Trump Insurrection 2.0?

 

To anyone still living in an alternate, pre- Trump reality:

Donald Trump and election denialist allies at Turning Point USA, True the Vote and other Maga stalwarts are spreading conspiracy theories about election fraud in order to lay the groundwork for charging the election was rigged if Trump loses, warn election experts and some veteran Republicans.

The consequences of the strategy could be dire. John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona, who spoke at the Democratic national convention in August in support of Kamala Harris’s campaign for the presidency, said that former president Trump and his allies “will throw everything at the wall and see what sticks”, if Trump loses.

He added: “They’ll claim everything went wrong if they lose. I’d be surprised if Trump doesn’t try to foment insurrection if he loses the election.”  [snip]

“A lot of false claims are masquerading as efforts to change policy to improve election integrity when in actuality they’re just designed to sow distrust in our system if Trump loses,” said David Becker, who leads the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “This is all designed to manufacture claims that if Trump loses, the election was stolen and to sow discord, chaos and potential violence.”...

If you accept this reality, then the next question is, what's being done about it? by the Administration, specifically the Departments of Justice and of Homeland Security?  What's being done to address the most serious domestic threat since 1/6/21 and possibly since the Civil War?  We should expect planning for the expected and unexpected has taken place, since we have confidence, not necessarily in some of the Departmental leadership, but in the professionals under them and in the President and those around him.  That would be planning we wouldn't hear about for obvious reasons. 

"When we fight, we win," yes.  But when we win, we might also have to fight.

Barbara F. Walter writes in The New Yorker about the likelihood and direction violence might take if and when the Malignant Loser loses in November.  Here's the relevant excerpt:

What would violence look like if Trump loses? It would likely start with protests against the election results, which could turn into riots. Far-right militias might join in. They would not begin by attacking Democratic voters. Instead, they would first target those they perceive to be traitors within their own party: Republicans who are deemed too moderate, those who have reached across party lines, refused to support maga, or who have enacted laws with which these extremists disagree. This is what happened in Nigeria in 2011. Buhari’s most ardent supporters didn’t start by killing Christians who happened to live in the north. They attacked groups who seemed to be collaborating with the federal government: police, party officials. The January 6th rioters who stormed the Capitol also seemed to have targets in mind, including Trump’s own Vice-President, Mike Pence. Rioters chanted, “Hang Mike Pence,” for his role in refusing to certify the election for Trump.

In the U.S., extremists would likely then target minorities living in red and purple states, attempting to marginalize supposed interlopers in their communities. In Nigeria, rioters in Muslim-majority areas attacked local Christians, burning their churches and shops. When people feel insecure, they seek to cleanse their communities of those they deem a potential threat. If the white, Christian males who make up the core of the maga base no longer have the votes to control the federal government, then they will insure that they have the votes to control many of the red and purple states in which they live.

But the most violence can be expected in the states with a fairly equal balance of white Americans and nonwhite Americans, where power is still being contested. Experts have found that some of the most volatile countries are the ones whose societies are divided into two relatively large groups. Some of the greatest racial tension in the United States has occurred in places where the white and nonwhite populations were relatively even. This included several former Confederate states during Reconstruction, after Black people were given the right to vote and hold office, as well as cities such as Birmingham, Memphis, Cleveland, Gary, and Newark, which experienced bursts of violence as they became minority-white, starting in the nineteen-sixties. It is the mixed cities, states, and regions—just like Kaduna, in Nigeria—where the declining side feels most threatened. In the United States today, this means that places like Georgia, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, and Arizona could become hot spots of violence...

For our imperfect democracy to survive, we have to confront those who would tear it down right at the outset, starting with the Malignant Loser.  We're not at all sanguine about violence being averted post- election, especially if and when the Malignant Loser goes down to defeat.  We have to take the threat from these cowards/ bullies seriously.  But we can't afford to flinch when and if the time comes to protect our democratic heritage.  As we've said before, forewarned is forearmed.  

