Nothing at all unusual here, but it seems that the ads promoting false claims of a stolen election that enriched Facebook in the months after Facebook removed the safeguards they’d installed through election day, (safeguards that damaged Facebook profits) stopped on January 5th. The day before the peaceful protest at the Capitol during which 140 police officers were injured, the ads, $50,000,000 worth, paid for by donations to Trump’s “legal defense fund,” suddenly stopped running. Get over it, nitpicking libtards, this is how real men dominate.
Tucker whips apologetic Ted Cruz on FOX
Shortly before the first anniversary of the Trump riot to stop the certification of Biden’s win, Ted Cruz, on the floor of the Senate, with cameras rolling, referred to the organized, planned, violent siege and sacking of the Capitol as a terrorist attack.
A strong argument could be made that participating in a long physical battle with cops and leading a phalanx of criminal tresspassers into the closed to the public Capitol to stop the People’s business is, even without being part of a larger seditious conspiracy, an act of terrorism. Using violence to frighten and intimidate political opponents is the definition of terrorism.
Understandably, this term, applied to their own faithful, coming from one of their own, put MAGA nation into full rage mode. Tucker Carlson pulled no punches bullying Cruz to back down. Lyin’ Ted, as he does, immediately began reassuring FOX nation that only Blacks, Muslims, Antifa and other commie traitors can ever be rightfully called terrorists, an angry MAGA mob can only ever be patriots, since they are always righteous in their rage and fight on the side of the angels.
Fortunately for him, the supple Cruz was able to whine and grovel his way out of the fatal accusation of having spoken truthfully, as all great statesmen and moral leaders are sometimes called upon to do.
Big Surprise in the Supreme Court…
This Washington Post headline says it all:
Of course they seem skeptical, these right-wing ideologues chosen for their fidelity to a hard right-wing worldview. Science during a deadly plague can be alchemized into tyranny by six judges well-trained in how to focus on a single hair on the head of an angel dancing back and forth through the eye of a needle. They do this humbly, with God’s help, by the grace of Jesus Christ.
The doctrinaire Trump super-majority continues to provide unappealable right-wing firepower to the giant bloc of angry Christian nationalists who are their ground troops in the long culture war that has brought this majority to the pinnacle of constitutional power.
For them not to express “skepticsm” over reasonable health precautions during a deadly tsunami of Omicron infections would be like a Nazi jurist listening thoughtfully to a Jewish argument against mass murder.
Speaking of mass manslaughter (man’s laughter, LOL) the US still leads the world in Covid infections and deaths because US authoritarians find it advantageous to weaponize vaccines, masks and testing. Their position is, if it keeps us in power, BRING BACK POLIO!
MAKE POLIO GREAT AGAIN, LOSER CUCKS!
Only one Republican out of 262 in Congress attends January 6 commeration, accompanied by the aptly named Dick Cheney
NY Times, headline, January 6, 2022:
‘A Reflection of Where Our Party Is’: Republicans Avoid Jan. 6 Observances
Subheadline:
Elected Republicans stayed away from the Capitol during a day of solemn remembrance on the anniversary of the attack carried out by supporters of former President Donald J. Trump
The party of Lincoln, yo, and of our first female president, Liz Cheney, the only elected Republican who showed up for a moment of silence on the first anniversary of Trump’s patriotic riot to overturn an election he lost, at the polls, in the Electoral College and in countless courts.
The GOP line, of course, is that power-crazed commie puppet pedophile Dems are cynically politicizing something that Dick Cheney used to call a kerfuffle.
Heaven help us all.
One of very few Republican members of Congress who made a statement that did not blame the Democrats for the deadly MAGA riot, a representative not running for reelection, issued a statement the Times called “blistering”. You be the judge.
“Any reasonable person could have seen the potential for violence that day,” he said. “Yet, our president did nothing to protect our country and stop the violence. The actions of the president on Jan. 6 were nothing short of reprehensible.”
Here’s a link to the Times story. Read it and weep:
The Base (NOT Al-Qaeda)
When a hate group tells you who they are, believe them.
Wikipedia informs us that the Bannon-scented neo-Nazi, anti-globalist, international militant right-wing militia training network, The Base (considered a terrorist organization by three of our major allies) is not to be confused with Al-Qaeda, which is sometimes translated from Arabic as “The Base”.
The Base is a neo-Nazi, white supremacist and accelerationist paramilitary hate group and training network, formed in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro and active in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Europe. As of November 2021 it is considered a terrorist organization in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Base_(hate_group)
Irony, fucking dead, boys and girls.
As Trumpie would tell ’em “stand back and stand by.”
Confederate flag in the Capitol
They had Trump flags and flags that said “Fuck Biden” but it was the Confederate battle flag paraded inside the breached Capitol, as incendiary and hateful to Black people as the fucking black and white swastika on a blood red field is to me as a Jew, that said it all. The symbolism of those kind of symbols is hard to miss.
