RittenOff, Biden Builds, Gaetz Gotten, MAGA Trauma, Pence Parked, Posted

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  • Yesterday was the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s address at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: the Gettysburg Address. In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson contrasts the dedication to a proposition with yesterday’s Republican responses to Biden’s bill to improve American lives and the Rittenhouse acquittal.
     
    Nice celebration, folks.
     
  • Max’s Dad summarizes the Rittenhouse trial containing such incompetence from all sides that it seemed as if nobody wanted to win, and reacts to the verdict.
     
  • About that verdict: Hackwhackers has reactions from a President, a Governor, and parents of a victim that a judge said would not be called a victim.
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz says that Kyle Rittenhouse may have escaped justice, but followers of this troubled young man have convincingly testified against themselves.
     
  • Matt Gaetz offers to hire young Rittenhouse. Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson reacts:
     


    I have a slightly different take:

  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life looks closely at MAGA folk and sees similarities with survivors of trauma.
     
  • Green Eagle explores developing evidence of a trip by then Vice President Mike Pence to a parking garage, why it is significant, and how the national press misses the point.
     
  • I already knew that our image has improved since our national leadership went from Trump to Biden. But Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger dives into the numbers and oh WOW!
     
  • As far as we know, Donald Trump had nothing in particular against the Post Office. But he wanted to win, and he hated the idea that Democrats might vote in 2020. Trump had been instructing Republicans that COVID-19 was a hoax. Democrats, by and large, didn’t believe him, so they were more likely in 2020 to vote by mail. So he came up with a plan.
     
    Louis DeJoy did have something against the US Postal Service. As a subcontractor, he had investigated by postal authorities for cheating taxpayers by overbilling.
     
    So Trump and DeJoy: It was a match made in Heaven.
     
    Trump didn’t appoint DeJoy. Only the Post Office Board of Governors could do that. But Trump had, by June 2020, appointed every member of that board. They did as Trump ordered, and THAT’S how DeJoy was hired as Postmaster General.
     
    DeJoy promptly fired senior officials like crazy and slowed down mail delivery. Slowed WAY down. With luck, enough of those Democratic ballots would get delivered too late to count and Trump would win the election.
     
    Luck ran out. Ballots counted after all. President Trump became bad loser Trump.
     
    But Dejoy is still Postmaster General and still hates the Post Office. The damage continues, and only the Board of Governors can fire the guy.
     
    But with time, terms run out. Members of the board are slowly being replaced with uncorrupted patriots.
     
    tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors says President Biden just appointed a couple more members and might have enough to kick DeJoy down the highway.
     
    And tengrain notices something odd and a little sad and somewhat revolting about news coverage.
     
  • Andy Borowitz reports on Steve Bannon’s indictment for Contempt of Soap.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit draws a lesson from the legal travails of Alex Jones. He is now officially guilty of inflicting pain on innocent parents of murdered children. The amount of damages is still in the hands of a jury.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged cannot think about the Alex Jones verdict without contemplating the nightmare of having a child murdered while sitting in a classroom, then getting calls from Jones devotees accusing you and your child of faking it.
     
  • Representative Paul Gosar(R-Hell) doesn’t like AOC so he posts a video showing himself assassinating her. Nice.
     
    He gets censured by the House of Representatives. Censured basically means he gets officially scolded and removed from committees.
     
    driftglass doesn’t like Gosar so he posts something. Tit-for-tat, I suppose, except this is a non-threatening, non-video, in which nobody gets hurt.
     
  • At The Onion, the House votes to remove Gosar from the Anime and Manga Committee.
     
  • Republican leader Kevin McCarthy holds the floor for hour after dreary hour, for a full 8 hours. Tommy Christopher watches as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki entertainingly summarizes the whole grim talkietime then demolishes McCarthy, leaving him soaking into the carpet.
     
  • Frances Langum has the courage and stamina to watch the everlasting speech by McCarthy (Okay, I know. Only 8½ hours). McCarthy insists that No One Elected Joe Biden To Be FDR, then doesn’t know how to respond to a 2 word interruption.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice social media has lots of fun with McCarthy’s long, long ramble.

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