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Thank you, Deirdre, for the link to Trump’s speech. The traditional news
only had a few sentences. In a time of intense emotions, maybe that
was for the best.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I had checked the
news that morning. The GA election was settled. The approval of the
Electoral College was going to take a while, so I did other things
until late afternoon, at which time the Capitol Building was total
anarchy.<br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Since then I have
been contrasting the pictures on the television with my memories of a
trip in 199?. The first morning, the family wanted to see the White
House. We should have contacted our Representative to get tickets
before hand. With a little effort we were able to get tickets for
that afternoon. Next day, among other places, we toured the Capitol
Building. The only “security” I recall was not being allowed to
take pictures inside the Senate Chamber.<br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">The last day was a
Saturday. I was told that parking would be available so I drove into
DC instead of taking the Metro. Almost immediately I after getting near the Mall, I found a place. When I got out of the car, I
couldn’t believe where I was. I looked all around carefully
expecting to see a No Parking sign. I was parked on the curved road
leading directly to the east entrance of the Capitol Building! We
walked the other direction and spent the day in various Smithsonian
Museums.<br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">It is now obvious
that the Senate won’t take up the impeachment right away, so there is time to prepare the case for the
prosecution. It needs to address both the legal process as well as
the court of public opinion. <br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I hope that in 4
years, it will be safe, in multiple meanings, to return to DC and
stand with a million other people for the next Inauguration.<br></p></div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 10:40:41 AM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Dire Red (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">deirdre@deirdre.net</a>):<div class="ydpa1f56b7yqt9696189987" id="ydpa1f56b7yqtfd39316"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Ahh, I meant to also link this excellent piece, which is an analysis<br clear="none">> of Trump's speech right before the riot.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347908845281095680.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347908845281095680.html</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> See particularly around tweet 31, and around 170.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> He goes into a rather fascinating tactic of Trump's saying things as<br clear="none">> A->X->B, and most of us would hear X as a de-escalation or tangent and<br clear="none">> B as a non-sequitur of X. But what his target audience hears is that B<br clear="none">> follows from A.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I think Seth argues quite well that the riot was, in fact, Trump's<br clear="none">> idea, and that understanding from the insurrectionist was common among<br clear="none">> those who were there.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Concur. I would be interested, also, in an analysis by historians who<br clear="none">studied the rhetorical forms used in the 1923-38 Nuremberg Rallies<br clear="none">("Reichsparteitag" = national party days), to compare and contrast the<br clear="none">methods of persuasion. Fewer uniforms and precision marching, to be<br clear="none">sure, and about an order of magnitude fewer warm bodies, but about as<br clear="none">much shouting and malign propaganda.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">What a pity Leni Riefenstahl died. She could have done another<br clear="none">documentary film. Triumph of the Billy-Bobs, or something like that.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'm adding that link to the 'quislings' collection of links on the front<br clear="none">page of linuxmafia.com, for future reference.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Cheers, This limerick goes in reverse. If you start from the bottom-most verse<br clear="none">Rick Moen Unless I’m remiss, This limerick’s not any worse.<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:rick@linu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rick@linu</a> The neat thing is this: -- Zach Weiner<br clear="none">xmafia.com McQ! (4x80)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><div class="ydpa1f56b7yqt9696189987" id="ydpa1f56b7yqtfd05996"><br clear="none"></div></div>
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