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Top 10 Conservative Idiots Special Report: The January 6th Live Telecast Edition
Last edited Thu Jun 16, 2022, 05:32 PM - Edit history (1)
Top 10 Conservative Idiots Special Report: The January 6th Live Telecast Edition
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Hellllllllllllo! Welcome! You might be wondering why we’re doing this, or better, you might be wondering what the fuck is going on? Well we're here to break it down the only way we know how - the Idiots way! We’re doing this experimental one entry audience less at our home base at the Constellation Room in Santa Ana, California. So, we were watching the hearings last week about what the hell actually happened on January 6th, 2021. After the telecast, I had an emergency Zoom meeting with my staff and we decided that we couldn’t wait 5 weeks to talk about what’s been happening. Because this is a fucking absolute bombshell. What happens from here is literally anybody’s guess, but for Trump, who tried to take over the government and murder half of Congress that day, it’s not good. And it could have serious consequences for the entire GOP because it revealed that there were insiders from all branches of the government involved. And we really have to thank courageous people like Liz Cheney for speaking up against the MAGA cult of personality that has taken over the GOP. So that being said, I got together with my staff and we decided to shoot this brief one-person Idiots list but most of our frills like props, sets, and our audience are missing, and our resident pastor for Holy Shit decided to take an extended holiday. So we’re dedicating this single entry Top 10 to one person and one person only: That fucking psychopath who was the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump (1). Yes, we had to come off our break to talk about this because of how batshit insane it was. We’re dropping and forgoing our usual format because we need to take an extensive look at the events that unfolded last week the only way we know how - the Idiots way! So here we go. Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!
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I want to preface by saying that there is a boatload of information coming and we've only begun to scratch the surface here, and this is an experiment that we are trying. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program! So this here is a Top 10 experiment that we are performing here. After last week’s hearing, which was broadcast live on primetime TV, we had an emergency meeting via Zoom to discuss whether or not we should break our time off to discuss what the fuck happened. The answer according to everyone is yes – we absolutely have to break down what happened. That said, we are presenting to you this one entry Top 10 special to highlight exactly what the hell happened. And to answer your question, Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, about other issues that should be the focus of a primetime hearing, the answer to that is “fuck you”. Let us know when you conduct a real one on mass shootings that actually addresses real gun crimes. OK enough of that. Where do we even start with this? Well let’s start with what happened during Barry Loudermilk’s tour of the US Capitol. Here, something very alarming was discovered.
Link to tweet
OK what the serious fuck? Who takes pictures of a stairwell? The only thing I can think of is that they were on a recon mission! Now let’s get into it.
That's the message that the Jan. 6 committee sent to Republican voters during Monday's hearing, the second of what could be as many as eight hearings through June. As Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., had promised, the hearing covered the first part of Trump's seven-part plan to steal the election, which was "a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to the American public claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him." Straight from the beginning, Trump voters were portrayed as the primary victims of his Big Lie. Cheney kicked things off by painting the people who sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 as Trump's dupes, people who acted on Trump's lies and now are paying for it by going to prison. Quoting the Wall Street Journal, Cheney said, "Mr. Trump betrayed his supporters by conning them on January 6th. And he is still doing it."
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., followed this up by highlighting how Trump has repeatedly sent out emails fundraising off the Big Lie, taking in money that he can redirect into his personal coffers quite easily. "The big lie was also a big ripoff," she declared.
Tellingly, pretty much all the evidence that Trump deliberately lied to defraud his own supporters came from other Republicans, both in taped depositions and live witnesses. As Heather "Digby" Parton argued in her preview Monday morning, for "at least a few GOP voters it must be a little bit difficult to buy that all of these Republicans are liars." The all-Republican witness list gave the hearing the air of a cult deprogramming effort, repeatedly confronting Republican voters with truths coming from people they simply can't write off as Democrats playing politics.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216796108
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., followed this up by highlighting how Trump has repeatedly sent out emails fundraising off the Big Lie, taking in money that he can redirect into his personal coffers quite easily. "The big lie was also a big ripoff," she declared.
