mary, with the clock about to run out, to once more try to flip votes in swing states. The idea was to get Republican state legislatures all on the same page, attempt to decertify Biden electors, creating no winner in the Electoral College and throwing the presidency to the House to extra-constitutionally keep cuddly Trumpie as president.

A final word on this snarling, squirming far-right billionaire-backed fuck nut next time I sit down to open his disgusting can of worms .

(with apologies to the late, great Al Lewis)

Stop the Steal ads run through last January 5th

Nothing at all unusual here, but it seems that the ads promoting false claims of a stolen election that enriched Facebook in the months after Facebook removed the safeguards they’d installed through election day, (safeguards that damaged Facebook profits) stopped on January 5th. The day before the peaceful protest at the Capitol during which 140 police officers were injured, the ads, $50,000,000 worth, paid for by donations to Trump’s “legal defense fund,” suddenly stopped running. Get over it, nitpicking libtards, this is how real men dominate.

Representative Eric Swallwell explains in a minute

Tucker whips apologetic Ted Cruz on FOX

Shortly before the first anniversary of the Trump riot to stop the certification of Biden’s win, Ted Cruz, on the floor of the Senate, with cameras rolling, referred to the organized, planned, violent siege and sacking of the Capitol as a terrorist attack.

A strong argument could be made that participating in a long physical battle with cops and leading a phalanx of criminal tresspassers into the closed to the public Capitol to stop the People’s business is, even without being part of a larger seditious conspiracy, an act of terrorism. Using violence to frighten and intimidate political opponents is the definition of terrorism.

Understandably, this term, applied to their own faithful, coming from one of their own, put MAGA nation into full rage mode. Tucker Carlson pulled no punches bullying Cruz to back down. Lyin’ Ted, as he does, immediately began reassuring FOX nation that only Blacks, Muslims, Antifa and other commie traitors can ever be rightfully called terrorists, an angry MAGA mob can only ever be patriots, since they are always righteous in their rage and fight on the side of the angels.

Fortunately for him, the supple Cruz was able to whine and grovel his way out of the fatal accusation of having spoken truthfully, as all great statesmen and moral leaders are sometimes called upon to do.

Big Surprise in the Supreme Court…

This Washington Post headline says it all:

Of course they seem skeptical, these right-wing ideologues chosen for their fidelity to a hard right-wing worldview. Science during a deadly plague can be alchemized into tyranny by six judges well-trained in how to focus on a single hair on the head of an angel dancing back and forth through the eye of a needle. They do this humbly, with God’s help, by the grace of Jesus Christ.

The doctrinaire Trump super-majority continues to provide unappealable right-wing firepower to the giant bloc of angry Christian nationalists who are their ground troops in the long culture war that has brought this majority to the pinnacle of constitutional power.

For them not to express “skepticsm” over reasonable health precautions during a deadly tsunami of Omicron infections would be like a Nazi jurist listening thoughtfully to a Jewish argument against mass murder.

Speaking of mass manslaughter (man’s laughter, LOL) the US still leads the world in Covid infections and deaths because US authoritarians find it advantageous to weaponize vaccines, masks and testing. Their position is, if it keeps us in power, BRING BACK POLIO!

MAKE POLIO GREAT AGAIN, LOSER CUCKS!

Only one Republican out of 262 in Congress attends January 6 commeration, accompanied by the aptly named Dick Cheney

NY Times, headline, January 6, 2022:

‘A Reflection of Where Our Party Is’: Republicans Avoid Jan. 6 Observances

Subheadline:

Elected Republicans stayed away from the Capitol during a day of solemn remembrance on the anniversary of the attack carried out by supporters of former President Donald J. Trump

The party of Lincoln, yo, and of our first female president, Liz Cheney, the only elected Republican who showed up for a moment of silence on the first anniversary of Trump’s patriotic riot to overturn an election he lost, at the polls, in the Electoral College and in countless courts.

The GOP line, of course, is that power-crazed commie puppet pedophile Dems are cynically politicizing something that Dick Cheney used to call a kerfuffle.

Heaven help us all.

One of very few Republican members of Congress who made a statement that did not blame the Democrats for the deadly MAGA riot, a representative not running for reelection, issued a statement the Times called “blistering”. You be the judge.

“Any reasonable person could have seen the potential for violence that day,” he said. “Yet, our president did nothing to protect our country and stop the violence. The actions of the president on Jan. 6 were nothing short of reprehensible.”

Here’s a link to the Times story. Read it and weep:

The Base (NOT Al-Qaeda)

When a hate group tells you who they are, believe them.

Wikipedia informs us that the Bannon-scented neo-Nazi, anti-globalist, international militant right-wing militia training network, The Base (considered a terrorist organization by three of our major allies) is not to be confused with Al-Qaeda, which is sometimes translated from Arabic as “The Base”.

The Base is a neo-Nazi, white supremacist and accelerationist paramilitary hate group and training network, formed in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro and active in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Europe. As of November 2021 it is considered a terrorist organization in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Base_(hate_group)

Irony, fucking dead, boys and girls.

As Trumpie would tell ’em “stand back and stand by.”

Confederate flag in the Capitol

They had Trump flags and flags that said “Fuck Biden” but it was the Confederate battle flag paraded inside the breached Capitol, as incendiary and hateful to Black people as the fucking black and white swastika on a blood red field is to me as a Jew, that said it all. The symbolism of those kind of symbols is hard to miss.

The mob’s message was clear, as their leader expressed love toward his flag waving followers: the world is better without you parasites and getting our way by violence is a party for us.

It’s like what Ted Cruz snarled at Merrick Garland a few months later while excoriating him about DOJ overreach, feds running to the aid of threatened school board members. “Jeez, it was only a Nazi salute,” he sneered “which you admit is protected by the First Amendment,” he didn’t even have to add “Jew”, it so naturally suggested itself as the Texan lambasted the mild-mannered Garland. Cruz is that fucking good. Many of them are, and all very fine people. Waving a Confederate battle flag, as you do, when you’re a patriot.

Op ed on why Trump must face justice

Hard to believe this was written by the husband of CNP member Kellyanne “Alternative Fact” Conway, one of the smartest and most brazen of Trump’s well-connected inner circle. George Conway, a Federalist Society member who was outspoken in the conservative resistance to his wife’s boss, is also a very smart lawyer who makes a case today in the Washington Post that’s impossible to refute. Using facts…

He quotes with approval Merrick Garland’s January 5th words to DOJ workers (and the rest of the world) :

Above all, he pledged that the Justice Department has “no higher priority” and would do “whatever it takes for justice to be done — consistent with the facts and the law.” Most important, he made clear that “the Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law — whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.” (Emphasis mine.)

He also quotes fucking Mitch McConnell, lines Mitch delivered after again orchestrating Trump’s impeachment acquittal, the first time by preventing an actual trial in the Senate, the second on an absurd technicality:

“We have a criminal justice system in this country,” McConnell said. “President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office,” McConnell added. “He didn’t get away with anything yet. Yet.”

Here’s a link, gifted by the supremely generous Jeff Bezos, https://wapo.st/3f10HpP

We had fair warning

When Trump revealed his theory of leadership, surround yourself with people less intelligent than you so that you are always the smartest man in the room, we all had fair warning and should have known what to expect.

Actually, most of us did know what to expect. Only it was worse than even those loyal people of less than average intelligence in the bunker with the mad, desperate Trump as he staged a valiant fight against reality could have imagined.

Leaving aside the obvious fact that the zealots in his war room all thought it was a fantastic thrill, with first class room service, on the house!

God bless these United Shaysss