Donald Trump is my hero

[some seeing eye]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... rally.html

[Simon of the Playa]

"Those who claim that the events of 6 January were something other than a failed coup attempt would do well to come up with a better line. Or a different alternate reality.
Prospective witnesses before the House select committee on the events of 6 January ought to start worrying.
Ashli Babbitt is no martyr. Trump will not be restored to the presidency, no matter what the MyPillow guy says. Trump’s machinations and protestations convey the desperation that comes with hovering over the abyss. He knows what he has said and done."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -kinzinger

[some seeing eye]

The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable
Why targets of deliberate deception often hesitate to admit they’ve been deceived

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ct/619627/

Critics may note the side effects in the Chinese mainland of "saving face" We have it here now in Trumpism.

And https://www.newsweek.com/rep-jackie-spe ... it-1615072

[Simon of the Playa]

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https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/t ... d=29750647

[Simon of the Playa]

"As soon as he got the all-clear, Rosen scheduled interviews with the congressional committees and with the inspector general of the Department of Justice to tell as much as he could of what he had seen before anyone tried to stop him. He met with the inspector general yesterday, and today he talked to the Senate Judiciary Committee for more than six hours.

Richard P. Donoghue has also agreed to testify, as have other Department of Justice officials.

What this means is that congressional investigating committees now have witnesses to Trump’s efforts to overturn the election."



https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ust-7-2021

[some seeing eye]

Donald Trump: "Actually, Osama bin Laden Wasn’t That Bad"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08 ... -a-monster

[Simon of the Playa]

the devil went down to georgia...


https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/statu ... 77927?s=20

[Simon of the Playa]

"A widely discredited GOP-led review of the 2020 election in Arizona's largest county has concluded that Joe Biden indeed received more votes there than Donald Trump."

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/10403274 ... bidens-win

[Simon of the Playa]

the Devil will Lose his Fiddle in Fulton...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... ton-county


and The Devil Is Going Down to Georgia Tonight...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... hel-walker

"On the eve of the rally in Perry, Brad Raffensperger told the Washington Examiner: “He’s going to come, and he’s going to say what he’s going to say, but he knows in his heart that he lost.”

[Simon of the Playa]

"We conclude that Trump's post-election conduct in Georgia leaves him at substantial risk of possible state charges predicated on multiple crimes," the report said.

"These charges potentially include criminal solicitation to commit election fraud; intentional interference with performance of election duties; conspiracy to commit election fraud; criminal solicitation; and state RICO violations."

The report added that criminal liability could extend to some Trump allies, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.


https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-c ... ort-2021-9

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Simon of the Playa]

obvious coup attempt is obvious...

[Simon of the Playa]

“if he makes a successful return to the presidency in 2024, democracy’s done.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/polit ... ort-trump/

[Simon of the Playa]

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[lucky420]

Yep ^^

[Simon of the Playa]

He added that Republicans will withhold their votes in 2022 and 2024 if the election fraud isn't "solved." He added it is the "single most important thing for Republicans to do."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-rep ... ed-1638730

[lucky420]

He added that Republicans will withhold their votes in 2022 and 2024 if the election fraud isn't "solved." He added it is the "single most important thing for Republicans to do."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-rep ... ed-1638730

I’m on board with this

[Simon of the Playa]

The committee is saying that the riot was coordinated ahead of time, and it appears to suggest that Capitol security was compromised.

Then the report explains why Bannon is an important witness. Its account of his actions in that crisis is an illuminating roundup of what we have seen in pieces in many other places. It concludes that Bannon knew specifically about the events of January 6 ahead of time.

On his January 5 podcasts, for example, he said:

“It’s not going to happen like you think it’s going to happen. OK, it’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is, strap in. [. . .] You made this happen and tomorrow it’s game day. So strap in. Let’s get ready.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... er-18-2021

[Simon of the Playa]

"Historically speaking, what we know about a 'big lie' is that because of its very scale, it's not about truth or not truth; it's about living in a kind of alternative reality," Snyder added. "What we're looking at is people who believe in or pretend to believe in this Big Lie, actually carrying out our elections. And the problem with this, or one of them, is that since these people have already claimed that the other side cheated, that basically legitimizes their cheating. In other words, if you talk about the Big Lie now, you're basically promising to cheat the next time around, and that's very concerning."

https://youtu.be/xXp63Cc-iWg


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2024-election/

[Simon of the Playa]

October 22, 2021
Heather Cox Richardson
Oct 23

This morning, Jonathan Martin at the New York Times reported that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has warned Republican political consultants that they may not continue to work for both him and Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), who is vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.

While Republican lawmakers are trying to sweep the insurrection under the rug, Cheney is calling out the attack and demanding sunlight on what happened. Republican leaders are lining up behind former president Trump in hopes of retaining his loyalist voters, but Cheney is repeatedly, and increasingly clearly, suggesting that the president was responsible for the events of that day.

That McCarthy is trying to make her a pariah indicates a fight over the future of the Republican Party. While one fund-raising company has already cut ties with her, Cheney is not operating from a weak position. Her father is Richard (Dick) Cheney, who was President George W. Bush’s vice president and, perhaps more significant for today’s events, President George H. W. Bush’s secretary of defense. The Cheneys are likely not unaware of what is happening among intelligence officials, which seems likely to involve some current Republican lawmakers.

