Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

“The Storming of the Capitol”: America’s Reichstag Fire? The four big lies underpinning this story show it was likely a staged event.
Kit Knightly ~ January 7, 2021
The media are already spinning a narrative around the events in Washington DC. One that bears no resemblance to reality, does not hold up to any kind of scrutiny and will have massive, far-reaching consequences for all of us.

They’re calling it “one of the darkest days in our nation’s history”, a day that will “live in infamy”. It will likely be memed into a shorthand date – 1*6/21, like 9/11 and 7/7. It will be the day “American democracy was attacked and prevailed”, the day the nation nearly fell to “f*****ts.”

It will become just one more grand sweeping illusion upon which the teetering structures of US Imperial power are built.

The story we are being told goes as follows:

Yesterday, as congress was preparing to pass the v**e endorsing Joe Biden’s e******n victory, thousands of violent right-wing thugs stormed the Capitol building.

Acting according to Trump’s wishes, and with his endorsement, these d******c t*******ts overran the police barricades in an attempt to o*******w the senate and preserve Trump’s presidency.

Fortunately, the police were able to secure the situation, drive the violent r****rs out and the democratic process was able to continue.

Not one single part of this story is true:

• There was no “storming”
• There was no “incitement”
• There was no “violence”
• And the r**t effectively ended Trump’s presidency.

Let’s tackle them one at a time.

* * *

1. There was no “storming”. Rather videos show police opening barriers to let the “r****rs” in.

In the entrance hall, the “violent thugs” respected the velvet ropes and kept in orderly lines, took a few selfies with the cops, posed for the press and – when the main events were over – they were quietly allowed to leave.

Compare and contrast the police’s treatment of those people inside the capitol, with their later treatment of protesters breaking curfew on the streets.

2. There was no “incitement”. All of Trump’s social media posts on the subject instructed people to “go home” “with peace and love”.

Is that inciting violence?

Twitter and facebook took the totally unprecedented step of completely removing those posts, and blocked him posting any further. They claimed to be preventing further violence, but it looks more like they concealed Trump’s denunciations of violence.

3. There was no violence. Indeed, whether or not Trump “incited” anything is moot, because there was no violence. Disregard the reports of chemical weapons, pipe bombs or IEDs – none of which ever appeared. None of the “r****rs” are as yet shown to have hurt anyone.

The only person reportedly k**led or injured was a protester allegedly shot by the police. Compare and contrast the attitude of the media to this “violence”, vs the “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests all last summer.

4. The r**t ended Trump’s presidency. Although the Congressional session was widely described in the press as the “confirmation v**e” for Joe Biden’s e******n victory, it was actually rather more than that.

VP Mike Pence was chairing a joint-session which intended to allow full speeches from those opposing the e******n and maintaining there had been fraud.

The violence brought this session to an end prematurely, totally undermined Trump’s legal and procedural challenges and k**led any chance he had of overturning the e*******l college v**e. No sooner was the “attack” over, than many of the Republicans in both houses who were planning to oppose Biden’s e******n backed-down

More than that, it seems Trump’s “incitement” of the r****rs means he may well be removed from office by enforcement of the 25th amendment, which would end not just this term, but make it illegal for him to run again in the future.

Facebook and Twitter have outright banned him from posting. The press and television pundits are openly accusing him of treason and s******n.

So, who has really benefitted from the “chaos at the Capitol”? Because it surely isn’t Donald Trump.

One should always be wary of any event which “accidentally” achieves the exact opposite of its stated or apparent intent.

* * *

In the title, I refer to this as America’s Reichstag fire, and that’s not just emotive language, the parallels are pretty clear: A staged attack on a political building, deliberately misattributed to political enemies and used to consolidate the power of a freshly installed leader.

Even the media coverage is similar, the N**i government and their tools in the press talked about it in the same exact terms as the US establishment is describing this farcical “c**p attempt”. Aiming to terrify people into thinking they were on the verge of an all-out civil war.

Read this quote, and ask yourself if it couldn’t be lifted almost completely from the front page of the Washington Post or New York Times today:

The burning of the Reichstag was intended to be the signal for a bloody uprising and civil war. Large-scale pillaging in Berlin was planned for as early as four o’clock in the morning on Tuesday. It has been determined that starting today throughout Germany acts of terrorism were to begin against prominent individuals, against private property, against the lives and safety of the peaceful population, and general civil war was to be unleashed…

Within 24 hours of the Reichstag burning, the German President had passed the Reichstag Fire Decree, which declared a state of emergency that totally reversed every civil right the Weimar Republic had guaranteed its citizens:

Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of (opinion) expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications.

While these freedoms have already been severely undermined in the US by the Patriot Act and its successors, those few rights left to American citizens will definitely be under threat once Trump is finally removed and Biden (or Harris) is put in his place.

Although there is not yet any talk of legislation, it’s certainly true there are whispers of purges and other measures to “protect the constitution”.

