People who have refused to watch the Jan. 6 hearings

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Registered independent here (Biden voter the last election, but probably not again)...I haven't watched a single minute as I don't trust the mainstream media or our politicians. I mean the fact that they would hold hearings in primetime tv slots says it all to me about motivations.

I don't have much interest in the whole thing to be clear, the updates I have gotten have come through some independent news podcasts.

Lol. So when should they hold the hearings? In the daytime, when no one except slandered people can watch, or at primetime, when it’s clearly for ratings. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

For the record, most of them have been during the day time. You would know that if your “independent news podcasts” (let me guess: Ben Shapiro and similar) actually informed you of anything.

So...just because this person doesn't know when every single hearing is scheduled, you assume he or she is a ben Shapiro fan/R. got it. I actually think it proves that they aren't tracking the trial, as they mentioned. I guess you have your reasons for jumping to your conclusions.

If you’re calling it a “trial” you’re not “tracking” anything.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Registered independent here (Biden voter the last election, but probably not again)...I haven't watched a single minute as I don't trust the mainstream media or our politicians. I mean the fact that they would hold hearings in primetime tv slots says it all to me about motivations.

I don't have much interest in the whole thing to be clear, the updates I have gotten have come through some independent news podcasts.

Lol. So when should they hold the hearings? In the daytime, when no one except slandered people can watch, or at primetime, when it’s clearly for ratings. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

For the record, most of them have been during the day time. You would know that if your “independent news podcasts” (let me guess: Ben Shapiro and similar) actually informed you of anything.

So...just because this person doesn't know when every single hearing is scheduled, you assume he or she is a ben Shapiro fan/R. got it. I actually think it proves that they aren't tracking the trial, as they mentioned. I guess you have your reasons for jumping to your conclusions.

Thank you. God forbid you think the trial is the end all be all. And for what it's worth..I listen to far more Breaking Points than anything close to Shapiro..

You, too. The most basic thing to know about this is that it’s not a trial

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Haven’t watched more than a few minutes of it.

It’s all a contrived show.

As opposed to a Trump speech…

These people are sooo willfully ignorant. How did we get to this point?

There's been a ongoing decline in critical thinking:

"A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported: “On average, students make strides in their ability to reason, but because so many start at such a [critical thinking] de­ficit, many still graduate without the ability to read a scatterplot, construct a cohesive argument or identify a logical fallacy” [1]

Similarly, in their book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa studied 2,400 college students at 24 different universities over a 4-year period [2]. They reported that critical thinking and other skills such as writing were no longer progressing during college as compared to previous generations of students.

In an interview with NPR, Arum sounded the alarm as to why we should be concerned about these findings: “Our country today is part of a global economic system, where we no longer have the luxury to put large numbers of kids through college and university and not demand of them that they are developing these higher-order skills [such as critical thinking] that are necessary not just for them, but for our society as a whole.” [3]"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-intuitive-parent/201703/the-emerging-crisis-in-critical-thinking

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, what is the reason we should watch a hearing on an unpopular ex president?

Holding the perpetrators of an attempted coup accountable is the bare minimum requirement for maintaining representative democracy. Every issue is important: Covid, the economy, health care, education, climate change, military power, and on and on…but we don’t have any say at all in how any of these issues are handled if we no longer have a democracy. The convergence of corruption at the highest levels, the MAGA cult of personality, and domestic terror groups posed/poses a grave threat to our country — the kind of threat Congress should be addressing.

Even if Trump is never President again, the Republican Party has been working diligently to rig the election apparatus in red states. They haven’t stopped attempting a coup; they’re just going about it more gradually.

You don’t have to watch if you don’t want to, but we all benefit from an informed electorate. If you don’t understand the importance of this investigation and its public airing, you are not informed.

This.

But the kind of proud ignorance is where the GOP is right now. Completely wrong but convinced of their correctness.

Radical/progressive/gadfly here: pull your heads out of your a-holes and start engaging people’s actual problems. Fighting cartoon villains is pathetic.

Crack a newspaper once or twice and observe that the Democrats have. Read further and observe that the GOP is actively creating more problems - expensive insulin, anyone? Veterans without healthcare, anyone?

