January 6th Commission investigating coup attempt. Hey Jack, I Was Right by THG

Trump administration officials are forming a 'shadow government' to take immediate control in 2024:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-officials
-are-forming-a-shadow-government-to-take-immediate-control-in-2024-report/ar-AAZC9Qm?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=cb9501aef66a42b4929f61ee204eaad3

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Friday, July 15, 2022 11:16 PM

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No they aren't. Do you honestly think that Trump would ever in a million years do anything in the shadows that he couldn't take credit for.

Get fucked, moron.

This is just your Legacy Media prepping your stupid ass for claiming that the entire system is rigged when Democrats DESERVEDLY lose everything in November after you've been denying that mail-in fraud election was fraud, that the economy has been in shambles, that crime has been out of control and that the quality of life for a majority of Americans has been taking a nose dive for the last two years.

It's so sad how they've split your psyche in two. You're hardly a person anymore at this point.

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The case for charging Trump with manslaughter

During the next Jan. 6 committee hearing I will be listening for evidence of a crime that has gone largely undiscussed.

By Barbara McQuade, MSNBC Opinion Columnist

The loss of life was predictable in light of the size of the mob, their emotional state and their use of force. We recently learned from Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony another key fact — then-President Donald Trump knew that the crowd was armed, adding to the risk that someone would be killed. According to Hutchinson, this risk was also foreseeable to White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who urged White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to persuade Trump to take action to stop it. According to Hutchinson, Cipollone told Meadows: “Something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood’s going to be on your f---ing hands. This is getting out of control.”

First Amendment concerns about political speech could create sticky legal issues. So instead, prosecutors could focus on acts of criminal omission.

Unlike most members of the public who have no duty to take action to prevent a crime, a president has a constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” The president also serves as commander in chief of the armed forces. On Jan. 6, when Trump was alerted that the situation at the Capitol was getting “out of control,” he had a duty to call in the National Guard to quell the violence. According to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, Trump did not do so. Nor did he call any other government agency to intervene.

On Tuesday, we heard testimony from Cipollone that Trump could have gone to the press briefing room and made a statement on camera asking the mob to disperse, and that Trump refused. Trump also had a direct communication channel in the form of Twitter, but instead of posting a tweet asking the crowd to go home, Trump rekindled the flames by tweeting that Pence lacked the “courage” to toss out the election results. It was not until the 187th minute of the riot that Trump put out a video-recorded statement asking the mob to go home. I believe his three hours of inaction could amount to an omission necessary to prove that first element of manslaughter.

Second, prosecutors would need to show the required mental state — that Trump acted without due care, which is another term for negligence. For criminal liability, prosecutors must show not just simple negligence, but gross negligence, an extreme deviation from the standard of care. Here, Trump certainly was aware, or should have been aware, of the risk of death at the Capitol. And yet he failed to take action. Testimony from staffers who urged him to act will be important at the upcoming hearing, especially for establishing a failure to take due care.

Third, prosecutors would need to prove that his act of omission caused one or more of the deaths. To prove causation, prosecutors must generally prove that the death was a reasonably foreseeable result of the act of omission. Here, it was reasonably foreseeable that a mob of thousands of angry people, whom Trump knew were armed and angry, would cause the death of another person. Even if Trump was unaware that the mob would breach the Capitol, it was reasonable to foresee that an overmatched Capitol Police officer or a member of the crowd would be killed. And of course, that is just what happened.

Even if this result was not foreseeable during Trump’s speech on the Ellipse, it certainly became foreseeable during the 187 minutes that he sat watching television coverage of the mayhem at the Capitol.

More at https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/did-trump-commit-manslaugh
ter-jan-6-committee-doj-should-find-n1297314

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Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:38 AM

You two are so sad.

Trump's going to be your President again.

Maybe if the guy you voted for wasn't so inept and didn't surround himself with a bunch of worthless diversity hires that are all terrible at their jobs, Democrats would have easily won in 2024 and Trump would have been as senile as Joe* is by 2028, but Democrats have failed in every measurable aspect for 2 years now.

