Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

[Brian Peacock]

Is the emphasis in this picture the vast number of potential gallows to hang tyrants from?

Some might say that... I couldn't possibly comment.

[pErvinalia]

Highlander, now Star Wars. Have you been on a nostalgia movie tour, Brian?

[Brian Peacock]

You promised only to use your psychic powers for good pErvy. Get out of my brains!

[Brian Peacock]

From my daily newsletter ...

The House Republican conference has taken to Twitter, undermining the character of Republican former officials testifying today.

“Just another liar and pawn in Pelosi’s witch-hunt,” they tweeted about Sarah Matthews. They also tweeted, “Stories are NOT facts”.

In reality, the January 6 committee has presented testimony – including from former Republican officials and the president’s own daughter – alongside text messages and other communications, video and other hard evidence to construct a detailed timeline of events preceding the violent insurrection on the capitol.

They also tweeted “This is all heresy”. It’s unclear if they meant “hearsay”.

my bold

[rasetsu]

Not to be a stick in the mud, but the legislature theory has received plenty of press, your article notwithstanding.

[Brian Peacock]

I thought it was a wry way of calling them liars!

[L'Emmerdeur]

Another convenient tech exercise...

'Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s Wolf and Cuccinelli'

Text messages for former President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to four people briefed on the matter and internal emails.

This discovery of missing records for the senior-most homeland security officials, which has not been previously reported, increases the volume of potential evidence that has vanished regarding the time around the Capitol attack.

It comes as both congressional and criminal investigators at the Department of Justice seek to piece together an effort by the president and his allies to overturn the results of the election, which culminated in a pro-Trump rally that became a violent riot in the halls of Congress.

The Department of Homeland Security notified the agency’s inspector general in late February that Wolf’'s and Cuccinelli’s texts were lost in a “reset” of their government phones when they left their jobs in January 2021 in preparation for the new Biden administration, according to an internal record obtained by the Project on Government Oversight and shared with The Washington Post.

The office of the department’s undersecretary of management also told the government watchdog that the text messages for its boss, undersecretary Randolph “Tex” Alles, the former Secret Service director, were also no longer available due to a previously planned phone reset.

The office of Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari did not press the department leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records, nor seek ways to recover the lost data, according to the four people briefed on the watchdog’s actions. Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records.

The revelation comes on the heels of the discovery that text messages of Secret Service agents — critical firsthand witnesses to the events leading up to Jan. 6 — were deleted more than a year ago and may never be recovered.

[L'Emmerdeur]

I had not come across this image from Jan. 6 before. For some, it might suffice in place of syrup of ipecac. I think it's revoltingly amusing, but admit my sense of humor tends toward the noisome.

Genuine Dominican nuns.

[Brian Peacock]

Any of you constitutional scholars know what powers the Jan 6 Committee has and/or what it can do to enforce the Trump subpoena in the likely event that the man himself fails to comply?

[pErvinalia]

Well Steve Bannon was just sentenced to jail time for refusing to appear (contempt of congress).

[JimC]

Trump supporters will hide him from the cops, passing him from red state to red state, with decoy lookalikes...

[Svartalf]

Well Steve Bannon was just sentenced to jail time for refusing to appear (contempt of congress).

given the people sitting there, contempt of congress should be rewarded.

[pErvinalia]

[rasetsu]

Any of you constitutional scholars know what powers the Jan 6 Committee has and/or what it can do to enforce the Trump subpoena in the likely event that the man himself fails to comply?

By themselves? Not much. Technically they can order the Sargent at Arms to grab him by the scruff of the neck and force him into a congressional pokey, but there is no congressional pokey, and no real possibility the Sargent at Arms would do this. Failing that, they can make a criminal referral to the DOJ, who has discretion concerning whether to charge or not. They referred Bannon, Navarro, Scavino, and Meadows, but only Bannon and Navarro have been pursued to an indictment.

[Brian Peacock]

See very little power to actually compel (?)

I predict a riot.