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— PublixHelps (@PublixHelps) January 30, 2021
For context, check out the Wall Street Journal’s report on Julie Jenkins Fancelli and Alex Jones kicking in to fund the ‘Stop The Steal’ rally that preceded the Capitol riot on January 6th.
New York Times: “As racial justice protests erupted nationwide last year, President Donald J. Trump, struggling to find a winning campaign theme, hit on a message that he stressed over and over: The real domestic threat to the United States emanated from the radical left, even though law enforcement authorities had long since concluded it came from the far right. It was a message that was quickly embraced and amplified by his attorney general and his top homeland security officials, who translated it into a shift in criminal justice and national security priorities even as Mr. Trump was beginning to openly stoke the outrage that months later would culminate in the storming of the Capitol by right-wing extremists.”
“Mr. Trump’s efforts to focus his administration on the antifa movement and leftist groups did not stop the Justice Department and the F.B.I. from pursuing cases of right-wing extremism. They broke up a kidnapping plot, for example, targeting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a Democrat. But the effect of his direction was nonetheless substantial, according to interviews with current and former officials, diverting key portions of the federal law enforcement and domestic security agencies at a time when the threat from the far right was building ominously.”
CNN: “The South Carolina Republican Party voted Saturday to formally censure Rep. Tom Rice, who represents the state’s 7th Congressional District, for his vote to impeach former President Donald Trump in the House of Representatives. ‘We made our disappointment clear the night of the impeachment vote. Trying to impeach a president, with a week left in his term, is never legitimate and is nothing more than a political kick on the way out the door,’ said SCGOP Chairman Drew McKissick in a statement Saturday afternoon. ‘Congressman Rice’s vote unfortunately played right into the Democrats’ game, and the people in his district, and ultimately our State Executive Committee, wanted him to know they wholeheartedly disagree with his decision.’ Forthy-three members of the state party’s executive committee voted in favor of the resolution, with no members against and two abstaining, according to spokeswoman Claire Robinson.”
“Bartenders have long ordered cocktail shakers, strainers and stainless steel jiggers from BarProducts.com. Some stopped after Jan. 6, when the company’s chief executive posted a photo of himself in front of the U.S. Capitol building while rioters stormed Congress. The since-deleted selfie of BarProducts founder and CEO Mark Hastings, accompanied by the caption ‘Stop the Steal!,’ has led to a fight with some of its once-loyal customers. The dust-up is the latest example of CEOs taking public stances and the backlash that can follow.”
“‘After 16 years of buying my bar tools from his company I, for one, will never spend another cent with them,’ Brad Kaplan, 46, posted on Facebook alongside a screenshot of Mr. Hastings’s selfie in a Trump hat. In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Hastings wrote in an email, ‘I urge you to reconsider your timing and run the article (that I’d be obliged to help with), at a time when conservative free speech is not under attack'” – Wall Street Journal.
“Republicans tasked with taking back the Senate in 2022 are preparing for a contentious primary season, fearful that former President Donald Trump could use his popularity inside the party to back candidates who could struggle in statewide races. Trump has long been drawn to backing candidates who have shown unending allegiance to him and Republican operatives believe that desire, especially after losing the presidential election in 2020, will be unchanged two years later. But the fear among some operatives is that Trump will be even more of a free agent outside of the White House, less willing to bow to pressure that party leaders like Mitch McConnell put on him to back candidates they believed have better chances to win statewide races.”
“Compounding this issue is a Senate map that is shaping up to test the Republican Party. Of the 34 Senate races in the country next year, Republicans will be tasked with defending 20 seats, compared to 14 for Democrats. And of those 20 seats, two will be in states where President Joe Biden won – Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – and four will be in traditional battleground states – Florida, Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina. Democrats’ most endangered seats will be in Georgia and Arizona, two states where the party won special elections in 2020. The Trump dynamic, operatives said, could play out in very dramatic ways: While the party apparatus may subtly back certain candidates in key Senate primaries, Trump could weigh in to back candidates who have been openly loyal to him, creating a clear rift between party leaders and the former President” – CNN.
