Doesn't everybody take their car to the veteranarian's to get their oil changed?

In a blistering 110-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Linda Parker in Michigan, imposed sanctions, or legal punishments, on Sydney Powell, Lin Wood, and other lawyers involved in making claims about election fraud in the state.

Federal judge sanctions Trump attorneys for spreading false election fraud claims
It is the latest instance of the former president’s allies being penalized for their roles in spreading conspiracies about the 2020 vote.
Pete Williams and Dartunorro Clark

A federal judge Wednesday sanctioned some of former President Donald Trump's attorneys who unsuccessfully challenged Michigan's 2020 election results.

In a blistering 110-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Michigan imposed sanctions on Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and other lawyers involved in making claims about election fraud in the state.

Powell, Wood and others joined a lawsuit in November alleging widespread fraud in the presidential contest in Michigan, which President Joe Biden won. Parker dismissed the lawsuit a month later because she found that it was based largely on "speculation and conjecture," according to The Associated Press.

"This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process," Parker wrote in her ruling Wednesday. "It is one thing to take on the charge of vindicating rights associated with an allegedly fraudulent election. It is another to take on the charge of deceiving a federal court and the American people into believing that rights were infringed, without regard to whether any laws or rights were in fact violated. This is what happened here."

It is the latest instance of a Trump attorney's being penalized for ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... d_nn_tw_ma

McCarthy Threatens Technology Firms That Comply With Riot Inquiry
The top House Republican said his party would retaliate against any company that cooperated with an order to preserve the phone and social media records of G.O.P. lawmakers.
By Luke Broadwater

Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, has threatened to retaliate against any company that complies with the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, after the panel asked dozens of firms to preserve the phone and social media records of 11 far-right members of Congress who pushed to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Mr. McCarthy’s warning was an escalation of his efforts to thwart a full accounting of the deadly attack at the Capitol carried out by a pro-Trump mob, and his latest attempt to insulate the former president and Republican lawmakers from scrutiny of any ties to the violence. It came after he led the G.O.P. opposition to the creation of an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the riot, and then pulled five Republican congressmen from the select committee that Democrats created on their own, boycotting the proceedings.

In preservation orders the special committee sent to 35 technology firms this week, members of the panel included the names of hundreds of people whose records they might want to review, among them some of Donald J. Trump’s most ardent allies in Congress, according to several people familiar with the documents who were not authorized to speak about their contents.

The 11 Republicans are Representatives Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar of Arizona, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Jody B. Hice of Georgia, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.

The preservation demands were accompanied by a statement that said the committee was merely “gathering facts, not alleging wrongdoing by any individual.” But the inclusion of the Republicans’ names, reported earlier by CNN, indicated that the panel planned to ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/us/p ... -riot.html

is that the beazy that finger wagged Obama?

Pro-Trump Rally Expecting 10,000 Attendees Sees Only a Few Hundred Show Up: Report
BY JASON LEMON

Organizers of a Kentucky rally in support of former President Donald Trump featuring several prominent allies and conspiracy theorists expected some 10,000 people to show up this weekend. Instead, less than 300 were in attendance when local journalists attempted to ...

https://www.newsweek.com/pro-trump-rall ... ow-1628299

Are they wearing brown shirts yet?

we have used this same question against Muslims.

just sayin.

A fear grows in Trumpworld: Have we gone too conspiratorial?
There is growing worry that talk of stolen elections, machine rigging and foreign plots will hurt election reform efforts and sap turnout.
MERIDITH MCGRAW

For months, conspiracies about the 2020 election being stolen from Donald Trump have fueled Republican efforts nationwide to rewrite election laws. But now, some GOP operatives and Trump World luminaries are worried that the truly wild conspiracists may be mucking it all up.

Hogan Gidley, one of Donald Trump’s top lieutenants, took a subtle dig at some Trump allies and put some distance between their efforts and his group’s work on election reform. Other Republicans have expressed fears that talk of “audits,” machine rigging and foreign plots will depress voter turnout and discourage some people from seeking office.

“People are going to do whatever they want, and I can’t answer for any of those other groups,” said Gidley when asked about misinformation and efforts by Mike Lindell and others to overturn the 2020 election.

“But as it relates to election integrity and voter protection, it is vital that we help states get these simple, popular security mechanisms in place to ensure honesty for the 2022 midterms,” added Gidley, who is heading the Center for Election Integrity at the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute. “I want to make sure that the data we gather and the information we share is built on solid ground as opposed to sinking sand.”

The comments illustrate the ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/2 ... ion-517313

Before, During, and After

RED FLAGS
As Trump propelled his supporters to Washington, law enforcement
agencies failed to heed mounting warnings about violence on Jan. 6.

The head of intelligence at D.C.’s homeland security office was growing desperate. For days, Donell Harvin and his team had spotted increasing signs that supporters of President Donald Trump were planning violence when Congress met to formalize the electoral college vote, but federal law enforcement agencies did not seem to share his sense of urgency. On Saturday, Jan. 2, he picked up the phone and ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... urrection/

Click on the before, during, and after tabs at the top of the article

Georgia Grand Jury Looms in Trump Inquiry
An Atlanta D.A. is said to be likely to impanel a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies.
Danny Hakim and Richard Fausset

As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights to extract testimony and documents from Donald J. Trump’s White House, an Atlanta district attorney is moving toward convening a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deliberations.

