Phil Hands for January 05, 2021

“….are doomed to repeat it.”

’Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmwmuPTa0To

Authoritarian a$$hole senators from Wisconsin.

It sorta worked then and it works now with some folks. In any case waving a blank sheet of paper makes for good television.

“I have here in my hand”…

Evidence I collected directly from the president. Anybody have a Kleenex so I can wipe it off?

Odd how Trumpers believe that no evidence is necessary if Trump spouts it… yet cannot accept any type of evidence if it is against Trump…

I have run out of words to describe how I feel about what Trump and his supporters have done and continue to do. American democracy was always more of a promise than a reality, but at least it was a promise, and in my lifetime it actually improved, as voting rights were extended. But that improvement is now under serious threat. That threat will not be removed when Trump leaves office because of the destruction he had caused, not least the corruption of the Republican Party.

He’s another member of the Pathetic Toady Club.

It’s amazing how Johnson and his friends see so many things that don’t exist.

No Trump Disciples commenting?

Understandable, I guess, since they would have no understanding of the cartoon.

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They especially have NO understanding of the connections that run directly from McCarthy, to Nixon, to Trump via Roy Cohn and Roger Stone.

With Fox “news” abetting and assisting.

tail gunner Joe is alive and well ! Sadly.

Both are a National Disgrace !

Joseph N. Welch:

Beginning in 1923, Welch was a partner at Hale and Dorr, a Boston law firm, and lived in nearby Walpole, Massachusetts.

On June 9, 1954, the 30th day of the Army–McCarthy hearings, Welch challenged Roy Cohn to provide U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. with McCarthy’s list of 130 Communists or subversives in defense plants “before sundown”. McCarthy stepped in and said that if Welch was so concerned about persons aiding the Communist Party, he should check on a man in his Boston law office named Fred Fisher, who had once belonged to the National Lawyers Guild, which Brownell had called “the legal mouthpiece of the Communist Party”. Welch had privately discussed the matter with Fisher beforehand and the two agreed Fisher should not participate in the hearings. Welch dismissed Fisher’s association with the NLG as a youthful indiscretion and attacked McCarthy for naming the young man before a nationwide television audience without prior warning or previous agreement to do so:

Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. … Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with Hale and Dorr. It is true that he will continue to be with Hale and Dorr. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentleman, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.

(To be continued)

(Conclusion)

When McCarthy tried to renew his attack, Welch interrupted him:

Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild … Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

McCarthy tried to ask Welch another question about Fisher, and Welch interrupted:

Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you. You have sat within six feet of me and could have asked me about Fred Fisher. You have seen fit to bring it out. And if there is a God in Heaven it will do neither you nor your cause any good. I will not discuss it further. I will not ask Mr. Cohn any more witnesses. You, Mr. Chairman, may, if you will, call the next witness.

At this, those watching the proceedings broke into applause.

Republicans are truly the anti-democracy party

How could a presidential pardon for his indicted/convicted cronies NOT work against Trump once he’s out of office? I. e. "Mr./Ms. X, you are pardoned for anything UP UNTIL NOW. Lie to us from here on & your F_______ ‘in (Fox News-in’) ass is grass!

Also: I asked my bank to find 11,780 (missing) $ ’ s in my accounts. They were less than receptive.

Brilliant!

while I think most of these folks are misguided. . .depending on your standards of evidence, it is probably unfair to say there is no evidence. . .

I myself find it a bit suspicious that so many states were so close . . .and that so many were so far off of the pre-election polls

Just another LYING REPUBLICAN.

A worthy successor.