As expected, the usual attention/relevance seekers are adding their unsolicited voices to the conversation over the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson by our latest social media-anointed accused hero Luigi Mangione.

Politicians and media pundits just have to ingratiate us with their informed opinions that almost always start of with “Murder is bad, BUT….” and then go on to find twisted ways to justify a murder of someone who may do something they don’t like. Even while, in this case, the murder victim had zero to do with whatever the accused issues are/were.

Over the years, circumstances brought me to opine on several instances I titled “When Bad Things Happen To….” We’re usually talking about those who arrogantly refer to Americans as “average” or “ordinary people” because we all know they consider themselves so more extraordinary than us.

When people commit crime, the media gleefully splashes the accused’ face all over their broadcasts. Yet when a media person is busted, we’re told we must forgive and eventually forget it ever happened so that person can continue to make a living.

If anyone attacked a prompter-reader for their hypocrisy, media collective would be outraged if it was said that attack was bad, BUT….

When our politicians target a certain segment of the population, they demand the “letter of the law” be upheld. When they screw up, they demand we forgive them and eventually forget it ever happened so they can raise money for their reelection.

If anyone attacked a politician for an offence (and we’re talking sexual indiscretions to bribery), all politicians would be outraged if it was said that attack was bad, BUT….

When Obamacare was passed, every American was seemingly forced into acquiring government-run healthcare that imposed much higher premiums and deductibles. Every business that employed more than 50 people were required to cover their employees. Let’s not forget, Capitol Hill politicians found a way to exempt themselves by saying each office was a business that employed less than 50 people and, lo and behold, an exclusive health care program was created just for them that was far cheaper and had better coverage than the “Affordable Care Act” scam that was mandatory for everyone else.

If anyone attacked a politician for the harsh health care increase and resulting financial hardship, all politicians would be outraged if it was said that attack was bad, BUT….

When the COVID-19 pandemic initially hit, politicians nationwide shut down their states and millions of Americans essentially lost their means of income.

However, one of the first thing politicians on Capitol Hill did was pass the “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act” that essentially assured no federal employee would miss a paycheck and, coincidently, that law was seemingly replicated in state houses nationwide so most public servants would be paid uninterrupted.

We all know how some shutdown governors (most of whom never missed receiving a taxpayer-funded paycheck) blew off the very mandates they imposed on their populations and arrogantly found reasons to justify and flaunt their privilege.

If anyone attacked a governor for the loss of a business or job and all the negative fallout that comes with sudden unemployment, all politicians would be outraged if it was said that attack was bad, BUT….

We’ve been beat over the head about the only real instance of violence at a conservative rally, “January 6th” by Democrats and their media. We’ve seen the pictures of Capitol Hill politicians cowering-in-place at the horror mass violence brings.

However these are the same politicians who, in some cases, justified and excused the mass liberal Democrat mayhem that held the nation hostage during the Summer of 2020 where mostly black businesses were burned and looted, public and private businesses were vandalized, too many people were injured or killed and police officers all over the country were wounded and/or assassinated.

The horror experienced by Americans was “mostly peaceful” and not the best optics, BUT….

Thanks to the American people, President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s reelection has reduced the Democrat Party and their fake news media accomplices into a temporary state of irrelevance, thus the musings of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Governor Chris Murphy, Michael Moore and many others on social media have been met with the appropriate outrage.

“Violence is never the answer, BUT people can be pushed only so far,” Warren told HuffPost.

This mental illness is nothing new to Democrats; from the civil war they waged to keep slaves to the mass murder of innocent babies in the womb. Their adherence to the “by any means necessary” mindset gives them license to impose whatever violence they deem appropriate. That is, until it happens to them and in most cases, by them.

Then violence is never the answer.

No ands, ifs, or BUTs….

The blowback from family members, close friends, and employers are usually devastating, given the words “liberal” and “tolerance” are like oil and water. Following through takes bravery most can’t understand and/or are not willing to risk, which makes it infinately more admirable, especially when sincere.

