A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
At least five people who’ve been charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 have insisted on being their own lawyers in their court cases, a strategy that doesn’t seem to working out super well for them so far.
(Briefest of pauses)
“You’re the loser, I’m not the loser! I won everything!!! You’re a loser, and you only lose!!! …”
These people have fools for clients.
Colin Powell has died.
From Covid. And he was fully vaccinated.
Well of course they want to be their own lawyers.
To see their accusers slink away in shame-to bask in the admiring applause of fellow
patriots.
I sense a Jimmy Stewart moment.
And there’s this!!
Freudian slip there.
Powell was someone who had the opportunity to be a hero, and decided instead to flush his reputation very publicly down the toilet. His biographies will always mention that.
I think that that’s true of all of the trumpanzees as well. History will remember them badly. Forever. Even with efforts to rehabilitate them (“he didn’t really fiddle while Rome burned”), Nero and Caligula are still seen as monsters 2000 years later.
100%
Perhaps she’s been a little milquetoast for their tastes. I’m sure she’ll step it up a notch.
Note to insurrectionists: Agreeing to represent yourself in court is a trick–the government is getting you to recognize the proceedings as legitimate.
Edit: already posted
You know, I remember that fleeting, almost euphoric feeling of relief when I got the first jab way back last spring.
Then came the delta variant.
Yep. It’s still spreading and still deadly.
Powell’s testimony in support of there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a lesson to everyone: be skeptical about what they tell you, and ask people up and down the information chain what they truly believe, and the basis for it. The intelligence community was infected by groupthink, unfortunately, and seemed to believe what they fed to Powell.
Well, hell – if you can hit teh Googles and become an epidemiologist, why should you pay for fancy lawyering?
I was going to be a bit somber and more appreciative of the gravitas.
But…
First Rumsfeld, now Powell. Cheney should look out, guess Biden wasn’t joking about making sure we don’t get into Forever Wars again.