A new truth: if I shoot somebody, you better not punish me because that’ll just make me mad enough to shoot somebody else.

Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady (R) put it this way: “Those calling for impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment in response to President Trump’s rhetoric this week are themselves engaging in intemperate and inflammatory language and calling for action that is equally irresponsible and could well incite further violence.”

Okay, so Brady isn’t known for being smart, but up until now he wasn’t known for being a wife beater either. So now responsibility, rule of law, duty and accountability are intemperate and inflammatory language?

Lindsey Graham said, “If Speaker Pelosi pushes impeachment in the last days of the Trump presidency it will do more harm than good.”  He’s obviously not weighing harm and good on the scales of justice.  And it vaguely sounds to me like Lindsey is threatening.

And Trump, who refuses to shut the hell up, had this to say …

“This impeachment is causing tremendous anger,” he said. “I think it’s causing tremendous danger to this country. … I want no violence.”

So if there’s violence, it’s our fault.

It must get mighty tiresome and weighty for Republicans to carry around that load of caca del toro everywhere they go.

Thanks to Epp for the heads up.

Oh no. I just snorted all over my computer screen.

Fox News Anchor Bill Hemmer asks Trump National Press Secretary Hogan Gidley if the president feels emasculated from "the social media crackdown." pic.twitter.com/lIirtRXWhN

— The Recount (@therecount) January 11, 2021

He said that.  He really said that.  I looked it up other places just to be sure he wasn’t misquoted or something.

Or, maybe he doesn’t know what masculine means.

Or maybe he’s drunk or lost.

Or maybe WTF.

Rumor has it that they are all cuddly this morning.

The NYTimes is reporting that the son of a New York Supreme Court judge, Aaron  Mostofsky, has been arrested in Brooklyn and charged for his participation in the attack on the Capitol last week.  His father is Shlomo Mostofsky. I don’t think this will set well with Old Dad.

Oops.

The attack on democracy by insurrectionists last week was planned on social media platform Parler, which is was the Facebook for Criminals before Amazon yanked it off its servers for violating community standards.  Apparently, Amazon takes a dim view of threatening mass murder and overthrow of governments, and now that Parler is offline, extremists are being forced back into the dark web, the cozy home for racists and child pornographers.

All that is good, but here’s what’s really good…before Parler was taken offline, hackers (who the press calls researchers) scraped personal data on approximately 12 million users, a lot of whom are white supremacists, anti-government types, Trumpists, and armed insurgents.  What’s REALLY good?  After promising anonymity and more “freedom”, Parler actually was more intrusive than even Facebook.  Like Facebook, Parler followed people around, but even required users to upload their DRIVER’S LICENSE to become a “verified person”.  Also all videos posted to the site captured actual GPS coordinates for the video.  The result?  Thousands of the rioters who carried their phones (all of them) incriminated themselves as Parler captured who they were, where they were, and what they did.  Apparently the hackers captured up to 70 terabytes (that’s a lot) of data including said driver’s licenses, geolocations, deleted messages, and something like 1.1 million videos that included GPS locations.

The FBI has a LOT of doors to knock on now, and that’s a good thing.

At all.  Wouldn’t trust him to call the dogs, put your dollar in the love offering plate, or wear clean underwear.

Remember when Ted’s dad told us that he was hand picked by God?

My son Ted and his family spent six months in prayer seeking God’s will for this decision. But the day the final green light came on, the whole family was together. It was a Sunday. We were all at his church, First Baptist Church in Houston, including his senior staff. After the church service, we all gathered at the pastor’s office. We were on our knees for two hours seeking God’s will. At the end of that time, a word came through his wife, Heidi. And the word came, just saying, “Seek God’s face, not God’s hand.” And I’ll tell you, it was as if there was a cloud of the holy spirit filling that place. Some of us were weeping, and Ted just looked up and said, “Lord, here am I, use me. I surrender to you, whatever you want.” And he felt that was a green light to move forward.

Yeah, I don’t trust Ted Cruz’s dad either.