“In other, more ominous news, the House committee on the January 6 attack on the Capitol received evidence that Trump, in the weeks after the 2020 election, personally directed his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to ask the Department of Homeland Security if it could seize voting machines in swing states.
Let’s be clear: it is difficult, after years of building a thick, protective callous over my heart and my brain just to protect myself from the hot black tar of his narcissistic, evil impulses, for me to take this information in, for the gargantuan and grotesque violation of everything this country holds dear.
But I think it’s worth taking a moment right now just to let this sink in. Just to marinate in his madness. Because the former president – still the leader of one of the two major parties, who has all the Republican balls in a little velvet pouch that he wears around his neck like an amulet – wanted troops, US troops, to go into your local polling place, grab the machines, throw them in a truck, and then God knows what?
Waterboard them until they he won? You should be alarmed, even if you voted for him, because military coups do not lead to healthy societies. Nobody ever says, ‘if only we could emulate the economic miracle that is Myanmar.’” —Stephen Colbert
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“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth
and Orwell’s 1984.”
