Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Glenn Greenwald Offers his Perspective on the Democrats’ “Trump Insurrection” Histrionics. Greenwald is on the money, but the situation for American is even more serious than he thinks.
Here is Greenwald’s explanation of the counterfactual reality created for us by Democrats:
“The orgy of psychodrama today [Jan 6, 2022] was so much worse and more pathetic than I expected — and I expected it to be extremely bad and pathetic. ‘House Democrats [waited] their turn on the House floor to talk to Dick Cheney as a beacon for American democracy,’ reported CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere. Nancy Pelosi gravely introduced Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton to sermonize and sing about the importance of American democracy. The Huffington Post’s senior politics reporter Igor Bobic unironically expressed gratitude for ‘the four legged emotional support professionals roaming the Capitol this week, helping officers, staffers, and reporters alike.’ Yesterday, CNN’s Kaise Hunt announced: ‘Tomorrow is going to be a tough one for those of us who were there or had loved ones in the building. Thinking of all of you and finding strength knowing I’m not alone in this.’ Unsurprisingly but still repellently: Kamala Harris today compared 1/6 to 9/11.”
“That the January 6 riot was some sort of serious attempted insurrection or ‘coup’ was laughable from the start, and has become even more preposterous with the passage of time and the emergence of more facts. The United States is the most armed, militarized and powerful regime in the history of humanity. The idea that a thousand or so Trump supporters [actually only a few hundred and probably more federal agents than Trump supporters], largely composed of Gen X and Boomers, who had [submitted to being] locked in their homes during a pandemic [real tough guys]— three of whom were so physically infirm that they dropped dead from the stress — posed anything approaching a serious threat to ‘overthrow’ the federal government of the United States of America is such a self-evidently ludicrous assertion that any healthy political culture would instantly expel someone suggesting it with a straight face.”
An example of what Greenwald is writing about is Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a US Congress person representing Florida’s 23rd congressional district, obviously a very sick part of Florida. Here is what she had to say to me on January 6, 2022:
Paul,
Today marks one year since the horrific insurrection that put thousands of people in danger and took the lives of law enforcement officers who bravely fought to protect our Capitol.
This was one of the darkest days in our nation’s history, and the blame rests with conspirators like Donald Trump, who incited violence against our democracy. Now he and his far-right allies are doing anything they can to avoid accountability for what they did.
I refuse to let this happen, Paul. We must hold everyone involved with the violent insurrection responsible for their crimes and make sure nothing like this happens again.
This is exactly what the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection aims to do. Add your name on this anniversary to demand accountability and support the mission of our investigation.
Being in the Capitol complex that day and experiencing what happened was horrifying for me personally and our nation. It showed us just how dangerous lies and conspiracies can be.
That’s why we must use this moment as an opportunity to prioritize truth and justice above all else and take action to protect our Democracy.
Paul, can you join me today in calling for the insurrectionists to be held accountable for their actions?
Thank you and stay safe,
Debbie
As readers know, my confidence in America’s future is at a rock bottom low. The reason is the people Glenn Greenwald writes about, people like Debbie. It is extraordinary to me that any US Representative could be a person as completely uniformed and brainwashed as Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
During the alleged “Trump Insurrection” Trump was speaking to those Americans from all states who had rallied to his support at the Washington Monument a mile or two away. It is unclear whether the few hundred people at the Capitol were even Trump supporters. Many were federal agents and leftwing provocateurs there to undermine the Trump rally with an orchestration.
No lives of any law enforcement officers were taken by anyone at the Capitol. No law enforcement officers bravely fought to protect our Capitol. As numerous videos show, the Capitol was opened to the “insurrectionists,” and they walked around inside and looked. Some enjoyed having their photos taken sitting at Nancy Pelosi’s desk and other juvenile antics.
There was no violence except the black cop who shot and killed a white female veteran for no apparent reason. No charges were brought against the cop who was far more an obvious killer without a cause than Derick Chauvin.
Note that Debbie calls President Trump a conspirator against American democracy who brought dark days to our country’s history. She refuses to let this happen and urges me to demand accountability for Trump and his supporters for threatening American democracy. But there is to be no accountability, not even a believable explanation, for massive vote changes in swing states in the middle of the night with no poll watchers present.
Imagine, American Democracy threatened by a few hundred people walking around in the Capitol. What were they going to do? Issue orders to the military? Take over the TV stations? How was this “insurrection” going to happen? By sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair?
Debbie has shown us how Democrats and their media whores create counterfactual narratives. They do it in public with no shame, and what is even more terrifying Americans fall for it.