The prosecutor, Fani Willis of Fulton County, opened her inquiry in February and her office has been consulting with the House committee, whose evidence could be of considerable value to her investigation. But her progress has been slowed in part by the delays in the panel’s fact gathering. By convening a grand jury dedicated solely to the allegations of election tampering, Ms. Willis, a Democrat, would be indicating that her own investigation is ramping up.

Her inquiry is seen by legal experts as potentially perilous for the former president, given the myriad interactions he and ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/p ... ation.html

Jan. 6 Defendant Known as QAnon Shaman Sentenced to 41 Months
Jacob Chansley, who wore a horned helmet and a fur pelt as he stormed onto the Senate floor during the Capitol riot, had earlier pleaded guilty to a single felony count.
Alan Feuer

Jacob Chansley, the former actor and Navy sailor better known as the QAnon Shaman, who was portrayed by a prosecutor as “the flag-bearer” of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, was sentenced on Wednesday to 41 months in prison.

Mr. Chansley, 34, emerged as one of the riot’s most familiar figures, largely because of the outlandish costume he wore that day: a horned helmet, a fur pelt draped across his naked shoulders and a thick patina of red-white-and-blue face paint.

Images of him standing on the Senate floor hollering and brandishing a spear made from a flagpole shot around the world, a stark reminder of the role played in the assault by adherents of QAnon, the cultlike conspiracy theory embraced by some backers of former President Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Chansley’s sentence, handed down by Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Federal District Court in Washington, brought an end not only to one of the most widely publicized Capitol cases, but also to one of the strangest. Not long after the attack, Mr. Chansley’s lawyer, Albert Watkins, announced that his client wanted ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/us/p ... nsley.html

Multiple Fox News contributors quit in disgust over Tucker Carlson’s January 6th “documentary”
VINNIE LONGOBARDO

Apparently, there are still a few contributors to Fox News with a conscience and a distaste for propagating lies and disinformation as truth at the right-wing news outlet.

At least there were still a few such contributors until Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, two of the conservative commentators that the network calls upon to fill up its panels of political pundits, resigned last week in a furor over the so-called “documentary” featuring the network’s prime-time white nationalist poster boy Tucker Carlson that claimed that the January 6th insurrection was a “false flag” conspiracy orchestrated not by Donald Trump and his MAGA hordes, but by the insidious forces of Antifa.

Some evidence-free conspiracy theories are too much even for the regular purveyors of Fox News‘ signature brand of right-wing propaganda and disinformation it seems.

With Tucker Carlson sitting high atop the prime-time ratings pyramid, the network has given their opinionated host tremendous leeway to say whatever fear-mongering idiocy that pops into his head, facts and reality be damned, whether it’s promoting the anti-Semitic “Great Replacement” propaganda that has been a staple of the white nationalist repertoire for decades and resurfaced at the 2017 Charlottesville tiki-torch march or ginning up anti-vaccination sentiment among his gullible, science-deficient viewers.

With more of an eye on the advertising dollars pouring in than on any societal responsibility to accurate reporting, Fox News will likely not be affected monetarily by the departure of two conscience-stricken old-school conservative pundits, but the smear on what little remains of its reputation for at least a partial grounding in reality may alienate that portion of its audience that hasn’t ...

https://occupydemocrats.com/2021/11/22/ ... cumentary/

Subpoenas for Roger Stone, Alex Jones Expose Bizarre Underbelly of Jan. 6 Attack
William Rivers Pitt

Steve Bannon, Roger Stone and Alex Jones walked into a bar… there’s a joke somewhere in there, but I’m damned if I can put a finger on it. I will say this much: If Bannon, Stone and Jones walked into a plot to overthrow a national presidential election, said plot is even further out into the ether than anyone ever suspected. Paging Mr. Trump: Your table is ready. Our special today is gall with wormwood, tossed on a bed of what the hell were you up to with these strange people?

If the “U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol” has its way, we may actually come to know the answer to that question. According to The New York Times, the committee “issued five new subpoenas on Monday, targeting allies of former President Donald J. Trump who helped draw crowds to Washington before the riot, including the political operative Roger J. Stone Jr. and the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.”

Bannon, the former Trump adviser and Breitbart chairman, was served subpoenas by the committee several weeks ago. He blew them off with an arrogant wave, ultimately finding himself charged with contempt and under arrest. Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows also ignored the subpoenas he was served, doing so just before ...

https://truthout.org/articles/subpoenas ... -6-attack/

Found this on another board and didn't want to start a new thread

What did different world leaders think of Trump at the time of his presidency?

Early in his Presidency, our allies thought he was a laughingstock and feared for the safety of our nation and the world. Our enemies thought he was an idiot who could be easily manipulated to act against American interests in favor of their own regimes.

About a year into his Presidency, our allies thought he was a laughingstock and feared for the safety of our nation and the world. Our enemies thought he was an idiot who could be easily manipulated to act against American interests in favor of their own regimes.

About the time he was botching our response to the coronavirus pandemic, our allies thought he was a laughingstock and feared for the safety of our nation and the world. Our enemies thought he was an idiot who could be easily manipulated to act against American interests in favor of their own regimes.

At the end of his Presidency, after he lost the election, made ridiculous claims of voter fraud, and incited an insurrection, our allies thought he was a laughingstock and feared for the safety of our nation and the world. Our enemies thought he was an idiot who could be easily manipulated to act against American interests in favor of their own regimes.

https://www.quora.com/What-did-differen ... r-3#footer