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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
It is my understanding that these are *some* of the guardsmen who have arrived to guard the Capitol through the inauguration.
1national guard already on duty to protect capitol and be ready for inauguration. they have permission to be armed to put down any more traitors that choose to continue on with traitoring things. i’m having trouble recovering from the sight of gym jordan in a jacket. who knew he owned one?!
2Troops outside the Capitol (and some inside) are among the “Hundreds of armed National Guard members [who] were inside the halls of Congress amid reports of expected violence leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.”
First set of troops barracked at the Capitol in 160 years, apparently.
3Who’s the guy that only covers his mouth on the GOP side? Where’s the fine? That GOP guy in the purple suit? Doing his exaggerated hand gestations? It’s a show for them, rehashing old S*** not THE issue of insurrection, attempted kidnapping and actual murder that happened. AOC shared a bit of their narrow escape. I’m glued but getting pissed.
4Reporter Seth Abramson has a long tweet thread today with the evidence he has so far concerning conspiracy. A group of Republicans in AL and AZ coordinated planning. Alabama AG Mo Brooks recruited the Republic Attorneys General Assn. to robocall participants to come on 1/6. He convinced House and Senate members including new Senator Tuberville to object to accepting certain states during the Electoral College process, to get the timing right. They knew Trump’s speech ending at noon would rile people up and send them toward the Capitol. At 11:50 Proud Boys teams started attacking crowd barriers at the Capitol so they’d be down when the crowd got there. Early stages of the planning involved Roger Stone (of course) and Giuliani. Gonna get ugly for some folks.
5CA Doug LaMalfa F*** OFF
6National Guard troops to protect the Capitol and Congress from further attack. So says CNN. I don’t have a TV, so I got that from their internet feed.
I switched to ABC news and watched Rep. Fallon of Texas once more act like a typical GOPolitician and lie like a rug and refer to the impeachment of a treasonous president as a “sham”. And other things I won’t mention except to note: his military service was in the Air Force; he’d been a cadet in the AFROTC at Notre Dame where he got his BA. He was a second lieutenant for four years before he left active duty. That’s a heckuva long time to be a butterbars with no promotion, even in the post-Nam era (born in 1973, he probably graduated from Notre Dame in approximately 1977.) He mentions his AF “Achievement Award” in his bio. If that’s like the one I got, it means you didn’t get in serious trouble in your first couple of years of service.
Air Force is over-represented among stone cold conservatives.
Fallon moved to Denton County, TX in the early 1990s to start a business making “Patriotic” clothing, business name “Virtus”. Don’t buy their stuff. I hope I never have (I do occasionally buy a T-shirt with military-themed images. It’s my reaction to new fashion trends for women that I find yucky, like too much pink and big-eyed fluff-dogs or kitties or overly evangelical-Christian slogans. Tags will now be examined and Virtus objects, if any, will go into the compost in pieces to be digested by my horses’ poop.)
Haven’t found his Twitter feed yet, if he has one.
7Progressives are sounding the alarm that a handful of Republican lawmakers are exploiting the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 by an insurrectionist pro-Trump mob to push for anti-protest bills that critics say do not aim to stem the tide of right-wing extremism but instead criminalize dissent by those seeking social change and justice.
In the immediate aftermath of last week’s invasion of the halls of Congress, GOP lawmakers in Florida, Mississippi, and Indiana introduced bills that “do not represent new strategies designed specifically to prevent future right-wing insurrections… [but] draw from a set of policies that numerous state legislators introduced [last] summer in order to appear tough on protests against police brutality,” The Intercept reported Tuesday.
8Elizabeth Moon, you have to give Fallon a little credit if he was born in 1973 and graduated from Notre Dame in 1977. Typos are bears, aren’t they?
But again I agree with you on all (other) counts!
9Now that there are enough votes to pass the impeachment resolution, I hope the House will add on and offer a motion of censure …
Let’s see how sincere those Republicans are about wanting to criticize the *resident.
10Well the ball’s in the hands of Mitch. What will he do and which side of history does he want to be on- democracy or sedition. And will 16 or 17 other repugnanticans decide to be for democracy instead of sedition. I guess he could punt it to the next majority leader.
11Mitch has already announced he’s punting to the next majority leader. He’ll then be one of the 16-17 repugnanticans in the senate that will need to decide on their legacy.
12Megasoid @ 8 Apparently they didn’t get the memo. It’s the progs who are going to end free speech. I saw it last night on Fox, where there was a big sign that said: JOE ‘MCCARTHY’ BIDEN.
Newsmax has been having free speech conniptions pretty much all day.
13Fallon’s football career at ND consisted of being one of the many bench-warmers!
“Fallon was a member of the famed 1988 Fighting Irish national championship football team. Fallon says his role on the team was very minor, although he talks fondly of the lifelong bonds he made with his “brothers.” In his Holtz impression, Fallon said the coach knew Notre Dame was going to win if he put Fallon in the game: “Of course, I wouldn’t put his ass in unless we were up by 30 [points].”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-pat-fallon-former-notre-dame-football-player-gop-more-accessible-likeable
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