And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[NotHardUp1]

Every state has sent its share of populists to the Congress.

No one listening to Ted Cruz could believe he is a man of integrity, yet he wins election and re-election. Ultimately, it's a problem of mere partisanship. Voters align on hot button issues and ignore the rest. And politicians on the right and left change their speeches when the get to different constituencies with different sympthathies.

Cruz is a piece of human filth, but he's been enough of a tactician to push the key buttons when talking to the key voters, and it sure as hell was true long before Trump was running for office.

 

[KaraBulut]

On Twitter Saturday, Sen. Sherrod Brown accused Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas of abetting insurrection, calling for their resignation and – if they do not step down – their expulsion from the U.S. Senate.

More importantly, there's a groundswell of voters in their own States that are talking about getting rid of them.

Some samples:

Editorial: Resign, Senator Cruz. Your lies cost lives. [Houston Chronicle]

Editorial: If Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley had a conscience, he’d resign. He’ll have to be removed [Kansas City Star]
Major Missouri donor to Josh Hawley calls for his censure by the U.S. Senate [Kansas City Star]

Editorial: Ron Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany should resign or be expelled for siding with Trump against our republic [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]

 

[KaraBulut]

Camp Auschwitz Tshirt guy has been ID'd. Guess what... he's described as a "long-time extremist" with a criminal history that includes three convictions for driving under the influence and a felony conviction for forging public records.

Man in 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt during Capitol riot identified [CNN]

A rioter who stormed the US Capitol Wednesday wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase "Camp Auschwitz" has been identified as Robert Keith Packer of Virginia, according to three sources who spoke with CNN.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Some samples:

Editorial: Resign, Senator Cruz. Your lies cost lives. [Houston Chronicle]

Editorial: If Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley had a conscience, he’d resign. He’ll have to be removed [Kansas City Star]
Major Missouri donor to Josh Hawley calls for his censure by the U.S. Senate [Kansas City Star]

Editorial: Ron Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany should resign or be expelled for siding with Trump against our republic [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]

Are the editorials by Republicans?

 

[rareboy]

Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Thomas, for supporting the rally last week in Washington.

She has now removed her Facebook Page...but at this point, she has irrevocably tainted herself and her husband with her anti-democratic pro-Trump nonsense. At best, he had better recuse himself from any cases still dealing with Trump.

Ginni Thomas’ Facebook Page Disappears After Media Reports on Her Support for Pro-Trump Rally that Turned into Attack on U.S. Capitol

 

[Pierresro]

And then there's this guy.

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article...lgbti-people-to-the-ku-klux-klan/#gs.VCCwH4aR

I( wo9nder if this glutton is even still alive ! Mind you I could care less!

 

[NotHardUp1]

Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Thomas, for supporting the rally last week in Washington.

She has now removed her Facebook Page...but at this point, she has irrevocably tainted herself and her husband with her anti-democratic pro-Trump nonsense. At best, he had better recuse himself from any cases still dealing with Trump.

Ginni Thomas’ Facebook Page Disappears After Media Reports on Her Support for Pro-Trump Rally that Turned into Attack on U.S. Capitol

Thankfully, wives are no longer considered chattel here and can have their own political views. With glaring examples like Kellyanne Conway and George Conway, and James Carville and Mary Matalin, we have plenty of high profile political couples with either contradictory or opposing politics.

Weaponizing the Supreme Court is a mistake, and thankfully, American law prevents the type of family feuds you would encourage us to adopt.

 

[rareboy]

....it might behoove Sen. Gaetz and others to follow Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s advice and stop advertising that you’re losing followers, “the moment Twitter starts taking down Neo-Nazis and violent insurrectionists.”

Oh Noes....

Hucksterbee Sanders et al are upset that they are losing twitter followers....

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a35172071/matt-gaetz-twitter-followers-purge-qanon/

I imagine that as the trollbots and QAnoners are finally purged from Twitter....these people might just learn how many actual human 'followers' they really have?

 

[KaraBulut]

Two men carrying plastic restraints during Capitol riot charged by feds [CNN]

Federal authorities on Sunday arrested two men who were depicted in photos of the riot inside the Capitol wearing protective armor and carrying items that could be used to restrain a person, according to a release.

The two men, Eric Gavelek Munchel of Tennessee and Larry Rendell Brock of Texas, a retired Air Force Reserve officer, are depicted in some of the more recognizable photos of rioters that have circulated online since the attack.

Two law enforcement officials told CNN earlier that Munchel was seen on January 6 in photos and videos that depicted him inside the US Capitol wearing black paramilitary gear and carrying plastic restraints, an item in a holster on his right hip, and a cell phone mounted on his chest with the camera facing outward, ostensibly to record events that day.

Eric Gavelek Munchel:

Larry Rendell Brock:

 

[rareboy]

Thankfully, wives are no longer considered chattel here and can have their own political views. With glaring examples like Kellyanne Conway and George Conway, and James Carville and Mary Matalin, we have plenty of high profile political couples with either contradictory or opposing politics.