On November 29, 2022, Tucker Carlson alerted us to the story of Winston Marshall who decided to jump into the light, paid for it with the loss of his chosen career in the “Mumford & Sons” band he co-founded, and was invited to share his perspectives last month in the halls of the University of Oxford to debate that current topic of great concern: democracy.

On April 25th, Marshall was invited to debate a motion that “This House Believes Populism is a Threat to Democracy”.

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Also invited was Democrat Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. As her remarks, based on the premise that “populism is a threat to democracy due to voters being manipulated” are familiar on this side of the pond, you can view her presentation here.

Like most liberal Democrats, she did break courtesy norms and interrupted Marshall when he made logical points, simply because he struck uncomfortable nerves Pelosi just couldn’t let go countered. For that reason, the legacy media didn’t let the American people know of this event and witness her humiliation in real time.

Logic is easier to censor than spin.

Granted, things clearly got out of hand but was the government going to be overthrown and replaced by a rogue group? Nah.

A documentary was produced with a timeline of events of that day. Yes, the dramatic music beds are amateurishly annoying and unnecessary, but the guts of the assembled footage is compelling.

J6: A True Timeline gives the audience a never-before-seen timestamped blueprint for the events of January 6, 2021, as they unfolded in real time. No other film to date fills the gaps or tells the story chronologically the way this film does. The film is also different from anything produced to date because a small group of protestors, some who are J6 defendants, have been the ones to collect hours of footage to help contextualize the events of the day. The film was funded and produced entirely through small donations and tens of thousands of volunteer man hours. The hope is that the film will provoke all Americans to be more curious about the true timeline of January 6.
— J6: A True Timeline

January 6th was an example of what we’ve been told to acknowledge as a “peaceful protest”. There were also clear examples of law enforcement missteps and abuse, political cowardice, media bias and propaganda, unnecessary tragic injury and death. It could be argued there have been hundreds of liberal protests, over the last decade alone, that have brought much more damage and loss of life, many times over January 6th. No politician or government official was forcibly abducted and/or forced to relinquish the authority of the government to a hostile entity. That customarily occurs during your textbook dictionary definition of an “insurrection”.

January 6th was many things.

An “insurrection” it was not.

Whether we’re talking about loud-mouthed women or cantankerous seniors, there’s nothing more annoying than people who talk shit knowing they have armed people standing in front of them. President Joe Biden issued a mafioso warning that “no one fucks with a Biden“, and only now we’re made privy to video (held for over a year and a half by “documentary film maker Alexandra Pelosi) of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatening to “punch out” President Donald Trump on January 6th… behind his back.

Pelosi probably would throw a punch if she was assured House Sergeant-at-Arms and/or Secret Service goons were there to stand between her from any justified self-defense response.

Remember, she was brave enough to tear up President Trump’s last State of the Union speech behind his back.

Not saying these people should be subjected to violence but they shouldn’t be able to issue threats knowing they’ll never face any repercussions for.

Then again, we are talking about Democrats whose violent rhetoric is well documented and justified by the small-minded.

In a video streamed live on YouTube, Chapman documented her activity on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C..

The video goes on for another hour and forty six minutes of her musings and responses to those watching her live stream.

She does fit the profile of your average, unhinged Democrat stalker.

Last month, sicko agitators chased Micki Witthoeft, Ashli Babbitt’s mother, at the corner of Constitution NW and First St NW, north of the Reflecting Pool, to stand united against the political persecution of the January 6th political prisoners, screaming “You are going to die!… Ashli deserved to die!… We don’t give a shit about you or Ashli!”

“Fuck your Jesus!!”, they repeatedly yelled at the predominantly Christian crowd as they sang Bible songs with tambourines in front of the DC Jail. Leftist Counter-Protesters screamed horrific things at the still grieving mother, including “Ashli Deserved to Die! You are a bad Mom!”