Tellingly, pretty much all the evidence that Trump deliberately lied to defraud his own supporters came from other Republicans, both in taped depositions and live witnesses. As Heather "Digby" Parton argued in her preview Monday morning, for "at least a few GOP voters it must be a little bit difficult to buy that all of these Republicans are liars." The all-Republican witness list gave the hearing the air of a cult deprogramming effort, repeatedly confronting Republican voters with truths coming from people they simply can't write off as Democrats playing politics.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216796108
Yeah so that’s criminally insane. Of course Trump would keep profiting off the “Big Lie” because all he does is the wrong thing. If you asked him what color the sky was, he’d go “green” not only to piss you off, but then he would keep arguing that green is the correct color of the sky! This is probably the most fucked up part of the whole thing. Is that remember when the MAGAs were storming the halls of Congress screaming “HANG MIKE PENCE!!!!”? Well it turns out that not only did Trump think that these psychopaths were right, he was actually salivating over that thought that this could happen, and was shocked when the Secret Service took him to safety! That’s right – he wanted to fucking murder his own sitting vice president!
The House committee investigating the Capitol assault has heard accounts of the former president’s remarks as he watched the riot unfold on television.
Shortly after hundreds of rioters at the Capitol started chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” on Jan. 6, 2021, the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, left the dining room off the Oval Office, walked into his own office and told colleagues that President Donald J. Trump was complaining that the vice president was being whisked to safety.
Mr. Meadows, according to an account provided to the House committee investigating Jan. 6, then told the colleagues that Mr. Trump had said something to the effect of, maybe Mr. Pence should be hung.
It is not clear what tone Mr. Trump was said to have used. But the reported remark was further evidence of how extreme the rupture between the president and his vice president had become, and of how Mr. Trump not only failed to take action to call off the rioters but appeared to identify with their sentiments about Mr. Pence — whom he had unsuccessfully pressured to block certification of the Electoral College results that day — as a reflection of his own frustration at being unable to reverse his loss.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/politics/trump-pence-jan-6.html
Shortly after hundreds of rioters at the Capitol started chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” on Jan. 6, 2021, the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, left the dining room off the Oval Office, walked into his own office and told colleagues that President Donald J. Trump was complaining that the vice president was being whisked to safety.
Mr. Meadows, according to an account provided to the House committee investigating Jan. 6, then told the colleagues that Mr. Trump had said something to the effect of, maybe Mr. Pence should be hung.
It is not clear what tone Mr. Trump was said to have used. But the reported remark was further evidence of how extreme the rupture between the president and his vice president had become, and of how Mr. Trump not only failed to take action to call off the rioters but appeared to identify with their sentiments about Mr. Pence — whom he had unsuccessfully pressured to block certification of the Electoral College results that day — as a reflection of his own frustration at being unable to reverse his loss.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/politics/trump-pence-jan-6.html
Holy shit! And by the way in case you’re wondering if he’s guilty or not, you only have to look at the quality of the posts being posted on Trump’s shit show of a social media network – Truth Social – to understand what the MAGA cult is talking about in regards to the events that happened that day. So in case you’re wondering – yes, they are being deleted. That’s right – anything being said about January 6th that might be even the slightest bit detrimental to Trump is being deleted. Look, I’ve been a mod on a lot of different message boards, and if there’s one sign someone is guilty of breaking the rules, it’s deleting messages!
The irony is rich: Truth Social, Donald Trump’s Twitter copycat claiming it is “free from political discrimination,” has reportedly banned users who posted information from Thursday’s congressional hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — in which the former president is a key focus.
That’s according to several posts on Twitter by users who claimed Truth Social was censoring them. Reps for Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns and operates Truth Social, did not respond to a request for comment.
Travis Allen, whose Twitter bio describes him as an information security analyst, on Thursday evening posted a screenshot from the Truth Social app that said “Account suspended,” and he wrote: “My Truth Social account was just permanently suspended for talking about the January 6th Committee hearings.”
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Truth Social’s terms of service state, “We reserve the right to, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, deny access to and use of the service (including blocking certain IP addresses), to any person for any reason or for no reason… We may terminate your use or participation in the service or delete [your account and] any content or information that you posted at any time, without warning, in our sole discretion.” (Twitter’s terms of service include similar language.) In the U.S., under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, internet platforms like Truth Social have legal protections for their content-moderation decisions — a carve-out that Trump unsuccessfully sought to revoke when he occupied the White House.
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/trumps-truth-social-is-banning-users-who-post-about-jan-6-hearings-according-to-reports-1235290726/
That’s according to several posts on Twitter by users who claimed Truth Social was censoring them. Reps for Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns and operates Truth Social, did not respond to a request for comment.
