Jul 22, 2022·edited Jul 22, 2022Liked by Steven Beschloss
Steven , thank you for your excellent summation of last evening's 8th Hearing presented by the January 6 Select Committee. New details were revealed, and like everything we have come to expect from Trump, the situation was far worse than we knew. Most notable to me was Trump's demeanour as he stood before the camera, distracted and unwilling to read a prepared speech from the teleprompter, verbatim. In the outtakes, he refused to say 'the riot at the Capitol was illegal' or that 'the election was over'. He even deleted the word 'yesterday', indicating that he was, and still is to this day, in denial. The Capitol building was desecrated during the Insurrection and people were injured and died. And yet Trump commiserated with the rioters, and played his victim card, saying he 'knows how they feel'. Trump's niece, Mary Trump provided the framework for who her uncle is, in her 2020 book : ' Too Much and Never Enough: How my Family created the World's most Dangerous Man'. As long as Donald Trump remains in the political arena, the threat to America's democracy will continue.
Violence is based on fear and emotions. It has forever been trump's calling card, not by coincidence but design. He has changed party allegiances 5 times, having not loyalty to any but only to himself. It is thought that personality traits are pretty much set by age 5.6; people are also genetically born with the characteristics that can run their lives. Add to this trump's need to be favored by a father who constantly criticized him and a mother who was unloving and formed together,a poor relationship, he learned early to lie, misbehave, be a racist,a bully, and to mistreat women. At his military school where parents sent him to be disciplined, he tried to push a cadet out of a 2nd story window, if he made an out in baseball, he smashed the bat, he threw rocks at a neighbor's baby in a playpen, his bad behavior in school led to so many detentions that others used his initials DT to mean detention, in 2nd grade he gave a teacher a black eye. In adulthood, he has pushed violent behavior: Knock the crap out of them, Hillary Clinton was a murderer, Obama founded ISIS, Obama and the birther nonsense, what he could do to women because he was a star, Get her outta here for a sole black woman protestor dragged out I believe by the hair, Mexicans are rapists, drug pushers so build the wall, Muslims are all terrorists so stop their entry into the US, the virus started in China so beat up Asians. His message: reestablish a white, Christian , nationalist, America First country where the have nots will never again be stepped on or belittled.,In other words, a millionaire pretending to benefit the poor. Only I can fix it, he said.
And so, when he told them to go to the capitol,nothing else having worked to keep him in power, they went, and as his pal, Bannon said the day before, All hell will break loose. Watching it all for so long on TV gave him joy, Pence be damned, democracy be damned , injury and death be damned.trump, trump, trump, USA, USA, USA music to his ears. And what have supposedly respected Congressmen, governors, and crazies done? Supported him, keeping the momentum of violence going-every day in America, 316 people are shot, including 12 children, 27 school shootings & 309 mass shootings so far in 2022, 400,000,000 owned guns more than US population. trump gave these angry and nutty killers permission to emerge from sewer manholes to pay back society what in their minds, has caused them pain.
In 1969, the Supreme Court sided with the KKK, ruling that speech can only be suppressed if it is intended and likely to produce "imminent lawless action." Otherwise, speech that advocates violence is protected. I believe the Jan 6th committee has proven its case, but it will be up to our "esteemed??" attorney general to determine the outcome. As Kinzinger said, trump's inaction and failure to do his duty is a stain on our history.
Excellent. A must read about how the overthrow of democracy is ongoing, which I think will happen with just about every Republican that wins whether Trump is in office or not… Are Jonathan Swan’s two articles in Axios, one today – July 22, 2022, and one tomorrow, July 23.
Steven , thank you for your excellent summation of last evening's 8th Hearing presented by the January 6 Select Committee. New details were revealed, and like everything we have come to expect from Trump, the situation was far worse than we knew. Most notable to me was Trump's demeanour as he stood before the camera, distracted and unwilling to read a prepared speech from the teleprompter, verbatim. In the outtakes, he refused to say 'the riot at the Capitol was illegal' or that 'the election was over'. He even deleted the word 'yesterday', indicating that he was, and still is to this day, in denial. The Capitol building was desecrated during the Insurrection and people were injured and died. And yet Trump commiserated with the rioters, and played his victim card, saying he 'knows how they feel'. Trump's niece, Mary Trump provided the framework for who her uncle is, in her 2020 book : ' Too Much and Never Enough: How my Family created the World's most Dangerous Man'. As long as Donald Trump remains in the political arena, the threat to America's democracy will continue.
Violence is based on fear and emotions. It has forever been trump's calling card, not by coincidence but design. He has changed party allegiances 5 times, having not loyalty to any but only to himself. It is thought that personality traits are pretty much set by age 5.6; people are also genetically born with the characteristics that can run their lives. Add to this trump's need to be favored by a father who constantly criticized him and a mother who was unloving and formed together,a poor relationship, he learned early to lie, misbehave, be a racist,a bully, and to mistreat women. At his military school where parents sent him to be disciplined, he tried to push a cadet out of a 2nd story window, if he made an out in baseball, he smashed the bat, he threw rocks at a neighbor's baby in a playpen, his bad behavior in school led to so many detentions that others used his initials DT to mean detention, in 2nd grade he gave a teacher a black eye. In adulthood, he has pushed violent behavior: Knock the crap out of them, Hillary Clinton was a murderer, Obama founded ISIS, Obama and the birther nonsense, what he could do to women because he was a star, Get her outta here for a sole black woman protestor dragged out I believe by the hair, Mexicans are rapists, drug pushers so build the wall, Muslims are all terrorists so stop their entry into the US, the virus started in China so beat up Asians. His message: reestablish a white, Christian , nationalist, America First country where the have nots will never again be stepped on or belittled.,In other words, a millionaire pretending to benefit the poor. Only I can fix it, he said.
And so, when he told them to go to the capitol,nothing else having worked to keep him in power, they went, and as his pal, Bannon said the day before, All hell will break loose. Watching it all for so long on TV gave him joy, Pence be damned, democracy be damned , injury and death be damned.trump, trump, trump, USA, USA, USA music to his ears. And what have supposedly respected Congressmen, governors, and crazies done? Supported him, keeping the momentum of violence going-every day in America, 316 people are shot, including 12 children, 27 school shootings & 309 mass shootings so far in 2022, 400,000,000 owned guns more than US population. trump gave these angry and nutty killers permission to emerge from sewer manholes to pay back society what in their minds, has caused them pain.
In 1969, the Supreme Court sided with the KKK, ruling that speech can only be suppressed if it is intended and likely to produce "imminent lawless action." Otherwise, speech that advocates violence is protected. I believe the Jan 6th committee has proven its case, but it will be up to our "esteemed??" attorney general to determine the outcome. As Kinzinger said, trump's inaction and failure to do his duty is a stain on our history.
Excellent. A must read about how the overthrow of democracy is ongoing, which I think will happen with just about every Republican that wins whether Trump is in office or not… Are Jonathan Swan’s two articles in Axios, one today – July 22, 2022, and one tomorrow, July 23.
Well said (as ever), Steven. Thank you!
Yeah. DOJ derp dee poo whaddya gonna do goddammit