And Liz Cheney’s stand against McCarthy and Trump is not hurting her politically at home: she has raised more than $5 million for her reelection, compared to the $300,000 raised in the last two months or so by her Trump-backed opponent.

There is an important story behind McCarthy’s attack on Representative Cheney. She presents a threat to the pro-Trump Republican Party not simply because she is standing strong against the former president and the attack on our democracy.

She is offering to women and men in the suburbs a reasonable alternative to those pro-Trump representatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) whose pistol packing and aggression gets attention for all the wrong reasons. Trump Republicans have lost the support of suburban women, and Cheney seems to be picking them up and explaining that Trump and his supporters, including McCarthy, tried to destroy our democracy. That McCarthy felt it necessary to try to undercut her this way suggests they see her as a major threat.

McCarthy had another reason to be unhappy today. Longtime readers of these letters may perhaps remember that McCarthy took money from a Ukraine-born U.S. businessman, Lev Parnas.

Parnas worked with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to try to find dirt on Joe Biden’s son Hunter in Ukraine. In 2019, prosecutors said that money was illegal: Parnas had taken $1 million from Ukraine oligarch Dmytro Firtash and had illegally funneled more than $350,000 to pro-Trump political action committees and other Republican lawmakers in 2016.

Today, a jury found Parnas guilty of making illegal campaign contributions.

In other developments that might be making Republican lawmakers uncomfortable, Jeffrey Clark, the Justice Department attorney who wanted to help then-president Trump stay in the White House despite losing the election, is scheduled to testify before the January 6th committee next Friday.

According to CNN, Alyssa Farah, who was Trump’s director of strategic communications, has met voluntarily with Cheney and Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who, along with Cheney, is on the January 6 committee.

It appears there is concern about the mounting evidence before the January 6th committee. In an interview with National Review, John Eastman, who wrote a very clear memo outlining how then–vice president Mike Pence could overturn the results of the 2020 election, called that scenario “crazy.”

Meanwhile, business journalists are suggesting that the new Trump media company is not a failure at all, because it was never actually meant to be a media company so much as a way to siphon money out of investors.

Matt Levine in Bloomberg outlines how a vehicle called a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), which is a publicly traded investment company, is designed to merge with a new company that is not yet public, to allow investment in that SPAC based on expectations of future income thanks to the new company. (Someone explained this to me by saying it’s like a sea slug taking over a shell so it can do business as the shell organism quickly and without oversight.)

In this case, the announcement that the new Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) would merge with a SPAC called Digital World Acquisition Corporation (DWAC) sent DWAC’s stock soaring by as much as 160%. It was the most traded stock on the New York Stock Exchange, with more than 260 million shares traded by midday.

The company never has to produce anything. Investors can make money just based on how people think the company might perform—or not—in the future.

The man behind this scheme is the person to whom McCarthy is demanding the Republican Party demonstrate absolute loyalty.

[Simon of the Playa]

Trump’s endorsement came as a Brazilian Senate committee recommended that Bolsonaro face criminal charges over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the country.

https://thehill.com/policy/internationa ... -bolsonaro

[Simon of the Playa]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVjrTPRAudD ... =copy_link

[lucky420]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVjrTPRAudD ... =copy_link

Omg bwahahahaha
Oh dear….

[Simon of the Playa]

The White House records in question are among the most sensitive: visitor logs, telephone records, and other documents from the files of Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as well as the former deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... se-records

[some seeing eye]

'We Are On the Way to a Right-wing Coup,' the CIA Director Privately Warned
11/11/21 AT 5:00 AM EST

In this daily series, Newsweek explores the steps that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot.

https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-way-rig ... ed-1647538

[Simon of the Playa]

"These cosplay soldiers are kept at a high state of readiness by OAN, Fox News, and various right-wing conspiracy theorists. Watch that video one more time. Do you doubt that if Donald Trump gave the command, that man in Idaho would be part of an armed mob rushing out to kill? These people have already shown us who they are. How many more times until we believe them?"

https://www.thebulwark.com/prepare-for- ... ck-troops/

[Simon of the Playa]

Trump looks back on Jan. 6 "fondly," Karl wrote, "and believes that if events just had played out a little differently, he’d still be president."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 629637002/

[Savannah]

Trump looks back on Jan. 6 "fondly," Karl wrote, "and believes that if events just had played out a little differently, he’d still be president."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 629637002/

I'll bet he does, the absolute waste of skin.

I miss you, Simon!

[Simon of the Playa]

In separate interviews with NPR, Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg pointed to a breaking point earlier this month: network star Tucker Carlson's three-part series on the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol that relied on fabrications and conspiracy theories to exonerate the Trump supporters who participated in the attack.

"It's basically saying that the Biden regime is coming after half the country and this is the War on Terror 2.0," Goldberg tells NPR. "It traffics in all manner of innuendo and conspiracy theories that I think legitimately could lead to violence. That for me, and for Steve, was the last straw."

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/21/10528371 ... ocumentary