Trump desecrated Arlington National Cemetery while his staff beat up an employee

 So... it seems quite clear the Corporate Media was gearing up to let Trump's disgraceful use of Arlington National Cemetery as his personal campaign photo op slide and just chalk it up to there was a minor controversy as Trump team clashed with an official... but We, the People aren't!

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President Donald Trump
Should Have Never Happened

Donald Trump has a fundamental disrespect for service members and Veterans.  Trump oozes with contempt for Veterans and Veterans know it.

While Trump was standing on the graves of better and braver people than him self, grinning his rictus grin, flashing his teeny thumbs up, literally clowning on top of hallowed (not "hollowed" as Chris LaCivita wrote) ground, his team was pushing an National monument employee around, assaulting them and probably knocking them to the ground.  And in this cemetery are Medal of Honor recipients whom Trump just a few days ago, repeatedly mocked and insulted.  And it's quite fucking clear that Trump planned on using footage from Arlington to advance his despicable campaign.

And now, Just Dishonorable Vance has decided to tell future President Kamala Harris to "go to hell" in a transparent effort to seem like a tough guy and to try to drag Harris into this issue so Trump and MAGA can get the Corporate Media to attack VicePresident Harris for them.

Here's the thing, J.D. Vance is a coward.  He never served in Afghanistan.  He chickened out of service there and did not re-enlist when his time came.  He's disgraced himself with this campaign and should be ashamed to call himself a Marine. 

But, Trump's treatment of Federal employees and his weirdo campaign staff's giant fucking ego in thinking they can just trounce around whatever site they want in full fascist swagger is not new.  This is exactly what Trump incited on January 6th when he sent his unruly mob into Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power and advance an Autogolpe to remain in power.  His entitled behavior emboldens traitors to treat the National cemetery as their personal plaything.

Patrick Dillion points out there are numerous Trump staff members of whom it is conceivable would push a woman to the ground.  And grotesque Steven Cheung claimed there was video of the incident and yet... we've not seen one second of that video released by the Treasonous Trump team.  Instead what we have seen is exactly what we knew this was a tawdry political stunt and disgraceful use of 

Republicans love Dead Marines because Republicans can stick their lies into the mouths of the dead and use Marines valor to help prop up evil Republican plans.  Trump is using this family's grief, stoking it in the most obscene way, and blatantly using dead service members to help quicken his dying campaign. 

It's the epitome of Stolen Valor.  It's Trump's way.

Donnie 4 Indictments threatens the Georgia Grand Jurors, especially the "RIGGERS"

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I remember on election night Novmber 2020 as it became clear President Biden and VP Harris had won, the media began to drag it's feet and did not call the election even as Faux News called Arizona for Biden and returns in Georgia began to swing towards Joe and Kamala.  The delay in calling the election stretched on for several days in early November and Into that Void rushed Donald John Traitor Trump with his lies about the election being rigged.

His conference call (with other like minded criminal conspirators) to Brad Raffensberger was the nothing more than a tawdry Mafioso call and nothing less than a death knell for the Republic.

Reading through that transcript from January 2nd 2021, it's chock full of Trump's pathetic and pathological sociopathy; utter disdain for law, hatred of Stacey Abrams (a black woman) and contempt for Raffensberger for being "outplayed" by Abrams, fantasy beliefs about the US Military ("I won the military by a lot"), and the classic, fvcking classic, Mob boss I just need you to do one little thing pleading.

Donald John Traitor Trump engaged in multiple criminal conspiracies to subvert the United States Government and install himself as President following his decisive defeat in the 2020 Election.  That these conspiracies failed due to incompetence (Powell, Ellis, Ghouliani), refusal (Reffensberg), or cowardice (Pence) are irrelevant to his attempts.

After the call to Raffensberger failed, and after the Tuesday January 5th special elections in which Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff won, Trump knew the January 6th Fake Elector and then Violent autogolpe (The TrumPutsch) were his last shot.

Everyone knows who Trump is and who he always was.  It wasn't a big deal when he was just a scummy, weird Manhattanite phony but, this is now.  Trump has built up a cult of barely constrained lunatics who yearn to hurt millions of people in America.  The reality of who Trump is, a racist, rapist, thieving treasonous is, immaterial.

Traitor Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for President in 2024 (maybe with RFK Jr as VP, maybe Major Traitor Greene who knows) it doesn't matter how many times he's indicted, how many times he's found liable, culpable, or guilty.  Trump satisfies the visceral need for hatred that exists inside every right-winger in America.  Conservatives are not going to give that up, but 97% of Conservatives are rank cowards willing to go along with the violence, death camps, and fascism as long as others are doing the dirty work.

So, it should come as no surprise that after his Georgia indictment, rightwingers on-line sought out and disseminated the information on the Grand Jurors who indicted him.  Throw that information out into the frothing rage filled rightwing internet and wait for a "lone wolf" or pack of "lone wolves" to act.

