Meet the Corporations That Went Back on Their Word Not to Support the Sedition Caucus

Dennis Aftergut on the companies that hope Americans wouldn't notice.

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Meet the Corporations That Went Back on Their Word Not to Support the Sedition Caucus

DENNIS AFTERGUT: They promised not to support Republicans who voted not to certify the election results. And then they changed their minds and hoped Americans wouldn’t notice.

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• Oregon Republican who opened door to rioters pleads guilty but denies blame: ‘I don’t think I did anything wrong’ – Katie Shepherd, The Washington Post

• This Was the Biggest, Loudest Cop Union in America. Then Came Jan. 6. – Andrew Boryga, The Daily Beast

• The truth about Jan.6: The inquiry begins (with Bill Kristol) – Skullduggery Podcast

• It started with a mock ‘slave trade’ and a school resolution against racism. Now a war over critical race theory is tearing this small town apart – Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post

• What Immigrants Know About Happiness – Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic

• Australia Is the Canary in the Coal Mine of Eroding Liberty – J.D. Tuccille, Reason Magazine

• Missouri AG sues over St. Louis area mask mandate – Heather Hollingsworth and Jim Salter, The Associated Press

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🚨OVERTIME 🚨

Would you like a preview of what it’d be like if Jim Jordan testifies?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

Jim Jordan tried to dodge a question about when he talked to Trump on January 6 and it did not go well

As we’re seeing with Jordan and Banks, they’re just demonstrating why Pelosi was right to reject them.

Just Tuesday night, Banks went on Fox News to claim that the four police officers who testified were “scripted” pawns of Nancy Pelosi: 

"Even the statements that these police officers read, you could tell at times they didn't write the statements, they were merely reading them as they stumbled over some of the words that they weren't familiar with as they were reading."

Here, Banks is taking advantage of the testimony of USCP Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, an Army veteran and immigrant from the Dominican Republic whose tearful testimony sometimes was a bit jumbled. In short, Banks is using xenophobia to accuse people like Gonell of being used by Pelosi like a pawn for political purposes. (Something his communications director’s dad, Tucker Carlson, has already done.)

Despicable.

Was this really a good idea? News clips as NFTs?

Formerly of the Christian Broadcast Network… May I present David Brody. Just remember, the 9:30 show is completely different from the 7:30 show. Enjoy the veal!

John Whitehouse+ @existentialfish

@justinhorowitz_ Here's Brody likening the push for vaccination to segregation

Sorry, being a member of Congress doesn’t entitle you to impromptu visits to prisons. Though, I would pay money to hear Louie Gohmert try and justify visiting Groom Lake to go see the aliens.

ReallyAmerican.com 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1

Here’s the clip of the traitors being denied entry to see their fellow traitors.

Is this cancel culture?

Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan

Freedom Caucus Chair Biggs on expelling Cheney & Kinzinger from House GOP: "It was antithetical to have sitting in your conference individuals who have professed they want to take out the Minority Ldr & want to join Democrats in a witch hunt, to try to take mbrs of the GOP out."

‘COVID Theater’. Marco Rubio tried to dunk on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, but turns out he (or his comms staff) didn’t realize that Austin was just following local protocol.

Yes, there were guns at the 1/6 insurrection.

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Yes, there were guns in the Capitol crowd. As well as all of the other very real weapons. @HolmesLybrand:

cnn.comFact checking claims January 6 was not an armed insurrectionCNN fact check reporters Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam analyzed statements made by Republican politicians while Capitol police gave statements in a hearing regarding the January 6th insurrection.

How Congress has gotten more partisan over time. A great visualization from Business Insider.

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