UPDATED: "Coup"? Who said "coup"?

"Coup" is the Democrats' word! So is "insurrection". Attempted coup" and "insurrection" are the Democrats' characterizations of the mostly peaceful protest at the Capitol on January 6th. 

The purpose of the demonstration was to stop or at least delay the confirmation of the result of the fake election. Was it organized? Evidently not! Did President Trump order it? Evidently not. If the Dumbocrats had even a scintilla of hard evidence -- e.g. a surreptitious recording of Mr Trump using the word "coup" or anything like it -- last night would have been the time to produce it. But there was nothing except allegations by never-Trumpers and the lickspittle media that "he was at the centre of it."

Of course President Trump was at the centre of things. He was still president, remember, and was in the White House as the events of 1/6 unfolded. He may have been as surprised as most others when the protest got out of hand. But the most he was accused of last night was not acting quickly or firmly enough to put a stop to the "riot". And that's old news.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Vice-chair of the January 6th Committee, said in her opening statement they had hard evidence that President Trump had a "sophisticated seven-part plan" to overturn the results of the 2020 election. And she averred that the Committee had obtained evidence that the White House had prior information of planned violence. 

All Ms Cheney could produce, though, was a clip of Steve Bannon saying on his January 5th podcast that "all hell is going to break loose" at the Capitol the next day. Mr Bannon's prediction -- accurate enough, as it turned out -- is not evidence of prior knowledge of violence. 

If Ms Cheney is telling the truth and has the goods, let's see what they've got! It is crucial that there be hard evidence, something more than the characterization of Ms Cheney or another committee member. The entire credibility of this committee comes down to that point.

After Ms Cheney wrapped up her very lengthy opening remarks, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), introduced a video package that he said contained footage "mostly" never seen before. It turned out to be a video of protesters breaching the Capitol, with an overlay of President Trump's voice. 

NewsMax anchor Greg Kelly tweeted: "Now they're just running POLITICAL COMMERCIALS. I mean, putting Trump's voice over this video -- it's FAKE. It's HOLLYWOOD. LUDICROUS!" Even NBC News' Lester Holt had to concede that "a lot of these shots will seem familiar to people."

Rep. Cheney's introduction was mostly a preview of  future hearings. She said that the committee’s investigation is "ongoing" and that the Justice Department has only publicly revealed some of its work, and more may come out, errr, later.

Rep. Thompson, closing the two-hour-long piece of "resistance theater", said that the committee will reconvene next week and "examine the lies that convinced those men and others to storm the Capitol, to try to stop the transfer of power, he said, adding "We’re going to take a close look at the first part of Trump's attack on the rule of law, when he hit the fuse that ultimately resulted in the violence of January 6."

Walt sez, don't stay tuned. There was nothing new to see last night, and there will be nothing new later... or ever. Lifetime pct .990.

CORRECTION and update added 12/6. Agent 17 points out that there was more than one casualty connected with the events of January 6th. However, 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt, a veterean of the USAF, was the only one shot and killed by a cop. Rosanne Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw GA, Kevin Greeson, 55, of Athens AL, and Benjamin Phillips, 50 of Ringtown PA, died from other forms of trauma.

Further reading: "History Tells Us That What Happened on Januaryh 6th Was Not an Insurrection", on Dr. Rich Swier's blogsite, 11/6/33.

Kamala Harris: 1/6 "worse than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor"

Kamala Harris, the Indo-Jamaican Vice-President of the Excited States of America, kicked off the Brandon administration's remarks on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Capitol "riot" by comparing it to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

"Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault," she said. "Dates that occupy not only a place in our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11, 2001. And January 6th, 2021."

Here, in chronological order, are pictures of the events of those three dates. Which is the worst? You be the judge!

December 7, 1941

September 11, 2001

January 6, 2021

I mean... really?! Isn't all this never-Trump hysteria a bit much?! 1000s of Americans died during the attacks by foreigners on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers. The only person who died a year ago, during a demonstration by outraged American citizens, was one female protester, shot by a cop.

The Dumbocrats couldn't actually organize a Reichstag fire, but they can sure organize the lickspittle media to turn the legitimate protest of the stolen election into one! As I said... too much!!!

"Allahu akbar!" at the Capitol?

 I know I said there wouldn't be any new posts here, other than traditional Christian greetings, between Good Friday and Easter Monday, but this won't wait. 

