Our Constitutional Republic faces a clear and present danger more deadly than that of the Civil War. The danger is the Republican Party, a "political party" that has sold out to white supremacy, autocracy, misogyny, and hatred of everything our Nation stands for. Republicans dismiss any sense of a common American narrative. The "Republican Party" is an outlier in our history – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of social and economic policies that have sustained us for a century; unwilling to compromise; dismissive of evidence, fact, and science; dismissive of the legitimacy of any viewpoint except their own. America needs to face the simple, frightening fact that the Republican Party is a clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.
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On Wednesday, a key organizer of the 2020 “Stop the Steal” rally lashed out at far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her escalating feud with like-minded far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
“MTG is now attacking Rep. Lauren Boebert like a trailer park hoodrat,” wrote Alexander on his Telegram channel.
The core dispute between Greene and Boebert is support for House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as he mounts his bid for Speaker in the new Congress — a thorny situation, as a bloc of Trump loyalist Republicans have declared they will vote as a bloc against him, which would theoretically put him below the 218 votes he needs to win. Greene has been fiercely promoting McCarthy’s bid for Speakership, after McCarthy promised her several concessions including restoring her committee assignments. Boebert, coming fresh off an unexpectedly tight re-election, remains noncommittal to backing McCarthy.
In a recent interview alongside several of the Republicans opposing McCarthy, Boebert took a swipe at Greene, saying, “I don’t believe in [electing McCarthy], just as I don’t believe in … Jewish space lasers” — a reference to a famous conspiracy theory Greene promoted.
Greene hit back on Twitter, saying, “Lauren refuses to endorse President Trump, she refuses to support Kevin McCarthy, and she childishly threw me under the bus for a cheap sound bite … Americans expect conservative fighters like us to work together to Save America and that is the only mission I’m 100% devoted to, not high school drama and media sound bites.”\
Alexander has faced a mountain of legal problems after helping to organize the “Stop the Steal rally,” which immediately preceded the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Earlier this month, he took over the 2024 presidential campaign of far-right rapper Kanye “Ye” West, who exploded into the news after promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and professing his admiration for Adolf Hitler.
When you commit a crime or commit many crimes, it is best you do not get caught with a lot of other people. The fewer people involved with you in the crime the better. Fewer people to turn on you and confess.
If you count the fake electors, Trump’s lawyers, Trump’s inner circle in the Whitehouse house, Trump’s inner circle outside the White House, and all the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, III Percenters and other criminals, we are looking at A LOT of people who were part of the attempted coup. That’s a lot of targets for prosecutors.
DOJ has a bullseye on every one of them. A lot of targets who have or who will soon spill their guts in order to save their asses.
All these traitors just witnessed the J6 committee put forward 4 serious criminal referrals that come with long prison sentences. They all now know what possible charges they could be facing. They are now shitting in their pants.
Out of over a hundred traitors, the chances of the DOJ getting some of these traitors to talk, to flip, is extremely high. A lot of people are going to be indicted and some of them are going to turn, make deals, spill their guts. The investigations are going to snowball.
Trump is going down. A lot of the people around him are going down. Many, many more of the J6 criminals are going down.
Justice is coming. And Justice carries a big sword.
On Monday, the Washington Examiner reported that the former California GOP lawmaker who once mentored and employed House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is warning he cannot be trusted.
“You never know what’s inside, really,” former California Rep. Bill Thomas (R), who employed McCarthy for years, said this week. “Kevin basically is whatever you want him to be. He lies. He’ll change the lie if necessary. How can anyone trust his word?'”
Thomas, who once represented the Bakersfield congressional district that McCarthy now represents and employed him as a congressional aide, previously took McCarthy to task in their hometown paper for his handling of the January 6 Committee,
Thomas was also displeased with the fact that McCarthy voted against certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory even after pro-Trump rioters violently stormed the United States Capitol building.
“‘It was as though they went to an extended lunch and came back and resumed their mission: reinforce, by your votes, the lies of the president,” said Thomas, a former political science professor at Bakersfield College.
McCarthy originally called on Trump to resign in private after the January 6 attack, but subsequently leapt to the former president’s defense, opposed the establishment of a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to investigate, and boycotted naming any Republican members to the eventual select committee empaneled for the issue.
With Republicans winning the House narrowly in the 2022 midterm election, McCarthy is first in line for the Speakership but faces critical obstacles in securing the votes. A small bloc of hard-right Republicans are vowing never to back him for Speaker, and have enough votes in theory to deny him the necessary 218.
COMMENT
So — McCarthy lies all the time. Which explains why he is a Republican.
The House panel unanimously urged the Justice Department to pursue Trump for
“The committee has developed significant evidence that president Trump intended to disrupt the peaceful transition of power under our Constitution,” Representative Jamie Raskin said as he outlined the panel’s findings.
