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uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 11:23 AM Jun 2022

My mother called me twice to talk about J6C hearings

My mother and I frequently talk about politics but its more about how to get our non immediate family members to the voting booth (we're the family politicos).

This time was different ... she called twice ... I could hear the concern in her voice.

She was shocked to find out how far ahead of J6 this the coup attempt was planned ... I've never heard her so concerned about whether or not we'll have a democracy in short.

I think that is VERY damning for the GZP ... the fact that J6 was planned far in advance and it was not a crime of passion or spontaneous.

This makes the GZP more threatening ... the rest of J6C hearings will only get worse for MAGA

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My mother called me twice to talk about J6C hearings (Original Post) uponit7771 Jun 2022 OP
i cant even get my adult dtr to watch it..she said 'nothing will come of it' :( samnsara Jun 2022 #1
I hear, I just don't think they're doing all this for the DOJ to take NO action at all. That would uponit7771 Jun 2022 #10
DOJ going to need massively convincing reason NOT to prosecute both ends of the seditious Alexander Of Assyria Jun 2022 #14
A report will come of it. maxsolomon Jun 2022 #24
They can send that report to the DOJ. Elessar Zappa Jun 2022 #37
DoJ has already requested it. Grins Jun 2022 #44
Send this to mom - from JHB's cartoon thread malaise Jun 2022 #2
O. M. G. calimary Jun 2022 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2022 #34
He did his bully handshake tug to Nixon alphafemale Jun 2022 #41
I did notice that malaise Jun 2022 #43
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Jun 2022 #3
The tight control at the top surprised me - Trump, Flynn, Giuliani, Powell in a meeting bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #4
And we all know trump didn't plan this. There was one (putin) or more (plutocrats) erronis Jun 2022 #28
My older mom was going to watch and the first Tree Lady Jun 2022 #5
The message needs to be that the entire* republican party is in on this... Salviati Jun 2022 #8
this is my mission. barbtries Jun 2022 #9
+1, uponit7771 Jun 2022 #11
And another +1... calimary Jun 2022 #18
Encouraging sign...m angry cause the Mass Media knew all this and deflected until now. Why? Alexander Of Assyria Jun 2022 #15
Yup. Joinfortmill Jun 2022 #6
My 74 year old Mom called a bunch this last month about J6. sarcasmo Jun 2022 #7
+1, more people saw J6C hearing than first week end of Top Gun 2 uponit7771 Jun 2022 #12
I think comparing this to some pop T.V. thing is ridiculous. erronis Jun 2022 #29
The next hearing is now Must Watch TV.... The Majors will be forced to broadcast again...? Alexander Of Assyria Jun 2022 #16
I don't like the times the hearings are set for. calimary Jun 2022 #19
It's Eastern time... Dan Jun 2022 #25
It's 7 damn a.m. in California, & as my posting record shows I'm a night owl. Thank gods for DVR. Hekate Jun 2022 #32
there will be a number of broadcasts on you tube. yellowdogintexas Jun 2022 #39
I imagine it will be available online at the House website LiberalFighter Jun 2022 #35
I watched live on PBS YouTube then again on another channel yellowdogintexas Jun 2022 #40
The ratings were about neck-and-neck with Season 1 of "The Apprentice"... JHB Jun 2022 #45
I'm waiting for the section that ties the RAGA members and their egregious legislation to the plot. Ford_Prefect Jun 2022 #13
The planning for the coup of January 6th, 2021 is nothing... Mozeltov Cocktail Jun 2022 #20
+1, I've read MAGA has all the historical elements of people who will attempt a coup again. uponit7771 Jun 2022 #22
Jan.6 was not "nothing"-- it's the freaking dress rehearsal Hekate Jun 2022 #33
The revelations and excisions of those involved must go deep to cure the nation. PufPuf23 Jun 2022 #21
I miss talking to my mom JanLip Jun 2022 #23
I'm sorry for your loss. Chellee Jun 2022 #26
I'm so sorry about your Mom Chili Jun 2022 #27
+1 uponit7771 Jun 2022 #31
C-Span & PBS DownriverDem Jun 2022 #30
The sad thing is that the first hearing was in prime time but the rest will be PatrickforB Jun 2022 #36
+1, I pray news from the hearings will permiate uponit7771 Jun 2022 #38
People rarely watch live. If they work, that is... vanlassie Jun 2022 #42

samnsara

(17,572 posts)
1. i cant even get my adult dtr to watch it..she said 'nothing will come of it' :(
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 11:26 AM
Jun 2022

...and yet when Meullers report came out she devoured it and posted it on FB. Shes disillusioned..

