January 7, 2021 6:30 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, January 7, 2021
I wish I had some roaring good news about what we could celebrate today, but all that’s on the calendar is National Bobblehead Day.
If you’re looking to take a trip down memory lane, today is the:
- 41st anniversary of President Jimmy Carter signing legislation that authorized $1.5 billion in loans for the bail out of Chrysler Corp.
- 68th anniversary of President Truman’s announcement on the development of the hydrogen bomb.
- 94th anniversary of transatlantic telephone service beginning between New York and London (on which date a whopping 31 calls were made)
Peaches
- The biggest loser in the Georgia runoffs.
- MSNBC wins election night ratings.
- How Democrats won Georgia’s 2 Senate runoffs
- GOP Pollster Warning to Republicans
- Loeffler Aide Reportedly Shoves Reporter
- Defense wants to exclude references to Arbery as ‘victim’
- Unemployed workers sue Georgia DOL over unprocessed jobless claims
- Unadilla DDA Chairman arrested by GBI
- Frustrated poll workers say they’re done after this cycle.
- Watkinsville mayor wants a new judicial circuit
- New Fulton Co. Sheriff Wants County To Buy Atlanta’s Mostly Empty Jail.
Jimmy Carter
- A bond market ‘taper tantrum’ lurked after Georgia Senate runoff results loomed
- Cannabis stocks soar though.
- Schumer: First priority in new Senate is $2,000 stimulus checks.
- Urge Court to Require Warrants for Border Searches of Digital Devices.
- NY Bill Would Let the State Put People in Detention if Deemed a ‘Significant Threat to Public Health.’
- Hillbilly Urbanism.
- ¾ of voters worried about deficit.
- Anti-Secrecy Activists Publish a Trove of Ransomware Victims’ Data
- States struggle for control of chaotic vaccine rollout.
Sweet Tea
- Abandoning the self-driving part of self-driving vehicles.
- The energy transformation slated for 2040
- Woman punches kids after they kick her seat.
- how the pandemic led to a rise in plastic surgery.
- Recycling an airplane: What’s scrapped when an aircraft retires?
- Survival of the Coldest: NYC restaurants start selling frozen dinners
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So this is how the Trump supporters completely ignore what happened yesterday. Maybe Charlie will post an editorial about our “troubled times”. That will really help.
“While the number of people arrested is expected to grow, the initial number pales in comparison to the more than 300 people who were arrested by police following the June 1 protests in the district related to the police killing of George Floyd.
In that incident, baton-swinging police and federal agents fired smoke canisters, flashbang grenades and rubber bullets to drive protesters farther from the White House, enabling President Donald Trump to walk across Lafayette Park and hold up a Bible in front of St. John’s Church.
While police faced staunch criticism for being too aggressive at Lafayette Square, however, the Capitol Police are now facing questions about why they did not do more to secure the Capitol and let many of the rioters later exit the building without arrests.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-arrests/four-deaths-52-arrests-made-after-trump-supporters-storm-u-s-capitol-idUSKBN29C0GG
White privilege at work? Looks like it to me.
Def some privilege and hypocrisy at play.
In related juxtaposition of how force is used, and with a note that sounds like “if that complaint about Benghazi was actually real”:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-reportedly-rebuffed-repeated-requests-to-call-in-national-guard-to-quell-capitol-riots/ar-BB1cxeBX?ocid=msedgntp
This is what the UK is seeing about yesterday:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55568131
Hawley, Cruz and all the GOP reps who started this crap need to censored.
Trump needs to go today.
Hopefully they will use video and photos to issue more warrants for the traitors who invaded the Capitol building.
The woman who got shot was climbing through a window next to a man who had a AR-15. I feel no sadness over her death.
Sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison and it refers to the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it.
Throw the book at all those Trumpers who destroyed government property.
I actually kind of feel sorry for the woman that got killed. She was sucked into the Qanon conspiracy theory.
Republicans cranking up the disinformation.
“Fox News Senior Political Analyst fabricating a false flag story when, as we have stated repeatedly today, the terrorist mob was led by far-right figures WHO STREAMED THE ENTIRE THING ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS
Quote Tweet
Brit Hume
@brithume
· 12h
Do not be surprised if we learn in the days ahead that the Trump rioters were infiltrated by leftist extremists. Note: this is not to excuse any of them.”
