Category Archives: History and Politics
Voter suppression pays off, baby
I’ve been wondering how that ignorant fuck Ron Johnson from Wisconsin won re-election to the Senate for the next six years. Heather explains:
Robert Spindell, an election commissioner in Wisconsin who was one of Trump’s fake electors in 2020, wrote an email to about 1700 people saying that Republicans “can be especially proud of the City of Milwaukee (80.2% Dem Vote) casting 37,000 less votes than cast in the 2018 election with the major reduction happening in the overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.” Senator Ron Johnson won reelection in that race over Democratic candidate Mandela Barnes, who is from Milwaukee, by about 27,000 votes.
Take away the fucking mags, they’re not here to kill me!
Democracy in action in the People’s house.
First order of business for the 222-213 Republican majority in the House — take the fucking magnetometers out! Elected representatives have every right to go on to the floor of the House on the honor system, and if they want to bring a gun, so? Second Amendment, bitches, absolute right to bear arms wherever you want. Also, smoke cigarettes, let those who object to second hand smoke choke on it, the nanny state health Nazis.
Second order of business, change rules, impose term limits on Dems, do not appoint a quorum to the Office of Conressional Ethics, now chaired by Elise Stefanik. Honor system, fuckfaces. Investigations of traitorous Democrats only, please. You can read about it on the gop.gov website, description by George Santos (https://www.gop.gov/committee/ethics/) [1]
Defund the IRS. No need to replace thousands of IRS workers leaving over the next few years, or to increase enforcement of tax laws, particularly against the wealthy and well-lawyered. Tax is murder! Starve the administrative state!
Investigate the FBI, DOJ and the January 6th Committee. The child-blood drinking libtard cuck Demoncrats have weaponized federal law enforcement to corruptly persecute Trump and all those who are falsely imprisoned for legitimate political discourse. Cops lost eyes during the January 6th protest at the Capitol? They shouldn’t have fucking fought the will of the People.
We will shut down the goddamn government if we don’t get exactly what we want! That’s what the debt ceiling is for, cucks.
The Red Wave, ladies and gentlemen.
[1]
House Republicans moved to pre-emptively kill any investigations against its members as it curtailed the power of an independent ethics office just as it was weighing whether to open inquiries into lawmakers who defied subpoenas issued by the House January 6 select committee last year.
The incoming Republican majority also paved the way for a new special subcommittee with a wide mandate to investigate the US justice department and intelligence agencies, which could include reviewing the criminal investigations into Donald Trump and a Republican congressman caught up in the Capitol attack inquiry.
The measures took effect as House Republicans narrowly passed the new rules package that included the changes for the next Congress, 220-213, setting the stage for politically charged fights with the Biden administration over access to classified materials and details of criminal investigations.
Fair point
The very stable genius who would be dictator, in any other country, would already be locked up somewhere awaiting his trial, for several crimes. Here, where we are scrupulous about fairness to extremely wealthy and powerful citizens, and seeing that it is only two years from the date of his multipronged crimes against the US government, the Department of Justice is still deliberating over exactly how to proceed. Democracy and the rights of extremely powerful, angry, violent, anti-democratic players need to be carefully balanced, apparently. You could fairly say it was the intent of the framers.
Here’s a nice piece of evidence against the very stable genius himself, a smoking gun, if you will, nicely presented by Ari Melber.
Tropical Trump and Global fascist Bannon
Heather Cox Richardson, writing about yesterday’s Brazilian version of January 6, 2021 (accomplished after a consultation visit to Bolsonaro from Sloppy Steve Bannon) flagged this ‘social media’ post by the big orange polyp.
“‘Tropical Trump’ as he is affectionately called, has done a GREAT job for the wonderful people of Brazil,” Trump said on his social media outlet. “When I was President of the U.S., there was no other country leader who called me more than Jair.”
Jair, you recall, famously said he’d kill his son if he turned out to be a homosexual. More ominously, he lamented the mistake of the military coup he took part in as a junior officer — their failure to murder another forty to fifty thousand members of the intelligentsia, labor and church leaders and so on. If those dissident fucks were all dead, you’d have a wonderful dictatorship in Brazil.
Heather concludes, after a sampling of condemnations of the violence by US, UN and EU officials:
As of 11:00 tonight, neither House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) nor Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had any comment on the events in Brazil.
By Sunday night, Brazilian police had retaken control of the vandalized buildings and arrested 170 rioters.
