Rikkitic:  Maybe the rats are starting to eye the exits. 

 

We live in hope ...

Rikkitic: A characteristic of truly stupid people is they are too stupid to realise how stupid they are.

gzt: It's going to be a harder road for the democrat party. Election day November 2022.

Their own fault. If you are in a fight with someone who fights dirty, and you stick to the rules, you lose.

Rikkitic:

gzt: It's going to be a harder road for the democrat party. Election day November 2022.

Their own fault. If you are in a fight with someone who fights dirty, and you stick to the rules, you lose.

Rikkitic:

Their own fault. If you are in a fight with someone who fights dirty, and you stick to the rules, you lose.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/donald-trump-republican-party-capitol-attack-insurrection

Interesting opinion piece on how the Republican party briefly turned away from Trump following the riot, only to come running back to him a few weeks later.

He's got them (mostly) wrapped around his finger. Sad much?

Sadly to his followers, that's exactly correct - no one can be trusted but the orange buffoon. Everyone else (especially those who tell him something he doesn't want to hear) is/are wrong.

SEAN HANNITY TELLS JAN 6 PANEL THAT SWEARING TO TELL TRUTH VIOLATES FOX CONTRACT

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Sean Hannity has informed the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection that swearing to tell the truth would be a violation of his contract with Fox News.

In a written statement, Hannity said that taking an oath “to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” would be “a betrayal of the solemn vow I made to Fox.”

“The members of the committee will want me to swear on a Bible,” he said. “However, I answer to a higher power: Rupert Murdoch.”

The committee members attempted to reassure Hannity that he would need to tell the truth only to them and behind closed doors, but he remained steadfast in his refusal.

“Telling the truth is a deal breaker,” Hannity said. “If I am ever seen doing this, it'll destroy my brand.”

The New York Times - A Year After Capitol Riot, Trump’s Hold on G.O.P. Is Unrivaled

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Extracts from a long and depressing article  ☹ ...

Today, the Republican Party is very much still Mr. Trump’s, transforming his lies about a stolen 2020 election into an article of faith, and even a litmus test that he is seeking to impose on the 2022 primaries with the candidates he backs. ...

 

He is the party’s most coveted endorser, its top fund-raiser and the polling front-runner for the 2024 presidential nomination. ...

 

His rehabilitation - to the extent one was even needed among Republicans - is the latest example of an enduring lesson of his tumultuous time in politics: that Mr. Trump can outlast almost any outrage cycle, no matter how intensely it burns. ...

 

Trump has said he will not announce his plans for 2024 until after the midterms. But when asked what would happen to his base if he did not run, he was quick with a reply.

 

“If I do decide that,” he said, “I think my base is going to be very angry.”

 

Orlando Sentinel A fourth Villages resident was arrested Tuesday and suspected of voter fraud in the 2020 election, according to authorities. Charles Franklin Barnes, 64, was arrested and taken to Sumter County Jail; he faces a charge of fraud in casting more than one ballot during an election, according to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.

The New York Times - Biden accuses Trump and his allies of holding ‘a dagger at the throat of America.’

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WASHINGTON - President Biden forcefully denounced former President Donald J. Trump for promoting lies and tearing down democracy because he could not stand the fact that he lost a free and fair election, accusing his predecessor and his allies of holding “a dagger at the throat of America.”

 

In his most sustained and scathing attack on the former president since taking office, Mr. Biden used the anniversary of the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol to condemn Mr. Trump for waging an “undemocratic” and “un-American” campaign against the legitimacy of the election system that he likened to the actions of autocrats and dictators in faraway countries.

 

“The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election,” Mr. Biden said, standing in the same National Statuary Hall invaded by throngs of Trump supporters a year ago.

 

“He’s done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country’s interest and America’s interest, and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution. He can’t accept he lost.”

 

and ...

The Washington Post - On Jan. 6 anniversary, Biden calls out Trump for ‘web of lies’ about 2020 election

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Here’s what to know:

 

•     Trump had planned to hold a news conference to mark the first anniversary of the Capitol attack but announced this week that he was canceling it.
  
  
•     Senior Biden administration officials have concluded that the government’s Jan. 6 preparations were hampered by a lack of high-level information-sharing and a failure to anticipate how bad the day could be.
  
  
•     Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed to hold accountable all those who were responsible for the riot, whether they were at the Capitol or committed other crimes surrounding the day’s events.
  
  

EDIT:  Predictably, top Republicans, who have downplayed and denied the riot, are absent from the commemorative events.

BBC News - Obama says US democracy 'at greater risk' than a year ago

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Former US President Barack Obama said today that he believes US democracy “is at greater risk” now than it was a year ago.

 

Claims of electoral fraud “have been embraced by a sizeable portion of voters and elected officials – many of whom know better", he said.

 

Some state legislatures across the country have attempted to restrict voting rights, while Republican officials who resisted “have been ostracised, primaried and driven from the party”.

 

The Democrat, who was Biden's boss in the White House from 2009 to 2017, called on Americans to “nurture and protect” US democracy to safeguard the future.

 

“That responsibility falls to all of us,” he said. “And on this anniversary, nothing is more important.” 

 

The Lincoln Project's take on the last 12 months. God there are some real (lying) loudmouths in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpuj6VpGVN8