“This was a deception operation run by people who can be held accountable but many of them are in power & consider themselves above the law. It’s an ongoing crime against the American people and Tucker Carlson was chosen to expose it…he earned it and no one could do it better” – Laura Logan.
Democrats have never looked worse, but Republicans have never seemed so inadequate.
Regardless of your political views, it’s amazing that defendants and their attorneys were denied access to ALL surveillance videos. This is not a left vs. right, Democrat vs. Republican issue…the calls to censor the videos that contradict much of the Jan 6 narrative are coming from both parties.
Nobody is denying that violence and criminal behavior happened on J6. But, many accused/convicted people did nothing more than trespass.
What the video definitely shows is that it was not “the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war”, but a riot that spilled into the building due to lack of preparation and embarrassing failure of the capitol police and its leadership.
The J6 Committee appeared to conceal key pieces of video, making many think that the endeavor was sheer propaganda. Meanwhile, the FBI tried to delete thousands of messages and destroyed 338 pieces of evidence from the January 6th trials. The government was not only involved in January 6th, but they are also now actively hiding and destroying evidence.
For those rotting in jail over this, and there is a type of entrapment called “entrapment by estoppel” where the defendant believes they are legal because the officials make it seem like they aren’t breaking any laws. The police literally let them in and peacefully escorted them throughout the building.
Only verifying that our entire government is colluding with each other to keep us the people at war among ourselves allowing them to keep total control and prosper from that . Trump / Biden , Democrats/ Republicans makes absolutely no difference. They are all corrupt.
Except it is NOT “our” government, and hasn’t been for some long time now.
It is a dung heap for the REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS to eternally scuffle over.
It is no more “our” government than was the government of Rome under Caligula the government of the Roman people.
It was their lord and master, in the same way Washington, D.C. believes it is our lord and master.
They are as worthless as the hind tit on a Boar Hog…
I used to believe in truth, justice, and the American way to prevail. Clearly I am outdated with this old Superman slogan. I am astounded and disappointed with the amount of corruption and nonsense that millions of Americans permit to carry on. I liken it to Jim Jones type brainwashing on a path to very bad things for us and our children. It is not out of the realm of possibility to have a very violent future coming from within or without of our own country with the current circumstances.
I don’t ever remember being so concerned for our future as I am now.
Truth, justice, and the American way!
I am mired back in that century and that millennium just like you are!
The sad truth is that ALL civilizations ultimately FAIL like this one is failing when the people and what they call their leaders become so corrupt society simply ceases to function and then breaks down and chaos and revolutions and pestilences and such are the result.
We had Rome and the corn dole to learn from, but didn’t. because we thought we were special and we were the ones who made history, as opposed to having history apply to us.
We had the Weimar Republic to learn from, but again, didn’t, for the same reasons.
And now we are going to pay the price for promoting ignorance up to the very top ranks of what purports to be government today, but in fact is a joke and a mockery.
While our financial sector begins its inevitable melt-down as the cost of money rises and bond values are decreasing, what was Joe Biden telling the nation about?
If you answered, why, everybody knows that, Joe was talking about the time he was abducted by Martians from Rehobeth Beach who took him aboard an alien spaceship with a tractor beam, and then sawed off the top of his head to see if he had a brain, then you would be dead on!
Two things come to mind. One is “if you don’t learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.” I guess that’s where we are at.
The second is H. G. Wells book 1984. Little did I know when reading it how possible it would become for a government to actually use it as a playbook to destroy a thriving society. My initial reaction was thinking no way this could ever happen to the America I know. The man was less than forty years off with his predictions. I’m not sure it belongs in the Science Fiction section anymore.
Mr. Biden has serious issues and is actually being abused by the people around him. This isn’t like having pop-pop speak at a loving family reunion when they prop him up on stage to be laughed at.
Interesting.
And actually, I have been expecting this since the first day of kindergarten in the years after WWII, when we were told that while a series of battles in Europe called WWII were over, the “war” itself, which was between two forces, fascists on the one hand, and Communists on the other, was simply suspended in Europe, and the next time we children would see that “war,” it was going to be right here in the United States of America, and so it is turning out to be.
As to Orwell and 1984, I think he had prescient vision, myself.
As to the battle for hearts and minds being waged right here in the USA today by the DICTATORIAL Biden Regime, with copious use of POLITICAL PROPAGANDA based on OUTRIGHT LIES, a U.S. government specialty as we VEET NAM veterans well know, check out the National Geographics article titled “Inside America’s Shocking WWII Propaganda Machine,”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/world-war-2-propaganda-history-books
And the lies certainly didn’t stop there, either, and today, well, here we are:
Although U.S. advisors were fighting with South Vietnamese units and U.S. pilots were flying combat missions in South Vietnam, Kennedy denied that Americans were involved in combat, and Vietnam attracted little public or congressional attention.
