“the least racist person that many of you have ever met”
“Who led Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn and the Overstock guy into the Oval Office for the ‘unhinged’ Dec 18 seize the voting machines/martial law meeting?” tweeted former FBI Counterintelligence Division agent Peter Strzok last night.
“This guy.”
One reason that famous Maya Angelou quote sees such heavy rotation is because it applies so often. Case in point? Yeah, that guy (CNN):
A former Trump White House aide who met with the January 6 committee earlier this week went on a profane and sexist rant on a livestream after his testimony, where he railed against the lawmakers and attacked other witnesses, according to audio posted to his Telegram.
The aide, Garrett Ziegler, met with the House panel on Tuesday. Lawmakers were likely interested in hearing from him because of his ties to one of the most shocking episodes of the 2020 election saga: A White House meeting where then-President Donald Trump’s outside allies tried to convince him to declare martial law and use the military to seize voting machines.
In the 27-minute livestream, Ziegler used vulgar and misogynistic language to attack Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin, two women who worked for the Trump White House but have since publicly broken from the former President and cooperated with the January 6 panel.
Ziegler, a former aide to Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, accused the Jan. 6 investigation of being “a Bolshevistic, anti-white campaign.” He referred to Hutchinson and Griffin as “hoes and thots.” (I had to look up the latter.) In recent Telegram posts, Ziegler still falsely claims the 2020 election was stolen and that the Jan. 6 insurrection “was one of the greatest orchestrated false flags in history.”
Ziegler complains he’s been targeted for questioning for being a “a young Christian who they can try to basically scare.”
By his rhetoric, this “young Christian” is a throwback to the John Birchers of the 1950s and 60s. Tomorrow belongs to him.
Whenever conservatives feel threatened that the world has slipped beyond their control, they predictably round up the usual suspects. Old, familiar enemies are a comforting point of reference in this scary future.
Fifty-five years after the Summer of Love, they’re still looking to punch hippies for wearing long hair, love beads, and for sticking daisies in gun barrels.
Sixty-plus years after the last Red Scare, and three decades after the Berlin Wall fell — when they declared that Saint Ronald of Reagan won the Cold War — American conservatives are still looking for Reds under their beds before they crawl beneath their sheets. They can’t seem to get their heads out of their anti-communism. But they love former communist strongmen.
These are people who believe they are the only ones — and only political party — prepared to lead America forward in the 21st century.
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