The January 6 Committee holds a fifth public hearing to outline its findings after a year of investigating the Capitol attack in 2021. https://www.c-span.org/video/?521076-1/hearing-investigation-capitol-attack
I just saw that today is the 77th anniversary of the conclusion of the Battle of Okinawa, the last land battle in WWII. Estimated that 200,000 died there and that one quarter were Okinawan civilians.
Dog help me, if I lived in Wyoming, I would switch parties and vote for Cheney. Better her than another Trumpist.
NEW NEWS: Liz Cheney is sending mail to Wyoming Democrats with instructions on how to switch parties to vote for her in the state’s August primary. https://t.co/wR5asnnkGR pic.twitter.com/imnhKYccrL
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) June 23, 2022
Gov Beshear declares state of emergency to activate price-gouging laws on gas prices https://t.co/KF35rLncTV
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) June 23, 2022
Flores: My post is actually against it.
Narrator: It wasn’t. https://t.co/EU4ic16tBu— CJ Warnke (@cjwarnke) June 23, 2022
Do Trump’s “allies” have a single piece of actual, fact-based evidence that contradicts what has been put forth by the committee? No. That’s the story. https://t.co/DKn81xa5Fb
— Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org ☮️ (@froomkin) June 23, 2022
Part 1: The bookend to the coming decision on Roe: GOP SCOTUS majority restricts ability of blue states to regulate guns & will likely expand the ability of red states to restrict abortion. Issue isn’t states’ rights: it’s imposing conservative priorities across red & blue states https://t.co/gLxiR2cID5
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 23, 2022
I’d go further. It’s about imposing misogynistic Christian fascist beliefs and denying rights to all others.
Soup news update
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Liz Cheney just said they’re naming names of House GOP Reps who the Trump White House said asked for pardons at the conclusion of today’s J6 Hearing.
whoop…
re: #6 lawhawk
I’d go further. It’s about imposing misogynistic Christian fascist beliefs and denying rights to all others.
We have never gotten past the bad faith of “states rights! (but also the Fugitive Slave Laws).”
I know I’m supposed to be thankful that Adam Kinzinger is on the right side now.
But I find it very difficult to reconcile that with the fact that he recently voted AGAINST voting rights legislation, and voted for Trump’s agenda more than 90% of the time.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 23, 2022
re: #10 Charles Johnson
He’s not doing any of this because it’s the right thing to do. Neither is Liz.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Both Kinzinger and Cheney voted with Trump 90% of time or more.
Cheney was more supportive of the Trump agenda than the extremist lunatic that replaced her in GOP leadership - Stefanik.
But yeah, we’re supposed to thank our stars that these two right wing extremists aren’t on board with full fascist agenda. They’re incrementalists who want to get there eventually without the shortcut of ending democracy in America.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Welcome to my world: I know I’m supposed to be thankful for the high quality work my coworkers produce, but they voted for TFG.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Its an extremely low bar, but he and Cheney are among the very few congressional Republicans who oppose the use of fraud and violence to reverse a democratic election.
I can hear Trump saying, “they’re both named Jeff. Who would notice.”
Jeff Clark was so clearly in it out of personal ambition. He saw a narrow opening thru which he might win a top job that wld otherwise never be his. Coup? If that’s what it takes. Which is how fascism works: it substitutes stunted would-be big men’s shows for democracy.
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) June 23, 2022
The entirety of the recent “2nd Amendment” push by Conservatives in recent decades can be summed up like this:
They want a race war of attrition to occur. Out of control guns are a central part of this strategy.
Their theory is that in order to eliminate all other ethnic groups, especially Blacks and Latinos, some losses of white people are acceptable as long as they kill undesirables in the process in a war of attrition. Those minorities and other undesirables remaining are to be expelled from the US by any means necessary. Sorry to those Blacks and Latinos currently helping radical white groups in their quest thinking they will be part of the spoils of war action once the smoke clears. You will not be. You will also soon after come into the crosshairs.
