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Frank Lee's avatar

The interesting part of the story for a Republican Senator like Cruz is how he would have to put on an Oscar-winning crying performance like Adam Kinzinger before he got any positive press from the left media. So then, why fall for their absurd breathless hyperbole and lies about Jan 6?

The Democrat party, once the home of the American working class, is now committed to claiming all American working class Trump supporters as Nazis for their failure to capitulate to the Global New World Order Great Reset project. That is their well coordinated, Billionaire Boys Club-funded, dishonest corporate media-powered political propaganda strategy... generate copious negative character branding about Trump and his supporters leading up to the mid-terms. Because the American voters are clearly not buying the Democrat political platform dog food... they are abandoning Old Joe like the wealthy leaving the Titanic before it sunk.

Cruz, and any Republican that gives the smallest of indication that Jan-6 was anything more than a largely peaceful protest where a small contingent of protestors were whipped up into a frenzy in encouraged aggression by several still anonymous people within the crowd who somehow have not been arrested yet but seem to have connections with the FBI, and then who went through not very strongly capitol police defended barriers to occupy the Capitol... are only hurting: themselves, the Republicans and the Democrats who continue to think that this cult of anti-Trump supporters and anti-American working class is going to help the party. It is not going to do any of those things.

It was not an insurrection. It was not terrorism. It is not a 9-11 or D-Day. Those are absurd hyperbolic intellectually dishonest accusations. Cruz and all Republicans need to be on the opposite side of anything the Democrats claim about Jan-6 other than there are a few people that committed trespassing and assaults on law enforcement, and they should be arrested and prosecuted for those crimes. Nancy's partisan Commission is just political theater as was her putting fencing and military personnel around the capitol. All of this is just political media theater at this time, and Cruz should have recognized it and stayed completely out of the dishonest script.

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EnderAK08's avatar

Let's roll through some obvious factual problems:

"The Democrat party, once the home of the American working class, is now committed to claiming all American working class Trump supporters as Nazis for their failure to capitulate to the Global New World Order Great Reset project. "

This is simply made up, there is no New World Order or Great Reset. Also, Democratic voters have slightly lower incomes than Republican voters so you might consider refining your definition of the working class.

"That is their well coordinated, Billionaire Boys Club-funded, dishonest corporate media-powered political propaganda strategy... generate copious negative character branding about Trump and his supporters leading up to the mid-terms."

Donald Trump is quite literally our first and only billionaire President. His biggest donor was billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who ran one of the world's largest casinos. If you watch Fox News, you are watching the largest and most profitable corporate media in world history.

Donald Trump doesn't need a conspiracy to wreck his character. He's been doing that since his first divorce, if not before.

But to your point yes, the Democratic Party also has billionaire donors, and favorable corporate news channels. This is one of the few ways the parties are similar, and it's a consequence of having a loosely-regulated capitalist market economy.

"Cruz, and any Republican that gives the smallest of indication that Jan-6 was anything more than a largely peaceful protest where a small contingent of protestors were whipped up into a frenzy in encouraged aggression by several still anonymous people within the crowd [etc.]"

This is actually what Cruz's statement says, but you are still mad about it. I too look forward to the arrest of these people, though if they are, I suspect they will have memberships in the Proud Boys, and the Oathkeepers, and the like.

You say this wasn't insurrection or terrorism? Here are the dictionary definitions:

insurrection

: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government

terrorism

: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

Violently assaulting a national capital, its police officers, and attempting to kill politicians sure seems to fit both definitions to me.

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Frank Lee's avatar

Not time to refute almost everything written here. It is the standard deflection.

But let's just start here with some education. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/klaus-schwab-nature-jobs-great-reset-podcast/

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EnderAK08's avatar

So your complaint is that society might improve somewhat at the hands of governments, multinational corporations, and NGOs?

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Frank Lee's avatar

Huh? No, society will improve when we shrink government, reduce the volume and scope of small business killing regulations, change the tax code to enhance investment in job-producing production instead of passive selfish returns, stop exporting our jobs and industries, stop China from stealing all of our IP, get people back to work, reform the education system to develop economically self-sufficient adults instead of programmed clones of the woke sickness and Marxism. And provide tax and other incentives to spur job-producing investment in territories with low economic circumstances.

It all starts with a commitment to shrink government as big government colludes with big business to prevent all these other things, because they are the threat to big business. And we also should consider breaking up some of the larger corporations that are clearly into monopoly territory.

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EnderAK08's avatar

See, the thing is most of what you posted is respectable politics - just stuff I disagree with. Expect for the Marxist and woke sickness stuff, which again, is simply made up.

But none of that has to do with January 6th, an insurrection, or a committee. So maybe lead with this if you don't want people to roll their eyes at you.

Nor do it have to do with whatever you're trying to argue the Great Reset is.

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Frank Lee's avatar

See the topic of the article. It is all connected.

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R Mercer's avatar

Ah the troll brings more alternative history.

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R Mercer's avatar

1/6 was definitely terrorism (contrary to what the OP asserts with no supporting argument:

тАЬthe unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectivesтАЭ (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).

It also qualifies as insurrection as it was violence and threats of violence intended to interfere with the operation of the government.

I am as equally happy to apply these definitions (and their consequences) to those of the political left that do these things as to the political right.

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Frank Lee's avatar

And yet your vile diatribe does not get removed. https://jboone.substack.com/p/dont-subscribe-to-the-triad

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R Mercer's avatar

ROFLMAO. Just own the fact that you are a troll... and not a very good one.

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Hortense's avatar

I remember watching coverage of the activities on Jan 6 and "a small contingent of protestors" was not what I saw, unless you define "small" as greater than 5000. There were a LOT of people at the Capitol and they were not having a picnic.

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Frank Lee's avatar

The Park Service estimates 45,000 protestors. It is estimated that somewhere between 600-700 entered. Out of that 600-700, most were not violent.

When I watched the TV footage of the previous 18 months of BLM and Antifa protests, it looked like all of it was violent looting with cities on fire.

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SuperG's avatar

18 months? I mean, I ignore most of what you write because it is remarkably ignorant and nonsensical rambling, but 18 months?

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Frank Lee's avatar

May 2019 through November 2020. Come on now, you can count.

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SuperG's avatar

where were there BLM protests in 2019?

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Hortense's avatar

Much of the BLM protests started off peacefully, then became violent for a number of reasons. They were in response to the impact of police on black people. To me, Antifa are the same as the Proud Boys, 3%ers, Oath Keepers, up for agitation. I can't equate the BLM protests with what happened on Jan 6, but violence will never be the answer regardless of the issue. The world is changing, to my mind, for the better. We all need to discuss issues to better understand each other. Beating the crap out of the other person is not conducive to that end.

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EnderAK08's avatar

My man, the BLM protests lasted roughly the summer. Where are you getting 18 months from? 18 months from January 2021 would mark them as going continuously since mid-2019.

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Frank Lee's avatar

The kind of pseudo intellectualism strikes again.

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Don Gates's avatar

Boongino also maintains that Trump had the largest crowd at his inauguration in the history of inaugurations.

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