Legal
Latinos For Trump Wants Election Tossed Because Congress DOES NOT EXIST
He's got about an hour, he'd best hurry.
January 20, 2021 09:30 AM
A new contender enters the ring! Move over, Sidney Powell! Step aside Roodles! Back up, Lin Wood! It's time for Paul M. Davis, Former Associate General Counsel of Goosehead Insurance, Inc. (Terminated after peacefully protesting) Now Solo Civil Rights Attorney.
AKA, this jackass.
This is Paul Davis. Paul is a lawyer. He’s also associate general counsel & director of human resources at Goosehea… https://t.co/T15t82tT4l— Roger Sollenberger (@Roger Sollenberger)1609980629.0
Paul Davis is representing Latinos for Trump, Blacks for Trump, Joshua Macias, apparently the founder of Vets for Trump who was recently released from jail and re-arrested after the Capitol riots, and four other pseudonymous plaintiffs.
<p>If we cared at all, we'd ask Mr. Google about these crafty chuckleheads, like "Plaintiff, J.B. [who] is a former Texas congressional candidate who was on the federal ballot for a Congressional seat in the 117th Congress and who resides in Texas." <em>But we do not care.</em> We might also engage in a more thorough inquiry as to how a couple of "political organizations" which do not appear to be domiciled anywhere, if indeed they are registered entities at all, have standing to sue in the Western District of Texas. If we cared, which, again <em>we do not.</em> </p><p>As to the defendants, they are EVERY POLITICIAN IN THE UNITED STATES. Plus Mark Zuckerberg, 'cause hey, what the hell, right?</p><blockquote>Plaintiff name, individually as Defendants all current so-called members of the 117th Congress of the United States, including all members of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate who are individuals residing in the respective states they purport to represent and may be served with process at their respective Washington D.C. and/or local state offices at the addresses publicly provided via the following links or by virtue of other publicly available sources or wherever they may be found: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_current_members_of_the_U.S._Congress" target="_blank">https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_current_members_of...</a> <br><br>Plaintiffs additionally names as Defendants, all the state governors and
secretaries of state listed in Exhibit 1 attached hereto. These individuals reside in
the respective state listed above their names and may be served with process at the
addresses provide in Exhibit 1 or wherever they may be found.</blockquote><p>And no, they didn't bother to serve all those people. What do you think this is, a real lawsuit?</p><p>"This is not a Sidney Powell lawsuit. This is not a Rudy Giuliani lawsuit. This is not a Lin Wood lawsuit. This is not a Team Trump lawsuit. This is not a Republican lawsuit. This is not a Democrat lawsuit," reads a footnote on the first page. Which is true, because even all those lunatics couldn't come up with something this batshit — and you know they tried!</p><p>The theory of the case, and we use that term very loosely, goes like this: In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) to subsidize the purchase of new voting machines and set out best voting practices going forward. Acceptance of the cash bound states to run elections exactly as dictated by Congress, despite the Constitution saying that elections will be run "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct." All 50 states have violated the HAVA by allowing mail-in voting, and thus Congress does not exist!</p><blockquote>The truth of the allegations set forth herein compels the shocking conclusion that every member of currently-seated 117th U.S. Congress and the President-Elect, who is scheduled to be sworn in this coming Wednesday, January 20th, were not legitimately elected because the People of the United States were given ballots that were patently illegal under federal law, namely HAVA. Therefore, the entire 117th Congress is illegitimate and all actions taken since January 3, 2021, including the counting of the Electoral College votes and confirmation of Joseph Biden as President-Elect and the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump are null and void.</blockquote><p>Astute observers will note that only one-third of the Senate was on the ballot in 2020, so even if this crackpot theory of the case was accepted, that would still leave 66 sitting senators. But we've got bigger fish to fry here, kids.</p><blockquote>The 20th Amendment mandates that President Trump's term must end at noon on January 20th, but since Congress's act on January 6, 2021 in confirming Joseph Biden as President-Elect was clearly illegitimate, and there is effectively no lawfully existing Legislative Branch this means that the Presidential Inauguration cannot lawfully go forward on Wednesday. Thankfully, there is still time for the only the only lawfully and constitutionally remaining federal public official, President Donald Trump to take all reasonable and necessary action consistent with the Take Care Clause of Article II, Section 1 and all the original intents and purposes of the Constitution of the United States to preserve the lawful and orderly continuity of government.</blockquote><p>There is plenty of time for Trump to fix it, they said, in a case filed on JANUARY 18, 2021.