After today’s rally, an unhinged woman began harassing Micki,  hurling horrific comments at her about her daughter screaming. The sick woman screamed, “Fuck you Micki”… and repeatedly chanted “Fuck Ashli Babbitt.”
— Gateway Pundit, 9/24/22

Just going out on a limb here but, at this point in her life, there’s very little chance Brianne Chapman will do anything of significant public value or sacrifice that would make some in the general public want to pay tribute to her. She probably wouldn’t appreciate having such a gesture be desecrated in such a juvenile way.

But when it comes to liberal Democrats, brainwashed by a lying party, politically-infected education infrastructure, and propagandist media, a Brianne Chapman is what you get.

While the liberal media dutifully obeyed, preempted depressing prime time dramas and unfunny sitcoms to air a hearing meant to distract Americans from the Biden-Democrat disaster while promoting them before this fall’s midterm shellacking, this too appears to have failed.

If tonight’s primetime debut of the House January 6 committee investigating the MAGA-fueled murderous attack on the U.S. Capitol last year was any indication of how the democracy-protecting politicians plan on making their pitch to the American public, they fell short.

The media is in lockstep. They lie with reckless abandon. The only person who died during the “murderous attack” was an unarmed Trump supporter.

Did it help?

How many will be watching after tonight will tell us just how hardened the divisions are in this country. It will also tell us if this first of six committee hearings changed a significant number of votes going forward – because that is the next battlefield.
— Deadline, 6/9/22

Well, that certifies what this was all about: votes for Democrats in November, NOT getting to the truth.

Fox News’ decision to forgo coverage on its main network has drawn harsh criticism from lawmakers and media critics. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor earlier on Thursday and called Fox News’ decision “cowardly” and one that should “end any debate that they are not a real news organization.”

“Fox News is a propaganda machine of the hard right and it is plain as day that they are scared of their viewers learning the truth about January 6th,” the New York Senator said, arguing that they have “isolated their viewers in an alternate reality of conspiracy theories.”

As stated here before and based on multiple examples, when the left calls sentiments inconvenient to them “conspiracy theories”, more times than not they turn out to be true and those pushing the lies never apologize with the same zeal as their proven-false accusations.

Tucker Carlson, on the one network that declined to join the media conga line, offered rebuttals and examples of January 6 media lies, law enforcement culpability and Democrat misdirection.

Like what’s currently happening to Republican candidates in Michigan, the January 6 Commission’s primary goal is to have Donald Trump disqualified from the 2024 presidential election because Democrats and their media know he’ll probably win again, thanks to the intentional damage inflicted by Biden that’s only going to get much worse before November 5, 2024.

Even one of the most insidious of media liars was forced forced to commit an act of unintentional honesty.

Just a key point, that yes, there was a pro-Trump rally at which the president spoke. And we can absolutely talk about all the things the president said there. But the idea that that rally is the thing that got out of hand and that somehow resulted in the breaching of the capitol – That rally was very far from the capitol and the people who, as you say, did the initial breach, that allowed everybody else to come in, they never even went to that rally.
— Rachel Maddow, 6/9/22

And how much of a flop was the primetime hearing? Let’s put it this way: if the majority of Americans were glued to their televisions by this riveting presentation, ALL of the media would be trumpeting the ratings numbers. As of publication, there are no numbers (speculative or official) that show how many found it their patriotic duty to choose one of the many options and watch how we almost lost our democracy on that fateful day.

If this is the best Democrats and NeverTrumpers have to distract from the tumult intentionally unleashed by Biden and his Democrats, the midterms could be worse than even they can imagine and deservedly so.

The People never got to see what a real “mass rebellion” in the United States would look like, and it wasn’t because the plot was foiled by diligent law enforcement. It failed because on Election Night 2020, it was no longer needed.

The left got their way.

Donald Trump was “defeated”.

Some of us are looking forward to seeing the Zoom video of conservatives plotting to overthrow “democracy” on January 6, 2021. Given all we’ve been told about those who’ve been locked up to date, there had to have been coordination that would bolster the premise of an “insurrection”.

