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This week on CounterSpin: The House committee on the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol heard more than 1,000 witness interviews and held multiple public hearings, resulting in criminal referrals to the Justice Department for Donald Trump, lawyer John Eastman and others involved in violent efforts to override the results of Trump’s electoral loss.
The committee released transcripts showing some two dozen witnesses invoking their right against self-incrimination. Eastman, key advisor to Trump on how to overturn the election, cited his Fifth Amendment right 155 times. At one point, Democratic House member Jamie Raskin asked GOP operative Roger Stone if he believed “coups are allowed in our constitutional system.” To which Stone said, “I most definitely decline to respond to your question.”
But the headwinds the Committee’s recommendations face are not just from the MAGA hatters, but also the Very Smart People who will tell us that our desire for justice is really just partisan or, worse, blood lust—and what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing. Let wiser heads prevail. We’re having none of that.
We spoke with Lisa Gilbert, executive vice president of Public Citizen and co-founder of the forged-for-purpose Not Above the Law Coalition, about what the hearings found and why it can’t end there.
Transcript: “‘There Is More Than One Solution Needed to the Problem of an Insurrection'”
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Elon Musk, inflation and deadly conservatism.
Trumpanzees!
Are you ready!?
For the..
The “Mouth of Mordor tour 2024”
Silence.
Just imagine…
The great Pyramid of Giza, moved all the way from Egypt and reassembled in America, to it’s former glory.. with that luxurious white glow from the old world — And placed on…. HUUUGE tank wheels.
Built…. with an american-made Diesel engine, RoooooooOOOMMMMM! The largest ever in the world!!
Out in front – Elon Musk’s new auto-piloted Model Triple T .. rolling out a red carpet of red flower petals to acknowledge his subjugation the the MIGHTY lords of Oil.
A banner across the front of the pyramid, with the words “Happy Hanukkah”.
Rolling across route 66 – at 3 mph.. with…… a trump throne set into the capstone.
Of course the US government will front the money for the widened highway.
And on the sides .. like a great American parade of savior-ism — Ye — and the Merry Men dressed up as the “stargate warriors”.. walking with electro anti protest staff’s – just in case anitfa shows up – while filming their next video.
And trump in the capstone, throwing liqueur store gift cards to a crowd of Texans.
On the sides of the “great rolling pyramid” – you will see HUUGE pictures of the “horned rioter”.. with the words “Hope”.
Advertisers will of course be welcome to donate, for a small share of the “shared pyramid advertisers space”.
We are going BIG! They claim “Macho Man Randy Savage” has already agreed to be the running mate.
On the back of the pyramid will be a another Great banner “We brake for Snakes”.
Are you ready for it!