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?
The left is so completely clueless and off the rails these days it isn't even funny anymore. Americans are struggling, really struggling, as they haven't in ages. People are truly having to contemplate how they will be able to keep their jobs as gas prices rise.
ReplyDeleteIt cost $216 to fill my husband's truck last week at $4.79. Gas is now $4.99-5.25. He works in commercial construction and nearly always has an hour commute each way to job sites (the company will does not put people up in hotels). The pay is great, but after taxes, insurance, 401K (to avoid paying more taxes), and now gas and inflation...in a few more months he'll basically be paying to work.
Store shelves are often empty. Prices are rising at a ridiculous rate. People have nothing, but illegals have it all handed to them as they pour across the border.
And now we have to worry about whether Putin is bat-shit crazy enought to drop a nuke.
How the Dems think I give a crap about who was behind Jan. 6 at this point is beyond my ability to comprehend. Joe reminds me of nothing short of Nero fiddling as Rome burns.
Hi Stacy, I agree completely. We're struggling with the increased prices of things. Our gas has doubled from $2.49 to $4.99 or about $60 a week. Our grocery bills have added about $100 a week (after significantly cutting back even). Our utilities are up $150 a month. Our insurance has gone up $2,000 a year. Those four things alone add up to just over $12,000 a year. How many paychecks is that? A lot.
ReplyDeleteAnd here we have these obsessed Democrats trying to put on a show trial? I hope it blows up in their faces.
And I'll tell you what, the fact they haven't yet found anything that makes anyone pay attention tells me they're doomed. This is a group of people who are obsessed who think their own skewed worldview will resonate. It won't.
“You are the used car salesman of worry”. Lol That quote just about sums it up for most people in regards to the leftoid media Andrew. No one believes these liars simply because reality is impossible to ignore.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about 1/6 a few months ago; 1/6 being characterized as a full on legitimate insurrection is such a joke! Democrats are clearly trying to turn this into a 9/11 type of threat (their words, not mine).
I know many people who are by no means Republicans, that feel the same way as I do. 1/6 is not going to work for the Dems like they had hoped.
The Dems & our leftoid media are trying to push the viewpoint that 1/6 was a threat to democracy, and that Republicans don't want free elections. This is such obvious BS.
The media has been so obnoxiously complicit in pushing this viewpoint... Its so partisan that most moderates and even some liberals are getting tired of the 1/6 narrative.
You combine this with the Leftoid riots that make 1/6 look like a little shindig in comparison, it just doesn't come off as anything other than Democrat propaganda.
Meanwhile a leftoid just tried to murder Brett Kavanaugh… hardly any uproar from the leftoid media over that.
You combine everything above with the complete failure on every level of the Biden admin. Plus the fact that all of us are suffering from shortages, and higher prices on literally EVERYTHING (Gas, food, electronics, water bill, gas bill, electric bill, everything).
Its an insult these punks in office are wasting our tax money for their propaganda.
Completely unrelated but I recently read that actor Ray Liotta passed away. Everyone knows about his role in Goodfellas, but give “Cop Land” a watch. Its a stupid title name but its an excellent film. He plays a corrupt cop that has a great character arc in the film, his acting was first class… I will miss him.
-Kyle
So... under 20 million people watched night one of the show trials. That works out to 5.2% of the population. That's about half the amount who watch an NFL game of the week. Big win for Democrats there //rolls eyes
ReplyDeleteBiden says this was 'one of the darkest chapters in our nation's history.' I totally agree this was so much worse than 9/11 or Timothy McVeigh or the BLM riots or the OJ riots or the racist interning of Japanese (and the non-racist interning of German and Italian Americans), or the trail of tears, or the Civil War, or Pearl Harbor, or abandoning Vietnam, fleeing Afghanistan (a Biden sponsored event), AIDS, COVID, the 1918 flu, etc. Yeah, this was just the worst.
He also says the forces that caused this are still at work. Yup, they still sell Budweiser.
Still waiting for some actual revelation though...
Kyle, I love "Copland"! That's a great film. Amazing cast, insightful story, very cool.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how selective the left is when it comes to outrage. For the left, it's not what you do that decides right and wrong, it's who you do it to.
I don't see any evidence anyone is buying it.
