Clay Jones for January 12, 2021

Uh oh, I hear Trump has already been banned from the Etch-A-Sketch platform.

Join the crowd. Twitter. Facebook. Google. Even his credit card payment processing service has blocked processing sales of Trump’s cheap junk (made in China). No more MAGA hat sales. No more online donations.

And those nuclear codes?

Mark Milley, Chariman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured Nancy Pelosi that the military will make sure that Trump cannot make any inappropriate misuse of the nuclear codes.

Commander in chief or not, apparently Trump has even been blocked from that!

Apparently the military takes a dim view of inciting attempted overthrow of the United States.

What did Ohio Arts do to get smeared by an Orange Diaper stain like this?

I remember when Dilbert gave the PHB one of these and showed him how to reboot it by shaking it over his head.

What did Trump expect after saying the military and veterans were a bunch of suckers and losers ? He knows more than the generals . . . .he wouldn’t lie, he believes he does. SAD

To complex for Trumpie the Clown, you have to turn dials not press random buttons ! /s

Even though Trump is banned from social media, the Trumpettes are busy spreading propaganda for him. Trump put out a directive to increase security from now through Jan. 24th and they’re acting like he is the great protector rather than the one who encouraged the violence. They’re also trying to blame Biden for Trump getting banned because Biden hired a couple of people that previously worked for tech companies. Somehow, nothing is ever Trump’s fault.

Somebody better tell Putin his dog is acting crazy.

Today he’ll bomb Germany, Narnia, Rachel Maddow’s house and California. Twice.

The Secret Service should just tell him he shot a 5 on a par 3 and he’ll get distracted fighting that outrage for hours…

The Ohio Arts head called Harris a whore and was in favor of the capitol invasion….she resigned the next day…DeWine distanced himself from her before that! It’s one thing to be stupid, but it’s another thing to let the world KNOW how stupid you ARE!

Contrary to Comrade-cadet Bonespurs-trumpski’s insane ravings, the Generals really ARE smarter then he is!

Trump wasn’t kidding (nor contemplating realist consequences) when he asked of nuclear weapons “if we had them why can’t we use them?”

Give him a Speak-n-Spell next!

Mr. President, the launch codes are clear as day on this screen. Try 1,2,3,4,5,6.

At a recent “news conference” the Orange Genius still did not take any responsibility for the Capitol Attack. But, he didn’t blame the Dems. He must be slipping into a coma.

The horror is that he really does have sole authority to launch nuclear missiles. And Congress, not that long ago, refused to change that.

Hilarious, Clay!

…I have to admit, I never could master the Etch-A-Sketch. The only thing I could do was start at the edge and erase the dust from the screen in ever-shrinking rectangles….

…I think I may have just uncovered the start of my OCD…

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I have encountered an interesting development over the last few days. While i eschew reactionaries and radicals, my friends and members of my family range from liberals through conservatives (REAL conservatives, not the reactionaries who abused the conservatives and moderates of the Republican Party by pretending to just be a different flavor of conservative like the Nazis did to German conservatives in the 1930s before they turned on them, too).

Recently, conservative friends are asking me what I suggest that they can do. They are seeing big problems but feeling lost because they can not correct big problems.

So, to others who have not yet asked anyone each of these questions but are wondering about them:

Rediscover the main stream media and follow more than one station or one paper. It has to fact check; retractions indicate responsibility. If you don’t encounter fact checking then try others instead. Undermining trust in the media is one of the major tools of dictators.

Not ready yet? Then begin with non-partisan fact checkers. The two very best are probably Politifact and Fact Check:

https://www.politifact.com/

https://www.factcheck.org/

The other really important thing you can do is something that good parents do all the time. In fact, one of the people who asked me is among the best parents I know.

You set limits, realize when those lines are being dragged too far, express displeasure about and to those who try to manipulate your limits and you decry the public figures who do so. It seems small, but it really adds up when a lot of people do it consistently. It was the major tool set when liberals set limits on radicals in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although it takes time and vigilance, it works.

When you talk with friends and with family typically the problem is the message rather than the messenger, so judge the situation and phrase your wording accordingly.

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You can turn off the radio or tv stations when they put on reactionary talking heads, and let their advertisers know that you will purchase from their competitors because they finance reactionaries.

Be aware that it is easy to just flow along with things you are hearing instead of thinking about them. The written word gives you a better chance to pause and realize when an argument is illogical or manipulative. You owe such critical examination to yourself and to our nation.

When a friend or family member expresses support for a reactionary you can express displeasure about the reactionary being supported. It does not have to be a long statement or an angry one. It needs to be firm.

You can refuse to vote for politicians who are reactionary or to enable reactionary candidates. If you want, you can vote outside your party based on what you learn about candidates and their voting history (rather than promises which are often self-contradictory hot air). Otherwise, you can simply withhold your vote from the bad candidates and vote only for others. You do not need to vote on every row of a ballot.

When enough people tackle the small problems then usually the large problems can be avoided; that is not always true, but usually it is.

“The silence of good people is more dangerous than the brutality of bad people.” Martin Luther King

Pompeo issued a press statement about sanctions on Russia; Mnuchin released one from Treasury. What neither of them include is that the leader of the Russian group is Andrii Derkach, who has been working with Rudy Giuliani to try to smear Biden. Therefore this PROVES why Trump should have been impeached and removed in 2020.

Pompeo’s statement with link to Mnuchin’s

https://www.state.gov/sanctioning-russia-linked-disinformation-network-for-its-involvement-in-attempts-to-influence-u-s-election/

Important DETAILS that Pompeo and Mnuchin “forgot”.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/533636-treasury-department-sanctions-inner-circle-of-russian-agent-derkach-for

Where the hell—where in the name of the Lord God Almighty the HELL are any Republicans worth the tenth part of a damn? Nobody of any intelligence or sanity could think Moscow Mitch or Leningrad Lindsay could suddenly develop patriotism (and testicles). Nor Rafael Cruz nor Josh Hawley. But c’mon! EVEN Dick Cheney signed onto a petition of ALL of the other most recent secretaries of defense, decrying any attempt to involve our military in an election. (In other words, they were against TREASON!) This petition—a bi-partisan agreement, note well—came out BEFORE Trump’s obviously illegal (and treasonous) attempt to influence an election. (Ya might recall a certain phone call?) The petition also came out before Traitor Trump incited a mob of his fellow traitors (carefully groomed beforehand) to attack our democracy. Yet, nothing but crickets as far as half the goddamn universe………..

Lumpy the Hutt is more upset that his cow-pasture in Bedminster lost the PGA than he is that the Capital was defiled and a police officer murdered.