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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jan 25, 2021, 10:37:41 PM1/25/21
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What a difference a week makes. On Wednesday, we discovered that House
Democrats actually support police. They are against mob violence. They
believe in law and order. They believe in harsh punishment for rule
breakers. They believe in accountability.
They care deeply about civility. They believe words matter. They abhor
intemperate rhetoric. They are against coarse language. Fancy that.
They believe in a peaceful transition of power, at least this time, as
opposed to 2016. They believe in the Electoral College. They believe in
the legitimacy of the people’s vote.
They believe in walls, at least when it comes to protecting their own
place of work. They even believe in bringing in the National Guard to
quell civil unrest, at least when it comes to preserving their own peace.
They believe in guns, at least when their own safety is at risk.
They revere American history and institutional norms. They honor the
Founding Fathers. Hah!
This is what we learned while watching the Democrats in the House impeach
President Trump for the second pointless time in 13 months.
We learned that they, almost to a man and a woman, suffer from an acute
case of hypocrite-itis.
Where have they been the past four years with these noble ideas that
conservatives have been begging them to defend?
Perhaps if Democrats had not normalized and encouraged violence when
organized BLM-Antifa mobs began rampaging through our cities, the tragic
events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol would not have occurred.
As Republican Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas said Wednesday:
“Last summer the Antifa and BLM riots swept across our country. Businesses
were destroyed, cities burned. It was not like the horrible hours we had
on January 6. But rather, they went on for weeks and in some cases months.
“So if there’s any silver lining in this dark cloud, it’s that our friends
across the aisle have come to realize that riots are bad. We conservatives
have known this all along.”
Perhaps if Democrats had not weaponized the intelligence agencies to spy
on Trump’s campaign, perhaps if they had not used the Steele dossier to
undermine the legitimacy of his presidency and accuse him of colluding
with Russia to rig the 2016 election, perhaps if they had not hobbled his
administration with the three-year Mueller investigation, perhaps more
Trump voters would have been willing to accept the legitimacy of a Biden
presidency.
Perhaps if Dems had not already launched a spiteful partisan impeachment
last year, their efforts to highlight the president’s shortcomings would
have fallen on fewer deaf ears this time.
As Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said, it took just 19 minutes into
Trump’s presidency for the Washington Post to trumpet: “Campaign to
impeach President Trump has begun.”
“And now with just one week left,” Jordan said Wednesday, “they’re still
trying.”
Perhaps if Dems had reflected on their own culpability in the attempted
assassination of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana by a Bernie
Sanders supporter, their sanctimonious lectures Wednesday would be more
credible.
“I’ve seen the evil of political violence firsthand and it needs to stop,”
Scalise said Wednesday. “But all of us need to be unequivocal calling it
out when we see it, not just when it comes from the other side of the
aisle.”
Perhaps if Joe Biden had not spent two years muscling up to Trump, with
threats like “I’d smack him in the mouth” and “I’d take him behind the gym
and beat the hell out of him,” Biden’s pitch for civility might be more
palatable.
Perhaps if Democrats had not spent the last four years calling Trump a
dictator, authoritarian, Nazi, Hitler, white supremacist, anti-Semite,
bigot, racist, hater, dangerous, demented and insane, then the hyperbole
they used against him Wednesday might have been more effective.
The Aesop’s fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” comes to mind. Democrats and
their media handmaidens have spent four years demonizing Trump, using the
most outlandish hyperbole their fevered imaginations could dream up.
So when finally, at the bitter end, when he behaves in a way that angers
even his most loyal supporters, there is nowhere left to go in the
demonization department.
Hence the absurdity of Wednesday’s rhetoric in the House, as Democrats
overreached yet again, traducing the president as a “white supremacist” —
or “racist in chief,” as Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan called him.
Instead of impeaching the president, the House could have censured him and
gathered a lot more Republican votes.
His refrain since November about having won in a “landslide” was reckless
and deluded but it had nothing to do with racism, and his speech at the
Ellipse in DC on Jan. 6 explicitly called for the crowd to “peacefully”
protest.
