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Bluntly said, easy-to-understand. Read them through

These 101 acts (not all actuallly materially benefiting himself as he sees it) Trump did. All did and many still are doing immense harm. Read them all. @RBReich.

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The ninth hearing of the Jan 6th commission showed in stark reality that for 187 minutes of violent mob attack on the capitol Trump refused to do anything to stop them; quite the contrary, he wrote 2 or 3 tweets which added gasoline to the fire: egging them on to find and punish (hang) Mike Pence; telling them they were doing the right thing were ( Read more... )

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Friends, I have summarized and commented on the first three as a group. The fourth seems to me so important I'm going to become personal as I had a very hard time falling asleep last night after I watched the hearing.

Heather Cox Richardson summarizes the findings of the fourth Jan 6th investigative committee hearings. They showed how at every ( Read more... )

A precis:

On Day 1 & Day 2: They proved Trump himself started, organized, provided funds, was prime mover of the Jan 6th insurrectionist violent attack on the congress in an effort to overturn the election.

Day 2: They proved that most of the people around Trump (his appointees) told him that all his stories about fraud were total nonsense, ( Read more... )

"I consider it completely unimportant who in the Party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this-who will count the votes, and how.” Joseph Stalin, 1923 (as quoted in “Oxford Essential Quotations, 2017)

Voter fraud is about an individual breaking the law and is almost always caught. It is not a threat to democracy.  Election ( Read more... )

Friends and readers,

We resume our daily lives and approach the anniversary of the fearfully dangerous day, Jan 6, 2021. From Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a PBS Frontline show and documentary American Insurrection in collaboration with ProPublica and recent documents gathered by the Jan 6th Investigative commission, especially Bernie ( Read more... )