Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Document Destruction & Mishandling of Classified Materials: When Will DOJ Finally Act?
Meidas Touch – Laughing at the PATHETIC right wing propaganda machine targeting us!!!
Lincoln Project – Vernon Jones
No Dem Left Behind – Donald Trump and the GOP’s Plans to Subvert Democracy
Truth Matters (formerly politicsrus) – Day Without Immigrants
Rocky Mountain Mike – Discourse is Discourse
Beau – Let’s talk about the RNC, McConnell, and Trump….
Glenn Kirschner – GOP Gives Aid & Comfort to J6 Defendants by Declaring their Conduct “Legitimate Political Discourse”
The Lincoln Project – “Legitimate Political Discourse”
Ring of Fire – Steve Bannon Issues Ominous Warning To Mike Pence For Going Against Trump
Rebel HQ – What Is Trump Hiding In Mar-A-Lago?
MSNBC – Wisconsin Supreme Court Allows Use Of Ballot Drop Boxes In Feb. Spring Primary [for the last time, maybe]
Randy Rainbow – The Tango Vaccine
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump getting convicted….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump Pushes Protests, Promises Pardons During Texas Rally: Reveals his Fear Indictments are Near
American Bridge – Co-Chair Cecile Richards: Biden making historic SCOTUS pick
Meidas Touch – Nikki Fried BLASTS Ron DeSantis for HIDING TESTS as Omicron surged
The Lincoln Project – Vote While It Counts
politicsrus – Our Future Needs Strong Public Schools
Radio DJ Drives An Hour Every Day For Months To Gain This Wild Pittie’s Trust
Beau – Let’s talk about fake electors and real subpoenas….
Glenn Kirschner – DOJ Investigating Fraudulent Electors Presents Opportunity to Flip Them Up the Criminal Food Chain
The Lincoln Project – Tucker Carlson Tonight: Moscow Edition
Thom Hartmann – Alabama Cops Are Terrorizing a Small Town
Robert Reich – How Corporate Greed Drives Inflation
Armageddon Update – CoViD Year Three
Ring of Fire – Documents Show Plot To Overturn Arizona Election Results Included Right Wing Media Personalities
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump and the Georgia special grand jury….
Glenn Kirschner – Is Garland’s DOJ Investigating Trump and Company? Here Are Some Clues From Garland’s Past Work
Meidas Touch – How PLAYBOY saved Reporter Brian Karem’s Life on Jan 6!! |
politicsrus – Its Your Moment
MSNBC – Rep. Raskin: Jan. 6 Public Phase Will Hopefully Be Like Watergate Hearings (I didn’t realize how deeply good trouble ran in his family. That explains a lot.)
Really Americn – Republicans STEALING Americans Right To Vote
Rocky Mountain Mike – Pee All That You Can Pee
Beau – Let’s talk about Tucker, the lost and found, and the way it is….
Yesterday, I spent some time figuring out what to wear today. In this case, it’s not a matter of appearance. I’m getting my booster today, and I need to come up with clothing which will keep me warm enough in below freezing temperatiures (a high of 30 is predicted) yet still nake it easy to accesss my deltoid without indecency, while at the same time, protecting me as much as possible from airborne droplets. That is not something which is immediately obvious – or at least not to me. So thought is required.
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Short Takes –
Letters from an American (Heather Cox Richardson) – Januaty 17, 2022
Quote – In this moment of struggle over voting rights in America, it is important to distinguish between voter fraud, which is vanishingly rare and has not affected the outcome of elections, and election fraud, which is coming to characterize a number of our important elections.
Voter fraud is about an individual breaking the law and is almost always caught. It is not a threat to democracy.
Election fraud means that people in power have rigged the system so that the will of the voters is overturned. When it happens, it threatens to destroy our nation.
Click through for full letter. She puts some things together. (I would point out that by no means of them are proven to the point of being ready to go to court.) But she is no dummy. Her newletter is free to subscribe.
