Kinzinger’s closing is a nuking from orbit of Trump and a punch in the face to Garland. 
Whiny little bitch.
To me this just cements the belief that the whole rigged election routine was nothing more than a prolonged money grab.
His whole life has been a money grab. This was a planned and concerted effort to stay in power…to keep the federal money spigot flowing into his pockets.
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Winnah! Winnah! Chicken dinnah!
Also, this…
Hawlin’ Ass aside, there was - as usual - an array of shit on the buffet table last night. The big takeaway, though, was the assertion that Trump was not doing nothing on Jan 6, he was facilitating the coup and conducting operations on a burner phone in the Oval Office dining room. There was no more damning statement than that from Patsy Baloney, when he admitted that Trump was the only person in the room or on Trump’s staff who didn’t want the attack to stop.
Firstly, the altercation in the SUV upon leaving the Ellipse has been corroborated by others’ testimony. Upon arriving back at the White House, Trump was told straight away that the Capitol was under attack, and he still wanted to go up there (they weren’t there to hurt him, right?). It was only 45 minutes later that he accepted he wouldn’t be able to go and his motorcade detail was stood down (do you think the USSS sent any text messages about that?).
So, denied his triumphant entrance to the Capitol like Caesar entering Rome, he hunkered down in the Oval Office dining room, and got to work…calling senators and - at least twice - Rudy Giuliani (who we know was also calling senators because he left a voicemail on a reporters phone by mistake thinking he was talking to Tommy Gooberville). The other senators Trump called were the usual suspects: Hawley, Cruz, Graham and others I forget for now.
So, the inaction of which he’d been accused prior to last night was because he wasn’t doing his job as president. He didn’t talk to anyone in government, he spoke only to those who were actively engaged in elements of the coup plot. However, what he was actively doing, was holding the window open to allow the insurrection to succeed.
By being the only person who could stop the attack, and abjectly refusing to do so for over 3 hours, he gave his forces a chance to make their entry to the Capitol and derail the certification of the vote. This could have been by any number of means from simply stealing the ballots, to “removing” the likes of Pence and Pelosi from the chain of succession, to “removing” as many congressional Democrats as possible so as to give “R congressmen” the majority to stop the vote count and push it into the House (where he would have won).
Trump’s behavior shocked the conscience of even his most loyal aides, such that two (at least) resigned that night and many - according to their own, after the fact testimony [insert asterisk here] - strongly considered resigning but decided that they best stay in place because the person Trump would put in their stead would be the worst. I can’t say I disagree with them on that point.
Only once it was clear that the attack had failed - Pence and the congressional leadership were secure, the ballots were preserved and the police were turning the tide against the insurrectionists - did Trump accede to making a statement to the mob, which was the infamous “go home…we love you” message. That was at 4:17pm and, as that fuckstick Herschmann said, they were all pretty drained by then so they called it a night. The committee showed what was still happening at that moment at the Capitol, and it was still a pitched medieval battle going on. But it was bedtime for snowflakes so the White House basically shut down for the night while the Capitol remained under siege.
Trump went up to the residence and sent one further inflammatory tweet at about 6pm but that was it. At the Capitol, McConnell, Schumer and Pelosi (not McCarthy) were on the phone with the Secretary of Defense, working to get the building cleared so that they could go back to work.
As usual, the committee didn’t disappoint. Kinzinger’s closing was brutal and Cheney - never to be upstaged - called out the “50, 60 and 70-year old men” who are hiding behind privilege and refusing to testify. However, she made it ominously (for them) clear that they have received new evidence and new testimony since the hearings began and that “the dam is breaking”. Hearings will resume in September, so those 50, 60 and 70-year old men have until then to find their balls and get on the record.
A Kin Zinger?
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Here’s a great tweet with many to maybe most of the musical additions. There is even one with the reaction of the room when it was shown last night.
This is exactly the kind of pettiness I can get behind.
See also:
Least shocking news of the day: Bannon guilty on both counts.
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Send that motherfucker to jail for two years and then start issuing subpoenas to these fascist cocksuckers left and right. Defy it now, fuckface.
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So, sentencing isn’t until October and we will have to hear about his bullshit appeals in the meantime. Put the motherfucker in jail, now.
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You mean like this?
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1550563304195723264?s=20&t=x9vcEpw59KKGUU2Dn41EsA
Sorry…who didn’t have the guts to testify?
Will be interesting to see what kind of pretzel logic the right-wingers on the court will use to invalidate one while keeping the other…
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The new gun law, set to go into effect in January, will allow private people to sue anyone who imports, distributes, manufactures or sells illegal firearms in California, such as assault weapons, .50 BMG rifles and so-called ghost guns. The law requires a court to order $10,000 in damages for each weapon used in an alleged violation, along with attorneys fees. The bill was written so that if Texas’ law is nulled, California’s would similarly be invalidated.
Newsom signs gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight.
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I’m not sure they care. They’ll strike it down using “precedent” cited from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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The heat is being felt.
So what happens after the slap on the wrist? What does that mean for this country? I feel just about any other country would be treating this more seriously.
I will be shocked if there is even a slap on the wrist.
I’m an optimist.