Coordination?

The big question about tonight’s hearing is whether they can prove coordination (conspiracy) among right-wing activists, rally organizers, members of Congress, state legislators, media agitators, Trump aides/allies, and Trump himself to stage a coup by overthrowing a valid election, committing the felonies of obstructing Congress and defrauding the United States of America.

In other words, we know what happened. Now we need to know how it happened.

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Author: craigcrawford

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64 thoughts on “Coordination?”

  1. craig, right you are about the big question.

    the small question about the hearing is are they themselves coordinated enough to restrain from boring the hell out of folk with their usual attempts to hog the show for future campaign sound bites.  i hope this time it will be a disciplined effort to actually inform the nation about what and how happened but not about themselves.

  2. The storm last night knocked out power at about 10:30. Still out. FirstEnergy site says tree damage with no estimate for restoration of service. Antiquated power grid at your service, sir. Decades of infrastructure neglect now home to roost in East Bumfuck. 

    But with a gas stove and water heater there’s coffee and a shower so it’s just an inconvenience- so long as the power comes back before stuff in the freezer thaws out.

  6. is the judicial system in WVa completely online (almost paperless) much as FL is and, if so, how do they function there in the midst of no power?

  7. Jan. 6 hearing to provide opening argument, focus on far-right groups – The Washington Post

    […]
    Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will lead the evening’s presentation, which will feature live testimony from Caroline Edwards, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who was seriously injured as pro-Trump rioters and members of far-right extremist groups forced their way into the building.
    Nick Quested, a British filmmaker who embedded with and documented the activities of one of those extremist groups, the Proud Boys, will also testify.
    “We will remind people what happened on that day and we will bring the American people back to the reality of that violence,” a committee aide told reporters on Wednesday.
    The aide — who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly — said the hearing would feature “a whole lot of new material — unseen material” including video and audio obtained during the investigation.
    […]
    The first hearing, beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern time, will focus in part on the coordination between extremist groups who conspired to obstruct Congress by fomenting and spearheading a riot, according to committee aides.Edwards and Quested are expected to recall their harrowing experiences at the Capitol that day and the violent actions of those who attempted to halt the peaceful transfer of power. Edwards sustained a traumatic brain injury during the attack and is believed to be the first officer who was injured during the insurrection.
    The committee, which includes seven Democrats and two Republicans, is likely to screen footage shot by Quested and his crew, who spent Jan. 6 and the months leading up to the assault with Proud Boys leaders. The footage has provided crucial evidence to both the committee’s investigation and the Justice Department’s criminal probe.
    […]
    Committee aides sought to temper expectations of any shocking revelations during Thursday’s hearing and instead framed the session as an opening argument.
    “[Thursday] night is connecting the dots,” said a second aide. “A lot of this has been reported and bits and pieces of it have been shared. But our aim is to tie all that together in a comprehensive narrative and to show how it’s a pattern that started before the election and went all the way through January 6.”

  8. Craig – Let’s see if the TV ratings for tonight (all channels v Faux News) tell a different story.
    As for the ratings listed on the OT, I think TV is dying among a certain age group.  Faux News viewers are probably older. 

  9. in other news another date to mark

    Donald Trump to testify in New York investigation into his business practices | Donald Trump | The Guardian

    His daughter Ivanka Trump and son Donald Trump Jr will also testify.
    […]
    The Trumps are scheduled to testify beginning on 15 July, but they have until 13 June to ask New York state’s highest court, the court of appeals, to further delay any testimony. The testimony would be postponed if that court issued a stay.
    Trump and his children had earlier argued that testifying in the civil investigation would violate their constitutional rights because their words could be used in a related criminal investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

  10. President Joe Biden talks about the 27 school shootings in America in 2022, why he believes nothing has been done so far about gun violence, an overwhelming amount of Americans supporting background checks, meeting with families after the tragic events in Uvalde, Texas, the idea of passing an Executive Order, the strides made in regards to Climate Change, Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema’s voting record, housing, food and gas prices being very high and what he intends to do about inflation, the negative impact that the pandemic has had on families and the need for mental health care, being optimistic about this generation of young people, changes in the press, his process for flushing documents down the toilets, what his intentions are if Roe v Wade does in fact get overturned, and his hopes for America.

  11. click here for kimmel’s monologue described this way:

    Fox News Hypocrites Outraged Over Biden’s Kimmel Interview & Secret Service Prank on Cousin Micki
    President Joe Biden joins us on the show and as a precautionary measure we rounded up everyone in our audience named Brandon, the folks over at Fox News and wannabe Fox News Juniors are very upset that the President is doing our show, Fox “News” has decided to not carry the January 6th hearings on their network, a candidate with the last name Fudge ran for Judge in California, and we play a prank on Cousin Micki by telling her that the U.S. Secret Service needed to run an additional check on her based on some concerns from her past.

  12. good line by joe when jimmy asked (starting at 7:06 mins in) about monopoly & players not following rules, joe quipped “you gotta send them to jail.”

     

    not so subtle message to merrick?

  13. patd, LOL.  When coal can bury power lines and cut trees off the ones above ground maybe it will be the answer to our power problems.  But after last night’s storm there’s a new hazard on hole number 5 at the East Bumfuck Country Club – a 100 year old oak is lying across the  fairway about 225 years out – 75 yards from the pin.

    Poobah, coordination? All roads lead to Dumbass.

    Test

  14. Craig

    Not sure if it is me or something else going on, but the site won’t let me edit or change my profile.  

  15. Jamie – I just edited my last comment as a test.  It worked for me.

    I could delete my avatar so it works to that extent on the profile, but couldn’t upload a new one – which is probably user error.

  16. This hearing  won’t be like the ones lately the wing nuts aren’t sitting  in .
    They really blundered on this point , no chance to rant , huff or puff. 

  18. I’m not getting my hopes up here. I’ve got total faith in the Democrats ability to screw things up. I’m certain that instead of a serious presentation of the case it will be a series of idiots grabbing camera time.
    Jack

  20. It seems to be a conflict between WordPress, Chrome, Google, my only existing email, and my computer with the result of seeming to lose everything.  I need Rent-A-Geek.

     

  22. Craig
    They own the only oil around and we want it and are willing to pay. Make hay while the sun shines, it wasn’t that long ago that producers in Kansas were paying people to take oil off their hands. Last month, during my trip across Kansas, I saw a lot of crews out working on pumps trying to get the wells online that they had to shut down just a few years ago. It is a crazy boom and bust business.
    My trip across the state to see my doctor, yesterday, gas prices were  weird. I saw as much as a 30 cent difference in price just across the KC metro area.
    Last month was a steady $4 a gallon, yesterday, I saw prices range from $4.39 to $4.69. Yesterday it would have paid for me to drive over to Cosco, they were $4.29.
    Jack

  23. Looks like national gas price average could reach $5 tomorrow, went up 25 cents in just the last week.

    And yet demand not going down. I think $5 might change that. 

  25. Co-ord-din-a-tion
    Makes it happen.
    Co-ord-din-a-tion
    Workin’ ev’ry day, (Dig it)

  27. wonder if the usually litigious loser former guy will go after carl for saying very clearly last night that 

    “He is the first seditious president in our history” and “But the idea of the president of the United States trying to stage a coup such as this is extraordinary, insidious, and we have never seen anything like it in our history.”  see transcript at

    Woodward and Bernstein reflect on the parallels between Watergate and the Capitol attack | PBS NewsHour

    where bob also said
    ” I agree with Carl. It really was sedition, sedition, action by Trump trying to overturn it. And he failed.”
    clearly seeming taken aback by their candor, judy said “I mean, that word stops us cold.”

     

    i saw somewhere he has been in 14 defamation lawsuits with the media and only won one so far. not sure how old those stats are though.

  28. the kavenaugh guy a false flag…..he called police and told them, “Yoo-Hoo…..mr policey-mens……it’s me, the wild and crazy judge-shooter guy.  I’ll meet yous on the corner…..”

    Pretty safe play, all in all.

  29. really liked what j rubin had to say today in wapo:

    Republicans have played this game before. They insist that exposing an indefensible deed committed by one of their own “won’t matter” because those who have made up their mind (i.e., themselves) won’t be swayed. (Tautology alert!) The media repeats this talking report to sound “balanced” or sophisticated. Polls after the proceedings show that opinion has not shifted much. Republicans then exult: See, we were right! (Funny how they never voiced this argument regarding the Benghazi hearings.)
    Such inane and irrelevant commentary is now coursing through mainstream media today regarding the House select committee’s hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection, even though the hearings involve the fate of our democracy and the worst betrayal by an American president in history. Giving the party responsible for the attack on the Capitol veto power over whether the investigation “matters” is, sadly, what much of the news coverage has come to. The only thing worse is pronouncing investigations into hugely important topics “boring.” Ignore it.
    How is it that so many in the media don’t recognize that serious public investigations do not set moving poll numbers as their primary purpose? Congress conducted its 9/11 investigation not to change how the public felt about President George W. Bush or national security, but because it was lawmakers’ solemn obligation to construct a definitive account of the first attack on the homeland since Pearl Harbor, apportion responsibility and make recommendations to protect the country.
    Republicans and many in the mainstream media apparently cannot conceive that the substance of governing is important. Have they entirely forgotten that investigations are undertaken to inform, educate, set the historic record and avoid repetition of the disaster?
    [continues]

  30. If 1/6 committee members can prove their apparent claim Trump was the boss of a coup plot Republicans who want to run for president must be privately cheering them on.

