Would you look at yourself, America?

Shabby isn't as chic as you pretend it to be

I came across this at a Safeway yesterday. This is a new Coca Cola soda.

Starlight. It’s Space Flavored. Tastes just like a frozen void, I presume. If there’s ever been a need to cancel a culture, I propose this one. Stick with the original, cocaine flavored one, when America was thinking it was all great.

Space flavored. C’mon America, you’re not even trying anymore.

The think tank, the Brookings Institution, released its TV guide to the forthcoming public hearings on the attempted overthrow of the United States government on January 6th, a day that will always live in infamy, except on Fox News, whose lifelike silicon journalists have chosen to censor and cancel culture the Congressional proceedings. Mainly because several of them were intimately involved with the coup attempt and some were busy back-channeling with their stage directors working in the White House.

The hearings will begin Thursday. Trump mooks and the mooks of other billionaires are doing their best to convince folks not to watch. If you don’t watch, though, you’ll never be able to understand what Space Flavor is. Or how many slave ships we sent to the West Indies to establish a new trade route to harvest all the exotic spaces we want to flavor our food with.

Brookings intro:

President Joe Biden legitimately won a fair and secure 2020 presidential election—and Donald Trump lost. This historical fact has been uncontroverted by any evidence since at least November 7, 2020, when major news outlets projected Biden’s victory. But Trump never conceded. Instead, both before and after Election Day, he tried to delegitimize the election results by disseminating a series of far-fetched and evidence-free claims of fraud. Meanwhile, with a ring of close confidants, Trump conceived and implemented unprecedented schemes to—in his own words—“overturn” the election outcome. Among the results of this “Big Lie” campaign were the terrible events of January 6, 2021—an inflection point in what we now understand was nothing less than an attempted coup.

Grand jury indictments of several members and the leader of the Proud Boys also were issued yesterday. Like the Oath Keepers, they’re charged with ‘seditious conspiracy’ which means they plotted and attempted to overthrow the US government. Which means us. Because we are the US government. We, the people, most of us without any silicone parts or desire to censor the results of the most serious investigation in our lifetime.

These guys want the US to fail, to dissolve, to become an extremist country where the only rights exist for those with the most money and deadliest arsenals. They’re every bit as dangerous as Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and Osama Bin Laden ever were, as they shared the same desired outcome, death to America. Some are even full on Turner Diary eliminationists who’d be happy to conduct as many genocides as necessary to kill all the non-white peoples across the planet. I do not exaggerate a bit.

Yeah, that’s what the public hearings will detail and the anti-American Rupert Murdoch wants the dwindling minority of Trump supporters to avoid hearing the testimony and looking at the evidence.

That means the one percent of Americans who actually watch Fox News won’t have the facts. Instead, they’ll get more of this.

I’ve heard MiraLax can relieve that condition.

The question on many minds is whether the insurrection effort will lead to an indictment against the head insurrectionist, Donald Trump. The crime boss who pardoned all the people involved in his crimes: Flynn, Manafort, Bannon and especially, Roger Stone. Stone often used these armed seditionists as his security detail, so of course a pardon was necessary to zip those lips.

The answer: I don’t know. After all, a twice-impeached president who never won a popular vote in any election has already demonstrated that evidence is ignored, no matter how damning, by any Congress intent on abandoning its duties and defying its oaths. Sure, the bipartisan committee will produce more than we knew 17 months ago. They’ll make it clear that Trump wanted to steal the election and was okay with the violence. And both he and his chief of staff destroyed documents to conceal evidence.

The Brookings report outlines well what legal issues will be brought to the fore. I encourage you to read it today and/or tomorrow. But without an outcry like Watergate triggered in the public, there’s nothing to indicate the Republicans in Congress will support an effort to try and convict the ex-president, even though he may still face state charges in Georgia or elsewhere.

The report covers the Committee’s work to date, the key players in the attempt to overturn the election, the known facts regarding their conduct that are expected to be covered at the hearings, and the criminal law applicable to their actions.

The report goes beyond prior analyses to provide the first in-depth treatment of the voluminous publicly available evidence and the relevant law, including possible defenses. It reviews the evidence as to whether Trump as a matter of law conspired with his outside counsel John Eastman, administration lawyer Jeffrey Clark, and others to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 by scheming to block the electoral count on January 6, 2021 and to subvert the Department of Justice’s election enforcement work. The report similarly reviews the evidence as to whether Trump and Eastman violated 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) with their scheme to obstruct the congressional count.

And Trump was allied with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, violent white supremacy groups. Fascists. And somehow succeeded in convincing a few million people that the Anti-Fascists were dangerous. While consorting with potential mass murderers. ‘Very fine people’ he called them.

The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda". ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us. ~ General Omar Bradley

America should be ashamed of itself, while it still exists. If it wants to continue to exist as a country worth having.

Nobody’s fooled any longer by Trump’s illegal actions to steal the 2020 election. His record as a thief and predator began long before he ran for office. Now he depends on his mooks, most Republicans in Congress and Ginni Thomas, an active insurrectionist, to avoid a prison sentence.

My best advice: NEVER GIVE UP HOPE.

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CBS News poll released Sunday:

Nearly three quarters of Americans believe we can prevent mass shootings if we prioritize the goal of doing so—yet an astounding 44 percent of Republicans think we just have to accept these gun massacres as part of living in a “free society.”

But some math is in order. 27% of adults are registered as Republican. So 44% of that is just 12% of Americans, less than one-eighth of all adults. But that still represents tens of millions of Americans. Who believe the kids must die for us to be free.

Did Jesus teach them that? I’m skeptical.