Above: h/t CrooksAndLiars blog. Gen. Benedict Arnold can rest easily tonight, knowing that he has finally been replaced by Sen. Joe Manchin as the new face of “American traitor.” For the past year, Sen. Joe Manchin has been working as a GQP “mole” inside the Democratic Party, undermining legislation that the Democratic Caucus and the overwhelming … Read more
The far right has for decades engaged in civil war cosplay with Neo-Confederate “lost cause” and white supremacist organizations, and so-called “patriot” private militias and “sagebrush rebellions.” They call themselves patriots while fantasizing about waging a civil war against the U.S. government. The far right right crossed over from cosplay to actually acting on their … Read more
Retired Generals Paul D. Eaton, Antonio M. Taguba and Steven M. Anderson write at the Washington Post, Retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection: As we approach the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, we — all of us former senior military officials — are increasingly concerned about … Read more
Politifact is out with its annual lie of the year. It’s really all part of the same Big Lie from too many sources to choose just one, but all of them come from anti-democracy seditious insurrectionist Republicans. The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance: Shortly after … Read more
Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, one of the coup plotters in the seditious conspiracy which led to the MAGA/QAnon violent insurrection on January 6, is trying to use the federal courts to obstruct the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol by filing a frivolous lawsuit in the … Read more