Liberals of any stripe are to be subjugated, imprisoned or killed as well. Deep into the 4Chan abyss there are also those that wish to re-institute slavery of white liberals, especially sex slavery of desirable young white girls. Don’t think they don’t mean it or are not prepared to go through with it. So far they have gotten pretty much everything they have wanted out of a corrupted and partisan 2022 SCOTUS. They are planning for more and more once the 2022 Midterms are done and the 2024 big election takes place they feel they will be in position to finally follow through on all the rhetoric they have vomited out the past 40 years.
re: #11 GlutenFreeJesus
He’s not doing any of this because it’s the right thing to do. Neither is Liz.
I can’t read their minds, but they have both committed political suicide. Neither of them will be in Congress next year, and I doubt either of them will ever be able to run for office as a Republican again. So I don’t know what their motive could be other than doing the right thing. If Cheney actually think’s she can gain control of a de-Trumpified GOP, she’s fantasizing.
@USSupremeCourt This. pic.twitter.com/NUdK3ytdIQ
— Bonnie Johnson (@BonnieSalm) June 23, 2022
re: #6 lawhawk
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I’d go further. It’s about imposing misogynistic Christian fascist beliefs and denying rights to all others.
Overturning Roe v Wade is just the first salvo: soon it will be illegal or practically impossible to obtain a legal abortion anywhere in the USA.
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Overturning Roe v Wade is just the first salvo: soon it will be illegal or practically impossible to obtain a legal abortion anywhere in the USA.
They’re not just going to end abortion access, but access to contraceptives, roll back gay rights, and a whole host of other settled laws. They’re going to do incalculable damage. They’ve made it explicitly clear that this is their goal.
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Overturning Roe v Wade is just the first salvo: soon it will be illegal or practically impossible to obtain a legal abortion anywhere in the USA.
That last step will be difficult to take. Remember the GOP spent years running as their top priority repealing Obamacare, but once they finally had the chance it was so unpopular they couldn’t round up enough votes to do it. McConnell can hide behind the filibuster as an excuse not to pass a federal law banning abortion. They will, however, rescind FDA approval for providing abortion pills by mail.
re: #21 lawhawk
They’re not just going to end abortion access, but access to contraceptives, roll back gay rights, and a whole host of other settled laws. They’re going to do incalculable damage. They’ve made it explicitly clear that this is their goal.
That is certainly their long term goal, if we allow them to establish a fascist dictatorship in the US.
re: #21 lawhawk
Feeling pretty confident Obergefell will go down around this time next year.
hmmm
NEW: On the radio, Ron Johnson says the false electors documents came from Mike Kelly’s office. #wisen
— danny (@dabbs346) June 23, 2022
Ron Johnson tells Vicki McKenna on the false electors documents: “My office’s entire involvement in this thing lasted 70 minutes.” #wisen
— danny (@dabbs346) June 23, 2022
You won’t believe this but Ron Johnson is blaming the media for his seeking to overturn the election, tells Vicki McKenna “the press would not buy my truth.” #wisen
— danny (@dabbs346) June 23, 2022
Eric Herschmann, former WH official, to Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark: “When he finished discussing what he planned on doing, I said, good fucking a-hole, congratulations, you just admitted your first step or act you would take as attorney general would be committing a felony”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 23, 2022
GOHMERT!!! pic.twitter.com/fwzFWulUwM
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 23, 2022
re: #27 Charles Johnson
I could swear his eyes are getting closer together.
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ron Johnson tells Vicki McKenna on the false electors documents: “My office’s entire involvement in this thing lasted 70 minutes.”
So did Sitting Bull’s involvement in the Battle of Little Big Horn
Quite the rogue’s gallery of screaming assholes in that little clip.
Good reminder that Bartiromo was the last refuge of this scoundrel, the one who would go in for the most absurd crap and just kept coming back for more. Worst of the worst.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 23, 2022
End of day will show which congresspeople asked for pardons. #HATH
— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@HC_Richardson) June 23, 2022
Who’ll be named on the list of those who sought pardons for their role in the seditious conspiracy to end democracy in America?
Gaetz, Gosar, Greene, Boebert all come to mind, but I’d throw in Eastman, Meadows, and Clark for good measure.
You’re not asking for blanket pardons if you’re following the law. You’re asking for pardons if you know what you’re doing should send you to Club Fed for a long time.
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
You won’t believe this but Ron Johnson is blaming the media for his seeking to overturn the election, tells Vicki McKenna “the press would not buy my truth.”
