TWGB: But His Emails!

 

Liz Cheney reads texts from Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Donald Trump Jr. urging former President Trump to act while he sat around and did nothing for hours during the insurrection pic.twitter.com/jkk7KhxF0s

— Acyn (@Acyn) December 14, 2021

There is definitely a game of "one of these things is not like the other" you could play here. Three of these people are Fox News hosts, which makes them trying to crisis manage Trump's reputation by accessing the White House via Meadows when they are allegedly some kind of journalists (no they aren't) is  kind of a reach and crazy levels of access for them, but it's kind of really pathetic as all hell that Don Jr., Trump's #1 son and namesake, is also trying to contact his dad's Chief of Staff to get listened to. 

This is Don Jr. considering his future and maybe that of his own kids and how they will read about their grandpa in history books. Considering the businesses he and his siblings are all working to keep some kind of reputable and profitable. A legacy. And his dad is not just fucking with it, but not taking his calls to hear this from him personally? 

That makes me a little sad for him, but not enough not to notice he hasn't denounced his dad at all, never once.

So for one thing, it doesn't escape my notice that Meadows' devices, including his personal phone, seems to be what reveals the Trump putsch, as well as his personal emails, etc. These are things a certain someone never would have had in her email. 

 And I can't help but notice all of the Fox News folks gleefully went along with the "antifa" bill of goods the Trump insurrection needed to divert attention from the responsibility of Trump's very own invitees, to people who weren't even there (antifa). They did this knowing it wasn't so, like it was their job to promote completely erroneous batshit propaganda to the masses. Shocker!

I mean, Trump told everyone who the enemy was supposed to be beforehand--foreigners, antifa, foreign antifa-ers.  But he really only has himself to blame for antifa not showing that day, because he told them not to. 

He always does leave a trail behind him, does Trump. 

Anyway, this was supposed to be his sending National Guard to Berkeley / pleasing the Silent Majority folks moment. (Enjoy this cartoon interlude.)

Or maybe his Tiananmen Square being the guy who sent the tanks moment. Trump loves authoritarianism, and makes no bones about it. He just recently said he best-liked his talks with Xi, Putin and Kim Jong-Un. He isn't lying. He let the America Carnage continue, because to him, it meant "toughness" and "being a killer." 

So of course Trump never stopped the violence just for the sake of propriety. The Capitol Police did their job. He failed at his. That was his violence. That was all Trump. His ego, his sissy snit-fit at losing the presidency. His trying to do something audacious and failing because he understood nothing at all. 

But the evidence damns not just him, or Meadows, or Fox News. There was ample Republican complicity, and the media, for the sake of book deals, failed to be what Woodward and Bernstein were (even Woodward himself). 

This all needs to be front page news--now, and not when hearings start. Now. We need to recognize that Jeffrey Clark is pleading the fifth because he perpetrated a fraud. Giuliani perpetrated a fraud. Sidney Powell perpetrated a fraud. Jenna Ellis perpetrated a fraud. Phil Waldron perpetuated a fraud. Mike Lindell perpetuated a fraud. They all told people there was voter fraud and had no evidence/manufactured evidence. And this is where it lead. And it could have lead to the end of our democratic experiment for which our forefathers bled and gave their last full measure of devotion. 

Whatever they intended, what they got was mob violence, a failed coup, and just scads of these SOBS need charged with sedition, fraud, and fuck it. It's treason. Dare we call it that yet? 

Fox News isn't ready to call it that. But it needs thrown in their faces. Giuliani, like a zombie, is still perpetrating the fraud. It needs called out.  The spirit of the insurrection is still ongoing. It can not be put down by half-measures. I am pleased to see the 1/6 Committee calling people out but it is the hearings that I look forward to. The American people must know the extent of the lies and the conspiracy and how close we came to losing our country as we know it.