🤹♀️Watching the ball juggling from above… pic.twitter.com/iuUZrVYm2r— Tansu YEĞEN (@TansuYegen) June 15, 2022
- For a while, we have been told by prominent Republicans that the American public is simply not interested in anything the Jan 6 panel has to present. News Corpse has the numbers, and it turns out the latest ratings are shattering records.
- In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson examines the explosive, what-in-hell, earthshaking testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson the young intern that Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows included in pretty much every meeting everywhere he went in the White House.
And Boy Howdy! He went a lot of places!
- driftglass gets down to the one singularly critical fact in Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony.
- The Propaganda Professor listens to testimony about the Jan 6 lynch mob insurrection and sees a vast coverup unravel on our screens.
- Heroic young intern Cassidy Hutchinson testifies under oath that someone told her about Donald Trump throwing a tantrum when denied the chance to personally lead the lynch mob storming the Capitol. The story includes him lunging toward the steering wheel. Others confirm that was the gossip floating through and around the White House at the time. So she pretty much had to be telling the truth.
It is a side detail to the critical point that the then-President of the United States was hell bent on committing treason.
Tommy Christopher picks it up from there, as a couple of Secret Service agents are said to be ready to eventually testify that Trump never actually grabbed the wheel.
Which means the intern was lying.
Okay, it doesn’t mean that at all, but why let the truth interfere with a good story?
And now: Oh Lordy there’s video!
Of the Presidential vehicle with some commotion going on inside.
Well-l-l…
It’s blurry and seems ambiguous to me. At least at first glance.
Is it authentic? Was it taken during the right time frame? Is it even Trump inside?
For all I know it could be a Stormy Daniels fill-in performing all the frantic motion.
Technology and sharper eyes might resolve things. Or some clumsy Trump denial might inadvertently confirm the gossip that Cassidy Hutchinson heard.
Meanwhile, there is always the old story Bill Buckley used to tell. When accused of killing three men and a dog, the accused triumphantly produce the dog alive.
- Frances Langum reacts to the newest defense of Mr. Trump. Ms. Hutchinson must be lying about what was told to her by others. The then President could not have tried to grab the steering wheel of the Presidential limo. Couldn’t have happened.
Why? Because he’s too damn fat!
THAT is their story and they’re sticking to it.
- Andy Borowitz reports as former President Trump denies ever knowing ketchup.
I especially like this fictitious quote:
“Using ketchup is a disgrace, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country,” the former President said.
- Dave Columbo channels the Secret Service denying whatever today’s revelation is about Mr. Trump:
@davecolumbo About time we got some clarification! #democrat #politicaltiktok #democratsoftiktok #political #january6 #politicalhumor #foryou #fy #fyp ♬ original sound – Dave Columbo
- Now that the dust is settling, and the important points of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony are confirmed, the Palmer Report comes across additional reports on the Secret Service. Far from contradicting her, agents are confirming what she was told: that Mr. Trump, during a raging temper tantrum, really did lunge at the steering wheel of the limousine in which he was being driven. He was screaming orders to allow him to lead the lynch mob to hang Mike Pence.
- Hackwhackers figures out how to determine whether Trump-folk are engaged in witness tampering as testimony is given to the Jan 6 Committee. Just follow the threats and the money. As in making phone calls and paying legal fees.
We’re all friends, right? So let us help you out. And let’s, by all means, remain friends. All means.
- After Rudy Giuliani is ruthlessly attacked with a back pat, Julian Sanchez suggests a headline correction:
Can we get a headline correction? Maybe: “Doddering Crybaby Throws Tantrum, Calls Police, After Being Gently Tapped On Shoulder”? https://t.co/c677EFNhHv
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) June 27, 2022
And shows video to explain why:Look, it was a violent assault on his FEELINGS. https://t.co/WKAM4rQfRJ
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) June 27, 2022
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors brings the sad news. Poor Rudy has been reduced to selling shoes on line.
- The clear logic in the new abortion ruling involves an additional layer of meaning to the 9th Amendment. That’s the Amendment that protects all rights not mentioned in the Constitution itself, Unenumerated Rights. Now those rights are only to be protected if they were deeply rooted in the nation’s history and traditions back in 1791.
That is not what the 9th Amendment actually says, but today’s originalist interpretation does not quibble over such details.