The same guy who told us he was on the phone when his dark screen was visible?
“You’re an environmental lawyer. How about you go back to your office, and we’ll call you when there’s an oil spill” — former acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue on what he said to Jeff Clark during the infamous January 3 meeting pic.twitter.com/ScuWUogjVr
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 23, 2022
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Just remember this is nothing more than self serving ass saving performance art.
They laid the bricks for this wall of shit. Gleefully. Fed and watered the fucking weeds that threaten us all. Gleefully. Happily.
Even Liz Cheney is just afraid her daddies party will be damaged.
News services, every last fucking one of them, have failed. It’s like a story. A tale. Maybe book money. Exciting. Thrilling.
And never forget both sides bullshit non stop.
They. Do. Not. Care.
You are free to die and have all you worked for stripped from your family.
Same as it ever was.
Wordle on, Wordle on, Wordle on into the next day.
Wordle 370 4/6
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Type: Canyon
There’s one possible letter that it will definitely not be. (Ceci n’est pas une spoiler.)
Trump Admin Dep AG, Republican lawyer, 20 years in 82nd Airborne, and soon to be labeled traitorous RINO, Richard Donoghue.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 23, 2022
“Hey, look, Justice Thomas, your new interpretation of the Second Amendment failed to prevent another massacre.”
I’ll give these guys credit: they held the line. They didn’t play ball. But it is worth noting that even running law enforcement investigations of palpably absurd stories is itself REALLY bad. In the context maybe it was the best option. But it’s still very, very bad.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 23, 2022
re: #17 Florida Panhandler
At any given moment in the history of whiteness, the boundaries of who is white are being re-negotaited opportunistically. Whole ethnicities exist in a racial version of quantum indeterminacy: the Irish aren’t white, they’re a kind of lesser white person that can be wielded against non-whites, and then their white. Except when an IRA bomb goes off, in which cases they rapidly descend back into the zone of other-ness.
The best-faith actors within white supremacy might emphasize white solidarity earnestly, but then the other values they hold—rugged individualism, natural hierarchy, meritocracy—mean that resources appropriated through inequality will not be distributed fairly even inside their volkisch sense of solidarity. Ardent Nazis may have completely believed their race schlock, but somehow they got their cut of stolen money—enough to buy castles and estates—first. And what they did let trickle down was doled out not according to need, but according to whim: to projects they found engrossing, to people they rewarded for loyalty.
Because—are you sensing a theme yet—the point isn’t to create actual, concrete distinction between peoples and stick to them, it’s to use the idea of distinction to steal shit and wield power unchecked.
Steve Engel doesn’t look too happy being here. pic.twitter.com/OiPfQbHOeB
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 23, 2022
Steven Engel, you’ll remember, oversaw memos that prevented the prosecution of Trump for hush payments, among other things. pic.twitter.com/JBEjJFOiYy
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 23, 2022
re: #14 No Malarkey!
That, or they want it to be THEIR fraud & violence, not those other guys’.
Just like when Trump asked Zelensky just to announce an investigation of Biden, he wanted DOJ to announce the election was corrupt. In both cases, an obvious crime. The fact that he wanted DOJ to announce corruption which he knew was not based on evidence demonstrates Trump’s criminal intent.
It’s almost as if Americans believe SCOTUS has taken its reputation and gone and nullif- https://t.co/j4jIdphi3E
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 23, 2022
The Colorado Republican told The Daily Beast she and her husband were surprised last week to receive notice from their landlord, a cannabis retailer, that their lease for Shooters would not be renewed after the building’s ownership changed hands last month, and the lawmaker said they would have to find another location or close for good.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
You’re posting from my future. I had to pause the hearing during a meeting and am now way behind.
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
It don’t mater, those guys are in for life.
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It don’t mater, those guys are in for life.
If we can make it a big enough issue, they could get more company.
re: #49 Belafon
If we can make it a big enough issue, they could get more company.
That would be our only salvation, but the way the next election is stacking up, both in terms of votes cast and votes that are likely to get counted/certified, the GOP are going to wrest a majority of both houses.
I bought a wig on eBay for one dollar today.
