mmmmmm Crescendo strain.
Examples of GOP Leadership
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topcat
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Look at the size of that guy's blockhead! Leaders of the Great Fascist Party, determined to overthrow democracy.
why not? ARod is free no more JLo <shrug>
hanimmal
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Budzbuddha
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Found it.
Budzbuddha
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Found this funny … Star Trek Voyager - Favorite EMH doctor blasted Jim Jordan.
Budzbuddha
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Budzbuddha
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DIY-HP-LED
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captainmorgan
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Michigan GOP candidate predicts 'end times' after claim vaccines include 'aborted baby tissue'
Michigan Republican Mellisa Carone was ridiculed by "Saturday Night Live" in February for being gullible enough to believe Donald Trump's debunked conspiracy theories about election fraud.Now Carone, who has formed a committee to run for the Michigan legislature, is pushing a conspiracy theory...
www.rawstory.com
DIY-HP-LED
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OLBERMANN VS...McCARTHY'S EXCUSE FOR TALKING OF HITTING PELOSI. IS HE STONED? NO, SERIOUSLY - IS HE?
Remember how opioid addict Rush Limbaugh used to fantasize about violence towards liberals and women, and then insult those who objected by saying 'I was obviously joking'?
Remember how opioid addict Rush Limbaugh used to fantasize about violence towards liberals and women, and then insult those who objected by saying 'I was obviously joking'?
DIY-HP-LED
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The Big Money Behind the Big Lie
Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.
captainmorgan
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Tennessee won't incentivize Covid shots — but pays to vax cows
Gov. Bill Lee, who grew up on his family's ranch and refers to himself as a cattle farmer in his Twitter profile, has been far less enthusiastic about incentivizing herd immunity among humans.
www.politico.com
DIY-HP-LED
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Trump moved donated money to his own business, filing shows
Former president has built up a $100m war chest between his affiliated committees
DIY-HP-LED
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If he's gonna issue an opinion, he's department had better issue an indictment too. First the suckers, then the planners and organizers and finally the boss, is how these things usually go.
I don't think Garland wants to get in the way of NY prosecuting Trump and will wait until they convict him there. They will accumulate more evidence for more federal indictments including for federal taxes, NY prosecutors will basically make the feds tax case for them in a NY court. They will also turn over a lot of documents and witnesses who made deals and know other things. Trying Trump and others for insurrection later, closer to the 2022 midterms would be better, if congress people are gonna be indicted, it will happen before election season. Trump ain't on the ballot in 2022, so they could have the fucker on trial for insurrection in October of 2022! Nobody will time it that way, but it might work out that way, with Donald freaking out all the time from inside his cell at Sing sing.
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www.theguardian.com
A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
Robert Reich
A newly released memo shows that Trump told the acting attorney general: ‘Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen’
We’ve become so inured to Donald Trump’s proto-fascism that we barely blink an eye when we learn that he tried to manipulate the 2020 election. Yet the most recent revelation should frighten every American to their core.
On Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27 December telephone call from Trump to then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, in which Trump told Rosen: “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” The notes were taken by Richard Donoghue, Rosen’s deputy, who was also on the call.
The release of these notes has barely made a stir. The weekend news was filled with more immediate things – infrastructure! The Delta strain! Inflation! Wildfires! In light of everything else going on, Trump’s bizarre efforts in the last weeks of his presidency seem wearily irrelevant. Didn’t we already know how desperate he was?
In a word, no. This revelation is hugely important.
Rosen obviously rejected Trump’s request. But what if Rosen had obeyed Trump and said to the American public that the election was corrupt – and then “left the rest” to Trump and the Republican congressmen? What would Trump’s and the Republicans’ next moves have been? And which Republican congressmen were in cahoots with Trump in this attempted coup d’état?
Make no mistake: this was an attempted coup.
Trump knew it. Just weeks earlier, then attorney general William Barr said the justice department had found no evidence of widespread fraud that could have overturned the results.
And a few days after Trump’s call to Rosen – on 2 January – Trump told Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, to “find” votes to change the election outcome. He berated Raffensperger for not doing more to overturn the election.