So a woman’s right to decide for herself on abortion is no longer a protected right. It was not deeply rooted in history and tradition back in 1791.
Actually, it was. The first laws against abortion were passed a few decades later, but this version of originalism does not even mean what originalism says originalism means when it comes to this singular issue.
Still the idea that only rights deeply rooted in history and traditions in 1791 endangers pretty much any right declared by the court based on the 9th.
So stand back:
Nojo thinks it remarkable that even gay folks tell friends and neighbors not to worry. The court will never, ever, even think about rolling back gay marriage, gay rights, privacy, or other rights.
Uh huh. That’s what some folks are saying.
- This is the only time I recall seeing Reductress depart from clickbait inspired satire and get look-in-my-unsmiling-eyes serious. Has to do with SCOTUS anti-abortion zealotry and the Fourth of July.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has a brief, somewhat negative view of the abortion ruling and the Republicans who pushed for it.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz apologizes to his daughter for the condition of the nation, a country dedicated to a proposition, that his generation will leave for hers.
- Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group bring the bad news via podcast, with details and analysis, as SCOTUS brings prayer to your public school.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony examines the Lauren Boebert proposition that The church is supposed to direct the government because that’s what the founders wanted. So Iron Knee goes to the record to see what the founders had to say.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit explains in simple words why legitimacy is important in a legal system, and how the Supreme Court has sacrificed theirs.
- Nan’s Notebook considers alternatives, asking whether the Supreme Court can be fixed.
- At The Moderate Voice, author Don Hermann cuts through the national blame game, when it comes to the mess we’re in, to determine the real culprits and suggests what we can do about it.
- As pro-choice protesters take to the streets, CalicoJack in The Psy of Life looks to a study by the Stanford Graduate School of Business to find if protests can swing elections.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac has a brief comment from the operator of the extremely profitable 3 Card Monte tables outside Susan Collins’ Senate office.
- Dave Dubya has insight on the emotional basis for Trumpism and today’s version of conservatism.
- PZ Myers seems a little irate at the eagerness of moderate Democrats to compromise. He gets totally wound up when they can’t even compromise competently.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce remembers his journey from homophobia to supporter of LGBTQ people.
It is a journey many of us have shared.
- More than 4 dozen migrants die horribly in an unairconditioned tractor trailer in Texas. Governor Abbott quickly assigns responsibility to President Biden. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger takes a look at the developing evidence and how it discredits the Abbott blame claim.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara has the libertarian solution to poverty. He offers an argument much older than am I. And I am a child of the Truman years.
Just end all efforts to mitigate poverty and poverty will cure itself.
The cause of poverty is simple. Those at the bottom would become prosperous if only they had something that is currently foreign to them:
self-responsibility and self-respect.
Any attempt to help those in need takes away incentives, which is all they actually need to correct these personality flaws.
So:
It is actually government intervention that creates a poverty cycle.
See how easy life can be?
- John Scalzi at Whatever has gotten the virus. He describes symptoms as similar to mild flu. Family members parallel the experience. Vaccinations do not prevent catching it. Just keep the symptom in the bothersome range. Miserable, not deadly. Those gasping for oxygen in COVID wards are unvaccinated.
- Scotties Playtime has the story and a list of informed, pithy reactions as Texas considers a proposal to rename slavery to involuntary relocation.
- Grung e Gene has the pattern and the numbers to back skepticism of the crypto-currency scheme.
- Green Eagle finds 6 words that will protect us from bitcoin collapse.
- At The Onion, Phil Mickelson comes up with a new, patriotic, reason to play pro-golf in the Saudi Arabia.
- At Strangely Blogged, it strikes Vixen Strangely as a bit …well… strange that Vlad Putin mocks other world leaders for not looking as pretty as he looks without a shirt.
Seems obvious to everyone but Mr. Putin that physical fitness means less to the world than fidelity to principle. Hitler is judged by history by the evil that he did, not how many pushups he could do.
Vlad Putin will be remembered as a sociopathic bully who invaded a neighboring country, not for primping on horseback.
- Max’s Dad has always thought of Paul McCartney, the cute one, as a sort of lesser Beatle. Comes the Super Bowl halftime in 2005, then a concert in 2010 and finds the cute Beatle is a force of nature.
Happy 80th, Paul McCarthy.
- Good news: Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is starting a new publication:
Life Under Construction Newsletter 1st Issue Collector's Edition – https://t.co/fcCY26DdMn pic.twitter.com/s9TW8vCcgh
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) June 19, 2022
Bad news: it will soon be behind a paywall.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study into why some Asian spices can make human lips tingle.
Does remind me of a lesson I learned from intense experience decades ago:
Never EVER eat a scoop of unlabeled guacamole in a Japanese restaurant.
The only time I have ever seen my own nostrils.
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL has finished a book! Yay-y-y-y-y. But… now she faces a problem I imagine is common to successful authors:
What comes next?
Fortunately, she has a plan.
- @whiskeywhistle translates as actor Brody Wellmaker interprets a mother trying to hold it together in public:
@whiskeywhistle98 #duet with @brodywellmaker I forgot about the counting!! 😂😂👌🏻🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ #kids #tiktokmom #fyp #momrage #listentomenow ♬ Monkeys Spinning Monkeys – Kevin MacLeod & Kevin The Monkey - Infidel753 has images, including what has to be one of the most imaginative, dangerous tennis courts ever. I wonder if it’s real: a form of athletic suicide.
- Sarah Cooper reads Dale Carnegie on How to Win Friends and Influence People, invents a voice, and begins hearing him in her head. She is interviewed by journalist Christina Harcar on making peace with Dale and developing as a performer and a human.
Podcast format is also offered. I liked the print version, but the podcast was even better.
- SilverAppleQueen has cat, cats that cuddle.
- YellowDog Granny has discovered a time-tested gardening tip to keep growing cucumbers insect-free. Possibly best done at night.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) June 30, 2022
Sorry, the flag is still in therapy. pic.twitter.com/tSY0j4Pigx
— Duder (@TheDudeMinds) April 25, 2021
— Annette Montgomery (@Annette_mont) July 1, 2022
I’m beyond tired of all of these performative Christians in this country who have a mouthful of scripture, but a heart full of hate.
— Jax Persists (@LadyJayPersists) July 1, 2022
— Goddess of Bodily Autonomy (@Serendipitygrae) July 1, 2022
— Goddess of Bodily Autonomy (@Serendipitygrae) July 1, 2022
GM ☀️ !
How it feels hodling bags during these times! $BTC $ETH $DOT $LINK $XCAD $HUSL $PYR $METIS #Crypto #Metaverse #NFTs pic.twitter.com/qiV8TmWAHs
— The Gem Hunters.™ 💎 (@TheGemHunters) June 26, 2022
— your reluctant optimist (@kittenwithaquip) June 30, 2022
My husband’s friend, a well known comedian, said she was watching the hearings with subtitles, and every time they said Pat Cippolone, the subtitle said Patsy Baloney. Pat Sackalone. Passive Lonely. I’m dying! 😝
— LiquoriceScotties (@LiquoriceScots) June 30, 2022
Ketchup. Wall. Plate. Tantrum. Prison.
— 🌻The Regal 👑Beagle🐶 (@the_rbeagle) June 28, 2022
My wife raised a good point. At the ellipse, Trump was willing to let people in with their AR-15's because they wouldn't hurt him. However, didn't he say Antifa were the ones with weapons?
— Henry M. Rosenberg (@DoctorHenryCT) June 28, 2022
I don’t know Cassidy Hutchinson, and I can’t speak to how things worked at the White House, but when Meadows was on the Hill he always insisted that she be in *every* meeting he had, no matter how small. It was odd then, and doesnt seem to be working out for him now.
— Brendan Buck (@BrendanBuck) June 28, 2022
Ms. Hutchinson was also with Trump in FL during the post-presidency. pic.twitter.com/77RQwMaO4c
— Wouter van der Horst (@DerWouter) June 28, 2022
Meadows was a public servant
Salary paid by our taxes
I get your point but Cassidy Hutchinson testimony may work out just fine for the soul of Meadows
Maybe he'll even recognize his duty and testify and accept consequences of his actions
— Real Benisons (@RealBenisons) June 28, 2022
What an upstanding young lady she is. Her character shows through when she talked about helping the valet to clean up the ketchup off the wall after tfg’s tantrum. I’m sure her parents are proud.
— MonicaTD 🇺🇸🌻🇺🇦 (@mdcinmd) June 28, 2022
Cheney's closing is stunning: they think they have evidence of witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
There is an old maxim: it's never the crime, it's always the coverup.
