I think the January 6 hearings will be a disaster for the Democrats. Here's why:
First, no one cares. A couple hundred douchebags riot at the Capital building. Big whoop. Call the cops, end the party.
Moreover, you just can't convince people that this bunch of doorknob humpers represented any sort of threat to the US Government. You can pretend to be horrified all you like, but no one's buying it. You whine like a bunch of Karens.
And let's not forget, this is a smear. It's blatant politicization. You were cool when BLM/antifa burned down Minnesota, Portland, Seattle, Denver and parts of other cities. But now you choose to worry? This is pure politics, and everyone knows it... and nobody likes a hypocrite.
What's more, you've been caught having this hearing produced. You're literally trying to find a way to advertise it to the public. That tells us two things: first that no has cared so far and you know it so you're trying to find some way to make people care, and secondly, nothing you say can be trusted. You are the used car salesmen of worry. Who's going to believe what you say? The public didn't care when Democratic staffers cried about their PTSD or when you tried to link Capitol Hill police suicides to this event... why would they care now?
And frankly, if you had anything interesting, you would already have waved it at every camera you could find. Your silence speaks volumes.
You have terrible timing too. For one thing, your hearing will be in the summer and the public doesn't care about politics in the summer.
What's worse, you've picked a time when people are genuinely worried. Democratic cities are overrun with crime to the point they are voting against Democratic ideals to stop the murders and looting. Inflation is breaking us all badly. Russia keeps hinting at ending it all with nukes. Biden just opened the door to Central America to come visit this summer. We're told there is a food shortage coming. How does it look when all these issues are literally freaking the public out and you want to put on a hearing about some drunken fools who once scared you in the hopes of smearing a guy nobody likes anyways and who is no longer in office? What's next? Re-opened hearings on Watergate?
You also don't seem to realize that government hearings only interest people when they feel there is an injustice at work. Smearing Marine Colonel Oliver North, Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas, those got people's attentions the way the Johnny Depp trial did or the OJ Trial. Beyond that, it's all just procedure and people don't care... and you don't have anything that grips the imagination.
There's no end game either. Clarence Thomas would make it on the court or not. Reagan would get impeached or not. What happens this time? You get to wring your dirty little hands and call Trump a meanie? Yawn. Get therapy without involving the rest of us.
The Democrats are living in a bubble. They are so obsessed with Trump that they think the public still cares. In fact, many of them still think they can run against him. But they can't. There was a poll the other day which showed only 17% of the public blaming Trump on this. That shows the lack of intensity of interest in him at this point. He's yesterday and the public has moved on, just as they moved on from Covid. They care about other things now. You are fools if you think they can be made to care about something they didn't fear at the time and which seems ludicrous in hindsight and which you are bringing up as a smear of a has-been at a time when I can't afford gas or food or electricity.
The best case scenario for Democrats is that they get through this and no one notices. If the public notices, they're going to start asking questions about why you're doing this. Iran Contra backfired because the public wasn't outraged by what North did. Clarence Thomas won when the public decided it was a racist smear. Clinton's impeachment backfired on the Republicans because it was a hypocritical partisan witch hunt. That's where this thing is trending. Good luck with that.
Thoughts?
First, no one cares. A couple hundred douchebags riot at the Capital building. Big whoop. Call the cops, end the party.
Moreover, you just can't convince people that this bunch of doorknob humpers represented any sort of threat to the US Government. You can pretend to be horrified all you like, but no one's buying it. You whine like a bunch of Karens.
And let's not forget, this is a smear. It's blatant politicization. You were cool when BLM/antifa burned down Minnesota, Portland, Seattle, Denver and parts of other cities. But now you choose to worry? This is pure politics, and everyone knows it... and nobody likes a hypocrite.
What's more, you've been caught having this hearing produced. You're literally trying to find a way to advertise it to the public. That tells us two things: first that no has cared so far and you know it so you're trying to find some way to make people care, and secondly, nothing you say can be trusted. You are the used car salesmen of worry. Who's going to believe what you say? The public didn't care when Democratic staffers cried about their PTSD or when you tried to link Capitol Hill police suicides to this event... why would they care now?
And frankly, if you had anything interesting, you would already have waved it at every camera you could find. Your silence speaks volumes.
You have terrible timing too. For one thing, your hearing will be in the summer and the public doesn't care about politics in the summer.
What's worse, you've picked a time when people are genuinely worried. Democratic cities are overrun with crime to the point they are voting against Democratic ideals to stop the murders and looting. Inflation is breaking us all badly. Russia keeps hinting at ending it all with nukes. Biden just opened the door to Central America to come visit this summer. We're told there is a food shortage coming. How does it look when all these issues are literally freaking the public out and you want to put on a hearing about some drunken fools who once scared you in the hopes of smearing a guy nobody likes anyways and who is no longer in office? What's next? Re-opened hearings on Watergate?
You also don't seem to realize that government hearings only interest people when they feel there is an injustice at work. Smearing Marine Colonel Oliver North, Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas, those got people's attentions the way the Johnny Depp trial did or the OJ Trial. Beyond that, it's all just procedure and people don't care... and you don't have anything that grips the imagination.
There's no end game either. Clarence Thomas would make it on the court or not. Reagan would get impeached or not. What happens this time? You get to wring your dirty little hands and call Trump a meanie? Yawn. Get therapy without involving the rest of us.
The Democrats are living in a bubble. They are so obsessed with Trump that they think the public still cares. In fact, many of them still think they can run against him. But they can't. There was a poll the other day which showed only 17% of the public blaming Trump on this. That shows the lack of intensity of interest in him at this point. He's yesterday and the public has moved on, just as they moved on from Covid. They care about other things now. You are fools if you think they can be made to care about something they didn't fear at the time and which seems ludicrous in hindsight and which you are bringing up as a smear of a has-been at a time when I can't afford gas or food or electricity.
The best case scenario for Democrats is that they get through this and no one notices. If the public notices, they're going to start asking questions about why you're doing this. Iran Contra backfired because the public wasn't outraged by what North did. Clarence Thomas won when the public decided it was a racist smear. Clinton's impeachment backfired on the Republicans because it was a hypocritical partisan witch hunt. That's where this thing is trending. Good luck with that.
Thoughts?