1/ A couple quick notes on the hearings tonight...
First, the "ignore it and it will go away" show today from McCarthy, Scalise, and Gretchen Weiners (R-Dress Barn) won't be their only attempt at detailing the hearings.
2/ The idea that no MAGA GOPers are on the committee and therefore won't disrupt the hearing is unlikely to deter the Mutant Parade -- Bad Touch Matt (Gaetz), Gosar, Margie Sloth-Toes, Boebert et al from trying to storm the committee room.
3/ Everything about their political culture incentivizes it.
The Human Centipede of MAGA media stunts: do something outrageous, transgressive, cruel or stupid.
Get checked for it. Run to Fox and complain about being cancelled. Email fundraising to follow.
4/ The competition for Mar-A-Lago Moloch's love is fierce.
They'll all be trying to one-up one another for his and Fox's attention.
So when they try to invade the hearings, it illustrates how their political incentive structure is inherently alien to public service.
5/ It's also -- to quote the beloved and departed Aged Elder -- "The cut hog squeals loudest."
Many of these mooks are in the conspiracy up to their asses in the conspiracy. They would have gladly welcomed 1/6 overturning the election.
6/ The Committee should NOT fall victim to the "My honorable friend" DC circle-jerk game. Anyone disrupting the hearings needs to be perp-walked out of the room.
more to come.
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The witnesses from the Trump world will filibuster, bullshit, evade and jerk themselves off on live TV for roughly 40% of the hearings. Everyone will have a long statement at the opening.
3/ This is like .05 Benghazis.
"Six hearings as we can be done! Yay!"
Come ON people. This is the big one. You know, the people who tried to OVERTHROW the government? WEEKS not DAYS.
1/ In the before times, before the MAGA Republican Troll Party, @EliseStefanik would have pulled the tweet down and moved on with a discreet “I mispoke.”
But the ethos of the emergent authoritarian is a mulish refusal to admit the lie, the mistake, the grand and petty indecency.
2/ She knows — and her staff knows — and her lawyers sure as HELL know that she looks terrible and that the last 48 hour news cycle has been a dumpster atop a mountain of toxic waste.
All her corporate donors wanted the Elise she played behind closed doors still.
3/ Because when she’s raising hedge fund and tech world cash, she doesn’t talk about white replacement or pedos or the rest of the sewage sluice of alt-reich filth.
She abases herself on Steve Bannon’s show, mewling and giggling far right agitporn as his rheumy eye ogles her.
I didn't send that card to you, not did I direct anyone else to, either.
I haven't been in Seattle in over a year, that's not my handwriting, and most importantly, I don't have a single fuck to give about you and haven't bothered to follow your race.
2/ But since you decided to work this trite and rather boring little campaign stunt for a campaign that's under fire, I will offer you a few notes.
I get why you'd tell this little lie. You're struggling. You're flailing.
Oh, and Alabama media is full of stories that...
3/ ...about your family life that can't be helping your campaign.
If you were smart, you'd have asked me if it was real...but it's rather evident your advisors at Jamestown Associates (Jason Miller's old firm) aren't that sharp.
1/ So let me give you a couple pointers on what Elon and Trump want out of this news.
They want you to panic. They want rending of garments and tearing of hair. Trolls are going to troll, and this is pure trolling.
Instead of being locked in the Mar-A-Lago...
2/ ...bridal suite like an umber Miss Havisham with raging verbal incontinence and a crashing set of mental disorders, he'll be loose in the wild again.
So what? On net, he's benefited from social media jail for 1.5 years now. It allows the cult to dream of the Dear Leader...
3/ ...it's let Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy tell major donors "Trump is over. He's done. He's behind us now."
It's let the gentry conservative media swoon and drool over Ron DeCastro and pretend Trump's apostasy is now at an end.
Our strategy isn’t a secret. It works. Here’s what we are doing. /2
First of all, we’re targeting @Toyota HQ and their soulless lobbyists directly with our ad. They need to feel the pain of putting profits before democracy. /3
1/ Let me make a few brief remarks about Elon taking over Twitter.
Call me crazy, but I'm not tearing my (remaining) hair out over this. Despite breathless fantasies on the right that "muh 1st Amendment free speech" will somehow be "restored" to a private platform with a TOS...
2/ ...that will still absolutely moderate content. The delusion at somehow the right can't engage in speech right now on Twitter is risible.
Second, the idea that Daddy Elon is going to return Trump to Twitter is frankly a wake up call y'all need.
3/ Too many folks said, "Welp, he's banned, problem solved." That comforting delusion will end soon.
In many ways, the ban let Trump lurk in the bridal suite and Mar-A-Mildew and lick his wounds.
It let Mitch and Qevin pretend the world was normal again.