THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
THE TRUMP ATTEMPTED COUP OF JANUARY 6, 2021 - WHO WERE HIS ACCOMPLICES?
McConnell Reportedly Pleased about Impeachment, Wants to Purge Trump from GOP
Mairead McArdle
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly pleased about efforts by Democrats to impeach President Trump a second time, saying he believes the move will make it easier for Republicans to purge Trump from the party.
McConnell has said that he believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and has indicated that he wants to see the specific article of impeachment being put forth by House Democrats, the New York Timesreported.
House Democrats filed an article of impeachment against Trump on Monday, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” for his rhetoric before and during the deadly riot at the Capitol last week when Trump supporters broke past security and forced their way into the halls of Congress.
The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on impeachment. Two Republican House members, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, have already announced they will support impeachment. The White House expects up to a dozen more Republicans to defect as well.
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has reportedly asked fellow Republicans if he should ask Trump to resign in the wake of the violence. McCarthy has indicated that he would support a censure of the president over the riot and has meanwhile decided not to urge his fellow Republicans to vote against impeachment, despite the California congressman’s personal opposition to it.
The violence at the Capitol on January 6 ended with five dead and prompted bipartisan condemnation of Trump’s exhortations to his supporters at the rally in front of the White House earlier in the day.
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” the president told his supporters at the rally, but he warned, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
On Tuesday, Trump denied responsibility for inciting the violence.
“They’ve analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence. And everybody to the tee thought it was totally appropriate,” the president told reporters
Details emerge exposing high-level coordination between fascists, police and Republican politicians in lead-up January 6 coup attempt
More details are beginning to emerge confirming that last Wednesday's coup attempt was planned in advance in coordination with Republican officials, Capitol police and fascist sympathizers in the military-intelligence apparatus. At the same time, additional signs that far-right elements are planning a second coup in the lead-up to January 20 underscore the urgent necessity for workers and students to begin preparations for a political general strike.
On Wednesday, the Daily Beast reported a warning bulletin put out by the Secret Service identifying a planned Boogaloo rally to be held on January 17 in Washington, DC. The far-right movement is populated by former and active police and military members, who seek to start a second Civil War in order to usher in a fascist state.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., left, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, right, speak after Republicans objected to certifying the Electoral College votes from Arizona, during a joint session of the House and Senate to confirm the electoral votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The Secret Service bulletin also warned that fascists plan to rally on January 20th for what they call the “Million Militia March” in Washington. For both events, prospective attendees are encouraged to bring weapons.
It has previously been reported that at least three US capitol police officers have been suspended while at least a dozen more are under investigation for their role in last Wednesday’s attempted putsch. A running tally of law enforcement participation in the coup compiled by Jonathan Ben-Menachem, writer at The Appeal, has identified 28 police from 12 different states as having taken part in the rally.
While ample video evidence has already surfaced of police removing barriers and goading supporters of President Donald Trump into the Capitol, on Wednesday the Boston Globe reported that panic buttons installed in Democratic Representative Ayanna Pressley’s office had been “torn out,” prior to Wednesday’s attempted coup.
“Every panic button in my office had been torn out—the whole unit,” Sarah Groh, Pressley’s chief of staff, told the Globe. Groh alleges she had used them before, and had not switched offices since the last time they were used. Groh, along with Pressley and her husband, were eventually shuffled to several different “secure locations.” Groh recalled to the Globe that the group tried to remain calm throughout the ordeal, but it was difficult because they did not know who the officers were escorting them or if they could be trusted.
The National Guard will increase the number of troops in DC from 15,000 to 20,000 in the coming days. Over 6,600 soldiers have already arrived, with photos emerging of soldiers carrying weapons outside the Capitol Complex. Another photo captured a Guardsman wearing a “thin blue line” patch, popular among fascists and Trump supporters, over his uniform.
During a Tuesday night Facebook live-stream New Jersey Democrat Mikie Sherrill claimed that she saw Republican congresspeople giving “reconnaissance” tours to pro-Trump groups in the Capitol building the day before the attempted coup.
On Wednesday, Sherrill, along with 30 other House Democrats, signed a letter demanding an “investigation” into the “suspicious” visitors that were allowed in the building on January 5. The letter was addressed to Acting House Sergeant-at-Arms as well as the acting Senate Sergeant-at-Arms and the US Capitol police. All of these agencies have elements that have been implicated in the coup plot, ensuring that any investigation will protect the ringleaders from any significant repercussions of exposure.