</p><p>This lawsuit is a veritable Easter egg hunt, with every paragraph hiding a delicious, foil-wrapped sugar rush of pure crazy. </p><p>If "the courage of the Court does in fact match that of Plaintiffs' and their undersigned counsels' act in filing this Complaint," that is, if the judge can only be brave like "Plaintiffs and Counsel [who] have essentially signed their own death warrants, or at least the chance at any meaningful career, at the hands of powerful figures who acted, funded, directed, and/or otherwise conspired in furtherance of the evil scheme to strip all power of self-government from the People," then the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/political_question_doctrine" target="_blank">political question doctrine</a> will not apply. Obviously!</p><p>As for <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/the-law-is-a-gimmick" target="_blank">laches</a>, how were the plaintiffs to know before this week that Congress was going to swear itself in on, um, January 3?</p><blockquote>There is no issue of laches because none of the Plaintiffs were aware of the extent to which the states had violated HAVA in the 2020 congressional elections until they hired undersigned counsel to look into the various election laws. Even if they had been aware, it is axiomatic that a criminal or tortious act is rarely foreseeable, and it was certainly not foreseeable to Plaintiffs that the 117th Congress would take their oaths and be seated in gross violation of federal election law. </blockquote><p>Why should the court award the plaintiffs a temporary restraining order declaring that congress is UNLEGAL?</p><blockquote>If the Defendants and the illegitimate Congress their actions installed are able to continue govern the Republic, it will cease to be a republic. It may become a true RINO "republic in name only" in the sense that the "People's Republic of China" contains the word "Republic," although it is common public knowledge that the China does not in any way belong to its people. It belongs to a tyrannical, authoritarian, communist police state that engages in atrocities against humanity, including the active persecution of proponents of free speech, democracy, Christians, and anyone else who poses a view that does not demonstrate absolute and unquestioning loyalty to the state and whatever ideologies it chooses to cram down the throats of its citizens.</blockquote><p>It's like snorting a Cadbury Creme Egg off the ass of a QAnon influencer!</p><p>Anyway, all they want is for the court to overturn the election. Oh, and also to tell the feds not to arrest Solo Civil Rights Attorney Paul Davis or his co-counsel Kellye SoRelle, a failed Republican candidate who <a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/how-a-wxyz-wagon-sparked-false-election-fraud-claims-in-detroit" target="_blank">appears to have been the source</a> of the false story about wagons full of ballots being wheeled into the TCF Center in Detroit.</p><blockquote>Enjoin the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and any other federal agency from arresting and/or holding in custody Plaintiff's undersigned lead counsel, Paul M. Davis and co-counsel, Kellye SoRelle, and any plaintiff or potential witness in relation to their exercise of their own exercise of civil rights by their attendance at the January 6, 2021 protest in Washington, D.C. absent a showing for good cause by clear and convincing evidence that said counsel committed some overt and intentional act of violence that directly resulting in substantial injury to the person of another ...</blockquote><p>Why, NO, it is not normal for the lawyer to seek criminal immunity <em>for himself</em> as part of an unrelated lawsuit. Just another egg in this deplorable basket.</p><p>And here's a sneak peak from a lawyer reading the Motion for a restraining order — we only made it through the complaint, but some people are gluttons for punishment.</p><div id="638ae" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3e82489f14198342b76a7bacc9af2834"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1351634868833280001" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">OHMYGOD---
A lawyer put this actual text in an actual motion filed in an actual court. https://t.co/GXnXoqDltQ</div> — Mike Dunford (@Mike Dunford)<a href="https://twitter.com/questauthority/statuses/1351634868833280001">1611089839.0</a></blockquote></div><p>THESE PEOPLE ARE CRACKED. Happy Easter.<br></p><p>[<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1120287/gov.uscourts.txwd.1120287.1.0.pdf" target="_blank">Latinos for Trump v. Sessions</a>]</p><p><span></span><strong>Follow Liz Dye on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE!</a></strong><br></p><p><strong>Please click here to support your Wonkette. And if you're ordering your quarantine goods on Amazon, <a href="https://amzn.to/2wbH77j" target="_blank">this is the link to do it.</a></strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Congress
Mitch McConnell Calls Biden ‘The People’s Choice,’ Calls Trump A Cab Out Of Washington
The end of the affair.
January 19, 2021 03:09 PM
Senate Majority (soon-to-be-Minority) Leader Mitch McConnell torched Donald Trump on the Senate floor Tuesday. He noted that the last time the Senate convened was after a MAGA mob had attacked Congress on January 6.
