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Maxine Waters spreads some healing balm

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House member Waters:

“[Trump] absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder because of the lives that were lost for this invasion with his insurrection,” she told MSNBC. “For the president of the United States to sit and watch the invasion and the insurrection and not say a word because he knew he had absolutely initiated it – and as some of them said, ‘he invited us to come. We’re here at the invitation of the President of the United States.'”

Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died amid the chaos.

As I’ve written in post after post (the most recent being this one), so far the only person we know of who may have actually been murdered, rather than having died accidentally, is Ashli Babbitt – who was killed by a member of the Capitol Police. So perhaps Waters should instead be calling for these as-yet unnamed “House of Representatives and Senate security officials” – who are reported to have nixed more security for that day despite reports that violence was planned (and/or the common sense prediction that attempts at violence would occur) – to be charged with murder. Or any of the people described in this article as having blocked adequate security for the day.

The title of this post is sarcastic, of course. But it is astounding to see all this rhetoric from the Democrats about healing and the simultaneous escalation of charges against Republicans, and to realize that half of America doesn’t notice the extreme hypocrisy or perhaps applauds it in an “ends justify the means” rationale.

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Maxine Waters spreads some healing balm — 40 Comments

  1. Would it be in poor taste to suggest that she’s savoring the Strange Fruits of Victory?

    Or would that be the 19th Secretary of Transportation?

    For extra credit, which implication gets me lynched faster in the Current Year?

  2. Eleven Republicans voted against Marjorie Taylor Greene for silly comments and foolish postings on social media which she made years before taking office (she has served in the House for barely one month), but Mad Maxine (not to mention The Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse, who are now five, with the addition of Cori Bush) can continue to make many inflammatory, irrational, mendacious, and stupid statements with barely any repercussions, while the ridiculous chicken-consuming Cohen and the even more absurd Nadler can serve on Judiciary, and while Swalwell, who had a very close relationship with a spy from the CCP, can serve on the Intel Committee.

  4. Maxine Waters is over 80 years old and has been involved in politics for over 40 years, yet her record of accomplishment is pathetically limited. She’s basically a seat-filler whose elevation to anything more than being a footnote demonstrates the degenerate nature of political elite society.

    I’m less worried about the nefarious plans and malicious intent of people like Waters and more worried about not only their stupidity but the overwhelming arrogance that comes from being insulated from their own stupidity.

    Mike

  5. I may possibly have mentioned this here before, but . . .

    I am in awe of how some left-leaning people on Facebook, where I both know people and know people who know people, can post, on the same day, soothing pablum about healing ‘n’ unity, *and* more of the same old orange-man-bad virtue signaling.

    ZERO self-awareness.

  6. The rhetoric about healing and returning to normal was for the Democrat sheep/voters. The “internal terrorists” is the serious stuff, trying to frighten us into subservience. If that fails, we will see the next step. Meanwhile the military will be subjected to a purge resembling 1937 USSR. Will enlisted be included ? I don’t know but, if so, the return to a “hollow military ” might result. I spent years examining and interviewing recruits. I don’t think “Woke” is going to appeal to them.

  8. Maxine Waters is over 80 years old and has been involved in politics for over 40 years, yet her record of accomplishment is pathetically limited.

    I assume you mean in national accomplishment. She and her husband live in the Hancock Park area in Los Angeles, far from her district. She has done pretty well financially and that is what matters. Her husband went to prison for fraud but that might be a previous husband. I think it was related to the S&L scandals and that was a while ago.

  9. Yes, the rule is that Democrat crazies don’t hurt anybody (even when they call for people to be hurt), but Republican crazies are a danger to the Republic.

  12. @Huxley:

    Sumner made a speech in which he strongly implied that a relative of Brooks was a slavery supporter because his main motivation was to have black women on tap 24/7.

    Given a bit of common sense (which had been expensively educated out of his noggin at Boston Latin School, etc.) he might have considered how this would play out with Southerners marching to a very different cultural drum.

    Pencil-necked Nebbishy Word-slinging Yankee Unitarians had the last laugh, of course… until a century later they clapped out from civilizational exhaustion and inbreeding and handed the brass ring to the… but that’s another story, children and Look, Ponies!

  13. “Eleven Republicans voted against Marjorie Taylor Greene for silly comments and foolish postings on social media which she made years before taking office … but Mad Maxine (not to mention The Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse, who are now five, with the addition of Cori Bush) can continue to make many inflammatory, irrational, mendacious, and stupid statements …”

    And those 11 Repubs are doing what they can to enable it. Shameful.