Given the partisan nature of the hearings-to-come, we also understand there will never be a “November 3rd” commission on Capitol Hill screening video of liberals in 2020, not only preparing for deadly violence in the street, but plotting to attack police stations and physically taking over the federal bureaucracy IF Donald Trump was successful in winning a second term.

Businesses and retailers across the country have begun boarding up their storefront windows and taking other security measures in anticipation of potential unrest on or around Election Day as many cities remain on edge following a summer of widespread riots and mayhem. DC Metro Police Chief Peter Newsham said Thursday there were no “credible threats right now of violence,” but said a number of groups had applied for permits to conduct large demonstrations and the entire police department would be working on Election Day.
— Fox Business, 11/1/20

Either Chief Newsham was incompetent or he was lying. Anyone watching the videos of liberal organizing sessions knew these people weren’t just venting. These people were serious and it’s a sad state of affairs if the DC Police was unaware of ShutdownDC preparation, the Capitol Hill Police was unaware that overpaid sore-loser federal agency employees were planning to forcibly take over government buildings, not to mention the billions of dollars in damage nationwide that was inevitable if Sunrise Movement, Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters were given a reason to get out of bed before 1pm. As seen in the video above, these people were okay with their hissy fits possibly costing lives.

Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
— 18 US Code §2383

What the left was planning for Election Night 2020 would have been the real deal of an “insurrection”. The only reason politicians made a big deal about January 6th is because it was the first and only instance of violence they could point to in over a dozen years of Tea Party and Trump rallies NOT initiated by liberal counter-protesters. One day we’ll hopefully find out if #J6 was another fiasco brought to you by the same feds who concocted the Whitmer “kidnapping”.

It’s nice to know our public officials are fair and the attempted coup, to be set in motion on November 3, 2020, was dealt with accordingly….

If the media and clueless Republicans were to present planning video for a Capitol Hill takeover by the left to the American people, the January 6 riot would look like a joke in comparison.

Not like these genuine insurrectionists wouldn’t revive their plan for a 2024 election outcome that won’t meet their approval.

And as far as those federal employees who’d eagerly participate, the rationale for Schedule F is justified yet again!

First off, these supposed sequels never work because of the obvious visuals where older technology is vastly superior to the past.

There is also that progressive tendency to sanctimoniously rewrite history to their political advantage and further indoctrinate unsuspecting viewers. For the left, Strange New Worlds did not disappoint.

There were many references to potential nuclear war in the original Star Trek series but the writers were intentionally vague on the issues involved and in the end, we were smart enough to avoid mutually-assured-destruction.

Today’s writers wish (again) to scare their youthful viewers into believing that not only was there a nuclear war, but that it was probably started on January 6th and exacerbated by irrational conservatives.

Micheal Jordan was once quoted as saying something like “Republicans buy shoes too!” Between including Stacey Abrams in another Star Trek series to now pushing the “insurrection” in the latest plot line and blaming the end of civilization as we know it on Republicans, it gives me yet another reason to satisfy my Star Trek jones with the three DVD box sets of the original series that was less talky, politically incorrect, had a decent amount of action, and at no point demonized their viewers.

Sometimes the past is way better than the future.

Why do Republicans insist on granting interviews to unfriendly news outlets for what will end up being a misleading presentation to a partisan audience, especially when certain facts presented are obviously wrong? Bartlett introduced Kari Lake as a “Fox News host” and we all know anything involving Fox News to a liberal is as toxic as it comes. The problem is Kari Lake has never worked for “Fox News”.

In 1999, Kari Lake became an evening anchor for KSAZ-TV (Fox 10 Phoenix), working there until resigning in 2021 to run for governor of Arizona.
—– Wikipedia

Working for an affiliate is different than working for the network channel, especially given how local stations are manned by more liberals than conservatives; something Bartlett knows but withheld from his 60 Minutes Australia audience.