MCCONNELL: We had just reclaimed the Capitol from violent criminals who'd tried to stop Congress from doing our duty. The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.
Trump would love to distance himself from the mob he incited, but McConnell isn't letting him. This is a big deal. Before Trump's first annual Senate impeachment trial, McConnell (said he) believed Trump hadn't done anything wrong. He told Sean Hannity that he was actively coordinating with the White House and there'd be "no difference between the president's position and our position."
McConnell and Trump obviously don't share the same position about the Capitol siege. Trump still insists he did nothing wrong, just like his perfect Ukraine call. However, McConnell stated outright that Trump's “Save America" rally speech was a pack of lies. He accused Trump of provoking a mob that broke into the Capitol and killed five people, including a police officer.
.@senatemajldr on the U.S. Capitol Attack: "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other pow… https://t.co/tkJeMPBt2r— CSPAN (@CSPAN)1611076467.0
<p>Ted Cruz <a href="https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1351589879789084680?s=20" target="_blank">presided over the Senate</a> today, and the Texas senator wasn't spared McConnell's scorn. It's not a stretch to identify Cruz and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley as among the “powerful people" who provoked the MAGA mob.</p><blockquote><strong>MCCONNELL: </strong>They tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like. But we pressed on. We stood together and said an angry mob would not get veto power over the rule of law in our nation, not even for one night. </blockquote><p>McConnell's use of “they" is vague, in a way that should concern Trump and his Senate enablers. Does he mean the mob alone tried to use “fear and violence" to block Joe Biden's election certification or does he consider Trump and “other powerful people" willing accomplices in the siege? The mob invaded the Capitol on Trump's behalf, and it doesn't help his case that he tried to <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-was-too-busy-watching-coup-on-tv-to-tell-traitors-to-stop-coup" target="_blank">exploit the attack</a> to further his own ends. </p><blockquote><strong>MCCONNELL: </strong>We certified the people's choice for their 46th president. [Wednesday] President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris will be sworn in.</blockquote><p>Back in November, when McConnell was playing along with Trump and pretending Biden hadn't cleaned his clock, he said that Trump was <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/illegitimate-lame-duck-senator-mitch-mcconnell-claims-2020-election-not-settled" target="_blank">“100 percent within his rights"</a> to challenge the results. He even parroted the GOP talking points about ensuring that “all legal ballots" are counted and all “illegal ballots" are <del>put in the Black voter pile </del><em>not</em> counted. However, McConnell, while evil, is not an idiot. He left clear exit ramps for Trump. The first was when states certified their election results. Trump ignored this and kept pushing on toward Kraken-burg. Finally, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/thats-right-maga-idiots-time-to-eat-mitch-mcconnells-face" target="_blank">McConnell himself said</a> “enough already" and congratulated President-elect Biden after the Electoral College voted on December 14. But Trump and his QAnon squad just cranked up the crazy.</p><p>McConnell wanted to preserve his Senate majority and everything was riding on the Georgia Senate runoff on January 5. This was a delicate dance, and Trump has about a dozen left feet. He went beyond fighting the good fight before accepting his fate. He attacked Republican elections officials in Georgia and even the Republican governor. He couldn't stay on message at Georgia campaign rallies. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/mcconnell-blames-trump-georgia-455657" target="_blank">Republican internal polling</a> suggested that <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/no-biggie-just-trump-calling-up-ga-sos-asking-him-to-find-11-780-votes" target="_blank">the leaked call</a> of Trump pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Hawley's Electoral College stunt announcement were a fatal one-two punch in the runoffs. </p><p>Trump's ego-driven stupidity cost McConnell the Senate. He liked the Senate. He doesn't like Trump. McConnell is cutting him loose. </p><div id="7823c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6fd8ac7dac6d58f2457ae02f7cc03532"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1351596138525151233" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Once again, McConnell is a part of the Gang of 8. He gets intelligence briefings, and knows way more than what we k… https://t.co/PSHTYzx1Pk</div> — Asha Rangappa (@Asha Rangappa)<a href="https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/statuses/1351596138525151233">1611080605.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Former FBI special agent and current badass <a href="https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1351596138525151233?s=20" target="_blank">Asha Rangappa shared some interesting thoughts</a> about McConnell's remarks. <br></p><blockquote>Once again, McConnell is a part of the Gang of 8. He gets intelligence briefings, and knows way more than what we know on the investigation into 1/6. What he says publicly is meaningful in terms of seriousness re Trump.