- January 6th Committee members are vowing to engage US Marshals if necessary against Steve Bannon.
- We’re not on “day five” of anything. The actual (secondary) subpoena deadline is tomorrow.
- Meadows and Patel are cooperating.
- Yes, the committee is winning.
- No, the committee won’t magically take action at 12:01am. This isn’t a movie. There’s a real world way in which things work.
- The committee has done a pretty good job of explaining what it’s going to do.
- Most pundits are spinning fiction just to pander to your outrage.
Meadows and Patel are expected to give depositions this week, per Reuters. If they bail last minute, they presumably face the same consequences as Bannon. But already two hostile witnesses have (seemingly) caved. This suggests they fear the consequences of not showing up.
And again, Bannon isn’t making some magical power play. He’s just in a no win situation. He’s under confirmed criminal investigation in New York. If he testifies to congress, prosecutors can use it against him, and he knows it. He’s stuck squirming between two bad options.
The 1/6 committee has made it very clear that they’re eager to make an example out of someone (it’ll be Bannon unless he caves), so upcoming witnesses will fall in line. But they can only do things that’ll actually work, and not backfire on them.
The pundits get to spin up all kinds of consequence-free magical fantasies about what the committee should do to Bannon, so they can then score cheap points by bashing the committee for not doing these imaginary things. But a lot of it would just never fly in the real world.
Let’s say they nab Bannon and throw him in the little Capitol jail cell, but then a judge rules hours later that Bannon must be freed. The committee’s leverage would then be permanently gone. It’s why the committee can’t just “aggressively” shoot from the hip.
Will the committee bust Bannon? Yes. Will it be “aggressive” enough to satisfy the pundits? Of course not. They’ve already decided to disparage and sabotage the committee at every turn, in order to boost their own retweets and TV bookings.
The good news is, the general public will see the committee’s moves as appropriately aggressive, even as the twitter pundits continue to lead political twitter into further disinformed irrelevance when it comes to this probe.
Once again, we’re not on “day five” of anything. The secondary deadline on the subpoenas is tomorrow. If you’re asking why the committee hasn’t taken action yet, you’re asking for time machines to be involved. Give it a rest – and stop listening to these ridiculous pundits.
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1) Not sure the nation is aware of how badly Andrew Yang destroyed the race for New York City mayor this year. His bumbling, no-effort vanity campaign got all the media attention, so qualified candidates got no attention, and corrupt candidates got no vetting. Then Yang imploded.
The media deserves blame for sure. But Yang knew what was going on. At some point he pretty clearly decided, consciously or subconsciously, that he didn’t really want to win. But instead of dropping out, he kept hogging the media attention while sabotaging himself.
By the time everyone figured out Yang wasn’t going to win, it was too late for qualified experienced candidates like Garcia, Stringer, and Wiley to get traction. Once Eric Adams pulled into the lead last minute, all kinds of scandals surfaced about him, but didn’t get covered.
Three weeks out, and the media is still largely ignoring the 2021 Virginia Governor election, because as crucial as it is, they still haven’t figured out how to get ratings out of it.
Prediction: the media will wait until the week before the Virginia election, then try to get ratings by scaring you into believing that Democrat Terry McAuliffe is going to lose for sure.
But this kind of doomsday coverage only demotivates people even worse than if the media weren’t covering it at all. Yet viewers have been conditioned to believe that listening to a pundit say “we’re gonna lose no matter what” is somehow being “vigilant.”
Even Trump’s fans don’t want to watch his rallies on TV anymore. They don’t want to be reminded that he’s broken, senile, past tense, non-viable. We know this because if Trump’s fans still wanted to watch his rallies, Fox News would be airing all of them.
At this point it’s a fair bet that more Trump detractors are watching Trump rallies than Trump fans, because the media has spent the past month insisting that Trump is making a magic comeback and that we must all stare helplessly at his every move or we’re not being “vigilant.”
From literally the minute the media declared Biden the winner, it’s been pushing the “Trump 2024 magic comeback” narrative as a ratings ploy in order to survive what it knew would not be a ratings-friendly Biden presidency. The thing is, it’s not working for them.
If Bill Maher were really trying to stop Trump, he’d be telling everyone to get out there and make sure Trump’s candidate loses in Virginia in three weeks. Instead he’s telling you Trump will win in 2024 no matter what, so you’ll stare at the screen in fear and boost his ratings.
The problem – and people like Maher all know this – is that if you’re staring at the screen in fear and dread so you can boost their ratings, you’re not out there doing any activism or work. And that’s how you lose elections.
Even though it’s extremely winnable, there’s a very good chance we’ll lose next month’s Virginia Governor race, simply because “woe is me” defeatism is off the charts – which means you’re not putting in the real world work required to win.
After Obama won, liberal activists didn’t try to work with him to help him accomplish the agenda. Instead they sat in a park for years and protested in generic and pointless fashion – and then they acted shocked when the republicans won the midterms and stopped Obama’s progress.
Many of them even blamed Obama for losing the midterms. He accomplished huge parts of his agenda in those two years. But liberal activists didn’t understand it was THEIR job to get out and win the midterms. Instead they literally just sat there. In a park. For absolutely no gain.
Why didn’t liberal activists sit in a park and protest while Bush was committing war crimes and crashing the economy? Did anyone ever think to ask why these idiots only took to their lawn chairs after their own side was back in charge of the White House? Who baited them into it?
Trump is on a clear path to prison in New York for financial crimes. His company and CFO have been indicted and he’s next. But the media totally ignores the fact that Trump is on a path to prison, because it conflicts with their current “Trump magic comeback 2024” ratings grab.
Then people tell me I’m the one who’s making things up, because I’m the only one acknowledging the fact that Trump is on a clear path to prison in New York – even as they accept the media’s baseless hyperbolic clickbait about Trump somehow making a magic comeback in 2024.
The kind of financial crimes Trump will be indicted on have a near 100% conviction rate. Even if you want to be a pessimist and say Trump has a 20% chance of being acquitted, it still means he’ll very likely be in prison before 2024. Yet the media never mentions this scenario.