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
10. I hear, I just don't think they're doing all this for the DOJ to take NO action at all. That would
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 12:52 PM
Jun 2022

... destroy DOJ credibility.

DOJ is damned if they do and damned if they don't they might as well do the right thing

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
14. DOJ going to need massively convincing reason NOT to prosecute both ends of the seditious
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 02:03 PM
Jun 2022

conspiracy food chain, aka attempted coup, armed and standing by milita groups tied to former President at one end of the legal noose, all manner of riff riff including seditious SCOTUS spouse, up and down that chain.

Here comes the Judge! All Rise!

Shock and Awe Indictments by the boatload, soon…soon in terms of real world criminal investigation, collation, and procedure ofc, not Twitter world.

Grins

(7,134 posts)
44. DoJ has already requested it.
Sun Jun 12, 2022, 10:47 AM
Jun 2022

More than a month ago. Copies of EVERYTHING. To get a head start.

Not subpoenaed, ‘requested.’ And got it!

Response to malaise (Reply #2)

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
41. He did his bully handshake tug to Nixon
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 10:13 PM
Jun 2022

Nixon knew the counter to the low life move of pushing back on the pulling arm.

Response to uponit7771 (Original post)

bucolic_frolic

(42,679 posts)
4. The tight control at the top surprised me - Trump, Flynn, Giuliani, Powell in a meeting
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 11:28 AM
Jun 2022

and then Jan 6 would be "wild" tweet.

He tried to make it look spontaneous, despite all the state electoral schemes, the call to GA 11,780, the 69 lawsuits. We were supposed to believe some citizen patriots threw Congress out the window as the famous Defenestration of Prague redux.

He was a puppeteer, behind the curtain. He never did anything that didn't attempt to make himself look good. Even though it usually flopped, just like his presidency and Jan 6, 2021.

erronis

(14,955 posts)
28. And we all know trump didn't plan this. There was one (putin) or more (plutocrats)
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 05:50 PM
Jun 2022

who have been scheming this for years.

Tree Lady

(11,370 posts)
5. My older mom was going to watch and the first
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 11:29 AM
Jun 2022

10 min scared her so much she turned it off.

I think older people can't believe this happened and take it much more seriously.

Salviati

(6,002 posts)
8. The message needs to be that the entire* republican party is in on this...
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 11:50 AM
Jun 2022

And needs to be voted out. From Senator to school board. Far too many will be shown to be actually involved in this coup attempt, but nearly all of them are complicit in their silence. They'd be far too happy to go along with it, if it was successful. Their lack of outrage is tacit approval. The entire party must be stripped of as much power as possible.


* with the exceptions of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who have bravely decided that actual physically violent suppression of the will of the people is maybe a bridge too far for them.

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
9. this is my mission.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 12:14 PM
Jun 2022

from now on when i post about politics it's pretty much always about how terrible republicans are. they are what has to go for this country to even begin to fulfill its potential to be great.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
15. Encouraging sign...m angry cause the Mass Media knew all this and deflected until now. Why?
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 02:08 PM
Jun 2022

People will respond to facts laid bare, facts the corporate media where only now forced to broadcast to the nation in prime time without commercials or profit.

sarcasmo

(23,968 posts)
7. My 74 year old Mom called a bunch this last month about J6.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 11:45 AM
Jun 2022


Last night she asked if 20 million was a good number of viewers. I compared the number to

a Sunday night football rating and she said, "Wow that's a good thing."

erronis

(14,955 posts)
29. I think comparing this to some pop T.V. thing is ridiculous.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 05:54 PM
Jun 2022

Most of the people I know get their news feeds through the internet - not through cable feeds.

And I don't know anyone who even cares about some highly advertised money-making film.