</blockquote><p>It doesn't require a sudden <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn" target="_blank">heel-face-turn</a> for McConnell to act in his own self-interest. The GOP has suffered repeated defeats under Trump. Worse, Trump's so delusional <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/trump-leaving-white-house-farewell-address/index.html" target="_blank">he still thinks he won</a> when he actually lost in a landslide. He's determined to spend the next four years on a <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/RoaringRampageOfRevenge/LiveActionFilms" target="_blank">roaring rampage of revenge</a> against every Republican he believes “betrayed" him, including <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/even-kevin-mccarthy-can-t-escape-trump-s-11th-hour-n1254654" target="_blank">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, </a>who apparently wasn't loyal enough. Circular firing squads are usually reserved for Democrats.</p><p>Trump's recent shoutout to Grover Cleveland hints that he might announce a 2024 presidential run, and he's still popular enough among the party's QAnon electorate to win a GOP primary. This is why McConnell might find it tempting to ensure he's never permitted to hold office again. No, McConnell hasn't “seen the light." He's still sentient evil in a melting flesh suit, but any common Ben Sasse can rubber stamp McConnell's rightwing hack judges. And they wouldn't try to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3OiIjIvN0A" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"dissolve" the Senate</a> like the <em>Star Wars</em> emperor.</p><p>McConnell's speech isn't one you give when you know Donald Trump is physically incapable of expressing remorse or admitting wrongdoing. Convincing 17 GOP senators to flip on Trump is still a stretch, but it seems like less of one now.</p><p>Follow Stephen Robinson on <em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and supported entirely by reader donations. Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Right Wing Extremism
Madison Cawthorn Remembers Time Madison Cawthorn Saved All Of Congress From Mob He For Sure Didn't Incite
This guy, whew, boy, I don't know!
January 19, 2021 01:50 PM
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-North Carolina), the charming young Aryan who got elected to Congress despite/because he announced that visiting der Führer 's vacation home was on his bucket list, is still working out how best to spin his participation in the run-up to the failed putsch of January 6. In a fascinating New York magazine piece by Olivia Nuzzi, Cawthorn struggled for words to explain how he wished the day had gone differently. You know, for the sake of the nation, and also for his public image, which has suffered just a skosh since he called on voters to "lightly threaten" members of Congress who didn't overturn the election.
"Literally," Cawthorn said, "I … I … I …" [...]
"In hindsight," Cawthorn went on, "you know, I wish I could've … uhh … if I could, you know … I probably would've … obviously … knowing what happened later in the day … I wish I would've been like, 'Just so you know, we are peaceful protesters.' "
<p>Cawthorn was among the crowd of Republicans who pushed Trump's Big Lie about the election, and now, just two weeks and a day after being sworn in for his first term, he's already facing calls to resign (or for the House to expel him) for having helped spread the lies that Joe Biden stole the election and that if wingnuts all flooded into Washington, they could somehow scare Congress into reversing the results. And truly, he's never directly called for violence, because he knows what plausible deniability is. Instead, here's his <a href="https://twitter.com/cawthornfornc/status/1345135044319469571" target="_blank">completely nonviolent tweet</a> calling for people to join him in Washington to save <em>American identity</em> from a gang of left-wing elites who want to end it forever. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>See, he didn't <em>literally </em>say the Jews are going to make America a nonwhite nation, don't be silly. It's about character or something. </p><p>In addition to that <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/aryan-dumpster-scrap-madison-cawthorn-only-told-the-rubes-to-threaten-congress-lightly-yall" target="_blank">December speech</a> to the Charlie Kirk Junior Fascist League where he urged some light threats if Congress didn't do a little light treason, Cawthorn also had a prominent spot at Trump's "Save America" rally on January 6, where he was delighted to see so many patriots willing to fight to keep Trump in office, notwithstanding little details like all 50 states having certified their votes. </p><p>Cawthorn told Nuzzi that after the rally, he made his way back to his office, with no idea that an armed uprising was on the way, because what on earth could drive patriots to think they had license to rise up and take their country back from the globalist cabal in Congress like that? </p><blockquote>"I think telling the people to march down to the Capitol was probably … I mean … that … that just seemed unwise," he told me.