American Politics

[ScatManDoo]

"Madam Vice President, fellow Americans. To state the obvious, one year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked. Simply attacked. The will of the people was under assault. The Constitution, our constitution, faced the gravest of threats.

Outnumbered in the face of a brutal attack, Capitol Police, the DC Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guard and other brave law enforcement officials saved the rule of law.

Our democracy held. We the people endured. We the people prevailed.

For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election; he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol. But they failed. They failed.

And on this day of remembrance we must make sure that such an attack never, ever happens again. I'm speaking to you today from Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. This is where the House of Representatives met for 50 years in the decades leading up to the Civil War.

It is on this floor where a young congressman from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, sat at desk 191. Above him above us over that door leading into the rotunda is a sculpture depicting Clio, the muse of history. In her hands, an open book in which she records the events taking place in this chamber below. Clio stood watch over this hall one year ago today, as she has for more than 200 years.

She recorded what took place. The real history. The real facts. The real truth. The facts and the truth that Vice President Harris just shared and that you and I and the whole world saw with our own eyes.

The Bible tells us that 'We shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free. ' We shall know the truth. Well, here is the God's truth about January 6, 2021.

Close your eyes. Go back to that day. What do you see? Rioters rampaging. Waving, for the first time inside this Capitol, the Confederate flag that symbolizes the cause to destroy America. To rip us apart.

Even during the Civil War that never, ever happened. But it happened here in 2021. What else do you see? The mob breaking windows, kicking in doors, breaching the Capitol. American flags on poles being used as weapons, as spears.

Fire extinguishers being thrown at the heads of police officers. A crowd that professes their love for law enforcement assaulted those police officers. Dragged them, sprayed them, stomped on them. Over 140 police officers were injured.

We all heard the police officers who were there that day testify to what happened. One officer called it "a medieval battle" and that he was more afraid that day than he was fighting the war in Iraq. They've repeatedly asked since that day, how dare anyone, anyone, diminish, belittle or deny the hell they were put through? We saw with our own eyes. Rioters menaced these halls, threatening life of the Speaker of the House, literally erecting gallows to hang the Vice President of the United States of America.

But what did we not see? We didn't see a former president who just rallied the mob to attack sitting in the private dining room of the Oval Office in the White House watching it all on television and doing nothing for hours.

Police were assaulted. Lives at risk. The nation's Capitol under siege. This wasn't a group of tourists. This was an armed insurrection. They weren't looking to uphold the will of the people; they were looking to deny the will of the people. They're weren't looking to uphold a free and fair election. They were looking to overturn one. Then weren't looking to save the cause of America. They were looking to subvert the Constitution.

This isn't about being bogged down past. It's about making sure the past isn't buried. That's the only way forward. That's what great nations do. They don't bury the truth; they face up to it. Sounds like hyperbole, but that's your truth. They face up to it.

We are a great nation. My fellow Americans, in life there's truth and tragically there are lies. Lies conceived and spread for profit and power. We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie. And here's the truth: The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.

'This is insane': Lawmakers relive Jan. 6 horror alongside fresh trauma of effort to rewrite history.

He's done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country's interest, than America's interest. And because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution.

He can't accept he lost even though that's what 93 United States senators, his own attorney general, his own vice president, governors and state officials in every battleground state have all said: he lost.

That's what 81 million of you did as you voted for a new way forward. He's done what no president in American history, in the history of this country, has ever, ever done.

He refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the American people. While some courageous men and women in the Republican Party are standing against it, trying to uphold the principle of that party, too many others are transforming that party into something else. They seem no longer to want to be the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Reagan, the Bushes.

Well, whatever my other disagreements are with Republicans who support the rule of law, and not the rule of a single man, I will always seek to work together with them. To find shared solutions where possible. Because when we have a shared belief in democracy, then anything is possible. Anything.

So at this moment, we must decide: What kind of nation are we going to be?

Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people? Are are going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth but in the shadow of lies? We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation.

The way forward is to recognize the truth. To live by it. The "Big Lie" being told by the former president, and many Republicans who fear his wrath, is that the insurrection in this country actually took place on Election Day, November 3, 2020. Think about that. Is that what you thought? Is that what you thought when you voted that day? Taking part in an insurrection? Is that what you thought you were doing? Or did you think you were carrying out your highest duty as a citizen and voting?

The former presidents' supporters are trying to rewrite history. They want you to see election day is the day of insurrectionand the riots that took place here on January 6 as a true expression of the will of the people. Can you think of a more twisted way to look at this country, to look at America? I cannot.

