What Happened
to 'the Storm'?
American Thinker,
by
Brian C. Joondeph. MD
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
1/23/2021 8:50:52 AM
Despite the hype and expectations for "a storm," Jan. 20 marked another relatively peaceful transition of power, from one presidential administration to the next. Yes, there were more law enforcement than spectators at this strange inauguration, reminiscent of a Soviet May Day parade, but it was anticlimactic, at least to the many expecting a long-awaited storm, unleashed by Trump supporters, supposedly on the deep state, during former (I hate to use that word) President Trump’s final days in office.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
pros7767 1/23/2021 8:57:04 AM (No. 671392)
Pretty depressing article...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Californian 1/23/2021 9:12:31 AM (No. 671401)
"A Republica, if you can keep it".
Apparently not.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BillW. 1/23/2021 9:12:39 AM (No. 671403)
My guess. It's just been delayed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/23/2021 9:25:17 AM (No. 671420)
Nobody is stupid enough to go up against 26,000 US Army troops under the control of insane old geezers who are just vile enough to order them to kill anybody with a red hat. Our time will come.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/23/2021 9:39:38 AM (No. 671443)
Sad to say I'm aware of everything Joondeph refers to here, so much supposed stuff going on behind the scene leading up to January 20th. The most credible thing about this "inside info" was the dims wanting the National Guard around into March, I guess they took the bait too.
Bottom line, pure and simple, WASS.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/23/2021 9:50:55 AM (No. 671456)
It's still building.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/23/2021 9:52:22 AM (No. 671461)
No 'storm' occurred because the right deplores the tactics of the left and because the right isn't yet convinced that an armed revolution is needed. More to the point, those who were expecting a 'storm' have been listening to baloney online. Supposedly, the right called off their 1/20 insurrection because they were afraid of a dirty bomb in DC with Trump's name on it. Sometimes it seems some on the right are drunk on 'hopium'.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kate318 1/23/2021 10:06:48 AM (No. 671480)
The absolute travesty that has happened to this country since Nov. 3 is bad enough, but gloating articles like this don’t make it any easier. If people needed to cling to hope, no matter how far-fetched, so what? You think conservatives don’t know they could be in for a disappointment, no matter what promises are made? You think we don’t KNOW that it’s likely that the Deep State will win, once again? Perhaps the author had just as many hopes as many of the people he mocks, and he deals with it by calling sour grapes. But, maybe a little compassion for people who have had every right to control their destiny summarily destroyed, by a godless, inhuman swamp of evil would be better utilized. I read all the “conspiracy” material. I thought it sounded far-fetched. But, I got tell you, I would’ve believed in Big Foot himself coming in to save the day, as opposed to the horror of the reality we now face.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/23/2021 10:17:17 AM (No. 671492)
I suspect the devil worshippers were also afraid of antifa and blm showing up on fauxgeration day. Totalitarians fear everyone, even those in their inner circles.
FTA
"The ruling class Republicans will remain in minority power, useful idiots for Democrats to use as they enact their far-left agenda and rewrite of the Constitution."
They are complicit, and they are our enemy as much as the dem leftists. Can we please accept that? Accepting the truth about your enemy, particularly one you used to trust, is the first step to effectively dealing with that enemy. There's going to be one spark that will ignite the flame. There has to be something that happens to kick this thing off, but we have too many people who believe it's business as usual. The Q folks might be crazy (I don't know enough about them), but at least they know the enemy.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/23/2021 10:19:05 AM (No. 671495)
Number One priority for Patriots (including Republicans if they wish) HAS to be One person, One Vote, One Day. Otherwise we are gone!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 1/23/2021 10:59:14 AM (No. 671550)
What President Trump already accomplished was no mere "breeze." And whining from the sidelines that your expectations weren't met?
"He had them on the ropes but didn’t deliver the knockout punch. The deep state is like cancer, unless you eliminate it completely, it returns, sometimes with a vengeance." Why couldn't the naive Trump Team listen to Joondeph?!
