My chronic illnesses are having one of those, we're too tired to do anything days. Or more like week. 😂
I just wish it didn't have to mean that my mind takes it upon itself to make me feel bad about not doing enough. 🤔
The latest revelation about MAGA Republicans' plan to install Christian Nationalism as the law of the land ("Project 2025") is an online manifesto with policies to "abolish abortion" and "define marriage as the covenant union of a biological male (and) a biological female."
No more military aid to #Israel til Netanyahu's out of power, in jail & the genocide ends.
Both Israel & #Gaza have suffered too much under Netanyahu. His approach has solved nothing,. He's simply pouring gasoline on a raging fire #Hamas admittedly set, but which he also had a hand in.
The US cannot continue to aid & abet war crimes & crimes against humanity.
China, which hasn't as much as fired a single bullet on foreign soil in 45 years,
vs
the US which has been in 13 wars in the 21st century alone, the immense majority of which it directly caused. #enough#SystemChange
@LeftistLawyer Good poem by Vonnegut (one of my favorite authors too!) and even better view of life-be happy with what you've got because a lot of people don't even have that. #enough
Last day. Mark Meadows had left already w a binder of yet-to-be-unclassified ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ secret documents - he’d made numerous copies. Pat Philbin [Office of White House Counsel] to Cassidy Hutchinson:
So. @MZHemingway & @jsolomonReports were both given binders of classified information BEFORE they were actually unclassified? Were they ever really unclassified? What did these right-wing radicals do with their copies?
The week after January 6th from Cassidy Hutchinson’s book:
“Debbie[Meadows], Mark's wife, helped pack his belongings. As she made a final trip to the car, she made one last request. ‘Cassidy, Eliza [Thurston], please don't light that fireplace anymore. Mark doesn't need to burn anything else. All of his suits smell like a bonfire, and I can't keep up with the dry cleaning.’ Mark rolled his eyes when he was informed that his fireplace was no longer to be used.”
The January 2, 2020 call to Brad Raffensperger
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, and it went on for a long time. [..] His door was propped open, and I heard much of the conversation.
“When the call ended, Mark asked if I would place the phone back on the receiver for him. He was too wrung out from the call to do it himself.
Cassidy Hutchinson, Mid-December 2020 at the White House:
Mark [Meadows] asked for General Services Administration (GSA) staff to light a fire in his office fireplace first thing every morning. He Kept a pile of firewood and throughout the day added logs to keep the fire burning. When I went into his office to deliver lunch or a package to him, I would sometimes find him leaning over the fire, feeding papers into it, watching to make sure they burned, and placing logs on top of the ashes.
I do not know precisely what papers Mark was burning, but his actions raised alarms. The Presidential Records Act requires staff to keep original documents and send them to the National Archives. All copies and personal papers were supposed to go into burn bags to be properly disposed of. Mark knew these proce dures. Even if he was burning copies, he was still toeing a fine line of what should be preserved, under the law.”
Mark Meadows’ wife is a whack conspiracy nut. 2020, November, Wisconsin, last campaign rally before the election. An exhausted Cassidy Hutchinson in an SUV w Mrs Meadows:
"’Masks are a conspiracy, you know.’ Debbie [Meadows, wife of Mark Meadows] was working up to a lecture in the motorcade. [..] ‘They spread more illnesses than the coronavirus,’ she continued, ‘Talk to Mark about it. Why do you think he keeps getting styes in his left eye?’
I knew better than to press the issue further.
" ‘I had no idea, Debbie. Let's talk to Mark about setting up a meeting with you and Dr. Fauci next week.’
She rolled her eyes and looked out the window. ‘Dr. Fauci is the worst of them all. I keep telling Mark he gets paid so much, that's why he's making such a big deal out of this pandemic.’"
Honestly. What the fuck is wrong with these people?!
Cassidy Hutchinson, late September, 2020–Trump is in the hospital with Covid during the height of the pandemic. He tested positive before the debate with Biden - before the Amy Coney-Barrett Rose Garden event. These people:
“When I arrived at the hospital the next day, Dr. Conley offered me a mask but warned that Mark was not wearing one. I declined Dr. Conley's offer. If Mark was not afraid of catching the virus, neither was I.”
More drinking. This time, Las Vegas, September 2020 immediately following a 9-11 Shanksville event:
“Kayleigh [McEnany], Alyssa [Farrar], and I decided to share a suite at the Trump Hotel rather than retreat to our separate rooms. We quickly changed clothes and went to the Wynn to meet Secret Service friends for drinks. They drove us back in their armored vehicle, and we ordered wine from room service and stayed up late watching movies. It felt like a slumber party.”
August, 2020, this interesting story from Cassidy Hutchinson on Mark Meadows’ proclivities & tendency toward distrust & the need to record conversations:
“When Mark and I had pulled onto West Executive Avenue earlier that evening, he'd asked me to turn on my cell phone's voice recorder. [..] When I did not immediately do as he asked, he turned on his own phone's recorder before calling Speaker Pelosi to discuss a COVID-related issue.
I felt unsettled. Mark knew I worked hard to build a semi-trusting relationship with the Speaker and her staff. [..],When he finished the call, he told me never to be too trusting of people. ‘You never know when you'll have to show your own receipts.’"
Cassidy Hutchinson tells a story from April 2020 at Camp David with GOP members friendly to Trump. 1am, everyone’s drinking, Rep Dan Crenshaw is modeling various fake glass eyes and
“There was a knock on the door. I thought it was Camp David staff coming to warn us to quiet down-Kevin [McCarthy’s] cabin was across from the president's. But when Kevin opened the door, we discovered Matt Gaetz leaning against the doorframe. ..
Cassidy Hutchinson tells a story re: after a 2020 lunch in the White House w Trump & GOP leadership: “The president was eating a second (his real) lunch and looked cross. Mark asked if everything had gone okay, and the president immediately started to complain—[..] about Steve [Scalise], who he said had tried to dominate the conversation…
Steve [Scalise] had been acting like an ‘obsessed fan’ with no concept of personal space. ‘He kept bringing his chair closer to me, and getting too close to my face when he spoke, like he doesn't know I can hear him fine,’ the president said. [Then-President Trump] stressed several times that he did not want to be put in that situation again.”
Hutchinson’s motivations during this time in the White House are just unconscionable to me:
“I felt in control, with a purpose, happy to have achieved the goal the president tasked us with. That goal coincided with my belief that impeachment wasnt the appropriate response to his inappropriate Zelenskyy call.”
This girl— aggressive; a player, at 23 yrs old : “The Ukrainian affair caused some initial embarrassment and concern on the Hill, but Republicans would come to see the whole thing as partisan gamesmanship.[.. tracked down a Republican on the fence & stong arms him]…
“I was confident that the Senate would never have the votes to remove him from office, but I feared ramifications if Republicans began to turn their back on the president. I felt that impeachment should be reserved for an offense so egregious that it was certain a president should be removed from office. I worried that the 2019 inquiry would establish precedent for presidents to face any politically motivated impeachment.”
Cassidy Hutchinson writing on the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Using $500 million for military aid appropriated by Congress —as extortion, a mob-like shakedown, was somehow not egregious enough.