GOP lawmaker claims ‘there was no insurrection’ and Capitol riot looked like a ‘normal tourist visit’ Brendan Morrow, Wed, May 12, 2021
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) claimed at a Wednesday hearing about the riot that when supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building to stop the election results from being certified, it was not an insurrection and that it’s a “lie” to say it was.
Clyde asserted that television footage from Jan. 6 showed people entering the Capitol and taking videos and pictures “in an orderly fashion” and “if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
GOP rewriting history of Nov. 3 and Jan. 6: The Note An array of Republicans cast doubt on what they saw at the Capitol months ago. By Rick Klein, Averi Harper, and Meg Cunningham
On the very day Cheney was removed from leadership, a staggering array of Republicans cast doubt on what members of Congress themselves witnessed at the Capitol just four months ago.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said he never saw proof that rioters were actually Trump supporters.
Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., took the opposite approach, arguing that “it was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others” — and saying a Capitol Police officer died that day of natural causes.
Trump’s first message to insurrectionists came three hours into the attack. “Go home. We love you. You’re very special.”
A few hours after that, Trump tweeted: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.”
“Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” he added.
“Trust us, America. We are Republicans. Would we lie to you, suckers?”
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Rodger Malcolm Mitchell [ Monetary Sovereignty, Twitter: @rodgermitchell, Search: #monetarysovereignty Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell ]
THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE. The most important problems in economics involve:
- Monetary Sovereignty describes money creation and destruction.
- Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics. Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps: Ten Steps To Prosperity:
- Eliminate FICA
- Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D, plus long-term care — for everyone
- Social Security for all
- Free education (including post-grad) for everyone
- Salary for attending school
- Eliminate federal taxes on business
- Increase the standard income tax deduction, annually.
- Tax the very rich (the “.1%”) more, with higher progressive tax rates on all forms of income.
- Federal ownership of all banks
- Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99.9%
The Ten Steps will grow the economy and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY
#Monetary Sovereignty - Mitchell 
I want to know what would happen in an economy a standard economy if government, private home owners, private sector companies, airport owners were told to raise the minimum wage to an entry level intern salary. What would happen?
Governments were then told to prioritize a head count on unemployed street people and told to immediately build the required number of large residential low level financial buildings and just allocated ownership and wrote off the difference, channeled all treasury and banking finances for like two or three years?
Then blocked off entry into major cities on uneducated and impoverished people and told if they have too many children there is no space and they must stay in the rural areas until they upgraded.
How would that look from a financial flows and Labour perspective?
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First paragraph: The Gap between the rich and the rest would narrow somewhat.
Second paragraph: Government housing for the poor has a tendency to devolve into high-crime areas.
Third paragraph: You forgot: Sterilize all the poor women and deport all the poor men.
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As long as Trump and his base exists, so also will GOP denial and so also will the GOP remain split. Grand Old Partition.
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Grand Old Prevaricators
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The Republican deniers are not the stupid ones. The stupid ones are the Dumb Trumpers who believe what the Republican deniers tell them.
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