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Perhaps you remember the worldwide pandemic of 2020?
And the election in November of that year, when Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump for the Presidency of the United States?
And how Donald Trump refused to accept the voters decision? (They now have him on video refusing to say that the election was over)
And how Steve Bannon, adviser to Trump, was quoted as saying a few days before the election, that no matter if Trump won or lost, he was going to declare victory. If he lost the election, he was going to say it was "rigged".
And how the Trump campaign worked with Republicans in battleground states to create "fake electors" to send to Congress and the National Archives?
And how Trump and his associates called state election officials, such as Georgia, to get them to change the votes to favor Donald Trump? (And the Georgia officials recorded them)
And how they attempted to run a fake "audit" in Arizona with the Cyber Ninjas?
And how, when everything failed, decided to send out a tweet to all of Trump supporters, especially the violent ones, to come to Washington on January 6th to "Stop the Steal"?
And how Trump enlisted the help of many Republicans in the House and Senate to "stop the steal" on January 6th?
And how they set up a "war room" to coordinate activities between the Trump campaign and the armed militias?
And how Donald Trump, Rudy Guiliani, Don Jr, Mo Brooks, and others incited the mob to violence on that day, and Trump ordered them to "march down to the Capitol"?
And how the mob resorted to violence against the Capitol Police and threatened the lives of elected officials in the Capitol, including VP Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
And how the Secret Service detail of Mike Pence feared for their lives to such an extent that they called their families to say a final goodbye?
And how Republicans, including FOX News hosts, pleaded with Donald Trump to stop the attack upon our nation's Capitol?
And how Donald Trump did nothing but watch it all unfold on TV, much to his delight?
And how now, we are supposed to forget that any of that ever happened? Tomorrow, Donald Trump is scheduled to give a big speech in Washington, DC. FOX News is advertising it nonstop on their "news" channel.
We are supposed to return to normalcy. Joe Biden is at 37% in the polls and the Republicans are favored to win the House and Senate, unless some "radicals" interrupt the process?
Nothing mentioned above ever happened. No one broke any laws. No one needs to be held accountable. We need to look forward, not backwards.
You imagined it all. It never happened.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)we are totally screwed
gab13by13
(21,419 posts)and it isn't ongoing.
I used this quote many times, a paraphrase, "What was worse than the evil and death that Hitler brought upon the world, was decent, honest, people who stood back and allowed it to happen." Winston Churchill.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)...and they did not attempt a coup against our government. It's all in the imagination of liberals.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,025 posts)Vaguely Reminiscent of the 60's
The story:
The song:
H2O Man
(73,627 posts)StarryNite
(9,461 posts)Ohioboy
(3,248 posts)This is how we will lose the republic.
kacekwl
(7,022 posts)DOJ refuses to see it. All the crimes listed above are facts and are supported by video, audio, witness testimony and can be seen and proven by anyone who wants to. The waiting game played out by Mueller and now Garland is pulling on my and many others who are way more informed than me last nerve. The time for action has long since passed and yes we will lose the republic and more if the rule of law, if it exists anymore is followed.
Meanwhile, they worry that upholding the law will be seen as "political". Apparently, since coups are political by nature, we can't stop them in this country. It's crazy and it makes me sick.
calimary
(81,523 posts)Im STILL waiting for Garland to do something that impresses me. That goes after justice. That takes the bad guys OUT. Or at least locks em up. Or at least disables them from doing more damage.
If it were up to me, Id keep em locked up til they were too old and creaky to get into mischief anymore.
thesquanderer
(11,995 posts)Heck, they didn't care when they separated families at the border and "lost" the children.
Evolve Dammit
(16,781 posts)I no longer have faith in people or our justice system. Things that I once thought were impossible here are now very possible and vise versa. Nazi playbook is working famously. Tuned into Washington Journal on C-Span (used to listen a lot but the stupidity made it insufferable). Anyhow, thirty minutes was plenty to re-affirm how ignorant most callers are. The dis-information help up as sources of information is palpable. Poorly educated and easily led. Hell, we can't even agree on mass shootings, racism, climate (catastrophe), basic human rights and Constitutional rights, or a well-planned coup attempt that damn near succeeded.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,209 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)And Trump blames Antifa but loves them and does not want to stop the insurrection.
Start about 9:45 on the timeline.
dchill
(38,556 posts)calimary
(81,523 posts)OR say it never happened.
NO FING WAY.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)onetexan
(13,067 posts)All of this happened in front of our eyes, theres no denying it.
3825-87867
(855 posts)We tried that once before...didn't work then.
Made too many mad when some of us commented against "Let's move on."
The check's in the mail...
sop
(10,274 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)intrepidity
(7,339 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(2,678 posts)and we are back into the stupid horse race.
It's like the 8 million more people who voted for Biden don't really matter.
A 50/50 senate and we still can't drive a wedge through permanent minority rule.
The house passed a ton of things, most never even came up for a vote in the senate.
We had two real impeachment trials and most of the senate took it as a joke and helped to create January 6th
We had January 6th and repubs behaved for like 2 days and went straight back to the big lie.
let's keep fighting...