January 16, 2021: You Can Go Down in History as a Patriot or a Pussy

1/16/21: Is it over yet? Dear God, please let this end. Is Donald J. Trump really still president? 

While we haven’t seen much of the man, himself, of late, we continue to receive a flood of information about the Capitol Hill riot.

What maniac?

 

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“You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.” 

President Trump

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According to The New York Times, in a tense phone call prior to that day’s certification of the electoral vote, the president chastised Vice President Pence. Two people briefed on the call say that Pence told his boss he had no power to stop the vote, nor any inclination to ignore the U.S. Constitution. 

“You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Trump raged, “or you can go down in history as a pussy.” 

Having been pressed relentlessly for days, Pence asked his lawyers to consult with J. Michael Luttig, “a former appeals court judge revered by conservatives” and other constitutional scholars. Judge Luttig made it clear there was no constitutional path the vice president could follow to void electoral votes. 

Reached for comment later, the judge told reporters it had been “the highest honor of my life” to play a role in preserving the U.S. Constitution.

 

Joe Grogan, Trump’s former domestic policy adviser, summed up the situation in even starker fashion. “We’re very lucky that the vice president isn’t a maniac,” he said. 

Trump supporters would be wise to consider who Judge Luttig thought he had to preserve the Constitution from. 

And who Grogan thought the maniac was.

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, it looks like Donald is never going to get a “great deal” with Iran in place before his fat ass is booted from the White House. 

France warns that it is imperative that Tehran and Washington return to the 2015 nuclear agreement. “The Trump administration chose what it called the maximum pressure campaign on Iran. The result was that this strategy only increased the risk and the threat,” the French foreign minister explains to the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. “This has to stop because Iran and – I say this clearly – is in the process of acquiring nuclear (weapons) capacity.”

 

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AS FAR AS BLOWING SHIT UP, it appears Loser Don may have blown up the GOP in Arizona. Having insisted he won the state in November, although the vote tallies say he did not – and even though no one has seen any evidence to prove his claim – Republicans are now fighting among themselves in the land of cacti and triple-digit temps. Trump loyalists, like GOP Party chair Kelli Ward, want to censure the governor, a fellow Republican, for not overturning the 2020 vote. 

As Politico reports, reasonable members of the GOP (for example, people who realize QAnon conspiracy theories are drivel) are less than amused. 

“The craziness from the state Republican Party … it’s pretty embarrassing,” said Kirk Adams, a former Republican state House speaker and former chief of staff to Ducey. “We have been fed a steady diet of conspiracy theories and stolen election rhetoric and, really, QAnon theories from the state Republican Party since before the election, but certainly after.”

 

“Let us be clear: we find the weeks of disinformation and outright lies to reverse a fair and free election from the head of the Arizona Republican Party and some elected officials to be reprehensible,” read a full-page ad in The Arizona Republic this week from Greater Phoenix Leadership, a group of CEOs. “The political party organization and these elected officials, which some of us have supported in the past, have again embarrassed Arizona on a national stage.”

 

When Gov. Doug Ducey again defended the integrity of the state’s vote, Ward replied on Twitter, “STHU.” 

That is: “Shut the Hell Up.” 

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: A last-ditch recount in Maricopa County, ordered by Ward and other diehard Trump fans, and conducted by a conspiracy theorist named Doug Logan, wraps up its work in September 2021. 

Joe Biden won the state by winning Maricopa by a large margin. Logan and his team count and weigh and fricassee the ballots, looking for fraud. 

Biden gains 99 votes in Maricopa, giving him 1,040,873. 

Trump loses 261.