In today’s news and poll of the day - part 2

Nice gym...

The coded language of hate.

"The committee must expose how these groups manipulate the growing pains of a changing pluralistic democracy as a weapon to rile up their base. Even after Charlottesville, only 70 percent of Americans said that all racial groups were equal to one another, and almost one-third said that “white European” identity needed protection and preservation. The real danger to us all is that those who disavow hate groups and view themselves as fair-minded miss the connections between Tucker Carlson and Representative Matt Gaetz using the coded language of hate to drive the racist lie that white Americans are being “replaced” by Jews and people of color. The insecurities of changing demographics and economic challenges of the country are driving the great lie of election fraud and the fear of teaching the history we wish was not ours. We have never truly been the “United” States of America."

newrepublic.com/article/164580/charlottesville-verdict-january-6-committee-strategy




Take heart, peas.

The haters are finally starting to see consequences. Richard Spencer. Alex Jones. The 1/6 instigators.

We are moving this country forward to a better, kinder, more equitable time - even with the ball-and-chain around the nation's leg of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and alt-right Christofascism.

The other Gen Flynn is supposedly more involved with. Jan 6th...

'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6

In a 36-page memo, Col. Earl Matthews, who held high-level National Security Council and Pentagon roles during the Trump administration, slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-riddled report that protects a top Army official who argued against sending the National Guard to the Capitol on Jan. 6, delaying the insurrection response for hours.

Matthews' memo, sent to the Jan. 6 select committee this month and obtained by POLITICO, includes detailed recollections of the insurrection response as it calls two Army generals — Gen. Charles Flynn, who served as deputy chief of staff for operations on Jan. 6, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the director of Army staff — “absolute and unmitigated liars” for their characterization of the events of that day. Matthews has never publicly discussed the chaos of the Capitol siege.

On Jan. 6, Matthews was serving as the top attorney to Maj. Gen. William Walker, then commanding general of the D.C. National Guard. Matthews’ memo defends the Capitol attack response by Walker, who now serves as the House sergeant at arms, amplifying Walker's previous congressional testimony about the hourslong delay in the military’s order for the D.C. National Guard to deploy to the riot scene.
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That report states that McCarthy had to call Walker twice on Jan. 6 to order him to deploy the D.C. Guard. Matthews’ memo calls this “an outrageous assertion … as insulting as it is false,” and says McCarthy himself was “incommunicado or unreachable for most of the afternoon.”
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According to Matthews, Piatt helped produce the document after a series of bruising congressional hearings and news reports that damaged the reputations of Army senior leadership — among them, a Washington Post report that the Army falsely denied Flynn’s participation in the 2:30 p.m. phone call.

“In March 2021, MG Walker was told by a friend that LTG Piatt was so upset with MG Walker that he directed the development of an Army ‘White Paper’ to retell events of 6 January in a light more favorable to LTGs Flynn, Piatt, Secretary McCarthy and the Army Staff,” Matthews writes.

The Army Staff ultimately sought “to create an alternate history which would be the Army’s official recollection of events,” Matthews continues, adding: “The end product, a revisionist tract worthy of the best Stalinist or North Korea propagandist, was close hold," kept secret from the public.

But members of Congress have seen the document. Piatt referenced it during a House Oversight Committee hearing in June when asked about conflicting recollections of the afternoon of Jan. 6.

www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/jan-6-generals-lied-ex-dc-guard-official-523777

If true, what’s coming out against him?

www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1061821936/trump-social-media-spac-truth-social

Trump's social media deal is being investigated by regulators

The cows, oh those wandering cows.... He suits are not going well...

Texas $10,000 fines for abortion pill prescribed and mailed..

Texas already has the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S. — and they got tougher on Dec. 1. That's when a new law went into effect that adds penalties of jail time and a fine up to $10,000 for anyone who prescribes pills for medication abortions via telehealth and the mail.
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We already have the most extreme abortion ban in the U.S. and yet our legislature made it a priority to add this additional abortion restriction," says Sarah Wheat, the chief external affairs officer with Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas.

www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/06/1060160624/prescribing-abortion-pills-online-or-mailing-them-in-texas-can-now-land-you-in-j

Nunes won't have to hide in the bushes anymore? His bud Kash Patel is still on the 'firing line' from Jan 6th..
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From the NPR article posted above

DWAC shares surged after announcing the planned merger with Trump's media company. In a separate filing last week, DWAC said it had raised an additional $1 billion from investors.

I can't believe I was right about the cows...

Devin Nunes retirement news ignites wave of mockery: 'He's leaving to spend more time with his cow'
Sarah K. Burris
December 06, 2021





www.rawstory.com/cow-wins-devin-nunes-retires/