The hearings mark the culmination of an inquiry that has involved more than 1,000 interviews and reviews of more than 125,000 records. Taken together, the work represents the most comprehensive record yet of the deadly assault, and which panel members have come to believe stands out as only the most visible evidence of a broader plot to undermine American democracy — one that emanated from the White House.
Here’s how to watch. So. What are you wearing? I’m thinking something in red, white, and blue, and I’ll be hoisting a sword, as well.
Here's our problem, in my opinion. Our friends on the other side don't want democracy any longer.
The demographic handwriting on the wall is that in 2040 there will be more brown people than white ones in the U.S. It's not nuts to think the Christian religion will also be a minority by that time. If you are a conservative racist misogynist nationalist Christian homophobe, you don't need a crystal ball to understand that democracy no longer works for you.
Here we are, all are hoping that our political counterparts will be as horrified as we are when the full story comes out. We need to wake up. They are not going to be horrified. They're going to be the opposite of horrified. They will be cheering Q-Anon and the Oath Keepers and the 3 percenters on. From their point of view, this is an existential battle for God and country. They deeply believe they are right. And they have guns. This election and the next one may truly be the inflection point for democracy.
Goddammit, I want to believe those nationalist assholes are a minority. I believe there ARE people who prefer something — I don’t know — feudal, so long as they’re in the castle. But please let that group be small. And crushable.
I am thinking of dressing like an onward Christian soldier marching into war. Well, not exactly “christian:” more like Shira from the old He-man series! As my nurse-daughter put it in the early 90s, “Stand up and fight like a woman!”
Sadly, unlike the times of Watergate, the GOP has gone so far left, they can’t see the truth. I fear they will learn nothing that would persuade them to change their mindsets and this will only encourage them. As others said here, they do not want a democracy and have no respect for the law or genuine decency. I wish this would result in serious charges of Trump and his minions but I don’t see that happening either. Regardless, I will watch with my sword up! ⚔️
I think that a lot of whether the hearings get major viewership, and how viewers and non viewers read the hearings, depend on media coverage. Fox is of course a lost cause.But I'm not encouraged by other media, who seem fully in the bag of treating the GOP as The Standard For Everything Who Must Be Convinced, and of Everything is Messaging/Politicking Nothing Has Substance.
Susan, as an expert-- what the fuck? And what can atom-sized consumers of media like me do to redirect media?
Fox isn't covering the hearings. They're continuing to spew out the sewage of Tucker et al. I get your concerns, and here's my reaction: Get on social media. Start a Twitter account, get on Facebook, do as much as you can stand. And then glue yourself in front of the television and fact check these mother fuckers. Fact check everything and make sure you follow the opposition (on Twitter, @GOP and @CTGOP, in particular) where they will be spewing out the Tucker et al swill with a vengeance. I don't expect I'll convince any one, but I refuse to let the lies circulate any more than they already will. Swords. Up.
Do you have any idea why mainstream media (the ones so typically decried as "liberal" by Republicans) so uniformly use the crudest and shoddiest of GOP framing these days? Preparing to thrive under incoming fascist masters?
Here's our problem, in my opinion. Our friends on the other side don't want democracy any longer.
The demographic handwriting on the wall is that in 2040 there will be more brown people than white ones in the U.S. It's not nuts to think the Christian religion will also be a minority by that time. If you are a conservative racist misogynist nationalist Christian homophobe, you don't need a crystal ball to understand that democracy no longer works for you.
Here we are, all are hoping that our political counterparts will be as horrified as we are when the full story comes out. We need to wake up. They are not going to be horrified. They're going to be the opposite of horrified. They will be cheering Q-Anon and the Oath Keepers and the 3 percenters on. From their point of view, this is an existential battle for God and country. They deeply believe they are right. And they have guns. This election and the next one may truly be the inflection point for democracy.
Goddammit, I want to believe those nationalist assholes are a minority. I believe there ARE people who prefer something — I don’t know — feudal, so long as they’re in the castle. But please let that group be small. And crushable.
I am thinking of dressing like an onward Christian soldier marching into war. Well, not exactly “christian:” more like Shira from the old He-man series! As my nurse-daughter put it in the early 90s, “Stand up and fight like a woman!”
I LIKE that!
Sadly, unlike the times of Watergate, the GOP has gone so far left, they can’t see the truth. I fear they will learn nothing that would persuade them to change their mindsets and this will only encourage them. As others said here, they do not want a democracy and have no respect for the law or genuine decency. I wish this would result in serious charges of Trump and his minions but I don’t see that happening either. Regardless, I will watch with my sword up! ⚔️
I’m pulling for truth and justice.
The American way!
I think that a lot of whether the hearings get major viewership, and how viewers and non viewers read the hearings, depend on media coverage. Fox is of course a lost cause.But I'm not encouraged by other media, who seem fully in the bag of treating the GOP as The Standard For Everything Who Must Be Convinced, and of Everything is Messaging/Politicking Nothing Has Substance.
Susan, as an expert-- what the fuck? And what can atom-sized consumers of media like me do to redirect media?
Fox isn't covering the hearings. They're continuing to spew out the sewage of Tucker et al. I get your concerns, and here's my reaction: Get on social media. Start a Twitter account, get on Facebook, do as much as you can stand. And then glue yourself in front of the television and fact check these mother fuckers. Fact check everything and make sure you follow the opposition (on Twitter, @GOP and @CTGOP, in particular) where they will be spewing out the Tucker et al swill with a vengeance. I don't expect I'll convince any one, but I refuse to let the lies circulate any more than they already will. Swords. Up.
Do you have any idea why mainstream media (the ones so typically decried as "liberal" by Republicans) so uniformly use the crudest and shoddiest of GOP framing these days? Preparing to thrive under incoming fascist masters?
I cannot explain that.
Right. White supremacy backed by bullets.