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Today an “erratic and aggressive” woman was arrested after crashing her car into a Capitol Police cruiser. Police fired several shots during the arrest, but no one was injured and a Capitol Police spokesman said there was “no nexis to terrorism.” But that didn’t stop racists like Teresa Monroe-Hamilton from branding the woman a terrorist and speculating about connections to the Black Lives Matter movement. Also, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released an arrest warrant documenting 15 felony charges against the right-wing agitators who secretly recorded conversations with Planned Parenthood officials. The wingnuts face 14 counts of unlawfully recording private conversations and one count of criminal conspiracy to invade privacy. And Senate Republicans seem ready to kill the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations and ram through the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch. And Princess Ivanka will officially become a White House employee, expanding the God-King’s immunity from federal nepotism laws. Does the God-King think the federal government should be his family business?
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Yes, and he seems determined to have his family rake in as much cash as they can while he’s at it. A lot of his behavior really seems to be due to the fact that he can’t comprehend that government is not business, and he’s not “the sole owner.”
45 is treating the government as if it is his family business already. Usually the “one man can change the world” is spoke of in terms of positive changes. 45 is a one man wrecking ball.
We discussed this Monday in Midday Matinee, where Linda said the God-King is not a typical CEO. I replied that he’s spent his entire life running a closely-held family business, one inherited from his dad, with his children in many of the senior corporate positions. In other words, he’s run the corporate equivalent of a monarchy and he’s bringing that mindset to government. As I noted Monday, we once had a government that was run as a closely-held family business … and we fought a Revolutionary War to escape it.
I’ve no idea what motivated the woman at the Capitol today, and I’m not going to speculate in the absence of information.
As for the arrests of the activists who illegally recorded private conversations with Planned Parenthood … good!
This is very interesting…. From Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-intelligence-committee-trump-russia_us_58dc2be8e4b05eae031cef53?8n6xpkkyez5g3c8fr&
“It is unusual for the Senate overseers of the intelligence community to request raw intelligence data, Burr said. “We are in a very rare time, and we will test some people to see if, in fact, their commitment is 100 percent correct,” he said of intelligence officials.”
I wonder what they’re after, or worried about, that they’re testing our apparatuses like that?