NEW Quinnipiac poll: Biden's approval rating crashes to 33%. 53% disapprove.

Economy: 34/57
Foreign Policy: 35/54
COVID: 39/55

poll.qu.edu/poll-release?r…
"Fifty percent say the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten, while 44 percent say too much is being made of the storming of the U.S. Capitol and it's time to move on."

So basically just Democrats care.
Americans don't like 1/6, but clearly aren't anywhere near as obsessed as the media, and it's declining.

In August: " 57 percent said it should never be forgotten and 38 percent said it was time to move on."

Now 44% say: too much is being made, move on.
Biden's unpopularity spreads across almost every demographic group, except self-identified Dems. Even 27% of Black voters disapprove. And he's deeply unpopular among independents, young people and Hispanics.
More Americans believe the GOP is more committed to principles of the Constitution over individual politicians (36/56) than believe this about the Democratic Party (30/62) -- so the exact opposite of the primary media narrative about the GOP waging war on the Constitution.
In the same poll during the same time in his presidency (Quinnipiac, 1/2018), Trump's approval rating was at 38/57 -- 5 points higher than Biden.

48% approved of Trump's handling of the economy after his first year versus 34% for Biden: a 14-point gap.

poll.qu.edu/images/polling…
Among other lessons, these numbers show how quickly the dominant wing of corporate media is losing its grip on power and the dissemination of information. The business model they chose worked for awhile - let's talk only to Dems, feed them what they want -- but now it's a prison.

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14 Jan
Democrats are such authoritarians that they really do believe DOJ charges are tantamount to Truth.

Yes, Merrick Garland -- after a year of refusing to do so -- capitulated to mounting pressure and attacks from Dems by finally charging sedition. Everything in this video was true:
After Dems spent 4 years pretending to want an apolitical DOJ, they mounted increasingly shrill attacks on Garland to the point that he had to have a news conference to promise he'll do more.

Let's see if "sedition" holds up in court. It rarely does.

politico.com/news/2022/01/0…
Democrats/US liberalism is an authoritarian movement. Everything is catastrophized: going back to Russiagate, they don't fight political opponents but instead traitors and terrorists. Sedition is typically an authoritarian tool so of course they love it:

Read 4 tweets
13 Jan
More than a year after 1/6 and with growing political pressure from Democrats, the Biden DOJ filed its first sedition charges -- against Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes. Sedition charges are very rare and hard: will be interesting to see if they can convict.

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
"The U.S. government has successfully convicted fewer than 12 Americans for treason in the nation’s history."

The last charge was 2010 -- against members of the Hutaree Militia. The judge dismissed the case, saying it was based on protected speech.

apnews.com/article/joe-bi…
It is interesting that the excuse for not charging Ray Epps was that he was merely on restricted ground but never entered the Capitol.

By all accounts, Rhodes also never entered the Capitol, so sedition will have to depend on his incitement/planning.

Read 4 tweets
13 Jan
This is an outstanding, I'd even say must-watch, segment from @ryangrim, reporting on everything revealed by the newly released Fauci emails regarding the origins of COVID and Fauci's clear attempt, with Dr. Collins, to stifle media or scientific debate.

Like Russiagate, the question of COVID's origins is bereft of ideology: a purely evidentiary inquiry. But nothing evades this dreary left-right prism. So all this became a Culture War fight over Fauci. That Grim is anchored in liberal-left politics thus makes this more notable.
The obvious reality is many people -- particularly in elite political and media circles -- have decided that it's best not to know for sure how COVID originated.

The implications from discovering that it came from US-funded lab research are too grave: ignorance is preferred.
Read 7 tweets
12 Jan
Do it! This would be the representation of what the Democratic Party is.
Don't worry. As long as Liz Cheney had the magic "D" after her name, this won't be a problem at all.
Read 4 tweets
11 Jan
This may be, but then why isn't Epps among the more than 700 people charged in connection with 1/6 when there are multiple videos showing him doing far more than many if not most than those who have been charged?
Also, why doesn't the @January6thCmte tell us whether FBI had informants and other agents participating in the organizing of 1/6 and in 1/6 itself -- as the NYT already confirmed it did -- and how many of them there were and what roles they played? Why can't those be answered?
When even the NYT is saying this, there's only so long that these questions about the FBI can be avoided by the Congressional 1/6 Committee even though they obviously have zero interest in finding out any of this.

nytimes.com/2021/09/25/us/…
Read 4 tweets
11 Jan
Hate @TedCruz all you want but these questions about FBI's role in 1/6 are vital: because it's what FBI did in the 1st War on Terror and with the Whitmer case, but also because there's ample evidence they did it here. The media's indifference is shameful:

From the start, there has been ample reason to believe FBI's involvement in 1/6 was significant. But there's been no pressure to find out because most of the corporate media -- subservient as always to the Security State -- rendered the topic off-limits:

greenwald.substack.com/p/questions-ab…
I apologize to the large number of liberals and some of their left allies for impugning the integrity of FBI and suggesting that they may not have been entirely forthcoming about their role in 1/6, and for believing this should be investigated. I know how much anger it produces.
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