DCCC getting into the act. There’s also this – same ad, different district) and probably many more.
Really American – BBA
The Lincoln Project
Meidas Touch
Well, this is something you don’t see every day…
Beau on the Rochester (NY) PD
Meidas Touch – Rubio
The Lincoln Project – “One of the people who organized this is well known for having worked with The Lincoln Project in the past. So – let’s have trial by combat!”
Now This News – AOC on present GOP House caucus
Really American
Puppet Regime
From Twitter (The 11th hour) No CC and I hate to spolt the punch line – I’ll email you, Nameless.
Give Brian Williams and his producers at the @11thHour an Emmy….🤣💀 pic.twitter.com/36FjWPqAyI
— Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) January 29, 2021
Beau on Biden and national security. It’s related to controlling the conversation (remember from the Alt-Right playbook a few days ago?)
Vaccinating America: Biden Cleans Up Trump’s Mess
Here’s Why Giuliani Needs To Be Disbarred
Space Force’s Greatest Hits
F*ck The Pandas: Ugly Animals Deserve Your Attention Too
That link is SamanthaBee.com/TakeAction. It’s real, all right. But Google won’t find it for you, and I assume other search engines won’t either, so if yu want the calendar, take note.
It’s a tired/painful day here in the CatBox. Due to Republicitis, I plugged the toilet so bad that it won’t plunge, and I had to call Maintenance to come snake it. They should be here around lunch time. Dang that’s embarrassing! My Video Meeting yesterday turned out to be with volunteers only, but it was still a good time. Yesterday, I was disappointed that Tampa Bay beat Green Bay. I don’t like Tom Brady. He deflates his balls and lives Trump**. However, both my Chiefs and Nameless’ Chiefs won. WWWendy is coming this evening. Since Trump** is out, Oh Wow! It’s Monday.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:06 (average 5:28). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: It’s no shock that both the campaign and the officials on the permit are all trying to erase their connections. From AP:
In a statement, the president’s reelection campaign said it “did not organize, operate or finance the event.” No campaign staff members were involved in the organization or operation of the rally, according to the statement. It said that if any former employees or independent contractors for the campaign took part, “they did not do so at the direction of the Trump campaign.”
At least one was working for the Trump campaign this month. Megan Powers was listed as one of two operations managers for the Jan. 6 event, and her LinkedIn profile says she was the Trump campaign’s director of operations into January 2021. She did not respond to a message seeking comment.
The AP’s review found at least three of the Trump campaign aides named on the permit rushed to obscure their connections to the demonstration. They deactivated or locked down their social media profiles, removed tweets that referenced the rally and blocked a reporter who asked questions.
“Shell companies and ‘dark money’ may hide details of Trump ties to DC protests,” OpenSecrets.org reports. But not all. For example, Open Secrets found that Powers was paid about $290,000 by Trump’s campaign while on its payroll from February 2019 through at least November 2020, according to FEC records.
This shows the degree to which the RNP (Republican Nazi Party) orchestrated the insurrection. The included video (above) is the best analysis of this I’ve seen. It also shows how vicious they are. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From NY Times: Two days after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, Jackson Reffitt’s father, Guy W. Reffitt, returned to the family’s home in Texas. He told his son that he had stormed the Capitol, according to an F.B.I. affidavit.
Then his father leveled a threat: If Jackson, 18, reported him to the police, he would have no choice but to do his “duty” for his country and “do what he had to do.”
In interviews with investigators, Jackson Reffitt said his father told him: “If you turn me in, you’re a traitor. And you know what happens to traitors. Traitors get shot.”
But he had already reported his father to the F.B.I. weeks before the riot.
How can anyone wield enough hate to say what Gut Reffitt said to his son? Jackson deserves an award for his patriotism and courage. This demonstrates the degree to which the RNP (Republican Nazi Party) are pure evil and must be eradicated as a political entity. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): George Harrison – My Sweet Lord (Official Audio)
Ah… the memories! What a magnificent hymn! And at last we have reason to rejoice! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
It’s a tired day here in the CatBox, but my pain level is better than it was yesterday. I think the Republicitis was exacerbating the pain. Tomorrow is a High Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. I will spend the late afternoon booing Josh Hawley and watching my Portland Chiefs play the Buffalo Bills for the NFC title. Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update. I have a video meeting with prison volunteer coworkers and former prisoners. Have a fine weekend.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:06 (average 5:09). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Seven Senate Democrats are demanding that the Senate Committee on Ethics open an investigation in the actions of Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz for their actions related to the Jan. 6 violent insurrection against Congress.
