Ball of Thread, Ball of Kash
LOLGOP and I have done the final installment of our Ball of Threads podcast — focused on Kash Patel, who serves as kind of the alpha and omega of Trump’s grievance narrative.
The Senate is rushing to confirm Kash in days ahead, in spite of all the prevarication and conflicts we review in this video.
The whole series was great! Thank you Marcy. Is a book coming?
Kash should have been withdrawn faster than Matt Gaetz (any ratings yet on his show?) but as the GOP has demonstrated, there is no will to challenge Convict-1 especially now that Elon has announced that any such challenge means instant primary. They want power above all else and their seats give them that power (so they think). That’s why admitted sexual harassment survivor Joni Ernst was A-OK with Pete Hegseth after Convict-1 laid down his law.
It’s about the math: in their district / state MAGA voters make a majority or at least a substantial bloc that would require 100% support from non-MAGA GOP to prevail. Since MAGA voters seem to be remarkably unable to link their problems to Convict-1’s policies they’ll vote for whoever Dear Leader demands. I do note however that there are successes in special elections in primaries and generals for (relative) sanity, but the Congresscritters don’t see that.
I know that asking other posters to ask the mods to revise their previous comments is unusual, but would you (RUGGER_9) consider removing the word “admitted” from the above post? Or at least posting a subcomment about it? “…admitted sexual harassment survivor…” is technically accurate but has a very negative connotation to me. Not sure if others will agree, so maybe I’m overreacting, but it leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
I’m not going to edit it, we typically don’t do that. Your point is good and it should be made — you’re doing it with your comment.
Rugger_9, being a victim of sexual assault is not a crime; using the word “admitted” may imply that it is. This is the rare case in which a few extra words would have served better: “Joni Ernst — who’s disclosed she has been sexually assaulted in the past — was A-OK with Pete Hegseth after Convict-1 laid down his law.“
The disclosure came in a Time magazine interview in 2014 (I suppose during her initial Senate run) and given her opinion then (remove the chain of command from the investigation and prosecution of claims) I have to wonder what changed, really especially considering her subsequent actions including in 2017 asking SecDef nominee Mattis about stopping sexual harassment in the military. In March 2017 she responded to a nude picture scandal by asking Congress for an immediate reporting law for sexual harassment at government facilities, so it was clearly a hot-button issue for her.
Disclosed, then. Sorry about that.
Dr. Wheeler,
Thank you so much for the whole “ball of thread.” Rehearing the same story in a different format strengthens my understanding.
datnotdat
I watched the final Ball of Thread Marcy. TY.
Wow, so many moving parts, actors, players, power-brokers.
KP’s nomination, like his vow to dismantle the FBI, is an orgasmic domination of the free press.
Wish Mitt’s 25 grandkids would stand up in front of congress and scream at the top of their lungs, HELP!
I guess my satellite view of this current legal-politics-propaganda battle is best rendered down to:
“My grievance narrative is bigger than your belief in the constitution”.