(Photo: The first coup attempt / Robert Nickelsberg, Getty)

Mess With Texas

 

Choosing to defy a ruling by the Republican (!) Supreme Court as well as the supremacy clause of the Constitution, Texass white nationalist Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is doing his best impersonation of Jefferson Davis:

...What does it look like when secessionist theory is weaponized against a 21^st-century president? We have already begun to find out. For months, the Texas National Guard was engaged in an armed standoff with federal law enforcement, as well as active duty service members, at the Rio Grande: Guardsmen used razor wire to fence off the border, preventing federal access to migrants, even those in severe medical distress. On Monday, by a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court lifted an injunction that prevented federal officers from cutting through this razor wire. But Abbott says his state will “defend and protect itself” by continued use of force, raising the very real possibility of ongoing clashes between state and federal law enforcement. Whether these disputes turn violent is anyone’s guess. The belligerent governor, though, has conspicuously declined to rule out use of force against anyone who stands in his way.

Vicious nativism is certainly not a perfect comparison to the totalitarian white supremacy that drove the slave states to Civil War, but it, too, springs from the diseased roots of bigotry, fear, and rage. It should be no surprise, then, that Abbott and his allies would adopt Confederate rhetoric in his quest to seize control over the border and subject migrants to anguish and death. By embracing the Confederate theory of the nation as a mere compact, he has freed himself to take even more aggressive measures against the federal government. We have been here before. It does not end well.

This ambitious, seditious asshole is dead set on causing a Constitutional confrontation with the Biden Administration (and Supreme Court).  Like his cult leader and his Congressional minions, Abbott sees immigration as a hot button issue his nativist party can demagogue on any time there's an election. Abbott is being aided and abetted by the Republican governors of 25 other States, which should be the best indication yet that we're not dealing with a "normal" conservative movement with "moderate" leaders, but rather a neo-Confederate, nativist, fascistic party whose cult leader is fanning the flames of insurrection now even more than he did before and on January 6, 2021.  

Abbott, along with fellow nativist Gov. "Bootsie" DeSantis, is notorious for cruelly busing migrants to Democratic- controlled cities just in order to "mess" with them.  Maybe it's time to mess with Abbott's Texass.

BONUS:  More reading here, here and here.

(Photo:  "Securing the border" not really what they're after / USA Today)

QOTD -- The Irredeemable Insurrectionist

 

In keeping with the theme of today's anniversary and the subsequent Constitutional issue at hand (see post below), Jamelle Bouie asks, in The New York Times, "If Trump Is Not An Insurrectionist, What Is He?"  Flowing from that, Bouie addresses the issue of whether it's undemocratic to bar the Malignant Loser from the ballot:

The unspoken assumption behind the idea that Trump should be allowed on the ballot and that the public should have the chance to choose for or against him yet again is that he will respect the voice of the electorate. But we know this isn’t true. It wasn’t true after the 2016 presidential election — when, after winning the Electoral College, he sought to delegitimize the popular vote victory of his opponent as fraud — and it was put into stark relief after the 2020 presidential election.

Trump is not simply a candidate who does not believe in the norms, values and institutions we call American democracy — although that is troubling enough. Trump is all that and a former president who used the power of his office to try to overturn constitutional government in the United States.

Is it antidemocratic to disqualify Trump from office and deny him a place on the ballot? Does it violate the spirit of democratic life to deny voters the choice of a onetime officeholder who tried, under threat of violence, to deny them their right to choose? Does it threaten the constitutional order to use the clear text of the Constitution to hold a former constitutional officer accountable for his efforts to overturn that order?

The answer is no, of course not...

The Republicans- in- robes on the Supreme Court could not escape ruling on this fundamental issue, as much as they might have wished.  But, whatever the decision (Bouie expects them to weasel a way to allow the Malignant Loser on the ballot), delegitimatizing election results that don't go their way will remain key to the Malignant Loser's Christofascist Republican playbook.  They're all irredeemable insurrectionists now.

Monday Reading

 

As always, please go to the links for the full articles/ op eds.

A monthly child cash benefit stemming from the coronavirus relief bill is on the way to millions of families:

The Biden administration announced Monday that roughly 39 million American families will begin receiving direct cash payments in July under a new child benefit created by Democrats’ coronavirus relief bill.