Here's the truth. The election of 2020 was the greatest demonstration of democracy in the history of this country. More of you voted in that election than have ever voted in all of American history. Over 150 million Americans went to the polls and voted that day, in a pandemic, some at great risk to their lives. And they should be applauded, not attacked.

Right now, in state after state, new laws are being written not to protect the vote, but to deny it. Not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it. Not to strengthen and protect our democracy, but because the former president lost instead of looking at the election results in 2020, and saying they need new ideas or better ideas to win more votes. The former president and his supporters have decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our elections. It's wrong. It's undemocratic. And frankly, it's un-American.

The second "Big Lie" being told by the former president's supporters is that the results of the election of 2020 can't be trusted. The truth is that no election, no election in American history has been more closely scrutinized or more carefully counted.

Every legal challenge questioning the results in every court in this country that could have been made, was made and was rejected. Often rejected by Republican-appointed judges, including judges appointed by the former president himself. From state courts to the United States Supreme Court. Recounts were undertaken in state after state.

Georgia, Georgia counted its results three times, with one recount by hand. Phony partisan audits were undertaken long after the election in several states. None change the results.

In some of them, the irony is the margin of victory actually grew slightly. So let's speak plainly about what happened in 2020.

Even before the first ballot was cast, the former president was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results. He built his lie over months. It wasn't based in the facts. He was just looking for an excuse, a pretext to cover for the truth. He's not just a former president. He's a defeated former president.

Defeated by a margin of over 7 million of your votes. In a full and free and fair election. There is simply zero proof the election results are inaccurate. In fact, in every venue where evidence had to be produced, an oath to tell the truth had to be taken, the former president failed to make his case. Just think about this: The former president and his supporters have never been able to explain how they accept as accurate other election results that took place on November 3rd. Elections for governor, United States Senate, House of Representatives, elections in which they close the gap in the House.

They challenged none of that. The president's name was first. Then we went down the line. Governor, senators, House of Representatives, somehow those results are accurate on the same ballot. But the presidential race was flawed. And on the same ballot, same day, cast by the same voters. The only difference: the former president didn't lose those races. He just the lost the one that was his own.

Finally, the third "Big Lie being" told by a former president and his supporters is that the mob who sought to impose their will through violence are the nation's true patriots. Is that what you thought when you looked at the mob, ransacking the Capitol, destroying property, literally defecating in the hallways, rifling through the desks of senators and representatives, hunting down members of Congress? Patriots? Not in my view. To me, the true patriots are the more than 150 Americans who peacefully expressed their vote at the ballot box, the election workers for protecting the integrity of the vote and the heroes who defended this Capitol. You can't love your country only when you win, you can't obey the law only when it's convenient. You can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.

Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated and incited and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of America and American democracy. They didn't come here out of patriotism or principle. They came here in rage. Not in service of America, rather in service of one man. Those who incited the mob, the real plotters who were desperate to deny the certification of this election, to defy the will of the voters. Their plot was foiled. Congress, Democrats, Republicans stayed. Senators, representatives, staff, they finished their work the Constitution demanded. They honored their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Look folks, now it's up to all of us, we the people, to stand for the rule of law, to preserve the flame of democracy, to keep the promise of America alive. The promise is at risk, targeted by the forces that value brute strength over the sanctity of democracy, fear over hope, personal gain over public good. Make no mistake about it, we're living at an inflection point in history, both at home and abroad.

We're engaged anew in a struggle between democracy and autocracy, between the aspirations of the many and the greed of the few, between the people's right of self-determination and self-seeking autocrat. From China to Russia and beyond, they're betting that democracy's days are numbered. They actually told me democracy is too slow, too bogged down by division to succeed in today's rapidly changing complicated world. And they're betting, they're betting America will become more like them and less like us. They're betting America's a place for the autocrat, the dictator, the strong man. I do not believe that. That is not who we are. That is not who we have ever been. And that is not who we should ever ever be.

Our founding fathers, as imperfect as they were, set in motion an experiment that changed the world, literally changed the world. Here in America, the people would ruled. Power would be transferred peacefully, never at the tip of the spear or the barrel of a gun. They committed to paper an idea that they couldn't live up to, but an idea that couldn't be constrained.

Yes, in America, all people are created equal, and reject a view that if you succeed, I fail. If you get ahead, I fall behind. If I hold you down, I somehow lift myself up. The former president lies about this election and the mob that attacked this Capitol could not be further away from the core American values. They want to rule or they will ruin, ruin what our country fought for at Lexington and Concord, at Gettysburg and Omaha Beach, Seneca Falls, Selma, Alabama. What were we fighting for? The right to vote, the right to govern ourselves. The right to determine our own destiny. With rights come responsibilities, responsibility to see each other as neighbors. Maybe we disagree with that neighbor but they're not an adversary. The responsibility to accept defeat, then get back in the arena and try again the next time to make your case. Responsibility to see that America is an idea, an idea that requires vigilant stewardship.

