+++Former Meadows aide to testify in surprise Jan. 6 committee hearing+++

The Jan. 6 select committee is set to hear from a onetime top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Tuesday, an abruptly scheduled hearing whose announcement riveted Washington.

Among other revelations Hutchinson helped unearth: that the White House counsel informed members of Trump's team that it believed a plan to authorize alternative slates of presidential electors was illegal. She also described Meadows' movements on Jan. 6, as chaos began to unfold at the Capitol.

You'd feel much better if you had some of Judge Carter's Little Pills.

The truth sometimes hurts, but it's still the truth.

You'd feel better if you could convince yourself, by adequate if not great knowledge of the sworn facts that Judge Carter's conclusions from Eastman's emails of an insurrection conspiracy, a legal term, was being carried out by the President and his men.

Well, only a few of them. All the rest of his own men were telling him this was a bullshit theory and definitely a criminal act. They've all sworn so publicly now.

But then, you would have to have decided if you really cared more for a democratic republic or an authoritarian one. Or perhaps you've already decided that might makes right.

That money always wins.

- amenable to their arrival.

As they should be; America is a nation of immigrants.

Because the have always been and still are a net plus for the economy, even if a few steel workers and some indigent cow hands aren't able to compete with them in the open market they say they love so much.

Even the Bush Center had to admit it>

more from the above link..

"In Judge Carter's concluding thoughts, he writes,

"More than a year after the attack on our Capitol, the public is still searching for accountability. This case cannot provide it.

The Court is tasked only with deciding a dispute over a handful of emails. This is not a criminal prosecution; this is not even a civil liability suit.

At most, this case is a warning about the dangers of "legal theories" gone wrong, the powerful abusing public platforms, and desperation to win at all costs.

If Eastman and Trump's plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution. If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself."

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The point is that these Witnesses at this Hearing have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt all the conclusions that Judge Carter also found in Eastman's emails.... and oh so much more.

#83

It's so nice to see all the eye-bleed quality garbage from far right websites that we choose NOT to go to re-posted here, ain't it?

= you are so far out of touch with reality

I'm not sitting at the pool with a drink in one hand and my panties around my ankles, either.

Asking people with no boots on to pull themselves up by their bootstraps has always been either racism or just plain fear of other people unlike ones self.

You might want to not tell Jesus you aren't your brother's keeper and the poor need to fend for themselves next time you see him. He'll have an answer ready for you.

Judge Carter:

"The illegality of the plan was obvious. Our nation was founded on the peaceful transition of power, epitomized by George Washington laying down his sword to make way for democratic elections.

Ignoring this history, President Trump vigorously campaigned for the Vice President to single-handedly determine the results of the 2020 election.

As Pence stated, "no vice president in American history has ever asserted such authority."

Every American, and certainly the President of the United States, knows that in a democracy, leaders are elected, not installed. Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021."

- Giving them so many options not to work is wrong.

All those options suck really badly. Very few WANT to live that way.

It's like when FL required drug tests for welfare recipients because there was supposed to be so much abuse.

It was less than 3 percent. They wasted millions in time and expense for nothing and had to shut down the program.

- Going after the fat lazy ass kings and queens of entitlements is where to start.

The Zombie Reagan Lives!

Well, lived until we found out that his Cadillac drivin' black Welfare Queens were actually... poor white women with children. That's who was benefiting most from the programs.

But like LBJ said, give man, or a woman "someone to look down on and they'll let you pick their pocket."

Referring to some racist graffiti he saw.

This World Migration Crisis will become a real problem when it interferes with on of Son of Trump's Excellent Tiger Hunting Trips or messes with one of Jared's mideast oil profiteering trips.

Until then, it is just something to pen on Dems if one is actually dim enough not to understand that wealthy corporations/drug lords run the world if you let them.

And you make it so much easier for them in any country by making it legal for them the buy off your elected politicians.

One might think that conservatives, if you could find anyone like Ike, moderates, and liberals could all agree that last sentence is true.

If you think it's not, you are just fooling yourself.

- Which one was driving the truck and left them locked in the trailer?

Steve Bannon says definitely it was Biden driving, so we can go with that.

Here at Q Headquarters.

ONEIRONAUT

That's a misspelling of ORNERYBOT, right?

You have so much patience. I plonked that long ago. And it felt... right. lol

Lies appear to be all the rage this year.

Particularly those coming from the ex-Pres and the SC Justices he appointed.

Usually when this happens it's because people who have been treated like serfs instead of citizens by our neighboring countries to the south do what you would probably do in their place... take what is probably their only way out of abject poverty and certain corrupt authoritarian government persecution.

But then, corrupt authoritarians here in this country are still lying about the last election, so we become more like them all the time.

Perhaps they should just stay home... I mean, in 10 years, 20, the fascists who are trying to take over here with Big Lies don't believe in the polite Constitutional necessity of actually abiding by the State's Electors Ballots rather than plotting to disrupt the peaceful transition of power and criminally replace the ballots with the signatures of fake electors, all while staging a ground attack on the Capital.

It's not like we're much better than a third world country when that happens here.

Which Frank Zappa said it couldn't, but.

But maybe he didn't see the Return of the Tea Party as Trumper Zombies.

I hear that Colin Kaepernick is planning an NFL comeback.

He's going to claim to be praying when he takes a knee out there.

That was funnier when Trae Crowder told it.

This is exactly the kind of innovative world Trumpers are looking for!

