If Americans don’t care about the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War… we will have to make them care.
Right now, the only thing I can think of is putting computer chips in their brains, or possibly injecting them with nanobots.
AP:
Americans are processing the nightmare of the slaughter of children in Texas, the racist murders in Buffalo, New York, and the other numbingly repeated scenes of carnage in the United States.
They’re contending with what feels like highway robbery at the gas pump, they’re nagged by a virus that the world can’t shake, and they’re split into two hostile camps over politics and culture — the twin pillars of the nation’s foundation.
They’ve already been through two set-piece dramas of presidential impeachment — indeed, through the wringer on all things Donald Trump.
Now, beginning in prime time on Thursday, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is setting out to establish the historical record of an event damaging not only to a community or individual families but to the collective idea of democracy itself.
This is the only thing that really matters: our democracy. And punishing those who would dare to question it.
After more than 100 subpoenas, 1,000 interviews and 100,000 documents, the committee has a story to tell in hearings that open this week. A story for the ages, it’s been said.
The open question: How much will the country care?
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat on the committee, set expectations that may be hard to live up to as the committee tries to renew the interest of this short-attention-span country in machinations that are nearly 18 months in the rearview mirror.
Jamie Raskin is Jewish.
You can tell by his face how much he loves democracy, and how important it is to him that the goyim pay the ultimate price.
The hazards in that mirror are closer than they appear, as committee members see it.
“The hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the House,” Raskin said in April. “Because it is a story of the most heinous and dastardly political offense ever organized by a president and his followers and his entourage in the history of the United States.”
That offense? In short, he told a Washington forum, “an inside coup” coupled with a violent attack by “neo-fascists.”
Trump is not expected at any of the hearings, but his words and actions will hang heavy over the proceedings as lawmakers look to place him at the center of the chaos. It seems highly plausible that he will find a way to rail against them that does not involve being under oath.
The committee almost certainly will look to draw a tight connection between Trump’s vociferous rejections of the election results and his Jan. 6 rally outside the White House sending the angry crowd off to Capitol Hill.
Free from the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, committee members are likely to try to show that the riot that ravaged the Capitol was not a spontaneous gathering but part of a broader conspiracy and a natural outgrowth of weeks of denunciations of democratic processes.
Frankly, I’m exhausted talking about this at this point.
There was a broader conspiracy – it was to send in the FBI to stir up a riot. More than that, it was a conspiracy by the cops to invite people in. That was what most of the defendants are charged with – going into the building after the cops opened the door and invited them in. The rioting was mostly stirred up by agent provocateurs, probably, but maybe some normies went nuts – it doesn’t really matter, because they don’t hardly even talk about that, and those people committed obvious crimes and should be charged.
The large body of people just walked into the building, with cops waving them in.
This is the only video I can find right now, but there are dozens of these videos.
Is that why the cops invited the mob in, to kill Republicans?
Capitol police open doors for the protestors. They stand aside and invite them inside. pic.twitter.com/sO4AmbEO7z
— jakH (@jkh70) January 10, 2021
And the people investigating this have tens of thousands of hours of video they won’t release.
This is just a monkey show.
No one cares about it because even if you don’t know about the conspiracy, nothing happened. This doesn’t affect anyone’s life.
What Joe Biden has done to the economy with his insane inflation and war agenda is affecting people’s lives, directly, but the government is obsessed with pushing everything off onto this.