Weaponizing the Supreme Court is a mistake, and thankfully, American law prevents the type of family feuds you would encourage us to adopt.

Not really the same thing. Not one of those people is a Supreme Court Justice. And they are very public about the wide differences in their politics.

We know that Thomas is a right wing reactionary who likely shares his wife's leanings...as she clearly shares his.

But whatever.

 

[rareboy]

Two men carrying plastic restraints during Capitol riot charged by feds [CNN]



Eric Gavelek Munchel:

Larry Rendell Brock:

This was maybe one of the most chilling sights.

You don't carry zip ties without having an intent to restrain against a person's will.

 

[Dominus]

The lincoln project is compiling a list of people who were involved with the Trump admin so they don't get hired by anyone else.

https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/...ct-constructing-a-database-of-trump-officials

 

[KaraBulut]

This was maybe one of the most chilling sights.

You don't carry zip ties without having an intent to restrain against a person's will.

Lt. Col Larry Brock (USAF-retired) told the New Yorker:

But Brock told the New Yorker that he did not identify as part of any organized group. Brock added that he wore tactical gear because “I didn’t want to get stabbed or hurt,” citing “B.L.M. and antifa” as potential aggressors. He said he had found the zip-tie handcuffs on the floor.

“My thought process there was I would pick them up and give them to an officer when I see one . . . I didn’t do that because I had put them in my coat, and I honestly forgot about them,” he told the magazine.

Nice to know he's not a litterbug. A regular profile in courage, that one.

 

[KaraBulut]

Finally, people are saying it out loud:

Column: Trump’s election lawyers should be disbarred [LA Times Editorial]

But they won't be.

They will slide through unmolested to rise again. These people somehow have serious cover from some big dark money. They are just the class clowns making noise.

I would love to see them be disbarred though.

Finally!

New York State Bar Association opens inquiry into removing Rudy Giuliani from its membership [CNN]

 

[NotHardUp1]

Not really the same thing. Not one of those people is a Supreme Court Justice. And they are very public about the wide differences in their politics.

We know that Thomas is a right wing reactionary who likely shares his wife's leanings...as she clearly shares his.

But whatever.

That's how propaganda works, isn't it? Or tries to.

We don't know that Thomas and his wife share views, nor that Thomas can be defined by his rulings before or since ascending to the Court, can be labelled as "reactionary."

Those pejoratives were flung out as certain fact, which they are not. We don't know that.

But, even if those were completely true, it has nothing to do with any justice recusing himself from any case. HE did not utter an opinion on a case, and that would be the criterion.

Justice Scalia was just as famous for speaking on topics as a justice at conferences as any other, just as Justice Ginsburg was. Yet they maintained a professional and required discretion.

The hysteria over the Court's reconstruction to the right doesn't justify censure by accusation. Thankfully, Americans don't endorse that tactic and we don't muzzle our justices or condemn them with guilt by association, even if that is marriage.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Finally!

New York State Bar Association opens inquiry into removing Rudy Giuliani from its membership [CNN]

Graham's video makes it apparent that there is a move afoot to make Trump's legal team scapegoats, which deflects attention from all those in the GOP Congress endorsing the lies and furthering them, increasing the credibility to the masses.

He also is implicitly excusing the actions by Trump almost as inconvenient and awkward realities, as if nothing can be done now that they have occurred. Also, a known rhetorical device, he listed a long list of Trump's supposed accomplishments, longer than the sins that led to the press conference after a coup attempt. We know, we know, . . . , he came not to praise Trump, but to bury him. I think we've seen that stunt somewhere before.

Giuliani could be debarred alone on the knowing deceit in the lying videos presented to the Georgia election staff. It was falsified evidence, an immediate violation of any lawyer's oath.

 

[rareboy]

Sheldon Adelson, Trump's largest donor, who bought his wife a presidential medal of freedom is dead at 87 from complications from treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Sic transit one of the most evil men in American history...nothing more or less than a jumped up mob boss in Vegas who always seemed more interested in Israel than America.

 

[TX-Beau]

Sheldon Adelson, Trump's largest donor, who bought his wife a presidential medal of freedom is dead at 87 from complications from treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Sic transit one of the most evil men in American history...nothing more or less than a jumped up mob boss in Vegas who always seemed more interested in Israel than America.

I wonder who's going to be weeping?

 

[NotHardUp1]

Great.

The House members can refuse to wear masks and infect their fellow hostages Wednesday, but we're gonna feed an incarcerated man organic food when the rest are given slop.

We deserve these people.

 

[KaraBulut]

I wonder who's going to be weeping?

Adelson gave $218 million in donations in 2019 and 2020 to the Republicans. The Republicans' terrible, horrible, no good, awful day just got worse.