Looks clearly like Trump's Wag-The-Dog damage control propaganda teams are planting exaggerated diminishing and diverting fact bits and sound bites into the main stream media to effect the narrative of this violent seditious insurrection event being as criminally constitution and domestic tranquility violating important as it is.

The violent building attackers were just crazy fringe types that Trump has no control over. The Capital police just didn't think Trump's rally crowd could do something this violent and criminal. It's mostly the fault of the inept Capital police.

Trump waited hours ( even while watching the seige live on TV!) to react, because he thought the situation was under control already by normal security procedures ???  The mob was incited by nefarious democratic party sympathizing infiltrators. The entire action wasn't really as bad or important as the liberal press is making it out to be.

Impeachment of Trump is an impractical idea. This course of action is an overreaction and will not make it through to trial and especially conviction. Just let Trump be for the next 11 days. He'll be a good boy. And he really does feel bad about it all and truly does abhor violent demonstration. 

Trump's blindly loyal cult base have their fearless leader defending talking points with these contrived road apple dropping exaggerated tid bit news plantings. But the growing majority of Americans aren't picking them up and saying "AH HA!" ... Trump isn't to blame here! 

The first attempt to impeach Trump was primarily based on the Ukraine affair.

As valid as that reason was, this Capital building seige event makes the Ukraine affair seem like child's play in impeachment importance comparison.

If our legislative government bodies let these unprecedented most threatening highest crimes go unaddressed, or less addressed than the Ukraine impeachment effort, what would that say about their true respect for and belief in our Democratic principles/Constitutional foundation and the need ( and their bible sworn oath ) to protect and defend this most sacred tenent which this nation depends on for it's own liberty and justice for all existence?

If we don't pursue the highest indictments for these highest crimes against our nation and it's highest importance foundation...we will have allowed them and their perpetrators to inflict the highest damage possible without redress.

Now THAT would be the ULTIMATE FAILURE of leadership.

Impeach the bully ba$+ard who fomented it all!

Much to ponder. It's all about power and control.

Watching those crazy looking wild eyed Trump base intruders running all through the Capital building ( one half naked, heavily tatooed and wearing a bull horn head dressing, another waving a Confederate flag, many smashing and stealing things while laughing and shouting hysterically ) ... I couldn't help remembering some scenes in the film "One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest."

Or a Marx Brothers absurd humor anarchy movie.

Similar casting for this Trump inspired chaos theatrical performace.

34 minutes ago, Dan Rice said:

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Nixon died before "Nixon" started filming.

The film was released in 1995. Was it being made earlier than April 22 of 1994? The date of Nixon's passing?

General John Kelly said today he would vote for Trump's removal under the 25th amendment if he were still Trump's Chief Of Staff.

24 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

 

     Trump is like a wife beater when the cops arrive at the door.

      He only pretended to concede when his advisors warned him that he might be removed from office.

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    This reported about Trump's weak speech yesterday... But the statement was late, and it came after "intervention from his daughter, Ivanka" according to one current White House official.

Trump had to be coaxed into giving this speech by his own daughter? He wasn't going to do this of his own volition?  Egads.

Ivanka must have told him something like...Daddy, we are all about to kicked out of office!   And we will go into the history books as the most screwed up Presidential family ever!

Please, get your "Pu$$y Grabbing A$$ out there and stop this madness!

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 Mary Trump hit this nail on the head, again, today.

Mary Trump To Lawmakers: Ignore ‘Performative’ Trump Speech, He Must Be Impeached

“There was not any truth in it at all, and if you listen carefully, he doesn’t actually concede the election.”

 

Mary Trump To Lawmakers: Ignore 'Performative' Trump Speech, He Must Be Impeached | HuffPost

 

3 hours ago, Bill Fite said:

 

Another comparison to the 1930s rise of fascism.

from: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/08/trump-homegrown-fascism-inequality-poverty  :

Tens of millions of the precariat were already living in a de facto Great Depression before the pandemic, and many working-class jobs will not return in the short term – if ever. This widening disparity creates a level of rage among voters that inexplicably continues to evade Beltway journalists’ understanding.

