A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
After steamrolling Trump crony Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) in the primaries, Georgia Secretary of State and key witness Brad Raffensperger (R) is now speaking to the House Jan. 6 Committee on potentially testifying at a public hearing, according to Politico.
So Ms. Pushaw was uh, being groomed by a hostile foreign power?
It’ll be interesting to see/hear the testimony from tRump family members tonight. I don’t expect it will help tfg’s position that he bears no responsibility for the events of J6.
As Donnie’d put it, “I wasn’t down at the Capitol, carrying my flag and fighting for what’s right for 'Murica.”
Lame duck Kurt Schrader won’t be voting no much longer.
A soon to be common theme.
Watch Georgia. In time Trump and Trumpism are gone. Killed by the GOP. That goes down when the first Red State says fuck him and moves on with its GOP free of connections to Trump and Trump unable to do shit about it. That state will likely be Georgia.
Sincerely hope you’re right.
Democrats on Uvalde: Never again.
GOP on Uvalde: Never mind.
Their testimony may be the most explosive and we may not even know for days or weeks how explosive it could prove to be. The entire family is genetically predisposed to rice paper thin skin and a compulsive need for revenge. With their NY state AG testimony slated to begin on the 16th, it’s an exceptionally bad time for one’s loyalty to be questioned. That said, I have no doubt that Ivanka and Jared did everything they could to downplay their part in any coup-y business while going out of their way to underbus the creepy old man.
Re the Jan 6 hearing tonight, I heard some Dem spokesman say that this will be a demonstration to the American public of democratic self government in action, the people’s representatives will be laying out evidence the people can discuss, etc., etc.
Well, that hinges on whether enough of the American people CARE about democracy. About 40% of them don’t even WANT democracy, judging from what I see. And a huge number either feel contempt for truth, or are too befuddled to even bother themselves about whether something is true or false.
Reminds me of the quote by Hannah Arendt:
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
Has something happened to Gym Jordan? Replaced by an imposter who didn’t pay close enough attention? He’s wearing a jacket, folks.
I’m betting every answer given that was damaging to Trump was smartly worded to soften and downplay whatever info the committee was trying to extract. There are ways to be critical of a person and almost couch it as soft praise despite answering truthfully. None of the family “went after” Trump when questioned, that’s assured. A begrudging yes or no was all they got.
Lots of Trumpy Georgians in the hinterlands, but the business community in Atlanta (still Coca-Cola, Delta airlines, etc.) helped get rid of the Confederate battle flag in the state flag, and never got on board with transgender bathroom fights. Gov. Kemp barely supported guns on public university campuses. Now, with Kemp and Raffensperger the victors in the primaries, the pro-business wing seems dominant, but what if Stacey Abrams and Rev. Warnock win in November? I think the future of the Republican Party in Georgia is quite uncertain.
There are plenty of kids coming down the pipeline if we have our say.
I think you’re right, but the presence of Herschel Walker on the ballot is probably going to mean that they can’t totally de-Trump until 2024. Walker won’t let it happen this cycle.
It probably becomes all out war between the business wing and the Trump wing with the Trump wing screaming that the business wing lost because they defied/abandoned Trump. It’ll get especially ugly between the two camps and there’s no telling which one will win.
Nonetheless, I don’t expect any testimony that doesn’t strengthen the case that tfg and his administration actively planned and supported the insurrection. And as plucky said, family testimony in this investigation is going to cause some problems for family unity especially concerning the NY State investigation.
So has any intrepid reporter asked the Congressman from OH how many dead school children per year are within acceptable limits in his A2 unfettered fantasy?
After the Uvalde decapitation testimony, Jordan has cemented even further his abject sociopathy…moving from jocks to kids.
From what I gather – the Trump trials start today.