I thought it was a cheap price to pay.
re: #41 The Ghost of a Flea
At any given moment in the history of whiteness, the boundaries of who is white are being re-negotaited opportunistically. Whole ethnicities exist in a racial version of quantum indeterminacy: the Irish aren’t white, they’re a kind of lesser white person that can be wielded against non-whites, and then their white. Except when an IRA bomb goes off, in which cases they rapidly descend back into the zone of other-ness.
The best-faith actors within white supremacy might emphasize white solidarity earnestly, but then the other values they hold—rugged individualism, natural hierarchy, meritocracy—mean that resources appropriated through inequality will not be distributed fairly. Ardent Nazis may have completely believed their race schlock, but somehow they got their cut of stolen money—enough to buy castles and estates—first. And what they did let trickle down was doled out not according to need, but according to whim: to projects they found engrossing, to people they rewarded for loyalty.
Because—are you sensing a theme yet—the point isn’t to create actual, concrete distinction between peoples and stick to them, it’s to use the idea of distinction to steal shit and wield power unchecked.
So, ultimately, only the damn British gentry are white—again.
The Star-bellied Sneeches had bellies with stars, but the Plain-bellied Sneeches had no stars on thars…
This is a great way to get me to block you. pic.twitter.com/MIKkYH6Q1i
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 23, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris met with attorneys general from seven Democratic-led states and suggested they might be able to lead legal challenges of any new state abortion restrictions that grow out of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling. https://t.co/NMOrmw3Pld
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 23, 2022
In KY, @KyHealthJustice & @A_Fund_Ky, the biggest local donors that financially support those seeking an abortion, saw a donation boon after a leaked SCOTUS opinion showed the court would overturn #roevwade. Here’s how they’re fighting to ensure access. 🧵https://t.co/Upa9ER928T pic.twitter.com/unLhOSJg92
— Lexington Herald-Leader (@heraldleader) June 23, 2022
re: #6 lawhawk
What makes anyone think that SCOTUS won’t ban abortions across the United States and its overseas territories? Why would they allow abortions in blue states?
OMG—Ken fucking Blackwell rears his ugly head. If Ken’s involved, it’s guaranteed bullshit.
re: #59 BeachDem
OMG—Ken fucking Blackwell rears his ugly head. If Ken’s involved, it’s guaranteed bullshit.
I screamed out WHOA, not this MF again really loud in the house seeing is name. Fuck that guy.
re: #60 HRH Stanley Sea
This is amazing horrible shit
You knew in your heart it was.
But this totally fascist?
jfc
Thoughts and prayers my ass.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
The wacky spelling or the condescension would either be enough reason to block on their own.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Star-bellied Sneeches had bellies with stars, but the Plain-bellied Sneeches had no stars on thars…
re: #51 William Lewis
I bought a wig on eBay for one dollar today.
I thought it was a cheap price to pay.
Your dog will thank you.
re: #58 Patricia Kayden
What makes anyone think that SCOTUS won’t ban abortions across the United States and its overseas territories? Why would they allow abortions in blue states?
Alito didn’t do that in his leaked opinion. They aren’t ready to make that big a leap yet.
re: #61 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
I screamed out WHOA, not this MF again really loud in the house seeing is name. Fuck that guy.
He is the lowest of the low; a dirtbag of the first order. I also screamed out loud when his little quote appeared.
Everything they tried to do remains possible to do.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 23, 2022
re: #58 Patricia Kayden
What makes anyone think that SCOTUS won’t ban abortions across the United States and its overseas territories? Why would they allow abortions in blue states?
I don’t think even this SCOTUS majority is stupid enough to try that — Blue state America would tell SCOTUS to piss up a rope, fatally undermining the legitimacy and power of the Supreme Court.
Every member of Congress who worked to overturn the election should be prosecuted. Not just resign. Prosecuted. #January6thHearings
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 23, 2022
When I’m Florida Attorney General, I will immediately investigate Ron DeSantis’ election police force.
Come join our campaign and contribute $5 here: https://t.co/iYKDwq0mKm— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) June 23, 2022
re: #58 Patricia Kayden
What makes anyone think that SCOTUS won’t ban abortions across the United States and its overseas territories? Why would they allow abortions in blue states?
Remember how they simply started hollowing out access to abortion? They don’t care how they achieve it as long as it is no longer possible to obtain a legal abortion in the USA.