  14. I’ve been off MSM for years now, I rarely see it first hand, only descriptions from folks like neo.

    Could someone fill me in:
    1) Have all the dead House members and Senators from the 1/6 insurrection been laid to rest?
    2) Have all those folks who survived but were severely injured now returned to normal life, or are some still in hospital beds?

  16. Maxine Waters is simply what you get when the inmates are allowed to run the asylum.

    That she, along with AOC, Omar, Tlaib, Presley, Warnock et al are ‘tolerated’ by the Congressional democrats is just a further demonstration that there is no level of depravity too deep, too monstrous, that the Left will not employ in pursuit of its agenda.

  17. @Artfldgr:

    A once-common expression used in the Great Land Down Under before it became assimilated by the GloboHomo Borg was ‘As Ugly as a Hatful of Assholes’.

  19. I read a blogger who grew up in Portugal. She has said that Trump needs to disappear because she thinks they’ll try to execute him. It sounds like they’re testing the waters.

  21. @LisaA

    Sarah Hoyt you mean? Her heart is in the right place, but a bit too much estrogen-fueled hysteria at times. To be fair, Ann Barnhardt makes Ms Hoyt seem the very model of Zen stillness and detachment.

    Hoyt does go on a bit. Having lived through the Carnation Revolution (the most Hello Kitty Leftish Putsch in history — at least for the inhabitants of Peninsular Portugal — sucked majorly for the Colonial Portuguese) as a kid doesn’t grant her some special insight.

    Executing Trump a bit far-fetched. Utterly humiliating him and instituting some form of damnatio memoriae is more what they have in mind.

    Oh… and for Based Portugeezers, may I suggest Larry Correia? He doesn’t mince words.

  23. The fact that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of all committee assignments, while the media and political class shrug at Waters and AOC tells us more than we really want to know about where our society is at this time. The worst is that someone elects those people, and pays for the swill peddled by the media.)

  25. I think we are on stage one of the process. First spread the BS and see if they take it up. Then, if they persist in doubting our version, go after them with banks (closing accounts, reporting purchases) and then, if they still haven’t wised up, set up a gun tax of $800 per gun per year. That’ll show ’em. Then, if they still persist in this free country stuff, send the CIA.

  26. I can remember, 25 years ago or so, someone writing in horror at the idea that Maxine Waters would become chair of the committee on financial services.

    But she’s served herself very well. Ilhan Omar, who dumped a million dollars into her husband’s consultancy, took notes, apparently. But Omar stopped paying her husband’s business early in 2020.

    So he received $600K in Covid relief funds, because a political consulting firm apparently can’t find work in an election year.

  27. I tried to comment on one of the past aged threads, but it never made it through, I guess. That’s okay – it’s more on-topic here, anyway. I was going to say that I’ve been going back and reading a book on the French Revolution, and while it’s hard to say whether some of the story told in Hibbert’s Days of the French Revolution might be a little fanciful in the details – I mean, while it makes a great story to flesh out the storming of the Bastille with such slice-of-life moments like a cobbler falling into a trench and breaking his arm while going to grab a note being pushed out of an embrasure of the fortress or something, who would ever have thought to record something like that at the time? – the thing that strikes me about it all is that the inflamed nature of the contemporary rhetoric is very similar to what seems to be happening now here. Not too many people were interested in “lowering the temperature” in Paris in 1789 or thereabouts, I imagine.

    It makes me wonder if our society is about to add another data point to the collection of instances of progressively more and more violent revolution leading to some national and indeed international catastrophe. I don’t know what the specific parallels are, if any, between us in 2020-21 and France in 1789-90, or whether those would necessarily lead to the same kind of developments. One has to be wary about interpreting the present too rigidly in terms of the past. It’s an interesting intellectual game, of course, but if taken too far, I suspect it hinders understanding as often as not.

    I’ve noticed a tic like that in the way that certain historians have chosen to interpret some of history’s main events. One thinks of the parallels in the historiography of the Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution comparing it to the French one, which by the way was also a favorite indulgence of many of the contemporaneous Russian observers, it seems. Smolny = Tuileries, Peter and Paul Fortress = Bastille, and so on.

    The psychological compulsion to interpret unknown thing A too rigidly in terms of known thing B can go in the other direction sometimes, i.e., anachronistically. For example, take Schom’s hefty biography of Napoleon. There were times when I distinctly felt as if I was reading what could have been a bio of Hitler, just with the names swapped around – that is, Schom (perhaps unconsciously, who knows) sometimes seemed to retroactively interpret certain pieces of Napoleon’s career using a framing that could have been lifted almost directly out of Hitler’s life, even though the latter was obviously over a century downstream. I can understand an attempt to interpret Hitler in terms of Napoleon more easily than the converse, which just seemed a little weird to me – a funny kind of presentism.

