NEW: In just-released #Jan6Committee testimony, @Alyssafarah blasts "liar and opportunist" Kayleigh McEnany and other top Republicans for pretending Trump won in 2020 in order to help their careers.
According to Griffin, almost everyone in the Trump White House knew that Biden won fairly in 2020 but once Trump started constructing his lie campaign to illegally remain in office, they decided to help out anyway. tyt.com/reports/7015be…
"She wanted a certain life post-Trump and that required staying in his good graces," Griffin said of McEnany.
"It worked out precisely how she'd always planned for it to, but she knew better."
Lying is a key feature of Republican politics, especially since Trump came along.
But amoral careerism isn't the only reason that some elite Republicans choose to lie.
🧵Millennials aren't moving rightward as they've aged, unlike Gen X, Boomers, & Silents. This is a good piece on the trend, but it doesn't note that the WW2 generation had a similar left loyalty.
I dislike the term "Greatest Generation," but for a look at their voting patterns and partisanship, this is a pretty good overview. Even in their twilight years, they wouldn't vote for Republicans. Because they saw the world the GOP wants to go back to. pewresearch.org/politics/2015/…
What calls itself "the conservative movement" in this country was created by manufacturing oligarchs who wanted to repeal the 1930s New Deal. This is not an exaggeration.
1/x: Multiple South American outlets report that Jair Bolsonaro won't attend the 1/1 inauguration ceremony of his successor Lula da Silva.
Instead, he will travel to spend the next several weeks w/fellow loser, Donald Trump. Almost like a failed wannabe dictator support group…
Bolsonaro, who must be copying the idea from Trump's pouting refusal to attend Joe Biden's inauguration, will be the first Brazilian president since the end of military rule in 1985 to refuse to hand over the ceremonial presidential sash to his successor. noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/thais-…
You can bet that if Trump had managed to criminally hold onto office or actually have been re-elected that Bolsonaro would also have tried to cling to power illegally like Trump did leading up to #January6th.
Instead, they'll be eating cheeseburgers and crying together…
The premise of this year's holiday column is the same as almost every Prager column, "leftists" are big meanies who won't give reactionary relatives the deference to which they're allegedly entitled:
964 people have been charged in connection with the attack. Approximately 470 people have pleaded guilty to federal charges and 41 participants have been convicted.
Elon Musk has purposely degraded the value of Twitter because it is an impediment to his desire for unaccountable power. Responsible progressive commentators must open Mastodon accounts, encourage their audiences to join Mastodon, & set up cross-posting to make it easy for all…
The 5 House Republicans who were rejected to serve on the #January6thCommittee have released their own response report today.
It's an obviously partisan document with 184 mentions of Paul Irving, the House Sgt. at Arms, and only 29 to the Senate Sgt. at Arms, Michael Stenger…
Needless to say, the Republicans had control of the Senate on 1/6/21 while Democrats had the House.
It's mostly a "Blame Pelosi" hack job that focuses almost entirely on the House w/only 11 mentions of McConnell and 36 of Pelosi. banks.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
Falsely pinning blame on Pelosi is a Republican tactic beginning on 1/6.
The record shows, however that Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund called Stenger repeatedly to beg for a state of emergency, which Sund could not approve. npr.org/2021/02/23/970…