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Sunday, July 17, 2022 1:47 PM

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You two are so sad.

Trump's going to be your President again.

Maybe if the guy you voted for wasn't so inept and didn't surround himself with a bunch of worthless diversity hires that are all terrible at their jobs, Democrats would have easily won in 2024 and Trump would have been as senile as Joe* is by 2028, but Democrats have failed in every measurable aspect for 2 years now.

Imagine a world in which political norms have broken down. Senators use bad faith arguments to block the government from getting anything done. An autocrat rigs elections and gives himself complete control over the government. Even stranger, many voters subscribe to the autocrat's personality cult and agree that he should have absolute control. Trump? No. Welcome to Rome in the first century B.C.E. The republic that had existed for over 400 years had finally hit a crisis it couldn't overcome. Rome itself wouldn't fall, but during this period it lost its republic forever.

How Rome Destroyed Its Own Republic

Augustus told Romans he was the only one who could save Rome. And they believed him. Trump did the same in America. And Trumptards believe him.
https://www.history.com/news/rome-republic-augustus-dictator

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I can't even comprehend how somebody gets to be as stupid as you are.

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I can't even comprehend how somebody gets to be as stupid as you are.

There is a very simple explanation, but you "can't even comprehend how" it works:

The January 6 hearings: Which reality is ‘true reality’?

As the January 6th hearings continue and Americans watch new, seemingly undeniable video evidence of insurrection and quibble about whether Trump could reach the steering wheel of the Presidential SUV from the back seat, the ideas of Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher and historian of science who coined the phrase “paradigm shift” to explain scientific revolutions remain prescient as ever, even as we approach his 100th birthday.

Scientific revolutions, Kuhn argued, are very much like political revolutions… which brings us to the insurrection of January 6th.

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that you’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. We can have different values or commit to different policy proposals in order to realize our values, but we have to share a common foundation of facts. A Kuhnian would beg to differ, however, because people who come from different paradigms can, and do, believe in different realities. For decades now, in fact, that Kuhnian notion has inspired a growing number of American conservatives to build a new political paradigm that’s radically different from our current democratic structure.

For decades, Democrats and Republicans agreed on the norms and procedures that grounded our political reality: every eligible citizen should be allowed to vote; race, gender, and religious belief shouldn’t make anyone ineligible to vote (although it did take different amounts of time to reach consensus about who was eligible); all votes should be counted; and whoever gets the most votes wins the election, except in the case of Presidential elections, which are governed by the more complex rules of the Electoral College. These rules were all part of the political paradigm that Americans once widely accepted.

But things changed. In 1980, Paul Weyrich, founder of the Moral Majority, said “I don’t want everyone to vote…our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” His declaration started a new wave of voter suppression efforts intended to make sure not everyone would get to vote and to challenge which votes would be counted. In 2000, there was ambiguity about whether Al Gore received more votes in Florida than George W. Bush. The Brooks Brothers revolution showed that if Republicans raised enough of a fuss, Democrats would protect the paradigm rather than their electoral victory. They were willing to sacrifice the power that would come with electoral victory to protect the structural stability of the entire election process.

Over time, conservatives began to establish an alternative paradigm, setting themselves apart from what an unnamed Bush aide called “the reality-based community” of people who believe that political solutions derive from a “judicious study of discernible reality.” The aide defined the new conservative paradigm both brazenly and clearly: “That’s not the way the world really works any more… We create our own reality.” In 2017, Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway embraced the new paradigm by referring to the administration’s falsehoods as “alternative facts.” For adherents to that new paradigm, those alternative facts are absolutely real.

The new paradigm explains why it’s so much more difficult to have political conversations across party lines than it once was. Those of us who are members of the “reality-based community” rely on double-blind testing and statistics to determine whether certain facts, like the efficacy of masks and COVID vaccines, are rational to believe. Those who are members of the “alternative facts” paradigm have removed the scientific method from that role, replacing it with declarations made by powerful political and media voices. Between those two paradigms, we no longer agree on which facts constitute reality.

