The bottom line of what Jeffrey Clark and Mark Meadows are doing with their Georgia indictments:
They're asserting that law does not apply to them. They're asserting that they are above law. They're asserting that law is made for someone else, not straight white men.
And Fani Willis not buying any of this: “Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction,” she says.
Also, ich bin durch einen ganzen Cocktail von Gefühlen gegangen:
1.) 😂 Im Ernst? Ist das eine Parodie? Stellt sich rd. 1/3 dieser Schießbudenfiguren wirklich zur Wahl?
2.) 🤦♀️ Wie blöd sind die denn? (abgesehen vom Urheberrechtsverstoß, well-done #SVP - #LawAndOrder - #NIH--#NotInventedHere), wie kann man als rechte Partei einen Song von mehreren Schwarzen klauen?!? Und vor allem "Familienpartei" (wollen sie doch bestimmt sein, oder?) - KEINE textliche Verwendung? So eine...
Certain forms of theft and violent crime have been running rampant in NZ. In other news...
Shock, horror! When you put 20 rats in a cage with only enough space and food for 10, they'll fight and steal from each other in an attempt to survive. But new research reveals, this is not a consequence of "rat nature", and can't be blamed entirely on the behaviour of a minority of "bad apples" among the group of rats.
As Robert Hubbell notes, in seeking to put her thumb on the scales on behalf of Defendant Trump and to undermine federal cases against him, incompetent Florida judge Aileen Cannon disclosed the existence of a secret grand jury investigation that is ongoing in a different jurisdiction.
Which she absolutely ought not to have done….
She is, Hubbell concludes, the most incompetent judge in the federal judiciary.
Nothing really to say about me as a person, I have crippling #anxiety & so no life/accomplishments to speak of. Here are some of my interests, I'm an expert on none.
"This morning, prosecutors in Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office approached a state magistrate judge in Ingham County, Michigan, with a request that they authorize a criminal complaint and arrest warrants for the slate of fake electors who claimed, in written forms sent to the federal government, that they were the real electors in Michigan for the 2020 election and they supported candidate Trump. All 16 of them."
"Of course, none of it was true. They were not duly selected electors. It was, as AG Nessel says in her statement, “a lie.” The certified vote count in Michigan showed that of the 5.5 million Michiganders who voted, approximately 154,000 more checked the box for President Joe Biden than for Donald Trump. The fake electors were part of a plot cooked up by Trump’s inner circle to try and secure a false victory for the loser in the election."
Joyce Vance looks at what Alabama Republican senator Turbeville is doing, holding up more than 250 military promotions and, as of yesterday, causing the Marines to be without a Senate-confirmed commandant. Tuberville opposes the military's policy permitting enlistees to access reproductive health care of ouf state when necessary.
Republicans as a party supporting the military? Hardly, she concludes.
"That a Republican is undermining the military belies the party’s traditional claim to be stronger on military issues than the Democrats. So does the attack of House Republicans on our nation’s key law enforcement entities—the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation—after traditionally insisting their party works to defend 'law and order.'”
"If we now see Russia going down a spiraling towards internal chaos, civil war, instability, whatever, we should resist the temptation towards self-congratulation, and to use that to erase what we know about how close our own system has come—and very well could again—to some of the same dynamics."
The rise of #cybercrime makes one wonder if their base of support isn’t just #MAGA morons who reject #science and don’t know the difference between fishing and phishing. 🤔
"A political party that routinely incites violence and condones lawbreaking by its own members and supporters is not a 'tough on crime' party, and journalists who portray it as such are lying to you. The Republican Party has declared its belief that it is above the law, and has deliberately condoned and encouraged lawbreaking as a means of seizing power. It should be treated as such."
"With one or two federal indictments looking like a strong possibility, some GOP lawmakers are calling for Congress to defund the DOJ and the FBI — including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Michigan), a Trump ally who supported his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results."
~ Alex Henderson
They believe he's above the law. They believe Republicans should be above the law.
“'Law and order' and 'tough on crime' rhetoric from Republicans goes back more than half a century and has a long history of shading into support for vigilantism in popular culture. (Think of Charles Bronson in 'Death Wish.') But in the Trump era, it seems that wide swaths of one of our major parties have taken to blatantly celebrating extralegal violence."
"For citizens who care about our democracy, that town hall was a horrifying moment. But for the various prosecutors probing Trump, it was Christmas. And for Trump’s defense lawyers, it was a nightmare—unless they’re just so cynical that all they saw was a doubling of their billable hours, which is entirely possible."
"The co-sponsor of a bill to prevent unemployment fraud was charged with committing unemployment fraud.
On Tuesday, George Santos was indicted on 13 counts related to money laundering, wire fraud, lying to Congress, and public theft of funds.A day later, Republicans began voting on a bill to recoup Covid-19 unemployment benefits from fraudulent claimants."
"Santos was unable to participate, however, because he was busy being processed for his 13 counts, including fraudulently claiming $24,000 in Covid unemployment benefits while making a $120,000 salary.
The cherry on top is that Santos himself is one of the co-sponsors of the bill, the Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act."