In case you misssed it, Heather Cox Richardson describes the highlights of the July 21 hearing of the Jan 6 Commission. The House GOP continues to ridicule the hearings as partisan, but so far almost everyone who testified is a Republican. The two who testified last night were working directly for Trump.
Highlight of the hearing: Senator Josh Hawley running to escape away from the mob he encouraged with his fist in the air. Sprinting, really. The hashtag that quickly appeared on Twitter: #JoshHawleyIsABitch. And this is the guy running on a “platform” of reviving masculinity.
When the chips are down, Josh Hawley runs away.
Then there is the fact that there are no White House logs that day; the White House photographer was told not to take pictures of the most important day of Trump’s term; the Secret Service deleted text messages.
Funniest moment of the hearings: Trump recording a video on January 7, stumbling over the words. Tells them to delete the word “yesterday.” It’s too hard for him.
Most inspiring: the two Republicans on the committee, Cheney and Kinzinger, willing to sacrifice their political careers for matters of principle and respect for the Constitution.
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I thought Mister DJT’s Liberty Biberty shtick at the end was most revealing.
I can’t wait to see SNL’s take on it …
It would be very difficult to top that on SNL.
Unless maybe they somehow worked in the “oranges of the attack”
Yes, self-parody is always hard to top …
Especially unwitting self-parody …
Trumpety Dumpety
I think the highlight of the hearings has been the establishing of the connection between Trump and the insurrection. Josh Hawley may be a weasel, and the exposure may doom his fifteen minutes of fame, but his importance escapes me more than it escapes him.
The other aspect of discourse about this committee is that is assiduously confines itself to the Jan 6. While this is understandable i light of the mission of the comte, I fear that it removes the spotlight from the Republican party and its acceptance of fascism in general. We are praising Liz Cheney and others for ruining their political careers, but we are failing to point out that they accepted Trump as a candidate right up to the assault on the Congress. They voted for a slate of Supreme Court Justices who were decidedly coming from the same political subculture. They supported tax breaks for the wealthy. They sat idly by while the Kurds went under the bus. Because we are talking about Jan 6, we are not talking about all the other things.
Roy, you are right that the Trump party should be on trial. That’s up to the voters. This event is solely about what may be the most infamous day in US history. It is shameful that most Republicans prefer to pretend that the siege of the US Capitol was “legitimate political discourse,” even though all of them fled for their lives and cowered in hiding from the roaring mob.
To your point . This is the East Side of Manhattan not Eastern Alabama .
” the staid Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan became an unlikely battleground between anti-fascism activists and a far-right group known as the Proud Boys.
After the Proud Boys’ founder, Gavin McInnes, spoke at the club, vandalism and violence ensued, as people associated with the group squared off with protesters on the streets of the Upper East Side.” 10/18 .
Trump’s appeal is to those the Party has been blowing dog whistles to for decades . Since Rockefeller was booed of the stage in 1964 .
It has leaned fascist for decades. And of course what was the Police response.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-protest
Weasels are an important part of biodiversity. Bad analogy. They have a constructive role in the ecosystem. Hawley wishes he could be a weasel. Quisling. I think that was the word you were looking for. Or a Hawley, might even be worse than a Quisling.
Exactly right! They very did!
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Well said and well quoted.
Unsure what “post your own” means. If it means “don’t reblog,’ what does it mean?
Hello Nan, I’ve reblogged items from Diane’s site several times over the years; as long as you are using WordPress, you shouldn’t have any problems with this maneuver. As far as I can tell, Diane not only allows this, but encourages it.
Everything I write on the blog is available for reposting. However I must warn you that I sometimes skirt the edge of copyright law by quoting more than 300 words. So feel free to quote whatever I write.
Thanks for the informed reply. For awhile I tried to reblog on my “bell” at the top R of the Posts page, but since that doesn’t contain “reblog” I wasn’t sure.
Nan, some time ago, i\I started having problems Reblogging posts from Diane’s site. and then I decided to refresh the page after I had liked a post.