The “alternative fact” that widespread voter fraud influenced the outcome of the 2020 election—the big lie told by the Trump administration—was meant to achieve two things.

First, it signaled the existence of a new paradigm that voters could choose to inhabit.

Second, by creating the appearance of electoral anomalies, it induced a state of crisis. The Eastman memos outlining the so-called “Green Bay Sweep” made the Republican election strategy crystal clear. They intended to undermine the credibility of the 2020 election results by fabricating anomalies: fake voting irregularities.

By loudly claiming voter fraud, conservatives tried to create a big enough crisis to justify ignoring ballots and relying on the partisan whim of statehouses to determine the outcome of the election. If they had succeeded, the “alternative facts” paradigm would have become dominant, creating a new political system, with new rules and power structures. That Kuhnian revolution, which many conservatives referred to as “1776,” is precisely what they’ve been trying to bring about for more than four decades.

Many Republicans no longer accept the paradigm in which everyone gets to vote, all votes are counted, and the candidate with the most votes wins. Most Democrats still do. We are living in a state of crisis, even though the supposed anomalies aren’t real. Through these hearings, as a nation, we are deciding which reality we will live in, which “truths” will be facts, and which rules and values will govern our lives.

More at https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/07/thomas-kuhn-and-the-janu
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Trump will run again to avoid consequences of January 6th

Four people with close ties to Trump told Rolling Stone that the twice impeached president has "spoken about how when you are the president of the United States, it is tough for politically motivated prosecutors to 'get to you.'"

The source who had recently had this conversation with Trump further told Rolling Stone, "He says when [not if] he is president again, a new Republican administration will put a stop to the [Justice Department] investigation that he views as the Biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges -- or even put him and his people in prison."

The list of illegal allegations against Trump is long. He's currently in the middle of two criminal investigations, allegations of election interference, and facing accusations of financial crimes (per the BBC). It appears that Trump believes he can turn his legal strife around by becoming president again in 2024, which may be a major motivation for running again.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-2024-motivation
s-are-more-sinister-than-you-may-think/ar-AAZIAcI?ocid=msedgdhp

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Monday, July 18, 2022 8:35 PM

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I can't even comprehend how somebody gets to be as stupid as you are.
There is a very simple explanation

I'm all ears, idiot.

I can't wait to watch you cry in November.

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I'm all ears, idiot.

I can't wait to watch you cry in November.

A win for the Republicans is victory for me and lower taxes. In the Bible, foolish religious people ended up abandoning God and mindlessly worshiping a golden calf — so it isn't surprising that so many today are now bowing down to an orange jackass: Trump.

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I'm all ears, idiot.

I can't wait to watch you cry in November.
A win for the Republicans is victory for me and lower taxes.

No it's not. You're poor and you're worthless.

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In the Bible, foolish religious people ended up abandoning God and mindlessly worshiping a golden calf — so it isn't surprising that so many today are now bowing down to an orange jackass: Trump.

Nobody gives a shit about your god.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022 6:19 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Quote:
In the Bible, foolish religious people ended up abandoning God and mindlessly worshiping a golden calf — so it isn't surprising that so many today are now bowing down to an orange jackass: Trump.

Nobody gives a shit about your god.

It will be great watching Congress vote for tax cuts and decreasing the IRS enforcement budget. The IRS can't collect $1 trillion per year. How about when the IRS can't collect $2 trillion per year? Or $3 trillion per year? Oh, that will be chaotic fun!

The United States is losing $1 trillion in unpaid taxes every year, Charles Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, estimated on Tuesday, arguing that the agency lacks the resources to catch tax cheats.

The so-called tax gap has surged in the last decade. The last official estimate from the I.R.S. was that an average of $441 billion per year went unpaid from 2011 to 2013. Most of the unpaid taxes are the result of evasion by the wealthy and large corporations, Mr. Rettig said.