    (I just pulled up a transcript of Brian Lamb’s interview of Schom at the time to see if this was addressed at all and was disappointed. Ah, well.)

    Anyway, while I had no specific purpose in mind when dusting off this stuff about the French Revolution just now, it somehow seems appropriate in our circumstances.

  28. Chuck Schumer of New York has been on the local NY TV news lately (when isn’t he in front of a camera?) talking about what they want to accomplish now that Biden is President; but every time he says something it starts with blaming Trump or blaming the Republicans.

  29. @Philip Sells:

    Alan Morris Strauss-Schom, son of one Irving Schom, according to Wikipedia.

    I think I might be able to tease out a possible theory as to why he might see a Hitler underneath every Napoleonic Rock.

    Proof in an ironic sense that no good deed goes unpunished, since as far as I can tell Napoleon, that Magnificent Mad Mediatising and Codifying Reactionary Bastard Child of Revolution did more for Jewish Emancipation than any other Non-Jew in history. IMHO, of course.

    Now my resident Statler and Waldorf may accuse me of blowing smoke up… well despite the inspired beginning, none of the ways this sentence might end are good, so on with the show.

    Seems that Schom can get a little too enthusiastic to the point he harms his own cause. See the bit in his Wikipedia entry about the Wiesenthal Center disavowing the work he did for them as part of Operation Shake the Swiss Money Tree. I’m neutral (heh) on the Swiss. Doubtless amoral and duplicitous, but I’d be afraid to stash my cash with a moral banker… never know what his morals might inspire him to do.

    Back to Napoleon. I wonder if his real sin for Schom was being a Modern Alexander. Really only four guys in history have pulled it off: Alexander, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Hitler. Talking about continental scale conquest in time span of a generation or less. Showing that it *can* be done puts ideas into other people’s heads.

    As for the French Revolution, I ought to go take a crack at Carlyle. Since I’ve already alluded to the Muppet Show once in this post, guess if going to read History with a Capital H, then it ought to be the Animal of Historians of the French Revolution.

  30. Re Brian Lamb Interview: First Rule of Fight Club.

    One of the ways in which Good People signify to other Good People that they are not Very Bad Dirt People is by never deigning to notice in polite company obvious ethnic axes being ground right in front of their noses by certain groups. Which groups varies from time to time — this is part of the fun of ascending and not slipping down the Greasy Pole (No, Kazimierz, not *you*, I know you bathe regularly) in the strange social games we killer apes play.

    In fact the only constant in this game of snakes and ladders is that White People are not allowed to have axes to grind. Even Jews can find themselves landing on the snakes head provided that the right POC rolled the dice that turn.

    @#$%it… I flipped the board long time ago.

  31. Lou Dobbs kicked off Fox.
    The “My Pillow” guy has an election fraud video out.
    Time magazine has an article about lefties and corp America working together to assert Biden* won and stifle any pushback.
    A few people who seem to me to have good judgment are going “Yes, I KNOW. It’s Gateway Pundit. It’s not a source that exudes confidence. But that piece about ballot shenanigans in Michigan is actually quite convincing.”

    My conclusion:
    They stole the election. They know it. They’ll punish ruthlessly to make people shut up.

  32. Neo: You wrote, “so far the only person we know of who may have actually been murdered, rather than having died accidentally, is Ashli Babbitt – who was killed by a member of the Capitol Police.”
    It is my understanding that the “shooter” has still not been publicly identified. One writer, elsewhere, said it could be seen in video(s) that the “shooter” wore cuff-links and was most likely house or senate special leadership security.

  33. “Executing Trump a bit far-fetched. Utterly humiliating him and instituting some form of damnatio memoriae is more what they have in mind.” Zaphod

    That’s the least that they hope to accomplish. The NY AG has imprisonment as his goal not martyrdom. And should Trump manage to run again in 2024, assassination won’t be needed now that they control who counts the votes.

    JimNorCal,

    “They stole the election. They know it. They’ll punish ruthlessly to make people shut up.”

    Indeed, most people will shut up and the rage will deepen. They’re courting a terrible reckoning.

  34. Lou Dobbs has lost his show on FNC, the most popular show on Fox Business.

    Already Leftists are celebrating this because he is claimed to have embraced “conspiracy theories” involving Trump.