The mob’s message was clear, as their leader expressed love toward his flag waving followers: the world is better without you parasites and getting our way by violence is a party for us.
It’s like what Ted Cruz snarled at Merrick Garland a few months later while excoriating him about DOJ overreach, feds running to the aid of threatened school board members. “Jeez, it was only a Nazi salute,” he sneered “which you admit is protected by the First Amendment,” he didn’t even have to add “Jew”, it so naturally suggested itself as the Texan lambasted the mild-mannered Garland. Cruz is that fucking good. Many of them are, and all very fine people. Waving a Confederate battle flag, as you do, when you’re a patriot.
Op ed on why Trump must face justice
Hard to believe this was written by the husband of CNP member Kellyanne “Alternative Fact” Conway, one of the smartest and most brazen of Trump’s well-connected inner circle. George Conway, a Federalist Society member who was outspoken in the conservative resistance to his wife’s boss, is also a very smart lawyer who makes a case today in the Washington Post that’s impossible to refute. Using facts…
He quotes with approval Merrick Garland’s January 5th words to DOJ workers (and the rest of the world) :
Above all, he pledged that the Justice Department has “no higher priority” and would do “whatever it takes for justice to be done — consistent with the facts and the law.” Most important, he made clear that “the Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law — whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.” (Emphasis mine.)
He also quotes fucking Mitch McConnell, lines Mitch delivered after again orchestrating Trump’s impeachment acquittal, the first time by preventing an actual trial in the Senate, the second on an absurd technicality:
“We have a criminal justice system in this country,” McConnell said. “President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office,” McConnell added. “He didn’t get away with anything yet. Yet.”
Here’s a link, gifted by the supremely generous Jeff Bezos, https://wapo.st/3f10HpP
We had fair warning
When Trump revealed his theory of leadership, surround yourself with people less intelligent than you so that you are always the smartest man in the room, we all had fair warning and should have known what to expect.
Actually, most of us did know what to expect. Only it was worse than even those loyal people of less than average intelligence in the bunker with the mad, desperate Trump as he staged a valiant fight against reality could have imagined.
Leaving aside the obvious fact that the zealots in his war room all thought it was a fantastic thrill, with first class room service, on the house!
God bless these United Shaysss
The Hour for a Man of Principle
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is finally pushing for a carve out to the filibuster rule for voting rights legislation to stop Stop the Steal in the many states where voter suppression and voter subversion laws are now in place for the 2022 election. These anti-democratic “election integrity laws” (based on a widely debunked lie about massive voter fraud) are all presumptively constitutional, pursuant to two 5-4 rulings by the right-wing side of the Supreme Court.
The doctrinaire right-wing majority is now 6-3, thanks to the tireless work of the anonymous funders of the highly secretive, non-profit Council for National Policy, Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. With an able assist from the Grim Reaper, Mitch McConnell, man of one principle: power. With bipartisan cover from the Democratic party’s own Joe Manchin III. With our democracy under constant, shameless, increasingly violent, attack, it would appear to be the historical moment for a man of conscience and love of country to act.
As Schumer brings this proposition to protect voting rights to the Senate for consideration, we get the sound byte from the most prominent Democratic holdout on any parliamentary rules change whatsoever. Man of principle, strutting West Virginia fighting cock Joe Manchin III, has called changing a rule to allow debate on bills (debate, you opponent of Senate ethics requirements, minimum wage, regulation of polluters, taxing corporations and helping children out of poverty) the minority wants to kill “a very heavy lift.”
You see, he explains, the Nuclear Option makes it very dangerous to change a rule that currently allows any member of the minority party an emailed peremptory challenge to kill any legislation WITHOUT DEBATE of any kind. Requiring 60 votes to overcome one Ron Johnson or Ted Cruz seems a fair bipartisan solution to Manchin– hell, look how well even the old talking filibuster protected lynch mobs from the tyranny of federal legislation!
History shows, Manchin warns, the danger of using this Nuclear Option. When Harry Reid changed it during the Obama years so every one of Obama’s appointments couldn’t be blocked this way, McConnell responded, the first chance he got, by doing the same for Supreme Court nominees! 51 votes is all any of these fine, carefully vetted right-wing ideologues need nowadays — and we see the result, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch (who the bipartian, conservative Manchin voted for) and Coney-Barrett (whose 4 vote 52-48 mandate did not include Manchin’s vote). One can imagine the devastation requiring a talking filibuster, placing the burden back on the minority seeking to obstruct would bring, even worse would be carving out part of the filibuster entirely for voting legislation. What next, abolishing the filibuster to allow debate on legislation to protect workers from exploitation by rich people? For the Communist Green New Deal?
A very heavy lift. Get a winch, hook it up to your Maserati and start lifting, you preening, bought and paid for corporatist motherfucker. You can drown your sorrows on your yacht afterwards. Meantime, put your back into it and remember to use your knees.
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