“We do get outgunned,” he said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the coming tax season. Trump has not paid his Federal Taxes for decades because his lawyers outgun the IRS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/business/irs-tax-gap.html

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When the dictionary completely nails it:

trumpery, noun
1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
2. nonsense; twaddle: His usual conversation is pure trumpery.
3. (Archaic) worthless finery.

trumpery, adjective
1. of little or no value; trifling, worthless; rubbishy; trashy.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trumpery

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When the dictionary completely nails it:

trumpery, noun
1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
2. nonsense; twaddle: His usual conversation is pure trumpery.
3. (Archaic) worthless finery.

trumpery, adjective
1. of little or no value; trifling, worthless; rubbishy; trashy.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trumpery

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trump, noun
Cards.

any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.

Often trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.

Informal. a fine person; brick.

trump, verb (used with object)
Cards. to take with a trump.

to excel; surpass; outdo.

trump, verb (used without object)
Cards.

to play a trump.
to take a trick with a trump.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trump

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In the Bible, foolish religious people ended up abandoning God and mindlessly worshiping a golden calf — so it isn't surprising that so many today are now bowing down to an orange jackass: Trump.

Nobody gives a shit about your god.
It will be great watching Congress vote for tax cuts and decreasing the IRS enforcement budget. The IRS can't collect $1 trillion per year. How about when the IRS can't collect $2 trillion per year? Or $3 trillion per year? Oh, that will be chaotic fun!

The United States is losing $1 trillion in unpaid taxes every year, Charles Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, estimated on Tuesday, arguing that the agency lacks the resources to catch tax cheats.

The so-called tax gap has surged in the last decade. The last official estimate from the I.R.S. was that an average of $441 billion per year went unpaid from 2011 to 2013. Most of the unpaid taxes are the result of evasion by the wealthy and large corporations, Mr. Rettig said.

“We do get outgunned,” he said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the coming tax season. Trump has not paid his Federal Taxes for decades because his lawyers outgun the IRS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/business/irs-tax-gap.html

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I guess they'll have to stop housing illegal aliens and sending billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine c/o Raytheon.

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I guess they'll have to stop housing illegal aliens and sending billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine c/o Raytheon.

If it gets too obvious that the Democratic states are subsidizing the Trump-loving states, tax-paying Democrats might follow the example of tax-payers who are Trump-voters -- cheat on Federal taxes just like Trump and his Trump-lovers have always done.

Better idea, cut off all government benefits going to Red states that voted for Trump. The ratio of Federal Funding to Income Taxes Paid by a state shows that Republican states get a free ride at the expense of states with the most Democrats.

Eight of the 10 states most dependent on the federal government were Republican-voting.

Nine states sent more to the federal government than they received — seven of these were Democrat-voting and had higher per capita GDPs than many of the red states that received the most.

The eight states receiving the highest child tax credit per capita were all Republican-voting.

How Much Every State Gets From the Federal Government
https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-governmen
t/

States Most Dependent on the Federal Government – 2022 Edition
https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-on-the-feder
al-government-2022

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022 3:52 PM

Sen. Lindsey Graham agrees to accept subpoena in Trump election meddling case

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-lindsey-graham-agrees-to-a
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022 5:35 PM

Don't worry Ted. Trump will be your President again.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022 5:33 PM

tick tock tick tock

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Attorney General Merrick Garland on January 6th Investigation: "We do not do our investigations in public. This is the most wide-ranging investigation and the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into...We have to get this right."

When asked about the possibility of charging a former president related to January 6th, Garland says, "No person is above the law in this country."

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022 5:38 PM

This Is An Attempted Fascist Overthrow Of American Democracy. Wake Up, Merrick Garland.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022 6:30 PM

Can you feel it, Ted?

Every day that passes, Trump is one step closer to being bookends to the failed Biden* Presidency*.

And there's nothing you can do to stop it.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022 6:57 PM

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin called out Representative Chip Roy of Texas for his views on the 2nd Amendment, in which Roy implied that the amendment was designed so that the people can violently overthrow the government at will.

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Tick Tock Tick Tock

Trump is going to clean Joe* Biden's clock.

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I think we all know what the Secret Service did last year

Secret Servicegate is slowly coming into sharper focus. Here's what we know:

• On January 16, 2021, Congress sent a "broad" preservation and production request to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service. Another was sent on January 25. Both requests were aimed at preserving records related to the 1/6 insurrection.

