Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), age 86, confirmed that he will retire when his term ends in 2022, the Washington Post reports. Good call. Shelby should have retired years ago. Here’s where things go off the rails. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), one of the three congressional conspirators who planned the January 6 insurrection in Washington D.C., along … Read more
GQP lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are demanding answers as to why the National Guard is still maintaining a heavy presence in Washington, as normal government business resumes, and that the additional security fencing/barriers put up since the Trump terrorists stormed the Capitol in a seditious insurrection on January 6 be removed. 42 GOP … Read more
S.V. Date, senior White House correspondent at HuffPost, writes Trump Trial Also A Referendum On GQP Authoritarianism In America (my edits): As the Senate readies for yet another Donald Trump impeachment trial and prepares to judge the former president’s conduct, senators also may be voting on a much bigger question: American democracy versus GQP authoritarianism. … Read more
Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to Trump, who’s often described as a political “ratfucker,” was charged and convicted on a seven-count indictment of obstructing justice, witness tampering and multiple counts of lying to Congress in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election in November of 2019. On December 23, … Read more
The QAnon Queen, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who promotes her mass violence fantasies of wanting to kill Democrats, associates with the domestic terrorist organization the Three Percenters. The “Georgia III% Martyrs” group infamously provided armed, militia-uniformed “private security” for Greene during a Georgia campaign rally (above). Marjorie Taylor Greene’s far-right militia ally now believes America is … Read more