Chuck Todd was in full voice this morning. Spent the entire one hour show talking about Wednesday's Capitol Riot. Blamed it all on Trump. Called for impeachment, a bill of attainder, everything.
Did not mention the three resignations of capitol security chiefs. No mention of the video showing Capitol police standing back and letting the rioters stream into the building. No mention of the Rasmussen poll showing Trump's approval rating rising since Wednesday.
I watch Fox (in case you had not guessed). They have fire sirens, police sirens, ringing telephones, and a bunch of other noise in the background of the news stories. Pain in the A**. I hear this stuff coming off the TV set and I start looking out my windows for the fire trucks. They ought to move the studio to a quieter part of town.
Apple has threatened to toss Parler off their Apps Store unless Parler applies the same heavy handed censorship of conservatives that Facebook and Twitter are starting to do.
Why does Parler need anything from anyone's app store? I think they can make Parler work by just putting up a website and having the users go to the website and read and comment. That works for most web places right now. If for some obscure reason Parler needs to load code onto user's desktops or smartphones, then they just put up a website and let the users download the code over the web. What's so hard about that?
So what's the beef??
And all of them are so overjoyed to have Trump supporters doing the rioting. And so they all say the riots are Trump's fault. It makes them all sooo happy. It fits the narrative.
But, the DC police chief, the House Sergeant-at-Arms and the Senate Sergeant-at-arms have resigned their offices, which says to me that security precautions were not taken, or not taken enough to prevent the break ins at the Capitol. If they thought they had done a good job, they would not be resigning. I think they all believed that Republicans and Trump supporters are peaceful and law abiding and don't break into buildings. A small group of fanatical troublemakers worked their way up to the front of the mob and started breaking doors and windows. Once the way was opened, a whole bunch of normally decent law abiding people in the crowd followed the troublemakers into the building.
By banning Trump. The social media giants don't like The Donald, but 74 million Americans voted for him and will log into Twitter and/or Facebook just to see what Trump has to say. Trump is still the president of the US and a whole bunch of people want to keep up with him. Locking Trump off of Twitter and Facebook just kills their ratings, which is what advertisers pay for. I believe the phrase is "shooting yourself in the foot." The TV networks,NBC CBS and ABC, don't like Trump any more than Facebook or Twitter do but they never failed to put Trump coverage on because Trump is good for ratings.
I don't approve. Rioters breaking into our legislative chambers is the sort of thing they do in South America, not in the United States of America. On the other hand it does show we have a lot of really pissed off people. Messing with the election will do this to people.
They should have had enough cops, secret service, capital police, US Army, National Guard, FBI, you name them, to keep the rioters out. Somebody did not prepare properly for this one. I don't know who "somebody" is. Will our noble MSM mention the name?
The DC mayor declared a curfew for 6 PM. Too late, it is full dark at 5 PM in DC. You want to get people off the streets before it gets dark.
Let's hope things simmer down. If this kinda stuff keeps happening, it will give Joe Biden a lot of grief.
TV newsies are doing a lotta talk about re electing Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. They point out that the Democrats only have a 5 vote majority in the House and that 10 Democratic reps voted against Nancy last time. But they don't talk about who might replace Nancy. "You cannot beat somebody with nobody." to quote some old time politico. Unless and until I hear a name, I don't believe all the "Nancy won't be re-elected talk".
