In Des Moines, IA, elder statesman Chuck Grassley openly embraced the traitorous and obviously unwell twice-impeached one-term ex-president while he ranted his way through grievances and conspiracy theories. Which hearkens me back to when the Senate Pro Tempore tweeted that maybe the Vice-President wouldn't be available to do his ceremonial duties on 1/6, and how wrong I had been. Pence showed up then, in the breach, and did the right thing. Grassley shows up at a rally, 9 months after Trump has been out of office, and at this advanced age and reputation, kisses Trump's medi-ochre behind because he would like another crack at being Senator.
Because what else is there? Eating you know what, riding a tractor, telling the History Channel to get off his lawn and bothering with "pidgins"?
Of the two, Grassley looks like the one who is up for a grueling campaign, though. Trump looks sad. His hair is gracelessly in denial of the baring of his scalp, as much as his clothes can not contain the drooping quality of his gait and posture. But why should Grassley be any different than the young suck-ups who salute Trump and then do their thing? The salute is what matters. Keeping that untidy Trump ass pleased and almost normal. Denying his obvious transgressions.
Now, President Biden has shown Trump he isn't president anymore and his goddamn last acts aren't an official secret anyone needs to protect, so that happened this week. The missing Scavino turned up and got served, Meadows and Patel are supposedly cooperating, and only the pardoned but probably still open to state charges Bannon is out here denying the lawful subpoena but it's because...get this: Trump says. Even if, as a non-White House employee since well before 1/6, he has the worst case. That''s criminal contempt on Bannon's part and Trump's ask (if he directly did and he's totally done as much before) is obstruction.
And of course there's the plethora of blogger and 'thought leader" folks who just got served as well. Like Ali Alexander, who talked about the members of congress he talked with. And you know. Other people were also very much gathered in. US Senators, spouses of SCOTUS, which sounds very specific and of course it is, because how many spouses of SCOTUS are heading up Tea Party groups and supporting Project Veritas? All mainstream conservatives? All apparently down with the insurrection. And still have the nerve to call themselves "patriots".
All for Trump, whose DC Hotel lost money while he was in office, even though it was basically the bribery pay-window. Trump whose money-losing Scotland properties are also under investigation. He's basically a poor businessman and a book-cooking fraud. And not at all the caliber of person needs for higher office--he shoots his mouth off, but in reality, he couldn't and didn't deliver.
Trump cries foul and whines that his persecution is because of his conservative beliefs, which matches the ethos of people who always want to liken themselves to Christians thrown to lions or Jews facing a Holocaust, as tasteless and inaccurate as those claims ever are. But it's more like he keeps up his political profile in the hope that some kind of populist clout on his behalf keeps him out of personal repercussions for his very own transgressions.
I don't know when the subpoenas even target Roger Stone, who was all up and friendly with both Proud Boys and Oath Keepers before the 1/6 events, let alone whether the committee will try to hear from other sitting members of congress. But I think everyone should be considered lawfully subject and be impelled under force of law if necessary. Fines. Jail.
Yes, the brainwashed Trumpist terrorists will be big-mad. Also, they like the idea of martyrdom in theory, but in practice the least thing aggrieves the snowflakes very much. I don't know that confronting the nascent fascist/Q cult masses with all deliberate sternness has a downside.
And when do they haul in Flynn? Even though by now he's on his own weird anti-vax q-adjacent shit.
They all are/were doing war on US soil against out democracy. And I am not at all amused by that shit in the least.
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Well, to be historically accurate, this sort of shallow and empty grandstanding for the press characterizes Grassley's entire political career. Back in the early 80's, at the height of that era's farm crisis when broke Iowa farmers were going into banks and shooting loan officers, Grassley (yeah, he was a Senator back then) was all over the problem in the press except he never actually did anything for the family farmers who were particularly affected. Over the intervening years he's been a loyal and completely worthless Republican, so much so that I've likened his presence in Washington to a life-sized cardboard cut-out photograph. But a majority of Iowa voters seem to like bland and worthless or disgusting like former congressmen Steve King.
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