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Time to be RUTHLESS!

Screw What Aileen Cannon Says! RELEASE THE TRUMP REPORT

Well Done Alvin Bragg!

 

There was much criticism about Alvin Bragg bringing this case up in the first place. He did though get something though that eluded Merrick Garland (via Jack Smith), he got 34 felony convictions. What did AG Garland get? He got the rioters and cop beaters that roamed the Capitol on but not the one who sent them there. That person will be taking the oath of the Presidency at noon this January 20th.

It's too bad because Merrick Garland appeared at first to be an excellent pick as Attorney General. He was unjustly denied the Supreme Court in 2016 (I still believe he would have been and excellent Justice), he was also involved in prosecuting Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing. He had an impeccable reputation for being meticulous and thorough in his work. It is perhaps this strength that was also his weakness. 

 

It's hard to blame Jack Smith in this. He vigorously pursued his investigation and eventual prosecution. The biggest hindrance Smith faced though was time. Merrick Garland for all his wisdom waited until after the midterms in 2022 to appoint Jack Smith as special counsel. Almost 2 years after January 6th. He waited 617 (3/11/21 to 11/18/22) days into his service before Jack got the job. Mind boggling.

 

For all Merrick Garland's accolades he didn't get what a little known Attorney General from New York, Alvin Bragg, got what he should have, a conviction.

After Four Years All We Get is an Op-Ed?

 

 

The USA the next 4 years.

To mark the 4th anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection incited by 45th and soon to be 47th President Joe Biden wrote a strongly worded OP-Ed in the Washington Post. I guess this slipped by Bezos eyes. Anyway this is a bit of too little too late. MAGA will soon be celebrating their victorious coup attempt starting noon January 20, 2025. Meanwhile the rest of the non-MAGA nation is left with a strongly worded "we played by the rules" Op-Ed as a going away message. While President Biden is scheduled for some last minute addresses if this is any clue as their contents they'll hardly be inspiring. Thanks Joe but we needed more. 

Here's bit more on this.

Democracy Dies in Darkness? Yeah right!

 

Ann Telneas

 

 

Jeff Bezos seems to have little interest in actually owning a newspaper like the Washington Post as it appears to be a vanity spot on his of things he owns. In October just weeks before the presidential election a planned endorsement is shot down reported by Jeff Bezos which he tried to explain away in a lame guest column soon after. The non-endorsement at the last minute has the effect of being an endorsement of Donald Trump.

 Now reports are that Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Ann Telneas had her cartoon of criticized Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos (among others) apparently paying tribute to President-Elect Trump, cut from publication. Although her editor claims it was because of and submission was to prevent repetition past actions from Bezos influencing editorial decisions makes the denial skeptical. Here in lie the problem with mega corporations owning media outlets like Washington Post. Ann Telneas has resigned over this decision disagreeing with the decision. The Washington Post catchphrase "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is as hollow promise.