Jan. 6 + 3

A mishmash of articles, some, I confess, misfiled for a few days and rediscovered.

Vince Coyner at Am Think thinks (no, not yet), that  There Was No Insurrection But There Was A Coup. Ilana Mercer at Town Hall says Deplorables, Cancel the January 6 PSYOP! "Deplorables should rejoice for the Democrats are having a fit, and that’s fun. Rejoice, but do not partake in or dignify the production. Ignore Jan. 6 as you would “spam for penis extensions.” " Newsweek,  Peter Navarro MSNBC Interview About Jan 6 Viewed 1M Times: 'You Are Describing a Coup'. Insty, THE NEW AMERICAN STASI: “Working with information from online sleuths who style themselves as ‘Sedition Hunters,’ the authorities have made more than 700 arrests — with little sign of slowing down.” "And yet no one has been charged with sedition. I wonder why?"   At Haut Hair, John Sexton wonders Why is the left suddenly talking about a second Civil War?

My own take is that all of this agita is about the fact that Democrats know they could lose a bunch of upcoming elections. They can’t face that possibility so they’re increasingly claiming the process is rigged and we’re already at war. But as I said before, Democrats losing doesn’t mean democracy has failed or civil war is at hand. It just means Democrats are unpopular and in a democracy, unpopular things can be made to go away.

At Fox,  Gutfeld: Did Biden just declare a civil war on Americans? "Only 11% of Americans call Biden a 'very strong leader.'" Ace, Media-Government Complex Puts January 6 Propaganda Into Overdrive as Journalists Cry That They Feel Unsafe, "Journalists: We just don't complain about being called mean names, or being "harassed" or "abused" online, enough." Tim Graham slams Radical Raskin's 'Unthinkable' Suicide Milking

Nowhere in any of these 11 interviews — no matter how lengthy — did anyone note that for all of the outrage over challenging the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, no one said a thing about Raskin challenging the legitimacy of the 2016 presidential election on the House floor on Jan. 6, 2017.

Insty, HOW’S ALL THE JANUARY 6 HYSTERIA PLAYING? Trump approval higher than day he left. 

At Town Hall Rebecca Downs reports RINO Liz Cheney's January 6 Fox News Interview Did Not Go How She Wanted "Liz Cheney told another Big Lie because she didn't want to admit an obvious truth: she works for Pelosi. Liz Cheney is the Vice Chair and the Committee's charter explicitly requires a ranking member, but they don't have one. The Committee is illegitimate and violating House Rules"   Nick Arama at Red State, Liz Cheney Melts Down When Asked a Question That Does-in the Jan. 6 Committee

Chuck Cooke at NR, Ted Cruz Debases Himself for the Base, even less kind than Ace, Ted Cruz Apologizes, Equivocates About His "Terrorist Attack" Remark on Tucker Carlson.

The redoubtable Julie Kelly at Am Great, Was the FBI’s Whitmer Chicanery a Warm-up for January 6? " By removing three dirty cops from the witness list, the Justice Department hopes to prevent any cross-examination during the trial and, one supposes, any link to January 6." And a strange claim from the prosecutors, from ET, FBI Informant in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Was a ‘Double Agent’

The DOJ’s revelation came Jan. 6 in a response to a motion from the defendants to admit as evidence 258 statements they believe will prove the FBI entrapped them.

The statements that the defendants want to have admitted as evidence include audio recordings, where an FBI informant “Steve” is allegedly heard making statements about how to plan and execute the kidnapping of Whitmer. The defendants—Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta—argue that these statements will prove that it was FBI informants like Steve who actually facilitated and encouraged the failed plot.

But far from helping facilitate the plot, one of the FBI’s 12 informants actively helped the defendants to thwart government’s investigation, prosecutors said in their Jan. 6 filing.

“In defiance of agents’ instructions, [confidential human source] Steve contacted at least one of the defendants shortly before their arrest and said he had been stopped by the ‘feds.’ After, he contacted another informant (not knowing he/she was an informant), to ask him/her to delete the in-car recording of their surveillance of the Governor’s home,” prosecutors said. “CHS Steve told the informant that he would act as the leader in coordinating attacks in multiple states going forward.”

This FBI operation has been a clown show from start to finish. And it's the same team that covered Jan. 6.

At Haut Hair, Jazz Shaw reveals that Seattle Police faked "right-wing insurrection" when CHAZ formed. Pouring gasoline on the fire. If they had the FBI resources, they could have hired actual Proud Boys to play the part.

And thus concludeth the week of Jan. 6.

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