    The purge continues.

  35. In The Tablet, Lee Smith’s epic take down of CCPs economic subversion of US security interests as well as the economic seduction of too many pols and especially Big Corporate interests is now essential new reading.

    If America is to be saved, then this story must be understood and an action agenda to reverse it must become the prime tool sweeping away traitorous Republicans.

    Smith argues that the CCPs synergy at top levels reached into the highest levels of the first Trump term, pitting serious reformer SoS Mike Pompeo against Treasury Sec. Mnuchin, the leading “Pander Bear.”

    If Armand Hammer was the Soviet’s friendliest tool against the US in the Cold War, then imagine, says Smith, a thousand Armand Hammers in the pre-Neo Cold War years, all actively subverting American’s institutional, political, and middle class interests, replacing them with wealthy Ruling Class CCP-Globalist interests.

    Excerpt: The damage

    …started with Bill Clinton’s 1994 decision to decouple human rights from trade status. He’d entered the White House promising to focus on human rights, in contrast to the George H.W. Bush administration, and after two years in office made an about face. “We need to place our relationship into a larger and more productive framework,” Clinton said. American human rights groups and labor unions were appalled. Clinton’s decision sent a clear message, said then AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, “no matter what America says about democracy and human rights, in the final analysis profits, not people, matter most.” Some Democrats, like then Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, were opposed, while Republicans like John McCain supported Clinton’s move. The head of Clinton’s National Economic Council, Robert E. Rubin, predicted that China “will become an ever larger and more important trading partner.”

    More than two decades later, the number of American industries and companies that lobbied against Trump administration measures attempting to decouple Chinese technology from its American counterparts is a staggering measure of how closely two rival systems that claim to stand for opposing sets of values and practices have been integrated. Companies like Ford, FedEx, and Honeywell, as well as Qualcomm and other semiconductor manufacturers that fought to continue selling chips to Huawei, all exist with one leg in America and the other leg planted firmly in America’s chief geopolitical rival. To protect both halves of their business, they soft-sell the issue by calling China a competitor in order to obscure their role in boosting a dangerous rival.

    Nearly every major American industry has a stake in China. From Wall Street—Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley— to hospitality. A Marriott Hotel employee was fired when Chinese officials objected to his liking a tweet about Tibet. They all learned to play by CCP rules.

    “It’s so pervasive, it’s better to ask who’s not tied into China,” says former Trump administration official Gen. (Ret.) Robert Spalding.

    Unsurprisingly, the once-reliably Republican U.S. Chamber of Commerce was in the forefront of opposition to Trump’s China policies—against not only proposed tariffs but also his call for American companies to start moving critical supply chains elsewhere, even in the wake of a pandemic. The National Defense Industrial Association recently complained of a law forbidding defense contractors from using certain Chinese technologies. “Just about all contractors doing work with the federal government,” said a spokesman for the trade group, “would have to stop.”

    Even the Trump administration was split between hawks and accommodationists, caustically referred to by the former as “Panda Huggers.” The majority of Trump officials were in the latter camp, most notably Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin….

    [Today, universities gorged on Chinese billions, and typically California based high tech grew powerful on their largesse, as seen by powerful brand names capable in Chines genocide like Apple, Nike, Microsoft, and on and on….]

    … But if Donald Trump saw decoupling the United States from China as a way to dismantle the oligarchy that hated him and sent American jobs abroad, he couldn’t follow through on the vision. After correctly identifying the sources of corruption in our elite, the reasons for the impoverishment of the middle classes, and the threats foreign and domestic to our peace, he failed to staff and prepare to win the war he asked Americans to elect him to fight.

    And because it was true that China was the source of the China Class’ power, the novel coronavirus coming out of Wuhan became the platform for its coup de grace. So Americans became prey to an anti-democratic elite that used the coronavirus to demoralize them; lay waste to small businesses; leave them vulnerable to rioters who are free to steal, burn, and kill; keep their children from school and the dying from the last embrace of their loved ones; and desecrate American history, culture, and society; and defame the country as systemically racist in order to furnish the predicate for why ordinary Americans in fact deserved the hell that the elite’s private and public sector proxies had already prepared for them.

    For nearly a year, American officials have purposefully laid waste to our economy and society for the sole purpose of arrogating more power to themselves while the Chinese economy has gained on America’s. China’s lockdowns had nothing to do with the difference in outcomes. Lockdowns are not public health measures to reduce the spread of a virus. They are political instruments, which is why Democratic Party officials who put their constituents under repeated lengthy lockdowns, like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, are signaling publicly that it is imperative they be allowed to reopen immediately now that Trump is safely gone.