• On January 27, as part of a system upgrade called Intune, "USSS began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a preplanned, three-month system migration. In that process, data resident on some phones was lost."

• In February the inspector general of HHS, Joseph Cuffari, asked the Secret Service for text messages related to the 1/6 insurrection. In June the IG issued a request for all text messages sent and received by 24 specific Secret Service agents between December 7, 2020 and January 8, 2021.

• The Secret Service eventually responded with a single text message.

• But what about backups? According to CNN, "A source familiar with the matter told CNN that employees were instructed twice to back up their phones." Employees were given instructions on how to do the manual backup but apparently the instructions were widely ignored.

• Today the Secret Service said that its search for further messages had turned up nothing. They were gone for good.

Do you remember those torture videos that the CIA destroyed in 2005? Or the night in 2019 when Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a jail cell and we later learned that the guards were all napping and his roommate had been transferred and all the CCTV video had been erased due to a "technical error"? Sound familiar?

Nothing about the Secret Service's story makes any sense. They were doing a system-wide upgrade but didn't do a system-wide backup? They instead instructed their agents (twice) to back up their phones themselves, but apparently not a single agent did? Then, literally two days after getting a preservation request from Congress, they just went ahead with the system reset without bothering to check if it would erase anything Congress was interested in?

No. That's Brooklyn Bridge stuff. One way or another, it's hard to believe anything other than the obvious: those texts were damning enough that the Secret Service knew it would get in more trouble for keeping them than for erasing them — no matter how much trouble they'd get into for erasing them.

And they were right. Sure, they're taking some heat right now, and they'll take some more. But if they stick to their story that it was just a big ol' accident, there won't be much that anyone can do.

In the meantime, common sense combined with the fact pattern of the case tells us that these text messages must have been genuinely explosive. But because they're gone, the public perception will always be a shoulder shrug and the "coincidence" story will end up being the official narrative.

It's just unbelievable. Literally.

https://jabberwocking.com/i-think-we-all-know-what-the-secret-service-
did-last-year/

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Thursday, July 21, 2022 12:42 AM

Why do you even bother posting?

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Now that Trump's records are as unavailable as his tax returns:

Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he, too, would like the Secret Service's records on the Capitol riot to be publicly disclosed.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he wanted these records to come to light "far more" than the January 6 panel investigating the Capitol riot.

Trump said these "Secret Service tapes" would debunk the "ridiculous and libelous story of me supposedly choking a big and strong Secret Service Agent around the neck" on the day of the riot.

"Likewise, there was no throwing of food, and I did not want to be surrounded by strangers 'with guns' during my 'Peacefully & Patriotically' speech," Trump wrote.

The unavailable records would have proved Trump is not a fat lying sack of shit. Too bad, so sad for Trump that he can't prove he is a completely different man in private.

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Thursday, July 21, 2022 8:05 AM

Trump could have been choked by a secret service agent right in front of you and you'd tell everyone that Trump choked the dude.

Nobody gives a shit about your opinion. We're done listening to you people.

You've whined your little bitch asses into complete irrelevancy.

Do enjoy Trump Presidency number two. You deserve it.

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Trump could have been choked by a secret service agent right in front of you and you'd tell everyone that Trump choked the dude.

Nobody gives a shit about your opinion. We're done listening to you people.

You've whined your little bitch asses into complete irrelevancy.

Do enjoy Trump Presidency number two. You deserve it.

Other countries have burned down their democracies and they did it the way the Trumptards are sloppily doing it.

Brian Klaas writes:

I’ve spent the past 12 years studying the breakdown of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism around the world, in places such as Thailand, Tunisia, Belarus, and Zambia. I’ve shaken hands with many of the world’s democracy killers.

My studies and experiences have taught me that democracies can die in many ways. In the past, most ended in a quick death. Assassinations can snuff out democracy in a split second, coups in an hour or two, and revolutions in a day. But in the 21st century, most democracies die like a chronic but terminal patient. The system weakens as the disease spreads. The agony persists over years. Early intervention increases the rate of survival, but the longer the disease festers, the more that miracles become the only hope.