As we stand here today, one year since January 6 2021, the lies that drove the anger and madness we saw in this place, they have not abated. So we have to be firm, resolute and unyielding in our defense of the right to vote and to have that vote counted.

Some of us made the ultimate sacrifice in this sacred effort. Jill and I mourned police officers in this Capitol Rotunda not once but twice in the wake of January 6th. Once to honor Officer Brian Sicknick, who lost his life the day after the attack and a second time to honor Officer Billy Evans, who lost his life defending this Capitol as well. Think about the others who lost their lives and everyone living with the trauma of that day. Those defending this Capitol, to members of Congress of both parties and their staffs, to reporters, cafeteria workers, custodial workers and their families. Don't kid yourself, the pain and scars from that day were deep. I've said it many times, and it's no more true or real, when we think about the events of January 6. We are in a battle for the soul of America. A battle, but by the grace of God, the goodness and greatness of this nation, we will win.

Believe me, I know how difficult democracy is, but I'm crystal clear about the threats America faces. I also know that our darkest days can lead to light and hope. From the death and destruction the vice president referenced at Pearl Harbor came the triumph over the forces of fascism. From the brutality of Bloody Sunday, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, came historic voting rights legislation. So now let's step up, write the next chapter in American history. For January 6 marks not the end of democracy but the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play. I did not seek this fight brought to this Capital one year ago today. But I will not shrink from it either. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation, and I'll allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy. We will make sure the will of the people is heard, that the ballot prevails, not violence, that authority of this nation will always be peacefully transferred. I believe the power of the presidency and the purpose is to unite this nation. Not divide it, to lift us up, not tear us apart. It's about us, not about me.

Deep in the heart of America burns a flame lit almost 250 years ago of liberty, freedom and equality. This is not a land of kings or dictators or autocrats. We're a nation of laws, of order, not chaos, of peace, not violence. Here in America, the people rule through the ballot, and their will prevails. So let us remember together. We're one nation, under God, indivisible, that today, tomorrow and forever at our best, we are the United States of America.

God bless you all. God protect our troops, and may God bless those who stand watch over democracy. ".

[Canada]

USA added 199,000 jobs last month far less than the 450,000 expected causing market declines. Another day in the life of an incompetent president.

[Cali Guy]

So they defied your advice and sold out of the market when Trump took office and missed out on the gains in 2017 from the continuation of the historic upward Bull Market Run trajectory established and triggered by Obama and the Dems by their passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in late February 2009 without a single Repub vote while Trump passed nothing until the last business day of that year 2017.

Then the year Trump's one and only significant economic "stimulus" legislation took effect, 2018, Trump had the first of his two Bear Market Crashes and it did not occur to you to advise them to buy back into the market at or near the bottom of either of them?

Sad. If you had advised them to do that they would have come out way ahead of just riding those two Trump Bear Market Crashes all the way down and back up again over the next four years. Well, the second one came back up again in historic fashion under Biden since a presidential term is only 4 years and not 5. But you know what I mean.

Or did you not notice Trump's first Bear Market Crash in 2018 and his second one in 2020?

Most of my clients have been with me over 20 years. My job is to build wealth for them over a period of time so they can retire comfortably. In the world today to lead a decent lifestyle you need to have at least $2 million in retirement. In 20 years I only had 2 clients that bailed out of the market because of who was elected president. Most of my clients are smart enough. My one client was 62 years old had $2.5 million in the market and panic sold for $2.2 million. If he would not have panic sold he would have close to $4.5 million today after 5 years. His hate of Trump caused him about $3 million. There was never 2 Bear market crashes in last 10 years and you continuing to fabricate lies shows your lack of intelligence. No savvy investor invest for a year. Investors are long term with a 20 year plan or more. Most of my clients portfolios went up 68-84 percent over Trump presidency which is remarkable. Any investor would take that under any president. Savvy investors don't quit investing if there is a republican or democrat in office. They pay our firm to react and advise what to invest in. This year it was oil industry that paid biggest gains. Our firm knew Biden policies would drive up oil prices and we advised our clients to buy oil stocks that went up in 2021 34-84 percent. Just because we have an incompetent president it doesn't keen we can't make money in the market. You don't seem to know much about anything and all you seem capable of is attacking Trump or republicans.