NBC News: “President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are vetting civil rights lawyers and public defenders to nominate as judges, embarking on a mission to shape the courts after Republicans overhauled them in the last four years, according to senior party officials and activists. Democrats have a wafer-thin Senate majority that gives them control over appointments. They believe they have two years to make their mark and fill a growing number of vacancies before a midterm election where the party in power historically loses seats. Some are preparing for a Supreme Court retirement as early as this summer, with most of the speculation centered on 82-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer, a Democratic appointee.“
“In addition to forming a new commission to study structural changes to the judiciary, the Biden White House has asked senators to recruit civil rights attorneys and defense lawyers for judgeships. Officials who work on the issue say they’ve seen an outpouring of interest and have begun holding sessions to offer information and advice on navigating the confirmation gauntlet.”
I had a GREAT call with my all time favorite POTUS, President Trump!
I’m so grateful for his support and more importantly the people of this country are absolutely 100% loyal to him because he is 100% loyal to the people and America First.
Cont’d…
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) January 30, 2021
Full Thread: “You can never beat him because We The People have his back. The blood thirsty media and the socialists hate America Democrats are attacking me now just like they always attack President Trump. I can promise you this… I won’t back down. I’ll never apologize. And I’ll always keep fighting for the people. For me, it’s America First!!! Any elected politician that isn’t putting America First doesn’t deserve their position or the people’s trust. America Last policies are policies for sell outs and losers! In these divisive times, real leaders must be determined and strong to be able to withstand the rabid mob that preys on weakness in order to get their way, which is to destroy our country. Yes there is an enemy within. And that enemy is a poisonous rot of socialist policies and America last sell outs who are pompous hypocrites that believe they are untouchable elites. They condoned devastating shutdowns while the rules didn’t apply to them who wined and dined maskless, while the masses have been left in ruins.”
Politico: “After a week on the job, Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states – a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort. Only a small percentage of those unaccounted for doses – roughly 2 million, two officials said – is due to lags in data reporting, the Biden team believes. That would mean the rest of the crucial supply is boxed away in warehouses, sitting idle in freezers or floating elsewhere in the complex distribution pipeline that runs from the administration to individual states. That’s a dilemma that predated the Biden team’s arrival, with Biden himself hammering the vaccine rollout’s first weeks under the Trump administration as a ‘dismal failure.’ Yet the response team underestimated at the outset how difficult it would be to fix.”
There’s some reluctance from Dem leadership in both the House and Senate to go nuclear on assholes like Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, Andy Biggs, Tommy Tuberville – to say nothing of the chickenshit Republican “leadership” – where they hope against hope that, you know, if they get the hint they might resign in shame if someone puts up enough billboards or some primary opponent comes after them in 18 months (or much longer in the case of the Senators) from now and knocks them off. Like they can’t be expelled because that would set a dangerous precedent and blah blah blah, they can’t be sanctioned otherwise because nothing ever happens in either chamber, and anyway that would deprive their voters of representation because Democracy.
Nobody ever really raises the question though – do these voters deserve representation if this is who they send to make their case to the rest of the American people? Seriously. It’s not like Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to take a call from a Dem voter in her district who wants her to support increased public investment in wind energy projects. She’s more likely to post that voter’s home address, say there’s missing children chained to a pipe in their basement, and call on “armed patriots” to go liberate them than she is to say she’ll think about it. So it’s not like folks in Georgia’s 14th district who didn’t vote for Greene are missing out on anything.
Those that did vote for her should go fuck themselves. Seriously. This isn’t a deep disagreement over federal highway funding or even Obamacare. This is a fundamental schism between real America and autocratic anarchy. You cannot be trusted with Democracy if you’re voting for someone who wants to blame our problems on wealthy Jews and their space lasers. You can’t be trusted with it, you do not deserve it, it does not matter if you’ve been culturally conditioned or brainwashed by Fox News and TheGreatAwakening.win or whatever other excuse the mainstream want to make for these people voting for evil. “Disenfranchising” people should not be a bad thing if they’re trying to destroy everything that was once good and decent about this country. Suzerainty has happened before, it can happen again. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer need to unseat these assholes one way or another, as soon as possible, and worry about mutually assured destruction at another time. It’s time to stop pretending this situation can be salvaged.