</blockquote><p>While he was at it, he not very subtly told Nuzzi that when a Capitol security official came into the House chamber to remind members that everything was fine and under control, but they should also remember their seats all had bulletproof backing, "the Democratic side lost their minds. They just started yelling, 'This is because of you!'" Silly Democrats, reacting to a little armed invasion of their workplace as if it were a big deal. What crybabies. </p><p>It's quite the story of panicky Democrats and calm Republicans: </p><blockquote>Still, Cawthorn said, despite the yelling and "scattering about" and "ten or so members who seemed very vividly, visibly afraid," he didn't grasp what was happening — that the Capitol was, at that moment, being overrun like a fire-ant hill by the same people he had recently exhorted to "chant with me so loud that the cowards in Washington, D.C., that I serve with can hear you." The Republican members were unruffled, he said, until the sergeant at arms informed them that the perimeter had been breached and the building was going into lockdown.</blockquote><p>A couple of other North Carolina congressmen helped Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair since being paralyzed in a 2014 car accident, get to safety, and again he emphasizes that their escape to a colleague's office was handled with "an abundance of calm," because Republicans have cool heads and Democrats are pussies. Also, once barricaded in that office, he had a gun, which means never being worried about anything. </p><p>But you know what? Even though he wasn't scared at all, Madison Cawthorn <em>did </em>get righteously angry at the mob, because if there's one thing that MAGA is not about, it's outbursts of blind rage, and he really resented that the rioters didn't get that. Also, Cawthorn took the opportunity to give nerds a bad name. </p><blockquote>It was a great bonding experience," he said. "But it literally felt like a scene from <em>The Lord of the Rings.</em> You kind of see the orcs — Helm's Deep, or taking over Minas Tirith, whatever — it just looks like the enemy is on something that they're not supposed to be on … And the worst part was they're all waving these American flags and these MAGA flags, and you want to say, 'You don't represent me at all. That's not my movement. You're not part of my party one bit if you're taking this kind of extreme action.'</blockquote><p>Shame on them for taking Trump, and him, and most of the rest of the GOP both seriously <em>and</em> literally. </p><p>Looking back on it all, he realizes he might have done more to prevent the riot, if only he'd known people would get all het up by the casual talk of treason and destroying America he had personally been pushing. Because Madison Cawthorn certainly won't take any responsibility for inflaming the Trump Mob, but he's pretty sure he could have calmed them down, such is his moral authority: </p><blockquote>"I genuinely believe, had we realized what was going on and sent myself, or maybe Lauren Boebert" [...] "some of these people who are just very recognizable to, kind of, the MAGA crowd; in the wheelchair, I probably would've been better, because it's very easily recognizable. I might've just gone to the front steps." And there, facing the rioters, he said, "I think we could've stopped them."</blockquote><p>Or maybe they'd have instantly declared him a RINO and torn him limb from limb, who knows? But probably he could have stopped it, <em>if only he'd known.</em> </p><p>The rest of the piece, which looks at Cawthorn's rise from MAGA edgelord to elected member of Congress, is good too, illustrating again and again how cynical his tactics are (like calling for an end to identity politics and praising Trump for appointing a gay Cabinet member). He also can't seem to stop with the nerd culture references, such as comparing being in Congress to being like a Gandalf or a Harry Potter, with potentially immense power constrained only by <del>his midichlorian count</del> the Supreme Court. </p><p>It's truly some public service journalism, reminding us that he <em>regrets </em>his first tweet after being announced as the winner ("Cry more, lib!") but that ultimately, he's only interested in the PR side of pretended contrition. He's certainly not sorry for being at the "Save America" rally, and by the end of the piece, he's progressed from wishing he could have stopped the riot to convincing himself he kind of did, because what an upstanding guy he is!</p><blockquote>In fact, he thinks his speech to the mob may have saved his colleagues' lives. "Maybe my remarks that day led to a thousand less people, or ten less people, who didn't storm the Capitol," he told me. "Maybe that number would've been enough to breach the House floor, and congressmen could have died or more police officers could have died. I think my comments there led to less violence."</blockquote><p>Good christ. America really doesn't need a politician who writes fanfiction about <em>himself</em>. </p><p>[<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/madison-cawthorn-capitol-insurrection-washington.html" target="_blank">New York]</a> </p><p>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations. 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If Liz Cheney’s Not Down With Trump’s Mob Insurrection, Why Is She Even A Republican?
Wyoming Republicans censure Cheney for voting to impeach Trump.
January 19, 2021 10:50 AM
The Republican Party Central Committee in Carbon County, Wyoming, has censured House Rep. Liz Cheney for her extreme anti-mob position. The censure resolution, which passed unanimously Monday, claimed that Cheney defied "the will of most Wyoming Republican voters," the only ones who matter, when she voted to impeach that one-term loser president Donald Trump last week.