You’re not a gadfly. You’re just annoying and spouting right wing lines.

Wildly better idea: seek out inputs beyond conventional sources. Engage all information, especially that from the powerful, with as much critical capacity as you have.

Stop being so slavishly loyal. It’s always a path to failure!

We don’t need your lecture about using non conventional sources to obtain news because we’re using the primary source. We know more about the insurrection than you do because we’re witnessing the testimony of people who have insider knowledge and are sharing that knowledge under penalty of perjury. I’m not relying on someone else to characterize what a witness has said; I’m listening to the witness’s own testimony under oath. You’re never going to get a source more accurate than that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, what is the reason we should watch a hearing on an unpopular ex president?

Holding the perpetrators of an attempted coup accountable is the bare minimum requirement for maintaining representative democracy. Every issue is important: Covid, the economy, health care, education, climate change, military power, and on and on…but we don’t have any say at all in how any of these issues are handled if we no longer have a democracy. The convergence of corruption at the highest levels, the MAGA cult of personality, and domestic terror groups posed/poses a grave threat to our country — the kind of threat Congress should be addressing.

Even if Trump is never President again, the Republican Party has been working diligently to rig the election apparatus in red states. They haven’t stopped attempting a coup; they’re just going about it more gradually.

You don’t have to watch if you don’t want to, but we all benefit from an informed electorate. If you don’t understand the importance of this investigation and its public airing, you are not informed.

This.

But the kind of proud ignorance is where the GOP is right now. Completely wrong but convinced of their correctness.

Radical/progressive/gadfly here: pull your heads out of your a-holes and start engaging people’s actual problems. Fighting cartoon villains is pathetic.

Crack a newspaper once or twice and observe that the Democrats have. Read further and observe that the GOP is actively creating more problems - expensive insulin, anyone? Veterans without healthcare, anyone?

You’re not a gadfly. You’re just annoying and spouting right wing lines.

Wildly better idea: seek out inputs beyond conventional sources. Engage all information, especially that from the powerful, with as much critical capacity as you have.

Stop being so slavishly loyal. It’s always a path to failure!

We don’t need your lecture about using non conventional sources to obtain news because we’re using the primary source. We know more about the insurrection than you do because we’re witnessing the testimony of people who have insider knowledge and are sharing that knowledge under penalty of perjury. I’m not relying on someone else to characterize what a witness has said; I’m listening to the witness’s own testimony under oath. You’re never going to get a source more accurate than that.

Lol…you’re clueless enough to call it primary source knowledge of an insurrection. I’m pretty sure if it’s a crime, it’s sedition, not insurrection.

Once again, my lazy interlocutors show themselves to be Doubly Credulous, Unrepentantly Moronic.

[Anonymous]

I am as going to watch it but i ended up binging below deck Mediterranean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am as going to watch it but i ended up binging below deck Mediterranean.

Huge mistake. The hearings were a thousand times better

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, what is the reason we should watch a hearing on an unpopular ex president?

Holding the perpetrators of an attempted coup accountable is the bare minimum requirement for maintaining representative democracy. Every issue is important: Covid, the economy, health care, education, climate change, military power, and on and on…but we don’t have any say at all in how any of these issues are handled if we no longer have a democracy. The convergence of corruption at the highest levels, the MAGA cult of personality, and domestic terror groups posed/poses a grave threat to our country — the kind of threat Congress should be addressing.

Even if Trump is never President again, the Republican Party has been working diligently to rig the election apparatus in red states. They haven’t stopped attempting a coup; they’re just going about it more gradually.

You don’t have to watch if you don’t want to, but we all benefit from an informed electorate. If you don’t understand the importance of this investigation and its public airing, you are not informed.

This.

But the kind of proud ignorance is where the GOP is right now. Completely wrong but convinced of their correctness.

Radical/progressive/gadfly here: pull your heads out of your a-holes and start engaging people’s actual problems. Fighting cartoon villains is pathetic.

Crack a newspaper once or twice and observe that the Democrats have. Read further and observe that the GOP is actively creating more problems - expensive insulin, anyone? Veterans without healthcare, anyone?

You’re not a gadfly. You’re just annoying and spouting right wing lines.

