There are some follow-up stories today from yesterday’s public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Patrick Byrne, the former chief executive officer of Overstock, who was mentioned in the hearing yesterday as having attended the December 18 meeting in which lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn called for Trump to seize voting machines, will talk with the committee on Friday.
I am presently in Krakow, where my wife and I live for part of each year. I have always been glad that I traveled to Eastern Europe before the fall of Communism. I got a good look at totalitarianism in practice. That’s exactly what Orban is attempting to tweak and re-impose, as is Poland’s would-be autocrat Jarasław Kaczynski and our own Republican Party. It’s not pretty.
“The silence from Republicans over what we have been hearing from the January 6th committee is deafening.”
Not only that, but this week McCarthy has cranked up the volume on inflation, gas prices, government size and spending…anything to distract. I encourage any of you on twitter to flood his posts with salient January 6 clips.
Mitch McConnell is ramping up his tweets hammering that Biden is responsible for both inflation and a tax plan that will hurt middle class Americans. Steve Schmidt tweeted that President Biden needs to step away for the 2024 election because he will not be remembered well. President Biden's poll numbers are low because the media is not giving all that he is doing for this country any support. We must hold all of these criminals accountable and at the same time do everything we can to support our President and Democrats. That Graham's subpoena is being held up enrages me. That t is not in jail enrages me. That Carlson can continue to spew enrages me. That all of these criminals can continue to hold office enrages me. That there are so many deliberately ignorant Americans enrages me.
Thank you, Professor, for continuing to keep us informed about the Jan 6 Committee findings plus the everyday policies and decisions that move our country. Right now I’m reading “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” by Jason Stanley and USA is one of his examples of Democracies adopting fascist policies and tactics. Your comments about Viktor Orbán, Hungary and CPAC, are right out of the Fascist playbook. We should all, including the repubs, be paying close attention. Why does CPAC want to destroy Democracy and replace it with a Fascist “illiberal democracy”? We are already losing rights and reversing laws. All in plain sight. If there are still repubs who believe in Democracy, they (along with all of us) better speak up and stop the March to Fascism.
THE AXIOM, THERE ARE NO SECRETS IN WALL STREET... APPLIES TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TRUMP ...
WE CAN SAFELY ADD, THERE ARE NO SECRETS, ONLY THE SECRETIVE..
MARK TWAIN SAID, I TRUST EVERYONE, BUT CUT THE CARDS...
THOSE THAT HAD READ DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL BY ANNE FRANK, WERE CLEAR WITH ME....
AS BRUNO BETTELHEIM SAID IN 1955, SANDY, IN YOUR LIFETIME, I WAS THEN 16,
OVER HALF THE PEOPLE YOU WILL KNOW WILL BEHAVE AS THE NAXIS DID, GIVEN THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES... HE WAS REFERRING TO AUSCHWITZ, DACHAU, BUCHENWALD, BERGEN BELSON AND 200 MORE CAMPS... THAT ISOLATED AND KILLED JEWS... AMONG OTHERS.
I WAS STUNNED BY ANNE FRANK... BUT BETTELHEIM AND OTHER SURVIVORS ON CAMPUS WERE CLEAR: WHAT THEY HAD EXPERIENCED WOULD RETURN..
WELL...
FASCISM HAS RETURNED WITH FORCE... IN THE GOP AND FOX NEWS... ON SILENT CAMPUSES TODAY, AND IN MANY COUNTRIES...
PUTIN REFERS TO DENAZIFICATION IN UKRAINE AND IS HIMSELF A FASCIST AND HE TRUCKS MILLIONS OFF TO SIBERIA AND ELSEWHERE IN RUSSIA... WITH 200,000 CHILDREN SHIPPED FROM UKRAINE TO BE HIDDEN AND BRAINWASHED -
GEORGE ORWELL WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED..
TUCKER CARLSON AND HIS PALS AT FOX ARE CLEAR THEY SEE AND SUPPORT THE END OF DEMOCRACY... AND SOME 70 MILLION SUPPORTED TRUMP AND SAY THEY BELIEVE THE BIG LIE...
A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT, SAID BEN FRANKLIN...
