Sunday Serendipity

but first

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like President Trump’s election lawsuits getting denied by the Supreme Court.

still waiting & wanting to see dancing snowflakes?  how ’bout this:

wapo:

Multiple people stabbed after thousands gather for pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington

can’t say we weren’t warned.

as for bannon, remember this from an old dailykos:

Sedition: “conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.”  So where does Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon fit in?  Daily Beast, in an August 22, 2016 article reported that Bannon had said this, in 2014, at his home:

“I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed.

thinking of those congress critters who signed on to the “seditious” lawsuit and even now are talking secession.  hopefully at their next appearance on the floor of the House, they should be made to stand and listen to a slow reading of the 14th amendment section 3 while cspan cameras are trained on each of them as their name is also read in rebuke.

U.S.Constitution, 14th Amendment:

Section 3.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

or at least the above section, a listing of their names and the fact they sought to disenfranchise 10s of millions and overthrow an election should be read and entered in the congressional record for posterity.

zombie brigade keeps lumbering on NYTimes: President Trump lost key swing states by clear margins. His barrage of lawsuits claiming widespread voting fraud has been almost universally dismissed, most recently by the Supreme Court. And on Monday, the Electoral College will formally cast a majority of its votes for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. But as the president continues to refuse to concede, a small group of his most loyal backers in Congress is plotting a final-stage challenge on the floor of the House of Representatives in early January to try to reverse Mr. Biden’s victory. Constitutional scholars and even members of the president’s own party say the effort is all but certain to fail. But the looming battle on Jan. 6 is likely to culminate in a messy and deeply divisive spectacle that could thrust Vice President Mike Pence into the excruciating position of having to declare once and for all that Mr. Trump has indeed lost the election. […] The effort is being led by Representative Mo Brooks, Republican of Alabama, a backbench conservative. Along with a group of allies in the House, he is eyeing challenges to the election results in five different states — Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin — where they claim varying degrees of fraud or illegal voting took place, despite certification by the voting authorities and no evidence of widespread impropriety. “We have a superior role under the Constitution than the Supreme Court does, than any federal court judge does, than any state court… Read more »

not enough to be pro-death, D’umpsters also anti-christian it seems. more than one BLM banner vandalized from churches no less according to the hill: In cases now being investigated as possible hate crimes, two historic Black churches in Washington, D.C. reportedly saw their sign and banner supporting the Black Lives Matter movement taken down and vandalized by protesters amid local pro-Trump demonstrations over the weekend. According to The Washington Post, a Black Lives Matter banner that belonged to the Asbury United Methodist Church was taken down during the demonstrations on late Saturday, along with a sign bearing the same words that belonged to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The paper reports that the banner is the same as the one that was seen in now-viral footage being set aflame among a group of people cheering that have been identified as members of the far-right Proud Boys group. The Post also pointed to footage in its coverage that showed the moment a group of demonstrators took down a Black Lives Matter sign from outside the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church before repeatedly stomping on it. Rev. Dr. Ianther M. Mills, a senior pastor at the Asbury United Methodist Church, which has stood in the District for more than 180 years, said in a statement that the display was “reminiscent of cross burnings.” “Last night demonstrators who were part of the MAGA gatherings tore down our Black Lives Matter sign and literally burned it in the street,” he said. “Seeing this act on video made me… Read more »

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