The corporate communists and DC acted with speed and overwhelming force to silence dissent. Republicans unleash shock and awe on foreign enemies. Democrats unleash shock and awe on their political opponents.
Stephen L. Miller wrote, "If Joe Biden and the media have any intent on ‘healing’ and ‘unifying’ post-Trump and Trumpism, they haven’t done much to show it. Maybe this is because it’s in the best interest of the Biden agenda, and the revenue of Big Tech, and the audience retention of the corporate media to keep us as we are — a nation divided."
That is a spot on observation. They won. They are Auric Goldfinger responding to 007 saying, "You expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die."
The communists are tired of us. They are bored by our insistence that this is the land of the free and the home of the brave. 2016 taught them the lesson that we can still rebel at the ballot box. They figured a way around that in 2020.
If your business is built on the backs of Silicon Valley tyrants (Apple, Google, et al) they can and will attempt to destroy you if and when you become a threat to their interests.
They did this to Gab. Then Fortnite. Now Parler.
Terrible content of all kinds is available on Twitter and Facebook. Everyone on the planet knows this fact. Yet both companies are on both App Stores.
Apple banning Parler is not the neutral implementation of some objective standard, but rather a cynical, politically motivated gesture and evidence of Silicon Valley elites’ disdain for ordinary Americans.
The solution, as always, is not government. It is to build your own. People mock this meme, but Gab lives it. While others whine, we build.
But make no mistake. There has been a coup attempt in America this week.The globalist American regime has effectively overthrown Donald Trump two weeks early, and is now moving to secure its power.
Real coups are not clumsy mob attacks adjacent to lawmakers. Real coups, above all, are about control: Control of communications, control of bureaucracy, and above all, control of military power. And in the past few days, it is President Trump’s enemies who have seized control of all these things.
The most obvious sign of the unfolding coup is the most memorable: The suspension, and then banning, of the President’s Twitter account. After this ban was handed down, a flurry of other tech companies rushed to follow suit.
But hubristic Democrats have another plan, one that’s even worse than striking at Trump. Ignoring their repeated history of objecting to Republican presidential Electoral College certifications, they plan to use sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment to remove all federal and state elected officials who objected to Biden’s Electoral College votes. That section bars political office to people who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the Constitution” or gave “aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
The 14th Amendment, of course, was written and passed immediately after a shooting Civil War that killed over 600,000 men. But that’s not stopping Rep. Cori Bush (D. Mo.), a pastor who leads “with radical love,” from working to “expel the Republican members of Congress who incited the white supremacist attempted coup.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is all in because “white supremacy is when Black skin alone is treated as a crime punishable by death, but white skin allows you to incite a violent overthrow of the government & still act entitled to hold elected office.” Pelosi is on board, too, because she’s trying to delay the day these execrable race hustlers turn on her.
The Russians had a word for what Democrats are doing: Purge (Большой террор). The Greeks had a word too: Hubris. Both are very bad words.
Patriots who attended the protest are beinghunted down like dogs, fired from their jobs, shamed in the public square.
Were there a couple of bad actors in the million-person march for America? Of course. But there were also agitators from Antifa. You'll read nothing of that, either.
So why the desperate frenzy? They fear Trump. They fear us. But mostly because it’s an opportunity for totalitarians. It provides the context -- the optics -- to put down the people, as CNN and the rest of the Goebbelsesque media want to do. It is the Democrat version of the Reichstag fire.
They will force us underground. We will communicate like Germany’s “White Rose” Society (aka “Leaflets of the Resistance”).
If you think I am exaggerating, look around. I was right about it all.
The Great Purge is hardly new. It is used in all totalitarian seizures of power. Think Hitler, Stalin, Mao et al.... destroy the opposition. Crush dissent.
I’m old fashioned. From the days before -- to paraphrase one wag -- the party of JFK became the party of Lee Harvey Oswald. So old fashioned, I think the best way to determine policy and to understand events is open dialogue. Without it, it’s a thugs' and idiots’ paradise. So I’ll keep writing online until my doubleplusungood thoughts get cancelled. I’m too old to pass the exam for a ham radio license, but I’m sure we'll figure out something.