“We believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today, and assembled throughout our hearings, warrants a criminal referral of former President Donald J. Trump,” Raskin said.
The committee’s recommendations to the Justice Department will end up with a special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to look into Trump’s role in the Capitol riot and his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
COMMENT: Remember: The Dept of Justice has already convened a grand jury to hear evidence against Trump and to indict him if necessary.
Justice is coming for Trump
Show Trump a line, and he’ll cross it. That was his record for the past 50 years of business; that was his record as president, down to his last days in office, when he absconded with boxes of government materials as though they were his private property.
Trump has already announced a run for president in 2024. Whatever happens with that run, his likeliest Republican rivals are studying his methods, considering which to emulate and which to discard. The incitement of violence by the head of the government is not an infraction that can be dismissed and forgiven by any political system that hopes to stay constitutional.
For six years, the job of upholding the rule of law against Donald Trump has been passed from one unwilling set of hands to the next. Now the job has returned to where it started. There is nobody else to pass it to. The recommendation has arrived. The time for justice has come.
Trump and his henchmen should end up like Mussolini in Italy.
MAGA World appears to be quiet when it comes to the news coming out of the final meeting of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. Other than a few sneers from Donald Trump on his personal social media platform, the House and Senate Republicans haven’t been defending the leader of their party.
Trump said way back when that if you’re guilty of something, you don’t take the Fifth. Well, folks, one of the things we discovered in the executive summary is the number of people around Trump who pleaded the Fifth. More than 30 witnesses before the select committee issued the Fifth Amendment privilege, and refused on that basis to provide testimony.
And another thing — the Jan 6 Committee report was not issued in secret. It’s been advertised for weeks that the Committee would release their findings to the public today. In spite of the fact that there has been a lot of warning that the report was coming, the Republican Party did absolutely nothing to address, attack, or refute the Committee’s findings. Republicans did not have a war room pushing out information things to try to counter this powerful story that echoed through the halls of Congress this afternoon. NO ONE IS STEPPING UP TO DEFEND TRUMP.
Although President Donald Trump has accused the House Select Committee of turning a blind eye to the purported mass fraud he believes cost him the 2020 presidential election, it turns out that the committee did ask his allies to back up their election fraud claims under oath.
The executive summary of the committee’s final report states that it asked multiple election conspiracists — including John Eastman, Michael Flynn, Jenna Ellis, and Phil Waldron — for evidence of election fraud and that “all invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination” in response.
In addition to this, former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani acknowledged to the committee that he did not buy claims that Dominion Voting Systems’ machines had stolen the election from Trump, and his ally Bernard Kerik acknowledged that “it was impossible… to determine conclusively whether there was widespread fraud or whether that widespread fraud would have altered the outcome of the election.”
In sum, writes the committee in the executive summary, “Not a single witness–nor any combination of witnesses–provided the Select Committee with evidence demonstrating that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely close to changing the outcome in any State.”
Reflecting on Donald Trump’s decision last week to promote “AMERICA NEEDS A SUPERHERO! I will be making a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT tomorrow,” that ended up being a cheesy commercial hawking Trump digital trading cards for $99 each, the editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mercilessly pointed out that the 45th president of the United States has finally succeeded in turning himself into a “national joke.”
The editors joined the pile on — which included longtime Trump advisor Steve Bannon who disgustedly said “I can’t do this anymore” — writing, “After all that Donald Trump has put America through, he owed the country a good laugh.”
They added, “The sound of dropping jaws was palpable throughout MAGA world. If Trump’s earlier suggestion of suspending the Constitution to return him to the presidency didn’t convince his remaining supporters that this man belongs nowhere near power, there are promising indications that perhaps this latest evidence of untethered clownishness finally will.”
More to the point, they added, is that Americans once saw the former president as a threat to democracy — as evidenced by his inciting his supporters to attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election — and now he is reduced to grifting every dollar he can in his post-presidency years.
The editors also took a shot at the buyers of the NFT’s, writing, “In yet another confirmation of the old adage that there’s a sucker born every minute, the 45,000 nonfungible tokens (NFTs) of the images were in fact gone by Friday morning, according to an independent NFT market monitor. Maybe those buyers thought they were helping Trump’s supposed presidential campaign? If so, sorry, chumps. Trump is just pocketing the money.”
“Trump has repeatedly shown himself to be an existential threat to democracy. But this episode conclusively, finally, reduces him to a national joke. Anyone who ever supported him should be embarrassed. Anyone who still supports him should see a shrink. And America should move on from this idiotic shyster,” they concluded.
You can read the whole piece here.
“Anyone who ever supported him should be embarrassed.” But they will not be because his supporters are just like him — liars, ignorant, self-centered, pompous, and trashy.