It’s not that difficult to grasp meaning. Just look to the past. I’ve long been a student of the 1930s – fascism was on the rise in the US throughout the Great Depression. It’s something that never went away; it’s part of the American DNA. Many of the 74 million who voted for Donald J Trump in 2020 would be quite happy with authoritarian leadership. They aren’t going to vanish with the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

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In early 1939, a n a z i  rally at Madison Square Garden drew 20,000 people. The rising authoritarian movement was the subject of a 9,000-word 1940 Harper’s magazine article, The American Fascists, by Dale Kramer.

In the modern era, the Youngstown State labor studies professor John Russo recognized early that anger over the loss of good jobs was leading to a resurgence of fascism. When I interviewed him in 1995, he foresaw the emergence of a Trump-like figure. When I went through Ohio recently on my cross-country journey, John doubled down on his 1995 prediction; he feels that the threat from the far right will not abate. Trump lost “and the thing I say is, ‘So what?’ Right now we are at a tipping point in terms of what the American economy is going to look like, what the American social structures are going to look like,” Russo told me. “2024, that’s going to be the seminal election.”

Russo says there will be “contested terrain”, a fight between progressives and rightwing authoritarianism between now and 2024. If a smarter, more effective Trump comes along, he or she could eclipse the threat that Trump presented to American democracy.

Extremely coherent assessment and likely scenario for the following next years.

Our government leaders are seriously oblivious to how close to absolute financial collapse and bankruptcy tens and tens of millions of Americans and their families are...right now!

Just in my family alone, two of us three have lost their jobs due to the Covid and are living on 35% of their previous take home pay and this unemployment income will be gone in just a few more months to boot!

This is real world REALITY!

Right now...today.

For perhaps 1/4th "or even more" of our entire citizenry!

And these lost jobs and the incomes from them...are not coming back!

An honest true reality message to our federal and state goverment leaders... 

WAKE UP!   

We ( 30 to 40% of the country ) are on the brink ( no, we are there!) of true, serious, family destroying financial collapse!

Like Democratic presidential primary candidate Andrew Yang strongly and seriously proposed...we are going to have to initiate a basic income monthly subsidy to all stressed Americans, until this devastation can be addressed and overcome which will take years.

Otherwise, like poster Bill Fite says, we are guaranteed civil unrest with fascist sentiments growing out of anger, fear and deep frustration.

If Germany and most of the German people hadn't been so devastatingly stressed and even crushed economically after WW I and into the thirties, the attraction to Hitler and his promises to bring them out of their dispiriting and humiliating plight wouldn't have been so appealing. And the more Hitler got Germany's economy and job situation improving, the more Germans fell under his spell. 

Trump has constantly used this same ( I will improve your lives economically and I get things done and keep my promises ) Hitler type appeal format. And most of Trump's blindly loyal spell bound followers still proclaim him as their savior in this way.

Trump's signature propaganda sound bite..."Make America Great Again" perfectly matches Hitler's "Make Germany Great Again" political gain and control game plan and agenda.

Was Hunt's on tape end of life "LBJ and CORD MEYER did it" story ( complete with his personal "hand written" connected dots of planning organization diagram ) and his own participation as a "benchwarmer" in "The Big Event" just another made up fantasy spy novel mind set creation?

Part of a plan by Hunt to give his son St. John something to make some financial security monies ( book and or movie deal?) that Hunt was unable to give him while alive, or even dead with no assets left of his own?   Maybe also an effort like this because of guilt over treating St. John Hunt with less than the most loving treatment and maybe even guilt over St.John Hunt's mother being taken away from him so brutally?

My lifetime experience tells me that most of the people I have ever personally known who voluntarily chose to go into police, security, prison guard and national guard fields were much more right wing types than liberal or even moderately liberal in their political and even morality mindsets.