Some terrorists are apparently more equal than other terrorists:
In 1988, Rosenberg additionally faced accusations of "aiding and abetting" a string of bombings targeting the U.S. Capitol, the National War College and the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
Additional charges included a role in a series of New York attacks, of which bombs were planted but did not detonate, on sites such as the FBI's office in Staten Island. These charges were discarded as part of a plea deal by other revolutionary members and Rosenberg was neither tried nor convicted in connection to the 1983-1985 terrorism surge.
Rosenberg and Blunk went on to appeal their convictions and sentences unsuccessfully.
Throughout what would be just 16 years in federal lockup, Rosenberg became a noted author, poet and activist – even earning a master's degree from Antioch University and voraciously writing. In the morning of Jan. 20, 2001, then-President Bill Clinton commuted Rosenberg's sentence.
She swiftly moved from prison to her mother's Manhattan apartment.
"I have seen speculation that Rosenberg's sentence was commuted based upon the connection between her former attorney Howard Gutman and President Clinton," Gray said. "Gutman was a big donor to the Democratic Party."
Mutually Assured Destruction was based on the idea that neither side would be willing to flirt with destruction. But China’s biowarfare attack ‘nuked’ itself, before going on to cause destruction among the economies targeted by the Communist regime. The Communist grip on power had been based on this fundamental willingness to sacrifice millions for its goals. And while the Communist regime maintained its popularity by offering social mobility and consumer gadgets, its elite remain committed to that same genocidal Maoist willingness to kill millions.
China’s biowarfare lab in Wuhan infected its own city before going on to release deadlier strains of the virus in Europe. The Wuhan release tested China’s own society and demonstrated the regime’s willingness to kill its own people in unknown numbers for the sake of the greater good.
All of this makes Communist China a deadlier enemy than the Soviet Union ever was.
This deal between Hitler and the German business titans was one of the principal reasons why his regime is called “fascist” at all. The word “fascist” comes from the Latin fasces, “bundles,” usually bundles of wooden rods. It might seem at first glance to be an odd name for a political movement, but the idea was that the disparate forces in society were bundled together in a unity of purpose and allegiance. Thus for the ancient Romans the fasces were a symbol of governmental authority, and from that Mussolini took the name of his movement. In ensuring that private businesses could remain private but had to work for the good of the state as a whole and under direction of the National Socialist government, Hitler was bundling together the titans of business, unifying them in service to his agenda.
So it is today. The social media giants and the Leftist government elites, the swamp that has reasserted its hegemony by installing Old Joe in the White House, are working in lockstep. The government doesn’t own the social media outlets, and it doesn’t have to: whether Big Tech is submitting to overall direction by the state or the state is submitting to overall direction by Big Tech, the outcome is the same: every major force in American society is marching in the same direction, while dissenters are stigmatized, demonized, framed for crimes they didn’t commit, silenced, and isolated.
Thus what we are seeing in the last few days, with the banning of the president of the United States from the main means of communication today, and the unity of purpose between the media, Big Tech, and the Democratic Party in propagating the Big Lie that Trump incited violence and attempted a coup on January 6, is fascism in action. And if the fascists aren’t stopped soon, what we have already seen will be just the beginning.
It would shut down the 2nd impeachment travesty and allow a "cooling off period" until the Inauguration. If people were sincere about "healing" or "transition integrity," Congress would go home. There would be nothing to attack on Capitol Hill. When Biden and the Democrats took over, they could do what they wanted.
Anything bad that happens before then is 100 percent the legacy of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the GOP...because they can stop it very easily by taking a vacation.
My recommendation to Senator McConnell: Adjourn the US Senate on Monday.
Alternatively, President Trump could prorogue Congress using Presidential powers in the US Constitution:
Article 2, Clause 3 also authorizes the president to prorogue Congress if the House and Senate cannot agree on the time of adjournment; no president has ever had to exercise this administrative power.[38][39] In 2020, President Donald Trump threatened to use this clause as a justification to prorogue both houses of Congress in order to make recess appointments during the COVID-19 pandemic, although he does not have the authority to do so unless either the Senate or the House of Representatives were to alter their scheduled adjournment dates.[40][41]
The CJC invites you to Dr. Bruce Hoffman's (virtual) lecture analyzing Wednesday's domestic terrorist attacks on the U.S Capitol.