Travis Allen, whose Twitter bio describes him as an information security analyst, on Thursday evening posted a screenshot from the Truth Social app that said “Account suspended,” and he wrote: “My Truth Social account was just permanently suspended for talking about the January 6th Committee hearings.”
...snip...
Truth Social’s terms of service state, “We reserve the right to, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, deny access to and use of the service (including blocking certain IP addresses), to any person for any reason or for no reason… We may terminate your use or participation in the service or delete [your account and] any content or information that you posted at any time, without warning, in our sole discretion.” (Twitter’s terms of service include similar language.) In the U.S., under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, internet platforms like Truth Social have legal protections for their content-moderation decisions — a carve-out that Trump unsuccessfully sought to revoke when he occupied the White House.
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/trumps-truth-social-is-banning-users-who-post-about-jan-6-hearings-according-to-reports-1235290726/
Yeah Trump right now is in full “move along, nothing to see here, please disperse mode!”. Now you might be thinking – who else was involved in this clusterfuck that took place on January 6th? Before we get into that, those of you who are friends of this program, you will recall that we had plans to do a special “Fuck You Trump” sendoff on January 21st, but we scrapped those plans after this event because we just couldn’t do it. So we’ll never know who won the Trumper Games. But now we can tell you – Tribute Cruz is the one who won the Trumper Games! He’s the last MAGA left! Congratulations, Teddy, you won! And also, I say this with the utmost sincerity – go fuck yourself!
It’s widely known that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is a shameless opportunist. But could he be even more shameless and opportunistic than we believed?
Potentially yes, according to a report from The Washington Post published this week detailing just how closely Cruz worked with then-President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election results. Reporter Michael Kranish also revealed that Cruz has known Trump’s attorney John Eastman — who authored legal memos he hoped would be used to deny the certification of the election — for decades. That raises questions over whether Cruz coordinated directly with the White House on legal strategy designed to undermine the election......
According to the Post, Cruz and Trump began working on plans to undermine the election two days after Election Day, to the surprise of many of Cruz’s aides. Cruz spoke to Trump directly on the phone, acted as a Trump surrogate spreading 2020 disinformation on Fox News and pitched himself as a legal asset because of his experience working with George W. Bush’s campaign during the recount of the Florida vote in 2000. Among other things, Cruz agreed to represent Pennsylvania Republicans’ attempt to block certification of their state’s presidential results before the Supreme Court. (The Supreme Court didn’t end up taking the case.) And as Cruz backed a lawsuit arguing that Texas had the authority to throw out election results in several other battleground states, some of his advisers worried he was turning his back on his conservative federalist principles.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ted-cruz-s-ties-trump-jan-6-are-worse-we-n1293872?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Potentially yes, according to a report from The Washington Post published this week detailing just how closely Cruz worked with then-President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election results. Reporter Michael Kranish also revealed that Cruz has known Trump’s attorney John Eastman — who authored legal memos he hoped would be used to deny the certification of the election — for decades. That raises questions over whether Cruz coordinated directly with the White House on legal strategy designed to undermine the election......
According to the Post, Cruz and Trump began working on plans to undermine the election two days after Election Day, to the surprise of many of Cruz’s aides. Cruz spoke to Trump directly on the phone, acted as a Trump surrogate spreading 2020 disinformation on Fox News and pitched himself as a legal asset because of his experience working with George W. Bush’s campaign during the recount of the Florida vote in 2000. Among other things, Cruz agreed to represent Pennsylvania Republicans’ attempt to block certification of their state’s presidential results before the Supreme Court. (The Supreme Court didn’t end up taking the case.) And as Cruz backed a lawsuit arguing that Texas had the authority to throw out election results in several other battleground states, some of his advisers worried he was turning his back on his conservative federalist principles.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ted-cruz-s-ties-trump-jan-6-are-worse-we-n1293872?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Yeah so who else was involved? Tommy Tuberville and Rand Paul, I’m looking in your direction! We may never know all who were involved at that Trump Hotel meeting the night before. Or who were giving out tours of the Capitol the week before hand. But you know the group Turning Point USA, or as we refer to them as Toilet Paper USA? That group that targets college oriented youth led by Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens and endorsed by Ginni Thomas? That one? What’s their involvement? Well it’s much more than you think and it’s not good.
Turning Point Action, a conservative pro-Trump organization, paid Kimberly Guilfoyle $60,000 to introduce her fiancé Donald Trump Jr. in a speech lasting less than three minutes at the "Stop the Steal" rally at the Ellipse in Washington on January 6, 2021, according to multiple people familiar with the payment.
