{"id":21961,"date":"2024-06-01T17:26:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T00:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=21961"},"modified":"2024-06-02T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T18:17:35","slug":"when-they-tell-you-who-they-are-believe-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2024\/06\/01\/when-they-tell-you-who-they-are-believe-them\/","title":{"rendered":"When They Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually it was Maya Angelou who said, <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/maya_angelou_383371\">&#8220;When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time,&#8221;<\/a>, which I looked up after typing the title above.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s post is another summary of political items, in this case about Republican responses to Trump&#8217;s conviction on fraud charges in New York City a few days ago. Keep in mind that much of this is projecting. This is what they would do to Democrats, if they could, and some of them even say so.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/provoke-660x330.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Items at aggregate site Joe.My.God yesterday and today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>(from <strong>Politico)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/06\/eight-gop-senators-say-theyll-block-major-legislation-and-bidens-nominees-over-trump-being-found-guilty\/\">Eight GOP Senators Say They\u2019ll Block Major Legislation And Biden\u2019s Nominees Over Trump Being Found Guilty<\/a> (Because loyalty to the leader overrides democratic principles of governance. This intransigence is why the latest Congress\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/do-nothing-congress\/\">got nothing done<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(<strong>Tucker Carlson<\/strong>&#8216;s show) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/06\/carlson-verdict-shows-democrats-would-execute-me\/\">Carlson: Verdict Shows Democrats Would Execute Me<\/a>. (It says nothing of the sort. Carlson is a paranoid moron.)<\/li>\n<li>(<strong>Tim Pool<\/strong>&#8216;s podcast, I think) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/06\/laura-loomer-calls-for-executing-democrats-video\/\">Laura Loomer Calls For Executing Democrats [VIDEO]<\/a>. \u201cThen these people can spend three years of their lives fighting tooth and nail against the government for crimes they committed and we can <i>prove<\/i>.&#8221; (They&#8217;ve had years and years, and with so many Trump-appointed judges, what&#8217;s taking them so long? This is like Trump&#8217;s promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare, which he somehow never got around to in the four years he was president. And it&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t actually have a case. They just lie to their base and claim that they do, because the base <em>believes.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>(<strong>Fox News<\/strong>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/06\/ingraham-dems-want-to-provoke-verdict-violence\/\">Ingraham: Dems Want To Provoke Verdict Violence<\/a>. (Hellooo??)<\/li>\n<li>(The <strong>Megan Kelly<\/strong> Show, on SiriusXM) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/05\/megyn-kelly-calls-for-reviving-laws-on-dead-crimes-to-prosecute-obama-hillary-clinton-and-the-bidens\/\">Megyn Kelly Calls For \u201cReviving Laws On Dead Crimes\u201d To Prosecute Obama, Hillary Clinton, And The Bidens<\/a> (\u201cDemocrats will rue the day they decided to use lawfare to stop a presidential candidate. I\u2019m not talking about violence, I\u2019m talking about tit-for-tat. You just wait.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>(<strong>Daily Wire<\/strong>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/05\/walsh-trump-must-publish-list-of-ten-top-democrats-who-he-will-have-arrested-upon-taking-office-video\/\">Walsh: Trump Must Publish List Of Ten Top Democrats Who He Will Have Arrested Upon Taking Office [VIDEO]<\/a> (Where are all those-Trump appointed judges? What are you waiting for, if there&#8217;s evidence of crimes?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media-library\/image.jpg?id=27650933&amp;width=1245&amp;height=700&amp;quality=85&amp;coordinates=21%2C0%2C22%2C0\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AlterNet, Carl Gibson, 1 Jun 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump-supporters-jurors\/\">&#8216;May God strike them dead&#8217;: Trump supporters vow to dox jurors and make them &#8216;miserable&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not a party of law and order; a cult, driven by defiance of norms, and revenge. A cult.<\/p>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<p><strong>Right Wing Watch, Peter Montgomery, 31 May 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/maga-martyrdom-machine-portrays-felon-trump-as-victim-vows-revenge\/\">MAGA Martyrdom Machine Portrays Felon Trump as Victim, Vows Revenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Matters, 31 May 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/donald-trump\/maga-media-rage-response-trumps-34-guilty-verdicts\">MAGA media rage in response to Trump&#8217;s 34 guilty verdicts<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fox News stars and other MAGA media commentators have responded to former President Donald Trump\u2019s historic criminal conviction in a New York court with apocalyptic rhetoric and demands for retribution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Followed by a long list of citations, similar to my list above, from sources including Fox News, <i>War Room<\/i>, <i>Triggered<\/i>, <i>The Sean Hannity Show<\/i>, and Newsmax.