About this Event
RSVP required. Only those who register will receive the Zoom link to access the lecture.
On January 7, pro-Trump rioters violently breached the U.S. Capitol and disrupted the electoral process. How did we get here? In his recent analysis of domestic terrorism for the Council on Foreign Relations, CJC Director Bruce Hoffman stated that “these events have undermined faith in the sanctity of American institutions and constitutional values.” “America is now at an epochal moment, which calls for strong moral leadership and sober reflection.” With eleven days left until President-elect Biden’s inauguration, Professor Hoffman will discuss the implications of the terrorist act and the challenges it poses to the incoming administration.
About the Speaker:
Professor Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for over four decades. Prior to serving as the director of Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization he was the director of its Center for Security Studies and Security Studies Program. He previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation, where he was also director of RAND’s Washington Office and vice president for external affairs.
Hoffman was appointed by the U.S. Congress as a commissioner on the 9/11 Review Commission and has been Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency; adviser on counterterrorism to the Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq; and, an adviser on counterinsurgency to Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad, Iraq.
Hoffman’s most recent books include The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat (2014); Anonymous Soldiers (2015); and, Inside Terrorism (3rd edition, 2017). Hoffman is currently a Wilson Center Global Fellow, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior fellow at the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center.
***For all other accommodation requests, please email cjcinfo@georgetown.edu by January 12. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill all requests.
Here are the names of the seven Senators who voted for President Trump's objections to voter fraud in the 2020 Election in either Arizona or Pennsylvania:
Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Kennedy (R-LA),
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS).
The House voted 121-303 against rejecting Arizona elections and against Pennsylvania 138-282. Click on this link to see the roll call:
The problem with having a completely unreliable media who were raised in an educational establishment which taught them objective reality doesn’t exist, and reality changes according to what you believe, is that they’re trying very hard to create a narrative: a story.
They’ve been doing this forever, of course, but they used to do it “in the service of the revolution”, knowing it was their duty to lie. Now they don’t see it as a lie, but as “making the world a better place” by inventing reality and replacing reality they don’t like or which might have made them feel better with their crazy stories.
There are three problems with that. The first is, because they don’t believe there is a reality outside the stories they tell themselves, they believe that once they have put the story in place it is true, and they believe in it themselves.
Second, of course their bullshit spinning doesn’t make it reality. It just makes it …. strange and bizarre and incredibly non-functional. Reality is reality. Just because you believe oil is bad and solar can provide all the energy you need, it won’t work like that. Or that the white race is the repository of all evil, and if you kill them you’ll have paradise, none of that is true.
Third they’re really really really bad novelists. They don’t know enough about the world to tell a lie that makes any sense or accounts for any factors. They don’t know how to integrate the narrative. (To be fair, as I told some fledglings last week, it is almost impossible to. Because the real world is very complex, and other people aren’t widgets. I mean, my characters have a mind of their own, but I’m only dealing with ten or so at a time. And only for at most a few years. I assume I’m not telling you all the complexity that is there.) Actually they don’t know a heck of a lot about real life. And they tend to expect people to act according to their “class” or “race” or whatever. As a friend said this morning, we’re living in a strange world where flying the American flag is simultaneously a government sanctioned display and a sign that you’re a white supremacist.
It's official--President Trump is leaving office on January 20th, 2021.
Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States, because the US Congress certified him as winner of the disputed 2020 Election--without the consent of the American voting public.
While I'm personally disappointed, I can't say that President Trump had any option left after his running mate, Vice-President Mike Pence, sided with Biden.
My opinion, as expressed previously in other blog posts, is that this deal between Democrats and Republicans was made long before the 2020 election, based upon Nancy Pelosi's July 2020 statement to Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC:
That's the smoking gun that the fix was in. The GOP was against him. The Democrats were against him. The "Deep State" was against him. The Media was against him.
Only the American People were for him. Apparently, that wasn't enough.
So now we're stuck with an unelected President for the second time in my lifetime. Last time it happened, he was a Republican--Gerald Ford.
Now he's a Democrat--Joe Biden.
As this election once again demonstrated, the will of the American People seems not to be determinative in American politics.