Not trying to argue with you or the figures that get bandied around.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
16. The next hearing is now Must Watch TV.... The Majors will be forced to broadcast again...?
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 02:10 PM
Jun 2022

The TV hearings have gone viral.

calimary

(80,700 posts)
19. I don't like the times the hearings are set for.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 02:19 PM
Jun 2022

And I’m trying to figure out whether 10am start means Eastern time or Pacific.

I hope there’ll be reruns. I wish they were all in prime time!

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
32. It's 7 damn a.m. in California, & as my posting record shows I'm a night owl. Thank gods for DVR.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 08:22 PM
Jun 2022

LiberalFighter

(50,504 posts)
35. I imagine it will be available online at the House website
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 09:03 PM
Jun 2022

As well as other places.

I recorded Thursday be even be though I watched live and will do the same for all other dates.

It appears it was intentional to do prime time for the first and last hearings. Spacing them out intentional likely to allow media and committee members to review during the rest of the day and after.

yellowdogintexas

(22,119 posts)
40. I watched live on PBS YouTube then again on another channel
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 10:02 PM
Jun 2022

there are probably a dozen you tube channels broadcasting it live and then those segments just stay out there. I am following the Van Cliburn Competition on You Tube

JHB

(37,133 posts)
45. The ratings were about neck-and-neck with Season 1 of "The Apprentice"...
Sun Jun 12, 2022, 11:15 AM
Jun 2022

...and tower above all subsequent seasons.

Ford_Prefect

(7,828 posts)
13. I'm waiting for the section that ties the RAGA members and their egregious legislation to the plot.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 01:30 PM
Jun 2022

The wave of gratuitous, GOP passed, anti-access voting legislation which followed Jan 6th was planned in advance as well.

Mozeltov Cocktail

(200 posts)
20. The planning for the coup of January 6th, 2021 is nothing...
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 02:32 PM
Jun 2022

Compared to the planning going into the coup of 2024...each voter suppression bill, each redistricting bill, even the debacle in Pennsylvania with Oz and the hedge fund guy, these are all steps building on the foundation built by Karl Rove and Lee Atwater.
The November 2024 election is going to be a planned chaos coordinated by the republicans. They will screw up everything, claiming victory, screaming fraud and clogging up the courts until they seize control. They cannot win an election fairly, they know this, so they have planned a coup.
They will probably succeed this time unless the DOJ does it's job and destroys (and I mean destroy...no probation or country club prison...traitors don't get plea deals) the source of the first coup...

PufPuf23

(8,689 posts)
21. The revelations and excisions of those involved must go deep to cure the nation.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 02:44 PM
Jun 2022

The pols knowingly involved (for example those on record in requesting Trump pardons), their financial backers, and the lying "media" hyping the sedition need to be cut from future involvement in politics and the legal system.

JanLip

(845 posts)
23. I miss talking to my mom
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 04:26 PM
Jun 2022

I could always call her to talk about politics. If anything was going on she would call me too. She was a strong democrat and I’m a chip off the old block. We were in the minority in our family. She passed two years ago and I miss her so much. I wonder what she would say about things now. She detested trump and would be so proud of President Biden. I know one thing for sure she would be watching all the J6 hearings. I’m just glad she was gone before that horrible day J6.

Chili

(1,725 posts)
27. I'm so sorry about your Mom
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 05:47 PM
Jun 2022

I know the feeling. Lost my Mom in 2005, and still tear up sometimes. I remember the day I googled Barack Obama - I kept reading about him here on DU, so I got curious. Who is this guy in Illinois everybody's talking about? So I went to his website, saw the pic of he and Michelle sprawled out and sitting under a tree with their two cute little girls cuddled with them, and I immediately said, that's it. He wasn't even a Senator yet, but he WILL be president some day. I swear I did! Printed that pic and took it into the living room to show Mom. She nodded, liked him right away, just by the pic itself. She got to watch him at the 2004 Dem convention. But she didn't live to see him President. I miss her, and always will.

PatrickforB

(14,516 posts)
36. The sad thing is that the first hearing was in prime time but the rest will be
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 09:15 PM
Jun 2022

on mornings during work days.

Why is that?

WHY IS THIS NOT ON EVERY DAY IN PRIME TIME?

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