Day 578 – Don’t Mess with Fani !

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Yesterday, was a day of legal analysis and explanation on may fronts, but there was one clear winner – Fani Willis in Georgia.

She’s the prosecuting attorney who is looking into the possible election crimes in Georgia’s 2020 election. You know the one where DJT is caught on tape committing a crime and where Rudy is caught on video committing a crime? Yeah, that Fani. For her there was Rudy showing up at the courthouse in Georgia to comply with a subpoena. One he fought. His lawyers said he was too frail to fly. However, none of that frailty was evident when he got out of the car to climb the steps to the courthouse. Nor was there any of his BS bravado or lying. He kept his mouth shut to reporters, climbed the steps to the locked courthouse door, was let in and testified for over six hours.

But that’s not the big news on Fani’s investigation. Apparently, the Governor of Georgia doesn’t want to testify and in a disclosed email to his lawyer Fani explained several legal things to this lawyer. One – her investigation is not political. Two – she had afforded the Governor every courtesy including to let said lawyer sit in on the questioning. Three – That offer was now off the table and he, the lawyer, could wait outside the courtroom while she personally questioned the Governor.

She went on and it is devastating. I will post the clips from Lawrence O’Donnell’s show about that.

Let’s remember that Brian Kemp had been Secretary of State when he ran for governor against Stacey Abrams. He refused to let someone else oversee his own election and there were numerous “irregularities” in that election. All to benefit him and hurt Abrams. You know like forgetting to process 50,000 voter applications, eliminating poling places in neighborhoods that would be helpful to Stacey. She sued and won a little but the judge threw out most of her claims. Odd huh? A Republican judge threw out claims of a Democrat.

But there’s more, Ari Melber, a lawyer by training did an excellent half hour expose on how the right has been hoisted on their own claims (you thought I’d say petard? Ha.) of “Just Comply.”  He showed Fox News (an entertainment organization not a news organization – btw) claiming when black people got shot in the back that they should have “just complied.” Yet, when it come to white people like Bannon, Navarro, Graham, and Trump it’s some kind of left wing Nazi Fascist evil. Melber showed video of Graham making “they should just comply” claims. Melber went on to point out that if the black people who were shot had been treated like Bannon and Navarro they’d be alive today. So why the difference? Racism. Plain and simple.

Okay, got to move on because there is so much stupidity to cover. Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida, is pumping out more idiocy, as is the state governance in general. 

First there is his “dumpster fire of Wokism” statement about education in his state. He’s not going to allow it. Ain’t that great? He’s facing a huge teacher shortage.Why? Oh, I dunno. Maybe it’s that he doesn’t pay crap. Maybe, it’s that he is trying to force teachers to teach about slavery in America as a whitewashed bunch of hooey. (ie It wasn’t that bad. The Founding Fathers had slaves yet they were opposed to it. etc.)

De Santis graduated second in his class at Annapolis. If he’s second, I’d hate to see who is third and below.

A lot of these MAGA politicians are smart people and know better. But now we are getting a new crop and they aren’t smart. They believe. They are even more dangerous than the smart ones. I don’t know if the meme about MGT is true but it said she claimed to be against solar panels because she wanted electricity after dark and solar panels wouldn’t work then. OMG! Really? I dunno.

But Florida isn’t done with “the stupidest thing of the day” candidates. There’s the court that ruled that the 16 year old girl who is pregnant is not mature enough to have an abortion. WTF? Yet, she’d be mature enough to have a baby? 

And then we get to some positive news:

– Gas prices have been falling for weeks,

– The President signed a major piece of health care legislation, despite every Republican voting against it.

– The President has gotten passed a major piece of legislation that will address climate change and the economy. Despite Republican and special interest lobbying to stop it. (not that the special interests weren’t able to get some concessions via Sinema, but still.)

Oh, and then there’s Dr. Oz and his crudité video. His opponent, John Fetterman, has raised half a million off of that. “In Pennsylvania we call it a veggie tray.” And I have to say Dr. Oz raw asparagus on your tray? Really? And salsa being six bucks is joe Biden’s fault? (connect the dots it’s a vast woke conspiracy of anti-fa leftist FBI agents and all that.) But David Plouffe put it best, “Dr Oz is a tool.”

Meanwhile, election deniers are winning primaries. Our country is in serious danger of democratic collapse. Not since the 1930s have we seen such a threat.