In the letter demanding an investigation, the representatives noted that the “visitors encountered by some of the Members of Congress on this letter appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day,” and that the group seemed “to have an unusually detailed knowledge of the layout of the Capitol Complex. The presence of these groups within the Capitol Complex was indeed suspicious.”
In a viral social media video, one woman with a bullhorn is seen and heard giving detailed instructions to rioters who had broken into the Capitol. “There’s also two doors in the other room, one in the rear and one in the right, when you go in, so you should probably coordinate together if you are going to take this building,” she tells the mob.
As part of the effort of the Democratic Party to cover-up the plans of their “Republican colleagues,” Sherril refused to comment to Politico as to the identity of the lawmakers involved or to describe the “suspicious” activity she witnessed.
In a similar vein, Democratic representative Tim Ryan of Ohio also refused to publicly name Trump’s co-conspirators, telling a reporter that he’s aware of “a couple” of names of complicit congresspersons, but that he would wait to release them “to make sure we get verification.” Ryan said he had passed the names “to the authorities” last Wednesday, the night of the coup.
Democratic Colorado representative Jason Crow also told the New York Times on Wednesday that he had requested an investigation by the Government Accountability Office into whether members of Congress played a role in inciting the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol.
“To the extent there were members of the House that were complicit, and I believe there were, we will pursue appropriate remedies including expulsion and a prohibitions from holding elective office for the rest of the their lives,” Crow told the Times.
Three Republican congressmen who are likely to be named include the organizers for the “Stop the Steal” rally that was held on January 6 in DC: Arizona representatives Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, as well as Alabama representative Mo Brooks. The three congressmen were named in a December Periscope video by Ali Alexander, a far-right activist and organizer of “Stop the Steal.”
“We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting,” Alexander said. The purpose of the mob was to “change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud roar from outside.” In a statement to the Washington Post, a spokesman for Biggs said that the congressman had never been in contact with Alexander or any other protesters and denied he helped organize the rally.
This is not a credible statement. The Arizona Republic had previously reported that Biggs spoke at December 19 “Stop the Steal” rally that was hosted and promoted by Alexander, who even had a graphic made for the event, which was held at the Arizona state capitol. In addition to Alexander, Congressman Andy Biggs is featured on the poster. The official Arizona Republican Twitter account also previously endorsed a tweet from Ali in which he claimed he would sacrifice himself in order to overthrow the constitution.
These details must be investigated by Congress, exercising its subpoena power to force those involved to testify under penalty of perjury, and to bring their communications into public light in order to expose the ongoing plot.
FNC’s Carlson: ‘Slow Learners Like Mitch McConnell’ Don’t Realize Future of Trump Voters ‘Redefined as Domestic Terrorists’ at Stake
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson reacted to the President Donald Trump’s impeachment articles issued by the House of Representatives earlier in the day.
Carlson honed in on the reaction from some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Transcript as follows:
CARLSON: So it looks like they are impeaching Donald Trump again for the second time in four years, a week before he leaves office. With strong bipartisan support, leaders of both parties appear in favor of this.
No matter how angry you may be at Donald Trump tonight and many of his voters are angry at him, watching this happen may confuse you. The chaos of an impeachment trial is hardly the peaceful and orderly transition of power both parties assure you they want. So why are they doing this? There has to be a reason and indeed there is one.
First, let’s be clear about what that reason is not. Legitimate moral outrage will play absolutely no role whatsoever in whatever impeachment proceedings occur, no matter what you hear, no matter how many times Jim Clyburn goes on television and talks about the Civil Rights Movement; no matter how often you see the frail, but determined Nancy Pelosi read lines like this.
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REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): We know that we face enemies of the Constitution. We know we experienced the insurrection that violated the sanctity of the people’s Capitol and attempted to overturn the duly- recorded will of the American people, and we know that the President of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country.
He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.
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CARLSON: Oh, “the nation we all love,” of course, yes, that lovable irredeemably immoral nation that must change by force immediately and forever because it is so disgusting and stained by your sin.
Yes, they really love it here. It is defended by Donald Trump.
Right? Remember that for decades and not that long ago because we recall it vividly, the two most powerful Democrats in the United States Senate were Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd. Ted Kennedy left a young woman to drown in a drunk driving accident; Robert Byrd was a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan.
Democrats did not seem bothered by any of that. They never said a word.
They praised Kennedy and Byrd at every turn including at their funerals, so no, Democrats are not actually outraged in any moral sense by Donald Trump. They never have been. They’re too cynical to have feelings that authentic.
As if to prove that point, they’ve named as one of their so-called impeachment managers the young, Eric Swalwell of California who was a sitting Member of Congress who had sex with an actual Chinese spy. So please, ladies, spare us the self-righteous indignation.
What’s happening here instead is old-fashioned hard-eyed politics. Democrats have every practical reason for wanting to see Trump impeached during his final days in office. The first and most obvious reason is to make Republicans weaker.
Every loss diminishes a political party, and impeachment is nothing if not a loss, so there’s that. But there’s also another thing. Democrats need to keep talking about Donald Trump, next week and forever if they’re going to keep their own party together.
Most political coalitions are built on shared interests. The Democratic coalition is built on shared genetics. The basic idea is that everyone who is not a straight white man must be united as one in unshakable solidarity. The problem is that can’t happen because it’s not true.
In real life, many Democrats have nothing in common with each other. Once Donald Trump leaves the scene, the great unifier, and it’s time to divvy up the spoils of the United States Treasury to begin the great pinata party of 2021. Various components within the Democratic Party, the fabled communities you hear so much about will turn on each other with feral ferocity. You can see glimpses of it now, it’s going to be highly ugly.
Democrats would like to delay that disaster as long as they can, so they need to keep Donald Trump at the center of the conversation. They are impeaching him so they can continue to give speeches about him. It’s that simple.
But why are Republicans playing along? They don’t really have a sound political rationale for any of this. They are just dumb and guilty. Honestly, that’s the reason.
Here’s how it works: from the perspective of the Republican leadership, it would be best if Donald Trump just went away forever. He is embarrassing. They don’t want to talk about him. They’d like him to disappear.
So that’s their plan with impeachment: make it so that Trump can never run for office again — not that he actually plans to run for office again — and then disgrace Trump so thoroughly that he cannot appear in public ever again, then pretend that Donald Trump never happened. Call it the suburban Connecticut denial strategy. Whatever you do, don’t talk about mom’s alcoholism, just act like it’s not happening and maybe it’ll go away. Good luck with that.
There are a couple of obvious problems with this approach. The first problem is, it won’t work. By impeaching the President during his final week in office, Congress will not succeed in discrediting Trump among Republican voters; in fact, it will enhance Donald Trump among Republican voters, obviously.
Who does your average Republican voter trust more? Donald Trump or the many people who hate Donald Trump? Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell? Donald Trump or CNN? Come on, you know the answer. It’s not complicated.
But apparently, it’s too complicated for the dummies in the Republican Party who think impeachment will help them in the long run, they are that stupid. Maybe you shouldn’t be surprised by that. These are the very same people who still defend the war in Iraq, the ones who will tell you with a straight face that Iran is the single biggest threat we will ever face as a nation. Iran.
Not your falling wages or the runaway healthcare costs you can’t pay or the financialized hollowed out economy that feels like it’s about to collapse, not the Chinese fentanyl that just killed your nephew. No, none of that. Iran? An isolated faraway country you could not find on a map at gunpoint. That’s the real threat.
The amazing thing is, they mean it when they say it. They are dead serious. That’s how stupid and brainwashed they are.
And by the way, they are so dumb they assume you agree with them. They have no idea what you really think. They haven’t spent five minutes wondering why you voted for Donald Trump in the first place, and by the way, they don’t care.
The sad thing is, a smart party could do a lot for itself and for the country with a moment like this.
A week ago, a violent mob attacked the capitol. Republicans should have no problem opposing that. It ought to be consistent with what they have been saying for decades. Republicans are for law and order.
Smash a cop in the face with a fire extinguisher, go to jail. Break windows, hit people with flag poles, the same thing, jail.
We are Republicans. We have no tolerance for that kind of crap. This is a civilized country. We won’t put up with it.
The next time a mob gathers outside the U.S. Capitol Building, and by the way, outside a Wendy’s in Minneapolis, or a Federal Building in Seattle or occupies a commercial district in Portland, Oregon by force, Republicans can say, loudly and with a clear and consistent conscience, we are against that.
In America, laws are real. They apply to everyone equally. That is the Republican position. It is not hard.
But apparently, it is hard. Because for the last week, slow learners like Mitch McConnell have missed it completely. They’ve allowed themselves instead to be led into rhetorical cul-de-sacs on the question of Donald Trump’s personal character as a man.
