A penetrating article on the true causes of inflation and the mistakes being made by the Biden administration and the Fed. As usual with Biden he’s made the wrong choices. https://reason.com/video/2021/12/30/how-bidens-agenda-is-causing-inflation/
given that the architects of trumps plan to stay president by not certifying the election and reverting it to red state legislatures did not involve taking the capitol building, do you concede that the rioters were not a danger in terms of insurrection? that the attempt to keep trump in office had nothing to do with the capitol riots, which were in fact not a threat to overthrow the govt? or, if you do think the capitol riots were a danger to the country, can you speculate on how many times out of 100 they would successfully institute their new govt, and what sort of regime they would be?
seems like, according to you, there are two unrelated insurrections. one bunch of rioters that will take over the government by taking the capitol, which presumably you think means you win the game and own the country like when you are 6 and playing king of the hill. and yet another, unrelated insurrection, where they just want vote recounts before inauguration. i say there are at least 2 more insurrections, because both my dogs tried to run from my backyard and i assume they meant to become king of the USA. i meam, thats if we are discounting how dangerous something is and pretending all attempts for political change or any sort of unruly behavior are insurrections. yunno, in an affort to redefine a word to make it sound far more dangerous, to use as a political cudgel to make our enemies seem far more nefarious. after all this discussion, you still wont even concede that there are matters of degree, like that one "insurrection" could be really serious and another totally irrelevant. like if 200 million people tried, vs 1 angry bald guy in des moines. because if we concede that are degrees of danger with regard to insurrection, then that leads us to a rational consideration of the danger of these "insurrections" both the riot at the capitol, and the effort for state recounts, and this will inevitably lead to us admitting neither can really be described as dangerous or risky at all, and we only use the word "insurrection" to cause panic in dullards, or more accurately, pretend panic.
also, i am curious, do you think that any person inside any government building is then in control of the government? or is it just federal buildings, or just the capitol? if the capitol building is where the power resides, and you can take it over, would you say that, for example, if they had to repaint the capitol or refurbish it, would the painters inside then run the country? or if they had to temporarily evacuate, maybe for lead paint, or asbestos issues, would we temporarily be an anarchy, given that we had no leaders in the center of power?
So this thread and my post was about the Biden presidency. There’s another thread on January 6. Why don’t you take it there? If you want to discuss inflation and Biden’s role in exacerbating them this is the place.
yes, agreed it would be awesome if you would address my points in any thread of your choosing. particularly with regard to how power is contained in buildings, like is it in a room or box or a suitcase like in pulp fiction? or is also possible that power does not work that way and you cannot actually trespass your way into running a country, at any location. like for example if we moved our capitol building, would we need a federal spellcaster with a ghostbuster style machine that you can stomp on and contain the essence of the power and then move it to another building. perhaps you could use the ghostbuster backpacks with plasma streams to contain the power and then lock it in the box before moving it. you would also need to find any viking hat guys nearby that would like to steal the power before moving it of course.
Well there are 3 magic stones and 3 magic beans in the capital. The Viking captured 2 of each and if he’d captured the third then he could have made Trump god of America. We missed it by just that much.
i dont think thats true. i think what the left is loathe to admit is that we had two things happening around that time. one a minor riot/trespassing event that was largely squashed when a cop shot a rioter, and another effort by the trump team to push for recounts in states. the two events were not related, and neither had anything to do with "insurrection". this is why not one person will be convicted of any crime anything close to insurrection. a bunch of people will get convicted of trespassing type charges. the claim it was a dangerous moment where we almost lost our democracy is a lie, and political power grab for anti-trumpers. they want to portray trump as a dangerous tyrant who will take over if we let him near power again. indeed that is your claim. its very stupid.
