Oct 14, 2022·edited Oct 14, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
Today was the day the hairline cracks in the dam started crowing and spreading and putting the structure in danger of collapse. The Supreme Court delivered as strong a message to Trump today as the court did to Nixon in August 1974. They have washed their hands of him.
As for the news about the FBI, I hate to have to tell Frank figliuzzi that all his good work to have me almost convinced that Fools & Buffoons Inc. isn't still the collection of scum who harassed me and my wife 50 years ago with J. Edgar Fruitfly's Operation COINTELPRO is for naught. I felt sorry for him today, watching him have to comment on the contents of that email. The organization may not be so thoroughly fascistic as it was, given that people like Frank, Andrew Weissman, Harry Littman and Chuck Rosenberg rose to positions of authority in it, but it's still got people like the Special Agent In Charge of the San Antonio Field Office who in 1969 wrote my parents and the parents of the woman I would marry, to tell them that we were subverting the Army and "promoting the communist cause" in our work with "dissidents" to whom we were selling drugs and to whom I was offering my girlfriend for sex. (I found this out, since the Bureau didn't find it so awful that they didn't redact it when the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility sent me my redacted COINTELPRO file due to court order in 1978; I can only wonder how awful were the stories in the 30 blacked-out pages, but given events that happened in that time I have an idea what they were doing. So they are still Fools & Buffoons Inc. here, and guilty till they prove themselves innocent to me. That a substantial minority - at least! - of field agents were supportive of what Trump did on January 6 is an indictment of the bureau and its leaders.
Nancy Pelosi, for her decisive action during the events of January 6, will go down in history as The Greatest Speaker. Ever I thought she might be tied with Thomas Reed, but he never had to take charge of the government and confront The Enemy Domestic, domiciled at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue in the White House.
I watched the J6th hearings and walked away from the hearings with a combination of awe and disgust at the same time. The committee did an outstanding job in a non partisan way of presenting the story and facts about not only what happened on January 6th but everything that happened months before the election took place. The video of Nancy Pelosi taking charge in a “ profiles of courage moment” was inspiring and her famous quote.
“ On a video from January 6 released tonight, Pelosi is seen reacting to the news that Trump was intending to go to the Capitol, the seat of our elected government, where presidents traditionally must not go without an invitation. Told he might arrive, she responded to her chief of staff:
“I hope he comes, I’m gonna punch him out… I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m gonna punch him out, I’m gonna go to jail, and I’m gonna be happy.”
Pelosi showed us what real leadership looks like and we need to join her in the midterms to “punch out MAGA Republicans.
There were several moments in the "Business Meeting" of the Jan 6th Committee yesterday where I was overwhelmed with appreciation for their work. The construction of the presentation was brilliant and revealing.
1. We will be considering this as an historical document for the next generations to come - for as long as the Union lasts, this will be THE most discussed moment in our history. We almost lost the US to a fascist and his treasonous enablers.
2. TFG has established his ineligibility to serve in any capacity, in any elected office - forever. TFG convicted himself of violating the 14th Amendment - on tape. After watching the armed rebellion on TV and ignoring his Constitutional responsibility to preserve our government for hours, he told the rioters: "we love you..." TFG has self convicted.
3. The testimony given that established TFG's responsibility for the insurrection was provided by Republicans.
4. Leaders McCarthy and McConnell publicly and clearly put the responsibility for the insurrection on TFG in speeches to their fellow legislatures. All their current equivocations and flip flopping can't erase those tapes. And when you watch those speeches, you can see and feel their anger and fear. The fact that political expediency and cowardice caused them to become liars subsequently is irrelevant. They knew. They know.
Thank you for a wonderful, upbeat, informative newsletter, Rob. The jan 6 committee meeting was riveting. Your description of Joe Biden portrays a man who, while imperfect, is in the right place at the right time. So glad you got to attend. Saturday will be so special and uniquely memorable. That’s where you’ll devote your attention in these several days in particular. We are all curious to know next week if the little ones actually wear the pretty little dresses Jill et all selected. Lol. Precious times.❤️
Blessings to Pelosi, the Jan 6 Committee, Biden, and the extent to which the government of the United States of America actually works. Looking forward to implementation of the requisite fixes: prosecution of insurrectionists up to the top, and legislation to fill in the cracks being exploited by power-grabbers.
