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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy 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
samnsara
(17,572 posts)...and yet when Meullers report came out she devoured it and posted it on FB. Shes disillusioned..
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... 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)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.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)What does she expect? Congress cannot indict.
Elessar Zappa
(13,650 posts)DOJ needs to be pressured to act, imo.
Grins
(7,134 posts)More than a month ago. Copies of EVERYTHING. To get a head start.
Not subpoenaed, requested. And got it!
malaise
(267,835 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)Two pees in a pod. Spelling intentional.
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alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Nixon knew the counter to the low life move of pushing back on the pulling arm.
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bucolic_frolic
(42,679 posts)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)who have been scheming this for years.
Tree Lady
(11,370 posts)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)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)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.
calimary
(80,700 posts)million.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)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.
Joinfortmill
(14,247 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)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."
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)erronis
(14,955 posts)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)The TV hearings have gone viral.
calimary
(80,700 posts)And Im trying to figure out whether 10am start means Eastern time or Pacific.
I hope therell be reruns. I wish they were all in prime time!
Dan
(3,524 posts)And 7:00 AM on the West coast.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,119 posts)take your pick of channels.
LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)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)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)...and tower above all subsequent seasons.
Ford_Prefect
(7,828 posts)The wave of gratuitous, GOP passed, anti-access voting legislation which followed Jan 6th was planned in advance as well.
Mozeltov Cocktail
(200 posts)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...
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)PufPuf23
(8,689 posts)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)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 Im 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. Im just glad she was gone before that horrible day J6.
Chellee
(2,086 posts)Chili
(1,725 posts)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.
DownriverDem
(6,206 posts)will most likely repeat the morning hearings at night. I think PBS did that for Watergate.
PatrickforB
(14,516 posts)on mornings during work days.
Why is that?
WHY IS THIS NOT ON EVERY DAY IN PRIME TIME?