Washington Post: “A week and a half into the Biden presidency, Democrats are adopting a more muscular approach to dealing with Republicans, essentially declaring they will work with them if they can but are prepared move past them if they must. Top Senate Democrats are now working on dual tracks, planning to hold a speedy impeachment trial to avoid derailing President Biden’s legislative agenda while also laying the groundwork for Biden’s covid relief package to pass shortly afterward. The moves come after Biden launched his administration without Republicans in his Cabinet and started by issuing dozens of executive actions, a clip far more rapid than any of his recent predecessors. Taken together, the moves are energizing Democrats eager for the party to flex its political muscle. But the tougher approach could also jeopardize one of Biden’s chief goals: achieving more bipartisanship in a capital that has been gripped by polarization.”
“Many Democrats are concluding that Republicans are unlikely to work with them and that waiting for them to do so would be a mistake. Biden seems to be heeding that argument to some degree. ‘I have zero tolerance for delay and no interest in diminishing the rescue plan,’ said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), referring to Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid-19 relief package. ‘We need to use all of the tools and techniques that promote fast, fair, decisive action. We’re in a unique historical crisis.’ The two parties will still have numerous opportunities to work together, of course, on issues like infrastructure and foreign policy. But Biden, despite his longtime emphasis on bipartisanship as a principal campaign theme, is signaling that once he has asserted his willingness to work with the GOP, he will not delay his initiatives in hopes that will happen.”
“After President Donald Trump lost his reelection bid, most Senate Republicans, his Justice Department and the courts dismissed or disputed his baseless claims about a “stolen election.” Not Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. The GOP senator used his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee to highlight Trump’s allegations, claiming millions of Americans ‘have real, legitimate suspicions that this election was stolen’ and worrying about ‘so many irregularities here.’ That sort of fealty to Trump has endeared Johnson to the far-right base in his state, but it could prove costly if he decides to seek a third term in 2022. As Johnson weighs whether to run again, his embrace of Trump’s anti-democratic campaign to overturn the election results already has angered some mainstream Republican allies, and is poised to motivate Democrats who have ridden opposition to Trump to new strength in the state.”
“Observers note that Johnson, who rose out of the tea party movement more than a decade ago, has often behaved like a senator from a solidly red state. But November’s election demonstrated that Wisconsin, which Democrat Joe Biden won by fewer than 21,000 votes, is anything but. The fight for his seat will be among the most competitive races next year. ‘I think if the election were a week from now he would be in a world of hurt,’ said Fond du Lac County Republican Party Chair Rohn Bishop. Bishop criticized fellow Republicans like Johnson who parroted claims of illegal election activity, even as he remains a Johnson backer. But he notes that Johnson is at risk of losing moderate voters critical to winning. ‘It may hurt him with the suburban voters. … The election wasn’t stolen, and it’s hard to convince people they should vote for you when you try to throw away their legally cast ballots.'” – AP.
CNN: “Senate Minority Whip John Thune, former President Donald Trump’s actions ahead of the deadly Capitol riot are totally indefensible. ‘No – not at all,’ the No. 2 Republican said when asked if he can defend what Trump did. ‘The way he handled the post-election, both in terms of his public statements and things that he tried to do to change the outcome, no.’ But like other Republicans, Thune has no clear answer to this key question: What should they do to Trump after he lied to his supporters about the election being stolen, promoted the January 6 rally in DC and urged demonstrators to go to the Capitol, which they later rampaged in a deadly riot?”
“‘Well, that’s a good question,’ said Thune, who faces reelection in South Dakota next year. ‘One way, obviously, would be in a court of law.’ With the impeachment trial for Trump set to begin February 9, Senate Republicans are criticizing him without doing anything about his actions, hoping to put distance between themselves and the former President without casting any votes that could cause a backlash from Trump and his fervent supporters. Many say something should be done about what Trump did – but just not by them. When asked about Trump’s actions in relation to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a member of GOP leadership, said: ‘I’m not going to defend them.’ ‘I think he’s been held accountable in the court of public opinion already,’ Cornyn said when asked if the Senate should take any actions, arguing it would set a ‘dangerous precedent’ to convict a former President.”
So in doing research on the various hideous things Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has said or supported, and I came across the story of her support for a hard-core QAnon story Greene reported touted on social media.