Most enlisted military service people who stay in more than the basic 4 year commitment, same thing.

I'll guarantee you that the huge majority of agency people are this way as well, and if registered with any political party, they are registered as Republican.

Hence,  it's logical and very possible in my mind, that a good number of security people all over the country and in DC are more aligned with the Trump base mind set and would be more sympathetic to their worked up, Trump conspiracy believing cause versus a democratic party liberal one.

The fact that some of the security people in the Capital building were actually participating in selfie photo ops with these crazy intruders bolsters the possibility that some may have been in on the sketchy resistance break- in event, again imo.

Watched Trump's stiff, muted and even robotic speaking speech yesterday where he weakly conceded defeat and called for a peaceful transition.

You could so easily tell he was reading these teleprompter lines ( totally written by his damage control team ) with inner disdain and reluctance.

Trump was obviously told ( frantically ) that his standing as president is on the brink of removal and that he had better get in front of the national media cameras and at least try to convey some message other than enraging his base with claims of Democratic Party fraud and injustice directed at Trump and his base with a stealing of the presidency message versus a legitimate and honest election loss.

Trump didn't mean or believe a word he said in that short, weakly toned and spoken contrived content speech, imo.

It was strictly a desperate damage control speaking event created by his desperate damage control people. No one besides Trump's most die hard base believed a word he said in it. And you could see and feel that the squinty eyed, tight lipped, stiff jawed Trump didn't either.

Are Trump's cabinet heads resigning so they won't have to vote for his removal as per the 25th Amendment?

I will never believe they are leaving out of moral outrage over the Capital building seige.

26 minutes ago, David Andrews said:

We spend $750 billion annually on "defense" and the center of American government fell in two hours to the duck dynasty and the guy in the chewbacca bikini.

 

Joe: In the filthiest part of my heart, I have to wonder - are Buffalo Bill Crockett (your photo above) and the guy with the Confederate flag who looks like the banjo kid from Deliverance, all part of a very large crowd of crisis actors?  Was there a partial stand-down by Capitol Police?  Parts of this riot look like the greatest photo op ever staged.

Cruel, but necessary to ponder.

 

Ha ha ha ha ha! 

Buffalo Bill Crocket...HA!        Fashion design by ... Borat!

The cock-eyed Deliverance movie banjo playing inbred kid...all growd up!   HA!

11 minutes ago, Bob Ness said:

Pelosi and Schumer calling for a 25th or else they'll impeach. If they impeach and remove him he won't be able to run for office I believe.

 

As Mary Trump has said for one year. The problem is her Uncle "gets away" with these incredible crimes due to those in power threatening but never following through with standing up to Trump in any meaningful way. Yes, they got an impeachment hearing before, but the Republicans rejected it in total compliancy unison.

I don't think every Republican would do that again in a new Impeachment effort.

I am sure Trump thinks this will all just die down and go away. It's his insecurity fear protecting mental coping mechanism. 

Yet, even he must be losing sleep at the growing outrage in every area of our country and even internationally.

I think our leaders have drawn a line with this Trump incited chaos event.

It has embarrassed and disrespected us internationally more than any event in modern history.

ENOUGH!   This highly disturbed and great nation damaging man must leave or be relieved.

D C... I hope that at some point you relate to me what Marina Oswald told you that you could not reveal in her lifetime? Something extraordinary?

I cannot identify with your ideology in the ultra conservative movement realm starting in your youth. However, it seems to me that in your later years you have placed truth, justice and dark secrecy exposing ahead of everything else and your huge time and effort commitment writing, speaking and posting efforts to do such.

Truths about JFK's murder, LBJ's involvement and over-all corruption, the corruption of so many other highest position government persons, the ET story, Nixon, etc. 

I hope this view of mine of your older age moral and common good motivated commitment sincerity in this way is not wrong.

