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Ghoti theLinguist's avatar

The cops would've shot first & asked questions later.

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Ghoti theLinguist's avatar

They were gone as soon as all the major media in this country were bought out by corporations that expected them to turn a quarterly profit just like any other corporate division. There was a time when news wasn't expected to make money.

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GoodToGoFreeWilly's avatar

Days before the rally, the FBI arrested the Pud Boys leader, Enrigue no-one-cares, and banned him from attending the rally. They also released he had been cooperating with the FBI for years as an informant.

Prince Pod Boy had been found with AK-47 ammo on him, branded with the racist's logo.

The prior two rallies in DC saw rising violence and provocation, where Magat's and gangs like the Pud Boys attacked both police, counter-protesters and innocent by-standers.

How are we are to now believe the LEOs didn't know anything?

disavow, disavow, disavow.

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Jac Cabo's avatar

At this time, if it was me, AG, that's what I'd do. TCB.

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Jac Cabo's avatar

Time to out-fox Fox.

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(((fka_donnie_d))), sick SOB's avatar

Huh. Not 8 track?

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Jac Cabo's avatar

That's been the major strategy for a long time:

If the enemy cannot be defeated from without, it must be brought down from within.

Hence, various terrorist cells, sleepers, and pressures on the economy, and propaganda amongst the populace.

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Jac Cabo's avatar

AND the time and efforts spent on the working-class woes of the middle-class economy. Dems, too.

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GoodToGoFreeWilly's avatar

I share your frustration. I feel it, too, and the worry the Dems are in disarray.

It's a preliminary report, and it makes clear more needs to be done, and that they were not getting co-operation from top intelligence. Reports requested were not received, and some ducked out of the commission completely.

If these intelligence guys know something and are not talking, it might be because they don't want to be Vindeman-ed out of their career by some fascist GOP. This commission is toothless to protect them and they know it.

Gaetz is still getting top intelligence reports, and what he does with them is not hard to guess.

We can expect an announcement for independent DoJ investigation, because this provides the groundwork for why they need it. i.e. it's not a witch hunt or a hoax.

The GOP had their chance to prove Jan Sixxx was a nothing-burger, but instead they acted guilty as hell and tried to scuttle it.

So, we wait.

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Jac Cabo's avatar

The Warren Commission Report is worth time as a riveting read, too.....

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Jac Cabo's avatar

To save time to say the least!

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Jac Cabo's avatar

No Vanky, look Janky! Melanski gave-up on him a long time ago!

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"M"'s avatar

"It makes you wonder if intelligence apparats are worth the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend on them."

There are just too many white ones.

I heard Congressman Jim Hines say that they didn't recognize what they were looking at.

I've said it differently -- many times -- but any BIPOC is sufficiently familiar with being THE TARGET OF THAT VIOLENCE that they would have recognized the collective threat for what it was far more immediately.

And white people do not.

And yet the intelligent apparats - FBI, CIA, CDC (that's a whole discussion, because I know formally they don't wear the "intelligence" designation, but I'm too tired to have a protracted discussion about biowarfare) -- are mostly all white.

Dr. (Smith and) Wallensky made the same mistake when she called the "honor system" for unvaccinated people. Most people unvaccinated by choice (where access is not a problem) are also white.

There's a perception problem in this country that's steadily fed by white authoritarians for what should be easy reasons to parse -- that white people do no wrong and so should never be punished, and BIPOC do all the wrong and should be punished disproportionately.

And so we end up with -- of course -- intelligent apparats who have no idea what they're looking at when the threat itself (which it usually is when one looks at this country's history with an unbiased eye) is white.

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mailman27's avatar

"The provocative and talentless performer..."

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HammerHeadSid®'s avatar

The Orange Ex-Reality-TV-Host & Insurrectionist Trump lost 2 popular votes in a row... That indicates to me that he has the ability to PISS a LOT of Voters Off and Add to that .... the new voting restrictions being place on all visible minorities and you have an exponential hate-on for everything Trump / GOP ..It will show again in next years Mid-Terms...

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Wookie Monster's avatar

"Know" might not be the correct verb to use in this case.

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