Heather Cox Richardson, historian, summarizes some of the fallout from the first public meeting of the 1/6 Commissuon:
Today in the New York Times, columnist Maureen Dowd reacted to Thursday’s revelations that Trump was “deadly serious about overthrowing the government,” by laying out the main points: Trump knew he had lost the election, and he was willing to see his vice president hanged in order to avoid being labeled a loser. Dowd called former president Trump an “American monster” and compared him unfavorably to Frankenstein’s monster, who at least “has self-awareness, and a reason to wreak havoc…[and] knows how to feel guilty and when to leave the stage.” Our monster, in contrast, is driven only by “pure narcissistic psychopathy—and he refuses to leave the stage or cease his vile mendacity.”
Yesterday, Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney reported that on January 5, 2021, then–vice president Pence’s attorney Greg Jacob wrote a three-page memo concluding that what the president and his supporters were demanding Pence do the next day would break the 1887 Electoral College Act—that is, the law—in four different ways. The memo responded to John Eastman’s memo laying out the plan for Pence to hand the election to Trump by refusing to count a number of Biden electors. Jacob noted that Eastman himself “acknowledges that his proposal violates several provisions of statutory law.” In addition, both historical court decisions and one as recent as the day before contradicted Eastman’s plan.
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“Apples and Oranges”
Frankenstein “Monster”
Was brought to life
Trumpenslime mobster
Has bought us strife
Frankenstein “monster”
Intended well
Trumpenslime mobster
Is straight from Hell
Frankenstein “monster”
Was treated poorly
Trumpenslime mobster
Was loser, sorely
Frankenstein “monster”
Is tragic creature
Trumpenslime mobster
Is fascist feature
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The Donald, or Remembrance of Things Ass (with Apologies to E.B.B.)
How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
I loathe thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach. I cannot stand the sight
Of thee. Disdain thou makest me embrace.
I loathe thee to the level of every day’s
Most fervent rage, by sun and monitor light.
I loathe thy morals, thy contempt for every right.
I loathe thy vanity, seeking constant praise.
I loathe thee with the passion one might choose
To heap on vandals, and with my childhood’s faith
That decency, under thy boot, we shall not lose.
So may we curse thee with every waking breath
Thy objectification of all, thy conman’s ruse,
Thy instincts not of a man but a wasp on Meth.
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The Seven Wives of King Donald the Wurst
NB: a wurst is a sausage
Six wives had he, the Eighth King Henry.
Trump had but three, we’re told, but when he
was twixt and between those he made a great show of,
perhaps he swallowed some four we don’t know of,
for as you most certainly know or have guessed,
Cuckoo Coup Donald must always Be Best.
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“O Donnie Boy,” aka “Moscow’s Asset Governing America” (MAGA),” aka “Vlad’s Agent Orange”
(to the tune of “Danny Boy)
O Donnie Boy,
your handler Putin’s calling,
extending thanks
for the Ukraine delay.
He wants to say,
impeachment’s surely galling,
but still the tape
won’t see the light of day.
But come ye back
to Moscow, if you’re worried.
We’re here to help
you grab ‘em at the polls,
and if you lose,
you won’t see jail, I promise.
O Donnie boy,
just fly on home
to Sochi Bay.
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Bob,
You are on a roll.
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“Orange Is the New Slack” (to the tune of the oh-so-appropriate “If I Only Had a Brain”)
I just while away the hours
A-tweetin’ in my bower,
Consulting with TV.
I don’t care for cogitating,
I just sit here agitating
While I’m watching Hannity.
Think I’ll order some hamburders
And tweet out some diverters
From the latest breaking news
’bout the crimes I’ve perpetrated
And the folks I’ve terminated
For developing a clue.
Oh, I-I-I can’t tell you why
Burning fossil fuels warms the Earth,
I care only for increasing my net worth.
A man is measured . . . by his girth.
I would not be just a nothin’,
My head all full of stuffin’
And neediness and pain.
I wouldn’t be insane, erratic;
I might be quite democratic
If I only had a brain.
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Rudolph, Don’s Brown-Nosed Reign Dear | Bob Shepherd
(to the tune of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”)
Rudolph the Ghouliani
had a very brown, brown nose,
squandered his former goodwill,
stroking Trump on TV shows.
All of the other Trumpties
used to laugh and call him names.
Even those abject toadies
thought him crooked and insane.
Then one Foggy Bottom eve,
Trumpty called to say,
“Rude one with your nose so brown,
won’t you take Joe Biden down?”
What happened then’s sheer folly:
thanks to lows the two men reached,
history will most remember that
Trumpty Dumpty was impeached.
