Ben White took heavy criticism for a Colonel
Nathan Jessup-themed tweet in which he said that everyone secretly missed suspended former President and current Twitter user
Donald Trump’s social media posts.
On Friday evening, White posted a message patterned after
Jack Nicholson’s oft-quoted monologue from
A Few Good Men.
“Deep down in places you don’t talk about at cocktail parties you want him tweeting those tweets. You miss him tweeting those tweets,” White wrote, and added “… And the sweet rush of outrage that followed. If you say you don’t you are lying.”
Deep down in places you don’t talk about at cocktail parties you want him tweeting those tweets. You miss him tweeting those tweets. … And the sweet rush of outrage that followed. If you say you don’t you are lying.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was widely mocked and literally laughed at when she demanded Twitter suspend President Donald Trump over a year ago but the
All the pieces of the coup were in place. We know Trump replaced the Pentagon leadership right after the election, we know the former Secretaries of Defense were spooked enough by what they were hearing to release a public letter, and even Bill Barr, Trump s Renfield, scurried on out of the White House right before Christmas.
Now we find out that somebody, somewhere (gee, I wonder who?), was blocking the National Guard from repelling the attack.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said yesterday the Maryland National Guard was ready to help during the Capitol attack but was “repeatedly” told they did not have the authorization, despite pleas from House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Via the Washington Post:
Overnight, the moment VP Mike Pence certified Joe Biden and Kamala Harris s Electoral College win for the term beginning on the 20th day of January, 2021. pic.twitter.com/OR8ZcLQIy5 The Recount (@therecount) January 7, 2021
Congress certified President-elect Joe Biden’s victory several hours after deadly riots rocked the Capitol, temporarily derailing the process #WSJWhatsNowpic.twitter.com/BN84dsOhDI
Proving that it was never about anything other than right-wing theater, the House and Senate certified Joe Biden and Kamala Harris early this morning. I never thought I d say this, but kudos to Mike Pence for FINALLY turning his back on Trump and simply doing his constitutional duty. What a low bar.
Joe Biden and others tore into Politico over an article that said Treasury Secretary nominee
Janet Yellen “raked in” more than $7.2 million for speeches over two years, with many accusing the site of sexism.
The article focuses on financial disclosures from former Federal Reserve Chair Yellen, as well as two other Biden nominees. But it was their characterization of Yellen’s earnings that drew attention:
In the past two years, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, has raked in more than $7.2 million in speaking fees from Wall Street and large corporations including Citi, Goldman Sachs, Google, City National Bank, UBS, Citadel LLC, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Salesforce and more.