This from an interview with the Washington Post, under the headline: Trump deflects blame for Jan. 6 silence, says he wanted to march to Capitol
By Josh Dawsey April 07 at 7:19 AM ET PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence. “I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge,” Trump said of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in a 45-minute interview with The Washington Post. “I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.”
Ten dimensional chess, yo, terrifying to even contemplate the next move…
Not that facts and coherent argument matter that much to the truly faithful, here’sHeather Cox Richardson:
The Republicans explicitly backed former president Trump and insisted that the investigation of the January 6 insurrection was simply a way to try to keep Trump off the ballot in 2024 and to distract from scandals potentially involving President Joe Biden’s son Hunter (who holds no government office).
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The question the mass media is now regularly asking is why did nobody on the left pay attention to Rudy Giuliani’s and Trump’s repeated allegations about dirty Hunter Biden (the ones Zelensky refused to announce an investigation into before Trump’s first impeachment). Is it simply because Hunter Biden (still under investigation by the DOJ for possible tax evasion) never had a government job, none of the sleazy deals he made are alleged to have happened while his father was in office, and the wild allegations were launched amidst a barrage of unhinged lunatic lies, many ongoing though long ago debunked, from the same people, could thatbe why? Just asking.
But, particularly if you are in the middle of an ever more revealed criminal conspiracy to overturn legitimate election results in the 2020 presidential election, you have to have a strong point to counter-attack so Jeff Bezos and the Grey Lady will both run articles about how hypocritical Democrats are not talking about the theoretically not impossible Hunter Biden laptop scandal right now instead of completing the work of the belatedly formed the January 6th Select Committee (witch hunt!), which should have been strangled in its cradle, after a proper birth and baptism in Christ, of course.
Heather nails some big essential truths, as she so often does. Highly reccommended.
Like feelings themselves, the religious faith of the faithful Is not subject to debate. It is a question of faith and if you have true faith, so-called facts take a backseat to your deeply held belief. Hucksters, scammers and con men may often abuse the trust of people of deep faith, but that is not a concern to thefaithful.
The New York Times, with a chilling description of the religious fervoranimating the faith-based army of Trump believers. Heaven help us.
Rituals of Christian worship have become embedded in conservative rallies, as praise music and prayer blend with political anger over vaccines and the 2020 election.
The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’
The PBS moderator points out that this is not the first time that Ginni Thomas’s political activism has raised these questions of influence, and mentions a recent Affordable Care Act challenge. He doesn’t mention Bush v Gore or Trump’s Muslim ban case, but the point is made.
Then it’s time for the conservative defense of the victimized Thomases. At 2:44 Mr. Malcolm begins his master class in fancy legal footwork to dazzle an opponent and sway a jury. He doesn’t think Clarence needs to recuse just because his wife Ginni is an attorney and conservative activist consulting for multiple organizations with occasional business before the court (during Bush v Gore she worked for Bush). Malcolm flashes legal gold, worth every penny they pay him.
“Yes, look, I completely disagree with that. Ginni Thomas is not a lawyer, she is not a litigant, she does not work for any organization that is a party to any lawsuit. There’s no reason to believe that she is in any legal jeopardy, whatsoever.”
That’s why the Heritage Foundation pays him the big bucks!
If it’s good enough for the American Enterprise Institute website, why not Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post? Justice Biden must resign!
After all, one Supreme Court Justice has a wife who is a highly paid, prominent right wing extremist activist/consultant with clients’ cases regularly before the court and the other has a son who is a sleazy scumbag! Fair is fair.
from the AEI website
The Guardian reported that the AEI received $1.6 million in funding from ExxonMobil, and further notes that former ExxonMobil CEO Lee R. Raymond is the vice-chairman of AEI’s board of trustees.
Historian and American hero Heather Cox Richardson:
Today, as we learned of more atrocities by Russian troops in Ukraine, the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution that called on the U.S. government to uphold the founding democratic principles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): “individual liberty, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.” Since those values “face external threats from authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China and internal threats from proponents of illiberalism,” and since NATO countries have called for a recommitment to the founding values of the alliance, the resolution supports theestablishment of a Center for Democratic Resilience within NATO headquarters. The resolution reaffirmed the House’s “unequivocal support” for NATO.