Oct 14, 2022·edited Oct 14, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
As you note: "Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and Mike Pence worked together to clear the Capitol and resume the count of electoral ballots.". Good. Too bad those same four could not have found common ground on, say, November 10th. That whole boiling cauldron of Trump's discontent needed GOP cold water a lot earlier. Trump's GOP enablers are guilty of so many awful mis-deeds that I can't list all of them, but cowardice is at the top of the list.
Oct 14, 2022·edited Oct 14, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
My favorite sound bite of yesterday īs Bad Ass Nancy Pelosi saying she hopes Trump shows up at the Capitol so she can “punch him out.” And I believe she would have done it too. Wow, I would pay for a ticket to see that match.
Being an incurable optimist, one would like to think that some Republicans would now stand up and, based on the sworn evidence provided to the Committee and the various courts, repudiate their association with and support for the failed insurrectionist. One is not, however, Pollyanna, so I won't hold my breath.
Have a great weekend, enjoy your family and the wedding and congratulations to your daughter.
The meeting you attended with the President is profound and I am so glad to hear of it. This is truly a life event. He comes through in your writing. That love is a component of intelligence may be something many do not want to acknowledge. Mothers know that tough love is important too, it is being an adult.
Concerning the committee meeting which I watched most of, and found fascinating, particularly Ms. Pelosi's call for help, with someone in the room trying to talk over her, but her relentless work, and then reading in the Post that someone said she did nothing, is familiar. In family court there is term, 'high conflict' that some lawyers use to say that both sides are dominating when one side is dominating. It is a way of taking one lense from the glasses out -- to make it difficult for the other person to see, and for others to see, what is really going on. The gamesmanship is like a cataract - the person doing it knows they are.
The personal pain and danger to the victims, be they victims of criminal justice, wrongly accused or someone avoiding justice as the J6 committee showed. Voices of the victims are supported like President Biden.
From the Washington Post:
“It takes incredible courage in today’s Russia to stand against the power in place,” Tiny Kox, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, said this week in awarding Washington Post contributing columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza the Václav Havel Prize for his defense of human rights in his home country of Russia.
The last Jan 6 Committee presentation was an excellent summary if there is someone you know who wants to catch up. I, like Jill, am in awe of Pelosi's amazing skill at reaching out for appropriate help as Congress bunkered. THAT was an amazing sight.
Your summary of Biden's speech at your event makes it clear the media is missing the content of what he is saying and has done and is focused on any slip or possible contradiction.
On the suggestion of our Founders Discussion, I am writing the major news outlets (again) and asking for policy content not sports scores on who is ahead when helping the readers understand the candidates.
Hopefully indictments will be fast tracked for Eastman and the other "intellectual" architects of the coup, and that a purging of the S.S. and the F.B.I. will be thorough and timely as well.
After the J6 Committee presentation and closing yesterday I will remain stumped at the fact citizens follow this ugly excuse for a president. I love my country, I love Democracy and following the rule of law. Is Pres. Biden perfect? Nope but I admire his style, his common sense and appreciate his integrity. The members of the J6 Committee did themselves proud and history will do them a solid!
With the Jan 6 hearings dominating the news, I could not immediately find anything about the Supreme Court’s thumbs-down on Trump’s appeal. I went to the New York Times site, which, surprise, surprise, featured a story headlined something like “Jan 6 Hearings Haven’t Moved the Needle”. It appears to be gone now, but what crap this is.
I think the hearings certainly moved the needle with a small but important sliver of voters, and I’d go further - the 3 month gap in the hearings probably has had something to do with the GOP’s recent rise in the polls - it let them talk about their issues rather than ours.
Today was the day the hairline cracks in the dam started crowing and spreading and putting the structure in danger of collapse. The Supreme Court delivered as strong a message to Trump today as the court did to Nixon in August 1974. They have washed their hands of him.
As for the news about the FBI, I hate to have to tell Frank figliuzzi that all his good work to have me almost convinced that Fools & Buffoons Inc. isn't still the collection of scum who harassed me and my wife 50 years ago with J. Edgar Fruitfly's Operation COINTELPRO is for naught. I felt sorry for him today, watching him have to comment on the contents of that email. The organization may not be so thoroughly fascistic as it was, given that people like Frank, Andrew Weissman, Harry Littman and Chuck Rosenberg rose to positions of authority in it, but it's still got people like the Special Agent In Charge of the San Antonio Field Office who in 1969 wrote my parents and the parents of the woman I would marry, to tell them that we were subverting the Army and "promoting the communist cause" in our work with "dissidents" to whom we were selling drugs and to whom I was offering my girlfriend for sex. (I found this out, since the Bureau didn't find it so awful that they didn't redact it when the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility sent me my redacted COINTELPRO file due to court order in 1978; I can only wonder how awful were the stories in the 30 blacked-out pages, but given events that happened in that time I have an idea what they were doing. So they are still Fools & Buffoons Inc. here, and guilty till they prove themselves innocent to me. That a substantial minority - at least! - of field agents were supportive of what Trump did on January 6 is an indictment of the bureau and its leaders.
Nancy Pelosi, for her decisive action during the events of January 6, will go down in history as The Greatest Speaker. Ever I thought she might be tied with Thomas Reed, but he never had to take charge of the government and confront The Enemy Domestic, domiciled at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue in the White House.
I have great admiration for all members of the Jan 6 committee. We are living through historic times that are getting to look hopeful thanks to them.
I watched the J6th hearings and walked away from the hearings with a combination of awe and disgust at the same time. The committee did an outstanding job in a non partisan way of presenting the story and facts about not only what happened on January 6th but everything that happened months before the election took place. The video of Nancy Pelosi taking charge in a “ profiles of courage moment” was inspiring and her famous quote.
“ On a video from January 6 released tonight, Pelosi is seen reacting to the news that Trump was intending to go to the Capitol, the seat of our elected government, where presidents traditionally must not go without an invitation. Told he might arrive, she responded to her chief of staff:
“I hope he comes, I’m gonna punch him out… I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m gonna punch him out, I’m gonna go to jail, and I’m gonna be happy.”
Pelosi showed us what real leadership looks like and we need to join her in the midterms to “punch out MAGA Republicans.
There were several moments in the "Business Meeting" of the Jan 6th Committee yesterday where I was overwhelmed with appreciation for their work. The construction of the presentation was brilliant and revealing.
1. We will be considering this as an historical document for the next generations to come - for as long as the Union lasts, this will be THE most discussed moment in our history. We almost lost the US to a fascist and his treasonous enablers.
2. TFG has established his ineligibility to serve in any capacity, in any elected office - forever. TFG convicted himself of violating the 14th Amendment - on tape. After watching the armed rebellion on TV and ignoring his Constitutional responsibility to preserve our government for hours, he told the rioters: "we love you..." TFG has self convicted.
3. The testimony given that established TFG's responsibility for the insurrection was provided by Republicans.
4. Leaders McCarthy and McConnell publicly and clearly put the responsibility for the insurrection on TFG in speeches to their fellow legislatures. All their current equivocations and flip flopping can't erase those tapes. And when you watch those speeches, you can see and feel their anger and fear. The fact that political expediency and cowardice caused them to become liars subsequently is irrelevant. They knew. They know.
Thank you for a wonderful, upbeat, informative newsletter, Rob. The jan 6 committee meeting was riveting. Your description of Joe Biden portrays a man who, while imperfect, is in the right place at the right time. So glad you got to attend. Saturday will be so special and uniquely memorable. That’s where you’ll devote your attention in these several days in particular. We are all curious to know next week if the little ones actually wear the pretty little dresses Jill et all selected. Lol. Precious times.❤️
Blessings to Pelosi, the Jan 6 Committee, Biden, and the extent to which the government of the United States of America actually works. Looking forward to implementation of the requisite fixes: prosecution of insurrectionists up to the top, and legislation to fill in the cracks being exploited by power-grabbers.
Blessings, Robert, to you and your family!
