Shocking. Trump's lawyers' brief (p. 2) reads as if it came straight from Reconstruction. It says Ds

[soothsayer]

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
@HC_Richardson
Shocking. Trump's lawyers' brief (p. 2) reads as if it came straight from Reconstruction. It says Ds are using Americans' horror and confusion over January 6 to gain political advantage. In 1866, white supremacists said the same about those trying to protect Black lives.

[tanyev]

1. "We created that horror and confusion for OUR political advantage!"

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Yeah! How DARE they!

'We spent good money for that horror and confusion!'

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. "We made good money off of it, too! (Well, a few of us did!)" (n/t)

[Nevilledog]

12. Make America Horrified and Confused Again!

[bdamomma]

3. this is sick as they are

like we are going to go after and threaten our Reps and Senators

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[Jarqui]

5. K&R

[TruckFump]

7. Republicans are evil, hateful bigots who...

...love their pocket books and wealthy donors far more than justice.

[Mr. Ected]

8. Pure projection, 100 times out of 100

The GOP seeks to politicize everything to appeal to people's emotions, when the underlying facts are incontrovertible and seldom if ever favor them.

Propaganda is what that is.

[ClusterFreak]

9. These facts are many things....

...but they are not shocking.

[msfiddlestix]

15. This

[littlemissmartypants]

10. And they out themselves for the thugs that they are once again. nt

[Bluethroughu]

11. Same as it ever was.

White Supremacy needs to be put down once and for all.

America is moving on without these people, like it or not.

[erronis]

13. Heather Cox Richardson starts the day for me, every day. She writes in the wee hours of the morning

about the events in the days preceding. Sometimes she takes a break and gives us a beautiful picture of the Maine seacoast taken by her husband.

[soothsayer]

20. Love love love her daily missives

[Evolve Dammit]

21. can you provide a link?

[erronis]

31. Sorry - I should have included the link earlier. All of her posts on substack and Wikipedia article

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson

[Evolve Dammit]

33. Thanks. I'll take a look

[ewagner]

14. "Waving the bloody shirt"...

That was a technique used by Reconstructionists to bring the south to tow after the civil war.

Congressmen LITERALLY waved the bloody shirt of a Union soldier to remind Congress of the horror that the south had wrought upon the Union. It was very effective.

Trump's defense thinks this is something bad....it isn't...the country needs to see the bloody results of Trump's insurrection and we NEED TO WAVE THE BLOODY SHIRT so that nobody in the country can deny the treasonous effects of Trump's actions.

[Ligyron]

16. Well said.

[AwakeAtLast]

23. Consider making this comment an OP

For exposure to this, because there may be a lot who have never heard of it!

[ewagner]

24. Thanks for the suggestion...did it...

[Pepsidog]

17. Bruce Castor has been a political hack around Philadelphia suburbs forever. I believe he is the guy

who refused to charge Cosby. On edit- Pa elects it’s state court judges which I think is a horrible. I am an attorney in NJ and previously practiced in Pa. my office was in Philly and when a Philly lawyer dared to handle a case in Montgomery County where Castor is from boy do they get the out of town treatment. I learned this 30 years ago as a young eager NJ and primarily Philadelphia based lawyer. I filed a medical malpractice case that was fairly straight forward in Montgomery County and was treated like shit. They mess with out-of-town lawyers with their own “local court rules” and love to stick it to unsuspecting Philly lawyers. I practice in South Jersey where state court judges are appointed based on merit (yes you need political juice to get an appointment to the bench) but all must be approved by the Bar Association for competence and undergo an exhaustive background check and out of state lawyers NJ licensed lawyers are treated the same a NJ based lawyers. I cannot understand how state Supreme Court justices are elected to the bench and are beholden to their donors. Castor comes from that culture and had been discussed as a possible candidate for Pa. Supreme Court. Just another political hack.

[Jay25]

18. There is no confusion, trump loyalists used physical force to break into the Capital, assault

Officers and damage property, all while looking for their targets.

These silly geese, we had 4 years of “horror and confusion”, that is how we gained the “political advantage” this past election.

[getagrip_already]

19. Next they will accuse of us of ONLY targeting

Trump and his supporters and enablers. They will cry we are trying to paint them all with a shitty brush. What about what the dems did they will cry?

"But, but, her emails!" they will screach!

[FakeNoose]

22. They're angry that we're angry ... over their anger

[gollygee]

25. Translation: They don't want what they did to cause them political disadvantage

They want no consequences no matter what any of them do. And it wasn't just Trump and that's part of why they don't want Trump to have consequences - this will come back to haunt a lot of them.

[KS Toronado]

27. That's it in a nutshell.

[question everything]

26. Did they also misspelled United States of America?

I thought that Brian Williams said something about that?

[LudwigPastorius]

28. There's no shame in trying to gain political advantage over a party that...

is currently defending a seditious insurrectionist.

In fact, I would say it is one's moral duty to do everything s/he can to permanently banish those promoting such anti-democratic and anti-American crimes.

[Mopar151]

29. Need to call them out for what they are - Slavers!

From D'Jango unchained:

[BobTheSubgenius]

30. I recommend that you follow Heather Cox Richardson.

Authoritative and somewhat scholarly - but makes it easier for people without PhDs to follow than a lot of historians do. When I say "somewhat scholarly" that is not a knock against her - she can be as scholarly as it gets, but doesn't feel the need to. Much more interested in making facts and her point of view make sense.

[erronis]

32. Heather Cox Richardson's posts on substack

Since this has been asked for a couple of times in this thread:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

And her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson