Что происходило во время "штурма Капитолия" за дверями?

Shortly before the break-in, C-Span was airing a senator’s rebuttal to Mitch McConnell’s speech. McConnell gave one of those smooth clichéd-filled presentations, claiming there was no evidence of fraud on a scale that would have overturned the election. His main (irrelevant) point was, the courts found no reason to rule against Biden’s victory.

The rebuttal was quite sharp, basically accusing McConnell of acting as a “ceremonial” performer. And this was only the beginning of the action today in Congressional session. Who knows what would have popped up out of the hopper, as the day wore on and the nation watched?

Vice-President Pence—castigated by Trumpers as a betrayer—actually declared he would preside over an open Joint Session of Congress and allow full speeches re vote fraud, from states in which one senator and one congressional legislator filed objections to rubber-stamping certification of the election.

But that process was sidetracked by the people breaking into the Capitol building.

Instead, we now have incessant media coverage portraying the million protestors in Washington and Trump as destroyers of the nation and “all the values we stand for as Americans…”


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/01/jon-rappoport/was-the-assault-on-the-capitol-building-a-false-flag/

Ford to City: Drop Dead

A few days later, Ford made his famous speech—immortalized by the Daily News headline, “Ford to City: Drop Dead”—in which he promised to veto any bill that bailed out the city, warning that New York’s problems were a microcosm of those facing the nation: “If we go on spending more than we have, providing more benefits and more services than we can pay for, then a day of reckoning will come to Washington and the whole country just as it has to New York City.” And when “that day of reckoning comes, who will bail out the United States of America?”

Still, the conservative logic according to which the federal government should stand aside and let the nation’s largest metropolis go bankrupt simply to teach a political lesson has never entirely disappeared. Indeed, more than fiscal recklessness, it now seems that this anti-government animus may bring us to the “day of reckoning” of which Ford spoke. Today, Washington allows cities such as Detroit to file for bankruptcy, even as financial institutions receive bailouts with few strings attached. Regardless of the consequences, the political descendants of Alan Greenspan seem happy to take the federal government to the brink of default, just as they were content to let New York City go under thirty-eight years ago.


https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/lessons-great-default-crisis-1975/