A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Virginia deputy attorney general Monique Miles resigned on Thursday after the Washington Post asked her about Facebook posts she’d made applauding the “peace loving” Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists and spreading MAGA conspiracy theories that China election frauded Trump.
Lynne Torgerson, one of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s (D) Republican challengers, was proud to inform everyone at a GOP primary candidate forum last month that at least two of her staffers stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a video clip flagged by Heartland Signal on Thursday.
So did she call the FBI to report them? 
Federal Conservatives call on anti-vaccine mandate protesters to go home | CBC News
After publicly supporting the anti-vaccine mandate activists protesting in Ottawa in recent weeks, interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen said Thursday it’s time for the convoy and other protesters blocking two major border crossings to end their demonstrations and go home.
“The economy you want to see reopened is hurting. You protested because you love your country and you want your freedoms back. That message has been heard.”
Bergen said barricades and trucks should be removed for the sake of the economy and because "it’s the right thing to do
Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman, the party’s transport critic, was a vocal defender of the convoy’s early efforts to force the federal government to abandon the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers. She has since soured on the movement as the protests have spread to critical border crossings.
But now the internet sleuths will turn the lives of all her staffers inside out until they figure out who they are. It would be better for her to name them now. But hey, Goopers aren’t known for following well thought-out advice.
I see Canada having the same problem with their wingnut conservatives – they create a monster, and then can’t control it.
h/t @mrbill30560
Bergen doesn’t come out and say what most Canadians think and just tells them to go home. This after days supporting the truckers to gain votes and only after CEOs from the auto industry voiced their disapproval of the convoy blocking traffic. The supply chain is what made the difference.
Lynne Torgerson is a real doozy. I heard her campaign slogan is -
“Let Fascism have Its Day, In the Good 'Ole USA!”
Another rising star in cult of crazy.
*Biden predicted that his eventual nominee would have GOP support(1) because he’s “not looking to make an ideological choice.”(2)
So, how’s that ginormous GOP “reckoning” coming along?
BREAKING: The Ontario government says it has effectively frozen all donations made to the trucker convoy through GiveSendGo. It is now a criminal offence to have any “dealing” with money from donations through this platform.
It’s already an ideological choice. At this point in time, Biden could nominate a russet potato and the GOP would make it an ideological choice.
I guess there might be comparisons but there is a clear difference; our Conservatives are slowly making themselves unelectable. Some 70% of Canadians are anti trucker convoy. Some agree with some of the points they make and that leaves only a small minority who are diehard nut bar supporters.
Where are the wicked Canadian witches when they’re needed?
They are “reckoning” they need to STFU or lose their magat voters.
Biggest cheerleaders right here
Entrepreneurs, not journalists.
An Ottawa shelter has received a flood of donations after some of its staff and residents reported being harassed on the first weekend that a truck convoy protesting COVID-19 mandates was in the city.
After the Shepherds of Good Hope began posting on Twitter about the incidents, people began sending in donations that in two weeks have totalled roughly $750,000.
“When we got the final tally, we were just incredibly blown away, I think we’re in a bit of a state of shock,” said Caroline Cox, the shelter’s communications manager.
On Jan. 29, the shelter’s food service wasdisrupted by a small group of protesters who were seeking a meal and who subjected staff and volunteers to verbal harassment.
One resident was shoved up against a truck and the security guard who came to help him was called a racial slur, Cox said.
She said the security guard identified those involved as part of the protest group.
Brief reminder that basically the only people eligible to vote by mail in Texas are age 65+, and making it harder for oldsters to vote is obviously a fantastic electoral strategy even though it also assuages Trump’s dumb 2020 election grievances.
Really, only a russet has the right upbringing and pedigree to fulfill the duties of a Supreme Court judge. Anything less, like a Yukon gold or Idaho, would only be fit to serve as a common tater.
