January 4, 2021

The Midnight Rambler

Devin Nunes, Guardian Of Putin

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/devin-nunes-white-house-trump-surveillance/

January 3, 2021

"The odds of Trump declaring a self pardon just went up a bunch"

https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1345832542277144576

January 2, 2021

Precisely.

The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.

Jay Rosen
Dec. 26, 2019

Excerpt...

It’s not that he was naive. He did not care to listen. I am going to use my own writing to show what I mean, but there are many others who could be quoted in similar fashion. On January 22, 2017, two days after Trump was inaugurated, I wrote about Sean Spicer’s crowd size spectacular. There are several audiences for it, I said. One of course was the press. For them the message was…

We are not bound by what you call facts. We have our own, and we will proceed to put them out regardless of what the evidence says. It’s not a problem for us if you stagger from the room in disbelief. We’re not trying to “win the news cycle,” or win you over. We’re trying to demonstrate independence from and power over you people. This room is not just for briefings, announcements and Q & A. It’s also a theater of resentment in which you play a crucial part. Our constituency hates your guts; this is the place where we commune with them around that fact. See you tomorrow, guys!

Another message went to core supporters:

To the core Trump constituency — and an audience primed for this over years of acrid ‘liberal media’ critique — two things were said. “We’re going to rough these people up.” (Because we know how long you have waited for that.) But also, and in return, you have to accept our “alternative facts” even if your own eyes tell you otherwise. This too is a stark message. The epistemological “price” for being a solider in Trump’s army is high. You have to swallow, repeat and defend things that simply don’t check out.

https://pressthink.org/2019/12/the-christmas-eve-confessions-of-chuck-todd/

January 2, 2021

Before his suicide, Epstein said he introduced the happy First Coupla.

Column:

Trump’s Ghislaine Maxwell shout-out hit the reset button on his exploitative history with women

Excerpt...

But the president couldn’t muster anything that suggested he disapproves of sexually abusing children. Instead, he sent his regards to Maxwell. Best wishes to Ghislaine, who has pleaded not guilty, as she stews in jail.

Trump, as he helpfully reminded the briefing room, was Epstein’s and Maxwell’s neighbor in Palm Beach. After Epstein was first convicted, of soliciting a child for prostitution, the president claimed that their friendship had been over for years. But Trump once called Epstein a “terrific guy,” and as for Maxwell, “I just wish her well, frankly,” Trump said Tuesday.

“I wish her well,” he repeated.

Snip...

What do Stone (convicted felon), Flynn (pleaded guilty to a felony) and Manafort (convicted felon) have in common? They’re all people Trump has had a powerful interest in silencing.

Snip...

As early as the 1980s, Trump and Epstein “swam in the same social pool,” as the Washington Post put it. Epstein long bragged that he introduced Trump to his current wife, Melania.

Continues...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-24/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-donald-trump

January 2, 2021

Gohmert on JFK

“Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.”

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/louie_gohmert_637188

Ignoring the reality of what Kennedy did — preventing World War III — Gohmert exposes his intentional misunderstanding important history. He is a low down liar, a disinformationist, who likely would not be here in 2021 after a nuclear war in 1963.

January 1, 2021

Lock them up.

From CNN:

Two Republican members of the House of Representatives tell CNN that they expect at least 140 of their GOP colleagues in the House to vote against counting the electoral votes on January 6 when Congress is expected to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/31/politics/electoral-college-house-republicans/index.html



Treasonous fascist scum.