Jed here - I agree the Dems will not get the mileage out of this they are hoping for. I read total viewing of the opening night was only 19 million and I bet those were mostly true believers anyway. There is a lot of hypocrisy at play here, but I agree if there were any smoking gun crimes, they would have been long since leaked. There is one area for which I have not seen a clear explanation. This is the so-called false elector plot. It is played up big by thelibs, but I have no idea if it is a crime, assuming it is bro Ed true. If not ….. as the Dems might say …… “move on”
ReplyDeleteBiden actual said 1/6 was one of the darkest chapters in our nation's history?! Biden is an idiot.
ReplyDeleteThe leftoids have nothing but double standards when it comes to being outraged at this point. For example: AOC was live streaming her crocodile tears over 1/6. This is the same leftoid idiot that said and I quote “Politicians need to be made uncomfortable” lol. She wasn't anywhere near the scene of the “riot” when it happened, yet she is acting like she was almost murdered by Republicans. Shes a liar. But of course according to AOC its a “necessary evil” and “justified” when lefoids/antifa riot. See what I mean about leftoids and their double standards?
On the subject of faking tears/outrage: To AOC’s credit, shes better at it than Amber Turd lol.
Bottom line is this: No matter how much they cry about the 6th it will never be as important as all the lives lost during antifa/blm/floyd riots. The whole population of our Nation, Republican & Democrat, watched as multiple cities got burned for a year straight. Many were murdered during the leftoid riots. Meanwhile at the same time these Dem/leftoid politicians were encouraging it! So screw them.
Hey, you like Cop Land too Andrew?! Awesome! I’m glad I’m not the only one who loves that film… for some reason it gets a lot of hate by critics. The films flaws are mild at most.
-Kyle
Oh no! Ratings fell in half to less than 10 million for day two of the show trial. That's only 8% of REGISTERED DEMOCRATS. Ha ha ha ha ha!
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Hi Jed! As you might expect, the democrats are mixing a lot of things. They are combing the drunken riot with Trump urging state elections people to do what Democrats always try to do along with some nebulous "Trump inspired these people" to create the imagined crime of insurrection and basically attempted coup d' ta by Trump. That the whole thing is smoke and mirrors and a good deal of acting doesn't shame them in the least because their followers are morons who want to believe that Trump was evil and still believe things people have admitted were false.
ReplyDeleteUltimately, as I think we are seeing by the utter lack of interest by anyone except "independent journalists" (who all worked for far-left campaigns at one point or another) as an indictment of the effort. No one cares.
Kyle, Exact quote from Biden. Incredible, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd the crazy lies keep coming... Biden was admitted to the Naval Academy (false), Americans have lower debt and higher savings than when he came into office (false), etc. etc. This guy says whatever he wants to be true and the media turns a blind eye to it because that's he propagandists work.
I think their turning a blind eye to the destruction of the BLM/anti-fa riots is a damning indictment of their genuineness and their trustworthiness. They are happy to have cities destroyed if it helps their causes, but will exploit the hell out of anything they can use to tar their opponents. That's no good faith. That's not how democracy functions... it's how dictatorships act.
SCOTUS' ruling on Roe v. Wade is going to put them over the edge....This summer is going to be interesting, I don't know how much they will riot over SCOTUS, but I have a feeling they will. And I seriously doubt that the Leftists will care, they only care when it's someone else rioting...
ReplyDeleteAndrew, You hear about the the so called “Bombshell” that Cassidy Hutchinson dropped about Trump? You probably did, since our legacy media ran the story on the front page of their articles all this week. Apparently during the 1/6 riot, Trump tried to grab the wheel of the presidential limo. He allegedly struggled with the limo driver and attempted to choke him. Well, turns out the story is bogus.
ReplyDeleteSecrete Service agents including the driver have come forward disputing the story. They are willing to testify as much as well. Our crap legacy media are trying to back peddle as I type this lol.
To top it off, wouldn't Trump be sitting at the back of a stretched Limo with a piece of bullet proof glass between him & the driver? So how was Trump supposed to have choked a secret service agent in the drivers seat in this situation? How was he supposed to reach for the steering wheel?
To top all the above off, if you read between the lines, all these articles bury another important detail: “Hutchins claims she was told this information by…”
How is this not hearsay? How is this testimony admissible?
All I see is a smear job. Its only the millionth smear job on Trump/Jan 6th to date… but another BS smear job none the less.
