Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Fri 02/19/2021 View Thu 02/18/2021 View Wed 02/17/2021 View Tue 02/16/2021 View Mon 02/15/2021 View Sun 02/14/2021 View Sat 02/13/2021
1
2021-02-19 Home Front: Politix
After acquittal, Trump 2024? Maybe not so fast
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2021-02-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Insurrection?
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Posted by magpie 2021-02-19 01:11||   2021-02-19 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Idiots. Keep pushing, and you'll get to see a real insurrection. HINT: about a hundred QANON jug heads LARPing at the behest of Antifa agitators is not what it looks like.

Insurrection is when all 200,000 of the people at the rally pour into the Capitol and take it over, and take Congress as prisoners.

Posted by Deadeye Jaiting7534 2021-02-19 01:24||   2021-02-19 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Hence ^^^^^ the reasoning behind this:




To repel American citizens from regaining their government by force.

By decrees, members of the goverment have extended the quartering of troops, building a wall with barbed wire, manning the barrier with armed state militia, not federal troops, restricted movement of citizens without "proper papers" from the center of their national government, arrested people attempting enter the borders of Washington, District of Columbia, a federal property formerly "open to all".

This is not America any more, but quite less.

This is about the tyranny that you may have heard about in school and you laughed.

Laugh no more friend... it here.
Posted by Percy tse Tung9794 2021-02-19 02:06||   2021-02-19 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Weren't there riots near the Capitol several months ago when they took President Trump to a secure area and where they set fire to a church?
Posted by Clem 2021-02-19 02:11||   2021-02-19 02:11|| Front Page Top

#5 By decrees

This is the most shocking of all these surreal dream-steps. We are treated with such contempt by our elites that they don't even bother to try to pass laws. They just dictate. Why is this accepted?

members of the goverment have extended the quartering of troops, building a wall with barbed wire

Razor wire. F---ING RAZOR WIRE surrounding the people's buildings. Like in East Berlin, or the Korean DMZ, or Guantanamo. Why do we tolerate this?

manning the barrier with armed state militia, not federal troops, restricted movement of citizens without "proper papers" from the center of their national government, arrested people attempting enter the borders of Washington, District of Columbia, a federal property formerly "open to all".

Arresting on what grounds? Under what authority? How the hell do they get away with this shit?

Thisis not America any more, but quite less.

This is a slow-motion descent into Putinism: oligarchy combined with pervasive corruption, guarded by an out-of-control security apparatus that is a law unto itself.

How much longer will we sleepwalk in the fog?

When will we rise up and shut down this sick, twisted, totally un-American circus?
Posted by Croting Angager3311 2021-02-19 02:39||   2021-02-19 02:39|| Front Page Top

#6 This will not turn out as they expect.
By the time this gets any momentum they'll be unable to hide the facts of who/what happened on Jan 6.

* 1 rioter dead, everyone else died of health reasons
* 1 rioter was a lefty agitator that BLM considered too radical
* FBI knew 3 days ahead of time about trouble
* Trump offered National Guard and Pelosi said no

By all means, go ahead. Discovery will be fun and might get the news out beyond the MSM firewall of ignorance.
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-02-19 08:44||   2021-02-19 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I think a significant reason the American public tolerates the security theater in DC is the fact the we know on some level they are immaterial. Whether you've given it deep thought or simply intuit it, the conclusion remains the same.

Congress certainly makes enough noise and they compete with one another to make outrageous claims and statements. All while some long suffering straight man solemnly declares 'Who's on first'.

But it doesn't rise to the level of a comedy routine or even theater. It's the magician's distraction. 'Quickly every one, THIS is really important so pay close attention. And while you're all here, why not let the moths out those slender wallets and please help!'.

The Republic is gone alright, the only question now is if we can get it back.
Posted by Cesare 2021-02-19 09:56||   2021-02-19 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 It is a leaderless moment, as we watch the relentless pummeling of Trump by the Democrat Congress in every way possible, and fhe career-ending plight of all fhe senior members of his administration. They have so overblown the events of Jan 6, because it shocked them to their core that the right could be mobilized and seize their hallowed halls of power and privilege. The only peaceful remedy for where we are is a Constitutional Convention, with all the structural danger that poses, because we are close to an Imperial Era that will be fatally flawed and doomed to catastrophic failure. . I hope i am wrong but fear i am not.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-02-19 11:25||   2021-02-19 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 A new short constitution may help.
. make no laws restricting religion.
. make no laws restricting speech
. make no laws restricting assembly
. make no regulations without a vote
. all elections must use paper ballots.
Posted by irish rage boy  2021-02-19 11:30||   2021-02-19 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 They have so overblown the events of Jan 6,

Not so. We've seen the photos. They're horrifying. The man's feet were on. Pelosi's. desk.
ON HER DESK!
Posted by Crusomble Bonaparte6953 2021-02-19 11:39||   2021-02-19 11:39|| Front Page Top

#11 



Und der Komputor war kaput also!
Posted by Wheresing Stalin7241 2021-02-19 12:24||   2021-02-19 12:24|| Front Page Top

#12 New addition to constitutional convention? Easy.

One CITIZEN, one Vote.
Posted by Greater the Anonymous5721 2021-02-19 14:15||   2021-02-19 14:15|| Front Page Top

#13 And no birthright citizenship
And last but not least...No restriction on arms for American citizens aside from actual WMD's. Wanna own a battleship, cough up the money.

Want to buy a Patriot battery, cough up the money.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-02-19 17:23||   2021-02-19 17:23|| Front Page Top

#14 good news, just checked my couch, plenty of change, who do I see to purchase the USS Iowa ?
Posted by George Spawn of the French2527 2021-02-19 17:37||   2021-02-19 17:37|| Front Page Top

#15 If you can impeach a federal judge and then be elected as a representative in Congress, they have no grounds to enact a bill of attainder.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-02-19 18:01||   2021-02-19 18:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Crusomble Bonaparte6953 the horror, the horror. His feet on her desk. Can I get you a fainting couch?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-02-19 18:11||   2021-02-19 18:11|| Front Page Top

#17 Deacon - methinks CrusombleB was being a mite bit sarcastic
Posted by Ebbigum Angaitle9626 2021-02-19 19:41||   2021-02-19 19:41|| Front Page Top

23:59 trailing wife
23:50 Ho Chi Shusogum5632
23:12 Blackbeard Barnsmell6454
22:31 crazyhorse
22:27 Deadeye McGurque8186
22:17 crazyhorse
22:01 Raj
21:57 Raj
21:44 crazyhorse
21:42 Snealet Ghibelline4068
21:23 magpie
20:48 Ho Chi Shusogum5632
20:27 3dc
20:26 CrazyFool
20:07 trailing wife
20:04 trailing wife
20:00 crazyhorse
19:50 Dron66046
19:46 Cesare
19:43 crazyhorse
19:41 Ebbigum Angaitle9626
19:32 tu3031
19:26 Ho Chi Shusogum5632
19:21 tu3031









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com