The payment to Guilfoyle was disclosed Monday by Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who told CNN's Jake Tapper that the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol has evidence that former President Donald Trump's family members personally benefited from money raised based on Trump's false election claims.
Lofgren spoke after the committee's hearing on Monday highlighted $250 million raised by the Save America PAC and Trump campaign. But those entities did not pay Guilfoyle's fee, the people familiar with the payment told CNN. The payment came from Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA, the youth organization started by Charlie Kirk, who is a close friend of Trump Jr.
On Tuesday, Lofgren defended her previous comments about Guilfoyle's fee during an interview with Wolf Blitzer, saying she didn't think she mischaracterized the payment since it came from part of the network connected to Trump. "The question is, are Trump individuals benefiting from this whole enterprise of raising money around the so-called stop the steal," Lofgren told Blitzer. "And the answer is yes." Neither Guilfoyle nor her attorney responded to requests for comment. Turning Point declined to comment.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/politics/turning-point-group-paid-kimberly-guilfoyle/index.html
The payment to Guilfoyle was disclosed Monday by Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who told CNN's Jake Tapper that the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol has evidence that former President Donald Trump's family members personally benefited from money raised based on Trump's false election claims.
Lofgren spoke after the committee's hearing on Monday highlighted $250 million raised by the Save America PAC and Trump campaign. But those entities did not pay Guilfoyle's fee, the people familiar with the payment told CNN. The payment came from Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA, the youth organization started by Charlie Kirk, who is a close friend of Trump Jr.
On Tuesday, Lofgren defended her previous comments about Guilfoyle's fee during an interview with Wolf Blitzer, saying she didn't think she mischaracterized the payment since it came from part of the network connected to Trump. "The question is, are Trump individuals benefiting from this whole enterprise of raising money around the so-called stop the steal," Lofgren told Blitzer. "And the answer is yes." Neither Guilfoyle nor her attorney responded to requests for comment. Turning Point declined to comment.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/politics/turning-point-group-paid-kimberly-guilfoyle/index.html
Holy shit!!! This is the most fucked up game of Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon except there’s just one degree and it goes like this. Turning Point USA bused in groups for the January 6th rally, which was endorsed and paid for by Ginni Thomas, the wife of SCOTUS justice Clarence Thomas, and one of the keynote speakers at this event was Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is the fiancé of Donald Trump Jr, and the whole thing may or may not have been planned by Ted Cruz. Wow. I could talk all day about this. We are not even going to get into how drunk Rudy Giuliani was, we’ll save that for another Top 10. The thing is who else was involved, we might never know. But we will be covering this story in full when we come back on July 21st. But rest assured whatever the events are that unfold, it will paint a picture of a power hungry mad man who would have done anything to retain his power, even if it resulted in murder. But one thing’s for certain – we’re loving enjoying watching the MAGA meltdown! Pass the butter!
As the Jan. 6 committee tasked with investigating the Capitol riot presented its case to the American people on Thursday evening, Jan. 6 organizer and “Stop the Steal” leader Ali Alexander had a meltdown on Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform.
“Edited audio!” he wrote. “Have you ever seen a video with more fake edits and SPLICES? This video is a spoof! Audio is completely edited.”
“J6 Committee, you won’t be getting an Oscar for this! Hoax!” Alexander continued as he sent out a dozen frenzied posts about the testimony.
“This is SO overly scripted. All teleprompter. No authenticity. This ain’t convincing anyone!”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-organizer-ali-alexander-has-meltdown-as-jan-6-committee-lays-out-its-case-in-primetime-hearing?ref=home
“Edited audio!” he wrote. “Have you ever seen a video with more fake edits and SPLICES? This video is a spoof! Audio is completely edited.”
“J6 Committee, you won’t be getting an Oscar for this! Hoax!” Alexander continued as he sent out a dozen frenzied posts about the testimony.
“This is SO overly scripted. All teleprompter. No authenticity. This ain’t convincing anyone!”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-organizer-ali-alexander-has-meltdown-as-jan-6-committee-lays-out-its-case-in-primetime-hearing?ref=home
Thank you for letting me indulge and air my frustrations with this murderous regime! We’ll be back next week with our second of 3 Best Of editions with some new content and we’ll be back to our usual hijinks and nonsense on July 21st. See you next week!
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And yeah I can't wait to see Ali Alexander get hauled before this committee! 
