What a difference two years makes. On October 4, 2018, taking over the Capitol was just another form of protest.Remember when this was ok? https://t.co/F1NWLvH3Zi
— Julie Ponzi (@JuliePonzi) January 7, 2021
On that date, The Hill reported, "More than 300 people were taken into custody by police on Capitol Hill after descending on a pair of Senate office buildings Thursday afternoon to protest the confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
"The vast majority of the arrests, 293, were a result of protests in the Hart Senate Office Building, where protesters crowded in the atrium. Loud chants could be heard throughout the building, which is structured so the hallways of each floor open up and look out onto the first floor.
"Those arrested in Hart were charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding, according to Capitol Police. Another nine people were arrested on the fourth floor of Dirksen Senate Office Building and charged with unlawful demonstrations."
CNN also called the crowd protesters.
On Wednesday, CNN called pro-Trump protesters who stormed the Capitol "rioters."
NPR called them "far-right insurrectionists."
In 2018, NPR called the anti-Kavanaugh crowd "demonstrators" and titled its coverage of the storming: " 'We Believe Survivors': Demonstrators Throng Capitol Hill To Protest Kavanaugh"
CNN gushed in 2018, "Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski were arrested in Kavanaugh protests."
The story included a tweet from Ratajkowski, who tweeted, "Today I was arrested protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. Men who hurt women can no longer be placed in positions of power."
Benny Johnson tweeted back, "You're joking, right? Arrested?
"I watched the cops walk up to you and ask politely if you wanted to be arrested. You & Amy Schumer said 'yes.' Then you both just sat comfortably on the floor until the cops gave you special wristbands & politely escorted you out
"I have video."
Being arrested was good for their brand as both got lucrative endorsement contracts for tampons (Schumer) and perfume (Ratajkowski).
Capitol Police shot and killed a protester on Wednesday. She was an Air Force veteran.
In 2018, there were no calls to remove Senator Kamala Harris for riling people up.
And no Democrat senator said she was going to vote against the appointment but upon seeing the protest inside Senate office buildings, she was so ashamed that she would vote for Kavanaugh.
Contrast and compare to Kelly Loeffler's waffling. This shows feminism has achieved its goal of equality because she's as big a weasel as any man.
Well, except Mitt Romney. No one is his equal. He gives weasels a bad name.
White House staffers are leaving after Wednesday's protests by pro-Trump demonstrators. They figure they can devote the next 2 weeks full-time to landing a new gig. Where they land will tell you how loyal they were to the president and his supporters. The bigger the salary, the bigger the weasel.
Book deals are the biggest tell. Can Bill Barr top Kellyanne Conway's advance, or will he have to settle for the mere $2 million that John Bolton landed?
In 2018, the press was ho-hum about the taking over of Senate offices.
Twitter is calling the protest on Wednesday an insurrection.Demonstrators occupy Chuck Grassley's office as they watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify on Kavanaugh's alleged sexual misconduct before the SCOTUS in the Hart Senate Office Building, on Sept. 27, 2018. Photo by Kevin Dietsch for @UPI. #KavanaughHearings pic.twitter.com/AFryCpGiae
— UPI Photos (@UPIPhotos) September 27, 2018
The way the media frames protests matters, which is why they support the anti-American ones and attack the patriotic ones.
The press will be protected from the reprisals that are coming.
Well, maybe not Fox.
But look for full federal funding of NPR in the next round of covid 19 relief.
Shared onto MeWe and GAB.
ReplyDeleteParler requires a phone for registration, and I do not have a smart phone, so I can't join it.
I never used Twitter, and I have not used Facebook since the autumn.
No worries. I just posted it to Parler. Cheers!
DeleteThe book deals are too late. They needed to be published a year ago. After the end of this month no one will care about another Trump administration "tell-all".
ReplyDeleteLOL. Trump haters buy them.
DeleteMr. T will become the LibCommies’ newest Emmanuel Goldstein.
DeleteMike - Doesn't matter. The publishers are the ones who get off on signing the traitors. They positively REVEL in the ability to turn them into Quislings. Whether or not a single copy is sold is, to them, utterly irrelevant. This proves that their "authors" are whiores, in THEIR PAY.
