Impeachment is done and it goes like we thought it would.

Black Lives Matter and Antifa are at it again. Some much for Blue Lives Matter being a thing.

Star Wars goes woke…sort of.

And Andrew Cuomo has some ‘splaining to do.

 

Impeachment Update

Things went absolutely insane on Saturday during the impeachment trial:

• The Senate voted to call witnesses. In a hail Mary because the did not have witnesses, all Democrats and five Republicans voted to have witnesses. One of the Republicans was Lindsey Graham.
• Graham said that he thinks Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris needed to be called as witnesses.
• Graham said that this would delay the trial and Biden’s push for policies for weeks. This would be a good thing.
• Mitt Romney and Ron Johnson got into a fight about something.
• In what appears to be a de-escalation of the previous witness call, both sides agree to enter Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s statement into evidence. This will end the call for witnesses. Darn.
• Impeachment managers start their closing statements.
• Trump’s defense team had their closing statements.
• Trump was acquitted in the Senate by a 57-43 count.

 

The seven GOP senators who joined with all Democrats in finding Trump guilty were: Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.

What’s disturbing is that the Democrats were completely united but seven Republicans pussed out. This is bad for the Republican party. It’s bad because these Republicans just voted because of politics not evidence. Not because the impeachment managers proved a damn thing.

All these people are squishes and never-Trumpers. They should be taken out of office.

Nancy Pelosi was losing her crap. She had this to say when she finished her initial statement about implementing a censure:

 

Again?

Black Lives Matter, again, decided to hold a protest in New York City and, again, it ended up violent.

• A photographer for the Daily News was beaten up because the rioters thought he was a police officer.
• Two police officers suffered minor injuries.
• Eleven rioters were arrested.

 

The reason I am bringing this up, because it happens every weekend, is that no one is talking about it.

 

It Will Come for You

Disney faced widespread backlash late on Wednesday after a production company that they own announced that it had parted ways with conservative actress Gina Carano after the actress posted some things to social media that some claimed were offensive.

Carano played Cara Dune in The Mandalorian and was also a professional MMA fighter. She is also a Conservative and hates Cancel Culture.

She had two tweets which led to Disney firing her from the popular Disney+ online entertainment site.

The first was a change she made to her profile. Apparently, her “people” wanted her to add her pronouns on Twitter to show her support for the trans community.

I think its funny. Disney didn’t think it was funny and she ended up on their radar back in November.

The big post that got her into trouble was this one:

This had nothing to do with Jews. It’s a Cancel Culture comparison. The first thing the Nazis did was demonize the Jews so they would be hated by the non-Jew German citizens. Does this sound familiar? Then they segregated the Jews from the rest of the population. Finally, the Jews were herded up and exterminated.

That’s what she was saying. Nothing really controversial about this. But she used “Nazi” when pointing to the Left. This was bad. Especially for the Leftists at Disney. She had to go.

Also, if you ever want to get into trouble or sound like an idiot, make a Nazi comparison. If you’re a Leftist, it’s OK but you sound stupid. If you’re a Conservative, you will get into trouble and, sometimes, sound stupid. I didn’t think this post was actually too bad and is actually a bit of a foreshadow to the future of this country.

The funny thing is the star of The Mandalorian also tweeted about the Nazis. He had a picture showing children in cages during the Holocaust and children being in cages, supposedly, at the border of the United States. He tried to compare the U.S. Border Patrol to the Nazis.

Couple of problems with the post. First, the children weren’t in the United States, the were jailed in a Central American jail. Oops. The other problem is this policy was started during the Bush administration and it was the Obama administration that actually pushed the policy, not the Trump administration.

But nothing happened to Pedro. Sounds kind of sexist to me.

There are now calls to boycott Disney. If you don’t want to watch Disney, don’t. Boycotts are stupid and rarely accomplish anything. But if people stop watching, Disney will realize what they’re doing is not acceptable.

Good, announced today. Gina Carano will produce and star in a movie that will be in a film that will be distributed by The Daily Wire.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-fires-actress-gina-carano-after-post-comparing-hating-someone-over-politics-to-nazi-germany
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gina-carano-dropped-by-talent-agency-after-star-axed-from-disney-show-over-social-media-post
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mandalorian-star-carano-got-fired-after-holocaust-tweet-another-mandalorian-star-used-holocaust-but-still-has-his-job
https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-faces-massive-backlash-for-firing-gina-carano-as-cancel-disney-plus-trends-1-critics-bring-up-companys-history

 

 

He’s Got Some Splaining to Do

Per the New York Post:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.

The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.

DeRosa said:

“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes. He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”

In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”

“And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call.

“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation. That played a very large role into this.”

After dropping the bombshell, DeRosa asked for “a little bit of appreciation of the context” and offered what appears to be the Cuomo administration’s first apology for its handling of nursing homes amid the pandemic.

But instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors or the critics who say the Health Department spread COVID-19 in the care facilities with a March 25 state Health Department directive that nursing homes admit infected patients, DeRosa tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats for the political inconvenience it caused them.

“So we do apologize,” she said. “I do understand the position that you were put in. I know that it is not fair. It was not our intention to put you in that political position with the Republicans.”

The reactions from New York Democrats was less than forgiving.

Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) said:

“I don’t have enough time today to explain all the reasons why I don’t give that any credit at all.”

State Senate Aging Committee Chairwoman Rachel May (D-Syracuse) said:

“And the issue for me, the biggest issue of all is feeling like I needed to defend — or at least not attack — an administration that was appearing to be covering something up. And in a, in a pandemic, when you want the public to trust the public health officials, and there is this clear feeling that they’re not coming, being forthcoming with you, that is really hard and it remains difficult.”

Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens) said:

“(It’s) like they admitted that they were trying to dodge having any incriminating evidence that might put the administration or the [Health Department] in further trouble with the Department of Justice. That’s how I understand their reasoning of why they were unable to share, in real time, the data. They had to first make sure that the state was protected against federal investigation.”

Kim, whose uncle is presumed to have died of COVID-19 in a nursing home in April, also said he wasn’t satisfied with DeRosa’s apology.

“It’s not enough how contrite they are with us,” he said. “They need to show that to the public and the families — and they haven’t done that.”

Bill DeBlasio, mayor of New York City:

“It’s very troubling. We’ve got to know more. We now need a full accounting of what happened. Think about seniors, who their [sic] lives were in the balance and their families, you know, just desperate to get them the help they needed. We need to know exactly what happened here. We need to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.”

So now there is a bipartisan call for:

• The DOJ to open a criminal investigation.
• Calls for Cuomo’s emergency powers to be stripped.
• Calls for Cuomo to resign.

 

Of course Cuomo, who won and Emmy, wrote a book about how well he did and released a poster for sale on the progression of the virus decided to straighten us all out on who was to blame for lying about the death counts:

 

https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-cuomos-top-aide-says-new-york-hid-nursing-home-death-toll
https://www.dailywire.com/news/betrayal-of-public-trust-cuomo-faces-calls-for-accountability-resignation-after-top-aide-admits-cover-up
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-democrat-state-senators-issue-statement-calling-for-cuomos-emergency-powers-to-be-stripped
https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-lawmakers-urge-doj-to-open-criminal-investigation-into-cuomo-for-alleged-obstruction-of-justice