The Internal Revenue Service will on July 15 start delivering a monthly payment of $300 per child under 6 and $250 per child older than 6 for those who qualify. The monthly benefits will be deposited directly in most families’ bank accounts on the 15th of every month -- or the closest day to that date, if the 15th falls on a holiday or weekend -- for the rest of the year, without any action required. For instance, an eligible family with two children aged 5 and 13 will receive $550 from the IRS directly to their bank accounts on or close to the 15th of every month from July to December.

Biden administration officials estimate that households representing more than 65 million children -- or 88 percent of all U.S. kids nationwide -- will begin receiving the benefit through direct deposit, paper checks, or debit cards. Of that population, roughly 80 percent of that population will be sent the cash directly via direct deposit, administration officials told reporters on a call Sunday. High-income parents will receive a smaller benefit or none at all, depending on how much they make. The credit diminishes for individuals with adjusted gross income of more than $75,000, as well as couples earning more than $150,000.

Thank you, Democrats!

E.J. Dionne, Jr.,  writes about the importance of passing the For the People Act for sustaining our democracy, and about the "two Joes" who are holding the key:

We can lament that voting rights have become a partisan issue, but that’s the way things are. No amount of cajoling, compromising, begging, pleading or standing-on-your-head-and-holding-your-breath will change this. Polls showing that many rank-and-file Republicans support the S. 1 reform don’t make a difference, either.

Which means that you can defend voting rights or you can defend the filibuster. You can’t do both. Manchin fears that passing a “partisan” bill on voting would further divide the country. Here’s what would divide the country even more: an election system that rolls back voting rights by endangering the ballot access of Black Americans, other minority groups and younger people.

Congress must also enact a new Voting Rights Act to restore the Justice Department’s ability to fight voting restrictions in the future. The original law was gutted in 2013 by a 5-to-4 right-wing Supreme Court majority. But a Voting Rights Act is no substitute for S. 1. Even if the Voting Rights Act is revived, all the voter suppression laws that have already been passed would stay on the books.  [snip]

... The time has come for the president to speak out, often and forcefully, against the assault on voting rights inspired by former president Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.

Contrary to Trump’s claims, it was a small-D democratic triumph. Amazingly during a viral pandemic, turnout rose in both Republican and Democratic states because voting was made more convenient. The only partisanship now involves the GOP’s determination to make it harder to vote.

Which also means that Biden must talk to Manchin, Senate traditionalist to Senate traditionalist, about why their past opposition to ending the filibuster has to give way in the face of the GOP’s assault on democracy.

History will not look kindly on anyone who failed to rise to the occasion to support this existential voting and civil rights legislation of our time.

It appears the recall election Republicans hoped would drive California Gov. Gavin Newsom from office is flopping:

A fading coronavirus crisis and an astounding windfall of tax dollars have reshuffled California’s emerging recall election, allowing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newscom [sic] to talk about an end to most COVID-19 restrictions and propose billions in new spending as he looks to fend off Republicans who depict him as a foppish failure.

The governor spent much of 2020 on the defensive for whipsaw decisions during the depths of the pandemic that angered many business owners and residents. But more recently he has appeared to steady his stride with the all-but-certain election looming this fall.

The first-term Democrat unleashed a torrent of new spending after the state’s budget was blessed with a $76 billion surplus and $27 billion in federal pandemic aid. This week, he crisscrossed the state to unveil a string of proposals sure to bring smiles from many voters: $12 billion to fight homelessness; checks up to $1,100 for millions of low and middle-income earners who struggled during lockdowns; $2.7 billion to pay for all of the state’s 4-year-olds to go to kindergarten for free; and hundreds of millions to help small businesses recover from the economic downturn.

His budget released Friday was studded with initiatives favored by his progressive base, including $7.2 billion to pay off people’s outstanding rent and utility bills and $300 million to forgive traffic and other fines for lower-income residents. There also was $35 million to encourage local universal basic income programs and money to give Medicaid benefits to people 60 and older living in the country illegally.

Sorry, Caitlyn!

Remember that memory- holing, crackpot Republican Congressman who said at a hearing on the January 6 insurrection that the event reminded him of a "normal tourist visit"?  That would be this asshole:

The Rep. Clyde news reminded me of this:

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 6: Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., second from top left, helps barricade the House chamber door as rioters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021. pic.twitter.com/ewizgiuwLn

— Tom Williams (@pennstatetom) May 15, 2021

 

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy:

In the weeks since the feds raided Rudy Giuliani’s apartment and office in late April, close allies have tried to ferry a slew of emergency requests to former President Donald Trump and his advisers.