The two “amplified claims of election fraud that had resulted in threats of violence against state and local officials around the country,” the Democrats write. The group—Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Tina Smith (D-MN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH)—notes that the Senate has the exclusive power to determine whether the members’ actions violated Senate ethics rules. They are asking the Ethics Committee to carry out a “thorough and fair investigation and consider any appropriate consequences based on the Committee’s findings.”
“When Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley announced they would object to the counting of state-certified electors on January 6, 2021, they amplified claims of election fraud that had resulted in threats of violence against state and local officials around the country,” the senators write. “While Congress was debating Senator Cruz’s objection, a violent mob stormed the Capitol. These insurrectionists ransacked the building, stole property, and openly threatened Members of Congress and the Vice President.” The two didn’t just help incite the riot, the Democrats wrote, but “[b]y proceeding with their objections to the electors after the violent attack, Senators Cruz and Hawley lent legitimacy to the mob’s cause and made future violence more likely.”
The senators write of their concern that members of Congress could have been involved in the coordination not just of the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol, but the attack itself. They provide a detailed and well-researched account of the events of the day as well as the background to it, including the threats of violence that were leveled against officials prior to Jan. 6, threats incited by Trump’s fraud claims and reinforced by Hawley and Cruz, who “lent legitimacy to President Trump’s false statements about election fraud by announcing that they would object to the certification of electors on January 6.”
I fully support this move. If these RNP (Republican Nazi Party) traitors are allowed to get away with it, they and others will surely do it again. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Complete bunk’: Erin Burnett calls out Sen. Hawley’s explanation
As long as Biden agrees to the delay, it works for me. It also gives more time to gather evidence sufficiently obvious that it forces Republicans to either proclaim their own treason, like Cruz and Hawley, or to vote to convict. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (Bernie Sanders Channel): We Cannot Reach Out To Republicans Indefinitely.
I fully agree. Republicans are most adept at holding out a fair negotiated agreement as a promise to Democrats in order to gain an advantage, only to act like Lucy with a football. Give them a chance, but one only. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Fleetwood Mac – Landslide (Official Music Video)
Ah… the memories. We needed a landslide. We got one! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
MSNBC – Sigh. (I read elsewhere the laptop in question was used only for presenations and contains no sensitive information whatever. You have to get upp very early in the morning to be ahead of Nancy Pelosi – and preferably the night before.)
The Lincoln Project – I don’t know whether this is actually part of a series or just one-off, but it’s very well done.
A New Roy Zimmerman! (Sorry it was necessary, but it’s delightful.)
WellRED Comedy parody Zoom meeting to plan next insurrection
Randy Rainbow’s Final Trump parody – Seasons of Trump**””
Beau on the aforementioned laptop
Music – “There’s a new world to be won”
The Lincoln Project
Really American – ACCOUNTABILITY. Share it.
Now This News – The Importance of MLK Day. Yes, that’s MLK III.
The New Yorker – 12-minute video from the Capitol Coup. H/T Nameless https://www.democraticunderground.com/emoticons/hattip.gif
This video, or I should say group of videos, from ProPublica was curated from video clips downloaded from Parler before it went dark. It’s designed to provide an immersive experience (which I consider a trigger warning – and they also provide one.) The way it is presented, I really can’t embed it, but I give the link. It is ordered into a timeline and grouped based on general location the videos were taken from. You can pick a location, or click anywhere in the timeline, or scroll down (it’s a very long scroll.) You may have to take some of them off of mute (or vice versa.)
Oh, this is delicious.
Absolute mic drop. I’d love to hear someone answer this question. pic.twitter.com/L8KHaNdYO1
— sarah o’grady 🤷🏻♀️ (@ladyogrady) January 16, 2021
Long, but interesting. Not exactly full of laughs … but it does suggest some pretty funny scenarios, including regarding Presidential Libraries.
Keith from yesterday
The Lincoln Project – The Jim Crow Caucus
The Lincoln Project Tweet – video being shown widely on TV in Missouri an dprobebly elsewhere.
This is your coup. pic.twitter.com/3iOR2I55ih
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 12, 2021
Really American
C&L Chris Hayes on telling the truth
CNN on Capitol police experiences
https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/biden-pipelines
This video on Standing Rock features Deb Haaland and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It’s also linked to a petition.
Jamie Raskin on CNN – Hanky alert. We need more like him.
Amber Ruffin – Beautiful!
Can terrible things bring you joy? Tonight on The #AmberRuffinShow, we find out the answer is yes! pic.twitter.com/kxg8RKT8fB
— amber ruffin (@ambermruffin) January 16, 2021
Beau’s best guess as to what BBM is thinking