-Kyle
Critch, They had lost their minds. Yahoo is nonstop running articles about how the overturning of Roe v. Wade will lead to the end of the world, everything from civil war to childhood obesity and Mexicans dying in trucks. It's nuts. It's also flat out retarded. It's a total temper tantrum with no logic to back it up.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, this is only the beginning. Both sides are about to go full retard.
Kyle, Places like Yahoo and MSNBC were shamelessly running headlines pimping her testimony well after the Secret Service guys called bullship on it. The problem they're going to have is that this looks like a set up and once secret service guys say it never happens, it will look like show-trial evidence.
ReplyDeleteAs a lawyer, I can tell you that nothing is more devastating in a trial than having a slash witness get taken down. It's over at that point.
BTW, I'm not blowing off writing articles, I've been traveling. Had to get away from Colorado for a while.
ReplyDeleteI just saw a headline which once again strikes home how disconnected leftist thinking is from their rhetoric. It said, "the Supreme Court rolls back democracy." Hardly. Taking the Supreme Court's rulings at face value (rather than seen through hysteria), the court has only said, "abortion is an issue for voters in states to decide." How in the world is that rolling back democracy? What the left is defending is using the Federal government to force everyone to grant a right created by a group of Supreme Court justices in the 1960s.
ReplyDeleteWhich is more democratic? Making this an issue one for voters or imposing the will of five justices on society?
Just because you aren't going to get what you want does not make something undemocratic. It is democratic when it is imposed from above. You are totalitarians. Accept the fact. Stop pretending otherwise.
Well, the Big ten just one-upped the SEC in the "What, are you serious?!?!?!" category.
ReplyDeleteForget the shock of Oklahoma and Texas moving to the SEC.
The B1G just formally added USC and UCLA, to begin playing in 2024- one year before OK and UT start their SEC schedules.
At this point, I wouldn't be shocked if the if the Athletics finally broke out of Oakland and moved to Montreal.
Hey Andrew, you doing ok?
ReplyDeleteI have a bit of a long post, here are a few things I've noticed over the past few weeks:
The 1/6 hearings have for the most part disappeared from the news cycle (leftoid sites excluded).
Democrats seem to have completely failed to capitalize on Row v Wade. I'm shocked to be honest, I figured it would cause a surge in favor for the left. However from what I’ve seen, it has basically been put on the back burner.
The economy has managed to get worse. An idiot Biden admin member named Ron Klain attempted to gloat about gas prices dropping from an national average of over $5 down to $4.60. Big deal. Its still up by $2 a gallon, much higher than it needs to be.
Some depressing stats:
All of the wage gains made during the Trump admin have been eaten up by inflation.
The average American has lost $3400 of annual income as a result of inflation since Biden took office.
Inflation has surged to 9.1% in June; just in the last 18 months the average American family has lost $6800 in yearly income.
I can tell you from my own experience that paying for groceries has continued to become more difficult every. single. month. Its been awful.
Two years ago I would have never guessed it would be this bad with Biden in office & Democrats in control of both the House & Senate. I genuinely didn't think they could screw things up this badly.
I really hope the Dems lose badly this November. Its become clear to me Republicans have a much better understanding of economics; which is a major positive. We need our government to be run by people who can actually manage a reasonable economy. I understand it will be a rough road and take time to get the system running properly again.
I disagree with the Repubs on quite a few issues… however the Dems have gone so nuts in the other direction that it just doesn't matter at this point. I mean the Dems have no positives at this point in time.
The Dems need to drop the BS/woke crap and go back to a JFK/workers type of party. Hopefully if the Dems lose big over the next few years, they will do some soul searching and drop the current act. Hope springs eternal.
Hope you all are ok, its been a strange last few weeks.
-Kyle
Hi Kyle, Sorry. I can't seem to get any free time these days. We've had a series of visitors for graduation parties, birthday parties and a trip. Plus, work blew up. I will get something written soon.
ReplyDeleteOn your comments, I agree entirely.
ReplyDeleteThe 1/6 hearings have imploded. They had a couple days of reality-tv-like drama arguing whether Trump somehow grabbed the steering wheel in a limo, but that's kind of stupid. Their ratings tanked. No one watched. The world has move on outside of the obsessed.
The economy has taken center stage. The stock market crashed, hurting people's retirements. Home sales are sliding. Inflation is way out of control -- if food is up 40% and gas is up 40%, how is the real rate only 9.1%? It's not and people know it. We cancelled an order at Panera the other day because a dinner for four became $70. We simply left and ate at home.