But according to three people familiar with the matter, Trump, as well as several of his legal advisers and longtime confidants, have been hesitant about swooping in to help the embattled Giuliani, who for years worked as Trump’s personal lawyer, a political adviser, and attack dog. Giuliani also served as a major player in the Trump-Ukraine scandal and as a key driver in the former president’s efforts to nullify Joe Biden’s clear victory in the 2020 election.  [snip]

Two people close to Trump say they have urged the former president to lay low on the matter and to refrain from making too many statements or commitments on Giuliani and the federal probe. These people have told Trump that it’s unclear what the feds have and that any statement could backfire both on him and on Giuliani. Moreover, various people in Trump’s social and political orbits have been trying to convince the former president for years that Giuliani has been too great a liability for him, and they have suggested that he cut the lawyer loose.

Pro tip for Rudy and his allies:  get a readout from Michael Cohen, Jeff Sessions, The Mooch, Omarosa, John Bolton, and dozens of unpaid contractors and stiffed business associates as to what you can expect from Dear Leader.  You're welcome.

Finally, to complete your morning reading, please head over to Infidel 753's excellent link round-up for the best assortment of links to interesting posts from around the Internet.  Also check out his latest edition of "Improving Words", an on-going exploration of "word definitions, based on what the words visibly should mean....."  Very clever and amusing stuff.

 

QOTD: Insurrectionists' Racist Driver

 

"... [B]y far the most interesting characteristic common to the insurrectionists’ backgrounds has to do with changes in their local demographics: Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic White population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists who now face charges. [snip]

"Put another way, the people alleged by authorities to have taken the law into their hands on Jan. 6 typically hail from places where non-White populations are growing fastest.

"CPOST [the Chicago Project on Security and Threats] also conducted two independent surveys in February and March, including a National Opinion Research Council survey, to help understand the roots of this rage. One driver overwhelmingly stood out: fear of the “Great Replacement.” Great Replacement theory has achieved iconic status with white nationalists and holds that minorities are progressively replacing White populations due to mass immigration policies and low birthrates. Extensive social media exposure is the second-biggest driver of this view, our surveys found. Replacement theory might help explain why such a high percentage of the rioters hail from counties with fast-rising, non-White populations." -- Professor Robert A. Pape, University of Chicago political scientist and director of CPOST, in today's Washington Post.  When you hear Republicans (like Moscow Mitch McConnell) using racial signifiers like "woke" and "cancel culture" pejoratively, keep this concept in mind -- they want their frightened base to think that the "minorities" are coming for them, and that the Republican Party is all that's standing in the way.

Monday Reading

As always, please go to the links for the full articles/ op eds.

The Washington Post has constructed a video timeline of the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol that is absolutely stunning.  Here's part of their introduction to the video:

At 2:12 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Trump began climbing through a window they had smashed on the northwest side of the U.S. Capitol. “Go! Go! Go!” someone shouted as the rioters, some in military gear, streamed in.

It was the start of the most serious attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812. The mob coursed through the building, enraged that Congress was preparing to make Trump’s electoral defeat official. “Drag them out! … Hang them out!” rioters yelled at one point, as they gathered near the House chamber. [snip]

To reconstruct the pandemonium inside the Capitol for the video above, The Washington Post examined text messages, photos and hundreds of videos, some of which were exclusively obtained. By synchronizing the footage and locating some of the camera angles within a digital 3-D model of the building, The Post was able to map the rioters’ movements and assess how close they came to lawmakers — in some cases feet apart or separated only by a handful of vastly outnumbered police officers.

The Post used a facial-recognition algorithm that differentiates individual faces — it does not identify people — to estimate that at least 300 rioters were present in footage taken inside the Capitol while police were struggling to evacuate lawmakers. The actual number of rioters is probably greater, since the footage analyzed by The Post did not capture everyone in the building.

Federal, State and local authorities are rounding up as many of these violent traitors to democracy as can be identified, and all we can say is "Lock 'em up!"

