Thursday, January 6, 2022

Ben Shapiro: Democrats' Exploitation of January 6 Gives Away Their Game

 This year, Jan. 6 will be commemorated with all the ballyhoo and rigamarole Democrats and their media allies can muster. CNN plans an entire special around the anniversary, titled "Live from the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later"; the show will feature the "heroes who protected our democracy in the face of an insurrection," and will include interviews with such luminaries as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and January 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are also expected to commemorate Jan. 6 with special remarks, and Pelosi has organized a bevy of events in memory of the riot.

Now, you might ask yourself just why Jan. 6 merits such outsized attention. One need not downplay the events -- the horrifying image of rioters bashing police officers with metal poles, storming through the halls of Congress shouting for Mike Pence -- in order to recognize Jan. 6 for what it was: an ugly but not pivotal moment in American history. The event resulted in one direct death -- rioter Ashli Babbitt was shot by a Capitol police officer -- and some $1.5 million in property damage to the Capitol building; the Capitol was cleared within hours of the riot, and Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promptly presided over the certification of the 2020 election. Those who broke into the Capitol or even trespassed have ended up in jail.

Meanwhile, by contrast, the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 resulted in some $2 billion in insured property damage (and likely billions more in uninsured property damage), two dozen people died, and the resultant political movement against the police led to an unprecedented nationwide spike in homicides in major cities. To date, there have been no commemorations from CNN, speeches from Biden or Harris, or a day honoring the police officers who held rioters in check.

So, what lies behind the Democratic-media obsession with Jan. 6? Political opportunism. Democrats aren't even hiding the ball. Facing the ever-likelier prospect of a 2022 midterm wipeout, Democrats have hit on a strategy: they have to rig the electoral rules and overthrow traditional democratic institutions in order to stop Republicans from rigging the electoral rules and overthrowing traditional democratic institutions. Jan. 6, to opportunistic Democrats, is the all-purpose excuse to use the entire weight of their party to push for a radical revision of Senate rules and federal elections. As Politico reported this week, "Democrats are hoping that Thursday will be more than just a day of remembrance. In the Senate, we hear from well-positioned sources, there's a desire to take the opportunity to supercharge the party's long-stalled voting rights legislation -- possibly even using the anniversary to try to get Sens. Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va, to go nuclear on the filibuster or embrace rules changes."

Yes, the electoral village must be burned in order to stop future events similar to Jan. 6. As The New York Times editorialized, "Every Day Is January 6 Now," arguing, "the Capitol riot continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court." The only plausible response is to federalize election procedures constitutionally given to the states, to mandate the corrupt practice of ballot harvesting, to mandate long periods of early voting and universal absentee ballots, to loosen voter verification, and much more.

All because of Jan. 6.

Or, perhaps, because Democrats can read the writing on the wall. They know that November 2022 cometh, and that right soon. And they hope that if they invoke the specter of Jan. 6 repeatedly, Americans will shrug and allow them to usurp authority, violate rules, and rewrite voting procedure. It won't work. But it should reveal to Americans just who Democrats are, and how little they actually care about Jan. 6 in the first place.

Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps," "The Right Side Of History," and "Bullies." To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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27 comments:

Anonymous said...

An "insurrection" with exactly ZERO guns of record.

Anonymous said...

Honesty, humility and perhaps most importantly, restraint have gone missing in politics, education and the c suites across America. Why? Our leaders lack, in many cases, the kind of values that served the republic from its inception. The least virtuous are now, strangely, the self-appointed“moral majority” but their commitment is to ideology untethered to a basic sense of right and wrong. Government is becoming our god. Only fools would think we are not at risk of losing all our freedoms.

Anonymous said...

I can barely control myself I am so overcome with loathing at Mr. Biden. Particularly when this filthy moral degenerate quotes scripture. Likewise Mr. Obama, preaching to me/us about "democracy." It's a scam folks, all they want is to turn this country into the Dominican Republic and to be one of the Trujillo family.

On the other hand, to give the devil his due, there is but one person to blame for yesterday's "commemoration." That would be the, sorry to say, not yet late, certainly not great, Donald J. Trump. I know, I know, he was better than Ms. Clinton would have been. I agree. But he has become a horrible liability to the Republican Party.

On the subject of Ms. Clinton, take a few minutes tonight and stream "Don't Look Up." It doesn't get much funnier than watching Meryl Streep eaten by an extraterrestrial quadruped.

Anonymous said...

Dick Cheney disagrees, that’s good enough for me. I am rolling with the Cheneys.

Anonymous said...

The right is pathetic. They saw what happened and choose to live in denial. Ted Cruz begging for the forgiveness of Republicans he angered by calling it a violent terrorist attack really drives home the full depths of the mental illness on display and why our country is losing to the Chinese and everyone else. Grow a spine and fix your crazies Republicans. You are electing weak and delusional people to represent you.

Anonymous said...

Prepare for a Domestic War on Terror.

Anonymous said...

it was a fed psyop false flag.
Special agents targeted mouth breathing Q tards online (
Then lured the low IQ “freedumbs” to DC, incited the whole thing, then stood back to watch.

many such cases occurred with lone wolf muslims in the years following 9/11.

MSU had a girl get arrested who was literally being groomed by feds to be a jihadi.

Anonymous said...

