Originally published at: NEVER FORGET: Jan. 6 Five Years Later
Programming note: Our first Morning Memo Live event is coming up on Jan. 29 in Washington, D.C. Details here. A Fork in the Road Of American History TPM has never much indulged the lazy-editor trope of anniversary coverage of major events, but in the midst of a fierce rewriting of the history of Jan. 6…
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If you want to watch video feeds that showed the day, as it happened, WOKENET is streaming on Twitch and YouTube. These are the unedited, raw feeds from the day, replayed in real time. They started around 9 AM ET.
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…narrow control of the House to 218-213.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Mikey swears someone in before the election this time.
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We saw towards the end of Chump I the megalomania that gripped each and every RW official and right down to each and every ‘group’ like militias and MAGAtty online communities. “It’s a free-for-all”…we can do whatever we want. There are no restraints, none of the old rules apply and the LE and enforcers are ON OUR SIDE. And I am not just talking about J6. The whole coviddy-year was crazy, Chump was using EVERY lever of power and the fed govt. to augment his campaign. His top WH officials were daring the govt. to do anything about their HATCH Act violations and campaign crimes. The brazenly did everything they could to overthrow state votes, launch a Fraud Electors campaign, pressure state officials, seize voting equip and data, etc.
It took them all of those 4 years to screw themselves up to that point…and the 2020 election of Biden should have been the harbinger of their terribly harsh comeuppance. Instead they got to all slink away and go back to their bunkers. But they knew the consequences were coming and they would be dreadful.
But no!
After a couple of months, they come peeping back out. Basically, not a thing was going to happen to any of them. A couple of developments…all the attackers of J6 were getting looked at and as many as could be ID’d were being rounded up and looking at trespassing and vandalism charges. BFD
2 years passed and Rs took back Congress. Not even a hint of heat for any of the oathbreakers and official perps. Possibly a case would be filed against Chump. These fuggs are mad with power…from Day 1 this time.
What did we think was going to happen when folks staged an overthrow of our govt…and the response was basically a shrug? Chump was manipulating the Rs and sticking his nose all over the globe and dealing with Russians, Israelis, and Saudis in the whole run-up to 2024. Two wars he meddled in. While out of office. And we did nothing.
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NEVER FORGET…the Epstein files. Not to minimize anything that happened on January 6. But just sayin’
On Monday, the Justice Department told a court it had released 12,285 files since being compelled to do so on December 19. However, it went on to say that there are “more than 2 million documents” that remain in “various phases of review.”
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Each month I’d wish our leaders introduce articles of impeachment, each month! C’mon Schumer and Jeffries, et al. At some point this year the MWTNF (man with the nuclear football) will implode
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First, CF-DJT’s favorite Governor has 14 days to call a special election. By CA law, replacement House members are elected. Gov has appointment power for Senate vacancies, then followed by special election.
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Reminds me so much of Wolfowitz’s hubristic we are the world’s only superpower and can do whatever we want prior to the run up to the Iraqi war.
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LaMalfa, a former state lawmaker and rice farmer,
He got cooked owing to all the pressure.
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Sorry, maybe I should have ended with /s?
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I will never forget that day as I am watching the events on TV and speaking to myself, “They broke through Police Lines.”
Multiple times.
And only one shot was fired by PD.
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The world is governed by power. But sometimes power doesn’t mean what you think it means.
They think in terms of brute strength. I’m thinking in terms of intelligence and surprise.
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Stephen “Nosferatu” Miller’s quote of the day shows that he’s nothing but a thug, pure and simple.
Update, after reading on: And his stupid remark about “why does Denmark get Greenland” is the icing on the maggot-infested cake. He belongs in the 1500s. Of course, a little 5’ 8" wimp like Miller wouldn’t last long in a test of “strength.”
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Pretty certain he always described himself as a “Rancher”.
More manly and AMURICAN!
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The American electorate had already forgotten about Jan 6 2021 by Feb 6 2021.
Jack Smiths comment about TSF being criminally responsible was far too little, far too late. Fuck Merrick Garland for not perp walking Krasnov.
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He’s a kapp not a thug.
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Redistricted
“First Congressional district in California is Trump country.”
For another 10 months.
Then it turns pretty solid “blue” (going from R+13 to somewhere in the D+5 to D+8 range) thanks to the recent Democrat gerrymander.
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