Some prominent voices are calling for all lawmakers backing Trump to be expelled from office. The Washington Post claimed “s*******s Republicans must be held accountable”.

The anti-social media campaign has begun again in earnest too, with Parler and GAB already being blamed for allowing “violent language” on their platforms.

As Twitter and Facebook limit discussion, alternative platforms will be shutdown. Enforcing a corporate monopoly that cooperates with the state…the very definition of f*****m.

All this in the name of protecting the nation from “neo-n**i thugs” or “w***e s*********ts” or other phantom threats. In the name of “protecting the constitution”, they are tearing it to pieces. In the name of “preventing a c**p”, they are carrying one out in front of our eyes.

It puts in mind Huey Long’s famous quote when asked if f*****m would ever come to America:

Sure, we’ll have F*****m in this country and we’ll call it anti-F*****m.”

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

4 people's died, gutted they don't count? R****rs climbing up the walls, breaking glass b guess that doesn't count either? Probably f**e news?

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

Yet you were OK with this you hypocrite?

28 Times Media And Democrats Excused Or Endorsed Violence Committed By Left-Wing Activists
After excusing and ignoring r**ts from l*****ts all year, Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn r**ts now that the turmoil has shifted to fit their narrative.
Tristan Justice ~ January 7, 2021
Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn r**ts now that the turmoil has shifted to fit their narrative.

On Wednesday, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. It was an astonishing display of anarchic protest that delayed c***********l c***********n of the E*******l College v**e formally handing former Vice President Joe Biden the keys to the White House.

The scenes from the dark day of disaster demonstrations illustrated a deteriorating country, repulsed millions, and traumatized a nation still recovering from the death, despair, and disruption that came to define the dystopian months of 2020. Above all, what happened Wednesday served as a grim reminder that the institutional stress test of 2020 has followed us into 2021.

For the left, however, the chaos at the Capitol has opened an opportunity to refute the perception they own the monopoly on widespread political violence. Democrats and left-wing media elites have already capitalized on the violent outbreak, where four people died, to characterize conservatives as the creatures of chaos.

At this point, it’s undeniable that the political far-right calls home to its own A****a-like anarchists. It is also undeniable, however, that reaction to the protests from conservative leaders roundly condemning the violence from their own side stands in remarkable contrast to the way Democrats and corporate media spent months going out of their way attempting to justify the deadly actions of militant l*****ts.

Not one prominent conservative pundit or politician with any significant platform was reported to have tried endorsing the mob of Trump supporters infiltrating the U.S. Capitol. To the contrary, conservatives spent months vilifying Democratic leaders for not doing enough in their own states and cities to crack down on the militant mobs of l*****ts taking streets under siege, normalizing the kind of political violence on track to appear routine in the nightmare 2020 decade.

It was only seven months ago that Washington D.C. was last on fire.

A trip down memory lane chronicling the left’s reaction to last year’s eruption of unrest claiming the lives of at least 30 people not only exposes the hypocrisy suffusing Democrats’ condemnation of political violence, but also illustrates a sobering reality that there’s plenty of blame to go around for the situation in which the United States now finds itself.

1. Kamala Harris Urges Followers to Cover R****rs’ Bail
Incoming Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged her supporters last summer to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which provided bail money to the militant anarchists facing charges for setting fire to Minneapolis.

2. Chris Cuomo: Who Said Protests Were Supposed To Be Peaceful?
CNN’s Chris Cuomo showcased his ignorance of the First Amendment in June when dismissing the idea that militant protests sweeping the nation in the aftermath of G****e F***d’s death were illegal.

“Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful,” Cuomo demanded.

Here’s the text from the First Amendment, emphasis added:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

3. MSNBC Reporter Describes Fiery Scene ‘Mostly A Protest’
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi stood in front of a liquor store burning behind him in Minneapolis and called the r**ts surrounding the camera crew “mostly a protest” that is “not, generally speaking, unruly.”

“But fires have been started,” Velshi made clear to note.

4. CNN Labels Burning Protest ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’
CNN continued to parody itself in August as a second wave of mass unrest swept the country with Kenosha, Wisconsin as its focal point. After the label “fiery but mostly peaceful” had become a trolling phrase online to describe legacy media’s coverage of the summer r**ts, the network literally adopted the words to describe events unfolding in Kenosha while a reporter stood in front of a several burning vehicles.

5. Democratic National Convention Refuses To Condemn R**ts
Democrats went through their entire online convention without condemning the epidemic of left-wing violence that engulfed the nation in the preceding months.

6. Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Writer: Destroying Property Isn’t Violence
The New York Times’ architect of the “1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah-Jones, explicitly rejected the idea that destroying property fits the definition of “violence.”

“Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence,” Hannah-Jones said on CBS, to which the anchors offered no challenge.

“It’s a great point that you make, Nikole,” CBS’s Vladimir Duthiers replied.

Hannah-Jones also said it would be “an honor” for 2020 r**ts be deemed the “1619 R**ts” despite destroying minority businesses.