Alec MacGillis looks at the insurrectionists through their videos, at the extent of their delusions, and concludes after one middle- aged man spouts about his reason for being in the mob:

He didn’t appear to know about the deaths and extent of the violence. He had only his vantage point. But we now have many more vantages. And they give us the picture of what happens when something that was gathering across the land for years, and recklessly and cynically fomented by those who knew better, reached a culmination. There undoubtedly were some dangerous organized elements within the mob that attacked the Capitol. But what is scariest about these videos is that they show the damage that can be done by a crowd of unorganized Americans goaded and abetted by the leaders of an organized political party. The radical fringe is a cause for concern. The thousands of regular people whipped into a murderous rage is the real nightmare.

Axios also has a lengthy "collapse of the President" tick tock from election night onward that's worth saving.

Nicole Hemmer writes in "The Final Mess" that, following an election that didn't fully repudiate Mango Mussolini, it was up to him to do it to himself:

For those who supported Joe Biden, his victory in November was tinged with disappointment. President Trump had been beaten, but Trumpism had not. Trump won 74.2 million votes, expanding his 2016 tally even in defeat. Republicans had narrowed the Democratic margin in the House and had the chance to hold control of the Senate. Biden’s win fell short of the overwhelming, Reagan-beats-Mondale or LBJ-beats-Goldwater level that would have fully repudiated Trump.

But after two months of efforts to overturn the results, the attack on the Capitol finally did what the election could not: It made Trump — and the GOP — toxic. Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook pulled the plug on the president’s accounts. The Girl Scouts started trying to break the lease for their headquarters in a Trump-owned building in New York. A credit-card-processing company stopped handling donations to Trump’s campaign. Major corporations like Marriott and Comcast announced that they would end or suspend donations to Republicans who voted against certifying the election results. And 10 Republicans in Congress voted to impeach the president. GOP leaders who had stuck by Trump for his whole term indicated that they might abandon him. It is an ending befitting a Greek tragedy: Only Trump could bring about his own downfall.

There's reporting that delusional Donnie is looking to raise a yuuuge amount of money for his presidential library (scam alert!):

President Donald Trump is relaying to supporters and GOP donors that he wants to raise $2 billion for a presidential library and museum, according to The Washington Post.

No official announcements have been made, but the presidential library is "likely" to be in Florida, home of the outgoing president's Mar-a-Lago resort and the most probable political base for the his eldest daughter and son, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. [Ed.: snicker]

The Post reported that Trump wants Dan Scavino, social media director and White House deputy chief of staff for communications, to lead the ambitious effort. The president is reportedly convinced that he can raise the necessary funds through small-dollar donations from his political base.

The reported goal is far in excess of the price tag for other presidential libraries. Former President George W. Bush raised just over $500 million for his "Presidential Center" in Dallas, which is expected to be the same amount it will to cost to build former President Barack Obama's own library in Chicago.

We've already posted on a virtual reality version of what that library should look like.  Also, a dedicated Trump Twitter library.  More ideas here.

Daniel Dale could provide a plethora of Mango Mussolini's lies for that library.  Here, he just curates the 15 most notable, including this:

The most entertaining lie shtick: The burly crying men who had never cried before

They were almost always male. They were almost always large. They were almost always blue-collar. And, according to the President, they kept walking up to him crying tears of gratitude -- even though they had almost always not previously cried for years.

Trump's series of Tears Stories -- which sometimes doubled as "Sir" Stories -- helped me understand his lying as a kind of performance art.

The stories were oddly grandiose, like something you'd hear from a two-bit foreign strongman. They were also pure shtick. Trump was like a touring stand-up comic, refining and re-using his favored dishonesty bits until they stopped working for him.

Finally, a visit to Infidel 753's link round- up is highly recommended as a smorgasbord of wide- ranging topics of interest every week.

Monday Reading -- Insurrection

 

As always, please go to the links for the full articles/ op eds.

With the lede of the week, the Washington Post's  Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe and Razzan Nakhlawi dissect the Trump insurrection mob:

The problem with devotion to a prophet of falsehoods is that reality eventually intrudes.

By mid-December, President Trump’s fraudulent claims of a rigged election were failing in humiliating fashion. Lawsuits were being laughed out of courts. State officials, including Republicans, were refusing to bend to his will and alter the vote. And in a seemingly decisive blow on Dec. 14, the electoral college certified the win for Joe Biden.