WELL, WE ARE LOSING IT... AND WE SEE CASSIE HUTCHINSON TESTIFYING AS HER BOSS COWARS ALONG WITH ALL OTHER REPUBLICANS IN GOVERNMENT...
EXCEPT JAN SIX VICE CHAIR, REPRESENTATIVE LIZ CHENEY ... THE GLACIAL ANOMALY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,, WILLING TO GIVE UP HER CAREER IN A PARTY NO LONGER SANE.. A ROGUE FACTIOUS MINORITY - SEE FEDERALIST 10... THAT SEEMS TO BE RUNNING THE SHOW...
IF YOU ARE NOT FRIGHTENED, YOU ARE NUMB... OR STUPID...
THIS IS SHOW TIME, DRESS REHEARSAL AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS IN TROUBLE...
JANUARY 6 WAS FOREPLAY: PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST BE CHARGED AND CONVICTED... AND JAILED...
AND ALL REPUBLICANS IN THE CONGRESS THAT ARE COMPLICIT MUST BE REMOVED... AT THE POLLS...
WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A SECOND CIVIL WAR... AND THE BLOODSHED BEGAN ON JANUARY 6TH, FULL BLAST.
What a terrific letter, Heather. My head is swimming. It got my attention on many levels, especially about Overstock Guy and his relationship with the Russian gun enthusiast. That she serves in the Kremlin’s Duma as a “reward” for her “work” with the NRA and Republican politicians was a shock. Will he be called to testify? I was amazed to hear Mr. Cipollone comment that Overstock was at the meeting he rushed to in the wee hours of December 19 I believe. Ciplollone asked him “Who are you?” This was the mob level Trump used in his flaunting of public trust, inviting unknown people to meet about the election, without consulting your White House lawyer, in the late hours of the night is John Le Carre worthy.
Find your last 4 paragraphs very telling. The GOP is hiding in plain sight what they see in the future. This is not the way I want to spend my remaining years in fear of what we may become. Please , please may people take off the blinders and vote to put a stop to this before it is to late.
It's getting boring to keep saying Harry Truman was right back in 1948, but he was. And that was with the "sane" Republican Party - or at least in comparison to what we have today, since that party had Joe McCarthy as one of its representatives and the China Lobby as one of its major components.
They're always been the "pseudo conservatives" Hofstadter described them as 70 years ago.
As Truman said, "the only 'good Republicans' are pushing up daisies."
I know that this is so very off topic, but I just received an email from a gallery here who is currently showing Shania's work regarding this. If any of you can possibly do anything to support her at this moment, here is the article in English from the States. Gracias a todos. I was just visiting this gallery last week and took photos of her work. Gailee
What we've seen in the House Select Committee hearings is that the real conservatives are calling out the reactionaries who have taken over their party. The vast majority of witnesses who testified so far have been real conservatives. Liz Cheney is a real conservative, not a reactionary.
There is a split in the GOP, and splits can be exploited if we call the participants the names that properly apply to them. To do otherwise is a misnomer. Using the wrong term makes the message blurry and confused. The very definition of reactionary is "opposed to liberalism." You can see this opposition playing out in the refusal of the reactionary Republicans to work on -- or much less pass -- a party platform. Their purpose is to "own the libs," and also to expel and purge those they derisively call the "Rinos" -- Republicans in Name Only -- from the Republican Party. So please, liberals, don't call reactionaries "conservative." Show some discipline and respect for the English language You have nothing to lose but elections.
Seems that there was no shortage of insurrectionists ready to forget our founding fathers’s Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution. Power rules the fools. And yet, the MSM and rank and file republicans still consider them legitimate political actors. Anyone doubt that propaganda works and that a majority of our citizenry are primed to embrace fascism. Article in Dallas Morning News suggested that the Texas republican platform is gaining support. The end of our way of life may be closer than most suspect…. Although the Jan 6 committee is fighting with all it’s might. Wish HCR missives had the reach of Fox
I would love to see Patrick Byrne charged with committing seditious conspiracy, or at least taken into custody as a material witness against Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn. Because Byrne was present at the White House meeting with the other two Looney Tunes, Powell and Flynn, shows him to be at least in general agreement with their seditious objectives. It doesn't really matter whether the plan they were promoting had any likelihood of succeeding, the fact that they were in the Oval Office looking to get President Trump's approval for their harebrained scheme is the overt act necessary to lay out the elements of the crime for which they can be indicted. The fact that all of these actors, from the president on down, behaved in a manner that would qualify as a Marx Brothers farce is legally irrelevant. Regardless of the absurdity of their proposal to the president, it took the combined efforts of the president's senior staff, including the lawyers from the Office of the White House Counsel to get the president to back off. Some two hours later, President Trump tweeted his summons to his supporters to rally in Washington DC on January 6. Patrick Byrne should be held fully accountable for his participation in the plot to overthrow the Constitution.