Things went very badly for the former President today. My guess is that it will get worse from here— Mick Mulvaney (@MickMulvaney) June 28, 2022
— raina douris (@RahRahRaina) June 25, 2022
Maybe she did slip up when she thanked Trump for his victory for “white life.” Maybe she didn’t mean to say that, but here’s the deal: What she said fits so perfectly with what my former political party wants America to become – a white Christian theocracy ruled by a strongman.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 26, 2022
One day someone should start a religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 26, 2022
I’m not a political strategist, but dems dragging Joe Biden on Twitter doesn’t seem like a winning strategy to me. 🤷♂️
— TG (@TG22110) June 26, 2022
— Goddess of Bodily Autonomy (@Serendipitygrae) June 25, 2022
My niece asked me where poo comes from, so I told her all about the small intestine, the large intestine, the colon, and how waste comes out of us in the toilet.
Then she asked, “w…what about Tigger?”
— The Jon West (@thetruejonwest) June 23, 2022
— Leisure.savant (@LeisureSavant) June 23, 2022
Rest In Peace Dep Glenn Hilliard of Wicomico County SO who was shot & killed on 6/12/22 while attempting to arrest a suspect with multiple felony warrants. He was a 16 year veteran & leaves behind a wife & 3 children. Please retweet to honor him 😞💙🖤#BlueLivesMatter #Enough pic.twitter.com/eDMxflADOx
— Angel L Maysonet🇵🇷🇺🇸👮🏻♂️💙🖤 ✭ (@bigricanman) June 14, 2022
So who asked for production to be lowered? pic.twitter.com/S71mBau5zV
— Synphilter (@synphilter) June 22, 2022
Do you know why? Is it this? pic.twitter.com/jYlXe5vfCA
— Carol Waryas (@waryas_carol) June 22, 2022
What the f- though ?
Where the love go ? 🧨@LilTunechi @THEREALSWIZZZ pic.twitter.com/H7kTfQXMO4— Usha Jey (@Usha_Jey) May 22, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
Noticed only because of the diligence of Kathy Gill at
The Moderate Voicehttps://t.co/CRp9oM2uUo https://t.co/sb8SH04JLi— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) July 2, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) July 2, 2022
Isn't witness tampering a federal crime?
"'One of people who may have been trying to influence Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony did so at the behest of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows,' CNN reports."https://t.co/QXlp2O4RpZ
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) July 1, 2022
The current state of contemporary conservatism:
The need to stop drag shows for little kids sponsored by public schools"The six legislators were unable to name an example of that happening in a Michigan public school"https://t.co/LetFZTCdor
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) July 1, 2022
REPORTER: So that 12-year-old child molested by her father and uncle should carry that pregnancy to term?
GUNN: That is my personal belief. I believe life begins at conception.https://t.co/JTf5zKeuz7
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) June 30, 2022
It won't stop there – – –
"plans to stop people in states where abortion is banned from seeking the procedure elsewhere"https://t.co/d8LH9ihWYD
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) June 30, 2022
The Case for Prosecuting Trump Just Got Much Stronger
"She painted the picture of a president utterly out of control, a man so committed to preserving his own power that he approved of the riot and believed that Mike Pence deserved to face mob justice."https://t.co/qICz0CM6SJ
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) June 29, 2022
GOP Candidate Suggests Pregnancy Not Likely After Rapehttps://t.co/PmaQsMx9uc
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) June 28, 2022
“Eastman contends the agents ‘forced’ him to unlock his phone.”
Even if it's called "enhanced interrogation" It's time we outlawed torture!
.
Okay, okay, maybe in this case…https://t.co/jiwwXrxLZN
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) June 27, 2022
Police said the man "approached him and slapped him in the back"
"We will not be intimidated by left wing attacks," Andrew Giuliani said…
GOP Natl Committee has not yet announced whether this meets their definition of "legitimate political discourse"https://t.co/nQBHdVIqDY
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) June 27, 2022
Another Republican backs plans to privatize Social Securityhttps://t.co/MAS9GBdjyT
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) June 24, 2022
Wandering around a public place with an AR-15 wearing Body Armor is okay.
But we gotta watch out for brass knuckles.
Those things are DANGEROUS!!
. https://t.co/e68dfXaujK— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) June 22, 2022
– Podcasts –
thanks for including some laughs among all the horrible stuff going on as well as your mention of my site 🙂