Emails released last month also show that Trump and his allies in the last weeks of his presidency pressured the justice department to investigate totally unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud – forwarding them conspiracy theories and even a draft legal brief they hoped would be filed with the supreme court.
Some people, especially Republican officeholders, believe we should simply forget these sordid details. We must not.
For the first time in the history of the United States we did not have a peaceful transition of power. For the first time in American history, a president refused – still refuses – to concede, and continues to claim, with no basis in fact, that the election was “stolen” from him. For the first time in history, a president actively plotted a coup.
It would have been bad enough were Trump a mere crackpot acting on his own pathetic stage – a would-be dictator who accidentally became president and then, when he lost re-election, went bonkers – after which he was swept into the dustbin of history.
We might then merely regret this temporary lapse in American presidential history. At best, Trump would be seen as a fool and the whole affair an embarrassment to the country.
But Trump was no accident and he’s not in any dustbin. He has turned one of America’s two major parties into his own cult. He has cast the major political division in the US as a clash between those who believe him about the 2020 election and those who do not. He has emboldened state Republicans to execute the most brazen attack on voting rights since Jim Crow. Most Republican senators and representatives dare not cross him. Some of his followers continue to threaten violence against the government. By all accounts, he is running for president again in 2024.
Donald Trump’s proto-fascism poses the largest internal threat to American democracy since the civil war.
What to do about it? Fight it, and the sooner the better.
This final revelation – Trump’s 27 December call to the acting attorney general in which he pleads “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me” – should trigger section 3 of the 14th amendment, which bars anyone from holding office who “engaged in insurrection” against the US. The current attorney general of the United States, Merrick Garland, should issue an advisory opinion clearly stating this. If Trump wants to take it to the supreme court, fine.
I don't think Garland wants to get in the way of NY prosecuting Trump and will wait until they convict him there. They will accumulate more evidence for more federal indictments including for federal taxes, NY prosecutors will basically make the feds tax case for them in a NY court. They will also turn over a lot of documents and witnesses who made deals and know other things. Trying Trump and others for insurrection later, closer to the 2022 midterms would be better, if congress people are gonna be indicted, it will happen before election season. Trump ain't on the ballot in 2022, so they could have the fucker on trial for insurrection in October of 2022! Nobody will time it that way, but it might work out that way, with Donald freaking out all the time from inside his cell at Sing sing.
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A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all | Robert Reich
A newly released memo shows that Trump told the acting attorney general: ‘Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen’
www.theguardian.com
A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
Robert Reich
A newly released memo shows that Trump told the acting attorney general: ‘Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen’
We’ve become so inured to Donald Trump’s proto-fascism that we barely blink an eye when we learn that he tried to manipulate the 2020 election. Yet the most recent revelation should frighten every American to their core.
On Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27 December telephone call from Trump to then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, in which Trump told Rosen: “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” The notes were taken by Richard Donoghue, Rosen’s deputy, who was also on the call.
The release of these notes has barely made a stir. The weekend news was filled with more immediate things – infrastructure! The Delta strain! Inflation! Wildfires! In light of everything else going on, Trump’s bizarre efforts in the last weeks of his presidency seem wearily irrelevant. Didn’t we already know how desperate he was?
In a word, no. This revelation is hugely important.
Rosen obviously rejected Trump’s request. But what if Rosen had obeyed Trump and said to the American public that the election was corrupt – and then “left the rest” to Trump and the Republican congressmen? What would Trump’s and the Republicans’ next moves have been? And which Republican congressmen were in cahoots with Trump in this attempted coup d’état?
Make no mistake: this was an attempted coup.
Trump knew it. Just weeks earlier, then attorney general William Barr said the justice department had found no evidence of widespread fraud that could have overturned the results.
And a few days after Trump’s call to Rosen – on 2 January – Trump told Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, to “find” votes to change the election outcome. He berated Raffensperger for not doing more to overturn the election.