As you note: "Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and Mike Pence worked together to clear the Capitol and resume the count of electoral ballots.". Good. Too bad those same four could not have found common ground on, say, November 10th. That whole boiling cauldron of Trump's discontent needed GOP cold water a lot earlier. Trump's GOP enablers are guilty of so many awful mis-deeds that I can't list all of them, but cowardice is at the top of the list.
Congratulations on the marriage of your daughter, Robert!
Best wishes to the Bride, Groom and your entire family!
Once again I thank you for distilling the events of the day. I rely on your clarity and compassion.
Dr. Lisa Langer
My favorite sound bite of yesterday īs Bad Ass Nancy Pelosi saying she hopes Trump shows up at the Capitol so she can “punch him out.” And I believe she would have done it too. Wow, I would pay for a ticket to see that match.
Being an incurable optimist, one would like to think that some Republicans would now stand up and, based on the sworn evidence provided to the Committee and the various courts, repudiate their association with and support for the failed insurrectionist. One is not, however, Pollyanna, so I won't hold my breath.
Have a great weekend, enjoy your family and the wedding and congratulations to your daughter.
The meeting you attended with the President is profound and I am so glad to hear of it. This is truly a life event. He comes through in your writing. That love is a component of intelligence may be something many do not want to acknowledge. Mothers know that tough love is important too, it is being an adult.
Concerning the committee meeting which I watched most of, and found fascinating, particularly Ms. Pelosi's call for help, with someone in the room trying to talk over her, but her relentless work, and then reading in the Post that someone said she did nothing, is familiar. In family court there is term, 'high conflict' that some lawyers use to say that both sides are dominating when one side is dominating. It is a way of taking one lense from the glasses out -- to make it difficult for the other person to see, and for others to see, what is really going on. The gamesmanship is like a cataract - the person doing it knows they are.
The personal pain and danger to the victims, be they victims of criminal justice, wrongly accused or someone avoiding justice as the J6 committee showed. Voices of the victims are supported like President Biden.
From the Washington Post:
“It takes incredible courage in today’s Russia to stand against the power in place,” Tiny Kox, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, said this week in awarding Washington Post contributing columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza the Václav Havel Prize for his defense of human rights in his home country of Russia.
Havel once said that “if the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then … the fundamental threat to it is living the truth — this is why it must be suppressed more severely than anything else.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/13/vladimir-karamurza-vaclav-havel-prize/
Heather Cox Richardson has this video of Nancy Pelosi's reaction to being told on January 6 that Donald Trump can't get to the Capitol as he wanted to. It's priceless! https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1580712690766712833?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The last Jan 6 Committee presentation was an excellent summary if there is someone you know who wants to catch up. I, like Jill, am in awe of Pelosi's amazing skill at reaching out for appropriate help as Congress bunkered. THAT was an amazing sight.
Your summary of Biden's speech at your event makes it clear the media is missing the content of what he is saying and has done and is focused on any slip or possible contradiction.
On the suggestion of our Founders Discussion, I am writing the major news outlets (again) and asking for policy content not sports scores on who is ahead when helping the readers understand the candidates.
Hopefully indictments will be fast tracked for Eastman and the other "intellectual" architects of the coup, and that a purging of the S.S. and the F.B.I. will be thorough and timely as well.
After the J6 Committee presentation and closing yesterday I will remain stumped at the fact citizens follow this ugly excuse for a president. I love my country, I love Democracy and following the rule of law. Is Pres. Biden perfect? Nope but I admire his style, his common sense and appreciate his integrity. The members of the J6 Committee did themselves proud and history will do them a solid!
With the Jan 6 hearings dominating the news, I could not immediately find anything about the Supreme Court’s thumbs-down on Trump’s appeal. I went to the New York Times site, which, surprise, surprise, featured a story headlined something like “Jan 6 Hearings Haven’t Moved the Needle”. It appears to be gone now, but what crap this is.
I think the hearings certainly moved the needle with a small but important sliver of voters, and I’d go further - the 3 month gap in the hearings probably has had something to do with the GOP’s recent rise in the polls - it let them talk about their issues rather than ours.