For what it’s worth, I definitely share Chris Hayes's take on Trumper Pat Cipollone and his testimony for the 1/6 Committee, including Cipollone’s comments about “the normals” and “the crazies” advising Trump, along with the clip from the ’16 debate w/HRC where Trump basically refused to say he’d accept the results of an election if he lost, which should have been a bright red flashing siren to anybody with a brain, but we know what happened of course (and kudos to Hayes for presenting the other clips where Our Treasonous Orange Pustule of a Former “President” reiterated that position)...
...and David Doel tells us about “Blow ‘em Up” Bolton admitting to planning at least one coup d’etat (oh, but not here, which I don’t actually believe of course...mildly NSFW/H)...
...and Sam and Emma tell us about that U.S. Senatorial mistake RoJo in Wisconsin pulling an ad about the immigrants who died in the trailer in Texas (here), which is awful of course (the fatalities I mean), and particularly so since the ad was ready right after the Highland Park shooting...I realize it’s an exercise in futility to try and bring an intelligent perspective to something as idiotic as RoJo’s typical wingnuttery, but yeah, if we really did have an “open borders” policy, those people in the trailer wouldn’t have suffocated or died of exposure (to do something about Johnson, click here)...
...and Farron Cousins tells us about Dem U.S. House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and her efforts to get the gun makers to testify before her committee on July 20th (Maloney, to her credit, has been pretty relentless on this issue, and I have a feeling her great work here is also partly motivated by the fact that, somehow, she’s apparently in a congressional redistricting fight with Jerry Nadler)...
...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 7/13/12...Stuart Zechman points out an important distinction for Social Security and Medicare, namely, that the programs are insurance and not safety nets per se, and yes, there is a difference...important to keep this in mind with the “party of Lincoln” making noises about “sunsetting” Social Security and Medicare (here and here)...
...and happy belated 80th birthday to drummer Stephen Jo Bladd of The J. Geils Band.
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