[The Hill] The House select committee’s first hearing Tuesday to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol was as personal as it was probing.
Sober verbal accounts from four police officers who came under physical and psychological attack that day were combined with raw video footage of rioters shouting epithets and using physical force against law enforcement.
The panel hearing the testimony was unusually united — especially for present-day Washington. It included seven Democrats and two Republicans all handpicked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
All were critical of former President Trump, who was impeached for inciting a mob to attack the Capitol. No defenders of Trump were present after Pelosi rejected two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) choices.
Here are five takeaways from the day.
DEMOCRATS PICKED THEIR WITNESSES CAREFULLY
Each of the four officers selected to testify before the committee had previously shared gripping accounts of their experiences with various news outlets.
The panel likely knew what it was getting on Tuesday, and what a nation watching on cable television received was dramatic, stark and personal.
"On Jan. 6, for the first time, I was more afraid working at the Capitol than during my entire Army deployment to Iraq," said Aquilino Gonell, a Capitol Police sergeant and Army veteran.
[American Thinker] American cities are reeling from increased crime ranging from burglary and arson to murder. Americans, rightly, are concerned -- except for Democrat officials. San Francisco, a bastion of progressive stupidity, is among the hardest hit cities -- yet the San Francisco lunatics who run the city claim anyone concerned with rising crime is a white supremacist. This is common from among the Democrat intelligentsia and leadership.
To understand why Democrats don’t care about crime, we must turn to two prophets of the new anti-American ideology. Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault are essential to understand to enter the deluded mind of the modern progressive and why they are happy to let American cities burn rather than confront crime and stop the desecration of America’s once iconic cities.
Antonio Gramsci authored his famous treatise while imprisoned in Italy under Mussolini’s government. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks offered an explanation for why the proletariat revolution failed in the West and laid out a new roadmap for revolutionary success in the future. According to Gramsci, the revolution failed by the revolutionaries didn’t have cultural-institutional power.
Gramsci’s thesis is called "cultural hegemony." The idea, in a nutshell, is that cultural values and consciousness emanate and are reinforced by societal institutions. Business, media, religion, courts of law -- all institutions controlled by the patriotic bourgeoisie prevent the underclass and exploited people from ever learning of their oppression. The task, then, of the radical is to seize control of the institutions in order to propagate the revolutionary ideology. This reached fruition beginning in the late 1960s with student radicals influenced by Gramsci eventually growing up and taking positions throughout American institutions.
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The idea, in a nutshell, is that cultural values and consciousness emanate and are reinforced by societal institutions. Business, media, religion, courts of law
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Finding that the working class didn't care for communism was a huge blow, one for which they never forgave us.
Instead of just admitting they were wrong and trying something else, they went on a multi-generation project to destroy our lives and force communism on us against our will.
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Dead on, Angstrom. No matter the details it works out for their agenda. On the one hand it keeps the population preoccupied with their own security. On the other it destroys the high trust society we have enjoyed in America.
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I thought the intentionally high crime rates were about gun control. They use the issue of murder rates And violent crime to blame guns, then get the guns taken away or stricter gun laws.
[Sultan Knish] - Getting the United States out of Afghanistan is relatively easy compared to getting Afghanistan out of America. The latest stage of the withdrawal is accompanied by frantic calls to "save Afghan interpreters" coming from the same media that also wants us out of Afghanistan.
But what’s the use of leaving Afghanistan if we’re going to bring it with us to America?
The "interpreter" scam is one of the longest running immigration hoaxes on record.
Before the withdrawal, there were some 2,500 American soldiers in Afghanistan. After the withdrawal, there are around 600 soldiers left behind.
And there are 20,000 Afghan "interpreters" applying for SIVs or Special Immigrant Visas.
How can there be 20,000 interpreters for 2,500 soldiers?
It’s not as if we haven’t been handing out SIV visas like candy already.
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But what’s the use of leaving Afghanistan if we’re going to bring it with us to America?
Leaving Afghanistan was Trump's idea, and would have been performed in an orderly, non disgraceful way. This charlie foxtrot has DEM-OH-CRAT written all over it.
How many Kurds/Yazidis/Christians were airlifted out after the ISIS war? But it's important to get all of Ghani's boys out because a) They know much about what was really interpreted out there and you can't ensure they will be killed before talking to the media. And b) It's an escape plan already paid for, and the ⭔ officials just kept their end of the bargain.
[Townhall] Fear is contagious. It’s almost as bad as the Delta variant. Again, is the new variant more transmissible? Yes. Is it deadlier? No. Does it make you sicker? No. Are those being impacted primarily the unvaccinated? Most definitely. So, when you want to increase vaccination rates, the government did what it did best: screw things up. Fully vaccinated people now must wear masks again in high-case areas. What constitutes a highly infectious area? Well, that’s not clear yet, but I’m sure the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci will make up some science fiction to justify this new mask mandate. The mandates are coming too. Not nationwide, Biden can’t do that yet due to the midterms, but federal agencies are one-by-one mandating it for workers who risk the loss of pay or their jobs if they refuse.
Get vaccinated but also continue to live in fear. Yeah, no wonder why hesitancy is through the roof. All this move does is make the vaccine-hesitant dig in further and give anti-vaxxers all the ammunition they need to chip away at the credibility of the vaccines. You can’t be mad at the latter group when those who want us to get vaccinated offer all the ammunition to shoot that narrative down or at the very least question it—heavily.
Well, take a break from being mad and read what Johns Hopkins doctor Dr. Marty Makary wrote about new studies about natural immunity which if ignored by Fauci and company. He also rehashed an old Fauci statistic that shreds the current push for new mask protocols and possible lockdowns (via WSJ) [emphasis mine]:
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there are all sorts of ways to cherrypick data, and the Holy State _needs_ to be able to censor the media in order to hide stuff like Daszak's role in creating the virus. So they turn everything into an argument about the Vaccine. And they're accusing Trump of opposing it when he's one of the biggest vaccine boosters around.
There's multiple layers of walls of lies floating around.
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Wouldn't it be great if Fauci died of these... blood clots?
I'd make a large wager that Fauci has not been, and won't be, vaccinated. He *says* he has been, but given his track record that's strong evidence that he hasn't.
[IsraelTimes] The Islamic Republic’s demands, along with progress in its program, make a return to the JCPOA seem much more difficult than when Biden came into office.
In certain circles enlightenment finally dawns.
After months of expectations that a breakthrough in the Vienna talks on Iran’s nuclear program was only a matter of time, the chances of success are now looking increasingly remote.
Earlier this month, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said negotiations on restoring the nuclear deal will not resume until the hardliner Ebrahim Raisi takes office as president on August 5.
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As things have been going, why would Iran want or need to go back to the nuke deal.
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The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), noted in this report, is rather an obscure organization comprised in the main of retired military. Founded in 1981 it has created a Generals and Admirals (G&A) Program to educate military from Israel and the USA on programs and policies of mutual interest.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