I would suggest a lobotomy for Trump…..but it wouldn’t help, that is how far gone he is.
“Just sent you something on Signal.”
That’s the kind of thing you need to seize someone’s phones—as DOJ did today—to obtain. pic.twitter.com/L1e7QYIIJm— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 23, 2022
re: #73 Egregious Philbin
I would suggest a lobotomy for Trump…..but it wouldn’t help, that is how far gone he is.
In his case, it might even be an IMPROVEMENT.
Engel is describing the role of the Office of Legal Counsel as merely presenting “legal advice” to the government. No mention of its role in fabricating secret law … like the OLC memo saying that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 23, 2022
Again, in this hearing, a continuation of the theme: everyone bending over backwards to take seriously the obviously ludicrous and false ravings of this sociopath.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 23, 2022
BREAKING: Steve Engel, who wrote a memo to kill the investigation into hush payments and another to attempt to kill the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, talks about the import of protecting Criminal investigations. pic.twitter.com/sJUTjzWJ8E
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 23, 2022
A really important reminder that Clark was installed to help Trump on the E Jean Carroll suit. https://t.co/eySS4mggho
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 23, 2022
re: #46 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Yay capitalism!
Donald Trump is a criminal. I don’t know if he’ll ever be indicted. I don’t know if he’ll ever be convicted. I don’t know if he’ll ever be behind bars. But he’s a criminal. It’s impossible to listen to these hearings and think otherwise. He’s a criminal.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 23, 2022
Seems like Osama Bin Laden did win after all.
We laid waste to a vast area and just about incinerated ourselves.
“If we don’t fight them over there, we’ll have to fight them here!”
They were always here.
In fact they sit in high office and make laws and police the public.
Yay.
Put another flag up Jimmy!
there is something fundamentally wrong with the notion that if we got our guy into the doj and he signed the thing that would somehow miraculously make it legal
im thinking this is true of the court too
just because we got our 6 on the panel and they sign the thing, doesnt make it legit, no matter how pretzel twisted the justification
re: #41 The Ghost of a Flea
And what they did let trickle down was doled out not according to need, but according to whim: to projects they found engrossing, to people they rewarded for loyalty.
And this is how we know Trump is not a Nazi. He never rewards people for loyalty.
Is a /s really necessary?
AK, almost let conspiracy “shit” get past in a misspeak.
BREAKING: DOJ releases statement that they “respectfully disagree” with Supreme Court’s ruling on New York gun law: “The Department of Justice remains committed to saving innocent lives by enforcing and defending federal firearms laws.” https://t.co/DZ7dBEjJ36 pic.twitter.com/OdFm2rdOhz
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 23, 2022
This is not the most important point by any stretch, but one of the many takeaways from the Clark/Rosen exchanges is just how much power current law gives the President to bypass the Senate by temporarily filling vacancies *he* creates.
Vacancies reform should be a bigger deal.— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 23, 2022
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
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my disagreement is… not in the least “respectfully”.
That’s the difference between me and DoJ.
Look who’s watching the hearings. pic.twitter.com/LuXbUpSaXz
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 23, 2022
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
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sure
jordan, gosar, et al do it all the time
you’d know if you paid attention
but then, that stuff usually isnt about you
Look who’s watching the hearings. pic.twitter.com/LuXbUpSaXz
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 23, 2022
jfc
“You have mass stabbings, lady” — Marjorie Taylor Greene to a British reporter https://t.co/7vbp6RO9su
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 23, 2022
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not only are shooting deaths far worse than stabbings, the US actually has more stabbings than the UK https://t.co/QoLtiFfp36
— Zachary Edgerton (@DrBioBrain) June 23, 2022
White House call logs from January 3 show that Jeff Clark was referred to as “acting attorney general” even though he didn’t officially have the job pic.twitter.com/fiMU2WvxXl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 23, 2022
I’ll bet trump was just charming in that meeting when they told him they’d all resign. I’m sure he was sanguine and charming…///
TFG is considering replacing the AG
he’s told that virtually all of leadership would resign
ok that didnt happen
so yet again i ask:
why did ZERO of these guys publicly sound the alarm of what TFG was even CONSIDERING?