DeletePlease continue to do what you do Don. As long as we can still access an internet, we need voices of sanity, even howling in the wilderness. The battle may be over, but the war is not.
ReplyDeleteI've never used FB or Twitter. Still waiting for alternative platforms to show staying power. Fortunately, we were told in the early days of the internet that it was designed to treat censorship as damage and route around it. May that continue to be the case.
We've seen this movie before.
ReplyDeleteThey toppled statues.
They rioted and destroyed businesses.
They rigged an election.
They burned down a parliament building and said another group did it.
That was the easy part.
Then it took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread.
They relocated people to death camps.
Green New Deal
Agenda 21
Agenda 2030
Climate Change
Multinational treaties
All give them the plan they need.
In our upcoming sequel, we know the Deep State will play the part of the Nazis. My question is:
Who will play the part of "The Jews"?
Look in the mirror.
Delete^This^
DeleteYep ed, and lyn5. We were told in tweets of the "reeducation camps" for Trump supporters. They, when met with pushback, they deleted them.
DeleteBelieve the left, when they tell you what they want to do to you.
Fortunately, they'll have to deal with Trump first. And this time, they'll fail.
Just so we get it out to as many people as possible, video of Trump people pulling Antifa types away from defacing the Capitol.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Fake News will suppress it, but get it out there so the world can see what really happened.
We don't even know the names of the 2 men and woman who "died" yesterday. The FIB is going to investigate,
Right after they finish up Vegas.
I saw that too ed. This is one of the few places it will be shown, thanks to you.
DeleteThe lying leftist media, and Big Tech is going all out now in smearing and banning Trump, and his supporters.
Both Trump and Lin Wood are now on Parlor.
Here's what I think happened, from the "cell phone" video evidence that we have.
DeleteAt some point, the police (capitol? DC?) took down barricades on one side of the building and let MAGA protestors in - peacefully. At the same time, on another side of the building, antifa types either broke in or were allowed to break in (coincidental co-temporal simultaneous access to the building unlikely). That let them get violence from the antifa types, but have enough MAGA people in the building to blame it on them.
A set-up and a "Reichstag fire" indeed...
As edutcher stated, that is the people's house. MAGA supporters have a right to be there, just like the other group as Don pointed out in this blog post, where allowed there, to air their grievances. We've long known about the double standards the media uses in their treatment of MAGA supporters.
DeleteThe gaslighting by the media is only working for the traitors, and those minority who voted for the brain dead, corrupt and compromised china doll.
Ah, the good ol' NPR. The very people who called the Hunter Biden laptop story a "distraction". Not only will the Democrats fund them, they may well get a Cabinet position.
ReplyDeleteMy old journalism school had a dean who was an NPR hack. One year he refused to host the annual First Amendment lecture, because the speaker was guilty of hate speech.
DeleteBut NPR’s lies are told in soothing dulcet tones, to give its listeners the feeling that they are indeed smarter than the rest of us.
DeleteYes, I never could stand their anchors smug, patronizing tone of voice. I marvel that more people don't find that just too offensive to listen to. Don't they hear it?
DeleteI wonder who is funding these multi million dollar book deals? They aren't selling enough books to cover the advances, so where is the money coming from?
ReplyDeleteIt's called money laundering.
DeleteEverything is DC is now exposed as fake. Everything. It's a big club, and we ain't in it.
DeleteThank goodness I'm not exposed to that rotting stench. How Pence and the other traitorous cowards of CONgress sleep at night, I have no clue.
"sleep at night, I have no clue."
DeleteFor too many people, having an overinflated opinion of yourself is considered a qualification. Most "politicians" are now like that...
I saw a post at another site saying that people like Pence, or any of the cowards in CONgress think they will get away with their dirty deeds, and so feel no remorse. Indeed, many of them have. And for far too long.
DeleteThey've never had a Lin Wood tweet their dirty deeds out to the public. It is starting to scare some.
Lin Wood's twitter account was suspended overnight. Quelle surprise.
