The party of personal responsibility

[CJ]

> ;D

 

[living sounds]

It is interesting who bankrolled the congressional "stop the steal" effort:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/trump-republicans-election-defeat-club-for-growth

 

[hodad]

Interesting interview:  https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/learning-from-the-failure-of-reconstruction

My personal opinion (not expressed in above interview) is that it's not that hard to draw a line from the failure of Reconstruction to what happened last week.  It's not necessarily a perfectly straight line, but a line nonetheless.

 

[cyrano]

I must be out of the loop, I get - 

Pankkake:  to cover a woman in pancake batter

Euphemism?   

And that too, yes...  :-X

 

[pucho812]

I must be out of the loop, I get - 

Pankkake:  to cover a woman in pancake batter

Euphemism?   

Looks like T***p and Giuliani have fallen out, T***p doesn't want to pay Rudy's $20K per diem fee.
That is a surprise...  Yawn.

In Mexico pankake Is pancake.

 

[living sounds]

Some irony regarding the branding of liberals as "Snowflakes" by the Right:

A lawyer for Jacob Chansley, an Arizona man who wore horns, animal skin and face paint while carrying a spear and entering the Senate chamber, said Trump should do the “honourable thing and pardon those of his peaceful followers who accepted the president’s invitation”.

Albert Watkins said his client had no criminal history and was an “active practitioner of yoga”. He also mentioned Chansley’s diet, which has caused him to reject non-organic meals in federal custody.

Different wokes for different folks?


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/16/us-capitol-rioters-donald-trump-pardons

 

[cyrano]

Your various slogans have a charming ring to them--regardless of any truth or applicability to this particular situation.  What I'm saying is the sort of "healing" that would be likely to happen in the US (and has occurred in the past) does nothing to stop the offenders (and those who come after them) from doing still worse. 
George W. Bush and Karl Rove look benign compared to Trump, but the fact that they did what they did (and were in no way punished) cleared the path for Trump.

Maybe there's a different approach to this "healing" that somehow causes or allows people to learn from their errors.  That's not what we've seen here before, it's not what Republicans are seeking.  What Republicans want is no punishment so they can continue doing bad things and do even worse than Trump next time they have a chance. 

Nobody learns, nobody is chastened.  The only "personal growth":  Republicans grow to be better criminals and con artists.

After reading some of this:

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/proud-boys-leader-tarrio-arrested-dc-after

I definitely have to agree with Hodad...

It seems these poor misguided souls need to be slapped hard before they will wake up.

Even DT himself was apparently amazed by what his words have done:

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/my-pillow-guy-apparently-urged-trump

My Pillow salesman Mike Lindell visited Donald Trump in the White House Friday with some thoughts about keeping him in office, declaring martial law and blaming "China/Iran" for something.

 

[hodad]

More about the Civil War and the consequences of the lack of accountability.  165 years later we're still dealing with the repercussions of this failure. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-a-civil-war-accountability-must-precede-healing/2021/01/15/8a8004de-5769-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

 

[iturnknobs]

Here's an historic bump. Good for a re-read, given new DOJ news.