Month: May 2024

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Capitol Insurrection GOP January 6 WTF?!

Tom Cotton Gets Schooled For Saying J6 Rioters ‘Just Wandered’ Into the Capitol

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) got called out and corrected this morning when he suggested on ABC News that rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, merely “wandered” into the building.

This Week host Jonathan Karl reminded Cotton of a statement he made following the riot regarding Donald Trump’s role in that horrific day: “It’s past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence.”

“More than three years later, Trump has still not accepted the results,” Karl told the senator. “He is still misleading the American people.”

Cotton incorrectly replied that Trump had accepted the results of the 2020 election “that very day.”

“He still hasn’t accepted the results of the election,” Karl countered. “He’s also calling the people that attacked the Capitol hostages. And he’s suggesting that he would, may pardon all of them. I mean, I assume you don’t agree with that.”

“He said that he would consider pardons, and some of them probably…” Cotton sputtered.

Karl interjected, “And he called them hostages. So you agree these are hostages?”

“Some of them have been held in pre-trial detention longer than the sentences for the crimes with which they are charged,” Cotton insisted. “For people who just wandered into the Capitol, they thought it was open or was on the grounds.”

That’s when Karl slapped Cotton with a timely fact-check.

“I mean, that wasn’t like wandering. This wasn’t a tourist visit.”

Rather than address that point, Cotton whined the Justice Department had failed to prosecute “left-wing street militia threatening to assassinate Supreme Court justices.”

“People who were involved in that riot, who assaulted police officers, or who defaced and damaged public property should face the legal consequences,” he added.

“Isn’t it odd that the Republican nominee doesn’t agree with that?” Karl wondered.

“What shouldn’t be used is every grandma who had a red MAGA hat that was within a country mile of the Capitol on January 6th shouldn’t be sitting in pre-trial detention for a longer time than the crimes for which they might face a sentence,” Cotton whined.

Like nearly every member of the GOP since Donald Trump took complete control of their failing political party, Tom Cotton has become little more than a hypocritical shill who cannot criticize the failed ex-president, even when he incites an insurrection. Is it any wonder why so many Americans are sick and tired of Republicans and their bullshit?

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Crime Donald Trump Elections

A Four-Word Text Message May Be What Sinks Trump In His Hush Money Trial

A four-word text between Keith Davidson, an attorney for Stormy Daniels and Dylan Howard, a former editor at the National Enquirer, could wind up being the most damning evidence that former president Donald Trump and his surrogates directly interfered in the 2016 election, which is a felony and could land Trump in prison for several years, according to legal expert Norm Eisen.

In an op-ed he wrote for CNN, Eisen notes that the text message is crucial to a larger understanding of what Trump was attempting to do: Hide an embarrassing sex scandal from voters shortly after the Access Hollywood tape had been aired and nearly upended his bid for the White House.

“Although Davidson is just a supporting actor in this drama, his role in negotiating the alleged payment to Daniels makes him an important witness to lay down the basic facts of the alleged ‘catch and kill’ plot — and to corroborate the details that former American Media, Inc. CEO and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker established and Cohen will ultimately testify about,” Eisen explains. “Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Davidson’s morning testimony came when he was asked about an election night 2016 text message exchange with Dylan Howard —a former editor of the National Enquirer who helped broker the negotiations for the story. The prosecution asked Davidson to explain the meaning of a text he had sent to Howard that evening. As the election was about to be called for Trump, Davidson sent a text to Howard asking, ‘What have we done?'”

The importance of that text message cannot be overstated, Eisen continues, because the New York hush money trial isn’t just about cash in exchange for silence or business fraud. It’s about the possibility that Trump and his associates acted to defraud voters.

“Without the intent to cover up another offense, falsifying documents is just a misdemeanor. The reason Trump has been charged with felony document falsification here is because it was allegedly done with intent to cover up a payment in excess of campaign contribution limits that was made in order to impact an election.”

Additionally, Eisen reveals, prosecutors don’t have to prove the hush money scheme with Daniels actually changed any votes or led to Trump’s victory in order for the ex-president to be found guilty. Having the intent to do so would be enough.

“I was watching the jury closely when Davidson spoke, and they were riveted. The prosecution is constantly finding ways to tell jurors that they are giving weeks of their life to weigh a matter that is not trivial, but critical for the honesty of our elections and our democracy. We will see if they agree when they ultimately deliver their verdict.”

Four simple words could be what doom Trump and lead to his incarceration before a single ballot is cast in the 2024 election. How ironic would that be?

 

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Donald Trump Social Media Trump Supporters WTF?!

#RealMenWearDiapers Trends As The MAGA Faithful Go Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole

If you’ve been on Twitter this week, you may have seen a bizarre hashtag that left you scratching your head and wondering if social media had gotten even stranger than usual.

The hashtag? #RealMenWearDiapers. Go ahead and see for yourself.

Can you believe that?

So what exactly is going on here? Well, it appears that the MAGA faithful have fully embraced the notion that failed former president Donald Trump does indeed wear adult diapers and they’re completely cool with the whole idea, according to Harry Fletcher of Indy100.

“The posts from (former Trump attorney Michael) Cohen, which were posted in April, show him taunting Trump and calling him the nickname ‘Von S**itzInPantz’.”

“Since this bizarre turn of events, Trump’s supporters seem to have embraced the nickname in an unexpected way, turning up to rallies wearing diapers and shirts with the slogan ‘real men wear diapers’ written upon them.”

Take a look for yourself:

Can someone please make it make sense?

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GOP Social Media

Bette Midler Goes Viral With Snarky Photo Of Marjorie Taylor Greene

When it comes to the internet and social media, it’s not always easy to figure out why some things go viral while others languish in the outer reaches of the ether.

However, other items are destined for greatness from the get-go, either because they mock someone who is almost universally despised or they manage to tickle the collective funny bone in a manner that makes it irresistible.

And that’s the case with a photo/meme of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that was shared on Twitter by singer and actor Bette Midler.

As Newsweek explains, Greene’s hat is an echo of a new slogan that was briefly used by failed former president Donald Trump.

In late 2022, when Trump announced plans to run for another term in the White House, he introduced a play on MAGA known as MAGAGA—an acronym for “Make America Great and Glorious Again.” Trump’s official website shows that he has continued use of “Make America Great Again” for his 2024 campaign.

Others on Twitter then joined the fun.

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GOP Viral Video WTF?!

Unhinged GOP Senator Attacks Witness During Hearing: ‘Are You Going To Call Me A Sick F**k?!’

Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy had a deranged meltdown yesterday during a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee and verbally attacked a witness for daring to retweet a posting on social media in which Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was called a “sick fuck” by climate protesters in March.

According to Mediaite, “Manchin was confronted by a group of climate activists at Harvard University, where one protester called him a ‘sick fuck’ before he was forcibly removed from the room. Supran retweeted a post by the organization responsible for disrupting Manchin’s visit at the university.”

The witness, Dr. Geoffrey Supran, Professor of Environmental Science & Policy and Director of Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami, told Kennedy, “Big oil is the new big tobacco. As a scholar of disinformation, I do not use the word lie’ lightly. But no other word adequately describes the oil industry’s brazen efforts to mislead the public about its history of misleading the public.”

Rather than engage Supran on the issue of climate change and public policy, Kennedy tried to pick a fight with him.

“Are you going to call me a sick fuck?”

Supran countered.

“This form of character assassination is characteristic of the kinds of propaganda techniques of the fossil fuel industry.”

Kennedy got his comeuppance on social media, where many noted that he is indeed a sick fuck.

Careful what questions you ask, Sen. Kennedy. You might not like the answers.