DeleteIf it’s true that Stretch and Pious Pence were the ones that gave Milley an order yesterday, WHICH HE FOLLOWED, then all three of them should be tried for treason.
DeleteYou really have to wonder just how bad the corruption around the "political class" really is - and in particular how far beyond mere financial corruption it goes.
DeleteWill we ever find out?
I've been having fun today pounding out scathing but civil emails to all the miscreants both D or Rino. I suppose I will be one of the first rounded up for the Re-Education Camps.
Delete^LOL^ My two senators are Democrats. Can't move the brain dead.
DeleteI guess we can't post images/memes here but I just got a photo in email of the WI Statehouse from 2011 being stormed.
ReplyDeleteUniversal praise from the media for that one.
That's different.
DeleteBecause it's okay for committed vanguard-of-the-working-class revolutionaries ("Red guards, red guards, burning with revolutionary zeal!") to to do that.
But it's not okay for bourgeois reactionaries to do that.
Clear?
Oh noes! Facebook (Zuker) bans POTUS:
ReplyDelete"The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden.
His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect -- and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence.
Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms.
Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.
We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete."
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112681480907401
I have to admire the chutzpa of using the term "lawful" when discussing the transition of power. Because a treasonous and cowardly CONgress certified fraud. That Zuker assisted with.
I can smell the fear in his rhetoric. He knows. Zucker, you're going to get a huge surprise when Trump is sworn in on Jan 20, 2021. Your ASSets will be seized. And it could not happen to a more deserving liar and thief.
A lot of what is going on right now is pure sadism - it's truly who and what they are...
DeleteThanks for the reminder, I just clicked over to Farcebook and deleted my account.
DeleteThe lying, corrupt media is sure working overtime to insure the narrative that Trump supporters perpetrated insurrection is embedded in the low information voter's mind.
ReplyDeleteIt's their Reichstag fire. They want to use it to justify their sadism (see above) and their desire to "crack down" on the deplorables/Jews/Kulaks/whatever.
DeleteTheir plan is working to perfection - they believe.
DeleteThe Reichstag analogy is one of the few sane Nazi analogies. And now, for the good news: Fake President Xiden will be very, very lucky to get out of the month of February 2021 alive.
DeletePresident Trump? It's President Nixon on line 3 sir.
ReplyDeleteLoeffler only said she would support the challenge to ingratiate herself to PDJT and the voters. She took the first excuse she could make up to do what she wanted to all along.
ReplyDeleteThe demonstrators yesterday were so out of control they stayed inside the ropes:
ReplyDeletehttp://sweasel.com/archives/22348
Excellent column Don.
ReplyDeleteOne point. I don’t believe in coincidences.
For this reason, I don’t believe it is a coincidence the parents of Mitt Romney (Pierre Delecto) gave him the name “Willard” the name of the most well-known (at least o Baby Boomers) RAT 🐀.
I don’t care if Willard the human Rat 🐀 was born before “Willard” the movie star rat became a star. Willard is a rat.
Don’t insult weasels by lumping them in with Willard Romney - weasels can find you in West Virginia, and I wouldn’t piss them off by limping them in with Willard Romney.
And yeah, the “news” media are propagandists for the Democrat Party and Red China. Hammer that point home for anyone with an open mind.
Don, may I repost this on Facebook?
ReplyDeleteYou do not need permission.
DeleteThanks. I thought it polite to ask.
DeleteHistory teaches what is coming.
ReplyDelete2020's America = 1990's Bosnia.
There were no guns, explosives or zip ties present in the atrium of the senate office building in 2018. No one, in 2018, defecated in the building, ransacked anything or stole anything. No one was killed at that building in 2018. And that wasn't our Capital. And yet - there were 300 arrests! If you seriously consider these two incidences equivalent, then I feel sorry for you.
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ReplyDelete"Those arrested in Hart were charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding, according to Capitol Police. Another nine people were arrested on the fourth floor of Dirksen Senate Office Building and charged with unlawful demonstrations." "
Not a whole lot of destruction, damage, theft, or death threats.
And they were ALL arrested. PEACEFULLY.
THAT is the difference between "protest" and "riot"
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