The resolution was introduced by Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who sits on both the Foreign Affairs and Government Oversight Committees, and had 35 other cosponsors from both parties. The vote in favor was bipartisan, with 219 Democratsand 142 Republicans voting yes. After all, what’s there to oppose in a nod to democratic values and diplomacy, when Ukraine is locked in a deadly battle to defend itself against an invasion and brutal occupation by Russian forces directed by authoritarian Russian president Vladimir Putin?
Sixty-three Republicans—those who tend to support former president Trump—voted against the resolution.
Most people know by now that the so-called Pizzagate “scandal”, involving an imagined Hillary Clinton-run child sex trafficking ring in a DC pizza place, was bullshit. Hence the rise of Q, to prove that even though unfounded, it is a fact that a secret cabal of powerful extreme left-wing cannibal pedophiles (get it, moron, they’re SECRET, duh!) is actively opposing the greatest US president in history, who Jesus personally inserted as president to fight just such an evil antichrist cabal.
It makes as much sense as many other things, pulled directly out of a fevered hater’s ass.Let not “truth” be the enemy of effectively weaponized hatred!Hallelujah!
Great piece in yesterday’s Washington Post, by Radley Balko, on the mainstreaming of the insane QAnon conspiracy theory by the GOP. These amoral, madly ambitious fucks (lawmakers like insurrection abetters Hawley and Lyin’ Ted) know exactly what they’re doing.Here’s hoping there is a hell, these bastards definitely deserve VIP treatment down there in the eternally hot place.
This paragraph by Mr. Balko caught my eye, there are links to details on each of these outrageous stories in his opinion piece, linked below.
Of course sexual abuse of children is real, and it inflicts devastating, lifelong damage. But it is our very disgust at these crimes that allows opportunists to seize them for unrelated political ends. The result isn’t just unfair attacks against politicians or judicial nominees. It often means ruined lives. Parents have been accused of abuse and even prosecuted for innocuous photos of their young children. Children have been convicted and labeled as sex offenders for texting one another sexual explicit images of themselves. In Virginia, one prosecutor even asked a court’s permission to photograph a minor boy’s erect penis to prove the boy had sent an explicit photo to an underage girl.
You know, just asking the judge to let you photograph the kid’s erection, as you do when you hate fucking pedophiles, even the underaged ones.
All three vote in the solid 50 vote Trump Senate caucus, almost always, specifically to make sure every one of Biden’s initiatives and attempted reforms fails, but here they take the bravestand of announcing their yea vote for a supremely qualifiedcandidate several of their naysaying colleagues had previously voted for in her Appeals Court confirmation, in those cooperative days before MAGA and the plot to lynch democracy.
Regular profiles in goddamned courage.
On the bright side, the bought and paid for Democratic filibuster duo can fuck off on this vote.
Democrats need to pick up four or fiveseats in the Senate, in spite of corporate media and its relentless both- sidesism. Our democracy depends on it.
If, after a week of overeating, you had a particularly energetic evacuation, looked down into the bowl and asked the stinking output what it thought of the unionization of an Amazon sweatshop in Staten Island, it might say something like this:
“We are disappointed with the outcome of the election in Staten Island because we believe having a direct relationship with the company is best for our employees. We’re evaluating our options, including filing objections based on the inappropriate and undue influence by the NLRB that we and others (including the National Retail Federation and U.S. Chamber of Commerce) witnessed in this election.”
Say what, shit? (strike a couple of matches here, hand on the flush handle)
The million dollar public relations team of the world’s greatest genius insists he knows better what is good for his employees than some so-called labor union that has no idea about their so-called concerns. We have an army of top lawyers on the payroll and will strenuously object to the overreach of socialistic New Deal agencies, whose time is over, thinking they can enforce rules we never agreed to. We are the most important business in the world today and are supported wholeheartedly by deeply conservative, anti-Communist, pro-corporate organizations that also have long despised the so-called right of fungible drone losers to collectively negotiate for so-called decent working conditions.
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