It also sounds as if Liam Bartlett has never been to a Tea Party or Trump rally prior to January 6th. There have been hundreds of those gatherings nationally and there consistencies: the police were there only because it was a public gathering and for the most part, they were greeted with smiles and thanks. Another consistency was wherever conservatives met, the area was almost always cleaner than when they first arrived; something that can’t be said of any liberal event.

As many of us who’ve attended both know, conservative rallies were always “peaceful”; the only exceptions being when liberals showed up to counter protest. Those exceptions became violent in 2016 during the campaign of Donald Trump. So, Bartlett’s inference that he or liberals in general are at risk of personal injury just being around Trump supporters is not only dishonest but potentially dangerous.

Conversely, it could be suggested that conservatives, be they politicians, election officials or ever Supreme Court judges, are intimidated by potentially violent liberals who were encouraged by a congresswoman to follow around members of the Trump Administration in public venues and as it turned out, even at their homes.

Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.
— Rep. Maxine Waters, 6/23/18

Like a good liberal, Bartlett made the majority of his interview with Kari Lake about Donald Trump, “The Big Lie”, and January 6th; topics he seemed to be fairly ignorant of, especially voting law controlled by the states, and the only thing he seems to have come prepared with was liberal media talking points that the 2020 election was so fair, there’s no need to even discuss the concerns of Americans.

Hopefully this “interview” will put any Trump-supporting Republican on alert. Lake, as an experienced journalist, knows all the rules and how they are broken by the media, thus having her own camera rolling provided appropriate cover. One can only imagine how 60 Minutes Australia would have presented Lake to their audience if she didn’t preempt their airing with her own release of the interview and Bartlett’s unprofessionalism.

One can understand why they are in fear of the people. We don’t hold them with the esteem they expect anymore because we have documented good reasons not to believe or trust them.

1. Incompetence

There are roughly 535 congresspersons and senators on Capitol Hill representing the citizens of the United States. One would think, in a country of 332.5 million people (non including the unknown growing number of illegal aliens), it would be easy to find exceptional citizens to become our elected. But when you can easily find a fifth-grader who’d never believe putting soldiers on a small Pacific island would make it tip over or would be astonished by the revelation that plants come from dirt, yet some of today’s officeholders really are that stupid and the competency of the elected class can rightfully be called into question.

2. Blowing Off The People

Americans are justified to question the motivations of politicians who campaign as those who’ll represent the sentiments of their constituents while their votes on important pieces of legislation is, in many cases, a total opposite to the will of their people.

The latest example is a vote in the United States Senate….

Senate Democrats failed to secure enough votes Monday to move forward with legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision giving women a right to an abortion up until viability. In a 48-46 vote, the legislation failed to meet the 60-vote threshold.
— Washington Times, 3/1/22

How can slightly less than half of politicians honestly claim to be representing their constituents on a topic while a supermajority of the people clearly disagree with them?

A survey conducted by You.gov with the pro-life group Americans United for Life found that 66 percent of U.S. adults who identify as pro-choice opposed third-trimester abortions, and 68 percent oppose abortions the day before a baby is born. As expected, the opposition was stronger among all adults surveyed: 79 percent rejected late-term abortion, and 80 percent opposed day-before-birth abortion.
— Associated Press, 2/12/19

Seeing how a good number of congressmen and senators are documented, functioning morons, the excuse can’t easily be made that they’re more informed than their voters. It could be that politicians are primarily introducing and voting on legislation favored by those squeaky wheel-types who contribute generously to their campaigns as we all know money is their primary driving motivation.

Seriously, whom would you trust with an economy? Politicians, some of whom have minimal work experience (if any) in the private sector, or a successful businessman who’s actually met a payroll? Well, this question can be answered with a clear contrast of results that Americans will have to endure until at least January 2025.

