January 6th Commission investigating coup attempt.
POSTED BY: THG
UPDATED: Sunday, August 23, 2026 23:24
VIEWED: 64657
PAGE 69 of 108
John Bolton, one of the most evil men who has ever lived, says that January 6th wasn't a coup because Trump is simply not smart enough to organize a coup.
He then went on blowing himself about what a genius he is and how he's organized coups all over the world.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/07/12/john_bolton_on_janu
ary_6th_as_someone_who_helped_plan_coups_detat_it_takes_a_lot_of_work.html
He's not wrong. There was zero security there and they let a bunch of dumb hicks walk right in those doors so they could keep talking about it years later.
But if they were going to allow that drama to unfold without offering up a sacrifice, all this was is a half-measure that everybody can see right through. If they really wanted to be able to sell to the public that what happened on Jan 6th, 2020 was a legitimate coup attempt, they should have offered up a few of their junior congressmen to be injured, at the very least. Perhaps have somebody they trust shoot them in the leg or the shoulder and pin it on the redneck idiots.
But they didn't. And this is all just a bunch of bullshit that won't move the needle at all. The days of Americans buying whatever bullshit they're told are over when nobody has any faith in the future of the economy.
--------------------------------------------------
Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:You have posted the same thing hundreds of times since November 2020. 6ix, what is wrong with you? Be sure to archive this as death threat: Trump is four times more likely to be assassinated than reelected because four Presidents were assassinated but only one was reelected to nonconsecutive terms. Franklin Roosevelt was almost the fifth assassinated President but Mayor Cermak died, instead. On February 15, 1933, an unemployed brick layer named Giuseppe Zangara shouts "Too many people are starving!" and fires a gun at America’s president-elect, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Several men tackled the assailant and might have beaten him to death if Roosevelt had not intervened, telling the crowd to leave justice to the authorities. Zangara later claimed "I don’t hate Mr. Roosevelt personally. I hate all officials and anyone who is rich." Roosevelt’s composure during the assassination attempt filled the following day’s newspapers and did much to enforce Roosevelt’s public image as a strong leader. On the other hand, Trump had hours on Jan. 6th to call for calm, but he did not.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Mail-in fraud election was fraud.
It's okay though. Democrats did nothing but destroy their own party for two years after stealing it. Nobody will vote Democrats in power for a generation at least after this.
Meanwhile, Second... Do try to remember that you posted this before the Democrat bloodbath in November and how your side acts after it happens.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-escapes-assassination-
in-miami
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Aaaaaaand ... SECOND posts a completely irrelevant non-sequitor.
I thought you were technically educated, SECOND. Must not be, bc that's a terrible mis-use of statistics.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You have posted the same thing hundreds of times since November 2020. 6ix, what is wrong with you?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Mail-in fraud election was fraud.
It's okay though. Democrats did nothing but destroy their own party for two years after stealing it. Nobody will vote Democrats in power for a generation at least after this.
Meanwhile, Second... Do try to remember that you posted this before the Democrat bloodbath in November and how your side acts after it happens.
Nothing is wrong with me. I'm just telling the truth.
Trust me... I will say it hundreds of times more.
Watch the Democrats cry foul after they get destroyed in November. You always seem to forget that Democrats have a long history of doing this when they lose. Always.
--------------------------------------------------
Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Morre specifically, this is what Bolton said
Quote:
Speaking to CNN, Bolton insisted that Trump could not have pulled off a “carefully planned coup d’etat aimed at the Constitution” because “that’s not the way Donald Trump does things.”
“It’s not an attack on our democracy,” Bolton said. “It’s Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.”
CNN host Jake Tapper responded, “I don’t know that I agree with you, to be fair, with all due respect” adding that “one doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup.”
However, Bolton said he disagreed with this statement before referencing his own alleged experience helping to plan a coup.