How was he to know that the Capitol would not be adequately guarded, and
the mob would so easily smash their way inside?
Capitol Police had been left like lambs to the slaughter in part because
the cop-hating mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, wrote to the Department of
Justice the day before the protests specifically to reject federal
reinforcements.
The flexible morality and selective outrage of the Democrats and their
media boosters is so dishonest, it makes your head spin.
Why wasn’t BLM probed like this?
At a thunderous press conference Tuesday, acting US Attorney for DC
Michael Sherwin said law enforcement officials are treating last week’s
Capitol riot “like an international counterterrorism investigation. We’re
looking at everything — money, travel records. No resource will be
unchecked.”
It is reportedly one of the “most expansive criminal investigations in the
history of the Justice Department,” with all 56 FBI field offices
involved.
Great, but where was that kind of gravitas when BLM-Antifa rioters locked
Seattle police in a building and tried to burn them alive?
Or when police were attacked with bricks and Molotov cocktails, whole
blocks were looted and set ablaze at a cost of billions of dollars, and
parts of some US cities were turned into lawless autonomous zones inside
which people were murdered? For months.
There now are at least twice as many troops guarding the nation’s capital
than the total number of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
Maybe it’s not overkill, but the optics also serve the purpose of further
demonizing President Trump and his supporters to a worldwide audience.
That’s why Nancy Pelosi posed merrily for photos outside the Capitol in
front of rows of uniforms yesterday. All class, and subtle as a
sledgehammer.
Punch your tix for the NY vax
No surprise our incompetent governor has bungled the coronavirus vaccine
rollout.
But reader Jonathan has some sage advice to remedy the confusing
hodgepodge of online enrollment to get a shot.
“Engage Ticketmaster — who are used to dealing with many different venues
on their website and a flood of incoming internet and telephone traffic —
to enter all the vaccine sites as they come on board and book slots around
the country just like they usually sell tickets.”
What a great idea. It’s not as if Ticketmaster has much else to do at the
moment.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
What a difference a week makes. On Wednesday, we discovered that House
Democrats actually support police. They are against mob violence. They
believe in law and order. They believe in harsh punishment for rule
breakers. They believe in accountability.
They care deeply about civility. They believe words matter. They abhor
intemperate rhetoric. They are against coarse language. Fancy that.
They believe in a peaceful transition of power, at least this time, as
opposed to 2016. They believe in the Electoral College. They believe in
the legitimacy of the people’s vote.
They believe in walls, at least when it comes to protecting their own
place of work. They even believe in bringing in the National Guard to
quell civil unrest, at least when it comes to preserving their own peace.
They believe in guns, at least when their own safety is at risk.
They revere American history and institutional norms. They honor the
Founding Fathers. Hah!
This is what we learned while watching the Democrats in the House impeach
President Trump for the second pointless time in 13 months.
We learned that they, almost to a man and a woman, suffer from an acute
case of hypocrite-itis.
Where have they been the past four years with these noble ideas that
conservatives have been begging them to defend?
Perhaps if Democrats had not normalized and encouraged violence when
organized BLM-Antifa mobs began rampaging through our cities, the tragic
events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol would not have occurred.
As Republican Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas said Wednesday:
“Last summer the Antifa and BLM riots swept across our country. Businesses
were destroyed, cities burned. It was not like the horrible hours we had
on January 6. But rather, they went on for weeks and in some cases months.
“So if there’s any silver lining in this dark cloud, it’s that our friends
across the aisle have come to realize that riots are bad. We conservatives
have known this all along.”
Perhaps if Democrats had not weaponized the intelligence agencies to spy
on Trump’s campaign, perhaps if they had not used the Steele dossier to
undermine the legitimacy of his presidency and accuse him of colluding
with Russia to rig the 2016 election, perhaps if they had not hobbled his
administration with the three-year Mueller investigation, perhaps more
Trump voters would have been willing to accept the legitimacy of a Biden
presidency.