703…. So we’re what BLM did the summer prior, we’re they protests or riots? What about the left’s crazies? What you gonna do about them?

Anonymous said...

So during the summer prior you had BLM rioting and burning cities to the ground. A section of Seattle trying to succeed, and it turned into a drug, rape, crime infested "autonomous zone" with Pelosi, Waters, Schumer and all the players in the Democratic party egging it on and encouraging it. F every one of them and my friends that voted democrat to get away from "Trumpism" yeah are cowards and saying nothing about Biden burning it to the ground. You can't find a democrat touting what all positive Biden has done.

Anonymous said...

@8:23 - I’m going to not vote for them to be president, congressmen, or any other elected position and not join their craziness if they decide to try to overthrow our government.

Anonymous said...

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before"-Rham Emanuel

Anonymous said...

The left's media puppets are starting to run all kinds of BS anti Trump/Republican hit pieces. They know that unless they have some sort of plandemic come up like in 2020 where they could change the voting rules, they are toast. I'm not saying they vote was rigged, but there sure were a lot of irregularities like piles of ballots lost then "found". That is a fact. It's opened the door for voter fraud and the Democrats have been playing this game for ages.

Anonymous said...

@8:37 - a section of Seattle tried to succeed huh? Oh the travesty. LOL.

Anonymous said...

1/6 is Triggered Liberal Day. Defund The Police! Dick Cheney Bad! Oh no wait….we like them now. If Trump ran as a Democrat in 2024 all the Dims would be behind him 100% much like they went from George Bush is Satan to well he’s a nice guy.

Anonymous said...

Libs and RINOs going to receive a rude awakening.

Anonymous said...

Trump hit pieces are written by none other than Trump himself. Fox news host and members of congress were involved in the insurrection he fueled and failed to stop. I may not like the current administration but, I will not ignore who was responsible for the attack on our government. Trump will bleed this for as much money as you folks will contribute, he will not run for president again for fear of shattering his ego. He is only in it for your money.

Anonymous said...

Republicans are no longer the majority in this country, and the only way to hold on to power is to get rid of democracy. They are not even trying to hide it at this point. Most anyone with a conscience got run off long ago, and the purge of those unwilling to pledge unconditional allegiance to the party, regardless of damage to the country, is nearly complete.

Anonymous said...

All true. But the real dream of the Democratic bosses is not just the elevation of January 6 for a national progressive call to arms, but a repeat somewhere somehow of January 6 and the inevitable widespread repulsion it would generate. They know that only one man can and will light that fuse...Donald Trump. Sadly, Trump cannot resist and will do his part to reignite his more radical supporters should he fall short in his personal ambitions. The real question is whether sensible Republicans will play along. If they do not, the country will ultimately reject the socialist progressive agenda and there will be a more moderate/conservative reemergence. If they allow the cult of Trump to lead the party, January 6 will simply be the first shot. THAT is the real story.

Anonymous said...

Arizona State Senate Republicans announced the results of their conspiracy-laden audit of the 2020 presidential election results in September. It concluded that President Joe Biden had won 360 more votes than Maricopa County had awarded him in the official count.

"Truth is truth. Numbers are numbers," Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said at a hearing last year on the review of the audit.

Arizona State Senate Republicans hired Cyber Ninjas to conduct an election audit of ballots in Maricopa County, the state's most populous county, after Biden flipped the state to blue for the first time in decades — beating former President Donald Trump by more than 10,400 votes.

The ballot review grew out of Republican legislators' efforts to overturn Biden's victory, even as Trump's top cybersecurity official at the time said the election was “the most secure in American history." Then-Attorney General William Barr also said the Justice Department had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Simply put Trump is a sore loser.

Anonymous said...

Reality folks ? A bunch of idiot MAGA folks got tricked into storming the capital by a bunch of BLM/ANTIFA well paid and expert pot stiring SOB's. And Nancy et al made sure it worked. EVERY riot the last several years have been well planned and well funded. Wake up.

Anonymous said...

Anybody who want a good laugh at the levels of mental delusion the right’s leadership displays, watch this: https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1479241371303227392

Anonymous said...

Nobody on the right dares to tell the truth, Did you see how Ted Cruz had to beg for forgiveness from Tucker?

Anonymous said...

9:14 If you replace "Republican" with "Democrat" I will agree with you.

Anonymous said...

914… the scary thing is you probably really believe what you wrote. Democracy is under full attack but not by the republicans/right. I realize that you are incapable of being reasoned with but your realization will come when it’s too late and are a subject of the government, no longer a citizen of a nation

Anonymous said...

10:07 : And if you haven't figured out that this isn't about left or right then you are truly lost. Trump had one thing right for sure then shot himself up with them ...."THE SWAMP". He miscalculated its membership. % wise, there are no elected officials anywhere that can truly be trusted at this point. Greed HAS overtaken and forsaken......

Anonymous said...

The news media chose our president. They are scared the people will realize what fools they were made to be. If anyone needs a reminder just look at what Joe, Hunter, Joe's daughter, and Joe's relatives have done. Look at how the news media has covered it all up. When the FBI goes all out looking for a woman's diary you know something about it stinks.
Any democrats know what was in the little book?

Anonymous said...

Let the liberal idiots not forget the Black Nationalist who killed one and wounded another Capitol Police, right afterwards. I know liberal idiots are very forgetful when one of their pets commits a crime.



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