The resolution goes on to claim that a "vocal majority of Wyoming Republicans" believe that there were "significant irregularities" in the 2020 election. There weren't. These people are idiots, but they're gonna build a church on the rock of Trump's Big Lie.
Cheney voted to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, which is a real thing that happened in the real world. She said she wasn't happy about the results but the January 6 session of Congress was “not about President Trump. It's about following the Constitution."
Trump wasn't pleased. During his pre-siege rally, he told tens of thousands of his supporters that “we got to get rid of" Cheney. Gangsters are usually more subtle.
"The censure resolution passed in a unanimous vote by the 45-member central committee." Washington Times: Liz Chen… https://t.co/K1h1lG27U3— Donald Trump Jr. (@Donald Trump Jr.)1611016425.0
<p>It's been almost two weeks since Trump incited a mob that attacked the Capitol. Republicans mostly covered for him, but the heat is on the 10 GOP House members who broke ranks and voted to impeach Trump for an act of insurrection. They are considered no better than Democrats or people who don't like it when presidents summon mobs. </p><p>Rep. Jim Jordan from Ohio, who <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-jordan-says-second-trump-impeachment-is-a-product-of-cancel-culture" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bemoans liberal "cancel culture," </a>wants to cancel Cheney as GOP Conference Chair because she voted to impeach. You can have a difference of opinion on whether Trump can incite riots — that's healthy debate — but you can't hold him accountable and maintain a leadership position in the party. Montana's new sole Rep. Matt Rosendale claimed Cheney "ignored the preferences of Republican voters," who he apparently thinks are pro-mob, and is "unfit to lead." Maybe Cheney needs to sic a mob on Congress to show she has what it takes.</p><p>Almost 70 percent of Wyoming voters supported Trump in 2020, so <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2021/01/liz-cheney-faces-wyoming-backlash-for-trump-impeachment-vote.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cheney had to explain herself </a>(and America's laws against inciting violence) to them during a conference call with reporters after her impeachment vote. </p><blockquote>I will continue to talk to and hear from my constituents all over Wyoming. But when it came down to it, the president of the United States inciting a mob ... is, in my mind, absolutely high crimes and misdemeanors.</blockquote><p>She's right! </p><p>Cheney also pointed out that Trump "could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence," but failed to do so. <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-was-too-busy-watching-coup-on-tv-to-tell-traitors-to-stop-coup" target="_blank">This is also true.</a> He watched his homemade snuff film on TV while still trying to overturn the election.</p><p>Wyoming Republicans aren't just pissed at Cheney. They have potentially irreconcilable differences with the United States. Republican Party Chair Frank Eathorne, who attended the January 6 pro-Trump rally, isn't sure he wants to live in a nation Trump isn't running into the ground. During a conversation with <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/and-on-the-fourth-day-of-the-dnc-the-post-office-arrested-steve-bannon" target="_blank">alleged mail fraudster Steve Bannon,</a> Eathorne floated the idea of secession, which worked so well for everyone the last time. </p><blockquote>Many of these Western states have the ability to be self-reliant, and we're keeping eyes on Texas too and their consideration of possible secession. Now, they have a different state constitution than we do as far as wording, but it is something that we're all paying attention to.</blockquote><p>Wyoming ranks below every state but Vermont <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_GDP" target="_blank">in GDP.</a> It would have to cower behind Idaho against the more prosperous California, Washington, and Oregon, which have a combined population of more than 45 million. Wyoming's population of roughly 560,000 is less than the District of Columbia. The United States also has an Air Force now, so there's not going to be another Civil War, more like a brief slap upside the head.</p><p>Republicans in Wyoming need to shut up, accept Trump lost, and — I can't believe I'm saying this — leave Liz Cheney alone. </p><p>[<a href="https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/wyoming-gop-chair-western-states-paying-attention-to-texas-effort-to-secede/article_0f06d7df-6351-555e-89fc-11e2f4841e31.html" target="_blank">Star Tribune</a> / <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-republican-chair-hints-secession-following-liz-cheney-impeachment-vote-1562537" target="_blank">Newsweek</a> / <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/18/liz-cheney-censured-wyoming-vote-impeach-donald-tr/" target="_blank">Washington Times</a>]<br></p><p>Follow Stephen Robinson on <em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and supported entirely by reader donations. Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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