Terrorism in Israel, MyPillow Trumped, Speaker Squeaker, Jordan Jumped

Begin with hope:

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Oust Ouch, Fraud, Rant, MAGA Nuts, Sub Secrets Blabbed, GOP Debates

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Trump Finance, Rage, Shutdown, Impeach, Tubervilled Military

  • Dianne Feinstein has departed this mortal coil.
    One exchange comes up repeatedly on social media.
     
    I especially enjoyed how she forced Senator Craig to backtrack, insisting he hadn’t said what he was recorded saying seconds before.
     


    After his career was later demolished, I expressed some sympathy a decade ago toward anti-gay, secretly gay, Senator Craig.

  • Adam Kinzinger brings fellow Republican, Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallagher, to task for a lack of political courage.


    X denizen Aaron Rodriguez objects:


    Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson isn’t having it:


    Aaron appeals to practicality.


    And James has the last word:

  • The Palmer Report totals the potential years of jailtime for mr Trump, if convicted and sentenced on all counts. It all raises another question, will further evidence lead to charges against other Republican politicians?
     
  • A summary judgment finds the evidence inexhaustible. Donald Trump cheated and bamboozled his way to a false real estate success. Green Eagle provides a bit of context most news media leave out, and predicts how long coverage will continue.
     
  • Tommy Christopher captures another of mr Trump’s troubled sleep times, as he dead-of-night rages on Truth Social about such national dangers as Howard Stern criticisms and President Biden successes.
     
  • Does Trump’s rise represent something new, or is he a logical outgrowth of long term Republican authoritarianism?
     
    In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson goes all Schrödinger and says both. She demonstrates with a brief history of gerrymanders, including the recent explosion of their exploitation by the anti-democracy party.

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‘Liberal Jews’, Trump Makeup Kit, GOP Shutdown, Musk, Ukraine

This is how that 60 Minutes interview should have been conducted

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Trump/Murdock Match, Jan 6, Courts, Age of Biden, Impeach, God, Loss, Grief

  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has the links, but seems decidedly unsympathetic to either contender, as mr Trump challenges Rupert Murdoch to a senility contest.
     
  • In Georgia, the Fulton County court drama continues with Trump lawyers, co‑conspirator lawyers, and the Fani Willis team.
     
    Frances Langum has read through last week’s release of the complete, full, unredacted, original Fulton County, Georgia Grand Jury report. Turns out the Grand Jury wanted a few more indictments. How many more? Oh MY!
     
  • Congressional Representative Jim Jordan (R‑OH) is irritated by the Georgia indictments of Donald Trump and decides to do something about it. As chair of the House Judiciary Committee, he issues a subpoena for all of the prosecution’s evidence.
     
    The Palmer Report brings us a summary of the Fani Willis response to Rep Jordan. She did not simply refuse. She explained her legal reasoning, how state trials work, the standards of US Constitutional law, and (wonderfully) congressional committee procedures.
     
    Pretty much made Jim Jordan look unfamiliar with his own rules.
    Who could have guessed?
     
    Key introduction to Congressional procedures:
    In her letter, Willis pointed out to Jordan: “As you know, Chairman Jordan, the congressional power of inquiry ‘is not unlimited.” She followed that statement with appropriately related case law.
     
  • Ant Farmer’s Almanac has a marketing idea for Gym Jordan Footwear.
     
  • PZ Myers sees the judicial sentence applied to an insurrection leader as a reason to hope for justice.
     
    My minor objection. The 22 year sentence for Enrique Tarrio is not justice.
    We are confined by legal and ethical limits on punishment.
     
    Justice would have been much harsher.
     
  • Just when I thought I could never empathize with this group:
     
    Andy Borowitz brings us the right wing terrorist group, the Proud Boys, many of whom have been sentenced to terms so long that on release they may have to change the group name to something more age appropriate.
     
    Key name rejection:
    “Yes, I will eventually be an Elderly Boy,” Enrique Tarrio told reporters. “However, let’s be clear: while we Proud Boys are considering changing the name of our group, ‘Elderly Boys’ is not one of the options in the mix.”
     
