Big Bird may be innocent but who can vouch for Elmo?

[lionheart]

thehill.com/homenews/senate/580426-ted-cruz-labels-big-birds-tweet-about-vaccination-propaganda

www.salon.com/2021/11/07/sesame-streets-big-bird-for-promoting-vaccine-brainwashing-children_partner/

Old thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4305074-To-filibuster-or-not-to-filibuster-Biden-needs-to-get-a-move-on-before-Doofus-Duck-waddles-back-into-the-swamp-Biden-Trump-Thread-128

www.thedailybeast.com/rep-jim-jordan-refuses-to-cooperate-with-jan-6-committees-probe-on-capitol-attack?ref=home&via=twitter_page

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ted-cruz-ray-epps-conspiracy-theory_n_61df3ee8e4b04e9d84dfcb69

Just bringing & .

I don't have the energy to put together a coherent post, but I see the Repugs are still trying to take every criticism made of the former guy, and parrot it back as a criticism of Biden.

I actually laughed out loud at McConnell – the man who delighted in 4 years of childish name-calling and petulant behaviour by the former guy – trying to re-use the label "unpresidential".

Mmm, bit late to pretend you know what that word means, or care about it, Mitch.

Ditto the "trying to divide America" and "stoke fears", from the man whose signature schtick is to try to set one bunch of people against another.

Cos if I'm constantly telling you They* are your enemy, then that makes me your friend, doesn't it?

* insert target of the day

Trump was the very definition of 'unpresidential', that's for sure.

www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/politics/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes.html

'Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged with seditious conspiracy for organizing a wide-ranging plot to storm the Capitol last Jan. 6 and disrupt the certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory, federal law enforcement officials said.

The arrest of Mr. Rhodes was a major step forward in the sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack and the case marked the first time that prosecutors had filed charges of sedition. According to his lawyer, Jonathon Moseley, Mr. Rhodes was arrested at shortly before 1 p.m.'

Love a doc.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21178552/oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy.pdf

@PerkingFaintly Yep. To use that 'hated' MN phrase "I nearly spat out my tea" at Yertle the Turtle's 'unpresidential' comment. My eyes rolled so hard they purt' near came rolling out my ears!

Latest:

SCOTUS 'partially' blocks vaccine mandate: Yes for certain health care workers (Medicare/Medicaid funded facilities), no for businesses with 100+ employees

www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/supreme-court-vaccine-mandate-covid-19/index.html

Oathkeeper leader +10 others charged with 'seditious conspiracy' in Jan 6 insurrection (please, please let this lead to Doofus!!)

www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/oathkeeper-rhodes-arrested-doj/index.html

Texas ...

theweek.com/donald-trump/1009000/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-ordered-to-release-emails-texas-from-around

Austin (& its surrounds) is a sea of blue in an ocean of red. I'm glad this has happened, but I have a feeling that the Tx AG knows that all he has to do is fight this until his appeal gets to a court outside of Travis County.

Travis Co judge Andy Brown is a Democrat. I'm sure he's a rarity in the state of Tx.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/capitol-riot-cnn-interview-maga-b1993493.html

So Trump is doing a rally...

Does it have the bigliest crowd ever, even more than the one on 6th January last year?

(Good God. The spellcheck is happy with "bigliest". It's been subverted!)

I think it wasn't aired, even by Fox.

I had no idea he was having a 'fan-fest'. Would we call that a "TrumpCon"? Très à propos, non?

TBH, he is being 'directly' reported on and shown less and less on most mainstream news stations. They may cover other politicians or 'people in the news' saying things about him or they may mention that he's 'endorsing' someone, but you really don't see him 'holding forth' in video clips like you used to. Of course we don't watch Fox, but even so we don't see a lot of reporting that "Fox reported Doofus did or said.....". I think we've watched the evening news more than once where his name never even came up.

It was an unpleasant shock to hear his loathsome voice coming out of the radio because of this event. Telling lies, of course, as usual.

Got this from another thread (thanks to DGR)
www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-15/directv-drops-trump-friendly-one-america-news

Of course:

www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-arizona-speech-proves-his-shock-comic-act-has-jumped-the-shark

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/17/martin-luther-king-jr-march-family-activists-voting-rights

Down the rabbit hole they go
www.rawstory.com/jfk-jr-trump-2656422426/

I still can't get over anyone thinking for as much as a nanosecond that either Kennedy would have any time at all for Trump.

Deary me... the Daily Beast and RawStory links...

Fear of Republican retaliation?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/17/us-capitol-attack-panel-inquiry-subpoena

[quote lionheart]Fear of Republican retaliation?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/17/us-capitol-attack-panel-inquiry-subpoena[/quote]
But the Republicans have nothing in their back pocket.

They repeatedly use everything they can lay their hands on anyway –retaliation or not.

There is no gain in not provoking them.

And yes, The West Wing on the value of a proportionate response does keep coming to mind: the Repugs haven't been proportionate hitherto, and now have no bargaining power.

Giuliani, Powell, & Ellis subpoenaed.

www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/rudy-giuliani-january-6-subpoena/index.html

Eric Trump & Kim Guilfoyle phone records subpoenaed AND SUBMITTED.

www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/eric-trump-kim-guilfoyle-subpoena-jan-6/index.html

Matt Gaetz exGF turns states evidence, gets immunity

www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-ex-girlfriend-testimony-sexy-trafficking-probe-immunity/

Whew!!! It's been a busy news day!

That's true Perking.