Ken Cucinelli and Ken Blackwell—quite a pair of creepy, evil, lying assholes.
re: #95 Crush White Nationalism
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From the GOP SCOTUS “justices” to the MAGA hat libertarian, the “law and order” people have shown they don’t care about law. They just want to keep order by force of arms.
congratulations to Jeffrey Clark, the most recent graduate of the University of Fuck Around and Find Out
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 23, 2022
re: #99 Dangerman
TFG is considering replacing the AG
he’s told that virtually all of leadership would resignok that didnt happen
so yet again i ask:
why did ZERO of these guys publicly sound the alarm of what TFG was even CONSIDERING?
IIRC, we did hear about that.
oh gee, Ron Jonhson lied
it wasn’t just ‘an aide / intern’
“A former judge who legally represented President Donald Trump coordinated with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WY) to pass documents falsely stating Trump won Wisconsin to then-Vice President Mike Pence as Pence was set to confirm Joe Biden as the next president on Jan. 6, 2021, newly revealed messages show,” the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
re: #103 Belafon
IIRC, we did hear about that.
I thought so too. At least the broad strokes that he was shopping around for a new AG.
Useful distinctions:
Retail death—
Day-in, day-out, does not change the direction of the nation. (Crime, mass shootings)
Wholesale death—
Large exceptional tolls, does change the nation. (War, epidemic, some disasters)
National extinction—
Says it all. America repeatedly accepts wholesale death to avoid losing the nation.
In a text message today, Republican Michele Lundgren restates that the 1st page of the electors certificate, which featured multiple false statements, wasn’t offered to the 16 Trump electors in Michigan to read.
She says the only page “offered to us to read” was this one: pic.twitter.com/aK2MviJDtb— Craig Mauger (@CraigDMauger) June 21, 2022
Oh man, they’re making clear that Gaetz wanted a pardon that covered sex trafficking minors in addition to 1/6. lmao
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 23, 2022
re: #100 BeachDem
Ken Cucinelli and Ken Blackwell—quite a pair of creepy, evil, lying assholes.
Evil beyond our ken, but not beyond those Kens.
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
jfc
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A few years ago, a couple of people were killed and several more injured when 3 crazies attacked a London pub with knives and swords. The Metropolitan police armed squad arrived and instantly shot the terrrorists down like rabid dogs, for the very good reason that they were wearing visible bomb belts. The belts turned out to be fake, not the first time performative bullshit has gone terribly wrong and probably not the last. Sucks to be them, but I wondered at the time how long it had been since the Met police had killed 3 people in one incident, if ever.
I looked it up. Can’t find it now but I had to go all the way back to 1925, when Met officers killed 4 armed bank robbers in a shootout that followed a botched robbery.
Unlike, say, the Uvalde cops, the bobbies were not out gunned. The robbers had small caliber revolvers, the cops had a Lewis machine gun and Lee Enfield rifles.
BOOM:
Kinzinger says days after Jan. 6, Republican lawmakers requested pardons as Trump was on his way out the door.
Five days after attack on Capitol, pardon requests come in from Rep. Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Gohmert, Perry pic.twitter.com/kjg72AlfZw— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) June 23, 2022
Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson said Rep. Jim Jordan Talked about pardons but never asked for one specifically. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asked for one indirectly.
Trump’s ass’t John McEntee confirms Gaetz et al asked for pardon— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) June 23, 2022
while kinzinger is right, you generallly dont seek a pardon unless you did something wrong….
we all know what the now identified R’s are gonna say:
i though i’d need a pardon because the D’s (or whoever) would unfairly investigate/prosecute me
I wonder if British reporters get combat pay for working in Washington.
re: #116 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Unlike, say, the Uvalde cops, the bobbies were not out gunned. The robbers had small caliber revolvers, the cops had a Lewis machine gun and Lee Enfield rifles.
And doubtless many would have served in the trenches just a few years earlier.