[ScatManDoo]

Or did you not notice Trump's first Bear Market Crash in 2018 and his second one in 2020?

Make believe financial advisors need not be picky about such history.

[Xpartan]

81.4 million gun owners vs the anti gun cucks.

My money is on the gun owners!

The 2 A provides for recourse when elections / democracy are being stolen!!

https://www.google.com/search?q=american+gun+owners&source=hp&ei=FRfWYdm3 JO2 iptQP4 aaZ6 Ag&iflsig=ALs-wAMAAAAAYdYlJQfk3 i74 HAUEeFCZzcyDlgi1 ahHJ&ved=0 ahUKEwiZlvWN0 Jv1 AhVtkYkEHWFTBo0 Q4 dUDCAk&uact=5&oq=american+gun+owners&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3 Mtd2 l6 EAMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEOhEILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoLCAAQgAQQsQMQgwE6 CAguELEDEIMBOgUILhCABDoOCC4 QgAQQsQMQxwEQ0 QM6 DgguEIAEELEDEMcBEKMCOgsILhCABBDHARCjAjoICAAQgAQQsQM6 CwguEIAEELEDEIMBOggILhCABBCxAzoOCC4 QgAQQsQMQxwEQrwE6 CwguEIAEEMcBEK8 BOgcIABCxAxAKOgoIABCxAxCxAxAKUABYpx9 g4 CBoAHAAeACAAcoEiAG0 K5 IBCzEuNS43 LjEuMi4 zmAEAoAEB&sclient=gws-wiz.

There are estimated to be over 400 million guns in the United States between police, the military, and American civilians. Over 393 Million (Over 98%) of those guns are in civilian hands, the equivalent of 120 firearms per 100 citizens. The average gun owning American has 5 firearms, while nearly 22% of gun owners only have a single firearm.

Why, thank you for sticking to MY point.

The ultra-right extremists are willing to plunge the nation into the civil war because they don't like the guy who fairly won the election?

Like I said, what else is new?

And nice touch counting the police and military as if they'll have anything to do with your lunatic brethren, LOL.

And their guns are bigger than yours, too.

[PVMonger]

Oh please. The protestors killed no one. There was video of police letting protestors in. The only person killed was a protestor. A cop dies of a stroke and the lamestrain media says for months that the protestors did him in. The most famous guy there, the one with the weird buffalo hat, who sat on Nancy Pelosi's throne was actively talking with a cop in the room.

The FBI did the Russiagate thing which is something you douches still believe is true. Putin fixed the election! What other reason could there be? Then there was Ukrainegate and now the Capitol thing, and all because Trump had the balls to call out the swamp.

So we have fuckers like Fauci in office, highest paid government worker there is, shilling for vaccine / drug companies, and there is this never ending rotation of people from government into the private sector. That is why Loudon county in Virginia is the richest in America, the selling of political influence. The average voter is completely tuned out.

And you make it out like some fringe faction thinks the election was stolen when 47% of Americans including 30% of Democrats think it was. I knew Georgia was going Dems in the senate race after I saw what happened there in the presidential election. It was a no-brainer.

My take on the whole thing was fighting it was a waste of time. No judge even the gutless Supreme Court was going to take this on. They were bashed just for following the law in Florida for GW Bush. And now if you do not watch the videos of police actively assisting protestors, you are delusional. This was every bit as staged as Russiagate was.

It does not matter. Your ilk is determined to not have Trump run for president. You all have done all you can to undermine the Democratic process and to prevent him from serving as president and did all you could so he would not serve again..

You asked when have I voted for a Republican. Since my first vote in 1972, I have voted for non-Republicans exactly twice (that means 2 times). The first time (1) was in 1996 when I voted for Ross Perot. The second (2) time was in 2008 when I voted for Obama. I have only not voted once in 2016. So one might say that I am a card-carrying Republican.

But one thing separates me from the current cult. I have a brain. I can see that the current Republican party is a cult. If a legislator doesn't knuckle under and kiss the former guy's butt, they get cancelled. If you don't believe in all of the cockamamie conspiracy theories, you are ostracized. The current Republican party are a bunch of fascists, racists, bullies, dummies and con men (and women). The current Republican party wants to go back to the 1860's when slavery was legal and women couldn't vote.

[EihTooms]

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/stre...06/id/1051347/

With a shady Chinese firm's money and almost definitely China's government oversight and control. Lolol.

https://texassignal.com/the-chinese-...al-media-site/

Yep, Donald "Make sure I win" Trump, the proven Xi butt licker, strikes again!