So one of the things that has passed through my FB feed in the last 24 hours is the fact that Hobby Lobby placed a bunch of ads in major newspapers all over the USA on July 4th that called for the establishment of a theocracy--a "Christian" government. And here it is ten days later and this has not shown up on any major news feed I read or listen to (NPR, NYTimes, Guardian). https://www.businessinsider.com/hobby-lobby-advocates-for-religious-government-in-july-4-ads-2021-7
If you want a textbook example of news media's selectivity in action, this is it. There is a mild backlash against Hobby Lobby, which is really one of the most revolting companies around. But no national outcry. At the same time all the breathless nonsense about the reasons for inflation, which is not REALLY about stuff like supply chain issues--although the Russians trying to starve Africa and Asia by preventing grain from Ukraine to be shipped out is certainly a real thing--but is rather the greed of corporations and companies to convert the pain of normal people into windfall profits for their investors and executives, is designed to demoralize all of us and to throw dirt over the real issues in this sh*thole country: guns, misogyny, racism, and homophobia.
The high-intensity dog and pony show that is the Jan 6 hearings are great theater but it will not amount to a hill of beans unless there is an overwhelming rejection of everything the Rethuglicans stand for on election day. And that is exactly what the Ghastly Oligarch Party is working so hard to prevent. And it is working because of a compliant populace and a corrupted Fifth Estate.
I am presently in Krakow, where my wife and I live for part of each year. I have always been glad that I traveled to Eastern Europe before the fall of Communism. I got a good look at totalitarianism in practice. That’s exactly what Orban is attempting to tweak and re-impose, as is Poland’s would-be autocrat Jarasław Kaczynski and our own Republican Party. It’s not pretty.
“The silence from Republicans over what we have been hearing from the January 6th committee is deafening.”
Not only that, but this week McCarthy has cranked up the volume on inflation, gas prices, government size and spending…anything to distract. I encourage any of you on twitter to flood his posts with salient January 6 clips.
Mitch McConnell is ramping up his tweets hammering that Biden is responsible for both inflation and a tax plan that will hurt middle class Americans. Steve Schmidt tweeted that President Biden needs to step away for the 2024 election because he will not be remembered well. President Biden's poll numbers are low because the media is not giving all that he is doing for this country any support. We must hold all of these criminals accountable and at the same time do everything we can to support our President and Democrats. That Graham's subpoena is being held up enrages me. That t is not in jail enrages me. That Carlson can continue to spew enrages me. That all of these criminals can continue to hold office enrages me. That there are so many deliberately ignorant Americans enrages me.
Thank you, Professor, for continuing to keep us informed about the Jan 6 Committee findings plus the everyday policies and decisions that move our country. Right now I’m reading “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” by Jason Stanley and USA is one of his examples of Democracies adopting fascist policies and tactics. Your comments about Viktor Orbán, Hungary and CPAC, are right out of the Fascist playbook. We should all, including the repubs, be paying close attention. Why does CPAC want to destroy Democracy and replace it with a Fascist “illiberal democracy”? We are already losing rights and reversing laws. All in plain sight. If there are still repubs who believe in Democracy, they (along with all of us) better speak up and stop the March to Fascism.
THE AXIOM, THERE ARE NO SECRETS IN WALL STREET... APPLIES TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TRUMP ...
WE CAN SAFELY ADD, THERE ARE NO SECRETS, ONLY THE SECRETIVE..
MARK TWAIN SAID, I TRUST EVERYONE, BUT CUT THE CARDS...
THOSE THAT HAD READ DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL BY ANNE FRANK, WERE CLEAR WITH ME....
