ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:43 pm
It’s absolutely wild how much this shit has been normalized.
If you put Clinton, Obama, pretty much any other politician’s name in pretty much any of these headlines, and it’s a career- and political era-defining moment.
But with Trump, it’s just another Wednesday.
By design.
I hope we never see another Trump. My growing fear is he just showed the world the blueprint.
ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:43 pm
It’s absolutely wild how much this shit has been normalized.
If you put Clinton, Obama, pretty much any other politician’s name in pretty much any of these headlines, and it’s a career- and political era-defining moment.
But with Trump, it’s just another Wednesday.
By design.
I hope we never see another Trump. My growing fear is he just showed the world the blueprint.
Yeah, the base gravel is down.
The GOP is going to lay asphalt right over our democracy.
Count on it
“By way of contrast, I'm not the one who feels the need to respond to every post someone else makes”
Psych- Every Single Time
Capitol Police arrest woman with guns who wanted to talk about Jan. 6
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
They keep circling the wagons. It's to the point where it seems like we are watching some sort of mafia movie now. The Michigan AG now has said that the forged elector documents all use the same language and are likely a coordinated plot to change the election. She is referring the case to the FBI for federal prosecution and investigation to see who coordinated this attempted fraud.
The Travis County district attorney's office in Austin informed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Thursday that he had violated the state's open record laws by refusing to release any of his communications from around last Jan. 6, when Paxton was in Washington, D.C., and appeared at the rally the preceded the Capitol siege. District Attorney José Garza (D) gave Paxton four days to "cure this violation" by turning over the documents or face a lawsuit.
The Texas Public Information Act gives the public the right to government records, including those on personal devices or a public official's online accounts. Paxton has tried to claim attorney-client privilege for every email and text he sent in the days surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. The top editors of five newspapers — the Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, and the San Antonio Express-News — filed a complaint with the Travis County D.A. on Jan. 4, accusing Paxton of violating the open records law.
The attorney general typically enforces the Public Information Act, but the law also allows the Travis County district attorney's office to handle violations filed against a state agency. The newspapers filed their complaint with Garza.
Bill Aleshire, an attorney and transparency expert, told the Chronicle this is the first time he's heard of the statee attorney general being accused of violating the open records law to shield his own communications. "When the public official responsible for enforcing public records laws violates those laws himself, it puts a dagger in the heart of transparency at every level in Texas," he said. "Why should other Texas officials be transparent with public information if the AG himself is not?"
The House Jan. 6 committee is also interested in Paxton's communications with former President Donald Trump and has requested some of them from the National Archives and other federal agencies, The Texas Tribune notes.
Paxton, seeking re-election this year, "is currently facing the fiercest scrutiny of his decades-long career, with several GOP challengers, three state criminal indictments, allegations of an extramarital affair, and a pending FBI bribery investigation," the Chronicle reports. "Paxton has denied any wrongdoing."
what about the 17 republican attorneys general that filed the SCOTUS brief to reverse the election result?
seems there should be some sort of ramifications for them as well
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
Jan. 6 committee on verge of obtaining some records Trump has tried to shield
The National Archives plans to release four pages on Wednesday despite the former president’s pending request at the Supreme Court to block the handover.
per Politico
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