American democracy is dying. There are plenty of medicines that would cure it. Unfortunately, our political dysfunction means we’re choosing not to use them, and as time passes, fewer treatments become available to us, even though the disease is becoming terminal. No major prodemocracy reforms have passed Congress. No key political figures who tried to overturn an American election have faced real accountability. The president who orchestrated the greatest threat to our democracy in modern times is free to run for reelection, and may well return to office.

Our current situation started with a botched diagnosis. When Trump first rose to political prominence, much of the American political class reacted with amusement, seeing him as a sideshow. Even if he won, they thought, he’d tweet like a populist firebrand while governing like a Romney Republican, constrained by the system. But for those who had watched Trump-like authoritarian strongmen rise in Turkey, India, Hungary, Poland, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Venezuela, Trump was never entertaining. He was ominously familiar.

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/ideas/archive/2022/07/american-democracy-breakdown-authoritarianism-rise/670580/

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Friday, July 22, 2022 8:19 AM

The Democratic Party is about to die.

Tick Tock

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Friday, July 22, 2022 8:44 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The Democratic Party is about to die.

Tick Tock

If the Democrats had any courage, which I have always doubted, Trump would be in prison. Other countries have been confronted by leaders similar to Trump and a few of those put their leaders in jail. Four of the last six Korean Presidents have served time in prison. The supporters of the jailed Korean Presidents were aghast, not at their President, but at the legal system for punishing their President. Fortunately, Korea doesn't have a ridiculously large number of people who support criminally negligent politicians, unlike in the USA where Nixon did NOT go to jail for what he did (tax evasion, etc. ) because Democrats were worried that punishing him would make the system look bad. Trump hasn't gone to jail because Democrats, still as cowardly as in the 1970's, have not charged Trump for about the same cowardly reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_South_Korea

"This is Treason"
Aware that the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon is encouraging the South Vietnamese government to stay away from peace talks with the Americans and the North Vietnamese, President Johnson alerts Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-IL) to the campaign's interference, and asks that Dirksen urge the Nixon team to cease and desist.
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/this-is-
treason

When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election
It took decades to unravel Nixon's sabotage of Vietnam peace talks.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vietnam-candi
date-conspired-with-foreign-power-win-election-215461/

President Nixon's Troublesome Tax Returns
http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/cf7c9c870b600b9585256df8007
5b9dd/f8723e3606cd79ec85256ff6006f82c3?OpenDocument

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Friday, July 22, 2022 8:04 PM

I'd say that none of that has anything to do with the Democratic Party dying, but that would be a lie.

If they'd stop focusing on the dumb shit that you focus on and actually work for the American people than they wouldn't be seeing the last few months that they're ever in power in our lives again.

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Friday, July 22, 2022 8:12 PM

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Friday, July 22, 2022 8:19 PM

Uh Oh!

Asshole Ted is posting Asshole Lincoln Project videos again.

You do realize that Liz Cheney is the daughter of a murderous monster, don't you Ted?

Fuck Liz Cheney.

She will be irrelevant soon enough.

Tick Tock

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Saturday, July 23, 2022 10:04 AM

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Evidence presented during the hearing was audio of riot leaders and video from inside the Capitol, showing how the rioters were keyed into every Trump tweet in real time and were eager to do his bidding. The evidence showed that the rioters believed they were following Trump’s orders.

As soon as the riot began, Trump’s family members and White House aides, along with leading members of Congress, tried to get him to call off the mob — because they all knew that it was his mob and that he could call them off if he chose to do so.

But Trump refused to listen to any of them.

In fact, Trump did not lift a finger to try to stop the riot during its most critical hours, the committee revealed. He didn’t call anyone in the government — not at the Pentagon, or the Justice Department, or the Department of Homeland Security — for help gaining control over the violent crisis at the Capitol. Testimony by former Trump aides and others, including Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed that Trump did nothing except call Republican senators to try to get them to refuse to certify the election. “You’re the commander in chief. You’ve got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America, and there’s nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?” Milley told the committee in disbelief.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220723001538/https://theintercept.com/20
22/07/22/trump-cult-jan-6-hearings-pence/

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Saturday, July 23, 2022 10:24 AM

Nah.

