@snoopydawg

you linked to is worth a read - credibility somewhat undermined by the repeated assertion
that Officer Sicknick was beaten to death - now known to not to have been the case - but officers' personal accounts of their experiences generally ring credible.

Part about the Capitol Police leadership having been warned of potential violent threats beforehand - which it failed to act on - is mentioned, though kind of in passing, almost at the end of the article.

You'd think that getting answers to questions like 'what did they know?' and 'when did they know it?' would be kind of important, but is anyone really pursuing that?

Not getting the impression that delving into that is a priority of the Dem leadership.

Graham had previously warned against calling witnesses, saying the defense would call plenty of their own and it would be embarrassing.

Graham focused on the idea that Trump’s defense would then call witnesses that could reinforce that certain elements of the Capitol siege planned and coordinated the attack beforehand.

“There’s mounting evidence that the people came to Washington preplanned the attack before the president ever spoke,” Graham said. He added: “If you open up that can of worms, we’ll want the FBI to come in and tell us about how people preplanned this attack and what happened with the security footprint of the Capitol. You open up Pandora’s box if you call one witness.”

This is already a given I thought. Pretty much everyone knew that Trump supporters were coming to Wash. to a rally and that there was the possibility of violence. Could they have known that people would try to break into the capital and actually stop congress from doing their job? I don't think many thought of that. It's sorta outside the box of any previous protest last year I think. But even if they hadn't they should have been so prepared with extra security that they could have had people either in place or moving there ASAP as soon as Trump told them to march to it. This is where they were unprepared and no new laws are not needed. They don't know that the ones in place did not work because they did not use them as written. This is on them And remember that it is Pelosi's job to make sure the capital is secure. Sorry no links, but from trusted authors if that counts.

Again democrats could have waited to try Trump in the senate so ALL the info can be shown. And if this is as bad as it sounds then Trump must be criminally charged as an instigator or accomplice.

Read this article from capital police. Eye opening. If true...

I don't trust anyone above me

It has been snowing hard for 2 hours and it is starting to stick to the road. Yay. We really need a few good storms which are lined up.

@Raggedy Ann

I’m mean how can you go from insisting and then fighting for something only to say never mind when you got it? Will the dem sycophants finally wake up and see how the Washington Generals just threw the game for the Harlem Globbetrotters? If not then I have no idea what would. Some are tho.

What a farce - I'm laughing hysterically cuz I knew the dimwits would bungle it. Get too close to their power and POW! the shit is over. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

@earthling1

Trump's gonna need to stay out of aircraft and away from large bodies of water

Alexander Lebed

Paul Wellstone...

to stay out of aircraft and away from large bodies of water.

@fire with fire Diet Republicans to the end. The end being 2022, when Republicans take the House and Senate and impeach Biden and Harris.

From June 17, 2020, the 48th Anniversary of the Watergate Break-In:

Democratic Party Now -- Stupid or Crooked?

Of course one possible answer to the title of this essay is, "both." Nevertheless I submit that this question is extremely important. A recent superb essay on this board focused on how to talk with lesser-evil voting folks, and cited the infamous Chuck Shumer line about picking up suburban moderate Republicans while losing traditional lunch pail Democrats. Obviously, Shumer and company do not care to accomplish anything that would benefit those traditional supporters of their party -- so why should they try to win their votes? Thus they are just Republicans now. I certainly agree.

However, I think the Democratic leadership is even more corrupt than that. These people are not stupid at all. They live the lives they have chosen to lead which is to be professional fundraisers. It is not the interest of "moderate" republican voters that they care about. It is the interest of the people who donate money to their campaigns that they care about.

Chuck's glib comment was a toss off -- to explain his own prostitution as though it were an electoral strategy. It is indeed an electoral strategy for the donors -- to own both parties to make sure that they get the government they buy.

This is not a subtle distinction. In support of my interpretation I point to the collapse of the number of Democrats in office over the last decade. The leaders of this party are content to dominate the big cities while blowing off the rest of the country. This keeps enough Democratic politicians in office for it to be a "national" party -- but guarantees that it will never be in power.

The Republican Party concentrates on those exurban and rural voters. The Constitution gives more political power to lower population states in the Electoral College and the Senate. So the Democrats have settled into a stalemate with the Republicans, that locks the status quo in place.

Instead of contending over policy, the two parties put all their public advocacy into accusing the other side of illegitimacy, criminality and treason. Investigations galore! This unprecedented duel of cheap propaganda totally devoid of practical consequence has the effect of discrediting government itself. That of course has been the primary political project of neoliberalism since the days of Thatcher and Reagan.

Hard to give any credit to government today, isn't it?

Simultaneously, the main news outlets of the 21st Century sensationalize the accusations flying back and forth, with Fox News and Talk Radio revving up the Red Shirts and the Legacy Media serving up the bile to the Blue Shirts. There is no significant difference between Rachel Maddow and Sean Hannity. They are both entertainers with a particular schtick.

When I see a wide variety of advocacy on the internet that includes the thought that the Dems are too stupid to understand why they keep losing, I just shake my head in wonder.