President Trump’s Coup*
*Including hundreds of co-conspirators.
re: #106 Teddy’s Person
I thought so too. At least the broad strokes that he was shopping around for a new AG.
i remember that too
maybe i dont remember the rest
but the reasons why / what TFG was trying to do, and what they said would happen if….this should have been a 10 alarm siren
general “all purpose” pardons…
yeah Gaetz really wanted/needed one of those: a total get out of jail free card for everything, not just January 6
“They are lying today…”
Vast majority of GOP congress reps still pushing insurrection and the Big Lie https://t.co/5cRrtllUKK
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) June 23, 2022
re: #123 Dangerman
i remember that too
maybe i dont remember the restbut the reasons why / what TFG was trying to do, and what they said would happen if….this should have been a 10 alarm siren
I remember hearing Jeff Clark’s name, and about similar stories about the Department of Defense.
re: #69 EPR-radar
But SCOTUS just struck down a gun licensing rule that several blue states had enacted. I don’t see that Roe being overturned by SCOTUS doesn’t eventually lead to the complete banning of abortion through the country. If 2024 turns out to be a red wave with a Republican in the White House and Republicans in Congress, reproductive rights are toast.
I’m optimistic enough to believe that Democrats will get off their butts and vote like hell to avoid that outcome. We handily beat Trump after all.
re: #125 jaunte
“They are lying today…”
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Vast majority of GOP congress reps still pushing insurrection and the Big Lie https://t.co/5cRrtllUKK
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) June 23, 2022
i just want to point out that back during watergate, Robert Klein opined about how they got John Stennis to be the one to listen to ‘the tapes’
that there was a meeting in which Nixon said to Haig “Al, get me a deaf senator, I’ll do the rest”
re: #127 Patricia Kayden
But SCOTUS just struck down a gun licensing rule that several blue states had enacted. I don’t see that Roe being overturned by SCOTUS doesn’t eventually lead to the complete banning of abortion through the country. If 2024 turns out to be a red wave with a Republican in the White House and Republicans in Congress, reproductive rights are toast.
I’m optimistic enough to believe that Democrats will get off their butts and vote like hell to avoid that outcome. We handily beat Trump after all.
How did they know his name? https://t.co/ruC1zkUwwb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 23, 2022
re: #130 Charles Johnson
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re: #130 Charles Johnson
How did they know his name?
He had a name tag sewn into his underwear. Summer camp, y’know.
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re: #130 Charles Johnson
I thought it was Dumas, but what do I know…
re: #132 sagehen
He had a name tag sewn into his underwear. Summer camp, y’know.
Found a large stone embedded under its hide: lithic-chipped.
I was pretty surprised how TFG treated his DOJ staff. Shouldn’t have been, I suppose.
But his complete pig ignorance of how The Federal Government works and what a petty little tyrant he is is amazing. He’s a tiny man, puling if he doesn’t get his way. Oh, and he had no time to learn during the four years he was in office? What a maroon.
Indict the fucker, Merrick, try him and send him to prison for seditious conspiracy, along with his entire batch of Congressional enablers.
file under: Poorly Aged Tweets pic.twitter.com/dESji2qggY
— Fiddler (@cFidd) June 23, 2022
A general, all-purpose pardon.
Is that even an actual fucking thing you can get?
re: #136 austin_blue
I was pretty surprised how TFG treated his DOJ staff. Shouldn’t have been, I suppose.
But his complete pig ignorance of how The Federal Government works and what a petty little tyrant he is is amazing. He’s a tiny man, puling if he doesn’t get his way. Oh, and he had no time to learn during the four years he was in office? What a maroon.
Indict the fucker, Merrick, try him and send him to prison for seditious conspiracy, along with his entire batch of Congressional enablers.
indict him for everything he did
re: #127 Patricia Kayden
But SCOTUS just struck down a gun licensing rule that several blue states had enacted. I don’t see that Roe being overturned by SCOTUS doesn’t eventually lead to the complete banning of abortion through the country. If 2024 turns out to be a red wave with a Republican in the White House and Republicans in Congress, reproductive rights are toast.
I’m optimistic enough to believe that Democrats will get off their butts and vote like hell to avoid that outcome. We handily beat Trump after all.
What would happen to states should they just ignore the RvW ruling of the SC, and Biden lets them?
re: #140 GlutenFreeJesus
What would happen to states should they just ignore the RvW ruling of the SC, and Biden lets them?
re: #34 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The same guy who told us he was on the phone when his dark screen was visible?
you’ve got it the wrong way around.
When you are on the phone your screen is dark.
When you are pretending to be on the phone it is lit.
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