If Dems were interested in resolving the “root causes” of the Capitol riot, they’d support a commission probing all political violence in America. Not limited to the actors, but also the role lawmakers, and the media, play in hyping every issue as grave threats to our humanity 1/
The narrowly partisan aim of a "January 6th commission" reveals its actual intent, which is not to reverse the trend of political violence but rather to provide cover for Democrats to expand their power. 2/
Such an effort would only serve to exacerbate existing divisions and ultimately worsen these trends of political conflict.
It would also waste time and already-overstretched taxpayer resources. 3/
Last spring/summer/fall's political violence was real, even as Democrats don't want to admit it. Dozens of lives were lost; hundreds were arrested; cities were burned, with billions in damages; hundreds of local businesses were ruined, many of them minority owned.
So why don't Democrats care about them? Their myopic focus on January 6th suggests they only care about political violence when they're personally affected. When the lives of average Americans are being destroyed, everyone should do their part in helping cover it up.
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Hi @mtosterholm — In March you predicted the worst of Covid was about to hit, saying “I want to be so wrong on this ... I will publicly celebrate me being wrong if this [surge] doesn’t happen, b/c I just wish we didn’t have to go through this.”
Best part is when Scarborough introduces Dr. Osterholm — who has been one of the most reliably inaccurate Covid forecasters from the get-go — and says he's “gotten this right all the way through”
In a failure of elementary logic, @mtosterholm frets: "The next question is going to be, How will we know if someone has been vaccinated? If you’re sitting close to someone at a restaurant or ... in a theater, how are you going to know that they’re not just kind of fibbing?"
Per @JoeNBC, here are some examples of @mtosterholm having "gotten this right all the way through"
1) At the outset, Osterholm said it's "nonsense" to wear masks/gloves to stop the spread of Covid
CNN’s @oliverdarcy: "While downplaying [Biden’s] accomplishments, such as the impressive roll out of the vaccines, Fox and the broader right-wing media machine have started to tie several negative news stories together to paint Biden's presidency as disastrous in its totality."
@oliverdarcy Echoing an increasingly popular talking point, Oliver additionally claims Liz Cheney was “canceled.”
Once more, let’s state for the record what Cancel Culture actually means …
@oliverdarcy Cancel Culture is when ordinary people find it impossible to hold an occupation/pursue their passion due to beliefs others find disagreeable. At its core, it's a phenomenon meant to intimidate non-famous people into accepting the views of the most aggressive.
Biden on the gas crisis: “Wee need to make a greater investment in education”
*we
“What this shows is that I think we have to make a greater investment in education as it relates to be able to train and graduate more people proficient in cyber security"
Polls just closed in Madrid, where the center-right Popular Party is trying to widen its hold on the regional govt. A strong showing for the PP's Díaz Ayuso over PSOE's Ángel Gabilondo will indicate trouble for the socialist coalition currently running the national government.
The biggest stories will likely be the predicted collapse of the so-called center party, Ciudadanos, and whether PP needs Vox to form a governing coalition. Returns can be tracked here: resultados2021.comunidad.madrid/Resultados/Com…
PP needs 69 seats to form a government. With 11 percent of votes counted, PP will pick up 30 and the socialists, PSOE, will lose 9. Vox has picked up 1. Ciudadanos, the center party, has lost 26.