3. Crooks…

It’s often mused how the elected on Capitol Hill earn around $177k annually but within a few short years emerge as millionaires: a feat more Americans would love to be able to achieve… legally. There are many reasons but among the top is the legal practice of insider training.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) on Monday requested that the Senate Select Committee on Ethics probe Blumenthal’s sale of Robinhood shares worth up to $2.5 million. Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, failed to disclose the trades within the 45 days required under federal law, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
— Washington Free Beacon, 2/28/22

 A politician who knows legislation he or she may introduce in two days, can buy or sell affected stock tomorrow which can result in a monetary personal windfall. The practice, which is illegal for private citizens, was publicly exposed in 2011, and was basically blown off by politicians to this day.

In a Tuesday complaint, The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) called for the inspector general to immediately investigate Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm for potentially violating federal conflict of interest and transparency laws by improperly reporting up to $250,000 in stock transactions.
— Fox News, 2/15/22

And we won’t even get into the escapades of politicians who routinely break federal campaign finance rules only to be cleared by partisan judges, or selling out the nation in favor of well-funded lobbyists, foreign and domestic. Not like it’s a close-to-the-vest secret.

“The best thing money can buy is American officials, because they are the cheapest of the cheapest-costing officials in the world.”
— Kuwati-born Canadian businessman Alan Bender, quoting Qatari officials

Probably “cheapest” because many of our elected are too stupid to know what their positions of influence are really worth (see #1).

4. … and Liars

It’s ironic that so many on the Democrat left, to this day, call Donald Trump every iteration of a liar while he’s also the only elected politician (in recent memory) who actually kept every one of his presidential campaign promises.

Meanwhile certain politicians told lies that had profound monetary ramifications for millions of Americans.

Lie of the Year: ‘If you like your health care plan, you can keep it’
President Barack Obama said — many times — of his landmark new law. But the promise was impossible to keep. So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong. A Pew Research/USA Today poll conducted Dec. 3-8 found the percentage of people viewing Obama as “not trustworthy” has risen 15 points over the course of the year, from 30 percent to 45 percent.
— Politifact, 12/12/13

The lie, that also resulted in significant increases in health care premiums and deductibles for Americans, was admired in the partisan media as politically clever and effective.

But remember those Republicans who pleaded for Americans to give them the House so they could “repeal and replace” that piece of troublesome legislation (while knowing they wouldn’t have the veto-proof majority to do so). A few years later those same Republicans pleaded with Americans to give them the Senate so they could “repeal and replace” the legislation (while knowing they wouldn’t have the veto-proof majority to do so), and later pleaded with Americans to give them the presidency so they could “repeal and replace” the legislation. Once they got all they asked for, they sent a lame “alternative” to the president that neither repealed or really replaced Obamacare.

That’s why very, very few believe anything politicians tell them and that won’t change anytime soon.

5. They Remind Us They’re Special

More like they arrogantly rub it in our faces.

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians acted as though they really cared about the health and welfare of the American people. Governors and mayors shutdown their economies, ordering businesses to close and throwing millions into a temporary state of unemployment. But while Americans were reminded “We’re all in this together”, politicians made sure they and their employees’ personal taxpayer-funded paychecks would continue to be dispersed uninterrupted to this day.

And despite the politically-fluctuating “science” of masks and the need to wear them inside-and-outdoors, politicians and their friends and family members were repeatedly caught breaking the rules they mercilessly mandated on those they claim to serve. Despite the initial outrage, they came up with lame apologies, justification, and rode out the controversy. None of them have lost jobs despite the blatant hypocrisy because they’re special and want us to know it.

But that also translated to the politically-connected celebrity class who enjoyed special status when it came to the blow off of mask mandates at their award ceremonies, red carpets, and parties. These are the same people who went batshit crazy about the impertinent unvaccinated while enjoying lavish maskless soirées where the masked help needed to keep their germs to themselves.

What seems to have angered the elite most is the fact that they were called out on their hypocrisy. Note how there’s not been ONE piece of legislation addressing politicians who break the rules they impose on their citizens.

