Please pardon my pit-stop. I’m still sick as a dawg with severe Republicosis. The doctor is coming. I hope to be back tomorrow. Oh God, it’s Monday.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
today’s took mar 4:07 (average 5:38). To do it, click here. How did you co?
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From YouTube (a blast from the past): JOAN BAEZ ~ What Have They Done To The Rain ~
Ah… the memories! RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!
VoteVets – Impeach
**A new Randy Rainbow!** “Sedition”
Beau – on Senator Hawley (I love how CC spells the Senator’s name)
Rocky Mountain Mike
Beau – Trump – Twitter (recorded Friday, not sure what time – we now know articles of impeachment go to the House Monday. Also, Speaker peliso has been in contact with senior military [not civilian stooges] about nuclear safeguards.)
Dixie (Union Version)
Keith from Friday night
White Rabbit (Hampton String Quartet
It was a gruesome Republicosis Day, here in the CatBox. I made six rush trips to the throne between 5:00 PM and 2:00 AM. WWWendy is here and I’m about to lay down. Tomorrow Dr. Deborah is coming for a routine home care visit. What I do tomorrow depends on that. Have a fine day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:24 (average 4:13). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From Crooks and Liars: “Patriots?” Don’t make me laugh. These people are traitors, cowards, white supremacists, and dumbf*cks. Consider this your dose of “You’re about to f*ck around and find out” satisfaction for the day. (Big props to The Hoarse Whisperer on Twitter for starting the hashtag, #TraitorsGettingFired!)
Click through for a pants load of Republicans getting fared because of theit participation in treason. As a former employer, I’d fire any of these insurrectionists in a hot minute for fear of the harm their violence could do my business. RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit-
Ah… the memories! RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!
Republicans for the Rule of Law (it’s also on Twitter)
Meidas Touch
John Pavlovitz – he doesn’t use the phrase “the bottom line” but that’s a fair description.
Trae on the Republican Terrorism Boogaloo
From Crooks & Liars – the brother of a woman killed in insurrection wants 25th Amendment
Not a video but a stunning Tweet to Hawley
It's Orwellian, just not in the way you think. George Orwell took a bullet in the neck fighting fascists in Spain because he hated them so much. Canceling fascists was his thing. So yeah, this is Orwellian. https://t.co/3b6oBWp4V2
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) January 8, 2021
Beau on To Prosecute – or not To Prosecute?
This video is not political, but it is an example of what can be done wirh AI and photoshop, and is thus worth seeing. It’s 10+ minutes,but you don’t need to get all the way through to get creeped out by watching someone almpst 2000 years dead blinking.
The Trumpty Dumpty Chronicle Episode 20
It’s another tired painful day here in the CatBox. I slept poorly again due to a midnight throne run. Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update, as it’s a WWWendy Day. Pardon my pit-stop, have a fine weekend, and pray Trump’s next crime isn’t more violent than this last.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:26 (average 6:57). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From Crooks and Liars: Presidential Medal of Honor recipient Rush Limbaugh (just wanted to start you off with vomit in your mouth) isn’t satisfied with yesterday’s violence on Capitol Hill – he wants MORE! Indeed, he mocked the notion that we might be horrified by the MAGA crowd’s insurrection, and tried to compare these vile seditionists to colonists Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams, saying how happy he was that THOSE dudes didn’t hold back.
I named this Republican Limbarf and identified him as a leader in the Republican Reich long before the Republicans had ever heard of Trump*. The Republican Reich has not changed. RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich! RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!
From NY Times: In Washington, Republicans were dealing with a burgeoning crisis in their ranks, with high-profile resignations and bitter infighting over how to deal with an erratic and isolated president. But at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting on Friday, most party members were operating in a parallel universe.
In a chandelier-adorned ballroom at the seaside Ritz-Carlton here, there was no mention of President Trump’s disruption of the coronavirus relief package or his phone call to the Georgia secretary of state demanding that he help steal the election, both of which contributed to Republicans’ losing control of the Senate.
And while the R.N.C. chair, Ronna McDaniel, condemned the attack on the Capitol, neither she nor any other speaker so much as publicly hinted at Mr. Trump’s role in inciting a mob assault on America’s seat of government.
Even as the president faces a possible second impeachment proceeding, this collective exercise in gaze aversion was not the most striking part of the meeting. More revealing was the reason for the silence from the stage: Party members, one after another, said in interviews that the president did not bear any blame for the violence at the Capitol and indicated that they wanted him to continue to play a leading role in the party.