Refreshing means hitting that little arrow chasing its tail, on my desktop that’s near the upper left corner to the left of a little house image.
That worked for me.
Gee that’s kind of you. Thanks.
I’ve got a two word, handwritten letter to Kinzinger I’m about to put in the mailbox.
“Thank you.”
The Honorable Adam Kinzinger
2245 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Good idea, Greg. I think I’ll do the same.
Excellent
Magnificent. Yes.
“Most inspiring: the two Republicans on the committee, Cheney and Kinzinger, willing to sacrifice their political careers for matters of principle and respect for the Constitution.”
LOL. Using the words “principle and “Cheney” in the same sentence. The reality is these Republicans can feel which way the wind is blowing and they know their future careers lie with aligning with the conservative/neoliberal/neocon Democrats, which have become the war and austerity party. They are sacrificing nothing.
Can you explain how Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger have a future in the Democratic Party? Where will she run? What state?
The Jan 6th committee has made an excellent case.
And at any rate, we all so it. Trump engaged in several counts of seditious conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of an official proceeding. And by aiding and abetting those who wished to murder the Vice President and to overthrow the election and thus the rightful government of the United States, he committed treason.
So, NOW, NOW is the time for the DOJ
to do nothing whatsoever.
cx: we all saw it
“We all saw it.” What a quaint notion in this day and age. Remember the good old days when a phrase like that meant something?
Bizarre as it is, you’re right, Greg. This is John Carpenter and Rob Zombie meets Ionesco and Barthelme.
“Now there you go again ”
“Who are you going to believe your own eyes” .
Let me know the next time the DOJ has to establish the malicious intent of a Bank Robber.
Perfect, Joel! Exactly.
Just because he had a loaded gun and a duffel bag means nothing.
Hell. Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn carries the very same stuff in airports when he is taking commercial flights.
Chauncey Garland likes to watch.
And rest assured, he is watching.
LOL.
Being There (at DOJ)
Chauncey Garland likes to watch
Congress hearings on TV
Likes the questions and the plots
Most of all, to simply “be”
Being there at DOJ (2)
The AG job at DOJ
Is “watching stuff, collecting pay”
The chance to watch
Is upper notch
I really dig
My AG gig
“No conspiracy, no collusion, no sedition, no treason… no Adderall.”
That would be Things that aren’t true of Trump, Alex.
That was the Donald speaking
I meant,
What are “Things that aren’t true of Trump”?. Alex.
The summary speech by Adam Kinzinger at the hearing will be viewed, read, and discussed in law school classes for decades to come. It was powerful and brought my wife and me to tears.
Agreed. Same.
Capitol Police said Hawley’s fist-bump gesture riled up the crowd.
He did it in a safe space. Protected by officers and barriers.
A Video was shown of Hawley scurrying in fear as the mob ransacked the building.
His Bold rhetoric was highlighted by the FEAR of what he had sown.
Elaine Luria
“When the chimps are downtown, Josh Hawley runs away.”
Fixed
One of the chimps
https://images.app.goo.gl/uVJp3oqtqoxkweyc7
lol
Republicans will be more ticked off that Hawley is wearing a mask than his running.
And he’ll spin the Forrest Gump dash (“Pod Save America” gets that credit) that he was late getting in the building because he was cheering on the peaceful protest.
Democrats need to be real careful to stay away from the jokes.
That’s what is getting attention.
Keep their eye on the prize. Takeovers of future elections anyway they can, not just an ego-sick president.
Not just sacrifice careers, but, possibly, safety. Ugly threats to Kinzinger & family, & we’re talking about a 5-month-old he has @home.
Here in IL, some people also threatened a House Representative, just for introducing a COVID Vax bill. Received note, “We know where your family lives,” w/a picture taken outside his home. Men w/guns showed up @ his local office. He w/drew the bill, but continues in his legislative position & is running again in Nov. He just signed on to co-sponsor an assault weapons ban bill for IL: he has long had this as part of his platform. He has small children: don’t know if they’re school-aged yet, but he is pro public schools.