Here, for example, is Bloomberg presstitute David E. Rovella reporting: “A visibly angry President Joe Biden warned America that the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol a year ago is part of a broader war on democracy by Donald Trump and other Republican politicians—one they continue to wage to this day. . . . Biden identified Trump as the leader of the campaign, and pledged a fight. ‘I will defend this nation,’ Biden proclaimed on Thursday. ‘I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.’” And this is a president who promised to unify the country!
By repetition “deadly insurrection” has been made into a fact. A few hundred unarmed people were going to overthrow the US government! The only death was a white female Trump supporter shot without cause by a black cop who was not held accountable. The gratuitous killing of a trump supporter turns a non-insurrection into a “deadly insurrection.” People who repeat this fiction have no integrity.
When Americans elect pathological liars to rule them, how can there be any hope for America?
When a country left by the Founding Fathers to the protection of a free media finds itself instead with a propaganda ministry, how can the people be protected from government lies and tyranny?
They cannot be.
Are Americans so weak, so cowardly, so brainwashed and indoctrinated that they cannot defend truth and their liberty?
It seems so. Either they allowed Democrats to steal the election or they voted for them. The only conclusion is that the American population is either insouciant or cowardly.
I can tell you one thing. This kind of American has no chance whatsoever of standing up to Russians, Chinese, and Iranians. The Democrat kind of American is more opposed to his own country and its values, and to white Americans who he has branded “racists,” than he is to powerful countries of which his moronic government has made enemies.
With the Democrats in control, hate America and hate white people is government policy. The United States has no future.
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‘Lord what fools these mortals be.’
You have to be brain dead if you think they will ever allow an election again. The government knows we know.
I’m not saying it was Donnie, but it was Donnie.
He most DEFINITELY plunged the detonator on that day. And he did so deliberately.
I had been calling him a Judas Goat for some time leading up to that day, and with a tweet, he cemented my position permanently. This guy has an alternate way of targeting Middle/Red America, but he targets them nonetheless.
The REAL target is and always has been believers in the faith. Conservative, rightwing America just happens to be where that target is most heavily concentrated. If he is re-elected, he will make war against the people of God, at first under the cover of ‘plausible deniability’ but then openly and relentlessly.
The last paragraph is especially true. This is a war on us and here is the template that has worked so well in the past that I believe will be used, regardless of who is anointed.
“Their actions showed the presence of a clear plan of attack on military, administrative and social objects practically in all oblasts, coordinated actions, high combat readiness and brutal cruelty.
In addition to the militants, there were specialists trained in ideological sabotage, adept at using disinformation or “fakes” and capable of manipulating people’s attitudes.
It seems that a single command center was in charge of their training and guidance. The KNB and the Prosecutor General’s Office have begun to deal with this.”
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-kazakhstan-president-tokayev-addressed-the-nation/
When the government is paralyzed the bolsheviks will strike.
The methods are ‘bolshevik’, but the ideology is flexible.
In Kazakhstan the motivating force is economic and religious, supported to one degree or another by interested outside powers (i.e. the FUSA and NATO).
In the FUSA itself, the ideology now appears to be an incoherent lust for power by those who worship only themselves. If successful in seizing unobstructed power, the ideology will become more explicit, and the useful idiots will be sidelined, or killed.
Does America Have a Future?
I should think the question answers itself.
The real question is, though: Will America be allowed to have a future?
And I think the answer is: Not as currently constituted. Certainly not without a complete rebuild, I’m afraid. The same goes for pretty much all Western Countries, mine included. At this stage in the game, we’re all in the same (leaky) boat.
Like all things worth keeping, a little TLC needs to be applied from time to time – Thomas Jefferson and his ‘tree of liberty’ style if necessary..
Brought to you by Pfizer.
The government is nothing but serfs to the banks and China and whoever owns the debt cause they don’t want what they have to end.
Well said and unfortunately true.
https://www.gold-eagle.com/article/extraordinary-rise-us-debt-just-last-two-weeks
Do you know what’s missing from our form of government that other citizens in other countries can turn to?
We do not have an ability to vote for a no confidence vote and then start a process to establish a new government. I know, it’s laughable that some countries, like Italy, can go through several governments in the course of a year, but we have no such recourse.
It had its benefits years ago when we used to be able to brag of how peaceful our government ran after transitions from elections, but our shining principle became our Achilles heel, when a steady stream of stealth maneuvers brought in a growing number of progressives and an even larger number of progressives in sheeps clothing that cemented the steady drift to the left we have been experiencing since JFK (or even before, I’ll leave that to the historians to figure out).
So here we are, no recourse to throw the bums out ALL AT ONCE and start anew, or perhaps a more drastic approach of dissolving our current government, much as we did during the revolutionary war against King George and his ilk; but this is apparently too violent of an approach since we are civilized now.