Look, McConnell and McCarthy can’t condemn this kind of murderous fascist riot without crossing a party line. They can’t acknowledge that the official Republican party position on the recent American assault on the Capitol — “legitimate political discourse” — is a steaming pile of dung. They must act like it’s totally fine, if you lose an election and claim for months (with a $50,000,000 dark money ad campaign) that it was stolen, to express yourself with massive violence and organized lawlessness. That’s all, according to the Republican National Committee, protected by the First Amendment, and the Second — and the Fifth!
Anyone who sees daylight between the aims and methods of the MAGA party, the fanatical fans of Bolsonaro, and the good old brawling Nazi party is hallucinating.
Excellent telling of Kevin McCarthy’s pathetic “victory”
Dana Milbank, with a thorough description of man of principle “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are” McCarthy and his sacrifice of everything imaginable to end up as the Speaker of an ungovernable MAGA majority House. Ironic and grotesque, that the goal of the elected GOP House hardliners is disabling the United States government crippling the “administrative state” and the destruction of liberal democracy. Here’s Milbank:
The holdouts had been given essentially everything they had asked for — and still, the extremists demanded more. “A deal is NOT done,” Perry, head of the House Freedom Caucus, tweeted Thursday afternoon
“Somebody should check and make sure Kevin McCarthy still has two kidneys,” Adam Smith (Wash.), top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, quipped Friday.
By Friday evening, the rebels could hardly believe the breadth of McCarthy’s capitulation. “We’re running out of things to ask for,” Gaetz marveled.
Yet still they tortured McCarthy. One vote shy at the end of Friday night’s 14th ballot, McCarthy publicly humiliated himself by walking over to Gaetz and pressuring him to switch his vote. In view of the whole House and the TV cameras, Gaetz rebuffed him. McCarthy retreated. “We’ll do it again,” he said angrily.
Finally, after four full days of chaos capped by intra-GOP fisticuffs and Republicans voting down their own motion to adjourn, McCarthy claimed the gavel. But by then his fate had become unimportant, because whoever occupies the speaker’s chair will now be irrelevant. McCarthy’s surrender has condemned the House to two years — or more — of anarchy.
“We’re running out of things to ask for,” said one of several insurrection-minded MAGA Representatives who had previously asked for an unconditional presidential pardon, from the man with absolute pardon power.
A small group of irrational fanatics publicly demanding absolute power, by any means necessary, what could possibly go wrong?
The insurrection continues
Let’s leave aside the question of how a brand new member of Congress gets away with tweeting the real time location of the Speaker the House as the Speaker is being secured from a mob calling for her death. If that’s not giving aid and comfort to an insurrection, I don’t know what the fuck is. Then she wins re-election by 500 or so votes. Then, along with a handful of other extremists, blocks all action in Congress for several days commemorating the original insurrection on its second anniversary. Only in America, baby.
But leave that aside, here are two pictures from the more than three hours the defeated President let his bonfire burn in the Capitol building.
If all of those hopped up idiots shown in the second picture had swarmed into the building, there would have been a massacre.
This 2:24 pm tweet, deleted by Elon Musk when he reinstated the Big Orange Turd to Twitter recently, certainly didn’t help.
As maddening as it is that none of the wealthy architects and funders of the violent riot to overthrow democracy, in the name of an enraged, racist asshole who lost the election, has been touched by the law so far, it is equally maddening to see insurrectionists in Congress, serving as obstructers of the People’s business without consequence for their treachery.
Get the indictments rolling, Jack Smith! Come on, Fani Willis. Keep going, Letitia James.
MAGA logic
On the surface “MAGA logic” is kind of an oxymoron, I know, but there is a brutal logic followed by the wealthy few who have funded and used first the John Birch Society, later the “Birthers”, the Tea Baggers, the Freedom Caucus, then MAGA itself. These pathologically greedy, entitled psychopaths knew exactly what they were doing, for their own self-interest, at every step.
So while it seems counterintuitive that the most extreme members of the MAGA “movement” are torturing and humiliating the pathetic and cowardly Kevin McCarthy, the one Trump told to go fuck himself when he called in terror from the Capitol on January 6th, it may not be. Remember McCarthy vigorously denounced Trump after January 6th, shortly before he went down to Florida to selflessly sample his leader’s crusty nether regions in order to get back into the good graces of someone at that time regarded as a traitor. An, at the time, powerful traitor, mind you.
So this shit show in the House of Representatives is bad for the country, it’s bad for democracy, it’s bad for the fucking MAGA brand itself (even though that brand is, frankly, destroy the government and democracy) but luckily for MAGA, the ends always justify the means and their base is up for anything as long as someone is hurt and humiliated by it. Ask newly minted statesman Mitch McConnell about that winning strategy, if you have any doubts…
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