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GNR for Friday, September 15 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-09-15

I normally try to feature stories that might have slipped under the radar during the bombardment of Ukraine/tfg/MAGA news. For some reason this week I didn’t pick up much interesting (to me at least). So I am going to feature schadenfreude as it appears that the GOP is about to go full Mr. Creosote*.

*As this is not a Showercap post I will not follow that line of thought any further.

There have been several diaries about this in the last few days. I highly recommend reading the linked excerpt in The Atlantic. In it Romney trashes tfg and most of his fellow Senate Republicans.

We aren’t going to pick up his Senate seat. The best we can hope for is Evan McMullin winning it and keeping another crazy MAGA like Mike Lee out. However, I think this is a bigger story than another cranky old guy stomping off into the sunset. The complete book is coming out in November. That is about the time most people start paying attention to the election. There hasn’t been such a repudiation of a party’s presidential candidate by its previous candidates since Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate against Taft and gave the election to Woodrow Wilson.

There are a bunch of prominent Mormon leaders who have jumped off the MAGA train: Romney, McMullin, Huntsman. They know that Christian dominionists think this: “The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace—their outrages are beyond all description.” Mormons dominate Utah politics and they are also a significant force in other mountain west states. It is likely they helped flip Arizona in 2020.

It isn’t just Mittens. Bush Jr just published an editorial in the Washington Post defending his successful anti-HIV campaign against MAGA attempts to destroy it. He has kept quiet about tfg but the rumor is that he voted for Biden. Dan Quayle advised Pence not to participate in the coup. Dick Cheney’s daughter is leading the charge to stop the MAGA takeover of their party.

In contrast, on the Democratic side both Clintons, Gore, Kerry, and Obama will be working hard for Biden.

She has no more fucks to give.

Georgia RICO Trial

October 23, 2023 is the trial date for the first two defendants (Chesebro and Powell) in the Georgia RICO case. Glenn Kirschner makes the argument that this is a bad thing for the other defendants. The prosecution will submit evidence about the crimes that these two were directly involved in and also all of the other crimes committed by other members of the conspiracy. But the only defense lawyers will be for the two on trial and they will focus only on trying to dispute the evidence that implicates their clients. The trial will be televised and the country will see and hear the prosecution case against tfg and the remaining16 defendants and there won’t be any defense rebuttal.

New York Fraud Trial

Apparently his lawyer failed to check the box on a form for requesting a jury trial. So the trial will just be heard by a judge.

Biden on Donald Hoover Trump

YouTube shorts don’t embed but follow the link. It is hilarious.

/schadenfreude

A WV Note

I attended a meet and greet for our next state senator on Wednesday. There was a big turnout and people were excited. The last few years have been brutal here but there is a feeling the tide may have turned. We are on our tiptoes to keep from drowning but at least we can touch bottom.

Houthi and Omani envoys are planning to head to Saudi Arabia on Thursday night to try to negotiate a permanent ceasefire with Saudi officials to end the war in Yemen, two people involved in the talks said. Houthi officials will travel to Riyadh with the Omani mediators, who landed in Sanaa on Thursday, the sources said… The peace initiatives have gained momentum since arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to re-establish ties in a deal brokered by China.

The Biden administration is also pushing the Saudis to get this done. It is great to see China and the US cooperating to end this conflict.

Palette Cleanser

David LaFlamme, the violinist, vocalist, and founder of It’s A Beautiful Day, died last month. They came out of the same Bay Area scene as Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and New Riders but didn’t take off like those others did. This is for you, David, in memory of many nights in my dorm room listening to your beautiful music.

I am looking forward to seeing all the stories I missed in the Comments.

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