Vietnam was far from front-page news and Americans still believed that their government told them the truth.
– p.37, Dereliction of Duty – Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Viet Nam by H.R. McMaster …
If 330 million Americans and 167 million Illegal Aliens willingly change their clocks twice a year at the suggestion of a failed Government, well they will do anything they are told. I believe if the Government told them to start washing their a$$e$ with Ajax the shelves would be empty by high noon.
Silly Fools!
Stay Hydrated now, you hear!
I don’t know about anyone else, but I am remembering the Cape Charles Mirror being all over what Tucker Carlson is coming out with today right after January 6, including people PEACEFULLY walking around inside the Capital.
And the January 6 hearings were covered in detail by the Cape Charles Mirror, including the actual transcripts.
So while it is good of Tucker to be going over this stuff again, I’m not learning anything I didn’t learn already from following the coverage in the Cape Charles Mirror, which publication has this uncanny ability, a sort of radar vision, perhaps, that allows it to pierce screens of pure BULL **** with the greatest of ease to get to the core of the matter, such as what really happened on January 6.
Speaking of 1984-style POLITICAL PROPAGANDA based on nothing but outright lies:
FEBRUARY 06, 2023
FACT SHEET: The Biden Economic Plan Is Working
President Biden has long believed that we must build the economy from the bottom up and middle out, not the top down.
As the President says, when the middle class does well, the poor have a ladder up and the wealthy still do very well.
The state of the economy is strong.
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THE REALITY:
“U.S. deficit grows to $262 billion in February as tax refunds surge”
Reuters
March 10, 2023
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. government posted a $262 billion budget deficit in February, up 21% from a year earlier, as outlays grew and revenues fell, due largely to higher tax refunds issued as the Internal Revenue Service worked through a substantial backlog of unprocessed returns.
For the first five months of the 2023 fiscal year that started Oct. 1, the Treasury said the cumulative deficit came to $723 billion, up $247 billion, or 52%, from the comparable period of fiscal 2022, when the deficit was $476 billion.
Year-to-date receipts fell 4% to $1.735 trillion, while outlays grew 8% to $2.458 trillion.
The biggest drivers of deficits this year, according to Treasury data, have been interest on the public debt, which is up $69 billion, or 29%; higher individual tax refunds, also up $69 billion, or 136%; lower federal reserve earnings, down $47 billion, or 99%; and higher Social Security costs, up $45 billion, or 9%.
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Business Insider
“Signature Bank shut down by regulators”
Story by Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
12 March 2023
In an attempt to prevent a spreading financial crisis, regulators shut down the crypto-friendly Signature Bank, New York, on Sunday, promising to make its depositors whole.
Signature Bank’s closure comes on the heels of the shuttering of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday.
Customers of both tech-friendly institutions will be bailed out by the US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and Financial Deposit Insurance Corporation, with their funds available beginning Monday.
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CNBC
“Silicon Valley’s ‘greed and avarice’ have ‘finally come home to roost’ in SVB collapse, trader says”
By Natasha Turak
March 13, 2023
“With regard to who’s to blame here, I think that the greed and avarice that has long been present in Silicon Valley has come home to roost,” Keith Fitz-Gerald, a trader and principal of the Fitz-Gerald Group, told CNBC’s Capital Connection on Monday.
“We had the Federal Board of Reserve change from fractional reserves to no reserves, and that let banks like SVB go out and start buying assets instead of simply loaning money,” he said.
SVB Financial Group’s holdings — assets such as U.S. Treasurys and government-backed mortgage securities viewed as safe — were hit by the Fed’s aggressive interest rate hikes, and their value dropped dramatically.
The company’s tipping point came Wednesday, when SVB announced it had sold $21 billion worth of its securities at a roughly $1.8 billion loss and said it needed to raise $2.25 billion to meet clients’ withdrawal needs and fund new lending.
That news sent its stock price plunging and triggered a panic-induced wave of withdrawals from VCs and other depositors.
Within a day, SVB stock had tanked 60% and led to a loss of more than $80 billion in bank shares globally.
SVB employees received their annual bonuses Friday just hours before regulators seized the failing bank, according to people with knowledge of the payments.
And the bank’s CEO, Greg Becker, sold $3.6 million in company shares on Feb. 27, less than two weeks before SVB revealed the massive losses that prompted its collapse, according to regulatory filings.
Many market analysts say that regulators have been asleep at the wheel.
SVB’s strategy — relying heavily on corporate deposits as opposed to retail and holding a large proportion of assets in loans and securities — actually made it significantly riskier than many other banks.
Some argue that the bank’s downfall was due to its leaders’ greed for yield: its holdings were disproportionately exposed to long-term interest rates, which are at a 15-year high in an effort to bring down inflation.
The increased rates hit the value of SVB’s securities, which subsequently damaged depositors’ confidence.
This is more the product of a faulty system than the bank itself, Fitz-Gerald argued.
Concerning federal and state regulators, he said, “I would submit not only are they complicit, they had a hand in designing this mess….”
“SVB did what they needed to do, arguably, within the structure of rules that are the problem.”
“So, to me, it’s the system that’s broken, or at least needs to be seriously reviewed here.”
‘Stupid risks’
Legendary investor Michael Burry similarly called out what he described as greed and “stupid risks” in the sector.
“2000, 2008, 2023, it is always the same,” Burry, who founded the hedge fund Scion Asset Management and gained fame for successfully betting against the subprime mortgage market in 2008, was quoted as saying on Sunday.
“People full of hubris and greed take stupid risks, and fail.”
“I am personally flabbergasted that the system is what it is today and that this stuff was allowed to happen,” he said.
“Where were the regulators?”
“Where were the auditors?”
“I think there’s going to be very serious questions asked about how the rating systems work.”
“Why were these banks allowed to take on assets when they should have been backing their deposits?” Fitz-Gerald asked.
“That is a fundamental issue that has got to come to the forefront now.”
“We can’t ignore it and kick the can down the road.”
“I think it’s an embarrassment to the US Federal Reserve.”
“I think it’s an embarrassment to the banking regulators, frankly.”
And DICTATOR Joe Biden, our Joe Stalin, whose reign of power began with a CRISIS manufactured by the DEMOCRATS on 6 January 2021, and has been nothing but a continuing series of CRISES ever since, each of which of which have given DICTATOR Biden more DICTATORIAL power, has just used this BANKING CRISIS he is blaming on Trump to change the law governing insured accounts, by unilaterally removing the $250,000 limit in the law, so that there now is no limit as to what the government is guaranteeing, as we clearly see in the Business Insider article “Signature Bank shut down by regulators” by Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert on 12 March 2023, to wit:
In an attempt to prevent a spreading financial crisis, regulators shut down the crypto-friendly Signature Bank, New York, on Sunday, promising to make its depositors whole.
Signature Bank’s closure comes on the heels of the shuttering of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday.
Customers of both tech-friendly institutions will be bailed out by the US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and Financial Deposit Insurance Corporation, with their funds available beginning Monday.
In a joint statement between the regulatory institutions released Sunday, Silicon Valley Bank’s depositors will be “fully” protected from financial losses, which are ordinarily guaranteed by the FDIC only up to $250,000.
“We are also announcing a similar systemic risk exception for Signature Bank, New York, New York, which was closed today by its state chartering authority,” the statement continued.
“All depositors of this institution will be made whole.”
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That this was Joe Biden’s decision is made clear in the statement released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. “TOODLES” Yellen, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, and FDIC Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg:
Today we are taking decisive actions to protect the U.S. economy by strengthening public confidence in our banking system.
This step will ensure that the U.S. banking system continues to perform its vital roles of protecting deposits and providing access to credit to households and businesses in a manner that promotes strong and sustainable economic growth.
After receiving a recommendation from the boards of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve, and consulting with the President, Secretary Yellen approved actions enabling the FDIC to complete its resolution of Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, in a manner that fully protects all depositors.
Depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13.
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Yup, “consulting with the president,” who himself, in a nation governed by RULE OF LAW, would have absolutely no say in the matter, because it’s not his business.
But Joe is a DICTATOR to whom the concept of RULE OF LAW is meaningless, which takes us to the Reuters article “First Republic shares dive on contagion fear, dragging U.S. regional banks” by Medha Singh and Tatiana Bautzer on March 13, 2023, to wit:
March 13 (Reuters) – Shares of U.S. regional banks slumped on Monday, led by sharp losses in First Republic Bank as news of fresh financing failed to assuage fears of possible bank contagion following the collapse of SVB Financial Group and Signature Bank.
“The real issue for the industry is that there is a crisis of confidence in the stickiness of deposits and when that becomes dislocated, things can move very quickly,” said Christopher McGratty, head of U.S. Bank Research at investment bank KBW.
U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to do whatever was needed to address a potential banking crisis.