The 19th – Black women in Martin Luther King Jr.’s neighborhood will soon receive monthly cash payments
Quote – That work that In Her Hands will do in the coming two years will build on that established by other programs like Magnolia Mother’s Trust, the first privately-run guaranteed income program in the country. Launched in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2018, it gave 20 Black mothers $1,000 a month for a year, growing to cover 110 in its 2020-2021 year and another 100 in the most recent cohort, which will wrap up this March. All were living 200 percent below the federal poverty line and in subsidized housing. Most are working.
Click through for details and information on the successes of previous programs. Republicans are committed to the idea that people won’t work unless they are reduced to bare subsistence level, and that then they will work for pennies. That may seem intuitive, but these programs demonstrate it isn’t reality.
Crooks and Liars – Crockett And Lake Are Poster Children For GOP Harassment And Extremism
Quote – (in a tweet from Patriot Takes) Kari Lake supporter Ethan Schmidt: “I just love harassing people, especially cancer patients because they’re weak and vulnerable and easy targets.” Kari Lake is running for Arizona Governor and appeared in one of Ethan’s videos. Lake refuses to denounce Ethan Schmidt.
Click through for story. C&L republished this from “No More Mr. Nice Blog,” which I have provisionally added to the Blogroll. He does have other things to say. And he certainly has a point in this column.
Food For Thought:
Glenn Kirschner – Short: Trump’s Foot Soldiers are Indicted. Now It’s Time to Indict the Command Structure.
The Lincoln Project – Tribute
politicsrus – Betrayal
Rebel HQ – US Army Offers $50K Bonus To New Recruits
MSNBC – ‘Part Of A Much Larger Conspiracy’: Investigation Into 16 Michigan Republicans
Liberal Redneck – President Sinema?? (Naw)
Beau – Let’s talk about political and military wings again….
Yesterday, I did take some time to disengageshort sessions with a couple of games just to relax. And deal with a package. And even to stream a movie (“The Canterville Ghost” with Patrick Stewart.) It’s a wonder I got both posts up.
Cartoon – (I’m pretty sure no one ever too TC up on this offer.)
Short Takes –
Here’s where election-denying candidates are running to control voting
Quote – An NPR analysis of 2022 secretary of state races across the country found at least 15 Republican candidates running who question the legitimacy of President Biden’s 2020 win, even though no evidence of widespread fraud has been uncovered about the race over the last 14 months. In fact, claims of any sort of fraud that swung the election have been explicitly refuted in state after state, including those run by Republicans.
Click through for states and names. These may be the most important elections of 2022. As Beau says, “If you live in one of these dtates, and you have ever desired to get interested in electoral politics, now is your time.” (Pass it on.)
Mother Jones – The Jan. 6 Insurrectionists Begging for Pardons Sound an Awful Lot Like Confederate Soldiers
Quote – Radical Republicans feared Lincoln’s 10 percent plan was too lenient. They were proved right when, after Lincoln’s assassination, President Andrew Johnson—who not a year earlier gave a speech saying, “I am for a white man’s government, and in favor of free white qualified voters controlling this country, without regard to negroes”—began undermining Reconstruction. He started by pardoning high-ranking Confederates. Among them was Harry T. Hayes, a former Confederate general who led the rebels at Gettysburg.
Click through for full story. I truly hope we can learn from their mistakes.
The Guardian – Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR?
Quote – The putsch called for [retired US Marine Corps Maj Gen Smedley Darlington Butler] to lead a massive army of veterans – funded by $30m from Wall Street titans and with weapons supplied by Remington Arms – to march on Washington, oust Roosevelt and the entire line of succession, and establish a fascist dictatorship backed by a private army of 500,000 former soldiers.
Click through for details. Those who follow the video thread know that Beau of the Fifth Column has spoken about the United States’ long history of choosing to “protect the Office of the Presidency,” and I expect that had a hand in hiding this history, though of course the rich and powerful were also prime movers. In my view, the best way to protect the Office of the Presidency is to ensure that anyone who defules that Office is held accountable.
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