Emails released last month also show that Trump and his allies in the last weeks of his presidency pressured the justice department to investigate totally unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud – forwarding them conspiracy theories and even a draft legal brief they hoped would be filed with the supreme court.
Some people, especially Republican officeholders, believe we should simply forget these sordid details. We must not.
For the first time in the history of the United States we did not have a peaceful transition of power. For the first time in American history, a president refused – still refuses – to concede, and continues to claim, with no basis in fact, that the election was “stolen” from him. For the first time in history, a president actively plotted a coup.
It would have been bad enough were Trump a mere crackpot acting on his own pathetic stage – a would-be dictator who accidentally became president and then, when he lost re-election, went bonkers – after which he was swept into the dustbin of history.
We might then merely regret this temporary lapse in American presidential history. At best, Trump would be seen as a fool and the whole affair an embarrassment to the country.
But Trump was no accident and he’s not in any dustbin. He has turned one of America’s two major parties into his own cult. He has cast the major political division in the US as a clash between those who believe him about the 2020 election and those who do not. He has emboldened state Republicans to execute the most brazen attack on voting rights since Jim Crow. Most Republican senators and representatives dare not cross him. Some of his followers continue to threaten violence against the government. By all accounts, he is running for president again in 2024.
Donald Trump’s proto-fascism poses the largest internal threat to American democracy since the civil war.
What to do about it? Fight it, and the sooner the better.
This final revelation – Trump’s 27 December call to the acting attorney general in which he pleads “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me” – should trigger section 3 of the 14th amendment, which bars anyone from holding office who “engaged in insurrection” against the US. The current attorney general of the United States, Merrick Garland, should issue an advisory opinion clearly stating this. If Trump wants to take it to the supreme court, fine.
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DIY-HP-LED
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Trump is transferring money to his company, Donald won't use the money for politics.
Everyday Donald is loose, he hurts the republicans and helps to hang himself and others with his own mouth. There is still plenty of time to indict Donald, closer to the 2022 midterms and after NY fucks him and the congressional panel gets more information and evidence. If they are gonna nail this fucker for a political crime like insurrection, they better have him every which way but loose and it would be nice if he were in a NY state prison and muzzled while they fuck him again.
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Trump's $100 Million Democracy-Damaging Grift - Time for AG Garland/DOJ to Bring the Accountability
The CNN headline says it all "Trump's $100 Million Threat to Democracy."
With so much at stake, the most important question for our Department of Justice is . . . what's the hold up on charging Donald Trump for his criminal conduct?
Everyday Donald is loose, he hurts the republicans and helps to hang himself and others with his own mouth. There is still plenty of time to indict Donald, closer to the 2022 midterms and after NY fucks him and the congressional panel gets more information and evidence. If they are gonna nail this fucker for a political crime like insurrection, they better have him every which way but loose and it would be nice if he were in a NY state prison and muzzled while they fuck him again.
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Trump's $100 Million Democracy-Damaging Grift - Time for AG Garland/DOJ to Bring the Accountability
The CNN headline says it all "Trump's $100 Million Threat to Democracy."
With so much at stake, the most important question for our Department of Justice is . . . what's the hold up on charging Donald Trump for his criminal conduct?
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DIY-HP-LED
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Yep, to use a crude metaphor, I think Garland wants NY to chain Trump to the bed and muzzle him, before he fucks him real good, repeatedly...
DIY-HP-LED
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There would be little practical point in going after Trump for federal crimes, Garland knows he will die in a NY state prison anyway. The whole point would be to nail the others who were involved, particularly politicians and those close to them, Trump did not act alone in his various criminal and treasonous conspiracies, he had lot's of help. Also a conviction for insurrection would preclude Trump from holding office again by a simple majority vote in both the house & senate.
Like I said, there's more work to be done by the Jan 6th panel and he doesn't want to get ahead of their report at least and perhaps indictments for R congress people and others close to the top.
Like I said, there's more work to be done by the Jan 6th panel and he doesn't want to get ahead of their report at least and perhaps indictments for R congress people and others close to the top.