He is a special education teacher by profession.
His opponent convinced our local school board to vote for the resolution to arm teachers.
I was just made aware of the this interview with Malcolm Nance. He succinctly makes the same argument I have been trying to make in the first 2:30 minutes, but much more concisely and accurately. His comment after makes me think he’s spying on Bob.
If anyone discovers anything that Nance says is wrong, please explain in detail why. No pithy dismissals allowed.
Great commentary by Nance.
“What should have been EMERGENCY investigations into a conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States, should have already been out bringing people in before grand juries and issuing indictments. The urgency of the defense of American democracy went out the window with the appointment of Merrick Garland.. . . . He will not carry out investigations as elections are coming. That means you have stopped the wheels of American government. You have stopped it out of deference to people that tried to overthrow the American government. I mean, there is a time to go and get a sip of water during a gun battle, OK? But you don’t go out and say that you are going on a vacation to Acapulco during a war. So this is what is happening.”
–Malcolm Nance, Executive Director, Terror Asymmetrics Project
I have one addition to this brilliant commentary by Mr. Nance:
Trump DID commit treason. He aided and abetted organizations–The Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers–that were trying to overthrow the government of the United States. That’s treason. Treason committed by the President of the United States. But that’s not surprising. Trump has long, long been a Russian asset.
So, treason in addition to multiple counts of seditious conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
I don’t use this word lightly. Mr. Nance is the real thing, a hero.
Seditious conspiracy leading to Insurrection, in the service of a foriegn power= treason. No problem with that here .
Plus he tampered with at least one witness. That in itself would lead to a jail sentence for most of us.
Witness Tampering
The tendency to tamper
Is tendency of Trumper
The tendency to lie
Is Trumper alibi
And accessory to those who were attacked and killed.
What if this were a school shooting?
A tragic comparison and statement of how hypocritical the no-comment GOP are.
In every school shooting, the scrutiny of who did what when and why is immediate?
Who knew the perpetrator had symptoms of the possible breakdown and attack?
… was in proximity and attempting to enter the school?
… knew the perpetrator was armed did not report it immediately?
… knew the perpetrator was in the building and did not respond?
… was in charge of the security and communications and refused to communicate?
School officials – and police chiefs – who do not live and breathe national security or have have dozens of advisors surrounding them understandably scrutinized and immediately chastised for “allowing” the shooting. But NOT THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.?
The TEACHER who at first was reported to have left a door propped open was under fire and scrutinized in every media outlet in the U.S. CONGRESSMEN gave tours as to what doors would be opened and nothing.
The sick hypocrisy and passes given to these inhumane soulless people is beyond belief. And that they will still get votes in November and continue to gerrymander and make voting impossible for those who they know won’t support them is more sickening and threatening to the future.
Raising the Barr
“No one’s above the law”
(except the ones who are)
The saying of this saw
Will really raise the Barr
And raising Barr in memo
Will raise it even more
If raising Barr is MO
Then Barr is what’s in store
Josh Hawleyed Ass
When armed insurgents came to town
He welcomed them and showed them ’round
But when insurgents stormed the place
He hawleyed ass and hid his face
“hawleyed ass”- qualifies as genius. political poetry
I saw that yesterday and shamelessly ripped it off.
Poetic license, you know.
Or maybe it’s called poetic infringement
Or poetic pilfering
But luckily, terms are not protected by copyright, and even if they were using them in a poem would be fair use.
Poet-
Thanks for sharing the cleverness. I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.
“Hid his face” with a mask! That won’t go over well in his home state and others.
Hawley Hypocritical
Hawley hides his face
Behind a macho mask
But when it’s time to chase
He turns and hawleys ass
Hawley’s Comet: lightening-like, instinctive escape attempt as your hypocrisies begin to catch up with you.
Ha ha ha
Hawley’s Comet
Hawley’s Comet
Hawley’s ass
Hawley’s vomit
Hawley’s gas
Hawley’s streak
And Hawley’s tail
Hawley’s peak
Is Hawley’s fail