I am so glad you quoted that Hawley statement. He's an especially obnoxious dweeb, because unlike Blackburn and Tuberville, he's smart enough to understand the implications of what he says. He knows how it might be taken to heart by those fringe elements who do not have the sanctity of the vote and stability of the dollar among their central concerns. Hawley regularly goes all in on that "Democrats are democracy-hating traitors seeking to destroy America" rhetoric.
I realize this has been part of the Republican playbook since 1932, but man, he really dials it up to 11 -- not to mention the way he packs 3 or 4 outright fabrications into a single radioactive sentence. The man's a walking gish gallop. I feel real alarm about what his prominence portends for the republic. Never mind the satirical aspect of a guy who obviously will do anything for power declaring that his opponent (whose administration was marked by glacially slow-moving due process) will do anything for power. In an angry and violent caucus of dopes, grifters, and radicals, Hawley really stands out as somehow the most blatantly -- empty and dangerous.
No love for Tom "send in the troops to shoot protestors" Cotton? And an honorable mention for our ally Liz "Democrat baby killers" Cheney. They all dial it up to 11, you either get with Trump's program or leave the party.
Cotton wasn't on Trump's and Giuliani's speed dials that day, and that's all I'm really on about in this post: which senators were at work, abetting the coup.
No evidence that Cotton was, though. The op-ed was from a completely different phase of whatever planning was done (June 2020), and more in the traditional military coup genre.
Cotton is at 10. There's no "Stasi" mention in his stupid op-ed, and instead of blatant lies he sticks to wild distortions. He is distorting as part of an effort to persuade. Hawley is past persuading. Keep an eye on Hawley. And whether it's him or Vance who heads the ticket in 2028, Cotton and Cheney will only be along for the ride.
I'm not seeing any daylight between Hawley and most Republican Senators (outliers like Paul and Massie alternate between apparant sanity and bugfuck weird). They all use hysterical language to make their baseless assertions, whatever the subject. Our host contends that involvement in the phony elector scheme is a crossed line, which I am forced to agree with as a historic moment in the attack on democracy in America, but it differs only in scale from say, the Brooks Brothers Riot. The Republican party as an institution has been overtly attacking democracy since the 90s. Trump simply stripped away the veneer. Maybe that matters, I dunno. But you can throw a rock in the Senate and hit a Republican that would be a threat to America as President. Hawley has the charisma of JD Vance and would not survive a Republican primary without biting the head off of an illegal alien to esablish his bona fides.
The indelible stain (added to all the other stains) on our historical tapestry will never be removed – all we can hope to do is stitch a boundary round it that using bright red yarn and the words "This is what you get when you abandon the sense god gave a stump. Quit electing stumps."
Can only add today that it is difficult to overstate how nightmarish the bad dream it was and still is. I've lived long enough to wake many midnights in total terror. None of those were as disgustingly, heartbreakingly frightening as watching and hearing it happen in the real world from the edge of the mob. That they were substantially aided by senators and representatives within the building is the message everyone needs to remember. Monsters do not walk among us, and tho they should be running for their lives from the enraged citizenry, instead they deliver vile pronouncements for fun and profit, from the highest public pulpits.
I am so glad you quoted that Hawley statement. He's an especially obnoxious dweeb, because unlike Blackburn and Tuberville, he's smart enough to understand the implications of what he says. He knows how it might be taken to heart by those fringe elements who do not have the sanctity of the vote and stability of the dollar among their central concerns. Hawley regularly goes all in on that "Democrats are democracy-hating traitors seeking to destroy America" rhetoric.
I realize this has been part of the Republican playbook since 1932, but man, he really dials it up to 11 -- not to mention the way he packs 3 or 4 outright fabrications into a single radioactive sentence. The man's a walking gish gallop. I feel real alarm about what his prominence portends for the republic. Never mind the satirical aspect of a guy who obviously will do anything for power declaring that his opponent (whose administration was marked by glacially slow-moving due process) will do anything for power. In an angry and violent caucus of dopes, grifters, and radicals, Hawley really stands out as somehow the most blatantly -- empty and dangerous.
thanks, and yes, agreed
Well said.
No love for Tom "send in the troops to shoot protestors" Cotton? And an honorable mention for our ally Liz "Democrat baby killers" Cheney. They all dial it up to 11, you either get with Trump's program or leave the party.
Cotton wasn't on Trump's and Giuliani's speed dials that day, and that's all I'm really on about in this post: which senators were at work, abetting the coup.
No evidence that Cotton was, though. The op-ed was from a completely different phase of whatever planning was done (June 2020), and more in the traditional military coup genre.
Cotton is at 10. There's no "Stasi" mention in his stupid op-ed, and instead of blatant lies he sticks to wild distortions. He is distorting as part of an effort to persuade. Hawley is past persuading. Keep an eye on Hawley. And whether it's him or Vance who heads the ticket in 2028, Cotton and Cheney will only be along for the ride.
I'm not seeing any daylight between Hawley and most Republican Senators (outliers like Paul and Massie alternate between apparant sanity and bugfuck weird). They all use hysterical language to make their baseless assertions, whatever the subject. Our host contends that involvement in the phony elector scheme is a crossed line, which I am forced to agree with as a historic moment in the attack on democracy in America, but it differs only in scale from say, the Brooks Brothers Riot. The Republican party as an institution has been overtly attacking democracy since the 90s. Trump simply stripped away the veneer. Maybe that matters, I dunno. But you can throw a rock in the Senate and hit a Republican that would be a threat to America as President. Hawley has the charisma of JD Vance and would not survive a Republican primary without biting the head off of an illegal alien to esablish his bona fides.
The indelible stain (added to all the other stains) on our historical tapestry will never be removed – all we can hope to do is stitch a boundary round it that using bright red yarn and the words "This is what you get when you abandon the sense god gave a stump. Quit electing stumps."
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Thanks for the re-view.
Can only add today that it is difficult to overstate how nightmarish the bad dream it was and still is. I've lived long enough to wake many midnights in total terror. None of those were as disgustingly, heartbreakingly frightening as watching and hearing it happen in the real world from the edge of the mob. That they were substantially aided by senators and representatives within the building is the message everyone needs to remember. Monsters do not walk among us, and tho they should be running for their lives from the enraged citizenry, instead they deliver vile pronouncements for fun and profit, from the highest public pulpits.