He said that his father did everything “by the book.” What book his father went by, he doesn’t say. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Jurisprudence for Dummies.
I predict that this will become a thing. GOP governors using private tycoon money to use state militias and local police as publicity props, with the added bonus of politicizing the military and defying federal supremacy.
The Biden administration could counter this by federalizing the troops and ordering them to stay home. This was done once or twice in the 50s by the Eisenhower admin to prevent National Guard troops from enforcing segregation. Unless a state organizes a separate militia that has no dual federal-state command structure, there’s nothing that a Governor could do to prevent it. But the state (or the donors) would have to pay all the costs for that militia. It would cost a lot more than a measly $1M to organize and equip such a militia.
And anyway, let the GOP donor morons bleed their money away to grifters, fake “auditors”, and other schemes. So now 50 guardsmen and women from South Dakota will head down and mill about the border doing nothing of consequence, pissing away $1 million. Good job, nutbars from Tennessee. Way to waste your money. Next, send The Orange Menace another million to search for Obama’s birth certificate in Hawaii.
I get all of that – but the danger to democracy is intensifying. In fact it’s exploding out of control. The subversion of institutions that support and enable a functioning, civil, self-governing society is crucial, and the Republicans are sharing and replicating the weaponization of procedure and administration to sow chaos. Self-governance doesn’t work when there’s chaos - people will abandon democracy if there is instability and chaos, and they will embrace dictatorship. You don’t see it now. But if this continues, you absolutely will. You won’t just see it; you will feel it, experience it.
Appalling that Boebert and the other Republicans are still, essentially, celebrating the insurrection by associating with this January 6 attacker.
Interesting, though, that on January 7—before he understood the politics at work—that attacker, Anthony Aguero, was at some pains to correct the ‘it was ANTIFA, it was BLM’ claims already being made by members of the Sedition Caucus:
Some days or weeks later Aguero would have known better than to admit it was Trump fans invading the Capitol. But on January 7, he hadn’t yet figured that out.
Wait a minute: On June 29, the FBI raided Robertson’s home for a second time. This time, they found “an arsenal of 34 firearms… a loaded M4 rifle, ammunition, and a partially assembled pipe bomb,” the affidavit states… What they didn’t find at Robertson’s home, however, were the newly purchased guns—or Robertson. When they tracked him down that same day, Robertson told agents that he had bought the weapons online, but that they had been shipped to licensed dealers and he hadn’t picked them up yet.
Can you give some clue as to what’s in the video that you want us to see? Not always in a position to view a video link. And sometimes it’s not apparent what the poster wants you to notice. Thanks.
It basically slams Toyota for donating $ to insurrectionist and ‘big lie’ pols like Hawley
It was inevitable that companies would deliberately erase their memories of Jan 6. Toyota has said that they’d back away from such efforts, but it wouldn’t surprise me if we find them feeding the same insurrectionists again in another 6 months. The political system makes it hard to bend a legislator’s ear without supporting them financially. Companies try to be neutral by supporting pols in both parties, which is normally how they get away with some of their more controversial contributions.
The underlying rot of American politics is that we have a system that is transparently corrupt. There’s corruption, but hey, at least everyone can see it, and we operate by the same rules, so there’s that, I guess. But over time, this has a corrosive effect in the form of cynicism and outright hostility to ‘democracy’.