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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

Morning, all!! Morning, Dr. R!! Can't speak directly to the Flynn Flam of today's Letter.

But to revisit the Senate Judiciary's hearing on September 15 regarding the FBI's botched investigation of Larry Nassar, the convicted pedophile Olympics doctor, my eyes widened upon hearing this:

"Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Congress must 'demand real change, and real accountability, and we will not be satisfied by platitudes and vague promises about improved performance' from federal law enforcement." Wow, "accountability." He knows that word!

Wouldn't it be nice if he invoked it in the direction of, well, Loser 45 and his insurrection gang.

And Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) has not finished with the Kavanaugh debacle.

"Whitehouse invokes Dr Christine Blasey Ford in his questions to Wray.

'It strikes me very strongly as we sit here today, and as we heard the powerful testimony earlier this morning, that the last time a woman came forward in this committee to testify to her allegations of sexual assault in her childhood, the witness was Christine Blasey Ford,' he says. 'It appeared to me then, and it appears to me now that her testimony was swept under the rug in a confirmation stampede. It is very possible that the FBI investigation of her allegations was just as flawed, just as constrained, just as inappropriate, as the investigation in this case.'

"He notes that repeated requests for answers in the Ford case have been ignored repeatedly for two years until a letter dated yesterday ('Not coincidentally I suspect on the eve of your appearance today,' he notes) that promised the requested information would be forthcoming.

He concludes: 'Let’s just make sure there’s wasn’t also a botched handling of another allegation in this committee with regard to Dr Ford.'” Love this guy!

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/biles-former-gymnasts-testify-on-fbis-mishandling-of-larry-nassar-case

Oh, heck, let's beat up on SCOTUS some more:

“'My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,' the newest Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett, said Sunday. Good luck with that. When the court’s hard-right majority stops acting like partisan hacks, maybe we’ll believe her, writes Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post. https://wapo.st/3EsGyEs

Eugene is a class act. He didn't go into the legitimacy of her appointment.

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David Souers's avatar

At what point are attempts to overthrow the government of the United States Government treason?

From my middle school history, maybe grade school, we learned about Benedict Arnold. Every traitor tried and punished have aid and comfort to our enemies.

After the Civil War, instead of trying and punishing Confederate leaders and their military leaders, the US welcomed them back. Over time, some of the more openly treasonous Confederates regained offices in the US government that enabled them to establish Jim Crow policies and politics that endangered the US.

If military dictatorships and authoritarianism is contrary to our democracy and Constitution, then why don't we have more clear and operable laws to protect us?

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