Prickly City by Scott Stantis for February 03, 2021

Let the merriment begin. See all the comments from yesterday, they are still appropriate.

^^Just like the interviewer, his mind’s already made up. Facts and logic be damned.

I guess if Republicans say ANTIFA enough times, we’re supposed to believe it exists?

Carmen, now go find a news channel and not a propaganda channel like FOX or OANN.

It works for them.

Unfortunately the radicals have stolen control of both parties. Where the Hell are the conservatives from both parties?

Stantis, put down the crack pipe.

The good news is that Trump’s incompetence means almost all his acts can be undone fairly simply. The bad news is that the stain on our character is visible from space. It will be for centuries.

Even Newsmax turned off the My Pillow Guy when he wouldnt shut up about Dominion Voting Machines.

It wasn’t an attack on Republican lawmakers, it was an attack on Democrats. Don’t flatter yourself.

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”,

Charles Baudelaire.

Yep, that’s typical Newsmax (and evening Fox News)

Out foxed again!

“Fake news! Believe me. Believe me.” – The Simple Simian, twice daily, 2017-2021

So this is why they’ve been giving Carmen ‘liberal’ lines—time for her heresy trial at the Star Chamber.

[Don’t worry, Carmen! The way they draw you now, nobody will associate you with things you said in the past!]

The persistent Trump “base” and the Republican members of Congress who maintain fealty to Donald Trump do so for a variety of reasons.

“Membership” in the Trump base may include entry into one or more of the following categories.

1. “All-in” isolationists, ultra-nationalists, white supremacists, racists and insurrectionists Arguably all those who marched in Charlottesville in summer 2017 and many of those stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 are openly racist, and have felt liberated by the rhetoric and policies of the Trump era.

2. Opportunists and political chameleons Those who fall into this category recognized that the Trump train presented itself as a vehicle by which one could achieve fame, success, ambition and political or personal gain.

3. Narrow-minded, limited information input and vulnerable to cultism This group of followers is either actively or passively limited in the information that they receive through on-air and online media outlets.

4. Voting with their pocketbook Members of this group are totally focused on individual and family wealth.

5. Hold your nose and vote Republican These group members are cousins of the previous group.

6. But he and I are Christians! In many ways an outgrowth of the latter group, these followers maintain their identity and faith as evangelical Christians. They have consistently voted Republican for a widely varying set of reasons, the abortion issue first and foremost among them.

https://www.salon.com/2021/02/03/why-do-70-million-americans—and-many-members-of-congress—still-follow-trump/

The “false flag” theory would have worked better if the nutjobs had not exposed their faces and posted their short-lived “triumph” online. Please keep track of those who espouse such views. At some point they will be trying to sell you a car or insurance or get elected, as though they can be trusted.

Pretty darn close to ‘interviews’ I have seen on Fox “news”.

Megan Kelly did one just like that with Ralph Nader a couple decades ago.

SOP.

Remember this Trumpers: your reward for rallying to Trump’s aid and trying to overthrow the government will get you labeled as “Antifa” the moment Trump gets any pushback… and no pardons for you either…

There are more signs of hope on the horizon (some more fulfilling than others of course):

The Senate Ethics Committee are reviewing the involvement of Cruz and Hawley in the insurrection (I don’t expect and worthy results from this but the bad publicity may sway some voters away from their camps). There are billboards up in Texas calling for Cruz to resign. Hawley, who was photographed saluting pro-Trump protesters before they stormed the Capitol, has faced severe political blowback since Wednesday’s deadly riots: a former mentor disavowed him, Simon & Schuster abandoned plans to publish his upcoming book, a prominent donor who gave Hawley millions called for him to be censured and Democrats, as well as a handful of Republicans, have accused him of helping to incite the violence that left five people, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer, dead. People in Missouri are calling for him th resign.

A year-end federal filing from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows shows legal expenses that experts say indicate it is “highly likely” the North Carolina Republican is under scrutiny for campaign finance violations.

The New York court system is reviewing opening new State charges against Bannon.

More than 370 Capitol Hill staffers signed an open letter to senators asking them to convict Trump. This request stems from Trump’s “role in inciting the violent attack at the Capitol,” per the letter. “For our sake, and the sake of the country, we ask that they vote to convict the former president and bar him from ever holding office again,” they wrote.

To remove the two week delay, go to Scott’s regular page.

His true colors are being shown.

By alleging that it’s pointless to have an impeachment trial now, he’s really saying, “Give every former president a get-out-of-jail card – for free!”

As was said this morning on the View, not impeaching Trump now will lead to the unintended consequence of inexcusable behavior from presidents in their last weeks in office.

Lame ducks can become cornered wolves.

Been there, done that.

But the next one with ill intent may be competent.

The reason impeachment after he left office is irrelevant is, it’s been done before. But because we’ve never convicted a president before, that means we’ve never convicted a president after he left office before. But leave the office of president out of it, and there is precedent for impeaching and convicting after tenure is over.

The train wreck we’re approaching, though, is that there were enough Republicans already voting against even having the trial that, if I were the oddsmaker, I’d say we’re heading down the same track as last year.

DJT acquitted again.

And so, we see Keven McCarthy coddling Marjorie Taylor Green, while Liz Cheney is being treated like yet another extreme far left traitor and socialist dictator.

In other words, Liz Cheney is fighting for her job. MTG is not.

And don’t get me started on Colorado’s embarrassment, Lauren Boebert.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Republican Q-Anon Party!

The Q-publican party?

To bad we can not “inoculate” his supporters with some common sense.

I thought only Honey Bunny called people “minons”.