    That Democratic officials intentionally destroyed lives and ended thousands of them by sending the ill to infect the elderly in nursing homes is irrelevant to America’s version of the Thirty Tyrants… [Anti-democratic forces have won….]

    That’s just a taster from the war footing realism of “The Thirty Tyrants: The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta” by Lee Smith.
    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants

  36. The denouement of Lee Smith’s long piece is sobering and bolsters our alarm.

    The family of the incoming commander-in-chief was reportedly given an interest-free loan of $5 million by businessmen with ties to the Chinese military, while Biden’s son Hunter called his Chinese business partner the “spy chief of China.” The reason that the press and social media censored preelection reports of Hunter Biden’s alleged ties to the CCP was not to protect him—$5 million is less than what Bezos has made every hour during the course of the pandemic. No, for the pro-China oligarchy, the point of getting Joe Biden elected was to protect themselves.

    Reports claiming that the Biden administration will continue the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to roll back China’s technology industry are misdirection. The new administration is loaded with lobbyists for the American tech industry, who are determined to get the U.S.-China relationship back on [pre-Trump era] track. Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain was formerly on the executive council of TechNet, the trade group that lobbies on behalf of Silicon Valley in Washington. Biden’s White House counsel is Steve Ricchetti whose brother Jeff was hired to lobby for Amazon shortly after the election.

    Yellen says that “China is clearly our most important strategic competitor.” But the pro-China oligarchy is not competing with the country from which it draws its wealth, power, and prestige. Chinese autocracy is their model. Consider the deployment of more than 20,000 U.S. armed forces members throughout Washington, D.C., to provide security for an inauguration of a president who is rarely seen in public in the wake of a sporadically violent protest march that was cast as an insurrection and a coup; the removal of opposition voices from social media, along with the removal of competing social media platforms themselves; the nascent effort to keep the Trump-supporting half of America from access to health care, credit, legal representation, education, and employment, with the ultimate goal of redefining protest against the policies of the current administration as “domestic terrorism.”

    What seems clear is that Biden’s inauguration marks the hegemony of an American oligarchy that sees its relationship with China as a shield and sword against their own countrymen. Like Athens’ Thirty Tyrants, they are not simply contemptuous of a political system that recognizes the natural rights of all its citizens that are endowed by our creator; they despise in particular the notion that those they rule have the same rights they do. Witness their newfound respect for the idea that speech should only be free for the enlightened few who know how to use it properly. Like Critias and the pro-Sparta faction, the new American oligarchy believes that democracy’s failures are proof of their own exclusive right to power—and they are happy to rule in partnership with a foreign power that will help them destroy their own countrymen.

    What does history teach us about this moment? The bad news is that the Thirty Tyrants exiled notable Athenian democrats and confiscated their property while murdering an estimated 5% of the Athenian population. The good news is that their rule lasted less than a year.

    Our fresh Hell is made in China. But it’s barricades are manned by our traitors.

  37. House GOP voted 145-61 against President Trump and in favor of Liz Cheney, who is objectively on Maxine Waters’ side. If GOP had censured Waters for incitement of violence against Trump supporters in 2017 when they controlled House, we wouldn’t be here today. GOP is the real problem and obviously cannot be reformed—like the scorpion in Aesop’s fable, GOP is currently stinging frog Trump (and the USA) to death.

  38. Laurence, the Pubbie Class are the Real Traitors who hurt our unity the most. And they enable our evil persecution.

    Tucker Carlson points out that the Cap Hill riots on the 6th a January meant not that AOC was threatened with death or harm, but Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell might have been because the largest if nearly harmless elements participating in that covert Antifa led “action” really were angriest at GOP feckless hatred of us, Trumps Deplorables.

    Instead the media bleats on about how we are the New Taliban who must be rooted out from our covered and menacing hiding places by force.

    We are being otherwise done so that we can be prosecuted and rounded up by their lies and Big Lie pseudo history of Cap Hill.

    The direct parallel Tucker Carlson makes at the outset is to Lee Harvey Oswald and how anti-communist haters killed John F. Kennedy, not the gun wielding communist who fired it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wILXn3PIgdc

    Pop pseudo history is being sold to turn the Right into the New and domestic Taliban. And for the same reason it was in 1963-4. To sell the Big Lie as The Truth!

  39. “Ashli Babbitt – who was killed by a member of the Capitol Police.”
    He was supposedly not a member of the Capitol Police but they are resisting FOA requests to identify the shooter.

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