Drunk Rudy 🌻🌻🌻

January 6^th Chronicles  The House Committee canceled the hearing originally scheduled to take place today.  Their stated reason is that they need more time to prepare video segments but there’s probably more to the postponement, maybe they’re in the process of learning something even more damning than what they were planning to show?  Well at least that’s what I’d like to believe.  As of now the next hearing will take place tomorrow at 1 PM Eastern Time with two more hearings next week, on Tuesday and Thursday, both also at 1 PM.  As to the hearing that took place on Monday, Bill Stepien, the FG’s former campaign manager, was a no show, something to do with his wife going into labor, an excuse that is hard to question though some jaded tweeters suggested that maybe her delivery was conveniently induced because it’s not like the past few years haven’t given us worse. Stepien’s last minute cancellation resulted in a slight delay of the hearing as staff minions rushed to put together some of those aforementioned videotapes, these including snippets of his interviews.  Fortunately the Committee was still able to convey their planned message, that at the end of election day the FG was told by his experts that he’d likely lost the election, that his early lead was, as predicted, due to the “red mirage,” the counting of Republican heavy same day votes before Democratic heavy absentee ballots and that it would be wrong for him to declare victory before all the votes were counted because as time wore on his odds of victory were increasingly approaching the odds of winning a billion dollar MEGA millions lottery.  That’s the message that Stepien says he delivered as part of what he called “Team Normal,” a message that was contradicted by a rather inebriated Rudy Giuliani who told the FG what he wanted to hear, that he’d won, and anyone saying otherwise was ignoring all that obvious fraud that wasn’t. And who doesn’t think that the idea of the leader of the free world tossing his “normal” experts to take advice from Drunk Rudy and a group of Kraken lawyers was totally okay? As to that so called fraud that Rudy and the FG’s other crazies were and still are pushing, the Committee gifted us with a few more snippets of former Attorney General Bill Barr calling assertions of wide spread election fraud “rubbish,” “nonsense,” “bullshit,” “garbage,” “crazy” and the FG perhaps “delusional.” Barr who is on record saying that he’d vote for the FG again if he was the Republican’s 2024 candidate because he could never vote for the immoral Democratic agenda, may be the John Dean of this generation, seriously flawed, more devious and less introspective but perhaps equally damning of his former hero. As to Barr’s assertion that the FG might be delusional, don’t buy that for one minute.  The FG knew exactly what he was doing, he was, and still is, as evidenced by the lengthy diatribe he released after the hearing, restating election lies with the hope of convincing enough of the public to believe him under the theory that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the truth.  One more thing, don’t buy into Stepien’s assertion that he is at all Team Normal.  He remains either besotted with the FG or desperate for cash or both, we know that because when not coaching his wife’s delivery, he’s working on the campaign of the FG’s chosen candidate in the hopes of getting Liz Cheney voted out of Congress.  Speaking of money, the other big takeaway from Monday’s hearing concerned the huge amount that the FG has raised to fund his fight against all that non-existent election fraud.  The Committee asserts that the $250 million or so coming in largely from mom and pop donors isn’t going to a legitimate political fund but rather into the FG’s coffers to pay for other things, like his expenses which of course would be totally in character, after all his since closed charity once raised money to buy paintings of him to hang in his golf clubs, the ones that currently illegally display the presidential seal.  After the hearing was over, Committee member/California Representative Zoe Lofgren told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the Committee had evidence that Kim Guilfoyle, son Jr’s lap dancing fiancé, was paid $60,000 for her three minute speech to the insurrectionist crowd. More details have since emerged about that payment, apparently it didn’t come from the $250 million pool but through money funneled to right winger Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action organization by Publix heiress Julie Fancelli, another one of those people totally besotted by the FG and all the hateful things he stands for.

Midterm Madness:  There were a few more primaries yesterday.  Some of the FG’s candidates won and some didn’t and some of those who did might have won anyway, not that the FG will ever admit that.  In South Carolina Republican Congressman Tom Rice, one of the ten Republicans who voted for the FG’s impeachment was beaten by an FG endorsed “big lie” proponent but Congresswoman Nancy Mace who didn’t vote for impeachment but who has enraged the FG by occasionally criticizing him survived despite his endorsement of her opponent.  Mace was endorsed by the FG’s former UN Ambassador one time South Carolina Governor/presidential wannabee Niki Haley. In Nevada, a proponent of the big lie won the Republican nomination to run future state elections and another big lie pusher Paul Laxalt who was endorsed by both the FG and his nemesis Ron DeSantis won the Republican Senate nomination.  Laxalt will be running against incumbent Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in what is expected to be a very close election and a possible Republican pick up.  So if you are at all inclined consider contributing to Cortez Masto’s campaign, she like New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan, is going to need all the help she can get.  On the subject of both midterms and wacky Republicans, Colorado’s Lauren Boebert is now getting some of the treatment that sunk North Carolina’s Madison Cawthorn. Last night a group called “Fire Boebert” tweeted that the American Muckrakers PAC had uncovered that she had previously worked as an unlicensed escort for SugarDaddyMeet.com, that she’d met Ted Cruz while with a Koch family escort client and that she’d had two abortions during her escort service days. To be clear, there’s no suggestion that Ted Cruz had anything to do with her alleged pregnancies or abortions but he was so impressed after meeting her that he became an early contributor to her campaign, donating $126,000 and helping her raise more. It’s more than fair for Boebert to insist that her reproductive choices are hers and should be private but then again that’s a right that she’d like to strip away from everyone else. Anyway this morning Boebert who isn’t known for truth telling didn’t argue for privacy instead she responded by calling the reports “fake news” and saying that “Y’all need Jesus.” One more thing on the abortion rights front, yesterday a Boynton Beach synagogue  filed a lawsuit that argues that Florida’s new abortion law will do “irreparable harm” to Jews and others who don’t share the religious beliefs upon which the law is based.  Shalom Y’all.