"As somebody who has helped plan coups d’etat—not here but, you know, [in] other places—it takes a lot of work. And that’s not what he [Trump] did,” Bolton continued. “It was just stumbling around from one idea to another. Ultimately, he did unleash the rioters at the Capitol. As to that, there is no doubt. But not to overthrow the Constitution [but] to buy more time to throw the matter back to the states to try to redo the issue.”
“And if you don’t believe that, then you’re going to overreact, and I think that’s a real risk for the committee, which has done a lot of good work mostly when the witnesses are testifying, not when the members are opining,” he added. “It is invariably the case when you go too far trying to prove your case, you undermine it.”
SECOND and CAPON do that all the time.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Morre specifically, this is what Bolton saidQuote:
Speaking to CNN, Bolton insisted that Trump could not have pulled off a “carefully planned coup d’etat aimed at the Constitution” because “that’s not the way Donald Trump does things.”
“It’s not an attack on our democracy,” Bolton said. “It’s Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.”
CNN host Jake Tapper responded, “I don’t know that I agree with you, to be fair, with all due respect” adding that “one doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup.”
However, Bolton said he disagreed with this statement before referencing his own alleged experience helping to plan a coup.
"As somebody who has helped plan coups d’etat—not here but, you know, [in] other places—it takes a lot of work. And that’s not what he [Trump] did,” Bolton continued. “It was just stumbling around from one idea to another. Ultimately, he did unleash the rioters at the Capitol. As to that, there is no doubt. But not to overthrow the Constitution [but] to buy more time to throw the matter back to the states to try to redo the issue.”
“And if you don’t believe that, then you’re going to overreact, and I think that’s a real risk for the committee, which has done a lot of good work mostly when the witnesses are testifying, not when the members are opining,” he added. “It is invariably the case when you go too far trying to prove your case, you undermine it.”
SECOND and CAPON do that all the time.
I sort of agree with him:
“It’s not an attack on our democracy,” Bolton said.
It was such a poorly executed attempt to help daddy Trump that "Attack on Democracy" is a strain - pure MSM hyperbole. But what do you expect from MSM?
“It’s Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.” Yep - baby Trump grabbing at some candy.
I agree with him: "Trump could not have pulled off a “carefully planned coup d’etat aimed at the Constitution” because “that’s not the way Donald Trump does things.” Yep. It was a barely planned, last minute, desperate attempt to steal the presidency at any cost - just what I posted.
"Attack on Democracy?" Depends on your writing style. That seems a tad hyperbolic (of course for MSM it's typical) only because they would have been shut down within hours if Trump hadn't called them off. But when you try and interrupt the proceedings and subvert the most important election process outside of established legal means (along with his other patterns of attempted voter hijacking)? I don't think it's too far off.
"Ultimately, he did unleash the angry armed mob at the Capitol. As to that, there is no doubt."
Yep - Trump incited rioters that he knew were armed to march on the Capitol. Fact.
"But not to overthrow the Constitution [but] to buy more time to throw the matter back to the states to try to redo the issue.”
"Redo the issue" is sneaky, shitty writing. So is 'overthrow the Constitution." "Overturn the election illegally" is more in line with what Trump had been trying in other venues. That's all he wanted. I bet Trump has no idea what's even in the constitution except that a lot of people think it's important.
TBH, some of Bolton's comments sound more like old man Bolton trying to ring his own bell because he wants people to know he was so much better at planning coups. "Back in my day..."
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Consider:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Aaaaaaand ... SECOND posts a completely irrelevant non-sequitor.
I thought you were technically educated, SECOND. Must not be, bc that's a terrible mis-use of statistics.
1) Trump had executive orders drafted that would have the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security confiscate voting machines in swing states.
While advisers publicly floated the idea at the time, revelations that two draft executive orders were actually drawn up for different agencies to carry out the job underscores the extent to which the former President's allies wanted to weaponize the powers of his lame-duck administration to overturn the election.
