Since it’s July 4th/Independence Day, it seems a good time to take stock of what we see going on in the United States 246 years after our independence from Great Britain was formally proclaimed and announced in Philadelphia.
Thanks to the United States Supreme Court’s recent rulings on the issues of guns and reproductive freedom, many Americans aren’t exactly in a celebratory mood this July 4, if only because it seems like we’re moving in reverse, having to fight for rights we thought had already been won nearly a half-century ago.
One person who seems to be channeling that angst is Claudia Conway, the 17-year-old daughter of former Trump administration official Kellyanne Conway, who weighed in on the high court and where we’re at in the United States.
Oh, how I Love this. You go girl! Bring on the fireworks!❤️🇺🇸🎆
— leftrightleftrightleft (@leftrightleftr4) July 4, 2022
This picture should end up on the front of time magazine If the press could get their head out of all the hedge funds asses and do real reporting Anyone?
My thoughts exactly 🙂 It's awesome that she managed to "break free" It would be great if one of the trump children would be smart enough to do the same
Proving yet again that failed, one-term former president Donald Trump thinks the world revolves around him and he’s the most persecuted man on the face of the planet, the ex-president managed to make his so-called Independence Day message to the country all about himself and how persecuted he’s been.
Posting on his failing Truth Social site, Trump was in full whine mode:
Aww…poor little Donnie Dotard. The first sentence is proof-positive that he’s scared shitless by what the January 6 House Select Committee has already uncovered regarding his role in the post-2020 election coup attempt.
His mention of his two impeachments only serves to remind everyone that he’s the only president in U.S. history to ever be impeached multiple times.
The Muller Report made it clear that Trump and members of his 2016 presidential campaign had multiple contacts with Russian nationals in attempts to get dirt on his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. He then turned around and tried to do the same damn thing in 2020, blackmailing the nation of Ukraine to give him damaging information about Joe Biden in exchange for releasing military aid to the Ukrainians.
Everyone is out to get Trump. Yeah, as if he needs any help in destroying himself.
Responses to the Trump July 4th message were harsh and well-deserved.
“…Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” – Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
Kid Rock (who was born Robert James Ritchie) has long been a fan of failed, one-term former president Donald Trump, which immediately tells you that he’s an ignorant pile of human excrement who has fewer brain cells than he does teeth in his head.
Also, if you’ve ever heard any of Kid Rock’s so-called “music,” you know he’s a talentless hack who couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, let alone make real music that doesn’t sound like enraged cats fighting inside a gunny sack.
But now Kid is here to bestow his July 4th message for 2022, and it sounds like it could have been written by Trump himself or his traitorous eldest son, Don Jr., at the end of a long weekend as the realization hits that the eight-ball of Peruvian marching powder has run out and his dealer is in the Cayman Islands for an extended vacation.
As you’d expect, Robert James Ritchie decided to post his message on Trump’s pathetic Twitter imitation, Truth Social, but it was later shared via tweet by one of Kid’s brainless fans.
— D. Scott @eclipsethis2003 (@eclipsethis2003) July 3, 2022
Reaction to the “pussy” posting drew plenty of fire on Twitter, all of it well-deserved and some it downright hilarious.
Kid rock can suck my star spangled dick. Dont fucking tell me how to celebrate 4th of july you fucking rich douche cosplaying as a southerner. Your sorry good for nothing ass grew up rich and wouldnt be caught dead associating with your fanbase. You aint worked hard in your life.
Here’s a suggestion for Kid Rock: Take your no-talent ass back to Michigan where you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. The vast majority of us are sick of hearing your whining and what you claim is music.
Now that the January 6 House Select Committee has been able to determine that failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump did indeed play a major part in the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and remain in power via a coup, that has opened up new avenues of investigation and potential charges, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Glenn Kirschner was a guest on MSNBC Sunday, and host Cori Coffin noted as she introduced him:
“As we learn more about potential witness tampering during the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation, this week’s testimony of former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson could explain why those in Trumpworld were so worried about what she might have to say.
“According to Hutchison, Trump knew that some of his supporters would be armed that day, sent them to the Capitol anyway, even hoping to join them. So, does this open up the former president to be criminally liable?”
Kirschner responded in the affirmative:
“Yeah, this is what I would call smoking gun evidence.”
He then added:
“And interestingly, at the last J6 public hearing, we got both smoking gun evidence, and we got loaded gun evidence. And what I mean by that is, as you just played in your lead-in, Cori, the president knew. He was briefed that his crowd was armed with assault rifles and pistols and knives and brass knuckles and bear spray, etc.”
But it was what Kirschner said next that should be of special concern to the ex-president and his cultish followers:
“And you would think a reasonable response from a president would be, oh my goodness, let’s make sure the metal detectors are operating properly. He said just the opposite, take them down, let the armed members of the group in, and they can march to the Capitol from there. To do what? To stop the certification of his political opponent’s election win. So in a very real sense, that smoking gun evidence that Donald Trump wanted to lead what we now know is an armed attack on the Capitol. The loaded gun evidence is, the witness tampering information, and you know, witness tampering just strikes at the very heart of the integrity of investigations, whether congressional or criminal.”
According to January 6 House Select Committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), new witnesses have come forward since ex-Trump administration aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified on Tuesday.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Kinzinger told host Dana Bash:
“I don’t want to get into who or any of those details. She’s been inspiring for a lot of people. This happens every day. Every day we get new people that come forward and say, ‘Hey, I didn’t think that maybe this piece of the story that I knew was important, but now that you guys — I do see this plays in here.'”
The Illinois Republican also said that Hutchinson would “go down in history” for her testimony before the committee:
“She doesn’t want to be out in the public spotlight but she has a commitment to truth that somebody like [South Dakota Gov.] Kristi Noem for instance and most people in our party would actually benefit to take just a 10% ounce of.”
Indeed, Noem embarrassed herself with the things she told Bash, hatefully declaring:
“It’s been difficult to really believe everything she has said. She says she’s telling the truth, but much of it was hearsay and much of it other people have refuted now.”
Asked if she thought failed, one-term former president Donald Trump bears any responsibility for what happened on Jan. 6, Noem replied:
“I think January 6th was a horrific day in our history. I never want to see that happen again. I think moving forward that we’ve got to have a time in our country where we are all start talking to each other again. Where we start having conversations. We get much better policy — I talk about this in my book, Dana — where I talk about the fact that we’ve become a country so offended by each other that we quit talking to each other. It’s hurting public debate that we have to have different perspectives around the table to have an open conversation, and we’ll end up with much better policy, better laws if we can take the emotion and anger and bitterness out of our conversation, and really talk about what is best for our country and where we can agree and move forward.”