  32. Gas prices have already reached a little over $5 a gallon here on Cape Cod.
    Don’t know if it’s affecting anyones driving habits.

  35. Trump says January 6 ‘represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country’

    greatest bowel movement

  37. Former Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos acknowledges for the first time publicly that she had 25th Amendment discussions with then-Vice President Mike Pence and Cabinet members following January 6

  38. Well, “January 6 ‘represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country’” is certainly a huge load of horse shit – so of course it came from Dumbass – the biggest horse’s ass in recent memory, and among presidents, of all time (Sorry Dick, but you’ve been dethroned).

  39. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/fbi-arrest-michigan-gubernatorial-candidate-ryan-kelley/index.html

    “FBI arrests Michigan gubernatorial candidate on charges related to involvement in January 6 riot.”

    “In 2020, Kelley, a real estate broker, began leading rallies against Covid-19 lockdowns and mandates in Michigan, according to his website.”

    “The gubernatorial candidate added that he “guarded a Civil War Statue in his hometown of Allendale” during protests in the summer of 2020.”

    “GOP Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley was arrested Thursday morning on misdemeanor charges related to his involvement in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, according to the Justice Department.”

    Show me who your candidates are and I’ll tell you who you are – (you being the Republican Party).

  41. Wow, Jeff Sessions recusing himself seems like it happened ten years ago.

  43. Remember this today: “IT IS EASIER TO CON A MAN THAN TO. CONVINCE HIM HE HAS BEEN CONNED.” Mark Twain Very few true Trumpers will be willing to change their minds.

  46. They need to keep the introductions short and just let the evidence do the talking.  Cheney was good though.

     

  48. That video!   Try calling that a sightseeing trip.   White people are crazy; notice the wp finger symbol and chants. Yikes.

    I hope folks didn’t turn to Netflix because of the opening statement. I thought he was fine, but he wasn’t going to hold an audience.

    JarJar came off like a weasel.

    Ivanker will save herself over daddy or hubby, if she can.

  50. The star of the night was obviously Officer Edwards. The cognitive dissonance that is occurring at Fox News right now over attacking an attractive blonde female   officer has got to be off the fucking charts.

  51. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/09/us-house-jan-6-hearings-texans/

    “The committee has subpoenaed several allies of former President Donald Trump with Texas ties: Ali Alexander, who grew up in Tarrant County; Austin-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones; longtime Dallas conservative fixture Katrina Pierson; retired Army Col. Phil Waldron of Central Texas; and former Trump fundraiser and native Austinite Caroline Wren.”

    “If the committee truly cared about January 6th, then they would investigate the negligent leadership of the Capitol Police … instead of trying to injure President Trump ahead of 2024,”

    Republicans attacking law enforcement. Yeah, that should get the police unions to back them.

    Orange Adolf is not the victim. He’s a perp. I would love to see him frog walked outta wherever he’s holed up for trying to stay in power. Notice how he used the royal “we” in his speech on the Ellipse. “We will be President, again.”

  52. Jake Tapper just referred to the “mock gallows” on the Capitol Lawn:
     
    There was nothing “mock” about that, was a potentially functional gallows

  53. Pogo – If that’s what Faux Need is doing now, they are attacking a police officer.  

    If there is any reference to gender/appearance, tack misogyny on top of that.

  54. I wanna know more about the orange-hatted asshats from Arizona.  Orange as an homage to their cult leader? 

  56. Will Orange Adolf be able to keep his huge trap shut?  The text between  Hannity and McIninny about invoking the 25th on his crazy ass should set him off. Has that one been made public before?   He’s gonna be outraged by some of this…but the video…oh, the beautiful video of his fans showing him love. That was a special moment in his mind.

  57. Oh, so the orange hats didn’t care about the other domestic terrorists in the crowd.  They eat their own, I guess.

  59. They did a good job, hopefully that will encourage tonight’s viewer and more importantly the news and media to keep it front and center.
    So which congress critters ask for pardons, enquiring minds.
    Jack

  60. Wow. Thompson just told Tapper they have witnesses who connect Proud Boys/Oath Keepers with Trump in planning the riot. Hope he can deliver that. 

  62. BREAKING: Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed **29** Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Biden’s victory and “choose” presidential electors, per emails seen by the Washington Post.

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