AS BRUNO BETTELHEIM SAID IN 1955, SANDY, IN YOUR LIFETIME, I WAS THEN 16,
OVER HALF THE PEOPLE YOU WILL KNOW WILL BEHAVE AS THE NAXIS DID, GIVEN THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES... HE WAS REFERRING TO AUSCHWITZ, DACHAU, BUCHENWALD, BERGEN BELSON AND 200 MORE CAMPS... THAT ISOLATED AND KILLED JEWS... AMONG OTHERS.
I WAS STUNNED BY ANNE FRANK... BUT BETTELHEIM AND OTHER SURVIVORS ON CAMPUS WERE CLEAR: WHAT THEY HAD EXPERIENCED WOULD RETURN..
WELL...
FASCISM HAS RETURNED WITH FORCE... IN THE GOP AND FOX NEWS... ON SILENT CAMPUSES TODAY, AND IN MANY COUNTRIES...
PUTIN REFERS TO DENAZIFICATION IN UKRAINE AND IS HIMSELF A FASCIST AND HE TRUCKS MILLIONS OFF TO SIBERIA AND ELSEWHERE IN RUSSIA... WITH 200,000 CHILDREN SHIPPED FROM UKRAINE TO BE HIDDEN AND BRAINWASHED -
GEORGE ORWELL WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED..
TUCKER CARLSON AND HIS PALS AT FOX ARE CLEAR THEY SEE AND SUPPORT THE END OF DEMOCRACY... AND SOME 70 MILLION SUPPORTED TRUMP AND SAY THEY BELIEVE THE BIG LIE...
A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT, SAID BEN FRANKLIN...
WELL, WE ARE LOSING IT... AND WE SEE CASSIE HUTCHINSON TESTIFYING AS HER BOSS COWARS ALONG WITH ALL OTHER REPUBLICANS IN GOVERNMENT...
EXCEPT JAN SIX VICE CHAIR, REPRESENTATIVE LIZ CHENEY ... THE GLACIAL ANOMALY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,, WILLING TO GIVE UP HER CAREER IN A PARTY NO LONGER SANE.. A ROGUE FACTIOUS MINORITY - SEE FEDERALIST 10... THAT SEEMS TO BE RUNNING THE SHOW...
IF YOU ARE NOT FRIGHTENED, YOU ARE NUMB... OR STUPID...
THIS IS SHOW TIME, DRESS REHEARSAL AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS IN TROUBLE...
JANUARY 6 WAS FOREPLAY: PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST BE CHARGED AND CONVICTED... AND JAILED...
AND ALL REPUBLICANS IN THE CONGRESS THAT ARE COMPLICIT MUST BE REMOVED... AT THE POLLS...
WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A SECOND CIVIL WAR... AND THE BLOODSHED BEGAN ON JANUARY 6TH, FULL BLAST.
THEY SAID, NEVER AGAIN... AND HERE WE ARE.
What a terrific letter, Heather. My head is swimming. It got my attention on many levels, especially about Overstock Guy and his relationship with the Russian gun enthusiast. That she serves in the Kremlin’s Duma as a “reward” for her “work” with the NRA and Republican politicians was a shock. Will he be called to testify? I was amazed to hear Mr. Cipollone comment that Overstock was at the meeting he rushed to in the wee hours of December 19 I believe. Ciplollone asked him “Who are you?” This was the mob level Trump used in his flaunting of public trust, inviting unknown people to meet about the election, without consulting your White House lawyer, in the late hours of the night is John Le Carre worthy.
Looks more and more that 1/6 was an open secret. The Committee needs someone to flip. Hopefully DOJ has some talkers among the “ little people”.
Find your last 4 paragraphs very telling. The GOP is hiding in plain sight what they see in the future. This is not the way I want to spend my remaining years in fear of what we may become. Please , please may people take off the blinders and vote to put a stop to this before it is to late.
It's getting boring to keep saying Harry Truman was right back in 1948, but he was. And that was with the "sane" Republican Party - or at least in comparison to what we have today, since that party had Joe McCarthy as one of its representatives and the China Lobby as one of its major components.
They're always been the "pseudo conservatives" Hofstadter described them as 70 years ago.
