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[voice]

So today is the anniversary of the attempted coup in the US where the looser of the election sort to have himself installed as an authoritarian leader against the will of the people. One year on the risk to US democracy is, if anything, worse than when Trump tried to lead a violent uprising against the democratically elected gov. The GOP has gone from flirting with authoritarian ideas to fully embracing autocracy as a way to keep power.

What saved US democracy last year were the state clerks, AG's and governors (a lot of them republican) who refused to lie about the results or refused to 'find 11000 votes', sadly these stalwarts of democracy have been purged and lickpitle GOP party apparatchiks, who have vowed to overturn any result where they don't win, have replaced them in many red states now, that bulwark has gone. Though with the rampant disenfranchisement going hand in hand with these anti-democratic measures, they are hoping only GOP supporters will get to vote in future elections.

The 2020 presidential election could well be the last fully democratic election in the US, sure elections will be held, but they'll resemble elections in Russia, North Korea or Iran if nothing is done to stop this.

As for the traitors who became Trumps foot solders in his war against democracy, over 700 have now been arrested and the FBI are looking for 900 more, many have been jailed for up to 5 years. What's missing are the arrests of those who incited the revolt in the first place, they are sitting pretty, planning for next time, and they don't mean to fail next go round.

I saw that the % of GQP voters who believe the big lie is going up, egged on by a whole cabal of republican lawmakers who, despite pleading with Trump on the day to call off his mob as they cowered in the house or senate chamber, and condemning the insurrection in the days following, all have now bent the knee and kissed his ring and are spreading the big lie (despite them all knowing Trump lost by a landslide) as they fear if they tell the truth his mob will come for them.

www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-59888870

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59703761

www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/politics/cheney-pence-january-6/index.html

www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-riot-investigation.html

[voice]

I see Fox has spent the day complaining no one in the senate paid tribute to the traitorous scum Babit today, and really it wasn't an insurrection, rather that it was just a robust political protest and those who sacked congress, smeared sh*t on the walls chanted death to Pence and Pelosi were actually true Patriots.

The denialism and attempts to rewrite history by the right is as dangerous as them embra ING autocracy.

[flatandy]

There is no proof of what? That they stormed the seat of government as it was certifying the election? That they were trying to overturn the election results?

[voice]

It's weird the idiot right trying to say there is no proof, despite reams of evidence, illegal phone calls trying to pressure state officials the change results, videos of violent insurrection, cops beaten,chants to hang Pence. I know the idiots are divorced from reality on principle, but there is huge amounts of evidence.

Non so blind as those who can't see.

[mids]

Funny how a small mostly peaceful protest makes the far left squeal in terror.

[perrykneeham]

There was an odd footnote to the whole Jamiroquoi Plays Capitol Hill gig: the deaths by suicide after the event amongst the home team. I wondered if that was a bit of hype for the purposes of propaganda.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_2021_United_States_Capitol_attack#Casualties

[mids]

Quite a few just seem to have dropped down dead of sickliness. I wonder if that's par for the course for other mostly peaceful protests?

[perrykneeham]

The cop suicides are odd too. Very sad. I wonder if their deaths are to do with being demoralised by their being overrun like that, or shock that such a thing could happen at all?

There may have been some PTSD and it must have involved considerable loss of prestige too, I guess.

[ootlg]

Or maybe the fear that their turning a blind eye to the attempted insurrection might be recognised? Being so universally reviled I doubt that prestige played a part.

[ootlg]

If the insurrection had happened, I wonder if Trump would have damned it, or moved in?

[flatandy]

So you think Gore waiting for all the actual votes to be counted - and then conceding before the last ones were counted in order to preserve the appearance of democracy - is the same as literally storming the building in order to try and prevent certification of an election?

[mids]

A couple of dozen elderly protestors and the left fall sobbing to their knees.

[flatandy]

Interesting that you describe the Capitol as the politburo. At least that's an admission that you can't stand America or what democracy there is in the US. We already knew where you stood, but this confirms it.

[rick49]

Jan 7, 2022 13:46:45 GMT flatandy said:

So you think Gore waiting for all the actual votes to be counted - and then conceding before the last ones were counted in order to preserve the appearance of democracy - is the same as literally storming the building in order to try and prevent certification of an election?

multiple recounts declared bush the winner, but gore would not accept it. his motto was "keep counting till i win."

[voice]

And yet Gore did accept it, conceded gracefully and moved on. What he didn't do was call governor's and AGs to "find votes" for him, claim widespread voter fraud despite there being non and continued this lie long after he left public office. Again I know you idiots are willfully in a different reality, but it's risible that you think the criminality Trump and his gang engaged in is in anyway the same as Gore asking votes be counted in one state.

Plus the sad fact remains one one party, the demo, believe in democracy any more, all the gop is about these days is silly culture war bs and getting power for powers sake, they have no actual policies any more, they are clearly not a conservative party any more.

[voice]

Ted Cruz told the truth about the 1/6 attack. Then he started begging right wing media for forgiveness
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-jan-6-terrorist-attack-capitol/index.html

If anyone is a lizard wearing a human suit, it's Cruz.

[rick49]

Guess Who Snopes Tagged 'Mostly False' When Kamala Linked 1/6 with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor

www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2022/01/08/guess-who-snopes-tagged-mostly-false-when-kamala-linked-16-911-and

[flatandy]

I see that the idiots on the US extreme right still can’t understand the English language. Every time any of them do this they should be deported and replaced with a Mexican or Guatemalan with better comprehension skills.

[rick49]

she put 1/6 on the same plateau as pearl harbor and 9/11.

[voice]

well it was the biggest threat to the US since Pearl Harbor, and much more than 9/11, after all AQ was never gonna overturn the US system, but those behind the insurrection last year had the goal of installing an autocrat and removing the elected government, an act, if they had succeeded that would have heralded the end of over 240 years of democracy and peaceful transfer of power in the US. essentially ending the American experiment.

So yeah its on the same plateau.