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.
At least three children and three adults are dead after a shooting Monday at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, that teaches preschool through 6th grade, police said. The three children were students at the elementary school; two of the adults were teachers, one adult was the female shooter.
The shooter, who was identified as a 28-year-old Nashville woman, was killed during gunfire with police, authorities said. Her identity and motive is yet to be confirmed.
THIS IS THE 2022 CHRISTMAS CARD FROM CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE ANDY OGLES (REPUBLICAN, TN-05) WHO REPRESENTS THE DISTRICT WHERE THE SHOOTING OCCURRED.
PHOTOS FROM THE AFTERMATH OF THE NASHVILLE TN SCHOOL SHOOTING
TEACHERS IN CHARGE, MOVING THEIR CHILDREN TO SAFETY. TWO TEACHERS WERE MURDERED. And let’s not forget: Republicans are attacking teachers for teaching that all children are valuable.
Terrified child in school bus. Buses took children to a nearby school to unite with their parents.
On Friday, the renaming date changing Fort Hood to Fort Cavazos was announced. General Richard Cavazos was the first Hispanic officer to achieve 4-star rank.
Also on Friday, Fort Pickett in Virginia was renamed Fort Barfoot.
An Army base in Blackstone, Virginia, officially changed its name from “Fort Pickett” to “Fort Barfoot” Friday in honor of Col. Van Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient.
“Fort Pickett is the first of nine Army installations to be redesignated this year, and I could not think of a more fitting soldier to have the first honor,” director of the Army National Guard, Lt. Gen. Jon Jensen, said in a ceremony Friday. “Thanks to this historic renaming in honor of one of America’s great heroes, members of the Army and our country will surely know of the impact Col. Barfoot had on our nation.”
Fort Barfoot is the only one of the nine being redesignated which is a National Guard installation, according to the Virginia National Guard.Barfoot’s children attended Friday’s ceremony, along with representatives from Virginia-based Native American tribes and the Choctaw Nation — the tribe that his maternal grandmother was a member of.
What’s next: Fort Rucker in Alabama will be renamed Fort Novosel on April 10 as a way to honor Michael Novosel, an Army chief warrant officer who earned the Medal of Honor for his service in the Vietnam War.
Fort Lee in Virginia will be renamed Fort Walker on April 27, per local news reports. The base is honoring Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a former prisoner of war and surgeon. **
Fort Benning in Georgia will be renamed Fort Moore on May 11 to honor Hal Moore, a U.S. commander during the Vietnam War and Julia Moore, an Army Community Service advocate.
Yes, but: Fort Gordon, in Georgia, Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, and Fort Polk in Louisiana do not have dates yet for their renaming, per the Military Times.
** As has been pointed out in the comments, clicking on the April 27 link goes to a local press article that indicates different honorees.
While Fort Pickett is now known as Fort Barfoot, there are two more U.S. military bases in Virginia named for people with ties to the Confederacy that are set to be redesignated and the date that for to happen has been announced for one of them.
Fort Lee will be redesignated as Fort Gregg-Adams on April 27.
The fort will honor two Black officers: Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams.
The article goes on to say that Fort A.P. Hill will be named for Dr. Walker.
Donald Trump, who attempted a coup against the United States government and remains unindicted for any of it, held a “campaign rally” in Waco, Texas on Saturday. The event coincides with the 30th anniversary of the deadly federal standoff at the compound of the arms-hoarding child-raping Waco cult dubbed the “Branch Davidians;” the odds that the Trump camp was not sending a message to the violent anti-government far-right militia crowd whose help he already solicited in his previous coup attempt are vanishingly low.
Trump’s been all but promising that his followers will engage in mass violence if American law enforcement dares lay a hand on him in response to any one of his suspected crimes, so the nods to violent militias have been coming hard and heavy in recent weeks—including a heavy push of antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted from neo-Nazi groups
As for the actual substance of Trump’s Waco event? Don’t worry, there wasn’t any. It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these but Trump hasn’t learned any new tricks, he assembled the usual gaggle of two-bit conspiracy theorists and sedition backers to goose the crowd, and if you’re wondering how the Donald Trump fan club has been doing of late, after Dear Leader mounted an attempted coup, then slithered off to Florida to surround himself with yet another layer of outlet mall lawyers to fend off yet another wave of investigations into his crimes?
Oh, they’re all in fine form, don’t you worry about that. Fine form.
This MAGAt clearly occupies the shallow end of the gene pool
Can you imagine living next to that guy. I bet his children not only don’t talk to him, they’ve all moved at least three states away.
Then there’s this interview. Surely the guy being interviewed is not serious. You can’t tell me this one isn’t a stand-up comic just pranking the interviewer. I mean, come on:
Guy at Trump rally asked why he loves Trump: “His vision, and the fact that he stands for truth .. truth, justice, and the American way. He leads by example. He goes out to these restaurants and meets the people.” pic.twitter.com/W90CuB4YAZ
“He goes out to these restaurants and meets the people.” …..????
Other than the dining room at Mar A Lago, what restaurant has he been seen in? He’s not dropping in to diners in Iowa to meet the locals.
So it’s the same-old same-old, but this time with a heavy tinge of implied violence and a bunch of people onstage who, by definition, think that rallying a crowd to attack the U.S. Congress is a valid Republican response to getting sad news on an election day.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was there to regurgitate antisemitic tropes from whatever neo-Nazi propaganda flier she last swallowed:
Marge at the Trump rally; “Here we have Alvin Bragg, on the verge of breaking the law, as he’s trying to please his Master, George Soros.” pic.twitter.com/lE7fTXGh5d
As for Trump himself, the man will never learn a new trick. Not ever. He is fueled by grievance and paranoia. Everyone he’s ever met is a big guy with tears in his eyes who thinks he’s Palm Beach Jesus or whatever.
Trump bashing DeSantis. He says DeSantis came to him with tears in his eyes begging him for an endorsement. pic.twitter.com/TLqGKIRWqJ
Seriously, these people shouldn’t be allowed to own butter knives, let alone sharp objects or firearms.
So that was that. There was no big announcement that everyone should grab their guns and come gun down Trump’s latest enemies. There was sex trafficker Matt Gaetz, because of course there was. But mostly Trump was just the treasonous ball of shit he’s always been, a man with grade-school solutions to every problem and who only really cares about the donations that are rolling in from the goobers . . . rolling into his pocket, not into his campaign.
Among the many lies that Donald Trump told during his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas, was his ongoing claim that he kept his promise to build a wall on the southern border and force Mexico to pay for it. It didn’t happen before he left office on Jan. 20, 2021.
CNN’s Daniel Dale listed off a few of the lies that Trump told his Texas audience, but the main one was that he both built the wall and somehow still needed to finish the job.
“I built hundreds of miles of wall and completed that task totally as promised,” Trump told the audience. “And then I began to add even more wall in areas where it was needed.”
If he “completed that task totally as promised,” why was it necessary to “add even more wall?”
Trump built a small piece of his so-called “wall,” which he claimed would be a concrete wall along the entire 2,000-mile border of the U.S. and Mexico. It turned out to be more like a fence.A 2020 BBC fact-check explained that George W. Bush and previous congresses had funded a lot of the structure and maintenance of it.
He got about $5 billion from Congress for the fence, and he took an additional $10 billion from the Department of Defense budget, the fact-check continued. As of the time Trump left office, there were about 40 miles of his fencing that had been built, FactCheck.org explained.
An unpublished memo from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was leaked inMarch 2022, The Washington Post reported. Among the details that were revealed were that the so-called “impenetrable” Trump border wall had been crossed more than 3,200 times before Trump left office. Agents confessed that there were people slicing through the steel with a saw that could be purchased at a big box store.
A New York Times photoof one stretch of fence Trump built shows it starting at some point along a hill and going along to the other side. One could simply walk around the fence.
The US-Mexico border is the road. Notice the “impenetrable wall” along the far side (*Mexican side) of the border. Looks like about 150 years of wall.
Here are the highlights from Trump’s Waco TX rally: Trump lied, Ted Nugent lied, the audience lied, guest speakers were the usual assortment of nobodies.
UPDATE 2 –Sunday, March 26, 2:40 PM EDST
The “crowd” at Trump’s Waco rally started leaving 30 minutes into the rally.
According to the Tribune-Herald’s Mike Copeland, “Trump arrived shortly before 6 p.m., his plane circling the airport as attendees intently looked to the heavens. He wrapped up at 7:32 in the evening, though quite a few fans did not last that long.”
“About 30 minutes into the rally, the crowd began to thin, with people getting a head start on the walk back to the parking lots, designated and otherwise,” he wrote.
UPDATE — Sunday, March 26, 8:10 AM EDST
Trump’s campaign claimed they expected 50,000. City of Waco was prepared for 15,000. Police and reporters estimated the crowd at 2,000 – 3,000. Trump is and has always been nothing but a sideshow barker — and now his “show” is old, stale, and only a few goobers are still hanging on.
Now for the details . . . if you can stand the details.
Trump was introduced by Ted “I shit in my pants to avoid the draft” Nugent.
Ted Nugent kicks off the Trump rally in Waco by calling Zelenskyy a "homosexual weirdo" to cheers pic.twitter.com/21d6x3mI5F
Then an audience member claimed to have been a Marine but could not recall dates of his service, where he served, or what he did in the Corps. Typical MAGAt.
Guy at Trump rally claims he served in Marines. Christina Bobb says she did too and asks his MOS. He can’t say. Then asks him where he served. He can’t say. pic.twitter.com/UCmhdFOs30
Then Trump claimed “No one laughed at the US when I was President.”
I guess he forgot about this.
And then Trump lied about Ron DeSantis.
Trump also said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis“came to me with tears in his eyes begging him for an endorsement,” . . .
The guest speakers at the rally were all the usual bullshit artists: Marjorie Taylor Greene; Mike Lindell; Matt Gaetz; some guy from Texas; a bible-thumping preacher; no one of any consequence.
