For about 20 seconds, I had hopes that the Republicans would wake up from their four year fever dream and realize that they had been very bad people. Nah. Kevin McCarthy already walked back his statement that the orange ectoplasm had instigated January 6, and instead blamed it on "everybody." Mitch the Spineless, also walked back his earlier condemnation and lukewarm support for conviction. They're all back on the ectoplasm train.
What is becoming very clear is that January 6 was not a bunch of people
caught up in the moment, that it was a planned insurrection. Propublica
has done a good article about who did this. Servants of the ectoplasm planned, funded and executed the raid on the capital.
(Caroline) Wren was no ordinary event planner. She served as a deputy to Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, at Trump Victory, a joint presidential fundraising committee during the 2020 campaign. The Justin mentioned in her text was Justin Caporale, a former top aide to first lady Melania Trump, whose production company helped put on the event at the Ellipse.
Text messages and an event-planning memo obtained by ProPublica, along with an interview with Chafian, indicate that Wren, a Washington insider with a low public profile, played an extensive role in managing operations for the event. The records show that Wren oversaw logistics, budgeting, funding and messaging for the Jan. 6 rally that featured President Donald Trump.
Wren’s services were enlisted by a major donor to Trump’s presidential campaign, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported Saturday that Julie Jenkins Fancelli, the heiress to Publix Super Markets, committed some $300,000 to fund the Jan. 6 rally.
It's worth reading, it really shines a light on how dedicated these people are to installing the ectoplasm as ruler for life.
So, this is disturbing. Also disturbing is the rise in the GOP of Marjorie Taylor-Greene. She's a Q-Anon fan. Lately she has said that the California forest fires were caused by Israeli space lasers. She expressed her desire to shoot Speaker Pelosi in the head, as well as hang Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. According to her, the third plane on 9/11 did not hit the Pentagon; there is no evidence of that. She believes the shootings at Parkland were staged. She even went to far as to follow David Hogg in D.C. shouting at him that he wanted to take away her second amendment rights. The video is here. She's on record as saying that if the ectoplasm were to have the election stolen from him, that it would require blood and guns to preserve the American way of life.
What's worse, is there is exactly no, none, not any push back from the GOP about her words, or her behavior. The ectoplasm called her and egged her on. Now she is renewing her calls for violence. She provided an accounting of the phone call which you can read here.
Taylor Greene’s rant went on and on, as she was clearly inspired by the former white supremacist in chief.
Greene later claimed that she was the real victim of the insurrectionists that she is suspected of working with, and she wasn’t subtle in suggesting that the real violence is committed by African-American protesters.
Few people are asking for an apology from Taylor Greene. Members of the House say that she is a security risk and want her expelled. The situation is so bad with Greene that Rep. Cori Bush moved her office away from Greene because she was concerned about the safety of her staff.
The people who are asking for apologies are not Republicans. They're fine with this. Against the wishes of Kevin McCarthy (House Minority Leader) Matt Gaetz (R-Fl) took himself to Wyoming to campaign against Liz Cheney. She voted for impeachment, ectoplasm is angry.
It appears that for the next two years, the only functions of the Republican party will be to make it harder to vote and obstruct the Democrats. That one person lead in the person of VP Harris is going to breaking the tie votes early and often. If the GOP gets back in power in 2022, they will kill this country. Jim and I are discussing Portugal again.
There was a hike yesterday. It rained last night, so that was good.
Today is sunny, but really cold. It is a cold air mass.
Such beautiful photos! Sunshine wow! Still trying to get over the Orange hangover. The neighbors down the street remind us daily that it has only just begun, The Q's, the "patriots" . Passport still at the ready, just in case.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm sad to hear that about the Publix heiress. I love Publix and the Jenkins family are pretty much hometown heroes in Lakeland, Fla., where the company is based.
ReplyDeleteI've decided I just have to turn off Trump-related news for my own mental health. He's out of office and the Dems are in control. I'm going to focus on that for a while.
I read today that McCarthy and McConnell are at odds over where to take the republican party. McConnell wants to rid it of Trump and his influence, McCarthy wants to hang on to Trump's rabid crazy assed base. McConnell isn't taking calls from Trump and hasn't since the votes were certified. but yeah, the hope that the republican party would gladly shrug off Trump was a fleeting hope. but as long as they are fighting amongst themselves their power is diminished perhaps. and I think they will eventually have to do something about Greene. Also, Trump's entire legal team walked away a week before his trial over disagreement on what the defense should be. Trump, of course wants them to argue that the election was stolen from him (which is not a defense against inciting insurrection) and they wanted to argue the unconstitutionality of convicting an out of office president.
ReplyDeleteI think when Trump eats himself to a heart attack, the right wing wing nut problem will diminish. As much as the Publix information dismays me, I think it will end a problem like the Koch brothers. Washington will be on guard the next four years and all the militias that need to slink back to their compounds will find their civil liberties severely curtailed the next time they visit DC.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, things have not changed. It's dispiriting. But now, sometimes, I turn away from the news, because I know there is a team in the White House paying attention while I take a breath. I didn't dare turn my gaze away before. As for Jan 6, it was intended to be so much worse. I can't imagine where we would be if the terrorists had found their human targets.
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