PSA Y’all
January 6th LIVE hearings start Thursday
in the coming days, we’re going to be seeing A LOT of distraction tactics from right wing media to keep people from watching the hearings
DO NOT FALL FOR IT. Do not flood social media with distraction stories fed by the right wing
Pay attention to the hearings and make sure THAT is being heard through the noise.
It’s already started, right wing twitter is ablaze with anti drag queen rhetoric because of a family friendly pride drag show event.
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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson reminds people what the U in UFO is all about.
I am an amateur astronomer and I like science fiction. Yet none of the claims that people have made regarding visits by extraterrestrial vehicles or their occupants have any credibility whatsoever.
The UFO cult is simply a more benign pseudoscience equivalent of the QAnon cult or the Trump Worshiping cult.
Dr. Tyson’s mentor, the late Carl Sagan, famously wrote: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The “evidence” provided by the UFO cultists of extraterrestrial visits ranges from laughable to delusional.
I’m NOT saying that there are no extraterrestrials. There probably are – though they certainly don’t resemble us and probably aren’t as abundant in our galaxy as sci-fi writers would like to think.
But there is zero real evidence that any of them have visited Earth. And what kind of civilization would want to risk contaminating their own culture by interacting with one which chooses mental defectives like Trump, Putin, Duterte, and Bolsonaro as its leaders?
After the discussion about UFOs, Dr. Tyson and Ari Melber talked about the multiverse and black holes.
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Was listening to a podcast about Tipper Gore’s attempt to have warning labels on rock albums in the 80s and the Congressional hearing that resulted. But while I can find lots of videos about Dee Synder’s testimony (which was great, he was way more prepared than most Congress members ever are), I can’t find a clip of the Senators having to watch the music video to We’re Not Gonna Take It. Would love to see the looks on their faces.
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SO WHAT?
“I’m alright / I’m just fine / And you’re a tool / So, so what? / I am a rock star / I got my rock moves / And I don’t want you tonight.” —Pink
“Give it up for DJ-Tee and the 45s!” We’re at the point in the show where the frontman introduces the band, but that won’t happen here and now, as this singer thinks he’s the whole show; he only acknowledges the band’s existence if the crowd boos so he…
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HEARINGS, TRAITORS, AFTERMATH
Fandango’s Provocative Question #170
Have you been watching, or at least following the news about, the Select Committee televised hearings? Do you agree or disagree with my assessment of what has come out of the hearings thus far? Do you think that Trump and others who took part in the attempt to overturn the election should be criminally charged and incarcerated. Do you think that they will be…
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I know we are still freaking out about SCOTUS and Roe, but there was also a surprise January 6th Committee Hearing Today!
Their witness was Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s executive assistant Cassidy Hutchinson and, whew boy, was information dropped.
Here are some tweets:
(I’d greatly appreciate if someone could write out these Tweets bc I’m on mobile)
Basically the rundown:
Trump knew people with weapons were at the Capitol on Jan 6th
CoS Meadows also knew there were armed people and did not look up from his phone when an alarmed Hutchinson told him what was happening
He also shut the car door on her 2X when she tried to give him security updates during the rally at the Eclipse over a period of at least 25 minutes
Trump was mad that his crowd size wasn’t big enough for the rally photo op because security wouldn’t let people with weapons through and people didn’t want their weapons to be confiscated. Trump wanted the MAGS to be taken down because he knew “the people weren’t there to hurt [him]”
The non-Rudy lawyers practically begged Hutchinson not to let Trump join the riot at the Capitol because they could get in trouble for multiple crimes.
When Trump was told in the car by security that they were not going to the Capitol, but were going back to the White House, Trump first tried to take the wheel of the car and then TRIED TO CHOKE HIS HEAD OF SECURITY WHO WAS TRYING TO STOP HIM
Back at the WH, 45 threw a hissy fit that included throwing his lunch at the wall. Apparently, this was a continuous behavior of his
Trump agreed with the rioters call to hang Mike Pence and that they “were not doing anything wrong”
Multiple lawyers, Congress people, FOX News hosts, Ivanka, Don Jr tried to get Meadows to get Trump to do something but Meadows said that Trump “didn’t want to see anyone”
Only the threat of cabinet members invoking the 25th amendment made him agree to tweet out the video telling rioters to go home and that “we love you”
During the Jan 7th statement, Trump wanted to pardon the rioters but WH lawyers said “absolutely not”
A lot of people in Trumpworld pleaded the 5th for every single question they were asked, including General Flynn when asked if he believed in the peaceful transfer of power
The committee ended the hearing with depositions from people they interviewed, basically saying they’ve been threatened by people in Trumpworld to not say anything, which is witness tampering
It was wild.
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