Arizona Senator Mark Kelly

25th Amendment, anyone?

Donald Trump live on CNN in the White House taking press questions during his meeting with the President of the Philippines, July 22nd, 2025, ~12:03 pm.

0:00 … And you know, they went into him very, you know, in great detail. They gave me the whole thing. And what can I do? They say that it was just a nut job that was looking to do this. And I I spoke with the FBI, the new FBI. I spoke to FBI. If it was the old FBI, I wouldn't have believed a thing they said because the old FBI under Comey was crooked as hell. He was one of the most crooked. Everybody should read the Horowitz report. Unfortunately, Bill Barr didn’t use it, but the Horowitz report, not appointed by me, it was a report on Comey and the FBI. It is one of the worst uh shots at a human being I think I've ever seen. In fact, the New York Times did an editorial that was one of the worst editorials I've ever seen about anybody. That was about Comey. You had to go back and get and Barr didn't use it because he didn't have the guts to use it or something happened. I don't know. Too bad. He went to Mr. Durham instead of you instead of doing the Durham all they had to use is the Harowitz report and I always felt badly for Harowitz frankly because uh he's a Democrat I guess he was appointed by a Democrat but that report has gotten lost and it shouldn't be lost. You should all go back. It should be mandatory reading. Go back and read the Horowits report on Comey and his cronies and you'll see exactly we're gonna add that to all the stuff that we found. It just confirms it. But what we found is even more so. Now, we found absolute This isn't like evidence or this is like proof, irrefutable proof that Obama was sedacious, that Obama led was trying to lead a coup. And it was with Hillary Clinton, with all these other people, but Obama headed it up. And it, you know, I I get a kick when I hear everyone talks about people I never even heard of. It was this one. No, no, it was Obama. He headed it up. And it says so right in the papers. Got everything Got everything. This is the biggest scandal in the history of our country And it really goes on to even the autopen because it all relates to the same thing. It all started the same sick minds. You have an autopen which is a tremendous well. We don't have a president. We have an autopen that signs everything. I'll bet you sign everything. You don't have auto pens. Everybody. Who doesn't sign? You're president of a country. But but it's all that whole thing leading right up to the to the end of it is the autopen. And the autopen was used by people and Biden knew nothing about it. Biden knew nothing about it. They were signing documents that he knew nothing about. As an example, they released the unselect committee of liability. The unselect committee spent two years grilling everybody and then they destroyed all the evidence. You know why? Because the evidence made them guilty. and he gave them all a pardon. The Cheney, all the all the scum that was on the unselect committee, Cryan, Adam Kinzinger and Democrats, and he gave them a pardon. Do you have something else? Go ahead… 3:12

The incumbent U.S. President just openly accused former President Obama of being summarily guilty of Treason on live national TV.

 

This is infuriatingly inept, glaringly dishonest, and way beneath the dignity of the office.

 

CNN: Trump accuses Obama of treason, annotated 

Might U.S. military veterans take up arms against us?

U.S. Capitol Jan 6th, 2021, Eric "General E" Braden
  

"If I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the whole country."—Donald Trump, at a summer 2024 MAGA rally

Consider also (Aug 11th)

As I posted on TwitteX: 86 days to U.S. 2024 National Elections Day. We had better be fully prepared for the scorched-earth Trumpist onslaught that will ensue from Nov 5th all the way to Jan 6, 2025.

 

Adroitly incited, might these LARP dramatists naively try to go all the way this time? Seditious cosplay militia "civil war?" (A decade ago I would just openly mock them.) Notwithstanding that it would likely be quickly suppressed, a lot of innocent people might well be hurt or killed during the fray.

QUICK UPDATE:  After 1 hr nto the above-linked documentary, I am rather aghast. Decide for yourselves.

I am now 78, retired and a bit addled by Parkinson's. I have never owned a firearm of any sort (and, I was never in the military). I think I was in one schoolyard fistfight, in 1962 during my junior year in high school. It was stupid. The empirical extent of my propensity for violence. I am no physical threat to anyone.

 

Recall my first-wave Boomer path...

 

Some detail from Democracy Docket apropos of what portends with respect to the upcoming elections. .

 

MONDAY UPDATE

 

Finished watching the documentary. Extremely well-done. Honest, balanced, and forthright. Sobering. One hopes that these swaggering, assault rifle-brandishing, Army Surplus outfitted Eric-"General-E"-Bradens types are just loud Constitution & Bible bullhorn bleating poseurs and little else. 