The first President I can remember, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated.
The second, Lyndon Baines Johnson, was forced from office a few years after winning a landslide election. He was brought down by fellow Democrats, including Senator William J. Fulbright.
The third, Richard Nixon, resigned--also after a landslide victory--after impeachment was threatened. He was brought down by fellow Republicans, including Senator Howard Baker.
Then came Gerald Ford, my first unelected President, selected by Congress.
Now I have the second unelected President in my lifetime:
Democrat Joe Biden, selected by Republican Vice President Mike Pence.
Time will tell how this story ends, but I'll bet it isn't going to be pretty...
Already the level of invective and vituperation directed against President Trump and his supporters exceeded anything I have experienced.
Especially now that Nancy Pelosi has threatened a second impeachment.
If he doesn't die in prison, President Trump should count himself a lucky man.
Because they're out to get the ex-President.
Not because he failed--but because he succeeded against all odds.
Given the fact that the entire election was rigged against President Trump, I'd say he did an outstanding job. Here are some reasons:
1. He won the popular vote.
2. He won the Electoral College vote.
3. He won by a landslide.
4. The other side had to lie, cheat, and steal in order to defeat him.
5. Then they had to cover up what happened.
6. Now they have to threaten, oppress and persecute Trump supporters to keep anyone from talking about it.
7. Most importantly, Trump won despite a Coronavirus pandemic which disrupted the lives of most Americans in a way not seen since the Energy Crisis of the 1970s that defeated President Carter.
Usually bad times hurt an incumbent President--but this time Americans gave President Trump millions of votes he didn't have in 2016, because they saw he was trying his best to help them while his opponents were trying to exploit the situation to their own advantage.
And Trump did it with completely negative media coverage, opposition from government bureaucrats, Wall Street, Fortune 500 executives, charities, churches, schools, colleges and universities, former Defense Secretaries, and pretty much everyone else of consequence in the American Establishment.
8. Finally, even after his loss seemed permanent, hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of his supporters schlepped to Washington to show support at his final White House rally...which included a "peaceful protest" against election fraud at the US Capitol.
One Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, made the ultimate sacrifice when a trigger-happy Capitol policeman shot the unarmed protester through a glass window.
In the end, Trump's supporters demonstrated they were willing to lay down their lives to save American Democracy.
Yet when VP Pence turned down his opportunity to appoint a commission to audit the votes, as Senator Ted Cruz proposed, or to return contested slates of electors to state legislatures to resolve allegations of fraud, as others had asked, the Vice-President instead decided to recognize Joe Biden's slate of electors--siding against his running-mate...and himself.
Bottom line: Congress said "F-you" to the American voting public, and the Republican Party gave an equally big "F-you" to Trump voters.
The GOP added insult to injury subsequently, when a parade of Republican Trump appointees resigned in a shower of withering denunciations and abuse hurled at their former boss.
What does this mean?
In my opinion, as a result of President Trump's failure to overturn manifest election fraud, the United States is now a de facto one-party state.
It means President Trump will be unable to protect himself or his supporters against future harassment and persecution, up to and including criminal prosecution and imprisonment.
There have been calls for blacklisting, "cleansing," and ejecting from public office anyone who supported Trump, in addition to calls for banning them from social media, from some of the most prominent public figures in the land, including former First Lady Michelle Obama.
It is an ominous development in what was once the freest society on earth.
Such "nonperson" status is well known to anyone who has lived under or studied Communism.
Watching President Trump address the massive gathering in DC today, I kept thinking back to my days at the university when I read Edmund Wilson's, To The Finland Station. The edition I owned had a dramatic cover drawing depicting Lenin addressing adoring throngs gathered to receive him at Petrograd's famous train station upon his return to Russia in April 1917, after nearly 17 years in exile. That image has stayed with me over the years as a classic example of the melding of theater and politics. As noted, it came back to me watching Trump in DC. I don't want to push the analogy too far, but the subsequent televised images of a portion of the crowd besieging the Capitol and other government buildings conjured up in my mind the attack on the Winter Palace, the storming of the Bastille, Yeltsin on his tank before the Russian parliament building, the German Spartacist uprising of 1918-19, the . . . oh, well, you get it.