Perhaps if Dems had not already launched a spiteful partisan impeachment
last year, their efforts to highlight the president’s shortcomings would
have fallen on fewer deaf ears this time.
As Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said, it took just 19 minutes into
Trump’s presidency for the Washington Post to trumpet: “Campaign to
impeach President Trump has begun.”
“And now with just one week left,” Jordan said Wednesday, “they’re still
trying.”
Perhaps if Dems had reflected on their own culpability in the attempted
assassination of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana by a Bernie
Sanders supporter, their sanctimonious lectures Wednesday would be more
credible.
“I’ve seen the evil of political violence firsthand and it needs to stop,”
Scalise said Wednesday. “But all of us need to be unequivocal calling it
out when we see it, not just when it comes from the other side of the
aisle.”
Perhaps if Joe Biden had not spent two years muscling up to Trump, with
threats like “I’d smack him in the mouth” and “I’d take him behind the gym
and beat the hell out of him,” Biden’s pitch for civility might be more
palatable.
Perhaps if Democrats had not spent the last four years calling Trump a
dictator, authoritarian, Nazi, Hitler, white supremacist, anti-Semite,
bigot, racist, hater, dangerous, demented and insane, then the hyperbole
they used against him Wednesday might have been more effective.
The Aesop’s fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” comes to mind. Democrats and
their media handmaidens have spent four years demonizing Trump, using the
most outlandish hyperbole their fevered imaginations could dream up.
So when finally, at the bitter end, when he behaves in a way that angers
even his most loyal supporters, there is nowhere left to go in the
demonization department.
Hence the absurdity of Wednesday’s rhetoric in the House, as Democrats
overreached yet again, traducing the president as a “white supremacist” —
or “racist in chief,” as Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan called him.
Instead of impeaching the president, the House could have censured him and
gathered a lot more Republican votes.
His refrain since November about having won in a “landslide” was reckless
and deluded but it had nothing to do with racism, and his speech at the
Ellipse in DC on Jan. 6 explicitly called for the crowd to “peacefully”
protest.
How was he to know that the Capitol would not be adequately guarded, and
the mob would so easily smash their way inside?
Capitol Police had been left like lambs to the slaughter in part because
the cop-hating mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, wrote to the Department of
Justice the day before the protests specifically to reject federal
reinforcements.
The flexible morality and selective outrage of the Democrats and their
media boosters is so dishonest, it makes your head spin.
Why wasn’t BLM probed like this?
At a thunderous press conference Tuesday, acting US Attorney for DC
Michael Sherwin said law enforcement officials are treating last week’s
Capitol riot “like an international counterterrorism investigation. We’re
looking at everything — money, travel records. No resource will be
unchecked.”
It is reportedly one of the “most expansive criminal investigations in the
history of the Justice Department,” with all 56 FBI field offices
involved.
Great, but where was that kind of gravitas when BLM-Antifa rioters locked
Seattle police in a building and tried to burn them alive?
Or when police were attacked with bricks and Molotov cocktails, whole
blocks were looted and set ablaze at a cost of billions of dollars, and
parts of some US cities were turned into lawless autonomous zones inside
which people were murdered? For months.
There now are at least twice as many troops guarding the nation’s capital
than the total number of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
Maybe it’s not overkill, but the optics also serve the purpose of further
demonizing President Trump and his supporters to a worldwide audience.
That’s why Nancy Pelosi posed merrily for photos outside the Capitol in
front of rows of uniforms yesterday. All class, and subtle as a
sledgehammer.
Punch your tix for the NY vax
No surprise our incompetent governor has bungled the coronavirus vaccine
rollout.
But reader Jonathan has some sage advice to remedy the confusing
hodgepodge of online enrollment to get a shot.
“Engage Ticketmaster — who are used to dealing with many different venues
on their website and a flood of incoming internet and telephone traffic —
to enter all the vaccine sites as they come on board and book slots around
the country just like they usually sell tickets.”
What a great idea. It’s not as if Ticketmaster has much else to do at the
moment.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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