7. Government-Funded PBS Reporter Denies Anarchists Are ‘Anarchists’
PBS White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor tried and failed to fact-check President Donald Trump in May, apparently faulting the president for not providing any evidence when calling the anarchists terrorizing cities “anarchists.”

8. CNN’s Don Lemon Compares L*****t R**ts to Boston Tea Party
CNN prime time anchor Don Lemon celebrated the Floyd r**ts as a 21st-century version of the Boston Tea Party.

“And let’s not forget if anyone is judging this, I’m not judging this,” Lemon said as CNN cameras rolled with footage of r**ts in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. “This is how this country was started.”

9. CNN’s Chris Cillizza Complains About the Term ‘R**t’
10. New York Times Columnist Finds Portland Anarchists In Piece Titled, ‘Help Me Find Trump’s ‘Anarchists’ In Portland’

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof penned an op-ed in July headlined, “Help Me Find Trump’s ‘Anarchists’ In Portland,” in which he actually appears to find them.

11. MSNBS’s Joy Reid: B*M R**ts Are Really Just Undercover White Nationalists Causing Trouble
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1300114584859299841?s=20

12. Huffington Post Releases Video Outlining ‘How R**ts Built America’
The Huffington Post published a brief four-minute mini-documentary outlining “How R**ts Built America” to draw parallels between the 2020 r**ts against police with periods of unrest throughout
American history.

13. NBC News Allegedly Instructed Staff to Avoid the Term ‘R**t’

14. Seattle Mayor On Anarchists Taking Control of Downtown: Don’t Be Afraid of Democracy
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan returned fire on Trump in June when the president demanded an end to the city’s partial occupation by socialist protestors.

“Seattle is fine,” Durkan wrote on Twitter despite the insurgency. “Don’t be so afraid of democracy.”

15. Washington Governor Unaware of Seattle Occupation
Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee was caught being completely oblivious to the anarchist i**********n taking over his state’s largest city when he was asked about the rogue m*****a during a c****av***s press briefing.

16. Pelosi When Mobs Tore Down Statues: ‘People Will Do What They Do’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just shrugged when asked about a militant mob tearing down the statue of legendary explorer Christopher Columbus in Baltimore in June 2020.

“People will do what they do,” Pelosi said.

The Democratic leader likely had a different reaction Wednesday at the sight of a random Trump anarchists lounging around in her own office.

17. Rolling Stone Re-Publishes Article to ‘Rethink Property Destruction’
Rolling Stone Magazine re-published a 2014 article first out following the Ferguson, Mo. r**ts in 2104 titled, “9 Historical Triumphs To Make You Rethink Property Destruction,” promoting the devastation as progress in May last year. The “historical pedigree of property destruction as a tactic of resistance is long and frequently effective,” the authors wrote.

18. GQ Magazine: Violent Protests Work
GQ Magazine published a lengthy feature in June amid the Floyd r**ts headlined, “Why Violent Protests Work.”

19. Slate: R**ts Are A ‘Proportionate Response’
Slate Magazine ran a piece amid the Floyd r**ts justifying the chaos ripping the nation’s cities apart titled, “Proportionate Response.”

20. Mother Jones: ‘R**ts Aren’t Irrational’
Mother Jones joined the crowd in mid-June with a piece titled, “R**ts Aren’t Irrational.”

21. TIME Magazine: The Term ‘R**t’ Is ‘Loaded’
Time Magazine published a piece in June headlined, ‘A War of Words.’ Why Describing the G****e F***d Protests as ‘R**ts’ Is So Loaded.”

22. Vox: Woke R**ts Are Scary But Productive. Capitol R**ts Were Devastating

23. New York Times Has Sympathy For B*M R**ts, While Blaming Trump As Sole Perpetrator For Wednesday Mob

24. Jacobin Magazine: L**ting Is Justified Only For Social Justice
The left-wing publication also published a piece headlined, “When R**ting Works,” in June.

25. AOC: The Whole Point of Protesting Is to Make People Uncomfortable
This is what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said about r**ting in December 2020. Her staff began trying to get Twitter to stop people from retweeting images of this in the wake of the Wednesday r**ts.

26. Author Writes Book Titled, ‘In Defense Of L**ting’
Writer Vicky Osterweil published a book late last summer titled, “In Defense Of L**ting,” and earned a feature in National Propaganda Radio (NPR) for the work.

27. NPR Guest: Floyd Demonstrations Are Acts Of R*******n, Not R**ts
Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill went on NPR complaining that dismissing protestors as r****rs “dehumanizes” them, impeding political progress.

28. NPR Makes Up Right-Wing Violence

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Of course it was staged! For weeks, far right groups and trump have been telling folks what was going to happen, where it was going to happen and when it was going to happen...............and.......................it happened exactly as advertised. What sane person believes that, after all the pre game social media taunts about the invasion, the 100's of selfies posted on the same social media accounts.......................that the 1000's of trump loyalists who showed up chickened out.............................then allowed an army of B*M and a****a agents to trash the place?