What was your take again as to the contradiction of Hunt confessing the "Big Event" JFK removal story with LBJ and Cord Meyer behind it versus Hunt telling you that JFK was taken out over the "Alien Presence" secrecy exposing threat?

Mitch McConnell's wife Elaine Chao just jumped off of Donald "Captain Queege" Trump's sinking ship.

34 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said:

13 Members of the House of Representatives have drawn up Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1347230206646509573/photo/1

Even if the Senate refuses to convict, I think Trump should be forever written up in the history books as the only President to be impeached twice.

Steve Thomas

We spend $750 billion annually on "defense" and the center of American government fell in two hours to the duck dynasty and the guy in the chewbacca bikini.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

National media finally expressing Trump outrage unilaterally.

Newspapers from coast to coast were quick to condemn Donald Trump after his supporters attacked the Capitol.

New York Times: Trump Is to Blame for Capitol Attack

The president needs to be held accountable — through impeachment proceedings or criminal prosecution — and the same goes for his supporters who carried out the violence. In time, there should be an investigation of the failure of the Capitol Police to prepare for an attack that was announced and planned in public.

This is not just an attack on the results of the 2020 election. It is a precedent — a permission slip for similar opposition to the outcomes of future elections. It must be clearly rejected, and placed beyond the pale of permissible conduct.

The Washington Post: Trump caused the assault on the Capitol. He must be removed

Responsibility for this act of sedition lies squarely with the president, who has shown that his continued tenure in office poses a grave threat to U.S. democracy. He should be removed.

Mr. Trump encouraged the mob to gather on Wednesday, as Congress was set to convene, and to “be wild.” After repeating a panoply of absurd conspiracy theories about the election, he urged the crowd to march on the Capitol. “We’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you,” he said. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.” 

USA Today: Donald Trump triggers the American carnage he vowed to stop in his inaugural address

What to do about this man who has brought such ignominy upon our country? Censure by Congress? Certainly. Criminal exposure for inciting violence and pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to flip that state’s election results? Perhaps.

But can any punishment truly fit the crime? Four years of Trump’s divisive leadership have produced impeachable conduct, failed management of a pandemic that has killed 360,000 Americans, and the undermining of democracy with self-serving and contrived claims of voter fraud.

And now — as a capstone — he fomented mob violence that had all the earmarks of an insurrection.

Los Angeles Times: Trump is responsible for the violent storming of U.S. Capitol

This is the predictable outcome of the grotesque charade being played not just by Trump but by Sens. Ted. Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and others who have aligned with Trump’s blatantly false assertions of voting fraud. Attacking democratic institutions attacks democracy itself, and what the nation witnessed Wednesday in Washington is the power of the mob to destabilize even the most stable of democracies.

The responsibility for this day of unconscionable attacks by Americans on the heart of our elective system belongs to Trump. But his enablers have much to answer for as well, and much to regret.

Seattle Times: Restore order after a shameful day in American history 

Until Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20, Trump holds extensive official power. For the good of the nation, Vice President Mike Pence and cabinet officials should consider invoking the 25th amendment to take power out of Trump’s hands. He cannot be trusted.

Miami Herald: Trump is deranged, dangerous and ‘incapacitated.’ Invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office 

It is time to invoke the 25th Amendment. It is time for President Trump — as he told the violent, radical thugs who support him no matter what; who crawled over the U.S. Capitol like spiders; who breached House and Senate chambers; who brazenly confronted overwhelmed, ill-prepared law-enforcement officers; who forced lawmakers to take shelter — to “go home.”

Wall Street Journal: The Disgrace On Capitol Hill

Mr. Biden will be­come Pres­i­dent at noon on Jan. 20, and un­til then the po­lice need to restore or­der with as much force as nec­es­sary. Re­pub­li­cans es­pe­cially need to speak against tres­pass and vi­o­lence. As for Mr. Trump, to steal some fa­mous words de­ployed in 1940 against Neville Cham­ber­lain: “In the name of God, go.”    