As Truman said, "the only 'good Republicans' are pushing up daisies."
I know that this is so very off topic, but I just received an email from a gallery here who is currently showing Shania's work regarding this. If any of you can possibly do anything to support her at this moment, here is the article in English from the States. Gracias a todos. I was just visiting this gallery last week and took photos of her work. Gailee
https://indiancountrytoday.com/the-press-pool/indigenous-ally-and-stopline3-water-protector-shanai-mattesons-trial-to-begin-today
What we've seen in the House Select Committee hearings is that the real conservatives are calling out the reactionaries who have taken over their party. The vast majority of witnesses who testified so far have been real conservatives. Liz Cheney is a real conservative, not a reactionary.
There is a split in the GOP, and splits can be exploited if we call the participants the names that properly apply to them. To do otherwise is a misnomer. Using the wrong term makes the message blurry and confused. The very definition of reactionary is "opposed to liberalism." You can see this opposition playing out in the refusal of the reactionary Republicans to work on -- or much less pass -- a party platform. Their purpose is to "own the libs," and also to expel and purge those they derisively call the "Rinos" -- Republicans in Name Only -- from the Republican Party. So please, liberals, don't call reactionaries "conservative." Show some discipline and respect for the English language You have nothing to lose but elections.
Seems that there was no shortage of insurrectionists ready to forget our founding fathers’s Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution. Power rules the fools. And yet, the MSM and rank and file republicans still consider them legitimate political actors. Anyone doubt that propaganda works and that a majority of our citizenry are primed to embrace fascism. Article in Dallas Morning News suggested that the Texas republican platform is gaining support. The end of our way of life may be closer than most suspect…. Although the Jan 6 committee is fighting with all it’s might. Wish HCR missives had the reach of Fox
I would love to see Patrick Byrne charged with committing seditious conspiracy, or at least taken into custody as a material witness against Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn. Because Byrne was present at the White House meeting with the other two Looney Tunes, Powell and Flynn, shows him to be at least in general agreement with their seditious objectives. It doesn't really matter whether the plan they were promoting had any likelihood of succeeding, the fact that they were in the Oval Office looking to get President Trump's approval for their harebrained scheme is the overt act necessary to lay out the elements of the crime for which they can be indicted. The fact that all of these actors, from the president on down, behaved in a manner that would qualify as a Marx Brothers farce is legally irrelevant. Regardless of the absurdity of their proposal to the president, it took the combined efforts of the president's senior staff, including the lawyers from the Office of the White House Counsel to get the president to back off. Some two hours later, President Trump tweeted his summons to his supporters to rally in Washington DC on January 6. Patrick Byrne should be held fully accountable for his participation in the plot to overthrow the Constitution.
What, if anything, is going to happen to the at least 10 congresspeople who went along with this coup attempt? They surely do not belong there.
Thanks, for every letter. I really appreciate your work.
So one of the things that has passed through my FB feed in the last 24 hours is the fact that Hobby Lobby placed a bunch of ads in major newspapers all over the USA on July 4th that called for the establishment of a theocracy--a "Christian" government. And here it is ten days later and this has not shown up on any major news feed I read or listen to (NPR, NYTimes, Guardian). https://www.businessinsider.com/hobby-lobby-advocates-for-religious-government-in-july-4-ads-2021-7
If you want a textbook example of news media's selectivity in action, this is it. There is a mild backlash against Hobby Lobby, which is really one of the most revolting companies around. But no national outcry. At the same time all the breathless nonsense about the reasons for inflation, which is not REALLY about stuff like supply chain issues--although the Russians trying to starve Africa and Asia by preventing grain from Ukraine to be shipped out is certainly a real thing--but is rather the greed of corporations and companies to convert the pain of normal people into windfall profits for their investors and executives, is designed to demoralize all of us and to throw dirt over the real issues in this sh*thole country: guns, misogyny, racism, and homophobia.
The high-intensity dog and pony show that is the Jan 6 hearings are great theater but it will not amount to a hill of beans unless there is an overwhelming rejection of everything the Rethuglicans stand for on election day. And that is exactly what the Ghastly Oligarch Party is working so hard to prevent. And it is working because of a compliant populace and a corrupted Fifth Estate.