So, as you see, Trump’s first rally of his Presidential campaign was his lies and everyone’s bullshit.
The decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the district court’s decision that Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, has to testify under the “crime-fraud exception” to attorney-client privilege is obviously a very bad development for Trump in the Mar-a-Lago document case. But there are three additional developments which indicate the potential full scope of damage to Trump in this case.
1. In addition to testifying before the grand jury, court filings indicate that Mr. Corcoran also has to produce certain handwritten notes and “transcripts of personal audio recordings”(!) So, Trump’s attorney has transcripts of phone calls (or wearing a recording device?) with Trump or others in his orbit about the Mar-a-Lago document searches! Oh boy . . .
2. To the surprise of probably every legal observer, Team Trump decided not to appeal this “crime-fraud” ruling to the Supreme Court – even if only for the long and inherent delay value. As a result, Mr. Corcoran is producing the notes and transcripts, and testifying to the grand jury, now or any day now. That is … weird.
Rachel Maddow’s legal analyst, Lisa Rubin, has a very interesting take on this. She thinks that the lawyer’s handwritten notes and transcripts might be so damaging that Team Trump decided not to show it to the Supreme Court. They know that the underlying documents are so bad that they won’t only lose the appeal, but (more generally) will “lose” the Supreme Court. Team Trump would rather keep the Supreme Court around — unsullied by having viewed this evidence — for other interim appeals, or deal with all this evidence later when it is wrapped up with other appellate issues. But they don’t wan’t the Supreme Court seeing these documents now.
There do not seem to be other obvious reasons for Trump not continuing to appeal and draw all this out. Also notable, the D.C. Circuit Court rejected Trump’s appeal on this issuein under two days. That is an unheard of time schedule in these circumstances. All of this strongly suggests that there might be clear cut, really incendiary stuff in there.
3. In addition, before the search and seizure that turned up classified documents, Trump attorney Alina Habba submitted a sworn declaration that “she searched each and every room of [Trump’s] private residence” and “personal office” located at Mar-a-Lago, including, among other things, “all desks, drawers, etc.,” and found no responsive documents. Of course, responsive, “Top Secret” documents were found in the “drawers” of the “desk” in Trump’s “personal office” in Mar-a-Lago. Umm, someone has a lot of explaining to do.
It seems as though this Special Prosecutor has quite the case on his hands.
So — in the past two weeks, SIX JUDGES have ruled that their is probable cause to believe that Trump committed a crime. And maybe more than “a” crime.
Remember when Trump’s adoring crowds chanted “LOCK HER UP!” ? Remember that? WHO IS GETTING LOCKED UP NOW!!!
Trump purposefully scheduled the rally on the anniversary of the destruction of the “Branch Davidian” compound by the FBI and US marshals, hoping to draw similarities between the Branch Davidians and his MAGAt followers.
It’s not working out well.
Trump is struggling to get GOP figures to appear as a guest speakers at the Waco rally amid suggestions the New York grand jury are gearing up to vote on whether to indict the former president in the coming days.
The names of other speakers in Waco have still not been confirmed by Trump’s team, but several Texas Republicans have confirmed they will not be attending.
Aides for Rep. Troy Nehls, who has endorsed Trump for 2024, told Insider he cannot attend the rally as he has an engagement in Washington D.C. that day.
Rep. Pete Sessions, a Waco native, also has prior engagements on March 25, with Rep. Michael McCaul, and state GOP chairman Matt Rinaldi also saying they are unable to attend.
Waco Mayor Dillon Meek, will be another absentee as he is attending a centennial banquet for the 10th Court of Appeals on Saturday. He expressed concern that the event will once again highlight the Branch Davidian tragedy that the local community has spent decades striving to move on from.
That’s FIVE important local and state Republicans who have turned down Trump.
Meanwhile, check out the cities where Trump held rallies in 2020 and cities to which he still owes money for security, facilities, and the like. Note that the is not returning to these cities.
“None of the 30 Texas Republicans Insider contacted about the event said they were going,”Insider reveals.
“Most of the 30 GOP members contacted about Donald Trump’s inaugural visit to the site of a 30-year-old standoff between cult leader David Koresh and federal authorities did not respond to requests for comment about whether they intended to rally with the scandal-plagued candidate and perhaps say a few kind words,” Insider reports.
Trump is a caged animal who is backed in the corner . He looks that way and he’s acting that way. He is unhinged and it is frightening.
As proof, look at how he went through these evil, insane, wild, disgusting anti-Semitic racial tropes. He called NYC DA Bragg that “Soros-backed animal,” you might as well say “dirty Jew Black animal,” you might as well say those words because that is what he’s saying.
And the fact that other Republicans, including [Florida Gov. Ron} DeSantis, the number one challenger, does the same thing, does the Soros thing, the same “Jew-backing” this Black man — and one used the word “master” — I think that was [Rep. Elise] Stefanik — that’s the stunning talk.”
We know Trump is insane. We know he has lost his mind, we know he’s just continually, continually shriveling away.
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