  • Since we are now up to 91 counts, Green Eagle decides it’s time for someone to say straight out what is really going on.
     
    Key narrative summary:
    Joe Biden, who happens to be a doddering dotard, is also engaged in this massive, perfectly timed plot to destroy the one who is poised to return to power and wreak his justified vengeance on anyone who ever stood up to him, while profiting handsomely in the process. That’s their story, and as the song says, they are sticking to it.
     
  • MadMikesAmerica speculates that voters may turn toward the right‑wing in 2024. Has to do with the way we look at age.
     
  • Tommy Christopher brings us the quote as President Biden, colorfully and accurately, credits a John Wayne movie while referring to climate deniers as lying dog‑faced pony soldiers.
     
  • News Corpse has Biden staffers NOT avoiding any comment on Republican plans for impeachment, but even directing media attention to them.
     
    Now a few Republicans are recoiling and accusing the administration of dictating coverage.
     
    My thought:
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit calls the impeachment nonsense what it is: another move to guarantee the re‑election of President Biden.
     
    I have yet another thought:
  • Vivek Ramaswamy wants to be President, and says he will pardon mr Trump in order to “help reunite the country.”
     
    Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged explains that it will do the opposite and, considering the future of said country, would otherwise be a really bad, horrible, dumb idea. She counts the ways.
     
    Key reason never to offend Vixen:
    When Ramaswamy says it, it sounds like the pandering of a slick, green, shallow man who has never thought hard about public matters a day in his life.
     
    Ouch! I don’t even like Vivek and that hurt.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice Kathy Gill dives deep into Texas law, politics, and polls and tells us all about the impeachment and coming state senate trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
     
  • Dave Columbo takes apart and reassembles Tucker.
     
  • driftglass watches Mitt Romney prepare to exit Republican politics, leaving behind one last bit of both sides are equally at fault.
    One problem: driftglass isn’t having it.

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Wisconsin Republicans:
Voters Have No Right to Choose Wrong

For those not focused like a laser on Wisconsin, here’s the sequence:
 

Suffragatorum Voluntate:
By the Will of the Voters
Photo by Joshua Woroniecki on Unsplash
Prospective state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz mentions the extreme gerrymandering that keeps Wisconsin Republicans in power.
 
Wisconsin voters then, by a big majority, elect Janet Protasiewicz to their state Supreme Court.
 
Wisconsin Republicans now want to impeach and remove the new Justice because she is flagrantly pro-democracy, but is still willing to rule on gerrymandering when it comes to the court.
 
Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson reacts to their reaction:
 


James expands on the plan by gerrymandered Wisconsin Republicans to use their gerrymander to preserve their gerrymander forever.

We’re watching another wall being erected around our state Capitol. Instead of protecting the law or our rights as Wisconsin citizens, the wall is being built to protect the members of our legislature. Every last one of them is more precious than the will of the voters in the last Supreme Court election.
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9/11: Remembering Victims of Collective Hatred

He was the office hothead. He often took it to laughable lengths. One incident in particular produced a permanent image in my mind.

It was a small, struggling company, and it was hard to start an advancement program. It was a technological company with no formal training and development. So I proposed to management a series of lunchtime training sessions organized by employees. We would bring our lunches to a conference room once a week and take turns teaching each other from books we bought together.

Eventually, management began showing some enthusiasm. They offered to buy our next set of books. They began buying lunch for those participating. That’s where my hotheaded friend came in. “Pizza!” he said in disgust. “Every damn week, Pizza! If they don’t give us something different, I’m not coming anymore.”

It was emblematic of his always-on-edge personality. Glass half shattered.

So when I showed up for work that day and was greeted by an especially sour welcome, it made me laugh. “You watch television this morning?” he asked. Nope. Then, shouting: “What the HELL is wrong with you?”

Then my smile was replaced by horror. Someone had rescued a training television from some training room. A tall building was burning. People were dying as we watched.

Future generations who watch replays of television coverage of September 11 destruction will never know how it really was to experience it for the first time.
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Biden, Florida Hit, Trump Mugged, 14th, Vivek, OJ (Really?), Nikki, Rudy, Impeach

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