Any operation for the military or federal agents to seize voting equipment for political purposes would have been unprecedented in US history.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-o
rder-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572
2) Trump openly contemplated naming environmental lawyer Jeffrey Clark as the attorney general in the days before January 6. He did so because Clark, unlike acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, was willing to send a letter to swing states suggesting that there had been widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. (There had not been.)
https://abovethelaw.com/2022/04/jan-6-testimony-reveals-colleagues-bas
ically-think-doj-coup-lawyer-jeff-clarks-an-incompetent-idiot/
3) Trump flirted with naming lawyer Sidney Powell as special counsel to further advance her attempts to overturn the election. "I'm making Sidney a special counsel to the president," Trump told his chief of staff Mark Meadows in mid-December 2020. "Mark, you get her the forms. ... Give her the forms to onboard her." (Powell was never formally named special counsel.)
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/sidney-powell-tells-judge-no-rea
sonable-person-would-believe-her-dominion-conspiracy-theories-were-statements-of-fact/
4) Trump called the Georgia secretary of state and, in a lengthy conversation, urged him to "find 11,780 votes."
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2021/01/quote-of-the-day-i-just
-want-to-find-11780-votes/
5) Trump repeatedly pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence -- including the night before the Electoral College count on January 6 -- to overturn the results of the election, even though there is no constitutional authority for the vice president to do such a thing.
https://www.voanews.com/a/lawmakers-hear-testimony-how-trump-implored-
pence-to-upend-2020-election-/6620568.html
All of these actions suggest that Trump was putting in the work to overturn a free and fair election. He was leaning on state and federal officials and at least contemplated using the official levers of government to further his fever dreams about the 2020 election.
Trump wasn't some low-level apparatchik trying to foment rebellion. He was the sitting president of the United States. Which gave him a greater ability -- as demonstrated by the pressure he exerted on the Justice Department as well as state and local officials -- to try to get what he wanted.
The simple fact revealed once you examine the actions of Trump and his allies in the interregnum between the 2020 election and the 2021 inauguration is this: We came perilously close to witnessing the overturning of the 2020 election results. And that was because of what Trump did -- and failed to do.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Mail-in fraud election was fraud.
Don't worry. We're going to make sure that doesn't happen again.
--------------------------------------------------
Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Trump told you: "Mail-in ballots are very dangerous - there's tremendous fraud involved." But Donald Trump is a lying sack of shit and I'm pretty sure someone will kill him for that particular quality. 6ix, you'll be less traumatized by Trump's death or his decision not to run for President if you shift your hopes and dreams onto Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis becoming President rather than Trump being reelected.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Mail-in fraud election was fraud.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53353404
Donald Trump Expresses Desire To Attend Shinzo Abe’s Funeral. The idea has been planted in Trump's mind that if Abe can be assassinated for no reason Trump can be assassinated for a million solid reasons. I don't think Trump wants to be killed the way Abe was killed. Trump won't run for President again.
https://www.news18.com/news/world/donald-trump-expresses-desire-to-att
end-shinzo-abes-funeral-5532499.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump told you: "Mail-in ballots are very dangerous - there's tremendous fraud involved." But Donald Trump is a lying sack of shit and I'm pretty sure someone will kill him for that particular quality. 6ix, you'll be less traumatized by Trump's death or his decision not to run for President if you shift your hopes and dreams onto Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis becoming President rather than Trump being reelected.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Mail-in fraud election was fraud.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53353404
Donald Trump Expresses Desire To Attend Shinzo Abe’s Funeral. The idea has been planted in Trump's mind that if Abe can be assassinated for no reason Trump can be assassinated for a million solid reasons. I don't think Trump wants to be killed the way Abe was killed. Trump won't run for President again.
https://www.news18.com/news/world/donald-trump-expresses-desire-to-att
end-shinzo-abes-funeral-5532499.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Archived.
--------------------------------------------------
Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME