This will be the final entry in my almost 4 year Timeline Series for the crimes of Donald John Trump. I’ve been posting one of these every week including all the detailed fuckery of Hairplug Himler and his wall of cronies and sycophants for all this time. [I particularly recommend reading the first entry which documents the 2016 Election, after repeatedly updating it over the years it’s now a hum dinger that walks you through everything later discovered by Mueller and more.]
It’s finally over. It’s finally done.
Trump has departed the field, Joe Biden has been Inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.
In his exit speech Donald tried to do what he does best, endless brag about things that frankly aren’t that great. Jobs and the economy under him grew more slowly than it did under Obama’s last 3 years before he slammed into the Covid wall. 400,000 Americans are dead as result of the virus as of yesterday, more than every war from the 20th Century combined largely because Trump and Kushner wanted to play politics with Democratic Governors and never came up with a comprehensive testing and tracing plan. The distribution of the virus vaccine is a bloody mess. Our international standing is trashed. Trump’s attempt to jump start US manufacturing was a dismal failure. He inspired an Insurrection that formed a lynch mob that staged an assault on our Capitol on the basis of crazed bigoted Election and Qanon conspiracy theories and also White Supremacy.
White Domestic Terrorism is no longer a hidden problem, it’s out in the open. Maybe that’s better because now it can be responded to and fought. To his credit Trump didn’t start a war, but he didn’t end one either. He left our country fractured and broken, limping and hobbled. The competence and efficiency of our government is a distant memory. Washington DC has been left in a strange neo-fascist military lock down.
President Biden has many challenges before him, but then again when you’re at rock bottom — the only pathway forward is upward. Onto better things.
Of course I’m happy this day is happening. But I am concerned. Concerned about the future. Trump may be gone, not counting his impending Impeachment Trial, but his people are still with us. His hordes.
What exactly do we do about them? What can we do?
Steven Hassan, a former member of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church cult, told CNN host Alisyn Camerota about the ways many Trump supporters had been "deceptively recruited by an authoritarian political cult" surrounding President Donald Trump.
Hassan explained how it is that so many Trump fans have crossed the line from supporting a political leader into being cult members.
"In studying all the thought reform, brainwashing models, I developed a... model of authoritarian control and it basically talks about controlling behavior, information, thoughts, and emotions to create a new identity that's dependent and obedient," he explained. "And this is a radical personality change in the mental health literature. In the [American Psychological Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders], it's called a 'dissociative disorder.'"
Hassan then advised CNN viewers that they needed to be understanding with Trump cult members and advised giving them "respect, kindness and warmth" instead of harshly criticizing them for being indoctrinated.
“Respect, kindness and warmth.”
For people who tried to over throw the Government? For people who think the Democrats are blood sucking pedophiles? For people who are right now trying to figure out how to make IEDs?
Ho boy.
This isn’t gonna be easy.
Sigh.
Alright, fine. I think we can afford to be gracious in victory. I think we can afford to respectful. We can be polite and patient. It’s been a couple years since we had a chat anyway.
Ahem.
I can understand that while I am highly relieved today and cautiously hopeful there are a great many Americans who are frankly traumatized. Some are terrified. They’re gonna need some chocolate. I’m sure they don’t know exactly what to think. They probably believe their country has been hijacked by Marxist hyenas. They think a great crime has been committed.
I’m gonna be honest, I can sympathize with that. I was calling out issues with electronic voting years ago, so I get the basic concern. It’s an issue. I understand that it’s easy to believe that something is rotten with Dominion Voting Systems. I used to have big issues with Deibold.
However, Fox News has put out a full retraction of all their accusations against Smartmatic & Dominion. So did Newsmax.
Attorney General Bill Barr stated, flatly, that there was no widespread election fraud.
The head of Homeland Securities Cyber section said the exact same thing.
Those are both TRUMP people. YOUR People.
Let me assure you all that as a Democrat, I am confident that most if not every Democrat agrees, we. don’t. want. to. steal. an. election. Any election.
We don’t want to mistreat children.
We don't want to suck your blood.
We don’t want Venezuelan Socialism.
We don’t worship Satan.
We really don’t.
We are not plotting to create false flag school shootings.
Dems did not dress up in MAGA gear and storm the Capitol. That wasn’t us, that was you.
Donald Trump is not anyone’s “Savior.”
People have been lying to you. I know that’s hard to believe, I know that’s mind-blowing — “who would do such a thing?” Yeah, well, their names are Melon-Sciafe, Murdock, Mercer, Adelson, Koch, Brietbart, Rove, D’sousa, Ingraham, Hannity, Gingrich, Limbaugh and Putin. And a lot of people on the Internet.
I know that’s a lot to take in, just put a pin in that for right now.
What we do want — is affordable accessible healthcare for everyone. We want a clean environment so that some of us aren’t dealing with the negative health effects of coal ash, or the negative effects of global climate change. We want a living wage for people that are keeping the country stitched together. We want a healthy safety net for people between jobs or disabled. We want to end the pandemic. We want clean energy. We want to fix our roads, bridges and infrastructure. We want reasonable, safe, legal immigration. We want to bring our troops home, but we also want to deter and defeat both global jihad and domestic racial terrorism. We want to balance our budget. We want to get back to the surplus we had under Bill Clinton and protect and expand Social Security and Medicare.
What you’ve been told about us, is not true. We don’t want to “control your lives” we want the greatest in freedom for all of us, every one of us. We don’t want to “replace” you.
If you can accept that. If you can consider that as a possibility, then perhaps — maybe— we can talk. Maybe we can find some common ground, some shared values where we both want the same thing, and we can stand and call loudly for it together.
United.
It won’t happen right now. We have an Impeachment Trial to get through. We have to address Trump’s obstruction and his tax and banking fraud. We have indictments and prosecutions to do because of the Insurrection. We have many White Supremacists to purge from our military and police. We have some serious racial reconciliation to do. We have to take care of a few things first, for the greater good.
Understand, this has to happen.
But after that, after all that is over. I know I for one am willing to put all this crap behind me. I’m done with it. You’re welcome to come to the table, have a coffee, and talk like reasonable people. We really can talk like rational people. We can make this country truly great — for the FIRST TIME. We can heal all the wounds. We can make what was wrong, right again.
God Bless America.
Here are the detailed events for this week, for the last time:
January 14th —
- Pelosi calls for Reps refusing the metal detector scan to be fined $5,000.
- Trump plans to stiff Giuliani on legal fees. He's ranting and raging WH promising to “Never” admit that Biden won as his staff loses the will to fight for him. He struggling to find lawyers that will defend him in 2nd Impeachment trial. [They might want to get paid.] Snapchat permanently bans Trump. Trump keeps calling Steve Bannon on advice to overturn the election. WH is consumed by “rage and turmoil” as Trump clings to his conspiracy theories. He bans WH Staff from mentioning Nixon's resignation in his precense.
- Fox and Fools cries bitter tears over Trump's 2nd Impeachment: “They hated him since day 1.” [He deserved to be hated.]
- Pelosi establishes fines for lawmakers who refuse to walk through metal detectors.
- Tom Cotton announces he won't convict Trump in the removal trail.
- Feds warn of potential Qanon attacks before Inauguration
- DHS failed to warn the country about the Jan 6th attack.
- Trump had to be dissuaded from dropping in on his own Impeachment.
- Delta bans Trump fans who harassed Graham and Romney.
- Black cops warned about racist Capitol police members for years: “No one took us seriously.”
- Twitter users blast Politico for giving Ben Ginsburg the key to the playbook newsletter.
- GOP Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) who backed Impeachment is purchasing body armor amid death threats.
- Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) is the fourth person to contract Covid-19.
- Walkie Talkie App Zello deletes 2,000 channels associated with militias and social militant movements after being used in the Capitol attack.
- Man who held Confederate flag in the Capitol is arrested.
- Arizona Governor will attend the Inauguration after GOPers voted to toss that states electoral votes.
- NBC reports that the FBI DC Field Office flunked the assessment on fighting violent extremism.
- Ivanka and Jared are dunked on for forcing Secret Service to use a bathroom outside their home. So they spent $3k a month on a rental toilet.
- Multiple off duty cops participated in the Capitol Assault.
- Pompeo calls for Voice of America to stop being a source of fact-based journalism and instead be a cheerleader for USA. [Yeah, just like RT.]
- Qanon Shaman unravels the GOP Impeachment defense after admitting he “came at the request of [Trump]”
- The pro-Trump riot was a modern day Lynch Mob which included White Supremacists from the FBI watchlist.
- Siegfried Fischbacher the magician of Siegfried and Roy, dies.
- New York Attorney General sues the NYPD over their brutal crackdown on BLM protests.
- DC Attorney General seeks to interview Don jr. on the use of Inauguration funds.
- Dems request cots for National Guard after seeing pictures of them sleeping on the floor.
- GOP Rep Bob Good’s (R-VA) district director, Sandy Adams, and her husband Melvin stood outside the Capitol with President Donald Trump’s supporters as part of the mob stormed the building last week.
- McCarthy stands with Liz Cheney despite a petition for oust her from GOP leadership.
- Pence vows for a safe Inauguration for Biden. He is briefed on details of the Inauguration for President-Elect Biden and VP-Elect Harris.
- Lincoln Project shames Peter Navarro for continuing to push bogus election conspiracy theories.
- Washington is on lockdown as security threats mount.
- Jim Acosta fears that Trump staffers are looting the WH: “Not a place where you take souvenirs.”
- Laura Ingraham whines that authorities are doing “too much” to keep DC safe.
- One of the Rocky Mount PD officers, Jacob Fracker, arrested for entering the Capitol is also a National Guardsman.
- Biden proposals a $1 Trillion stimulus plan for families.
- Pentagon warns that far-right extremists and recruiting inside the military.
- Arrested Capitol rioters says he thought the officer he was beating with a flagpole was “Antifa.”
- Local GOP Officials warn that they will put Trump allegiance first: “We are just getting started.”
- Yahoo News reports that the leaders of the Insurrection were paid using Bitcoin.
- Rep Boebert claims that Rep. Maloney’s claim that she hosted a MAGA tour before the Insurrection is a “lie” and complains that she’s received death threats because of it.
- Trump supporters disregard his call for calm and “No Violence”, because he hasn’t conceded yet.
- WH Officials blame Giuliani for Trump’s two Impeachments. [Yeah, that’s fair.]
- Dems fear that Republicans are endangering their lives, literally.
- Alabama Senator Tuberville suggests delaying the Inauguration, not realizing that the date is in the Constitution.
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene alerts the FBI about Keith Olbermann because he said “she’s going to prison.” [She probably is, but that’s not a physical threat.]
- Obama Official Kenneth Baer slams Trump staffers for looting WH artwork: “This is illegal.”
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January 16th —
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January 18th —
January 19th—
- Biden expected to reverse Trump's last-minute lift of Covid-19 travel bans. Insurrection and threat of violence hangs over Biden’s first nominee hearings.
- FBI warns that QAnon followers have discussed infiltrating the National Guard at Biden’s Inauguration. Feds say that Oath Keepers planned the Capitol attack.
- Bill Barr makes excuses for the Insurrection, grumbling about Liberal concerns.
- Operation Warp Speed has created vaccine chaos.
- Big retailers drop MyPillow after Mike Lindell’s visit to the WH with papers calling for Martial Law.
- GOP Sen. Joni Ernst comes out against Convicting Trump, claims it’s “unconstitutional.”
- McConnell rips Trump for feeding his mob “Lies" that led them to stage an assault on the Capitol.
- Pompeo blasts “Multiculturalism" as “Un-American and Marxist” after celebrating his own Italian roots.
- Fux News Bartiromo in her new time-slot serves up the bullshit lie that Dems disguised themselves as Trumpers and attacked the Capitol as it voted to put a Dem President in place.
- Wyoming GOP Chair floats secession from the nation. [Would anyone notice if Wyoming just stopped?]
- Georgia certification is complete, Ossof and Warnock are ready to be sworn in.
- Exhausted Trump aides can’t wait for the Inauguration.
- Cult expert tells CNN how to “deprogram" Trump supporters.
- Pentagon denied request to vaccinate the National Guard prior to Biden’s inauguration.
- Fox and Fools host Ainsley Eardhart praises Trump as a “hard worker” because he watches a lot of Fox News. Host Will Cain is “Furious” that the Insurrectionists are being called “terrorists.”
- Trump admin delivers a 20-page “1776 Report" which trashed the NYTimes 1619 project with hackneyed anti-historical BS: “Propaganda hack job.” His attempt to restore American manufacturing was a dismal failure. He may be leaving tomorrow but his amplification of right-wing entitlement will remain with us. He is allegedly spooked away from pardoning his children and himself, but he is allegedly considering a pardon for Steve Bannon. Trump supporters in Palm Beach aren’t looking forward to him living there, they “don’t want the drama.”
- State Capitols are still on edge awaiting “Far-right shock troops” after some Capitols, such as Idaho’s, are invaded by armed Right-wing thugs.
- Matt Gaetz compares Dem control of Congress to “bathtub suicide.”
- Kamala Harris could preside over Trump second Impeachment if John Roberts bows out.
- Two members of Biden's National Guard detail are removed due to ties to White Nationalist groups.
- Missouri paper urges disbarment procedures against Sen. Josh Hawley.
- Qanoner Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) accuses Nancy Pelosi of plotting with Hilary Clinton to create “false flag” school shootings.
- Pence will attend the Inauguration, but won’t go to Trump’s military send-off/party.
- Brendan Hunt, a former actor who works for New York's Office of Court Administration, was taken into custody by FBI agents for making white supremacist threats against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
- Sidney Powell drops her lawsuit against the Georgia electors.
- Don Jr is under scrutiny of FBI after sporting Militia swag.
- America reaches 400,000 total Covid-19 deaths.
January 20th—
- Biden Executive Order will end Trump’s bid to politically weaponize the Census
- Bomb threat reported at Supreme Court, 2 hours before the Inauguration.
- Trump privately weighs abandoning the GOP and starting his own party. He pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Duke Cunningham, Jeanine Pirro’s ex-husband and 130 others. He spends his last hours raging at Republicans on Capitol Hill. He pats himself on the back as POTUS then departs DC without carrying out the order to make Federal workers easier to fire. He left behind a letter for Biden. The Energy Dept. and National Nuclear Security Admin went temporarily leaderless due to his fast exit.
- Far right extremists are staying home for the Inauguration but plan to “fight another day.”
- Comey says the GOP needs to be “burned to the ground.”
- Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer skipped the Inauguration because he “doesn’t fake things.”
- Qanon Tennessee Lawmakers leads assembly in moment of silence for the end of Trump’s admin. Qanon believers implode as they watch Biden be sworn in: “I’m the laughing stock of my family.” Qanon Congess Rep. Majorie Green claims Biden is the “President of China.” Qanon adriff as Trump fails to ascend as God Emperor: “We really are cucks.”
- Joe Biden is Inaugurated as the 46th President and promises to defeat political extremism and white supremacy in his inaugural address. He says the “Democracy has prevailed” and calls for an end to “this uncivil war” After swearing in his staff nominee who don’t need Senate confirmation he signs 15 Executive Orders that address Covid, Mask mandates for Federal buildings, Foreclosure protected, rejoining the Paris Accords, ends construction of the border wall, ends the Keystone XL pipeline and end the ban on Muslim countries.
- Chris Wallace gushes over Biden’s address: “Best address I’ve heard.”
- 28 Trump officials including Bannon and Bolton have been banned by China.
- Proud Boys leader charged for role in Capitol Riots.
- Feds keep arresting Insurrectionist through the Inauguration. but we’re still staring down the barrel of more MAGA Insurgency.
- Three new Senators including Ossoff and Warnock are sworn in giving Dems control.
- Avril Haines is approved by the Senate as DNI.
- Mike Lindell is furious that MyPillow was dropped by Bed, Bath and Beyond.
- Online Qanon watch parties expecting violence and bloodshed at the inaugural dissolve into anger, regret, disbelief and recriminations when Biden ends up at the Resolute Desk.
January 21st —
January 22nd —