Author: Burr Deming

Here Comes the Next Pro-Trump
Impeachment Presentation

found on Twitter by Burr

 
This really happened in the 394th Judicial District Court in Texas
 

If it pleases the court…

I am not a cat

May I awaken from this nightmare?

Amanda Gorman – Super Bowl Poetry: Powerful

Text:

Today we honor our three captains
For their actions and impact in
A time of uncertainty and need.

They’ve taken the lead,
Exceeding all expectations and limitations,
Uplifting their communities and neighbors
As leaders, healers, and educators.

James has felt the wounds of warfare,
But this warrior still shares
His home with at-risk kids.
During Covid, he’s even lent a hand
Live-streaming football for family and fans.

Trimaine is an educator who works nonstop,
Providing his community with hotspots,
Laptops, and tech workshops,
So his students have all the tools
They need to succeed in life and in school.

Suzie is the ICU nurse manager at a Tampa Hospital.
Her chronicles prove that even in tragedy, hope is possible.
She lost her grandmothers to the pandemic,
And fights to save other lives in the ICU battle zone,
Defining the frontline heroes risking their lives for our own.

Let us walk with these warriors,
Charge on with these champions,
And carry forth the call of our captains!

We celebrate them by acting
With courage and compassion,
By doing what is right and just.

For while we honor them today,
It is they who every day honor us.

– From Sports Illustrated

Vote Steal Suit, Fake News, Tucker, Fox, Biden Bad Good Maybe, GOP, Greene

Made it to the end of the week with @momwino98:

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  • Begin with a long and special story – touching, in a vindictive sort of way:
     
    The conservative narrative was solid! Dominion Voting Systems stole the Presidential election from Trump and gave it to Biden. Switched votes, not counted votes, illegal votes, what have you. It wasn’t true, and the fact that it wasn’t true was provable. Dominion sued Fox, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell for mega-millions, and named Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro in the suit.
     
    Fox made the smart move and backtracked. The network disavowed the Dominion conspiracy and had Lou Dobbs read the story on camera.
     
    After that, Fox, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro pretty much watched their steps. Dominion and vote manipulation were not to be mentioned within an hour or so of each other, except to point ouot that they were definitely not connected, and Dominion was a great, fine, ethical company with a wonderful record of vote counting integrity. Which, by the way, has the virtue of truth going for it.
     
    The new narrative has been that some voting system other than Dominion stole the Presidential election from Trump and gave it to Biden. Smartmatic seemed like a good candidate.
     
    That wasn’t true either, and the fact that it wasn’t true was also provable, but the ethic in some quarters is never let truth interfere with a good story.
     
    News Corpse has a report. Smartmatic is suing guess who?
     
    This time Fox, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro are not being hauled into court for mere hundreds of millions. Smartmatic is going after all of them for a total of 2.7 billion dollars. That’s with a B.
     
    The introductory part of the lawsuit is hilarious. On the other hand, my humor tends toward the juvenile, so your mileage may vary.
     
    Still, just to provide an idea of scale: If you give your spouse a million dollars with the understanding that your partner will spend exactly $1,000 a day and not return until the money is gone, you will not see each other for 3 years.
     
    Got it? Three years.
     
    But if you give your spouse a billion dollars with the same understanding, you will not see each other for three thousand years.
     
    Word is within hours after getting legal notification of the suit, Fox tossed Lou Dobbs under a few billion buses and let him go-go. He’s still employed and under contract, but his new office is without windows, floor, cealing, heat, water, or running assistants. And he is off camera.
     
    Depending on who else they go after, Smartmatic may end up owning a whole lot of over-priced pillows.
     
  • In related non-fake news, The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study published by the National Academy of Science devoted to whether fake news – documented to be false – is most effectively refuted before, during, or after the fake is read.
     
  • PZ Myers finds a pattern and develops a pretty good idea of why Tucker Carlson opines, rants, and endorses in the direction he opines, rants, and endorses.
     
  • Scotties Toy Box has two images pulled from television that illustrate how Fox and factual media cover the news as President Biden signs some popular orders.
     