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Yes, people, WHATEVER IT TAKES, which translates out as BAIL-OUT CITY, HERE WE COME, as Joe Biden vows to bail-out the entire financial industry, no matter how high the cost to the U.S. taxpayer, and make no mistake, people, it is us that will end up footing the bill here, especially as the federal
reserve is now technically insolvent and is waiting for a government BAIL-OUT itself as we sed in the article in The Hill titled “Hemorrhaging losses, the Fed’s problems are now the taxpayer’s” by Paul H. Kupiec and Alex J. Pollock on 28 February 2023, to wit:
When liabilities exceed assets, equity capital is negative and an entity is technically insolvent.
Few institutions in that condition can continue operating at a loss indefinitely, and those that can usually benefit from an explicit government guarantee.
Past special cases have included government-backed agencies like the U.S. housing GSEs.
From mid-March 2023, there will be a new addition to the list of institutions that, while losing billions of dollars a month and technically insolvent, with the benefit of taxpayer support will still be able to issue billions in new interest-bearing liabilities.
That institution is the Federal Reserve.
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Piss-poor incompetent management by the BIDEN TEAM who run the fed with no accountability and we are the ones who are stuck with the bill which takes us to the Reuters article “Biden promises ‘whatever needed’ for U.S. bank system as SVB shock hammers stocks” by Trevor Hunnicutt, Alun John and Rae Wee on March 13, 2023, to wit:
March 13 (Reuters) – Bank stocks around the world plunged on Monday even as President Joe Biden vowed to take whatever action was needed to ensure the safety of the U.S. banking system after the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
Biden’s efforts to reassure markets and depositors came after emergency U.S. measures to shore up banks by giving them access to additional funding failed to dispel investor worries about potential contagion to other lenders worldwide.
The White House said the Treasury Department is working with regulators on the next steps.
With investors fearing additional failures, major U.S. banks lost around $90 billion in stock market value on Monday, bringing their loss over the past three trading sessions to nearly $190 billion.
Biden said his administration’s actions over the weekend meant “Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe,” while also promising stiffer regulation after the biggest U.S. bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis.
“Your deposits will be there when you need them,” he said.
Nevertheless, shares of big U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo all lost ground on Monday.
An administration official said there was no timeline for Biden to make any requests of Congress as his aides were still working to manage the immediate situation and better understand it.
And what sitting American president does this sound like:
Researchers have found that pathological liars tell lies without good reason and without worrying about the consequences.
They usually don’t plan to tell the lies.
They also make up elaborate stories about themselves.
In the meantime, started snowing up here Monday night.
Tuesday morning, snowblowing and shoveling a good foot of wet heavy snow and it just kept coming down.
Tree branches breaking, whole trees coming down taking power lines and poles with them.
Wednesday morning, more snowblowing and shoveling as chaos reigned in the world around me with broken branches littered everywhere and roads closed.
Record snow in Buffalo this year.
Record snow in Ca. including the LA area.
Down in the 20’s this morning.
I swear if Joe Biden and his team of real smart experts, the smartest in the land, don’t get this GLOBAL WARMING CRISIS under control and real soon. we are going to be dying of heart attacks from shoveling snow if we don’t find ourselves outright buried like the Donner party back when, or freezing to death from the cold this GLOBAL WARMING CRISIS is causing.
And while this CLIMATE DISASTER was taking place, the worst snowstorm we have ever had as a RESULT OF GLOBAL WARMING and CLIMATE CHANGE caused by us exhaling CO2 to the atmosphere since the last worst snowstorm we ever had, which was actually worse than this one, by the way, as CHAOS reigned and the CLIMATE DISASTER was unfolding, people kept straining their ears (yes, I have to admit, I did, too), listening for the unmistakable roar of real powerful jet engines on BIDEN ONE spewing forth toxic CO2 exhaust into the atmosphere, which doesn’t pollute because it is PRESIDENTIAL CO2, as Joe came to not only witness the sheer carnage, but to give us comforting words about how Americans can withstand anything, and don’t bet against America, even in the worst snowstorm there ever was, and we will be a better and stronger people as a result of having survived this CLIMATE DISASATER, and I was expecting at any time to look up and see Joe Biden striding down by driveway, presidential snow shovel in hand as Joe cleared away the 20 or so inches of heavy wet snow that incidentally is now covering over our BIDEN GREEN ENERGY supply known as solar panels which don’t work when covered with 20 inches of wet snow like concrete when it froze last night, and it never happened!
Joe never came!
Were people disappointed?
For sure!
But then, we got to thinking about just how many DISASTERS Joe has to deal with, and so we comforted ourselves thinking that even though he never showed up for our CLIMATE DISASTER, not even to look at it from the air as he flew by, which he didn’t, Joe nonetheless still loves us, we are still as much his children as are the Ukrainians and illegals from South America, so now we feel good about ourselves and all warm and squishy inside as a result of Joe'[s overpowering love!