The purported names and addresses of members of the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants on state racketeering charges this week have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric, NBC News has learned. 

NBC News is choosing not to name the website featuring the addresses to avoid further spreading the information. 

The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment. District Attorney Fani Willis faced racist threats ahead of the return of the indictment, and additional security measures were put in place, with some employees being allowed to work from home. 

Tuesday — after Trump posted on his social media website that authorities were going "after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!" — Advance Democracy said Trump supporters were "using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur" in posts. 

The grand jurors have come under attack in the days since Trump's indictment, the fourth criminal indictment brought against the twice-impeached former president. 

“These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump," a post on a pro-Trump forum read in response to a post including the names of jurors, which was viewed by NBC News. 

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office, which is handling the surrender of Trump and his co-defendants over the next 10 days, declined to comment.

Death threats and on-line terrorism are de riguer for conservatives, but thus far few have acted upon them.  That's going to change.  And rapidly, as the legal system finally gets to holding Trump accountable for his lifetime of criminality.  And Law enforcement is not ready for the reality.

January 6th will be America's Second Independence Day

"We mustn't judge too harshly Will... It was his first time." - Hannibal Lecter

Many things required cleaning up after the January 6th Insurrection; from the broken glass in the Rotunda, to the shit-smeared walls throughout the hallways and offices, to the shattered trust in the peaceful transition of power in the World's foremost Democracy.

But, nothing required more work than for Republicans & Rightwingers to white-wash the video footage and images the American people saw that day with their own eyes.

January 6th was an Inflection Point.  The Republican Party had been steadily descending towards Authoritarianism and the denial of democracy and the repudiation of the Democratic Republic for decades with accelerating features from 2001-2021, but after the initial shock of that day wore off, Republicans fully embraced full-blown Fascism.

A Kill/Capture team of rightwing domestic
terrorists uses the confusion to enter the Capitol
in order to execute Democratic Congress members

 There is no coming back from this for Republicans.  They have decided to Rule or Ruin.  But, to that end they still need to do Revisionist History and catapult the propaganda about January 6th, as they steadily erode confidence in the United States of America and set about conducting their next attempt to Overthrow the Government and replace it with a NeoConfederate style of governance dominated by fundamentalist white supremacy and predicated on the propositions of oppression, intolerance, and adulation of the rich.

To that end; Squeaker Kevin McCarthy gave video surveillance footage to Chief Propagandist Tucker Carlson to do what he does; craft a web of lies and convince conservatives the true villains of January 6th were not that raucous mob of criminals who, it should never be forgotten, did successfully delay the certification of the 2020 election but, those who investigated the crimes and underlying motivations of the Trump White House and Republicans and Rightwing provocateurs who set the events in motion.

Remember except for a few strokes of luck and some individually brave actions, there would have been numerous dead Democratic Congressmen and Senators in the Capitol on that day.  And make no mistake that was the plan by the Trump White House. 

But, while several Republican Senators have tepidly pushed back against Carlson's Revisionist History right now, the arc of history is set.  Arch Traitors in the GOP will never stop pushing lies around the attempted TrumPutsch and Auto-Golpe De'Estado planned and executed by the Trump White House and multiple members of the Republican Party inside and out the Federal Government.  Thus, Republicans & Rightwingers must and will completely support the Spirit of January 6th and the Lies of a Rigged and Stolen 2020 Election while castigating a few individuals as bad apples.  

By the end of the decade Republicans will have convinced themselves and their mob of domestic terrorists that Jan6th stands with July 4th as the Days of Independence. 

"Catapillar" and Confederates; Texas declares War on the United States

Greg Abbott cooed over "Catapillar" moving to Texas, eliding the fact that Caterpillar is simply relocating their headquarters to Texas, to avoid pesky rules, regulations, Unions and taxes.  Companies are always willing to race-to-the-bottom, undercutting Government and empowering fascists because they expect after a few years of Republican malfeasance and neglect of government, sane Democrats take over and attempt to fix the damage wrought by Republicans.

Like an ever-growing accretion disc of fascism, Texas is drawing too itself all the biggest Rightwing thieves and grifters; Joe Rogan and Elon Musk for instance, but Greg Abbott signed legislation last year empowering CryptoCurrency Con-artists to move to Texas further overwhelming and undercutting regular Texans and the power grid.

It has been fascinating and horrifying year and half watching the Republican change from slowly slipping into Fascism into a full-fledged embrace.

The Texas Rape-publican Party released its' platform, and its' grotesque descent and muscular embrace of all things authoritarian, heralds the Future of the GOP.