Trump will be fine.

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Saturday, July 23, 2022 7:56 PM

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Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger’s four-minute closing statement says it all.

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Saturday, July 23, 2022 8:39 PM

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Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger’s four-minute closing statement says it all.

Says nothing.

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Sunday, July 24, 2022 8:39 AM

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Quote:
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Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger’s four-minute closing statement says it all.

Says nothing.

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The committee brought two members of that team into the hearing room in person — Matthew Pottinger, Trump’s former deputy national-security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, his former White House deputy press secretary — to testify how they were so disgusted by the President’s refusal to take action on January 6th that they quit in protest that same afternoon.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220723053634/https://www.newyorker.com/n
ews/letter-from-bidens-washington/liz-cheneys-revenge-on-donald-trump-and-her-own-party

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Sunday, July 24, 2022 8:41 AM

Trump will be fine.

He will also be your next President.

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Sunday, July 24, 2022 5:34 PM

Trump wants to give himself Medal of Honor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/trump-wanted-to-give-himself-medal-o
f-honor/vi-AAZV69i?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3bcf01a3ac3a4d2b92046e95a76dd661&category=foryou

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Sunday, July 24, 2022 5:40 PM

CHICKEN HAWLEY

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Sunday, July 24, 2022 8:48 PM

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T

CHICKEN HAWLEY

This, of course, is what Ted's cartoon brain is referring to:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/24/josh-hawley-republican
-senator-ran-running-capitol-attack-kansas-city-star

Gee. Doesn't seem much like a terrible insurrection if everybody was laughing at the only guy who
ran away from it, huh?

Checkmate.

I consider the case of Jan 6th now open and shut with no further need to bring it up ever again.

Thank you, Ted.

The defense rests.

Trump 2024.

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Monday, July 25, 2022 2:31 AM

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Trump wants to give himself Medal of Honor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/trump-wanted-to-give-himself-medal-o
f-honor/vi-AAZV69i?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3bcf01a3ac3a4d2b92046e95a76dd661&category=foryou

"They said that wouldn't be appropriate. I said OK."

He's almost as funny as Dave Chappelle.

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Trump’s criminal intent is now clear. Merrick Garland’s intentions aren’t

Glenn Kirschner writes:

For weeks, if not months, leadership at the Department of Justice has repeatedly told us they will follow the facts and the law and will hold Jan. 6 wrongdoers accountable “at any level.” Yet they provide few updates or concrete information. We have seen zero overt law enforcement activity against anyone but the foot soldiers of former President Donald Trump’s insurrection. In substance, the DOJ is asking the American people to trust them. But following the House’s final (at least for a while) Jan. 6 committee hearing on Thursday, that trust is eroding.

Over the course of these eight public Jan. 6 committee hearings, we have seen compelling (not circumstantial) evidence of Trump’s potential crimes. Former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue testified that Trump told a group of department officials that it didn’t matter if the election was rife with fraud, adding, “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” This is direct evidence — relayed by Donoghue under oath — of criminal intent. Trump apparently neither believed nor cared whether there was provable evidence of widespread election fraud, he simply wanted his DOJ officials to lie — “just say the election was corrupt” — and let him use that lie to help steal a second presidential term.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder described these statements as a “smoking gun” proving Trump’s corrupt intent, adding that it would be “laughable” for anyone to argue otherwise to a jury. I agree wholeheartedly with Holder. (Full disclosure: He was my direct boss when he was the United States attorney for the District of Columbia.) And for anyone who might dismiss Holder as hopelessly partisan, it’s worth remembering that before he served as U.S. attorney for D.C., he was nominated to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia — by President Ronald Reagan. [Continue reading…] https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jan-6-hearing-witnesses-pr
ove-trump-s-criminal-intent-n1297424

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