A world where an innovative business with a model that says, "if I don't agree with a law, I don't go out and try to change it, rather I just break the law!"

It's exactly The Trump Waytm.

If it's not legal, then just ascribe to a "legal theory" that the theorist himself stated would not pass even this extreme rwing SC's test, would, "lose 9-0".

Then take this known losing legal theory and tell the VP to carry it out. He doesn't. The DOJ threaten to resign. The ground troops riot.

But hey, go ahead and tell the Big Lie.. go ahead and sell illegal devices.

The rule of law is really just a theory, anyway, right?

The Constitution just a piece of paper.

"During the riot, Vice President Pence, members of Congress, and workers across the Capitol were forced to flee for safety.

Seeking shelter during the attack, Pence's counsel Greg Jacob emailed Eastman that the rioters "believed with all their hearts the theory they were sold about the powers that could legitimately be exercised at the Capitol on this day." Jacob continued, "[a]nd thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege."

As the attack progressed, Eastman continued to urge Pence to reconsider his decision not to delay the count.

In an email to Pence's counsel Greg Jacob at 2:25pm on January 6, Eastman wrote: "The siege' is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so the American people can see for themselves what happened."
- from the above linked article

90 percent of Trump's hand picked lawyers told him he had lost the election and that he had lost it honestly.

But Trump found a future felon in Eastman to provide the fake legal theory and Rudy to run around with theories rather than evidence to the Courts, and Perry to recruit another insurrection conspiracist at DOJ in Clark to give the Big Lie life.

But who knows what we'll find out at the Hearing tomorrow... and will the DOJ strike again??

And who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

Only The Shadow Knows...

It's impossible for Trumpers to watch the 1/6 Hearings; they would realize what a suet show the Trump Show actually was/is.

I mean, the Dems are barely noticeable at the Hearing... the Stars of the Cast are Trumpers all. His hand-picked lawyers, AG, DOJ, and advisors. And a smattering of Trumpish Election Officials who refused to lie about the Election, you know, just like the AG and the DOJ refused.

Most of them were willing not to let on that they knew their Boss was fully aware that he was/is telling the Big Lie about winning the election: that 90 percent of them told him so, with the DOJ even threatening to quit if he insisted on them signing a letter to the States that the Election was corrupt.

But most of them didn't come forward and tell the public at the time. Now, being only halfassed patriotic, they have been forced to tell what they know under threat of perjury.

The other 10 percent of Trump lawyers like Eastman and T-Rudy (sorry, Rex!) the DOJ mole working for Eastman and Steve Perry of Louisiana, guy named Clark, Steve Bannon and some others... they were the ones feeding Trump's ego *dump truck required - and knowingly playing along with the Big Lie and, as Rudy said, "having a lot of theories, but no evidence.".

Or as a Federal Judge said, 'A Coup in Search of a Legal Theory'...

"Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history," Judge Carter wrote.

"Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower- it was a coup in search of a legal theory. The plan spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation's government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers, and deepened public distrust in our political process."

Before describing the specific documents in question (mostly e-mails from Jan 4-7, 2021), Judge Carter gives a brief history of Eastman's role as a key legal architect of Trump's efforts to prevent the peaceful transition of power.

Here are some excerpts:

On January 2, 2021, President Trump and Dr. Eastman hosted a briefing urging several hundred state legislators from states won by President Biden to "decertify" electors.

This despite the fact that, "In the months following the election, numerous credible sources"from the President's inner circle to agency leadership to statisticians"informed President Trump and Dr. Eastman that there was no evidence of election fraud ... By early January, more than sixty court cases alleging fraud had been dismissed for lack of evidence or lack of standing."

In response to alleged fraud, Eastman researched and planned a strategy for Donald Trump to win the election. Just after Christmas, Eastman wrote a now-public two-page memo proposing that Vice President Pence refuse to count certified electoral votes from states contested by the Trump campaign."

There's much more of the Judge's writing at the link below about how Eastman, who did indeed as advised by Trump's Chief of Staff, who was also telling Trump to give it up and not tell the Big Lie... the CoS told Eastman to get a very good criminal lawyer.

Perry pushed a little known, little recognized DOJ environmental lawyer named Clark to volunteer to SELL OUT HIS COUNTRY totally by offering, at Eastman and Perry's urging, to become Trump's new AG... and he would send out the Letter intentionally falsely claiming corruption in the Election to the States and then get revised Ballots of Electors, already being created at another end of the Big Op by Trumpers in those states.

Which is also why all the Pardons were sought; they figured out that what they were doing was criminal. Trump knew it, planned it, all along.

Liberal Redneck - Not So Supreme Court

CA is a top 10 economy as are FL and TX.

Size matters. In FL's case, shape also helps.

"I think the January 6 hearings are continuation of the exhausting circus that surrounds Trump," said a close DeSantis adviser granted anonymity to speak freely. "There are of course the lunchbox Republicans who think this is a mass conspiracy,' but among the donor class many are just tired of this."

"It's a --------," the person continued. "Some donors are getting sick of the --------."

One can never have too much Mao-nnaise!

- Niall Ferguson

Ah, yes... the Rwing Hoover Institute's Spokesmodel.

Woo Hoo!

Lee gets that trip to Tijuana after all.

There was a woman prisoner in FL that got a multi-million dollar court settlement from the State this year after several guards beat her into a being a quadriplegic.

It's now been decided that said guards will not be prosecuted.