As Heather Cox Richardson, the inestimable historian writes,

delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party today approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”; requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization; treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9; getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve; rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment; returning Christianity to schools and government; ending all gun safety measures; abolishing the Department of Education; arming teachers; requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment; dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage; withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.” 

The January 6th hearings are showing how deep and widespread the fascist impluse is on the Right, as well as, highlighting how far reaching and coordinated the traitor Republican Government was in their attempted TrumPutsch.  It wasn't just a mob action, it wasn't just a bunch of wack-a-loon rightwing paramilitary dorks, even after the violence Republicans stuck to their script, blamed Antifa, and voted to suspend the transition of power.  And make no mistake the "peaceful" part of the transition of power had already been destroyed by Trump and his Republican cronies, the vote after the violence was just the bureaucratic attempt to re-install Trump and Pence via legislative Coup.

But, this Texas Platform of hatred, intolerance, bigotry, deference to Southern Conservative Arch-Traitors, and enshrinement of unrestricted gun violence is a Harbinger of what the Republicans will and are doing in other States and what the Rape-publican Party will do Nationally in 2025, if they recapture the Congress and Presidency.

Understand, despite the Texas Republicans waggling their thin dicks that they might secede, that's as hollow a threat as their heads in their Stetsons.  Texas and the Modern Republican Party are not interested in Secession like their Southern ancestors, not when they are successfully imposing their Will via bureaucratic violence and byzantine legal minutiae.  Successfully thwarting Democratic initiatives and delaying legislation which has overwhelming American backing, like Gun Control measures.

The future will be a return to conservative states imposing their Will, via the Federal Government, on recalcitrant liberal states.  We could see the Unjust Supreme Court mandating Police forces in Illinois, California, New Mexico, Georgia, detain persons with out of state plates from say Florida, Texas, and Missouri and determine if their is a pregnant women from that State in the car.  We could see Trump-appointed Judges issuing Country Wide warrants demanding the arrest and transport of married gays and 

If you think these are fanciful overwrought fears, think again.  Rightwing violence isn't coming... it's here.

Clarence Thomas may not be dead. But, Ginni Thomas fomented Insurrection and is a loony traitor and criminal.

Yes Your Honor I would like to
arrest your wife in defense of Freedom

This guys a Supreme Court Justice 
His real name's Clarence 
And Clarence's got a real good marriage

Well, looks like having access to top-notch healthcare, sparing no expense, has won again.  Clarence Thomas was recently discharged from his mysterious hospital stay.  And while "Justice" Thomas voted repeatedly to ensure you should not have adequate healthcare, since He's Wealthy, He gets to be Healthy. 

Meanwhile, an incredible avalanche of sedition and conspiracy emerged from the bloated bowels of Clarence's "better half" Ginni Thomas.

When the notorious drunk Ginni Thomas seemingly came out of nowhere a few weeks ago to admit she was at the January 6th Insurrection but, claimed she never inhaled, it was clear to me someone let Ginni know that Authorities (and probably members of the Congressional committee) had secured evidence of her presence, planning, and coordination of the attempted Trumputsch.

There's a lot of good coverage of Ginni's criminal conspiracy; New Yorker, EmptyWheel, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, for instance. There's much more.

We are facing the most serious threat since the last time conservatives attacked the Nation.

Clarence Thomas isn't going to recuse himself, he isn't going to stop his unethical behavior, and he isn't going to stop his judicial perfidy. "Justice" Thomas has spent 30 years laying the groundwork for the GOP Fascist takeover. So we are left with the vain hope Attorney General Garland and the DOJ can bring a case against Ginni Thomas.

High level Republican conspirators planned & aided the Insurrection.  The amount of perfidy, subterfuge, chicanery, and sedition which we know happened and which we know multiple Republicans were fully part of is overwhelming.  We are in trouble because it's so brazen.

But, I think there is a great reluctance, by the Elite Media, by Democratic Party officials, by elected Democrats, to admit where we are as a Nation; i.e. past the Fascist Inflection Point and on the cusp of something truly terrible.  I think they know but, admitting it and naming it openly feels like the first punch and breaking the last barrier.  Plus, after all rightwing media has spent decades claiming all Democrats are corrupt and airs non-stop programming abut "scandals" and "crimes" those dastardly Dems get away so that Normie society will just shrug or dismiss it as politics or "both sides" are too blame. 

So, while Mark Meadows phone is everything conservatives claimed Hunter Biden's laptop was, and the evidence of the GOP major crimes (collaboration with Russia, funneling of foreign money into American politics, funding a seditious conspiracy to overthrow of the United States government, to say nothing of the thousands of minor infractions and ethical violations) become more clear, right-wingers will stoke the But, Hillary or Hunter Biden or Ketanji Brown Jackson or whomever the current rightwing whipping post is at the moment, for the precise reason the Republicans have been caught and are guilty of everything they say the Democrats are doing.