Althouse: At the Wednesday Night Café...

January 6, 2021

At the Wednesday Night Café...

... you can do all the talking.

I’ll withhold my comments until tomorrow. It’s been a strange day. I’m waiting for things to settle down.

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Humperdink said...: From the archives: "And please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful?" (CNN's Chris Cuomo, aka Fredo, back when his Antifa comrades running rampant); 1/7/21, 6:02 AM
Browndog said...: New Video: Capitol Hill shooting

Shows the shooter step towards the woman and shoots her at point blank range.; 1/7/21, 6:13 AM
Qwinn said...: Holy crap Browndog. That's straight up premeditated murder.; 1/7/21, 6:20 AM
virgil xenophon said...: Tina Trent@9:34PM/

Addendum: You omitted the three officers in Baton Rouge also assassinated very shortly after the "Dallas Five" were waylaid..

PS: Agree with every syllable and consonant of your comments..; 1/7/21, 7:28 AM
daskol said...: I agree with Scott Adams' take, and I said it yesterday in another thread: it was surreal to watch the talking heads on the news praising Pence's "bravery" for supposedly standing with the constitution and resisting Trump's call to a coup or something. This was across the nets, unanimous praise of that snake, who waited until the last minute to announce he would do nothing. He ran out the clock. Meanwhile these same talking heads are railing against the "violence" in the capital, inspired by Trump.

No. Storming the Capital building was the step people took after their leaders blew our last chance at so-called constitutional redress, the certification process in Congress, which was revealed as a charade. There's a very big problem with the last election, whatever role you think fraud played, because something like half the country doesn't believe in the result. First the lower courts and the state houses blew their shot at restoring confidence in the fairness of the results, then the higher courts also demurred on technical matters like standing rather than hearing evidence, and finally the president's supposed partisans and allies in Congress and the White House failed to use their constitutionally derived powers for redress on this matter.

What are people supposed to do at that point, having exhuasted redress through conventional, normal means? This was as legitimate a protest as we've seen in decades, and it looks like apart from a few incidents, it wasn't even violent. Calling it a riot seems off. The people occupied one of the people's houses because they--we--are left with no way to express our will besides protest.

The press and the establishment will continue to paint this as a Trumpian insurrection or coup, and they'll continue to be dead wrong about what they're seeing, which is American style civil disobedience, in the people's house. Our garbage media together with the rest of our garbage elites, who like to talk about protests as though they know something about them, seem guaranteed to play their part to escalate this conflict. They may get the violence they're currently hallucinating, but that's not what happened on this strange day. It wasn't actually strange at all.; 1/7/21, 8:05 AM
I'm Not Sure said...: "I am really getting a kick out of the MSM and the Lib trolls here attempting to shame us back into submission. Nope. Too late. You broke the contract."

There's a new contract now- "Whatever you can get away with."; 1/7/21, 8:43 AM
Kai Akker said...: Many human phenomena are related, through psychology in which some bell curve of manifestation operates. Thus, at this insanely charged political moment, other insanely charged phenomena are occurring too. One example is Wall Street, which I think is the biggest example in our society. And one little example on Wall Street is Tesla.

One of the last bearish analysts capitulated overnight on TSLA. Said he'd been wrong for two years. Wrong, meaning the stock price went up. The valuation on the stock is beyond crazy; look up Jeremy Grantham's recent comments for a cold-blooded fact check on that.

One of the last bearish analysts turns bullish on TSLA at a price that does not make sense in any way. Shares pop +35 or so on the open to 790. The end for TSLA's bull market must be very, very near. The end of the larger stock market bull trend must also be very, very near because TSLA is the face of the Mania. SPX 3800.; 1/7/21, 9:05 AM
Gahrie said...: One of the last bearish analysts turns bullish on TSLA at a price that does not make sense in any way. Shares pop +35 or so on the open to 790. The end for TSLA's bull market must be very, very near.

Musk has stated quite often that he believes Tesla stock is overvalued. The lawyers have forced him to stop saying so.; 1/7/21, 11:27 AM
Tina Trent said...: I'm sorry I was rude. No excuse but explanation: I was up for two days and nights tracking returns in Georgia's maddening 159 different counties and trying to track leftists who had infiltrated the citizen activist protests in DC. Again, sorry.; 1/7/21, 2:10 PM
Meade said...: @ Tina Trent: Neither of us here noticed any rudeness on your part. Still, your apology is accepted and we wish you well.; 1/7/21, 2:32 PM
Jim at said...: "Trump Supporters Swarm Governor's Mansion In Washington State"

They didn't swarm jackshit.

They went through a gate that mysteriously opened with just a small push, walked up the curved driveway, waived some signs, chanted a few things and then walked down the other side of the curved driveway and left peacefully.; 1/7/21, 5:10 PM
daskol said...: In Canada, which is near Washington state, they might call that a riot.; 1/7/21, 6:32 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: Inga digs deeper and deeper, attempting to support the murder of a unarmed protestor. She was shot without warning, without justification and Inga supports this. Because the protestor is a deplorable.

THEOLDMAN; 1/7/21, 7:12 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: Kent State? False equivalency. Not everyone believe CSN&Y. Fuck with armed soldiers and who knows what will happen. The AF Vet didn't fuck with anyone, she was up, looking through a glass pane (or where a glass pane used to be) alongside a door and she was MURDERED for doing so.

THEOLDMAN

"Four dead at the Cap-i-tol..."; 1/7/21, 7:24 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: I just watched the second video of the murder. She was shot at almost point blank range. https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1347076676342185984?s=20

THEOLDMAN

I don't know how to post links here but it's @ dancohen3000 on Twitter; 1/7/21, 7:43 PM
Lewis said...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6sXLQwlJU; 1/9/21, 2:27 AM