It was a disorienting sequence for legions of supporters who believed Trump’s lies that the election had been stolen from him but that he would prevail and reclaim it — especially those who had already descended into deeper, more disturbing conspiracies.

Some clung to the hope that Vice President Pence would use his procedural role on Jan. 6 to write an alternative ending. But as it became clear that Pence would refuse with the backing of most Senate Republicans, Trump’s most ardent abettors began planning the siege of the Capitol.  (our emphasis)

One of those devotees to the prophet is QAnon crackpot Rep. Lauren Boebert (Nut-CO), who was busy tweeting the whereabouts of Speaker Pelosi as the Trump insurrectionist mob sacked the Capitol. She's quite the loon:

Boebert won a divisive primary against incumbent Republican Rep. Scott Tipton by accusing him of failing to fight for Trump, failing to fight for the upset mob and failing to fight Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

Boebert believed a far more confrontational, shrill approach should be taken. The sidearm strapped to her hip became her greatest campaign slogan. She railed against Democrats, demonizing them with every opportunity. Even the Tweet pinned to the top of her Twitter profile begins with “I’m fighting …”

A when she rose to the floor for her inaugural speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, she began with a groan-inducing joke centered on the bloodshed of one of America’s founders. Hours later, the bloodshed of a woman who helped storm the Capitol would be spilled in the halls of the venerable building.

Of course, before she even began screaming from the lectern on the floor – and she was screaming rather than engaging in any form of debate – she had made sure to post “Today is 1776” on her Twitter feed. 

The clear reference to the revolutionary war against England has been a calling card for enthusiasts of violent action in support of Trump over the past few weeks. If Boebert does not understand the weight and significance of her words, then maybe she should begin attending the funerals of the men and women who will likely die following her lead.

She's a fascist moron -- what do they understand except using intimidation and violence to get their way?  If she and the crackpot seditionist caucus aren't removed or severely sanctioned, they will be back for more.

Here's how to deal with a smarmy, hypocritical, gaslighting Republican coup enabler:

 

Forever you will be Ted Coup. https://t.co/2ruEsLufCQ

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 10, 2021

 

Not that it will happen, but there's certainly a legal basis for removing Ted Coup and his fellow slimeball Sen. Josh "Haw Haw" Hawley from the Senate.  Disbarment of the two is also being pushed, even as the spigot of corporate donations is being cut off.

The FBI has all of its field offices at work identifying and arresting the insurrectionists, having received over 40,000 tips to date:

In the days since the riot, federal and local authorities have begun arresting people who they said were involved. More arrests are expected as investigators scrutinize photographs, videos and social media posts to identify the protesters. The F.B.I. has received more than 40,000 tips, including photos and videos, a number that does not include tips that people have submitted by phone.

On Friday, the Justice Department announced that it had charged 13 people. Dozens of others have been charged in Superior Court in Washington, D.C., with unlawful entry, curfew violations and firearms-related crimes.

The article provides an update on some of the insurrectionists already arrested, but there are many more to be rounded up.  Here's the FBI contact information:

 

The #FBI and our partners are seeking information to help us pursue individuals who instigated violence on January 6 in Washington, D.C. Look at the photos we've added at https://t.co/MMTOKcDiy7, and if you see someone you recognize, submit a tip at https://t.co/buMd8vYXzH.

— FBI (@FBI) January 11, 2021

 

Meanwhile, pressure mounts:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that Democrats will bring articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the House of Representatives floor in the coming days.

In a letter to her caucus, she said that Democrats will also introduce a resolution on Monday calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. 

“In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both,” Pelosi said. “As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.”

The resolution directed at Pence urges the vice president to “immediately exercise powers as acting President.” 

“We are calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours,” Pelosi added.

 

Hitting him where it hurts, the PGA canceled its contract with the Trump Bedminster golf club to host its 2022 PGA Championship.  Beyond the financial hit, for someone so enamored of his golf clubs and of rubbing elbows with golf pros, this is also a big blow to his fragile ego to have the professional golf association begin the process of ridding itself of Trump stink.

You'll find plenty more of interest over at Infidel 753's link round- up.  Please check it out!