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BeyondGeography's JournalAnti-Trump Republicans to raise $50 million for R's who vote to impeach
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1349072433752526849The financial commitment by the group, the Republican Accountability Project, is designed to incentivize Republicans who have appeared open to voting in favor of the new article of impeachment that is expected to be considered by the House on Wednesday.
“Donald Trump has made it clear he is going to try and politically punish anyone who stands against him,” said Sarah Longwell, a prominent Never Trump Republican who is behind the new group. “His ability to to do that is diminishing by the minute, but we want to provide a counterweight to say there is real money to back people who do the right thing.”
...The Republican Accountability Project will be headed up by two former Trump administration officials: Olivia Troye, a former aide to Vice President Mike Pence, who served on the coronavirus task force, and Elizabeth Neumann, who served as a deputy chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security. During the election, both Ms. Troye and Ms. Neumann became outspoken critics of the administration. The group will operate under the umbrella organization of Defending Democracy Together, an advocacy group aimed at fighting Trumpism within the Republican Party.
Schumer heckler says she was sexually excited by the insurrection
Good times around the 30-second mark:
https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1349073414456291333
Morelle (NY-25): "It is not divisive in some people's minds to question the election,
but it is to question the insurrection.”
Wendy Davis says Trump supporters harassing a Biden bus in Texas should have served as a warning
Former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who was on the bus, said that law enforcement authorities didn’t take that incident seriously enough and now sees it is an example of how Trump supporters have become dangerously emboldened to act lawlessly, fueled by some Republicans who either tacitly or explicitly encouraged the sort of violence that culminated with last week’s attack.
“This is a symptom of a broader problem that is not going away. This truly is the birth of a domestic terrorist unit. And I think that the FBI and local law enforcement need to see it this way,” said Davis, who spoke publicly about the October incident for the first time on Monday to The Texas Tribune. “It’s no surprise that we see things like Wednesday of last week in our nation's Capitol, when people who are behaving aggressively like that are rewarded and praised by their quote-unquote leader for that kind of behavior.”
...The bus incident, which resulted in a minor collision between a Biden volunteer driving behind the bus and a Trump supporter, was caught on video and made national headlines just days before the November election. It also garnered praise from Republican leaders.
A day after the incident, Trump tweeted a video of the Trump supporters following the Biden bus saying, “I LOVE TEXAS!” and falsely claimed his supporters were “protecting” the bus.
More at https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/11/wendy-davis-us-capitol-riot-texas/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
A most righteous rant: "I want my fucking country back, how about that?"
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1348472626184925184It's never too late to appreciate the majesty of George McGovern
Thomas Knock’s bio (volume 1; 2nd is forthcoming) is a great book:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691142999/the-rise-of-a-prairie-statesman
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691142999/the-rise-of-a-prairie-statesman
McGovern worshipped JFK. And yet, as a rookie Senator in 1963, he sounded the first alarm about Vietnam on the floor of the Senate. Widely considered to be among the most highly-skilled fighter pilots of WWII, he was forever haunted by the realization that he may have annihilated a family at lunchtime by accidentally discharging a bomb into their farmhouse. He flew the obligatory 35 B-24 combat missions and witnessed a 50 percent casualty rate among crews at his base in Italy. Upon returning home, he was appalled by what he considered to be the postwar rush to conflict with the Soviets.
He was so right about Vietnam, not just as a disastrous war but as a drain on LBJ’s Great Society thanks to the right’s weaponization of the term “liberalism” to mean unconstrained spending. At its peak, LBJ was spending 6X more on the war than on Great Society programs.
Volume 1 runs until 1968. I’m looking forward to Volume 2.
60 Minutes: Have to say, Raffensperger and Sterling
two GA Republicans, need to be appreciated. They have a strong sense, one might even say unshakeable, about the sanctity of the public space. This is primordial, and we are lost without it.
MAGAT snowflakes are proving what everyone here already knew
That they could never even begin to handle the political losses that we Democrats have been forced to absorb.
Imagine a Republican winning the popular vote and losing the election. We had to deal with that in two of the previous five elections.
Not only that, Al Gore was the rightful winner in 2000. Imagine if Republicans, knowing their guy had been screwed, had to watch Democratic thugs storm vote counters and a majority Democratic Supreme Court shut down the vote and declare our candidate the winner.
Hillary Clinton won by about 3 million votes and her margin of defeat in MI, WI and PA was less than half that of Trump’s in 2020. She was undermined by Russia and the FBI along the way. She conceded the day after the election and did nothing, absolutely nothing, to rile up her voters, the vast majority of whom had the common sense to realize that she had no post-election path to victory.
These weren’t just political losses, they changed the course of history for the worse, which compounded the pain. Where would we be on climate change if we had the presidential leadership of Al Gore at the turn of the century? How many lives would have been saved if COVID happened on Hillary Clinton’s watch? Those are just two of the most obvious examples. We could go on.
Compared with Gore and Clinton, Trump should have had nothing to complain about. But there isn’t a more coddled, delusional group of people on earth than white Americans who have hooked themselves up to the “conservative” media ecosystem. Trump, the most megalomaniacal liar we’ll hopefully ever see, understood the possibilities. And his supporters have mostly gone all-in with him.
And they’re the patriots.
Ex-Capitol Police Chief calls Liebengood death a line-of-duty casualty
https://twitter.com/nancycordes/status/1348311032062738432Liebengood was assigned to the Senate Division and had been with the department since 2005.
On Twitter Sunday, CBS News Chief Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes said Former Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer told the news organization that Liebengood’s death was a “line of duty casualty.”
The office of the U.S. Capitol Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Gainer’s reported statement.
https://www.cbs42.com/news/off-duty-us-capitol-police-officer-has-died/
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