Elsa treated us fairly lightly, despite passing nearly overhead. Less than 1 inch of rain, and winds that barely topped minimum Tropical Storm strength (34 kts) at nearby Cove Point. There's not even very much debris down in the yard.
Center Square, Pennsylvania, Forensic election audit initiated in Pennsylvania; AG vows to strike back. Of course he does. At WaEx, Ilya Shapiro deals with Democrats voter suppression lie. News Max reports GOP Leaders Announce Intervention in DOJ Lawsuit Against Georgia "
"The RNC is intervening in this case because the security of the ballot is more important than Democrat power grabs," chair Ronna McDaniel said, adding in a statement that Democrats are "weaponizing the Justice Department by trying to strong-arm the state of Georgia into making its elections less secure."
John Solomon at JTN notes Democrats dug themselves an election integrity hole, courts may bury them in it, "From Supreme Court justices to district judges, Biden’s early Jim Crow narrative getting cold shoulder in early rulings."
Breitbart, Democrat Governor of Wisconsin Vetoes Bill to Ban Private Funding of Election Administration. Check his accounts for Facebook cash. Althouse cites WaPoo, "It just doesn’t feel right... that company CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai get to decide which politicians Americans can hear and which ones we can’t." Tyler 'Neil at PJ Media, 36 States and D.C. Take Google to Court. At Breitbart, The Dersh claims Trump’s Big Tech Lawsuit ‘Will Shake Things Up Considerably’ My breath remains unbated. Anxious too, Experts say Trump's social media lawsuits are likely doomed. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.08.21 Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Somin makes The Case Against Imposing Common Carrier Restrictions On Social Media Sites. Don't buy it myself.
Vicky Taft at PJ Media has news that won't make WaPoo, Did the Feds Lie About January 6? Navy Vet Capitol Protester Says So and Wants His Case Moved Out of 'Trump-Hating' Capital. No trials with political implications should be allowed in D.C. The place is too one-sided.
The motion for the change-of-venue is a near-complete takedown of the efforts undertaken by federal investigators and prosecutors to poison the jury pool and media coverage, which, let’s be honest, isn’t hard. It’s such a scintillating read that it could be a movie.
The defense motion claims that prosecutors “knowingly disseminated false and incendiary claims” that Caldwell and others planned to sack the Capitol and “execute” people when they had no evidence for it – not even after conducting a “cyber colonoscopy” on cell phones and computers. There was no “plan,” Caldwell’s attorney claims. That allegation was based on “a rumor started by government bureaucrats attempting to cover up their incompetent leadership.”
I & I, Who Shot Ashli Babbitt? And Why Is This A State Secret? Althouse cited President Trump, "The person that shot Ashli Babbitt — boom, right through the head. Just, boom. There was no reason for that. And why isn’t that person being opened up, and why isn’t that being studied?". But from PM, Investigative journalists name potential shooter of Ashli Babbitt and from Town Hall's Leah Barkoukis, Report Identifies Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt
Now a new name has surfaced in the Babbitt imbroglio — Lt. Michael L. Byrd — and while USCP Communications Director Eva Malecki won’t confirm he is the shooter, in this case she isn’t denying it.
In a little-noticed exchange, Byrd was cited by the acting House sergeant at arms during a brief discussion of the officer who shot Babbitt at a Feb. 25 House hearing. Both C-SPAN and CNN removed his name from transcripts, but CQ Transcripts — which, according to its website, provides “the complete word from Capitol Hill; exactly as it was spoken” — recorded the Capitol official, Timothy Blodgett, referring to the cop as “Officer Byrd.” His name is clearly audible in the videotape of the hearing (at around 39:20).
Byrd appears to match the description of the shooter, who video footage shows is an African American dressed that day in a business suit. Jewelry, including a beaded bracelet and lapel pin, also match up with photos of Byrd.
In addition, Byrd’s resume lines up with what is known about the experience and position of the officer involved in the shooting — a veteran USCP officer who holds the rank of lieutenant and is the commander of the House Chamber Section of the Capitol Police. (RCI)
Apparently the same guy who made the news by leaving his loaded gun in a Capitol bathroom by mistake. Stephen Green at PJ Media, Capitol Hill Cowards: Reporters Were the Real Victims of the January 6 Riots. They need to see shrinks, but then, they needed to before Jan. 6, too. HE, Judicial Watch Sues FBI for Records on Obtaining Financial Information on People in D.C. on Jan. 6. At the Floridian, Murphy Incorrectly Says Bombs Were Planted at Capitol During Riot. They were planted the day before, proving Trump could not have exhorted them into existence.
Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.08.21, Mark Steyn issues a stomp down on Insurrection In Legoland. "By the way, anyone twelve or older – 27, in the case of Mr Morss - can just go online and buy this Lego set. You don't need a government permit or anything." But Ace is better, FBI's Proof Against "Insurrectionist" Includes "Fully-Assembled" Lego Model of US Capitol (Which Might Have Been Used to, What?, Plot the "Insurrection"?) "Oh wait, I see how we can enter the Capitol -- we just have to remove this square-shaped lego and this rectangular lego. And then bob's your uncle."
Based On LEGO Evidence, FBI Believes Capitol Rioter Was Also Planning Attack On Hogwarts Castle https://t.co/J4hhl9EN1d
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 7, 2021
Regarding the governments response to Jan. 6, Victor Davis Hansen writes of Scapegoats, Boogeymen, and Hobgoblins, Laura Hollis at Creators says January 6 is a Stalking Horse for Government Power Grabs, and at Am Think, E.J. Ludwig calls it A Vacuous and Potentially Dangerous Response to Domestic Terrorism. Vacuous and dangerous is a pretty good description of the Biden administration in general. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.08.21, From This Ain't Hell (But you can see it from here), You thought your doctor asking if you had guns was bad… and At a Shot in the Dark, a plea to Let’s Cool Things Down and a hypothetical conversation:
STOMBERG: Be seated. (All sit, with STROMBERG at the head of the table). Americans are rejecting the term “insurrection” to describe the January 6 riot. We need to come up with another term.
PHURPHY: How about ‘genocide’?
CARROLL: Love the energy, Mesme, but it might be a bit of an overreach.
TORSTENGAARDSEN: I mean, ‘riot’ pretty much sums it up.
(STROMBERG and CARROLL cough nervously).
TORSTENGAARDSEN: Er…never mind.
SILBERMAN: ‘Coup’ usually implies the elites seizing control. ‘Insurrection’ implies a sustained, military campaign, like the Viet Cong or the IRA.
STROMBERG: I’ll go with “Putsch“.
(The three “journalists” sit, somewhat agape. Finally, SILBERMAN speaks)
SILBERMAN: So – a term that, outside a very thin film of political science and history academics, refers in American English solely to Hitler’s abortive 1922 Munich coup attempt?
(The three “journalists” look at each other)
PHURPHY: Works for me.
TORSTENGAARDSEN: Yep.
SILBERMAN: I hear and obey.
STROMBERG: (abruptly rising) Make it so. (Leaves the room with CARROLL).
AllahPundit at Hot Hair is still shilling for NSA in Tucker: See, I told you the NSA had the contents of my emails. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.08.21, the Victory Girls ask Who Unmasked Tucker Carlson? Matt Margolis at PJ Media, There's a New Twist in Tucker Carlson's NSA Spying Claims. Breitbart, Carlson on NSA Spying Claims: ‘This Is a Huge Problem for the Country’
. . . this is a massive threat not simply to me and my show you or you and your show, but to journalism itself, to the idea of free press,” he continued. “You can’t have free press if intel agencies are secretly spying on you and then using that information to threaten you and to control you. Like, this is a huge problem for the country. And yet, I don’t think there was, outside of say Glen Greenwald, I don’t think there was anybody who stood up said, ‘Wait a second. This is a huge problem for use all of us.’ Instead, they made excuses for the NSA — ‘Well, you must have been … emailing with threatening foreign actors.’ Well, I am allowed to email with anyone I want, for one thing. I’m a journalist, and I’m an American, more importantly. It is none of your business who I’m emailing with. If you think I am committing a crime, then charge me with it. And if I’m not committing a crime, then please leave me alone. I have a right to communicate in private with other people because I am … an American citizen and a human being. But journalists made excuses for this behavior — for the intel agency’s criminal behavior. It’s like mind-boggling to me.”
At Da Caller, Rudy Giuliani Suspended From Practicing Law In Washington DC. See my comments above regarding "justice" in Washington D.C.
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