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My point was that they have chosen the wrong hill to die on. If they were correct that Trump won it wouldn't matter, nothing will happen. Don't confuse that thought with me thinking Trump won. I do look at things that I don't agree with (ht Sun Tzu) and your apparent broad-brush dismissal of sources to your political right scares me a bit. The link to small fries being prosecuted for election fraud was not an attempt to claim that the election was stolen (I sure hope that you know that), but rather some insight into how people can make leaps in their opinions = election fraud exists, therefore the election was stolen. A bit of background. I was trained in riot control while on active duty. Unforgettable words from the training, "They are your fellow Americans. Use the minimum force necessary, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆." I was in Vietnam when the 1969 Moratorium took place but one of the Marines in the training who was stateside was in Washington DC for that event for the "all that is necessary." Thank Zeus it wasn't. How 6 Jan 21 was handled was shocking to me. Jan 6 was just like in the training all those years ago. Mostly protestors, but some agitators there to turn a protest into a riot. In this case, I suspect that they knew who they were while they were planning. The National Guard was not utilized. Where were the Marines? Shortly after the event, people sent links to me that showed government people unlocking doors and apparently directing people to the chambers. They were quickly scrubbed from the internet. Now, two years later they are reappearing on Fox. I don't know who directed them to give them easy entry. Could have been Trump or trump loyalists for all we know. It should give anyone pause who knows the standard protocols for defending Federal offices. Did the investigation attempt to determine who the Feds were that let them in and led them? They sure as hell should have. If I was running the investigation, it would have been at the top of my list. Now that it's too late to scrub them again, will we get answers about that question? None of what I just wrote gives any credibility to the notion that the election was stolen. It does shine a light on how extraordinarily strange the response was, and why the hell the answer to who they were is not a part of the revealed findings. It does make it odd that Fox would show it since it is potentially damning about Trump. We don't know, or has it been revealed what was found out about that? It should damn someone(s). Did Fox say it was a tourist excursion or it looked like one? I haven't watched their commentary on the videos, but hyperbole is the norm. The newsertainment shows know their audience and know that their sponsors know the audience. And that is certainly left and right since commercial newsertainment is about money. That's not giving Fox, or anyone else a pass, just an acknowledgement of how things work. "Trump won" is the most egregious but disingenuous/half-truth coverage has no monopoly source.

Mar 8, 2023
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