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1347007332425850880
Laura Ingraham dropped in “Antifa: in her opening sentence last night. Also, Hannity had an argument about certifying Pennsylvania that went something like: The Constitution only gives the state legislature the power to adjust election laws. And the legislature illegally passed a law allowing (no-excuse) absentee voting.
Btw, any argument based upon some theory of “only the legislature can do it” totally wacko imo. The legislature creates and gives authority to Secretary of State, and to the courts. But if you just ignore that basic foundation of our government, all good.
The Supreme Ct. does not have to weigh in on that issue, but the Penns. case they once denied, I believe, would give them the chance to do so, and perhaps they should, to authoritatively put such losing arguments to rest.
Antifa is like the ultimate boogie man to conservatives it seems. I have tried to explain to conservatives on social media that Antifa isn’t even a thing outside of like 10 people in Portland. I have also pointed out that antifa means anti-fascist and asked if you are so concerned about antifascism are you pro-fascism?
Have Loeffler and Perdue publicly conceded their losses or made the usual congratulatory calls to the winners?
Nothing in the news about them doing so.
Side note: For the first time ever, due to runoff and losses, I have heard Republicans call for ranked choice voting. I’d expect just such a bill may come up this session if not already drawn up. I support the reform, but dislike the idea that it’s only been pushed because the policy has failed to stop working for a particular party. Just like with absentee ballots, electoral reforms, over time, will have varied impact across demographics and parties. So, before you pass a law requiring photo ID for absentee ballots, ask yourself: will this disenfranchise the elderly or others who may not have the right equipment, or tech savvy, etc.?
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Breaking: Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for Trump to be immediately removed from office.
He says the 25th amendment should be invoked. “If the Vice President and the Cabinet refuse to stand up, Congress should reconvene to impeach the president.”
11:35 AM · Jan 7, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Here’s the list of GA US Representatives who objected to the vote yesterday:
“Congress accepted Georgia’s 16 electoral votes after U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, a Republican from Greensboro, challenged them Wednesday evening. He was joined by Republican Georgia U.S. Reps. Rick Allen, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Buddy Carter.
Hice said there had been “unprecedented amount of fraud and irregularities” during the general election.
But Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler withdrew her plan to support the challenge to Georgia’s votes, and without the required support from at least one senator, Vice President Mike Pence rejected Hice’s petition.”
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-elections-chief-refutes-election-claims-in-letter-to-congress/RBZJQSTUOJECTO4EMSAXGXJSK4/
Bob Smith is mayor of Watkinsville, and he’s been known to think with his mouth, often at length.
There was zero talk about Oconee moving to a new judicial district until Deborah Gonzalez was elected DA. That didn’t happened until she first won a suit against Kemp preventing him from installing his own man.
Two days after she was sworn in I fielded a call that turned out to be an obvious push poll questioning what kind of justice locals charged with felonies could expect from a non-male non-Anglo non-resident.
https://m.facebook.com/oconeeenterprise/photos/pcb.10159163861056738/10159163859836738/?type=3&source=48
I should have made it clearer that Smith has no connection with the push poll to my knowledge.
From Business Insider:
“Multiple European security officials told Insider that President Donald Trump appeared to have tacit support among US federal agencies responsible for securing the Capitol complex in Wednesday’s coup attempt.
Insider is reporting this information because it illustrates the serious repercussions of Wednesday’s events: Even if they are mistaken, some among America’s international military allies are now willing to give credence to the idea that Trump deliberately tried to violently overturn an election and had help from some federal law-enforcement agents.
“We train alongside the US federal law enforcement to handle these very matters, and it’s obvious that large parts of any successful plan were just ignored,” one source told us.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attempted-coup-federal-law-enforcement-capitol-police-2021-1?r=DE&IR=T
MORE NEWS: Schumer will fire Senate Sergeant at Arms when Democrats take the majority later this month after the pro-Trump riots in the Capitol. “If Senate Sergeant at Arms Stenger hasn’t vacated the position by then, I will fire him”
https://politico.com/news/2021/01/07/security-fallout-in-capitol-could-be-swift-455803
The Liberal Redneck has a few words about the Trump cultists and their actions yesterday.
It is 3 and a half minutes long.” Liberal Redneck – Republican Terrorism Boogaloo”