Tuesday, December 14, 2021

We Knew This...

...at the time (or shortly thereafter). We probably didn't realize just how oblivious Trump was to the disaster unfolding around him (reports are he was too busy enjoying it).

"We need an Oval Office address," Donald Trump Jr. implored Meadows in one text message, urging Meadows to get the then-president to tell the rioters to stand down.

Cheney noted that Trump Jr. texted "again and again" in an effort to get his father to stop the riots.

"He’s got to condemn this sh*t ASAP," Trump Jr. wrote in another text. "The Capitol Police tweet is not enough."
 
And Trump Jr. was far from the only big name to beg Trump to act.

"Please get him on TV," texted Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, who added that the riots were "destroying everything you have accomplished.”
But after months of being told it wasn't that bad, it was just a tourist outing, nobody was really hurt except Ashli Babbitt, the "real" insurrection was on voting day.... It is sadly useful to recall just how much shit hit the fan on January 6 of this year.
Yeah, those guys shouldn't have access to a phone line, much less a cable channel. I still say we were lucky in their incompetence, but had Pence decided to "throw" the joint session, it would have taken the complicity of Congress to do it, and I think at that point Hawley and Cruz and Co. would have started counting noses to be sure they weren't stuck with the bill. What's more important now is clearing the air of all the lies we've heard for the past 11 months. Yeah, that tells you something, doesn't it? And that the obvious has to be so clearly stated by so many people, tells you something, too.   Although it does allow for some really nice snark!
That is also a fact becoming clearer and clearer, isn't it?

As for Mark Meadows:
Has he always been this stupid, or did he have to learn it under Trump? Not a court in the land has agreed with Meadows on this. He does realize the D.C. Circuit just upheld the "legislative purpose" of this committee, right? Directly. Openly. Explicitly.

This guy's elevator doesn't go to the top floor.  Of course, if Asha Rangappa is right, it doesn't need to:
I knew there was a strategy here someplace. Yup. That's the story now. Santa's bringing me a Xmas present! (This is the point where I remember there is no Santa Claus.)
The tick-tock, as the kids say, is gonna be bad on this one.
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  1. Craig7:37 PM

    What's up with the jig on the sailboat of state? Looks like the Jolly Roger to me.

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