This show trial is framed as the smoking gun and the parade of horribles rolled into a Geraldo Rivera Al Capone’s safe special. But like Capone’s safe, there’s probably nothing new inside.
"Meanwhile, everything has turned to poop for many Americans."
We can kick a$$ and chew bubble-gum at the same time. Even given all the valid issues that the American people are facing, we can and should make time to get all of this out in as public of a manner as possible. To be honest, I don't think that it should have taken this long, but better late than never.
"In these times, who cares what a former president did or didn’t do 18 months ago? He didn’t succeed, did he? The very-online people who are constantly worried that someone will assume dictator-like control of our government—except when that person is Barack Obama—want everyone in the country to care like they’ve never cared so much in their lives."
I care, despite the fact that the rubber spines of the Republicans and Democrats' general tendency to trip over their shoelaces will NOT result in any meaningful (read: barred from running for office again, or criminal charges) for Donald Trump. The benefits of these hearings will not be not from the last attempted putsch, but raising the bar to make it more consequential for those attempting the NEXT putsch. I suspect that John Eastman would have loved to sail through the rest of his life as a minor celebrity in conservative intellectual circles - that's now impossible given the widespread notoriety he's earned with his scheming. It's important to broadcast the cops' stories who were attacked and injured during the insurrection so that future #MAGA candidates will be asked to untangle the contradiction of their "Back the Blue" stances and support for Trump's Big Lie. Trump may be basically immune from consequences here, but it's important to show that his enablers do not enjoy the same protections from prosecution should they decide to play along.
The Jan. 6 Committee's job here is to shine as bright of a light on what led up to and occurred on January 6 so that potential supporters of the next putsch don't look at it as a fun and raucous right-wing field trip, but something that will impose real consequences on them, their reputations, and their livelihoods, should they decide to become complicit in the next attempt to overturn an American election. To the extent that the Jan. 6 Committee can show that collaborators at all levels of the incident will be held accountable, the better off we will be in the end.
I read the comments first, so I read the article with the intent of separating the truth from the satire. The truth is that everything has turned to poop for many citizens. The satire has to do with why we should care about what happened eighteen months ago. If Pelosi's committee of the like-minded can prove all that Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney allege, they will have done the country a great service. I do not believe that will happen. What will happen is political theater and grandstanding without the pesky contrary grandstanding to deal with.
"Meanwhile, everything has turned to poop for many Americans."
We can kick a$$ and chew bubble-gum at the same time. Even given all the valid issues that the American people are facing, we can and should make time to get all of this out in as public of a manner as possible. To be honest, I don't think that it should have taken this long, but better late than never.
"In these times, who cares what a former president did or didn’t do 18 months ago? He didn’t succeed, did he? The very-online people who are constantly worried that someone will assume dictator-like control of our government—except when that person is Barack Obama—want everyone in the country to care like they’ve never cared so much in their lives."
I care, despite the fact that the rubber spines of the Republicans and Democrats' general tendency to trip over their shoelaces will NOT result in any meaningful (read: barred from running for office again, or criminal charges) for Donald Trump. The benefits of these hearings will not be not from the last attempted putsch, but raising the bar to make it more consequential for those attempting the NEXT putsch. I suspect that John Eastman would have loved to sail through the rest of his life as a minor celebrity in conservative intellectual circles - that's now impossible given the widespread notoriety he's earned with his scheming. It's important to broadcast the cops' stories who were attacked and injured during the insurrection so that future #MAGA candidates will be asked to untangle the contradiction of their "Back the Blue" stances and support for Trump's Big Lie. Trump may be basically immune from consequences here, but it's important to show that his enablers do not enjoy the same protections from prosecution should they decide to play along.
The Jan. 6 Committee's job here is to shine as bright of a light on what led up to and occurred on January 6 so that potential supporters of the next putsch don't look at it as a fun and raucous right-wing field trip, but something that will impose real consequences on them, their reputations, and their livelihoods, should they decide to become complicit in the next attempt to overturn an American election. To the extent that the Jan. 6 Committee can show that collaborators at all levels of the incident will be held accountable, the better off we will be in the end.
I read the comments first, so I read the article with the intent of separating the truth from the satire. The truth is that everything has turned to poop for many citizens. The satire has to do with why we should care about what happened eighteen months ago. If Pelosi's committee of the like-minded can prove all that Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney allege, they will have done the country a great service. I do not believe that will happen. What will happen is political theater and grandstanding without the pesky contrary grandstanding to deal with.
Um, what massacre of civilians? There's no credible evidence such a thing was going to happen. Otherwise, a reasonably good article.