Puzzling evidence. [CORRECTED]

 CORRECTION: first link below has been corrected; previously both links pointed to the ArsTech story, which linked to the Parler letter, online here:

https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Parler-Letter-to-Chairwoman-Maloney.pdf 

The letter only is online - exhibits referenced in letter footnotes are absent 

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Puzzling evidence presented by Parler, highlighted by ArsTech. 

The focus is Parler's lawyers' twelve page letter in response to a House committee inquiry request. 

Without cause to disbelieve any assertions in the lawyers' letter, there is a question of who knew what when and what communication within government happened, leading to what planning decisions to act or forebare; that uncertainty touching governmental agency to agency recognition, be it either generically kicking the can, or with specificity about Jan. 6 anticipations. 

And why was Parer tarred and feathered as a take-down social media target, but not Facebook, nor Twitter, with the lawyers' having asserted the latter two mega social media giants were left unscarred.

A few screenshots from the twelve page letter; See, especially, letter p.2 at fns.5 and 6, (and accompanying text re AWS - Amazon Web Services - with each of the two footnotes giving a web link). You can click any of the image thumbnails to enlarge and read:

p,2

p.6

p.7

p.8

Troubling evidence? The lack of any widespread coverage of this follow-up to earlier very widespread accusatory posting seems troubling, possibly leaving a widespread misunderstanding. 

Ask yourself, do you suppose a widespread airing in the House of this follow-up will happen? Then, wait and see.

All this notice, and too little protection mounted in advance of the Jan. 6 Trump rally and the scheduled certification of the Biden victory - scant Capitol Police with National Guard requests delayed and handled strangely. And if memory serves correctly, one single always holstered handgun was the only firearm captured among the Jan. 6 people strolling within the Capitol, (with the owner's claim it was carried for self-protection and not aggression) - so that the "insurgency" was without firearms displayed at all in multiple posted video, and without even spray paint - there was no graffiti reported to have been left on paintings, statuary, walls, doors, podiums, desks, floors, carpeting, or seats. Broken glass is broken glass, yet they certainly in general were orderly "insurrectionists" in those other regards. Tidy. Was any arson attempt reported? It seems not. No flammables carried into the Capitol or put to use is the recollection here of online contemporaneous and subsequent reporting.

It has trappings of a staged event, not chaos, not mayhem, and certainly not "armed insurrection" in the generally serious meaning that term carries.

So, if staged - who staged it, under what motivation, toward what anticipated usages and outcomes, short term or long term?

With Trump saying he now wants to start his own great, beautiful, best-ever, super social media outlet; having Parler out of the way as a competitor is a convenience.

Would Rebekah Mercer be putting money behind a Trump effort, do you think? As she did to launch Parler? Having a big piece of the action? Switching from Parler to Trump's apprentice? She's already shifted from Cruz to Trump. Or might Deutsche Bank finance it, these days? 

Who else would loan Trump seed money? 

Would AWS host it?

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A social media outlet. Trump. Steve Bannon did video. Steve Bannon did Breitbart. With Rebeckh Mercer money invested, Bannon did Breitbart. When Cruz lost the nomination Mercer money went to Trump's effort. Steve Bannon was an early Trump ally. Steve Bannon was a White House insider. Steve Bannon was arrested and charged with a "wall-building" cash solicitation fraud but was pardoned via Trump's lame ducking. 

Is Steve Bannon out of work? This day? This hour?

Can you imagine Steve Bannon running a Trump social network? 

Rudy a FOX-style show host and commentator? With Sidney Powell? Roger Stone? Bill Barr? Fallwell Jr.? Trump family, each a host of multiple forums? Sean Spicer as a news reader? Wilbur Ross doing CNBC manage-your-money type content or hosting a call-in? Mike Pence with a Sunday Face the Prayer interview show? James Dobson on Sunday postings? All the trappings of the worse of cable. 

Then the forum opportunities. Reddit, look out. Trump's coming.

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Making a mountain out of a molehill? Try as I might, this does not look like a pair of insurrectionists. There has been no reporting the one individual holding the bullhorn ever tried to gore anybody, while the individual in the tan hoodie appears to be asking directions of an officer not appearing to be in fear for his life.

