And Michigan, apparently, will always be Michigan: at a virtual county board-of-commissioners meeting, a speaker asked the commissioners to vote to denounce the Proud Boys. The response of one commissioner was to grab a gun and hold it, staring down the person who made the request:
Looks that way.
eta more from the article:
Good. Fucking. Grief.
Deplorable human beings have been experiencing “emboldenment” for over four years, now. It’s going to take a lot to de-bolden them–not just time, but examples of actual consequences for deplorable behavior. And those examples need to be serious and plentiful.
For one thing, the days of letting long-gun carrying yahoos occupy state buildings need to be over. And invaders of the federal Capitol need to get tried, convicted, and jailed.
Arizona Republicans keep up their image as batshit crazy idiots:
Marco Rubio makes it ‘official’, he is from now on known as “Little Rubio” as Trump named him before when trying to get votes in the primaries.
Can we send that little fucker back to where he came from? In an innertube?
Well, Marco Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, that is why he could run for president in 2016… and be publicly humiliated by Trump. I guess he is a glutton for punishment as he clearly wants Trump to oppose him once again, and I will have to take a shower for you making me defend Little Rubio a little. 
Awwwwwww! Poor little Marco. Did ‘lying Ted’ and Hawley hurt you by stealing DumpsterFire’s magic wand? Does DumpsterFire have some correspondence intercepted by Putin that you’d rather not have divulged like Lindsey? Did he touch you in an inappropriate spot? Just point to it on the water bottle; you don’t have to say anything.
I read Weissmann’s book on the Mueller investigation. “Where Law Ends”. It was definitely worth reading, he speaks about all the ways in which the investigation was obstructed.
Weissmann talked about the last time Paul Manafort’s plea deal fell apart, they gave him a couple of chances. The deal required him to be absolutely honest about everything, and they determined he’d been holding out about one thing. It wasn’t anything related to his relationship with Russia and oligarchs, they felt he’d been candid about all that.
But there was a $500,000 transaction, a payment that worked its way through a couple of third parties before ending up in Manafort’s pocket. Manafort just wouldn’t tell them who sent it and why. He just kept lying about it, and every time they caught him in the lie, he’d tell another one.
They determined that it was money he’d ripped off from a Trump PAC. Apparently he’d had a hand in starting the PAC, even though it was officially owned by another entity, and they funneled a half million dollar kickback to him.
And he really didn’t want this to be made public because he didn’t want Trump to find out he was stealing from him.
He never came clean about it. That’s why his plea deal fell through.
Lil’ Marco’s running scared, Ivanka is moving to Florida and the word is she’s going to try to primary him and run for his Senate seat.
Trump’s still holding them all hostage, but some more than others.
That’s hilarious!
The official Hawaii GOP deleted a long Twitter thread they posted defending QAnon as loving their country and that nobody should criticize them for their patriotism.
Chip off the ol’ block, dumber than snot.
She’ll probably win.
The official Texas GOP has a new slogan. WE ARE THE STORM
And they’re bragging on Twitter that they’re on Gab.
That last one… there really is nothing so insane, stupid or bizarre that you can’t find a prominent Trump supporter doing or saying it.
Oh, man. This is the Texas case again, which has just filed a fourth time for a temporary restraining order against the entire election. Mike Dunford has gone to town on it again, but this tweet just tickles me.
Josh Hawley has filed ethics complaints against the seven Democratic Senators who filed an ethics complaint against him.
Liz Cheney and Matt Gaetz are feuding over her vote to impeach. Gaetz is going to a rally in Wyoming demanding that she resign. Cheney’s spokeswoman said that Wyoming men don’t wear makeup. As a liberal, I find that offensive, but as a Gaetz hater, I think it’s hilarious.
Congressman Greg Steube of Florida has introduced a bill rescinding federal funding to any high school which refuses to visually examine any female athlete to make sure she’s really a female.
Saw this on reddit just now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/l4nh0c/whats_up_with_antifacom_directing_to/?sort=old
I’m including some of the 260+ comments.
Saw an image with “antifa.com” having the subdomain of “thewhitehouse.gov”. I decided to check it out for myself and antifa.com redirected me to thewhitehouse.gov.
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Answer: Someone who has the rights to do so made antifa.com redirect to whitehouse.gov, presumably as a statement.
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Whatever the explicit intent, misinformation is definitely a byproduct (see the OK sign becoming a white power symbol, started as a troll but now is a real thing). The reason I heard about this during the election cycle is a conservative friend brought this to me and asked “What’s going on with this? Is this real or not?”, and I explained how anyone can own the site and redirect it. The more I think about it, the more I recall trying to look into who owned the site, but I can’t recall finding the answer.
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