Those who turned off the TV and the Internet for a quiet and peaceful observance of Good Friday missed some real news, the kind that the lickspittle media hopes will be forgotten by Monday. 

Briefly, a Capitol Police officer was killed this afternoon when a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the Capitol, and then exited the vehicle [That's cop-speak. It means he got out. Ed.] wielding a knife. 

The driver of the vehicle stabbed one of the officers, William "Billy" Evans, who succumbed to his injuries soon after. He wounded a second officer before being shot by others. The suspect was taken to a nearby hospital where he died, apparently without saying a word about who he was or why he did it.

The Acting Chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman [This is not a made-up name. Ed.] said they were "digging into the suspect's background and examining whether he had a mental health history as they tried to discern a motive."

Just another wild and crazy guy, not a terrorist. Right? The lamestream media were quick to make mention of the "January 6th insurrection", trying to make a link with the terrible attack fomented (they say) by President Trump. Their spin stopped abruptly when a picture of the dying attacker (taken as he was being loaded into an ambulance) was posted on social media. Here it is.

Didn't see it clearly? Here's a closeup.

Whoops! A black [Black? Ed.] guy! Since we all know that domestic terrorists only come in white, his motive couldn't possibly have been political... or racial... or both. Right? Guess again! 

There you have it folks, not from Breitbart News, but from NBC's Pete Williams! Hmmm. Nation of Islam... Where have we heard that before? Oh... yes... it's a pro-Black (not anti-white!) nationalist group led by one Louis Farrakhan, a prominent supporter of Sleepy Joe and the Prez before him. 

As the name suggests, it's an Islamic group too, founded by one Elijah Muhammad. Turns out Mr Green had a Facebook page. Someone managed to save this screen grab of something he posted just a couple of weeks ago.

If Mr Green had any last words which went unrecorded, they may well have been "Allahu akbar!" That shout will be heard again... somewhere... maybe not far from you... sometime... maybe soon. 

Impeachment trial: the VIDEO the MSM don't want you to see

There's four hours of my life I won't get back! Yesterday I watched the first afternoon of the Senate trial of former President Trump -- "former" being the key word here because, as Mr Trump's lawyers pointed out, he is out of office now, and the Constitution does not allow for the impeachment of a private citizen.

I thought they made a pretty good argument on that point, but in spite of the trial being (on an objective reading of the text of the United States Constitution) contrary to the founding document of the republic, six Republic Senators (including the inevitable Mitt Romney) voted to go ahead with it. Final tally: ayes 56 - nays 44. 

That was pretty much what I expected, but what I found interesting were the videos presented to the solons by the House managers and Mr Trump's lawyers. Impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who previously objected to results from Donald Trump's 2016 victory, showed a dramatic and selectively edited video that spliced together President Trump's statements with images of the mostly peaceful protesters (TM) who "attacked" the Capitol on January 6th. 

I'm sure you've seen that video 1000 times since it was all over the boob tube, from the live feed through every damn "newscast" on every damn station until... well, for all I know it's still being shown this morning. Did you notice, though, that the video edited out (for example) President Trump's appeal to his supporters to "peacefully make their voices heard." The video was the veriest hatchet job, carefully constructed by master manipulators to lay everything at Mr Trump's feet. 

Of course the lickspittle lamestream media swallowed it -- hook, line and sinker -- and expect Americans to do the same. How could viewers do otherwise otherwise, since they saw only the anti-Trump video. But the Senators (whose minds were already made up) saw another one, a montage put together by former Mr Trump's team, which makes clear in just two minutes that this whole show trial is the culmination of the campaign to unseat President Trump which began even before he was sworn in. You be the judge!  

 

The impeachment show trial, the executive orders issued by Sleep Joe to countermand those issued by President Trump, the drive to silence not just Mr Trump but his 74 million supporters (see cartoon above)... these things have nothing to do with reconciliation, and everything to do with retribution. What you have seen over the last three weeks is only the beginning! 

VIDEO: Michael Matt reacts to the attack on the Capitol

We received an e-mail today from Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper, asking us to share his latest video, restricted by YouTube but available on RemnantTV, their new online channel. In this special report on the impeachment of Still-President Trump, Mr Matt takes a hard look at the disastrous attack on the US Capitol building -- an event which will surely live on in infamy.