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Other mainstream responses.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/7a3963d2-7a7e-4a34-941f-f573d32052cc.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1280\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slate, Nitish Pahwa, 30 May 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2024\/05\/trump-guilty-verdict-fox-news-truth-social.html\">How MAGA World Closed Ranks Around Felon Trump<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;You know who is doing the real crimes in this country, don\u2019t you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*Everyone* is a criminal and is corrupt, except of course for Donald Trump. Another example of the Trump cult.<\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.vox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/gettyimages-2154742600.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&amp;w=1440\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vox, Zack Beauchamp, 30 May 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/352814\/trump-conviction-republican-response\">Why the ludicrous Republican response to Trump\u2019s conviction matters<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Republicans are busy attacking the legitimacy of the American legal and political system. We&#8217;ve seen where that leads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everything is a conspiracy against them, say the Republicans. Says Mike Johnson. The writer responds. With nuances likely imperceptible to Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Democrats didn\u2019t convict Trump; a jury of 12 ordinary Americans did. The Biden administration played no role in prosecuting the case; the indictment came from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and was issued <em>after<\/em> federal prosecutors declined to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/why-did-federal-prosecutors-drop-trump's-hush-money-case\">go after Trump on similar charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixd lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Johnson knows all that, but it doesn\u2019t matter. His goal is to support Trump\u2019s narrative that the entire American political and legal system is controlled by Biden and Democrats:\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1796287841988686309\">banana republic, not a democracy worthy of its name<\/a>. A range of leading Republicans \u2014 from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/1796290425906450457\">House Majority Steve Scalise<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1796287764545110506\">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott <\/a>to rising Senate stars <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1796291078766694887\">Josh Hawley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1796289097608388640\">J.D. Vance<\/a> \u2014 have all said basically the same thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixd lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">At this point, you might be wondering: Is any of this surprising? Trump <em>always <\/em>claims he\u2019s the victim of a conspiracy, and Republicans <em>always <\/em>end up backing whatever Trump says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixd lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">But that\u2019s precisely the problem. The current Republican party is so hostile to the foundations of the American political system that they can be <em>counted on<\/em> to attack the possibility of a fair Trump trial. Either Trump should be able to do whatever he wants with no accountability, or it\u2019s proof that the entire edifice of American law and politics is rotten.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican either don&#8217;t know these facts, and are thus dimwitted, or are lying about them. Which alternative is more consistent with a cult? The article goes on about the insurrectionary ideology.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p><strong>NY Times, Santul Nerkar, 31 May 2024<\/strong> (published in today&#8217;s paper, 1 Jun 2024): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/31\/business\/media\/trump-verdict-media-coverage.html\">How Partisan Media Outlets Covered Trump\u2019s Guilty Verdict<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With examples on the right from <em>The Daily Wire<\/em> and <em>The National Review<\/em>; on the left from <em>The New Republic<\/em> and <em>The Nation<\/em>. Their responses are predictable. I think I&#8217;ll add these items to my chart.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Again, these are expressions of base, tribal, human nature. The experiments over the past two or three hundred years of the Enlightenment, and democracy, seem to be fading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually it was Maya Angelou who said, &#8220;When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time,&#8221;, which I looked up after typing the title above. 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