“I surely embrace President Trump,” said Michele Fiore, the committeewoman from Nevada, where Republicans have lost two Senate races and the governorship since 2016. Ms. Fiore, who was sporting a Trump-emblazoned vest, said the president was “absolutely” a positive force in the party.
The RNC could not have made it more clear that they chose Trump* as Fuhrer, because he represents the values and policies of the Republican Party. This was true before and during Trump’s* Residency and will continue indefinitely. RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube ( blast from the past): Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers (with Lyric)
Ah… the memories! RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!
The Lincoln Project
The #JimCrowCaucus are the architects of the chaos unfolding right.@tedcruz @HawleyMO @MarshaBlackburn @GOPLeader #RememberTheirNames … we will. pic.twitter.com/eshjKRUPG3
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 6, 2021
Vote Vets – hanky alert, for me anyway.
RVAT
Now This News
Meidas Touch
Don Winslow debunks Josh Hawley
Beau on What Happened
Keith from very early Thursday
Keith from Thursday Part 2
Short, sweet Tweet from Hillary (not a video):
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 6, 2021
Not a video – but worth seeing.
Rev. Warnock was Congressman John Lewis’s pastor. Ossoff was Lewis’s intern. And somewhere, somehow both near and far, I have to think that Rep. Lewis is saying, “Well done.”
— Fred Smith (@fredosmithjr) January 6, 2021
From Meidas Touch (too little too late, but worth watching)
Also Meidas Touch
The LincolnProject
We made this pre-election, thinking that we’d never have to release it.
After the events of today, we decided to post, #Bloodlines pic.twitter.com/LM2rLn5lql
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 7, 2021
Katie Couric’s personal channel – interview with Mary Trump – who warned us about today and is now warning us again.
long – but profound.
Not actually a video (rather, a podcast) but it’s Al Frenken on electing Presidents.
Beau did an almost-an-hour-and-a-half podcast on the coup (and forgot to set up CC for it,) I’m not going to post anything that long, but here’s the link
The questions being asked were coming in so fast he could not keep up with them, to this podcast is very much less organized than his usual.
Keith – Had he not posted yesterday, I would be worried he had dropped dead.
It’s an outrageous day here in the CatBox. Yesterday when the Republican Reich attacked the US, I was so upset that I swallowed an unprocessed mouthful of food and rushed to the computer without thinking. Needless to say, that plugged my stent and I was sick all afternoon. A couple days ago I opined that this was the wrong time to impeach Trump* and throw him the attention he craves. I take that back. Now a state of war exists between the Republican Reich and the US. We must fight back with every legal weapon at our disposal. These dates shall live in infamy, as long as there is a USA to remember: Dec. 7, 1941, Sep. 11, 2001, and Jan. 6, 2021. I am waiting for Store to Door to bring my grocery order, and WWWendy is coming late this afternoon. I hope to be in the saddle tomorrow.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:23 (average 4:35). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From Daily Kos (Hat-Tip Mitch [ours]): This is too, too much. The schadenfreude! The sheer, sheer joy!
President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, a long-awaited decision that was moved toward completion Wednesday as it became apparent that Democrats were on the brink of winning control of the Senate.
The announcement of the attorney general, along with other senior leaders of the Justice Department, is expected to be made as soon as Thursday as Biden moves closer to filling the remaining seats in his Cabinet before assuming power on January 20.
While Garland has been a top contender for weeks, concerns about the vacancy his selection would create on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia raised alarm bells among Biden and many advisers who believed Senate Republicans would block any nomination to that seat. But with Democrats poised to control the Senate after two Georgia runoff races, those concerns were allayed.
I have to love this! And Beat Bitch Baby Bawling Mitch can’t stop it! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): U.S. Capitol Ransacked After Massive Security Failure
These are some of the same questions I have. It appeared to me that some of the police were in cahoots with Trump’s* terrorists who tried to repeat the Reichstag Fire. I agree with Mika that they would have slaughtered BLM demonstrators. I hear people saying this is the time to stay cool. My answer? BULLSHIT! RESIST!!
From YouTube: Live: NBC News NOW – Jan. 7 | Special Coverage On The Riot At The U.S. Capitol
I put this here to give you a chance to keep up with any freaking developments, should they occur. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from yesterday): The Beatles-Revolution Protest Music Video
Given the Republican attack on America, this is all too appropriate! RESIST!!