The current government is so far from its citizens priorities and now given to staging comedy theater performances of pearl grabbing hysterics, so over the top as to be an embarrassment to its citizens. We have lost our ability to be represented by our senators and Congressman that all we can do now is watch helplessly and throw out the occasional post stating our disgust, as the machine grinds on.
‘I will defend this nation,’ Brandon proclaimed on Thursday. ‘I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.’”
Probably best to not turn your eyes to the heavens, might see the sword of Damocles.
The Archangel Michael wields the more menacing sword.
“The only conclusion is that the American population is either insouciant or cowardly.” How about both!
The real perpeTRAITORS are letting our country dissolve while they fight for boarders around the globe.
I can just imagine Putin and Xi sitting in a bar somewhere on the other side of the world watching CNN and giving each other high-fives as they enjoy the spectacle of the mighty America flushing itself down the toilet.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is neither uninformed nor brainwashed. She is a member of the tribe, and knows exactly what she’s doing.
“It is extraordinary to me that any US Representative could be a person as completely uniformed and brainwashed as Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”
It’s extraordinary to me that PCR thinks DWS is uninformed or brainwashed when she is fighting skillfully an information war.
Oh he does not think that at all! But what else do you expect an intelligent man to say about her? That she’s a lying, conniving bitch? Forgive the frank words but sometimes they are what’s needed to make the point clear.
The first unwritten rule of HR is to avoid women with hyphenated last names. The data supports the hypothesis that they are nothing but trouble.
Q: Does America Have a Future?
A: No.
Are they all this easy, or is this one of those test where the questions get harder as it goes along?
Harder. Next question:
What was the name of John Wayne’s horse in El Dorado?
Cochise
You cheated, din’cha…
Still on the defensive and back on our heels, meekly calling out leftist lies and trying to prove the irrationality, as if they care. As the lefties continue to bear down with offensive salvos.
Exactly.
America has a future, the USA not so much…
Similar to, “this planet has a future, you humans…….. probably not.”
When every newspaper buries a dozen stories like this one per week:
https://national-justice.com/missouri-black-career-criminal-murders-white-baby-and-his-father
no.
I am a genuine fan of PCR and his writing.
That said, this particular argument has been well used, and it ignores the fact that the Capitol Police were massively overwhelmed by the intruders, and had been given radio orders not to use deadly force against exterior entry.
The point at which the Cap Police step aside appears to be when the public areas of the building were essentially capitulated under orders transmitted via radio..
This is like suggesting that if someone the size of Andre the Giant forces his way into the home of a 90 lb woman, and she steps aside and does not attempt to violently stop him, she consented to him entering into her home..
The reason that Babbitt was shot, while the public areas of the Capitol were ceded to the illegal entrants, was that the Speakers Lobby was NEVER a public area, and is specially protected. I do not glee in anyone being harmed or killed, in any way, however pretending that its reasonable to smash out windows into a locked lobby and them jump through with a cop pointing his gun at you is nonsensical.
Trump had a valid argument in one aspect, which is that dubious processes were undertaken to send out ballots by mail without a legal basis. The problem is, his massive legal staff had to address this via litigation BEFORE THE ELECTION – not afterwards once the results are in. This failure is what cost him.
If these actors at the capitol had rented out a ballroom at a DC convention center and held an organized Convention geared to peaceably reconstitute a REPRESENTATIVE govt that they actually consent to, I would fully support them.
If you rampage in a mob, nothing is gained from this beyond ‘useful idiot’ to both factions of TPTB, which is all that the Capitol mob accomplished.
“A visibly angry President Joe Biden warned America that the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol a year ago is part of a broader war on democracy by Donald Trump and other Republican politicians—one they continue to wage to this day. . . . Biden identified Trump as the leader of the campaign, and pledged a fight. ‘I will defend this nation,’ Biden proclaimed on Thursday. ‘I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.’” And this is a president who promised to unify the country!
This is so preposterous it would be funny but, unfortunately it is the acting (though illegitimate) President of the United States. When an impostor steals an election this is what you get. Jan 6 was a carefully planned and manipulated event to turn the insurrection narrative against the President and distract attention from the real insurrection which was the stolen election. Plain and simple that is the truth. Comrade Joe is lying thought his shark teeth. Nothing this man says can ever be believed and the only reason anyone does is because the presstitutes in the media cover for him.
Twilights Last Gleaming !
The question is not are Americans so cowardly or brainwashed that they fail to see what is happening . It’s has tyrannical parasites elected , appointed and hired so entrenched that any action peaceful or otherwise by oath and honor bound American Citizens to thwart these treasonous parasites at all levels of government will never meet with such force should you as a citizen make any attempt to stop them you and all you associate with will be ground to dust !
Bide our time , let it play out !
Total leftist failure is a few weeks or months away crushed under the weight of their lunacy
The GOPe are just more leftists. The entire hive needs to be fumigated.