"Buckle up and pray for Trump and America." How about praying and then actually DOING something, Brian? I look forward to his future mea culpa as the "soup of nuttiness" morphs into humble pie.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/23/2021 11:11:52 AM (No. 671562)
Don't be fooled. There is only a displacement of the storm. National Guard with live ammunition should be gone around, not through. People are angry about this stolen election, and the response will not be a storm, but a whole bunch of bad weather taking many forms.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/23/2021 11:13:46 AM (No. 671564)
FTA: "Was Trump compromised or did he simply realize that the only storm was the one he was spitting into, fighting his battles alone, without assistance or support from his own party?"
I would add to the sentence, 'and his own supporters who never visibly rose to his defense or used its formidable economic power against the democrat-run corporations at the center of the coup, including or perhaps led by the DNC media.'
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/23/2021 11:30:07 AM (No. 671585)
It seems to me (out here in flyover country) that the whole image of riots on Jan 20th was a Democrat/Media mirage, composed 99.98% of smoke and mirrors.
Other than ANTIFA and BLM thugs, and a few crazies, no-one was ever going to show up.
It's all Kabuki Theatre.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 1/23/2021 11:46:06 AM (No. 671606)
It is depressing. We were hopeful. We are logical and good. TRUMP exposed that so much our government is an immoral den of thieves. We hoped, prayed, and called for justice. Justice was not served. Winning 2020 was the most important mission for the left by any means. We got beat back to what seems to be ground zero. We must fight like hell to get back. We have to get dirtier like them. We have to do it from the outside now. We had our 1 inside man but never many other. It was a miracle, he went in alone and busted the place up. It was a call to arms for them and they tried every thing. They are experts at fraud and the coup culminated there. I will fight like hell. I will be forever vocal Trump, i will be unswaying in the truth of the election, the jan 6 riot, and the inauguration lockdown. The children won all those battles.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/23/2021 1:05:17 PM (No. 671681)
I knew of The Storm but tiptoed around my initial comments.
It's clear others here were aware of the possibility and I take comfort in that.
Whether we have an effective response is in the air, one thing for sure the
totalitarian fascists have laid all their cards on the table and have never been
more exposed and vulnerable. Their trail of toxic criminality is out for all to
see.
Sooner or later they will pay a price. We may all foot that bill but the bastards
will not get away with this.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 1/23/2021 2:07:59 PM (No. 671726)
The Boston Massacre occurred in 1770. One young boy was killed. But it was the spark that slowly, slowly led people to go more and more against the British. The Boston Tea Party was the next 'push back', in 1773, so things simmered along for three years, then, no violence against people, just against property.
In 1774, the British closed Boston harbor until the tea was paid for, replaced the elected Boston council members with appointed members, more power given to the military governor and forbade town meetings without approval.
In 1775, the British marched to Lexington and Concord, intending to capture "troublemakers" Sam Adams and John Hancock, and then confiscate the gunpowder and arms, thereby effectively disarming the colonists. This is the time of the Paul Revere, "On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year."
The people were warned, Hancock and Adams fled, guns were hidden and powder moved, and the people were incensed, and a militia stood at the Old North Bridge at Concord. This was our first standing against British troops. The British fired on the militia, and the militia responded in kind, causing the British to begin their retreat, and were harassed continuously back to Boston. Even with a British reinforcement of 1,000 men at Lexington, the retreat was a disaster, continuously attacked by militia groups, and the British running low on ammunition. The fighting in Lexington became house to house. The people were aroused and were armed.
The British lost 73 dead and 200 wounded or missing in the Lexington and Concord actions and running gun battle on the 18 miles back to Boston. THAT was the event that started things off, well and truly.
So, it took five years of ever increasing insults and injuries before the peaceful colonists decided to really strike back forcefully. And even then, how many were willing to fight for change?
The British responded after Lexington/Concord by shelling Falmouth, Mass and Norfolk, Va from ships. Seven hours of shelling of Norfolk caused huge fires. The British had now kicked the southern states into action, too.
Expect the leftist tyrants to overplay their hand in different, yet likely similar ways. These things take time to develop, injury piled on insult. We will observe and note their insults and illegalities.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 1/24/2021 8:23:43 AM (No. 672480)
Never say never. Trumps support is like a lava in a volcano. It's just slowly bubbling until it gets enough pressure to explode and then look out.
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