The first thing that happens in a coup is coup-makers cut lines of communication of their enemies.
Recent censorship announcements by Big Tech tell everyone that BIDEN is currently launching his coup--not President Trump.
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Why Won't Mitch McConnell Adjourn The Senate Until January 21st?
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]
Saturday, January 09, 2021
Biden's Next Step: Outlaw Support for President Trump as "Terrorism"
That's my interpretation of this Georgetown University Zoom event:
Please see the link below for an upcoming free lecture on the terrorist attack at the Capitol.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/domestic-terrorism-strikes-us-capitol-and-democracy-tickets-136066872679
The CJC invites you to Dr. Bruce Hoffman's (virtual) lecture analyzing Wednesday's domestic terrorist attacks on the U.S Capitol.
About this EventRSVP 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.
The Magnificent Seven
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:
https://ballotpedia.org/Certification_of_electoral_votes_(January_6-7,_2021).
Sarah Hoyt: Night Terrors
Read it all here: https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/01/08/night-terrors/So the crazy years are here.
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.
Friday, January 08, 2021
The Morning After...
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:
“The fact is whether he knows it yet or not, he will be leaving..."
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.
Nonpersons have no rights.
Period.
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