Today they announced gas is below $4 a gallon! Yay! Except, it's $4.89 here and we're one of the cheaper states. Total BS. Not to mention, didn't Biden just spend weeks blaming Putin and claiming he had no control over gas prices? Why should we credit him with any drop then?
The abortion thing actually is going as expected. A lot of women are really angry and are talking about it outside of political circles. That's not good. But this cycle, they want the Democrats out. They will deal with it in the future.
I also think the whining on the left has overplayed itself. Alabama losing abortion will not cause the moon to crash into the rest of the country... children to get fat... Kenyans to lose jobs... and famine. The claims have been ridiculous and so overstated to make it all sound like politicized whining.
That said, the right hasn't really struck yet. They're busy masturbating over the possibilities. Give them time to figure out how best to destroy themselves, it's coming after this cycle.
I will write something soon!
$70 for Panera Bread?! Holy crap, I don't blame you for bailing. These prices are gonna wreck us all in the middle class. Plus its going to screw with small businesses as well.
ReplyDeleteOh and good catch on the contradictions of the Biden admin. Your right, it makes no sense. They called it the “Putin Price Hikes” when it was convenient for them.
As for Abortion, it appears the issue may turn into a slow motion loss for the Repubs if they don't manage their radical Religious Right sect. However I agree Andrew, I personally don't think it will effect the mid terms much at all.
I’m just surprised the Dems have not managed to seize on the opportunity to smear Repubs as being pro rape or some BS.
With that said, I do wish repubs would drop the abortion ban crap. To me its just another form of nimbyism. I mean if its banned in one state the woman (if determined to abort) will just go to another state where it is legal. It wont stop the abortion. Out of sight, out of mind is not the way to go about such a complex issue.
I think most people find abortion disgusting (it is); however people just want to have the choice available. Most are not pro abortion; they just want to have the choice available to them if its absolutely necessary.
Don’t get me wrong, I am pro choice. However I’m not for celebrating abortions or any of that crap. It is what it is, the termination of a life. To me it really should be the old slogan: Safe Legal & Rare.
The idea of a rape victim being forced to carry the rapists child to term is going to piss off a lot of women... and justifiably so. It will eventually cause the Dems to gain traction with the pro choice crowd. I don't understand how the religious right cant see this.
I also see where the right are coming from too, its the termination of an unborn child that was not responsible for anything. Its a hard situation to stomach whichever way you look at it.
That is why I think the choice should be available, just with limitations.
The best thing for the Repubs to do would be this: Reach out to people and explain they just want limitations put on abortion. No bans, just a limitation on the time frame. Explain to people that its not the child's fault for the pregnancy (regardless of forced inception or not). Explain that it is possible to put the child up for adoption after birth and build programs to do so. Also explore and limit restrictions on birth control.
I honestly think most Repubs would be fine with the above… its really just 5-10% of people that truly want to see abortion banned full stop regardless of forced inception.
Bottom line is banning abortion will not solve much, in fact it will just cause more unintended consequences unfortunately.
I still see both sides of the argument for and against abortion. It really is a complex situation where everyone has to be treated individually.
Who knows, Maybe I'm delusional. But I do think it would be better to not ban abortion outright. Either way Row V Wade deserved to be overturned. It was a crap law.
I look forward to your future articles Andrew, have a great week everyone!
-Kyle
Kyle, I agree across the board on abortion. (1) about 80% of the public wants it to be safe, legal and rare. (2) the issue will not hurt the Republicans this cycle, but will be a slow boil to disaster over the next two years. (3) It is a super complex issue that frankly is nobody else's business -- but that's not how activists think. The religious right wants it banned and the feminist left wants it to be so common it's see just as buying a condom and neither group can understand how far outside the mainstream they are.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of rape, I think that argument is coming.
As an aside, the counter to the "just go to another state" argument is that the religious right will to criminalize getting one in another state. This violates the constitutions right to travel and rules on reciprocity between states, but the idiots are screaming they are going to do it, so people are worried. The stupid thing Texas did with their law (which California promptly copied to use against gun manufacturers) is the opening round and is super troubling for the nation.
P.S. Row was a terrible ruling and legally should have been overturned. BUT... by this point, the understanding we have of our privacy rights in all fields really stems from that decision. Upsetting it risks undoing huge numbers of things (no sexual and sexual) which we think of as "rights." Although it was poorly decided, it was probably better left undisturbed.
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