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One of Trump's MAGA goons, Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ), had his nefarious rise in politics fueled by winning $10 mil in one of those old "you may have already won!" sweepstakes.

P.S. Biggs' brothers wrote a letter to the Arizona Republic saying he should be removed from office. Guess it's an Arizona Republican congressman thing to have your siblings hate you.

 

The list grows.

House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas retired Army colonel who worked for Trump’s outside legal team

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...41c62a-5eaa-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html

 

I think the judge may have a different idea of "fair and balanced."

Fox News loses bid to dismiss Dominion defamation lawsuit over election coverage | Reuters

 

The Democrats pursue divisive policies!

 

Where's the guillotine emoji when you need it?

 

They can't do that.

Fauci has done nothing wrong.

 

When does Trump endorse him?

https://angrywhitemen.org/2021/12/1...e-people-should-remain-a-majority-in-america/

 

Mitch is OK with the Jan. 6 committee's work?

 

We all know what "unplanned" vacations mean when you work for FNC.

 

Mitch is sending smoke signals that this term will be his last.

 

Jonah Goldberg recently quit Fox News. He just unloaded on the network, and he does not mince words while he's about it. Here's a small slice as he's getting started. Worth a read.

Donald Trump’s Megaphone

"Too much and too little has been made of the Meadows texts released this week. On the one hand, we already knew that lots of Trump boosters were horrified by what they saw on January 6. Heck, I suspect that the vast majority of pro-Trump Republicans were horrified. Even Lindsey Graham, who spent much of Trump’s presidency as the Renfield to his Dracula, famously said he was done with Trump from the well of the Senate that very day. We know that Kevin McCarthy, a political homunculus who makes Lindsey Graham seem Churchillian by comparison, was outraged and expressed his outrage directly to the president during the riot—because he knew the president was responsible.

So it’s no surprise that Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Brian Kilmeade were aghast at the spectacle. (It is a bit surprising however, that Donald Trump Jr. was appalled.) The only person who we know for sure wasn’t appalled by what Trump had wrought was Trump himself.

The significance of those texts isn’t that they recognized the truth of that day. What’s relevant is the contrast of that private behavior with their public behavior over the 11 months that followed.

Last night, Laura Ingraham made a huge deal of the fact that she condemned the violence on her show on the evening of January 6. And she did. Although she sprinkled it with all sorts of fan service nonsense about Antifa provoking the violence and insinuations that the mob was right to be angry about the allegedly rigged election. But she did say, “Political passions boiled over today, and it will only serve to make the lives of MAGA supporters more difficult and even imperil this movement they fought so hard for.”

What she didn’t say is that the mob’s passions boiled over because of Donald Trump’s lies—and the megaphone she and her colleagues gave to those lies. From her texts it’s reasonable to assume that she believed—rightly—that this mob was Trump’s to command because the mob believed it was doing Trump’s bidding.

But that truth is what she left out that night—and, as far as I can tell, every night since. In other words, the central truth of the texts isn’t that what the mob was doing was condemnable, but that Trump was responsible for the condemnable behavior. By the time the cameras went on, Laura was still willing to condemn the president’s mob, but not the president. And if you read the transcript, much of the show was dedicated to rationalizing the mob’s behavior, with various GOP congressmen changing the subject to the supposed real outrage of the stolen election. “Laura, this is bigger than the president of the United States,” Rep. Lee Zeldin explained. “This is bigger than 2020. What we saw in this administration of the 2020 presidential election, rogue state actors, state elections officials, secretaries of state, courts, they usurp state legislative authority. They decided to administer elections however they see fit. And we need to have that conversation today.”

Yes, that was the pressing conversation we needed the day a mob chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” and bludgeoned cops with flag poles.

Laura spent the next 11 months cleaning up the president’s mess."