1/ I have some bad news. After multiple calls I have some extremely grim news.
As of now 1/6 commission is dead already, and will not enforce the subpoenas.
Trump wins.
The 1/6 terror plot will go unexamined and unpunished.
To say I'm livid is putting it mildly.
2/ This is staffed wrong, led wrong, and a gutless exercise to get back to talking about infrastructure.
They're not taking the risk seriously, they're not taking the data before them seriously, and they're eager to run out the clock.
Livid.
3/ I'm told that the whole plan is to bring in academics to examine the information from that day, when it should be a LE/IC style counterterrorism investigation.
The leadership has already decided to slow roll it and write a tsk tsk memo at the end.
4/ "They're afraid of 1A implications." The FUCK?
How about being afraid of a mob coming to fucking kill you?
Democrats, never tell me again "We got this."
Because you don't have this.
5/ Stay locked in your bubble that the modern GOP won't have a mob of Bannon's terrorists burn you to the ground and piss on the ashes.
An unpunished coup is a training exercise.
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1/ Now, let me take a moment to note something for the 1/6 committee.
Each one of these Trump mooks will resist the subpoenas. Each one of them will demand to testify in private. Each one with make spurious claims of executive privilege. Each one of them will lie and lie.
2/ Now...and this is the tricky part, but do try to pay attention.
Fuck. These. Guys.
Don't let them or their lawyers wedge you into the phony courtesies and hollow formalities of the Old Washington.
These are people who would have gladly burned down our nation.
3/ They TRIED. 1/6 for them wasn't a failed coup. It was training exercise. Bannon -- an avowed Leninist who wants to destroy every institutions to rebuild them in his own alt-reich vision. Meadows, an apparatchik who would carry out any excess. Patel, dirty from the jump.
1/ Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.
Let's review the bidding: the governors of two of the largest states are letting COVID burn because muh freedumb plays to an audience of a network owned by a crank Aussie billionaire.
2/ Yesterday, one member of the US Senate said it was just fine for a President of the United States to plot an overthrow of the election with his claque of skells, mooks, jabrones, degenerate fops, soulless harpies, wannabe Leninists, and natpop snake-human hybrids.
3/ Another U.S. Senator is the leading antivaxxer in American public life, again lying that muh freedumb is at stake if we all just try to work together to defeat COVID.
There's a reason he's a consistent finalist on America's Most Punchable.
1/ Insanely busy day for reasons, but let me make a quick point while I wait for someone to do something on a project.
The 1/6 Commission doesn't need to be bipartisan. 1996 called and wants their dumb trope back.
The poison-pill stunt-monkey addition of...
2/ of Gym Jordan et al shows the GOP is fundamentally unserious about this matter and no amount of "but muh bipartisan comity" bullshit mayonnaise will turn this chickenshit into chicken salad.
Don't. Get. Played.
3/ The GOP knows that the DC media looooooves the bipartisan both-sidesy claptrap. I have been too busy to read the coverage today, but I *promise* there will be DC conventional-wisdom stories that the committee won't be real and good and 'Murican if the GOP doesn't get to...
1/ There’s a tremendous amount of smugness right now on the part of Mitch McConnell and his team, including his all-powerful chief strategist and Consigliere Josh Holmes.
2/ They’re boasting widely across Washington how they’ve broken Trump, and ended his ability to select candidates in the 2022 cycle… all while raising low dollar donations from Trump voters by invoking his name over and over and over and over again in their email solicitations.
3/ More importantly, they cracked the will of major corporations like Toyota, who just happen to employ Mitch McConnell‘s former chief of staff as a lobbyist.