 

Strib published image

 Give me a break. The Pelosi characterization of things just does not ring true. A protester sitting in her office chair feet up on her desk, yes, arguably disrespectful, perhaps enough to fire up Pelosi's extremist rhetoric, but by far not insurrection. Not as I understand that word's meaning. Window unsmashed, files and items on her desk left untouched [and untorched], framed pictures unmoved and unbroken, desk drawers not being ransack-searched for souvenirs, not even mud on the shoes. Just a good ol' boy mocking haughty surroundings. Of a salaried public servant. With reported survey results on the public's respect for how well Congress is doing its job, what's to say?

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Reliable documented evidence of post-entry property damage within the Capitol seem hard to find online. One photo of clean-up efforts online, here. Two conflicting reports, here and here. The latter item from claimsjournal.com, from insurers, quotes a spokesman:

Civil unrest has caused catastrophe-level losses — $25 million or more — only a dozen times since 1950, Johansmeyer said. Until the George Floyd riots, violence that erupted in Los Angeles in connection with the police beating of Rodney King in 1991 held the record for insured losses.

“What we’re looking at is an event in D.C. of significant symbolic importance and obvious cultural significance as well,” he said.

But Johansmeyer said while the assault on the U.S. Capitol is significant for society, the event so far doesn’t appear to be especially significant in terms of property losses. The Capitol building is not located near any shopping district or residential area, he said. And the damage — while shocking to witness — appeared primarily superficial.

[italics added] All I know is what I find in web searching. Was not there, did not make a giant effort to pin down online reporting of any magnitude of property damage facts. Make of those two reports what you will. "Superficial" is an unambiguous word; and from an insurance expert on claims damage, it carries some weight; meaning insubstantial by expert observation and opinion.

Fencing cost was advanced as part of the "damage" cost by the Architect of the Capitol office personnel. Sending in National Guard personnel was not without cost. Delay in that step needs to be fleshed out, to the public.

There being a dearth of after-the-fact damage evidence online is itself a mystery. What really was the outcome of this "insurrectionist mob," (using Pelosi's wording), in terms of property damage? That needs to be pinned down for the public to have a grasp of what actually happened - apart from rhetoric which can easily exaggerate. What is the true extent of physical damage caused, as shown unequivocally by post-entry visual evidence? Why it is not already factually established online is a question lawmakers should answer.

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Wikipedia, here, posts this image as part of this post; the image captioned in the post: "Ken Cuccinelli, acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, touring the Capitol after the attack to survey damage." Two undamaged working chandeliers and what looks to be an antique "grandfather clock" are shown in patrolled hallways in a photo op showing, strangely enough, no damage, no "handwriting on the walls." A nice, quiet photo-op hallway, in a photo staged to be characterized as inspection of damage?

FURTHER: It is admitted that Ken Cuccinelli, acting as a Trump DHS top official might choose a photo-op location less damaging to the Trump Administration than a possibly massively damaged other Capitol location; and perhaps this location was apart from areas the entrants traversed; but it's what's online, take it or leave it.

FURTHER: denverpost.com - images

WHY DID IT TAKE THEM SO LONG? Voting machine company Dominion sues FOX for its allegedly false coverage of the election whereby FOX challenged the integrity and authenticity of Dominion voting machine results.

 Check out an AP feed Strib carried: "Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims," By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press -March 26, 2021 — 8:45am 

It is an online report you can read for detail.

From the report:

"The truth matters. Lies have consequences," the lawsuit said. "Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process. If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does."

Even before Dominion's lawsuit on Friday, Fox News had already filed four motions to dismiss other legal actions against its coverage.

"Fox News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and we will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court," it said in a statement on Friday.

That last paragraph makes an assertion which is pure horseshit.

That said, FOX can sue me. It's own quoted statement is opinion, not a representation of fact, since "highest tradition of American journalism" is not a discernible fact, but a matter of thought and judgment. The opinion here is the phrase sets a quite low bar, yet one FOX cannot fit under transcend [they fit well under the bar for even merely decent journalism, middling tradition - please excuse the original mind lapse]. Opinions can differ.

Claiming that FOX presents instances of  "journalism" again is opinion. It presents horseshit is the opinion here, which content might arguably be called "journalism" if tabloids also are accorded that status, in your opinion, but characterizing FOX and the tabloids, as journalism, is like saying "Hillary lost to Trump because of Bernie." Hillary might believe that, but again, it is opinion. As is blaming Comey, rather than Podesta and Mook, the main operatives upon whom the Clintons relied.

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The interesting question, when will Dominion file THE BIG ONE? If filed and won, that victory would be the one for which the most celebratory popcorn would be popped. On that question, Dominion might want to move quickly because Trump assets may be at a current level higher than later.

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It would be helpful to see, if FOX were taken down in size by about $1.6 billion. It could even result in Tucker Carlson being taken back a notch in his whining, provocative incivility. It would take only one $1.6 billion judgment to be noticed as incentive for change. Even a $1.5 billion judgment might do the trick.

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FOX? Try this tradition of American journalism, for a fit like a hand in a glove.

Same fact set; two modes of online reporting. Each mode appears to have underlying orientation leading to opposite views of the fact set.

Down With Tyranny coverage.

Breitbart coverage.

Does the range of outlooks surprise you? Without being too judgmental, DWT does give context detail likely felt irrelevant by Breitbart, but Crabgrass judges the judge by his past. DWT's image:

 

It appears that at the start of the Twentieth Century when horseless carriages offered obvious efficiency advantages, the buggywhip and blacksmithing industries lacked political clout.

 Link. We live in different times.

"Federal law enforcement officials are scrutinizing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial move to help his donor shield nursing home executives from legal consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report. The probe follows a Daily Poster investigative series detailing how one of Cuomo’s biggest donors, the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) — a lobby group that represents hospital systems and nursing home operators — said it “drafted and aggressively advocated for” the corporate immunity provision. Cuomo’s administration quietly inserted the measure into his state’s budget as thousands lay dying from COVID-19 in New York nursing homes. "

 The above headline runs together the opening two paragraphs from here.

Check that link, it includes an opening dynamic image.

Irresponsibility. On the part of James Clyburn's choice of Biden's Vice President. While she was collecting a public paycheck in California, ostensibly for doing a job.

 Link,

Is United Healthcare, headquartered in the Twin Cities metro area, the 800 pound gorilla in the room, indirectly shown to be there and really heavy, to where however rapacious, the politicians don't want to see Medicare for All eating its lunch?

DWT, here, lists cosponsors with Jayapal on her Medicare for All bill.

 Zippo support for the Bill among House Dems and Republicans in the Minnesota delegation. No guts, no glory.

WAIT - courage and good judgment must go with a hijab - Ilhen Omar cosponsors the item. One out of eight is not an impressive percentage, given the need to take private profiteering out of the equation.

Howie Klein of DWT writes:

More than half the Democrats in the House are co-sponsors of Pramila's Medicare for All Act that was just reintroduced for 2021, since Pelosi and Hoyer buried the 2020 version and never allowed it to come up for a vote, despite pledging to do just that. Pramila: "While this devastating pandemic is shining a bright light on our broken, for-profit health care system, we were already leaving nearly half of all adults under the age of 65 uninsured or underinsured before COVID-19 hit. And we were cruelly doing so while paying more per capita for health care than any other country in the world. There is a solution to this health crisis-- a popular one that guarantees health care to every person as a human right and finally puts people over profits and care over corporations. That solution is Medicare for All-- everyone in, nobody out-- and I am proud to introduce it today alongside a powerful movement across America."

[...] Biden remains unswayed and remains loyal, first and foremost, like all American conservatives, regardless of party, to private insurance companies and not to the American people. He keeps pushing barely noticeable incremental upgrades to Obamacare. His next goal is better, a public option, but a waste of time since it will take enormous political capital-- virtually the same amount as Medicare-for-All-- without half the benefits. "Biden," reported Politico this morning, "campaigned on the idea, touting it as an achievable reform that would bring down costs without upending private health insurance. It consistently polls well across the political spectrum.

Klein, by image, reminds us of Biden campaign allegations that he supports "Medicare by 60," although now, in office, it seems to have slipped his mind. What we do see so far, real questionable slippage, whatever it's cause. Spine slippage, now in office, or simply spinning along with his spin doctors in seeking an office with a pledge he never intended to honor. Not that it is super great as major reform, just that it was promised and seems now to have been put out with yesterday's trash.

Yes. Opinions can differ. Seven Minnesotans in Congress are one way or another in thrall? Or do you believe they occupy the high ground? Along with the millionaire executives of United Healthcare? A bondage of Benjamins, as Ms. Omar might have said - and did in a slightly different context. Bless her honesty.