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It’s Tuesday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Tuesday, January 6 2026
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
10:00 AM
The President delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat
In-Town Travel Pool
2:30 PM
The President participates in a policy meeting
Oval Office Closed Press

I am still very poorly. The husbands started to improve about a week after he got the cold. I have two more days left to hopefully be that lucky. 🤞

January 6th, 2021.

It has been five years since the current sitting president attempted to overthrow the federal government he now controls.

For look at how events unfolded that day.

It can cause rage in viewers.

On the last day of 2025, the Judiciary committee released Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Congressional Testimony. Both the transcript and the YouTube video.

Jan 6th Committee Member Rep. Jamie Raskin shared his thoughts in an opinion pieced shared in the New York Times (gift link).

[Snips]

At the same time, MAGA depicts the whole insurrection as a false flag operation organized by antifa, the F.B.I. and the speaker of the House at the time, Nancy Pelosi. Mr. Trump’s incoherent revisionist mythology of Jan. 6 has become an organizing policy commitment of his administration. On Inauguration Day, he pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of each of the nearly 1,600 rioters and seditionists (apparently no longer antifa fighters). This move bypassed the U.S. pardon attorney and discarded centuries of understanding that pardons should go to petitioners who have shown true remorse and contrition, rehabilitation and a lack of dangerousness. Consider just a few pardonees:

Daniel Rodriguez repeatedly plunged a stun gun into the neck of Officer Michael Fanone as the mob chanted, “Kill him with his gun.” Officer Fanone suffered a heart attack and traumatic brain injuries. The judge in the case called Mr. Rodriguez a “one-man army of hate” and sentenced him to more than 12 years in prison for attacking Officer Fanone — who was not on duty that day but rushed to the Capitol to help his fellow officers.

Patrick McCaughey III used a stolen police riot shield to crush Officer Daniel Hodges in a metal door frame. Mr. McCaughey left Officer Hodges trapped, bleeding, unable to breathe and crying for help. The judge in this case, a Trump appointee, described Mr. McCaughey as the “poster child for all that was dangerous and appalling” about the riot and sentenced him to more than seven years in prison.

Mr. Trump granted clemency to dozens of people who had committed or been accused of violent and horrific crimes after Jan. 6, such as plotting the murders of F.B.I. agents, resisting arrest, assault, rape, burglary, stalking, stabbing, possession of child sex abuse materials and D.U.I. homicide. One of Mr. Trump’s pardoned Jan. 6 rioters, John Banuelos, bragged in court before the pardons were issued that he would never do time. “President Trump’s going to be in office six months from now, so I’m not worried about it,” he said.

On Oct. 17, 2025, nine months after the mass pardon, police officers arrested Mr. Banuelos on new charges of kidnapping and sexual assault relating to a 2018 incident. He is accused of trapping his victim in his home and beating, strangling and sexually assaulting her.

Mr. Trump punished law enforcement officials en masse for doing their jobs. He conducted a bureaucratic purge — with firings and permanent demotions — of hundreds of experienced F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors because they investigated and prosecuted the Jan. 6 cases assigned to them. He installed Jan. 6 insurrectionists in the highest ranks of the Department of Justice.

Ed Martin, who leads the Justice Department’s Orwellian new Weaponization Working Group and serves as the U.S. pardon attorney, is a Jan. 6 participant who said he would fight to “stop the steal” until his “last breath.” In a social post, he likened the mayhem at the Capitol to a Mardi Gras celebration. He hired as his senior adviser Jared Wise, another proud Jan. 6-er who repeatedly yelled, “Kill ’em,” as rioters attacked police officers and whose trial on numerous charges had just begun when Mr. Trump pardoned him.

These moves at the Justice Department have cost the government thousands of collective years of investigative and prosecutorial experience, demoralized the civil service and reduced our government to the moral level of a gangster state.

On this uncertain anniversary, here are the people who give me hope: the Republicans who placed their love of country over their subservience to Mr. Trump; the Jan. 6 rioters who regret their participation, like Pam Hemphill, who rejected Mr. Trump’s pardon; and all the Americans — Democrats, independents and Republicans — who are organizing a revival of creative political participation across the country.

Meanwhile, the official government position toward the Jan. 6 anniversary is silence and indifference: The Republican-controlled Congress is doing nothing to acknowledge the day.

In March 2022, Congress passed a law requiring that, within a year, a plaque be hung in the Capitol in honor of the hundreds of officers who put their bodies and lives on the line to defend members of Congress and the besieged vice president. The plaque makes a promise about our police officers: “Their heroism will never be forgotten.” It still has not been installed.

New York Times (gift link). 01/06/2026.

Speaking of Congress…

GOP Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer announced the sudden passing of California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa.

Congressional Reporter Jake Sherman:

Fox News reports Rep. Baird, is in stable condition.


#EpsteinFileGate:

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The legal deadline to make the records public was Dec. 12. But the department has argued the sheer volume of documents that need to be found, uploaded, reviewed, redacted and published has forced it to instead release the files online on a rolling basis, with a series of enormous document dumps over the course of several days in mid-December.

In a legal filing Monday, the Justice Department told a judge it has released about 12,285 documents so far, totaling some 125,575 pages. More than 2 million documents that may need to be released under the law are still “in various phases of review.” That means the department has reviewed less than 1% of its total possible records on Epstein.

Over 400 Justice Department lawyers are involved in the review process, the filing said. https://cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-doj-says-it-has-reviewed-less-than-1-percent-so-far/

It’s the tweet. 01/06/2026.

His speech before Republican retreat members is going as you’d expect.

I’m not capable enough of transcribing these; I’ll do my best with just my ears…

He confirms reporting that Maduro’s mockery of his dancing pushed them to act on their military threats.

New York Times reported on 01/04/2026:

Mr. Maduro in late December rejected an ultimatum from President Trump to leave office and go into a gilded exile in Turkey, according to several Americans and Venezuelans involved in transition talks.

This week he was back onstage, brushing off the latest U.S. escalation — a strike on a dock that the United States said was used for drug trafficking — by bouncing to an electronic beat on state television while his recorded voice repeated in English, “No crazy war.”

Mr. Maduro’s regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some on the Trump team that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff, according to two of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the confidential discussions.

So the White House decided to follow through on its military threats.

New York Times reported on 01/04/2026.

I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election…

His wife hates his dancing.

Show more =’s She actually said that to me. I said perhaps there is a long history she doesn’t know. Because he was an elegant fellow, even as a Democrat. The attack by Japan, he was quite elegant.

He wants us to assume he can run again.

I think he meant to say “constitutional crisis”, but I could be wrong.

The press has no credibility…

And with this…

I am taking my NyQuil brain fog back to bed.

I have to decided that there will be no night owl the rest of this week. It should return on Monday Jan., 12th.

This is an open thread

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