A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who had a call with Trump during the Capitol insurrection, and far-right extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) freaked out yesterday over the House Jan. 6 select committee’s request to telecommunications companies asking for records of certain people, including lawmakers.
Who is “MJT”?
ETA: I see that it’s been fixed on the main page.
Supreme Court Silent As Six-Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect In Texas
This should have been first on today’s list IMO, their silence says everything.
Sucks to suck.
Marjorie Jailer Teen?
(no relation)
It’s no longer Republicans versus Democrats. It’s more like Americans versus Communists,” Greene told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
No no…
It is delusional & deranged Fascists vs Americans …
Excellent tweet from Dan as we wake up to the effective end of Roe v Wade in Texas and a silent SCOTUS
[R]epresentative Ted Lieu (D-CA) tweeted the legal code: 18 U.S. Code § 1505: “Whoever…by any threatening letter or communication…endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede…the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any…investigation is being had by either House…Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned…”
Chew on that, GQP.
On Tucker Carlson’s show on the Fox News Channel , Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said, “These telecommunication companies, if they go along with this, they will be shut down. That’s a promise.”
So who’s the Communist now? Since when does the US government have any power to shut down companies cooperating in an investigation (see above, from Ted Lieu)?
These folks are getting entirely too full of themselves. When do they, themselves, get shut down?
Fascists promise fascism if they are ever in power again. Film at 11.
It’s not true that the Taliban got ahold of $85 billion worth of U.S. military equipment that Louisianans could’ve used to bomb the hurricane or whatever.
A link without a paywall:
It’s true that over a span of 20 years, the U.S. spent more than $80 billion to train and equip military forces in Afghanistan. However, this number does not reflect the value of the equipment that was left behind after America’s withdrawal from the area. Billions of dollars worth of equipment was removed or demilitarized by the U.S. military before leaving Afghanistan. An exact accounting of the military equipment currently in the Taliban’s hands is not available, though one expert estimated that the total value was closer to $10 billion.
Cut and paste is hard
Imprison them now.
(S)he’s kinda like Voldemort: folks here’s looking for the most oblique possible way to name them so as not to summon images of them to mind, or some such reason.
Let me suggest that, if the shoe were on the other foot and Dems were making these statements about GQP, the prisons might be a whole lot fuller.
That they’re taking extra careful time to consider the case in order to best squash it, I presume.
Hopefully we will find out what they are freaking out about soon, during the House hearings. I suspect that Greene, Boebert, Cawthorn, et al. made a number of incriminating phone calls and McCarthy knows about it.
Well Margie, Kevin, If you have nothing to hide you shouldn’t worry.
So what are they hiding?
So, at Pentagon prices, that’s about what you’d expect to buy on a shopping spree at the five and dime.
Really, though, this is ridiculous: among other things, a lot of this equipment is only good for as long as the supply of spare parts holds.
I wish I could go back and find all the comments that I saw from people tut-tutting our concern because it was “settled law.”