Wildly better idea: seek out inputs beyond conventional sources. Engage all information, especially that from the powerful, with as much critical capacity as you have.

Stop being so slavishly loyal. It’s always a path to failure!

We don’t need your lecture about using non conventional sources to obtain news because we’re using the primary source. We know more about the insurrection than you do because we’re witnessing the testimony of people who have insider knowledge and are sharing that knowledge under penalty of perjury. I’m not relying on someone else to characterize what a witness has said; I’m listening to the witness’s own testimony under oath. You’re never going to get a source more accurate than that.

Lol…you’re clueless enough to call it primary source knowledge of an insurrection. I’m pretty sure if it’s a crime, it’s sedition, not insurrection.

Once again, my lazy interlocutors show themselves to be Doubly Credulous, Unrepentantly Moronic.

Eyewitness testimony is a primary source. Why does that trigger you?

[Anonymous]

Just to show how important the American people find these hearings....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can’t handle the truth.

Or - they have better things to do? Alphabetizing canned goods for example.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They can’t handle the truth.

Or - they have better things to do? Alphabetizing canned goods for example.

It’s good to see Republicans fully unmasked in how much they hate this country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, what is the reason we should watch a hearing on an unpopular ex president?

Holding the perpetrators of an attempted coup accountable is the bare minimum requirement for maintaining representative democracy. Every issue is important: Covid, the economy, health care, education, climate change, military power, and on and on…but we don’t have any say at all in how any of these issues are handled if we no longer have a democracy. The convergence of corruption at the highest levels, the MAGA cult of personality, and domestic terror groups posed/poses a grave threat to our country — the kind of threat Congress should be addressing.

Even if Trump is never President again, the Republican Party has been working diligently to rig the election apparatus in red states. They haven’t stopped attempting a coup; they’re just going about it more gradually.

You don’t have to watch if you don’t want to, but we all benefit from an informed electorate. If you don’t understand the importance of this investigation and its public airing, you are not informed.

This.

But the kind of proud ignorance is where the GOP is right now. Completely wrong but convinced of their correctness.

Radical/progressive/gadfly here: pull your heads out of your a-holes and start engaging people’s actual problems. Fighting cartoon villains is pathetic.

Crack a newspaper once or twice and observe that the Democrats have. Read further and observe that the GOP is actively creating more problems - expensive insulin, anyone? Veterans without healthcare, anyone?

You’re not a gadfly. You’re just annoying and spouting right wing lines.

Wildly better idea: seek out inputs beyond conventional sources. Engage all information, especially that from the powerful, with as much critical capacity as you have.

Stop being so slavishly loyal. It’s always a path to failure!

We don’t need your lecture about using non conventional sources to obtain news because we’re using the primary source. We know more about the insurrection than you do because we’re witnessing the testimony of people who have insider knowledge and are sharing that knowledge under penalty of perjury. I’m not relying on someone else to characterize what a witness has said; I’m listening to the witness’s own testimony under oath. You’re never going to get a source more accurate than that.

Lol…you’re clueless enough to call it primary source knowledge of an insurrection. I’m pretty sure if it’s a crime, it’s sedition, not insurrection.

Once again, my lazy interlocutors show themselves to be Doubly Credulous, Unrepentantly Moronic.

Participating in an insurrection could lead to a criminal charge of sedition. Not everyone who engaged in a violent act on 1/6 is charged with sedition. Try to keep up instead of engaging in pointless sophistry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just to show how important the American people find these hearings....

I actually participated in this poll.

I said I mostly did not watch (had extended family medical emergency and I did almost nothing else) and it did but change my mind.

I already knew Trump was the instigator of a failed coup. I do look at the nightlights of the hearings.

[Anonymous]

It did NOT change my mind. And yes, I have looked at HIGHlights of the hearings.

[Anonymous]

Many people are not watching because they know Trump is guilty of plotting a coup.

I am the only person in my entire group of family and friends who are watching this. Everyone else catches highlights on TV. They are all convinced he knowingly fomented an insurrection, and don't feel they need to watch the entire thing.

I'm sure a lot of Trump fans think exactly the opposite, and don't watch for the same reason.