[MarquisdeSade1]

- Donald J. Trump, the worst so-called potus in history.

Leave it to an America-hating Repub to declare free and fair elections in America to be a "crime".

Trump should have insisted his DOJ look at whatever evidence there was for an alleged pro Biden "crime" in that election and take action to prosecute those responsible for it.

Oh wait. He did. His DOJ found no evidence of it.

Then Trump should have insisted attorneys take their evidence to dozens of courts in the land to bring the perpetrators to justice. Take it to Repub judges, even Trump-appointed Repub judges just to be sure.

Oh wait. They did. They were laughed out of court.

BTW, why did "Cancel Culture" Repub Trump cancel his own planned televised distraction from the official Annual January 6 America-hating Anti-America Trump Insurrection Cop-Killing Mob Attack Reminder Ceremony?

https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/31/h...on-was-rigged/

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/tru...06/id/1051282/

[MarquisdeSade1]

Can you explain how the USA having an incompetent president and is weak in international foreign policy makes Europe smarter? Did they help elect our incompetent president to make the EU stronger? Or are you just babbling nonsense?

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/stre...06/id/1051347/

[ScatManDoo]

Can you explain how the USA having an incompetent president and is weak in international foreign policy makes Europe smarter?

Why did you hold back this question for two to three years?

[EihTooms]

Like I previously said you obviously are not knowledgeable in the market. The clients that sold their stock when Trump was elected took their loss and market increased dramatically in 2017. My clients did not buy back in and they lost millions. Since you know nothing about investing I will try to explain to you that when someone's portfolio is up 68-80 per cent in 4 years of Trump presidencies their is no other side to it. Their net worth has gone up 68-80 percent. There has not been a crash in the last 20 years. Their have been corrections in the market for extraordinary reasons but to someone that has some knowledge they look at those corrections as opportunities. My clients make more money after a correction which is proven over the last 50 years. You stick to your government handout and I will stick to making my clients millions.

So they defied your advice and sold out of the market when Trump took office and missed out on the gains in 2017 from the continuation of the historic upward Bull Market Run trajectory established and triggered by Obama and the Dems by their passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in late February 2009 without a single Repub vote while Trump passed nothing until the last business day of that year 2017.

Then the year Trump's one and only significant economic "stimulus" legislation took effect, 2018, Trump had the first of his two Bear Market Crashes and it did not occur to you to advise them to buy back into the market at or near the bottom of either of them?

Sad. If you had advised them to do that they would have come out way ahead of just riding those two Trump Bear Market Crashes all the way down and back up again over the next four years. Well, the second one came back up again in historic fashion under Biden since a presidential term is only 4 years and not 5. But you know what I mean.

Or did you not notice Trump's first Bear Market Crash in 2018 and his second one in 2020?

[EihTooms]

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/tru...06/id/1051282/

"Never forget the crime of the 2020 Presidential Election. Never give up!"

- Donald J. Trump, the worst so-called potus in history.

Leave it to an America-hating Repub to declare free and fair elections in America to be a "crime".

Trump should have insisted his DOJ look at whatever evidence there was for an alleged pro Biden "crime" in that election and take action to prosecute those responsible for it.

Oh wait. He did. His DOJ found no evidence of it.

Then Trump should have insisted attorneys take their evidence to dozens of courts in the land to bring the perpetrators to justice. Take it to Repub judges, even Trump-appointed Repub judges just to be sure.

Oh wait. They did. They were laughed out of court.

BTW, why did "Cancel Culture" Repub Trump cancel his own planned televised distraction from the official Annual January 6 America-hating Anti-America Trump Insurrection Cop-Killing Mob Attack Reminder Ceremony?

[MarquisdeSade1]

Amazing someone like you with absolutely no knowledge of the market and investing can contradict all the major financial institutions in the USA.

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/tru...06/id/1051282/

[MarquisdeSade1]

So does that make around 250 million Americans that do not own guns?

I think so, but not all are voters.

Those gun owners need to behave themselves.

Or their asses will get out voted.

They will behave until "behaving" isn't appropriate anymore.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/bid...06/id/1051303/

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/you...05/id/1051221/

Outvoted? Yeah right like Nov 2020?

The dnc has been trying to take their guns for over 50 yrs.

Rhetorical question?

Why do you think they "stockpile" so many guns.

I call them a "rainy day arsenal".

Nov 2024?

[Canada]

I said that Europe is smarter than Republicans and I was correct.

Can you explain how the USA having an incompetent president and is weak in international foreign policy makes Europe smarter? Did they help elect our incompetent president to make the EU stronger? Or are you just babbling nonsense?