I’ll warn you now–and not in a comical way, but in a “Jebbus Chriminy, this is fucking gross” way–that this story is not for the lighthearted.
According to QAnon, FrazzleDrip was the name of a file found on the computer of disgraced one-time Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner. Weiner, you may remember, was arrested and jailed for sending suggestive photos of himself to underage girls.
Two members of the Proud Boys had conspiracy charges added to their indictments by the Department of Justice, the first charges specifying that the January 6th attack was a planned operation, the New York Times reports.
The arrests of Rochester, New York’s Dominic Pezzola (whose Kindle has some very odd publications choices) and William Pepe of Beacon, New York brought the normal charges of trespass and destruction of property.
The conspiracy charges, announced late Friday night, specify that Pezzola and Pepe worked together to obstruct and interfere with law enforcement officers protecting Congress during the final certification of the presidential election.
When federal agents arrested Rochester, New York’s Dominic Pezzola, a member of the Proud Boys and one of the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol on January 6th, they found a curious collection of literature on a thumb drive in his house.
According to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, they found numerous instructions on how to build bombs, manufacture homemade weapons and brew poisons. They also found two instruction manuals: “Advanced Improvised Explosives” and “Ragnar’s Big Book of Homemade Weapons.”
In prosecutor’s briefs asking the Court to deny him bail, authorities outlined why “Spaz,” as he’s known to his friends, was still a danger to society and should not be released on bail on charges including obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property and illegally accessing a restricted area.
In its continuing effort to increase transparency during the coronavirus pandemic, the Biden Administration will release weekly reports on the number of infections in each state, reports that were blocked from public sight by the Trump Administration, CNN reports.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Donald Trump ordered data on the number of cases be withheld from the public, likely believing that increasing numbers of confirmed cases would make him look bad in an election year. President Joe Biden, however, has reversed the secrecy order and implemented programs to increase public knowledge about the virus.
Biden’s coronavirus team, made up of medical, scientific and public health professionals, have scheduled thrice-weekly press conferences to update the public on advances on research, vaccines and other information about the coronavirus.
Rosanne Boyland was on the ground in a short tunnel leading into a west side entrance to the Capitol. Domestic terrorists continued pushing toward the police holding the line, throwing flags, board, metal fence posts and other items at the cops.
According to a video analysis by the New York Times, Boyland had fallen and was crushed under the swell of insurrectionists trying to push police out of the way and get into the Capitol. The 34-year-old woman, who was photographed earlier carrying a Gadsden flag bearing the words “Don’t Tread on Me,” was identified through her unique American flag-bedecked sunglasses, backpack and coat.
At one point during the onslaught, one of the protestors spotted her in distress, dragging her to the side of the door where others providing CPR. One of the protestors approached police officers to inform them there was a woman who had collapsed. Officers called for an ambulance.
“The police officer killed during the siege on the U.S. Capitol will lie in honor in the rotunda of the building next week, officials said Friday. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after a pro-Trump rioter hit him in the head with a fire extinguisher during the riot on Jan. 6, will lie in honor on Tuesday, Feb. 2 and Wednesday, Feb. 3, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement Friday evening.”
“Sicknick, a New Jersey native, died on Jan. 7 after succumbing to injuries he sustained during the siege. ‘The U.S. Congress is united in grief, gratitude and solemn appreciation for the service and sacrifice of Officer Brian Sicknick,’ Pelosi and Schumer said in a joint statement. ‘The heroism of Officer Sicknick and the Capitol Police force during the violent insurrection against our Capitol helped save lives, defend the temple of our democracy and ensure that the Congress was not diverted from our duty to the Constitution.’ ‘His sacrifice reminds us every day of our obligation to our country and to the people we serve,’ they added. Sicknick’s ceremonial arrival is set to take place on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol at 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 2, according to the statement. A viewing period for U.S. Capitol Police members will start at 10 p.m. that day and continue overnight. Congress members will be allowed to attend a viewing from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Feb. 3” – WINS.
President Biden kisses First Lady Jill Biden before boarding Marine One to visit wounded troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) pic.twitter.com/Gw3eY8lKIY
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 29, 2021
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