 

One hopes.

 

Everyone would do well to view this documentary with careful attention. 

 

TUESDAY UPDATE

 

In the aftermath of the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection, threats to the election certification process have escalated, now with an increasing focus on county-level certification. Since 2020, more than 30 county officials across the country have voted to deny or delay certifying election results in violation of law, often citing false claims of voter fraud or irregularities. Among those officials are avowed 2020 election deniers, individuals who acted as fake presidential electors for Donald Trump and a criminally convicted participant in the January 6th insurrection who was later removed from office in a lawsuit led by CREW.

In this report, CREW identifies 35 rogue election officials across the country who have already refused to certify election results and may be in a position to do so again. The report focuses on the eight states where county officials have unlawfully refused to certify elections since 2020: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The report also identifies the legal remedies available to state and federal authorities, as well as voters, to protect the certification of the 2024 election.

These remedies include emergency court orders to compel compliance with the law, criminal charges to punish and deter misconduct and legal procedures to remove obstructionist officials from their county positions... [112 pg PDF here]

[T]he threat of disruption looms large in this year’s elections. If county officials successfully obstruct certification, it could have a cascading effect on state and federal certification deadlines. It could also lead to mass disenfranchisement of qualified voters.

All hands on deck, people.

UPDATE: PBS NEWSHOUR TONIGHT

 

Just saw this. Fits with the topic. Here's the report PDF.

 

BACK TO THE CREW REPORT

III. Federal legal remedies
Because the states administer elections, they are the first lines of defense against county-level certification subversion. But the federal government also has a vital role in enforcing relevant federal statutes and constitutional provisions protecting the right to vote. Thus, if a state is unable or unwilling to take action against rogue county officials who threaten to disenfranchise voters in violation of federal law, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) should intervene. This section discusses some of the federal criminal and civil remedies available to protect against certification abuse at the county level. [pg 106]

OK, yeah, DOJ, blah, blah, blah. Of course. But, what about the courts?

 

Need one elaborate? Can you minimally say Alito, Thomas, Cannon?

Bush vs Gore?

 

Hello? 

 

UPDATE

 

Of course. Bring out the 2nd string Kraken Crew of Trump legal fabulists.

 

From RollingStone:

Trump and His MAGA Movement Are Actively ‘Hijacking’ Georgia’s Elections
After Trump allies took over the Georgia State Election Board, they quickly pushed through rules cementing his election lies into policy

AFTER COMPLETING THE MAGA takeover of the Georgia State Election Board, Donald Trump’s allies quickly cemented his 2020 election lies into policy, and moved to allow conspiratorial-minded county election officials to refuse to certify election results if they see fit. Even before the election board granted broad powers to county election officials to deny election results and reopened an investigation into minor vote-counting errors in Fulton County in 2020, Trump was publicly praising the work of three Republicans who hold majority power on the board…

It's not yet clear to me where the tipping point will be—i.e., how relatively few yet strategic successes with these maneuvers will suffice to effectively derail the 2024 Presidential election?

 

PROJECT 2025 ITEM

Google Russell Vought. A bit more here.

Curious crowd, these “Christian” Nationalist peeps.

OFF-TOPIC ERRATUM

 

Review in The Atlantic.

In his beguiling poem “Connoisseur of Chaos,” Wallace Stevens recalls a past era when religion was meant to explain everything, “when bishops’ books / Resolved the world.” But, as he reminds us, “we cannot go back to that.” There’s a kind of grace in the dynamic and even provisional nature of the world, he suggests. And in science, too, which seemed, particularly in the first half of the 19th century, to be on the brink of something wonderful—or terrifying, depending on your point of view.

Two new books, Michael Taylor’s Impossible Monsters and Edward Dolnick’s Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, mark the end of the era that Stevens identified. The discovery of prehistoric fossils, largely in Britain, challenged long-held theological and scientific assumptions about nature and humankind’s place in it: that the Bible was to be taken literally; that the world had been made a mere 6,000 years before; that a divine being wrought man in his own image; that humans were the pinnacle of all Creation. As Taylor writes, “Few if any transformations in intellectual history have been more profound.”

 

Hmmm... add two more to my pile. It had already grown by two currently underway that I've yet to report on.

 

More to come...

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