1 hour ago, Andrew Prutsok said:

Facebook just closed the barn door after the cows left: They are banning Trump from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely. 

This is not an endorsement of the move. Just reporting.

Twitter's ban is toothless. They are allowing his staff to get around the ban by posting Trump's quotes under their accounts. The ban should include a ban on those who Trump is using to get around their block.

Trump's frantic and desperate Wag-The-Dog damage control nonsense:

It was Antifa provocateurs.

It was just a fringe minority. News coverage shows thousands converged on the Capital bldg.

The Dems wanted this to happen

Trump never specifically told anyone to breach the building.

Trump's first term most accomplished in American history.

Liberal press over-hyping this minor and relatively meaningless event.

Trump appointees jumping ship are disloyal self-serving cowards.

Mary Trump was in the Capital steps crowd egging on the actual breaking and entering thugs.

And on and on.

Finally, major American newspaper's front page calls for Trump's removal.

Two today, for sure more in the next few days.

The Boston Globe, New York Daily News and L.A. Times have called for Trump's removal a year ago.

Pictures of this palace coup that will resonate for years to come will be these:

The picture of the plain clothes security officers crouched and aiming their drawn pistols toward the smashed window behind the lecturn with Congress members cowering down all around.

The smugly smiling intruder lounging in Nancy Pelosi's office chair with one leg and foot extended out and up and resting on her messed up desk.

Trump supporters lifting themselves up and through smashed windows to get inside the Capital building.

The look of absolute terror on the faces of cowering congressmen and women, one even donning a full head covering see through gas mask.

Tear gas clouds and flash bang bursts on the steps of the Capital building with hundreds of Trump mob people running to and fro.

Weirdly unconcerned looking Donald Trump standing outside the White House giving a stand down speech that was 100% sympathetic to the mob seige crowd ( even saying he felt "their" pain and frustration and expressing his love for them ) versus "none" for the traumatized victims of the Trump vigilante mob invasion.

Capital police running through the building seemingly out numbered and with Trump crazies walking and running around non-confronted all by themselves or together. 

The surreal Capital building seige scene kind of reminded me of the Roger Stone staged Brooks Brothers building seige of the Miami/Dade County election count building days after the 2,000 Presidential election. Where paid agitators were bussed in to create intimidating threatening chaos by actually bursting into the building and pounding on glass doors just feet away from the frightened vote counters.

This Capital Building seige had the same Roger Stone style of direction look and feel but on a national stage scale of fear and shock beyond anything the average American could have imagined. 

The worked up, out of control angry mob breaking in invasion of one of our top three most sacred buildings of government while our Congress is actually inside with tens of millions of Americans seeing it happen live on national TV right in front of their eyes with flash grenades exploding and tear gas clouds wafting was so shocking it was even traumatizing.

Every news outlet cut off normal formats to continuously follow and report the event. Like 9-11.

Our own largest audience San Francisco radio news station KCBS stopped all other broadcasting to follow the DC mob invasion event minute by minute.

Imagine what America's young people who are stuck at home by the millions and seeing this chaos themselves on national TV were thinking about this out-of-control Trump supporter riot?

Their lives have already been turned upside down to long term effecting traumatizing degrees and now they see this worked up Trump supporter chaos madness seige/rioting right in the sacred buildings of our highest government business?

How much more damage can Trump and his worked up followers do to this country which is already traumatized by this unprecedented stress creating virus?

I'm sure Trump will come up with something in his totally self-serving obsession fight to keep his ego maniacal power position and name in lights no matter the damage cost to the rest of us. 

Trump's niece Mary tried to tell us and even warn us to this reality about her "Too Much And Never Enough" egomaniacal uncle Donald.

Melania Trump's chief of staff resigned today in reponse to the Capital Building seige. Stephanie Grisham, former White House Press Secretary.

Praised the opportunity to serve. Not much else said.

I think she jumped ship ASAP before it sinks any lower.