The riot that followed the rally called by Trump - in his last-ditch effort to sway members of Congress to reconsider states' electoral college votes - was certainly chaotic and worthy of sensational headlines, but was the "insurrection on Capitol Hill" really an "attempted coup by President Trump"?
Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley discuss the extraordinary scenes within and outside the halls of Congress last week, placing the event (and the congressional session it overshadowed) in the context of four years of sustained media disinformation and political polarization that is reaching fever pitch.
What next for Trump? And for the American people?
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Ongoingly excellent discussion, gents. I do love the accents (as we call them, we being the same people who are mostly unaware of the entire concept of an 'American accent'.)
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* I've used my imitations of such to - honestly! - 'impress' some of our American femmes! (Ditzy ones? ~ 50/50 - I always eventually disclaim it.)
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" There's (a) naivety." It's a wilful naivety.
"Blunder on through" and "Only personality that stood a chance."
Dead on!
"Dark days" Yeah, it's a lot like just before the WH burning in 1814. ( / Sarcasm.)
"Extremist lite"
KUDOS!
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Seriously, thank you so much for your knowledge and insights. So needed now, for me and for so many. It's a sad state we Americans find ourselves in right now. And sad for most of the rest of the world as well due to the evil, career criminal, psychos fighting to their death to maintain global control.
I am so grateful to hear your take on these crazy times. You help me to keep my sanity, some sanity, a good amount of sanity really.
Thanks guys.
Intro theme:...I sort of think that Trump's naivete kind of ''prevented'' the Washington mob opting for a 'JFK type' scenario.
Joe: Hello and welcome to NewsReal, I'm Joe.
Niall: and I'm Niall.
Ox-blood loafers, white towelling socks, two-tone Tonik trousers at half-mast with a claret & blue or green & blue fish-skin shimmer. Brutus Trim-fit button down shirt, white aran jumper with or without nipples, Crombie coat, possibly a raffish paisley scarf, navy blue trilby from Dunn & co. Sideys if you were old enough to be able to grow a pair.
"My jacket's gonna be cut and slim and checkedAround here, guys were (and I still do) expected to dress super sedately. Right now? I"m wearing grey flannel shirt and jeans. Exactly about what I wore back then.
Maybe a touch of seersucker with an open neck
I ride a G.S. scooter with my hair cut neat
I wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet
Girls: bright colors, and I love girls in jeans.
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The US of A is going to hell in a handbasket.
The power establishment doesn't like populism? Propaganda is all about manipulating populism. That's their bread and butter! Why else do they even need or want political process if it isn't to manipulate populism? Wouldn't it be much easier to just cut to the chase and rule by decree? (which is really what's always going on beneath the fig leaf of posturing and lies for the purpose of creating the truth-obscuring froth of populism.) Bill Clinton was a successful populist. Obama was a successful populist. Arguably two of the most despicable characters in modern politics were 'populists'!
And encouraging a massive crowd of people to physically assemble in a place where congressional processes were likely to exacerbate frustration and anxiety, and where agents provocateurs were guaranteed to try to provoke violence, was the action of either a massively incompetent politician who should never have been allowed anywhere near the tinderbox of populist politics, or it was the action of an insider whose job it was at that point to discredit and disassemble his own erstwhile movement. Which is it? Is Trump a fool or a mendacious political operative? Take your pick, but whichever way you interpret this, Trump was never in this office to effect change.
Where have all the patriots gone, no time to lose?,
Where have all the patriots gone?,
Went home after Trumps’s rally, every one,
Oh when will the MSM tell the truth, oh when will SM tell the truth?
Where have all the ANTIFA gone, our freedoms now are passing?,
Where have all the ANTIFA gone, no time to lose?,
Where have all the ANTIFA gone?,
Stormed the capitol building, every one,
Oh when will the MSM tell the truth, oh when will SM tell the truth?
Where has our democracy gone, our freedoms now are passing?,
Where has our democracy gone, no time to lose?,
Where has our democracy gone?,
Global capitalists stole it, they have won,
Oh when will the MSM tell the truth, oh when will SM tell the truth?
Where has our way of life gone, our freedoms now are passing?,
Where has our way of life gone, no time to lose?,
Where has our way of life gone?,
Lost to Covid lockdowns, what a scam,
Oh when will the MSM tell the truth, oh when will SM tell the truth?
Would love to hear a rebuttal from liberals on this one...anyone? Bueller????
The Soul of an individual, as well as the Astral body, have a multidimensional existence.
Many of the 'stories' are in English, some are not.
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There were three Brits, Parks, Charlie Ward and Danielle somebody saying that the Insurrection Act was being signed this morning, etc. Nothing they said was going to happen ever happened today.. I just wonder how they are supposed to know all of this.
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"Is anyone else getting nothing done and just trying to figure out what the hell is happening?"
"Stuck in a loop myself"
"My dishes are stacked to the ceiling, need to rewash the clothes that's in the machine for 2 days, my dog is eating off the floor and I'm in my PJ's. My coffee pot is clean, run fresh batch every two hrs. Anyone want to come over for a cup of coffee and talk about whats going on while I wash and load the dishwasher? We can talk about covid too if you want!"
LOL.
This is a divine plan, enjoy the show of the great awakening of humanity.
SP has some interesting stuff today.
If he's a liar, he's a phenomenally good one.
He's got several videos I've not seen, ~6? - between 1/11 and 1/12, e.g.[Link]
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P.s.,If he's serious about the E.T. aspects (though I've not heard him discuss any of that - but some stuff he said seemed, to me - and I like to hope that I'm open minded - rather 'out there' - in the meantime, I will I guess that's the case) even if the scenarios he's speaking about come true, I seriously doubt that those particular parts (E.T., Space Command,et al.) will land in the land of we, the unanointed.
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I fathered ET baby in space with alien lover A MARRIED politician has claimed he fathered a lovechild during an affair in space with an alien woman called Cat Queen.You don't?
Labour councillor Simon Parkes, 53, admitted his wife Jacquie was not pleased when he told her about the extra-terrestrial baby he said was named Zarka.
The driving instructor, who has three “earth children” by Jacquie, claimed he has sex with the alien about four times a year.
He said: “What will happen is, we will hold hands and I will say ‘I’m ready’. Then technology I don’t understand will take us up to a craft orbiting the Earth. My wife found out about it and was very unhappy, clearly. That caused a few problems, but it is not on a human level, so I don’t see it as wrong.”
LOL.
TRUMP, YOU COWARD, PULL THE FUCKING TRIGGER!
R.C.
Parkes said that he had just gotten off the phone with Q.I just got off the phone with M. He told me he's got a Zoom meeting with Mr Waverley this afternoon, would I kindly pick him up a couple of cheese and pickle sandwiches and three bottles of brown ale from the Coach & Horses. He warned me there are T.H.R.U.S.H. agents in the area so advised me to be sharpish about it.
Parks is 2 sandwiches short of a picnic.Just as well. Under new social distancing legislation, picnics are strictly verboten.
I do, however, wonder if he's been listening to Audio Rorschach ....[Link]
He warned me there are T.H.R.U.S.H. agents in the area so advised me to be sharpish about it.RC
It also firmly establishes their antifa brownshirts are likely not needed. Historically they'll be killed first, possibly in a false-flag type attack on these same Nat'l guard automatons.
But I don't have the script. You'd need to call Langley.
This would seem to suggest this. That would seem to suggest that.
I guess I'll know when I know and not before.
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*I would say 'informed', but that would be redundant.
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