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  by: Colorado Pols June 9, 2023 at 11:50 PM MDT

“There is nothing radical about moral clarity”

–Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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  1. JohnInDenver says:
    June 10, 2023 at 7:38 AM MDT

    Western Conservative Summit appears to be ignored by major media outlets.  Google this morning turned up a blank — no AP, UPI, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, or NBC.  Washington Examiner has two pieces focused on Asa Hutchinson

    No CPR, Denver Post, CS Gazette, Denver Gazette, Aurora Sentinel, or Colorado Sun. 

    0:13 video of an empty stage and half-filled seats on a tweet from Lucas Brady Woods, claiming at 7:32 pm "Here’s the crowd moments ago, just as the speaking program kicked off."

    This year, the "Summit" seems more like a soapbox.

  2. Conserv. Head Banger says:
    June 10, 2023 at 8:05 AM MDT

    I went 7-8 years ago. Which got me onto Jeff Hunt’s Centennial Institute mailing list.

    However, I’ve been busy on the 2nd Saturdays of the month for the past several years and had other things going on yesterday.

  3. davebarnes says:
    June 10, 2023 at 9:07 AM MDT

    "Western Conservative Revanchist Summit appears to be ignored"

    Fixed it for you.

  4. ParkHill says:
    June 10, 2023 at 1:33 PM MDT

    Trump's "Nuremburg" Trial. EmptyWheel.

    Best and most detailed coverage coming at EmptyWheel.

    It should be no surprise to anyone that the Trump indictment echoes Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg. Before he was named as the Special Counsel in this matter, Jack Smith had spent several years working at the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

    …

    Trump and his supporters are trying to position this investigation and indictment as political revenge. Sadly for them, Special Counsel Jack Smith appears to understand the best lessons to come out of the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi leadership after World War II.

    The US legal delegation at Nuremberg was led by US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. In his opening statement at the first trial, he acknowledged that the victors in the war were in charge of the trial.

    "Unfortunately, the nature of these crimes is such that both prosecution and judgment must be by victor nations over vanquished foes. The worldwide scope of the aggressions carried out by these men has left but few real neutrals. Either the victors must judge the vanquished or we must leave the defeated to judge themselves. After the first World War, we learned the futility of the latter course."

    But how does a prosecution by the victors avoid being accused of running a kangaroo court? Again, from Justice Jackson:

    "We will not ask you to convict these men on the testimony of their foes. There is no count in the Indictment that cannot be proved by books and records. The Germans were always meticulous record keepers, and these defendants had their share of the Teutonic passion for thoroughness in putting things on paper. Nor were they without vanity. They arranged frequently to be photographed in action. We will show you their own films. You will see their own conduct and hear their own voices as these defendants re-enact for you, from the screen, some of the events in the course of the conspiracy."

  5. MichaelBowman says:
    June 10, 2023 at 6:12 PM MDT

    #WokeCrackerBarrel may be the second-best thing on the interwebz today! 

     

    • Washopingmylastpostwouldbemylast says:
      June 10, 2023 at 8:11 PM MDT

      Where am I supposed to go for a casual dining experience that’s compatible with my biblical worldview?

      . . . ummm . . .

      KKK Christian BBQ??

      Whitey’s Fish & Bigots??

      Mike Pence’s 1950’s Country Diner??

      Iran??

      • notaskinnycook says:
        June 11, 2023 at 11:08 AM MDT

        So Cracker Barrel and Chick-fil-A figured out what every other "family restaurant" has: Christians are cheapskates, complainers, and lousy tippers. When I worked food service at those kinds of places, nobody wanted Sunday afternoon or Wednesday night shifts. They ordered the cheapest things on the menu, ran you ragged, and left little or no tip.

        • coloradosane says:
          June 11, 2023 at 11:27 AM MDT

          That! ^^^^^

        • Washopingmylastpostwouldbemylast says:
          June 11, 2023 at 12:25 PM MDT

          Their god only gets, at most, 10% — adjusted (e.g., after social security, taxes, other permitted personal prosperity deductions, etc.).

          Why would they give that obviously [take your choice of any or all: heathen, sinner, taker, illegal, woke] waitperson any more?

          • Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS says:
            June 11, 2023 at 1:16 PM MDT

            "Their god only gets, at most, 10% — adjusted (e.g., after social security, taxes, other permitted personal prosperity deductions, etc.)."

            Does the "etc." include hush money for porn actresses and/or pool boys?

    • kwtree says:
      June 12, 2023 at 9:19 AM MDT

      Inquiring minds want to know where Pericles' family will be pegging now that Cracker Barrel is too "woke" for them.

  6. MichaelBowman says:
    June 11, 2023 at 7:04 AM MDT

    Dunning-Kruger strutting on the stage like a peacock in mating season.

    • coloradosane says:
      June 11, 2023 at 9:23 AM MDT

      Hey Lauren you are a threat to the Nation and do nothing for us in CD3. Shame you were re-elected.  

    • Washopingmylastpostwouldbemylast says:
      June 11, 2023 at 12:38 PM MDT

      Relax, Bobes, no doubt you’re getting this one all wrong, too. It’s probably just the Pentagon’s “Idiots” list — for all those Tweeting typos, grammar errors, obvious lies in the face of evidence, historical inaccuracies, and your inability to distinguish reality from BS self-imagined blabbering nonsensical juvenile fantasies and lunacies.

  7. MichaelBowman says:
    June 11, 2023 at 10:25 AM MDT

    I thought Blanche was going to cry this morning.  He/she/it is going through some things. 
     

  8. JohnInDenver says:
    June 11, 2023 at 12:28 PM MDT

    nice that Graham has cracked

    • notaskinnycook says:
      June 11, 2023 at 4:10 PM MDT

      That’s what she said in ’16, but snuggled right up to him once he had the nomination. I don’t trust Blanche any further that I can pick her up and throw her. The best thing that can come out of this is Dems being able to knock Republicans off of their “national security uber alles” throne. After letting The Screaming Yam walk away from the White House with truly dangerous national security files, the MAGAts can sit down and shut up on that subject.

      • Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS says:
        June 11, 2023 at 4:54 PM MDT

        "The best thing that can come out of this is Dems being able to knock Republicans off of their “national security uber alles” throne"

        The irony is delicious. I'm old enough to remember Tricky Dick trashing George McGovern and most of the rest of the Democratic Party as a bunch of "pinkos" (Communist sympathizer).

        I guess it's not only on civil rights that the two parties have done role reversals.

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