Because they’re special and they want us all to know it.

6. Peaceful Protest is Now ‘Insurrection’

There was a time when the left patted themselves on the back while encouraging taking it to “the man”. Protests were considered patriotic free speech.

That officially changed in 2009 when Republicans, Democrats and independents took to Washington, D.C. in opposition to Obamacare because they were Taxed Enough Already. The Democrats counted on the media to label protesters as conservatives and the Tea Party became a right wing thorn in their side. The problem was that these weren’t normal protesters the left was used to: they were always peaceful, never destroyed local areas and businesses, and the rally area was normally left cleaner than when they arrived. In fact, the only time when Tea Party rallies were interrupted by any semblance of violence was when liberal “counterprotesters” showed up on the scene.

Most conservatives have condemned the right-wing mob that assaulted the U.S. Capitol. But 10 years ago, Democrats embraced the left-wing mob that occupied the state Capitol in Madison. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised the occupiers for an “impressive show of democracy in action” and tweeted as they assaulted the Capitol that she continued “to stand in solidarity” with the union activists. In other words, Democrats were for occupying capitols before they were against it.
— Washington Post, 1/14/21

After a previous summer where liberals justified looting and burning cities, resulting in injuries, deaths, and billions in public and private property damage, the Capitol Hill riot was called the “greatest threat to our democracy” since 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, who could protest (and why) changed on January 6, 2021. Now, any kind of peaceful dissent is called “insurrection”; a violent attempt to overthrow the government. Let’s not forget parts of the pesky run-on sentence that interferes with politicians having the ability to really come down hard on their petulant dissenters.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Imagine what the power-tripping elected could do to protesters if it weren’t for the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

We could be treated like Canadians!

7. Politician Self-Preservation

It’s no wonder why the disdain for the political class is so high and why (as of this posting) 31 Democrats have decided it’s not worth trying to run for reelection in November 2022. But it’s not only for the reasons you may think.

Between now and the midterms, politicians have to raise millions of campaign dollars to try and hold their seats. If they lose, it’s harder to go back to a well-connected donor and get hooked up for a really good paying job they’re probably unqualified to perform. But if they drop out early, there’s lots of time to approach those who were helped in the past and cash in without any new reelection solicitations. And if anyone in the media pays attention after the midterm election, we’ll see that most Democrats who’ve jumped the Biden ship will land softly because their taxpayer-funded, lifelong pension benefit of $139,200 just won’t be enough.

8. The Enemy

The political class has declared anyone who opposes them as enemies of democracy.

That includes Americans from parents to veterans. While millions of people illegally cross our southern border for a variety of reasons including possible terror motivations, Democrat politicians have unleashed federal agencies on the petulant who question school boards, vaccine and mask mandates, and veterans who’ve honorably served our nation and are aghast that their sacrifices to defend the Constitution and those who are supposed to uphold it have been for naught.

Too many, who are quick to send our sons and daughters into conflict, did everything they could to avoid serving themselves. While many point to Donald Trump’s deferments from service, they conveniently decline to mention the current Commander-in-Chief who obtained more than twice Trump’s. And we also have those who either embellished or made up service just to get election props.

9. Trust (or the lack thereof)

It’s really quite simple.

We can’t trust the word of most politicians and they know it.
We can’t trust the legacy media and they know it.
We can’t trust Big Tech and they know it.
We can’t trust federal intelligence, law enforcement, health agencies and they know it.

It all comes to a near-total breakdown of trust in many so areas and if that’s “anti-government”, it’s no one’s fault but the politicians, media, Big Tech types who’ve been caught lying and adding insult it injury, they callously inflict pain on those they’re supposed to be serving and shield themselves from the inconvenient ramifications.

When the people decide to speak out, they’re called insurrectionist, a threat to democracy, while making themselves victims who quickly cower in pitiful displays of cowardice. It sucks to experience what their “defund the police” policies inflicted on millions of innocent Americans.

The next two elections can’t come fast enough