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The Loneliness of the Teflon Trumpkin, Film Excerpt
INT. OVAL OFFICE – DAY
Trump sitting behind the Resolute Desk. Camera back to reveal Rod Serling standing D.R.
SERLING
His name, Mr. Little. A man with little education, little taste, little knowledge, little concern for other people. Neglected as a child, he grew into a black hole of neediness. And so he used Daddy’s money to build big, erected his name in Midas-gold letters across the landscape–his every action screaming, “I am worth something.” Everything became a zero-sum game. If someone else failed or was worse off, he was better, a “winner,” and so he cheated and harassed and ridiculed the unfortunate, the stranger, the down and out; appealed to the basest instincts of the basest among us; huffed and puffed and blew himself to gigantic proportions, at least in his own little brain. A twisted, malignant, metastasizing tumor of need and narcissism and knee-jerk nastiness, Mr. Little doesn’t know much, but the biggest thing he doesn’t know is that he just stepped over into a place where everything is bigger than he is, where everything is just beyond the grasp of his little mind and his little hands. He just stepped over into . . . The Twilight Zone.
Copyright 2019, Robert D. Shepherd.
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Your Handy-Dandy Guide to Some of the Federal Laws Under Which A.G. Garland Might Charge Donald J. Trump (note that these are ones related to The Big Lie; a whole other set of laws would enable a whole other set of charges related to The Big Rip-off)
18 U.S. Code § 2384 (2000): Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 2385 (2000) Advocating overthrow of government
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
18 U.S. Code § 371 (2000) – Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States
If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor.
18 U.S. Code § 1505 – Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antritrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress—
Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.
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Excellent legal analysis.
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And yet that traitor is still free to keep stirring his pot full of hateful, vengeful, toxic fascist stew.
The traitor must be arrested, tossed in a cell without bail where he must be kept in total isolation with no contact with anyone else. His guards must be deaf mutes who feed him and take away the trays. Their orders must be that he has to eat what the rest of the inmates have eat.
The traitor must stay in that cell on Riskers Island (or the Super Max in Colorado) 24/7 until his court cases are over and the verdicts have come in.
During his court cases and trials, he’ll be shackled and led to a room by the deaf mute guards where the traitor will sit alone, locked to a table bolted to the floor. There will be a camera, a TV screen and a mike that he has no control over. The only people watching will be the judge, the jury and lawyers in a sealed courtroom. Everything will be taped.
When the traitor is asked a question, his answers will be on a time delay so he can’t start ranting that he won the 2016 and 2020 elections with the biggest majority in history.
The prosecuting lawyers will be allowed to keep asking him the same question until he answers it even if his answer is to invoke his 5th Amendment Rights.. Then and only then will they move on to the next question.
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Go Diane!
Go BOB!
Go Lloyd!
Love Heather Cox.
Cox is right….that DUMPSTER is a MONSTER to the MAX. He’s also a GRIFTER to the MAX.
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3 days ago, Diane wrote about the Southern Baptist Convention. One of the speakers at the 2022 annual meeting, John MacArthur, was the subject of a Fox article, 8-30-2020. MacArthur said then that any, real believer would vote for Trump over Biden.
Trump’s anti-woman behavior convinced Beth Moore (she’s reached millions of evangelical Christian women with her books and speaking engagements) to leave the Southern Baptist fold. Religion News reported that Moore, before leaving the sect, had supported limits on women in the offices of pastors but, now knew she was wrong.
WaPo (4-7-2021) wrote that Moore apologized for supporting a theology that restricts women. “She tweets: I plead for forgiveness for how I just submitted to it and supported it and taught it.”
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Thanks, Linda, for the reference to Kate Kelly. Interesting woman.
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Her partner, Jamie Manson, is also impressive. An article she wrote, posted at Catholic Choice, 11-4-2021, “How One Nun’s Excommunication Foreshadowed the Bishops’ Attack on Biden”, shows us the danger for women in their reproductive years who live in the U.S. system where 1 in 6 hospitals are Catholic. The threat extends to the husbands and children who love those women.
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Catholic schools teach propaganda that devalues women and their roles as wives and mothers. Women are indoctrinated to sacrifice their lives for a fetus, a sacrifice that makes their husbands widowers and which can leave their remaining children motherless. I doubt that many Catholic men, over the expanse of their lives, think much about the fetuses that they encouraged women to abort. On the other hand, women are expected to carry contrived guilt to the grave.
The Talmud reflects a better religion than the one developed by the men who created Catholic doctrine.
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The comparison is limited to views about abortion.
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