    

Mr Matt explains why the Dumbocrats are trying once again to impeach Donald Trump. As Patrick Buchanan argues, it's because "a conviction would strip Republicans of the right to re-elect the man who got the largest number of votes in their party's history." 

In this video -- I'm writing this in case you haven't you haven't yet opened it -- you'll see President Trump's statement of January 13th, blacked out by the lickspittle controlled media, in which he again condemns the breach of the Capitol, calls for the prosecution of those responsible and explains in no uncertain terms how it was diametrically opposed to everything the he stands for. 

Mr Trump has condemned their actions three times now, and patriots all across America have denounced it as the new Reichstag fire (see WWW, 15/1/21) -- a massive blunder being used by the Left to try to crush Mr Trump and his populist movement once and for all. This is no longer about the 2020 election. The impeachment is about making sure there will never be another MAGA rally in this country again.

But wait, there's more. Mr Matt includes a clip from one of Walt's Top Ten Movies of All Time, A Man for All Seasons, in which Paul Scofield, playing Saint Thomas More, shows why and how we must not consider ourselves above the law. No matter what happens to the children of light, they can never behave like the children of darkness.

It's NOT over ???

 Seen inside the Capitol yesterday...

Recommended reading: "Siege of the U.S. Capitol is an ominous sign of things to come" by Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post, 7/1/21.

It's over!

I and about eleventy million other people witnessed yesterday's... errr... proceedings in and around the Capitol. As "mostly peaceful" protests go, this one lived up to its name. 

Although one woman was killed, supposed by "law enforcement", I didn't see a whole lot of violence. For the most part I saw protesters "engaging" with "law enforcement" -- shouting at them, haranguing them, reasoning with them. And I wondered how many of the assorted national guardsmen, cops and rent-a-cops had misgivings about confronting the protesters, all for the sake of making sure Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got formally elected, not just anointed by the media.

This morning questions are being asked by the usual suspects -- SJWs, the lamestream media, the anti-police gang -- about how the protesters were able to mass on Capitol Hill, and gain entry into the Capitol itself, so easily. The suggesion is that it was some sort of conspiracy between President Trump,  his supporters and "law enforcement" to stage a paramilitary coup. As if!

Whether the demonstration was orchestrated or not, it proved to be counter-productive. I understand where the protesters were coming from. Oh boy, do I understand! But what, I wonder, did the protesters think would happen? Did they really think occupying the Capitol would keep the solons from meeting... forever? Did they think "taking it to the street" would convince some of the anti-Trump senators and congresspersons to vote in favour of the objections filed by Senator Cruz et al?  Fat chance!

If anything, the protest appears to have changed the mind of some Republicans. When the objection to the counting of the votes of the Arizona electors came to a vote around 2200 EST, there were only six (6) "ayes" and 93 nays. The objections and horseshit-laden speeches continued into the wee hours, but only for the sake of form, and the vote of the Electoral College was duly confirmed. 

For me, the day and the result were best summed up by Senator Lindsey Graham when he said, "It's over!" So it is.

I note that President-elect Biden -- for now we can actually call him that -- decided last week to skip the traditional Inauguration Day parade. I wonder if he and his handlers were truly afraid for his security, or is that they were afraid of the optics of taking a victory lap following a rigged election which half the American people believe they stole by fraud and deceit.

Of course there was fraud and cheating, said some "honorable senators" last night. But there was no evidence (they said) that it was "massive". Just a little bit, you understand. Not enough to make any real difference. So that's OK then... they said. I had the sense that some who said such things were really acknowledging that the Democrats were better at cheating than the Republicans... this time! 

As they say in Lake Wobegon: What now, do ya think? I'll tell ya what. With the run-off election for both of Georgia's Senate seats now decided in favour of the Dumbocrats (albeit by narrow margins), the US of A is in for four years of affirmative action (read: reverse racism), extreme environmentalism (read: green-scam), tax-and-spend budgets, Antifa riots, weakening of "law enforcement", and all the other liberal "progressive" policies that have made California what it is today. God save the United States of America! 

Further reading: "Pelosi Appoints AOC, Other 'Squad' Members to Powerful Oversight Committee; Leftists Promptly Reveal Radical Agenda", by Mike Miller, on RedState, 6/1/21.