President's Dining Room in the White House
"You ain't seen nothin' yet" was the comment from one analyst, speaking about the January 6 Committee hearings.
I was reminded of the song by the same name. I used to hear it so much on the radio, I didn't even know who sang it because I never had to take note so I could buy the record.
On You Tube, type in
Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 1974 Video Sound HQ
uploader / channel: NEA ZIXNH
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this song is so good my neighbors threw a brick through my window to hear it better
~ Tomasita Pazos
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Jan. 6 Committee hearings --
Day 6 was yesterday.
I listened to some of it Live-streaming on You Tube.
On Monday I was wondering: If someone (for example, DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark) was pleading the Fifth Amendment so many times -- in his case, 100 times -- do they have to say the whole "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me" each time, or can they shorten it -- abbreviate it...?
And on Tuesday my question was answered when they showed, during the hearing, a video of Mike Flynn "taking the fifth" as they say. He answered a question, "Fifth."
Next question: "Do you believe in the peaceful transfer of power?"
Flynn: "Fifth."
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Face-palm.
Head-palm.
Washington D.C.-palm.
U.S.A.-palm.
The "Peaceful Transfer Of Power" is one of the cornerstones of our democracy.
It's one of the traditions countries that are not free, admire about us and wish they had.
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In Tuesday's testimony on January 6, 2021 capitol riot, 3 points:
| Trump was riding in a car with secret service agents and an assistant; he asked to be driven to where the rioters (some of them armed) were gathering, Secret Service said No, he attempted to grab the steering wheel. An agent grabbed Trump's arm to keep him away from the wheel -- the then-president lunged at the agent, using his free hand to try and grab the agent by the throat.
| When they warned Trump some of those people are armed, we cannot control what they do and keep you safe, Trump replied, "It's OK, they're not here to hurt me."
Like it was OK with him if they hurt people in Congress, just as long as he himself was safe.
| Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to Mark Meadows at the time, said she entered a room in the White House and there was food and ketchup splattered on the wall, and broken dishes on the floor. The valet was cleaning it up -- Ms. Hutchinson helped him with the picking-up, and asked what happened -- Trump threw his lunch against the wall after he heard then-Attorney General Bill Barr telling the press that there was no evidence of "widespread voter fraud" in the 2020 election, and that Trump lost.
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The first two incidents listed above are more important because they're more dangerous in the bigger picture, but for some weird psychological reason, the third incident -- the food and the dishes, splattered and shattered -- had the harshest immediate impact on my mind & emotions, when I heard it.
Maybe because it's so violently inappropriate and visceral. So far outside social norms.
A two-year-old person throwing food and dishes: behavior to be firmly and gently corrected.
A 76-year-old throwing food and dishes...?
And besides, those dishes don't belong to him. Those are White House dishes, they belong to the people. He was privileged to eat off of them, and he is not allowed to break them just because he isn't getting his "way."
If the government has not sent Mr. Trump a bill for any and all dishes he broke during White House tantrums, then they need to type that up and get it in the mail, pronto.
(I couldn't help but wonder -- did Trump, like Henry Hill in Goodfellas, "order spaghetti with Marinara sauce, and get egg noodles and ketchup"? - lol)
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