At no point does it seem to have occurred to McConnell or any of these sort of geniuses clustered around him that what is really at stake right now is not the future of Donald Trump. He is elderly and retiring next week, but instead the future of his voters, tens of millions of them, American citizens who in the space of the last seven days have seen themselves redefined as domestic terrorists, that has happened.
Republicans in Washington don’t seem to have noticed that it happened.
Just today, the former MLB pitcher, Curt Schilling announced that he has had his personal insurance policies cancelled by his insurer. Why? Because Curt Schilling wrote a social media post defending Donald Trump, and in 2021, that’s not allowed. You could lose your insurance for that.
You could also lose your bank account, your website, your access to e-mail and social media, your ability to communicate with the outside world and there’s nothing you can do about it because you can also lose your lawyer. No legal representation for.
You how long before they cut off your water and electricity? Before UPS won’t deliver your packages, and not to wreck your day, but guess what? Amazon is now one of America’s biggest grocery providers. Good thing you don’t need to eat.
But no problem says Mitch McConnell, the real problem is Donald Trump and once he is gone, everything will be fine.
In a Wednesday op-ed, the Los Angeles Times called for the initiation of wide scale “de-Trumpification” and the shunning of exiting Trump administration officials who are described as “arsonists fleeing a wreckage they’ve made.”
The essay, penned by University of California-Irvine law professor and former U.N. Special Rapporteur on free speech David Kaye, questions how Trump administration officials and appointees, including “the shameless liars, the sycophants and the cynical enablers in Congress who knowingly sacrificed their reputations to support this president” are to be held accountable after the end of President Trump’s term later this month.
Though exiting political appointees have traditionally landed at prestigious institutions, with some becoming experts in the media, keynote conference speakers, memoirists with book deals, and others running for office or working for the public interest, these should not necessarily be available to former officials of the Trump administration, according to Kaye.
“Not so fast,” the essay declares. “Elite institutions unthinkingly opening their doors to this crew will facilitate exactly what we must avoid: normalizing the Trump years and evading a reckoning for Trumpism.”
Kaye then accuses departing Trump administration officials as a group, without providing evidence, of having participated in “undermining the democratic process, perpetuated lies from podiums, attacked the press, corrupted our foreign policy and intelligence agencies, damaged government departments devoted to the environment and education and much more.”
“By doing all this, Trump officials should forfeit the normally automatic benefits that come from a stint in government,” he adds.
Commending only a few who “maintained their independence and spoke truth to power inside and out of government,” the rest of the Trump administration officials are to be met with “skepticism about the value [they] bring to any mainstream institution.”
“Law firms, for example, should scrutinize Trump lawyers carefully as they return to private practice, and corporate boards should just say no.”
In addition, the essay calls for journalists and their editors “to think hard about how they integrate the voices of Trump officials in their stories” and to indicate their Trump affiliation and role clearly when being quoted.
Lastly, Kaye calls for “a meaningful and high-profile process of public accounting for Trump administration actions that overstepped the law.”
In the concluding paragraph, Kaye seeks to ensure the reader that his propositions are not primitive, though they may appear to be so.
“Shunning may sound primitive, but it is not,” he writes. “It can be a way to reinforce democratic values.”
The essay is part of a host of calls on the left to shun conservative voices and at a time of unprecedented “purges” of such voices on various social media platforms.
Last Thursday, a Forbes Magazine op-ed warned companies about hiring “fabulists” from the Trump administration.
“Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie,” Forbes Magazine’s chief content officer, Randall Lane, wrote.
Also last week, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project announced that it was building a database of Trump officials and staffers with the intention of holding them professionally “accountable” for supporting the president.
At @ProjectLincoln we are constructing a database of Trump officials & staff that will detail their roles in the Trump administration & track where they are now. No personal info, only professional. But they will be held accountable & not allowed to pretend they were not involved https://t.co/DkpxpaWaWB
Last month, a Washington Post essay encouraged the media to shun Republicans who questioned the election results.
The essay itself admitted promoting “a radical approach” yet stood by it as “the only way to safely proceed with live interviews with Republicans who may be carrying a dangerous conspiracy theory that spreads on air.”
Also last month, the Washington Post published an essay comparing denying election results to denying the Holocaust and using that as a pretext to silence opposing voices.
“We would not allow a Holocaust denier to speak on evening news programs or have free rein on social media,” the essay’s authors write unequivocally. “Old and new media alike should no longer give a platform to these dissimulations, starting with Trump’s.”
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