  • My long time conservative friend Darrell Michaels, at Unabashedly American, really, truly, does not like the terrible harm that President Biden and his leftist minions are doing to the nation. Leftist minions would be me and 81 million other Americans, I suppose.
     
    Well, my friend is not QAnon and has not advocated the assassination of Nancy Pelosi or the overthrow of the US government, so there is that.
     
  • OH! By the by, Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger finds that our new President’s immigration policies, which my friend Darrell hates as the province of Biden’s extreme leftist minions, are overwhelmingly popular. 55%, 69%, 72%. Not bad for us minions. And it seems the public supports the rest of Biden’s actions as well.
     
    Buncha durn leftist radicals, that American public.

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Even Newsmax Threw MyPillow Guy Off

found on Twitter by Burr

 
See how this works?
 

They wanted to interview him about “cancel culture”

He wouldn’t stop parroting discredited election fraud conspiracies that could get them in legal trouble.

So they cancel cultured him.

Consciousness of Guilt

Representative Lauren Boebert posts several tweets revealing location of Speaker Nancy Pelosi during Trump riot     [Image from Denver7 – The Denver Channel]

I thought of the incident when I read years ago about Texas Governor Rick Perry. He had been too lazy to glance through a report proving the innocence of a man on death row. He allowed that innocent man to be executed. He blocked a later report about the fatal miscarriage of justice.

I thought about it again after President Obama, in a ceremony with the Prime Minister of Japan, made a few innocuous remarks about respect for human diversity. Donald Trump, just elected, not yet President, reacted with anger at what he called Obama’s “inflammatory comments.” Trump apologists were apoplectic. How dare he attack the incoming President!

And I’ve been thinking about it a lot this month.

The incident itself happened decades ago, when I was much younger.
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Vile Greene, Order & Executive Orders, Public Approval, 2022, GOP Violence

As the scheduled January 6 Capitol riot was preceded by the election, Representative Majorie Taylor Greene explained on video to hesitant right-wingers, that they had to vote, because if they lose the election they will need to join with her in political violence:
The only way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood.

  • Best headline of the week goes to Steve Benen at MSNBC. Steve reports that Republicans are furious that they are not allowed to veto a COVID economic relief package desperately needed by the nation. That fury might strike a reasonable person as weird. The headline is perfect: Republicans outraged by Dems’ willingness to govern without them.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger looks through the polls. Seems the public, by an overwhelming margin is optimistic about President Biden. Also interesting is the approach they would like the Republican Party to take.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever stomps all over The New York Times for their criticism of too many executive orders by our new President. He points out that most of those orders have simply revoked the harmful meanderings of the bigoted mind (guess whose) that disguised themselves as executive orders in the previous administration.
     
    Having brutalized the Times he offers a mitigation of sorts that reminds me of Eugene McCarthy a couple of generations back. McCarthy noted news columns were, by design, rash statements. He suggested that two to three rash statements every week were too much to require from any columnist.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson puts a cautious, Mona Lisa style, happy face on Republican chances in the state’s 2022 Senate race. James links to Sabato’s Crystal Ball, ranking Wisconsin as leans Republican.
     
    Well, maybe. Off-year election and all. But there are some national trends just starting.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil is no fan, nor should we be, of the vile Majorie Taylor Greene. Does she really chase after and harass high school shooting survivors? Well, yes she does. Does she endorse right-wing political violence? Video says uh huh.
     
  • To those preparing for a civil war within the Republican Party, Infidel753 says forget about it. The war is already over. This does give me the opportunity to boast, a sad boast to be sure, about my own observation over a decade ago that the Republican Party was doomed even then.
     
  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson describes a national effort to prepare for more violent incidents of domestic terrorism. It is caused by the same extremism taking over the Republican Party.
     
  • In Scotties Toy Box we find some pictures worth thousands, all illustrating the courageous reaction of the GOP to Trump, post officium. Okay, courageous could be the wrong word.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life suggests that the January 6 Trump-riot that killed several police, injured a couple hundred more, took the lives of a few participants, and involved the attempted mass assassination of lawmakers should be more than a flashbulb memory.

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Biden, Unity, Fox, Trump, TrumpRiot, QAnon, COVID, Antivax, Fauci, Racism

From @itsalwayscraig. Do run this with sound, if you can:

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