"Writing on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said: “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner.” . . . Within minutes, Scott vowed to fulfill Trump’s request if he becomes Senate Republican leader, writing on X: “100% agree. I will do whatever it takes to get your nominations through as quickly as possible.” Top Trump allies — including billionaire CEO Elon Musk — and a number of far-right influencers have quickly lined up behind Scott’s bid. “Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader!” Musk posted Sunday. . . . Scott argues that he gives Senate Republicans the best option for instituting “change” in the chamber, a promise that earned him the support of ultraconservative voices such as Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck, as well as Trump backer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I knew this email list had gone back to the original Traditional Conservative authoritarianism/McCarthyism of Kendall/Buckley/Burnham, to be joined later by George Carey, when a Traditional Conservative Trumpite immediately called for Trump to name Sen. Jeff Sessions to a cabinet position in 2016, with this a fairly accurate depiction of Sessions, except not capturing his evil: Like Foghorn Leghorn, Sessions too liked political violence, but for Sessions in the form of torture, war against Iraq, or any other war, in maintaining his Southern Tradition, and as a Traditional Conservative. And Sessions' (and one-time self-declared NeoCon David Horowitz, transmuted into a no prefix Conservative in his absolute support for Trump, as would libertarian Justin Raimondo also be transmuted) would mentor Trumpite Stephen Miller, now officially to be in the next Trump administration again: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tap-stephen-miller-deputy-chief-staff-policy-cnn-reports-2024-11-11/
A nd the same Traditional Conservative commenced to heavily tout those others-called "Right-wing Peacenik" Traditional Conservatives, Willmoore Kendall, James Burnham, and Barry Goldwater, all of whom were founders of the Conservative Movement, and all of whom called for "Preemptive Nuclear War" throughout the Cold War. That's your "Traditional Conservatism" for you. And no one here who had lived through the Cold War and knew well that it was the Right-wing "Conservatives," who were always in the lead in inciting war, and who denounced Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, even Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter for being "weak," for being unwilling to use nuclear weapons for preemptive war, would rebut the outright lies of pro-Trump right-wing historical revisionists. Like this blatant example here, https://quincyinst.org/events/the-new-right-ukraine-marks-major-foreign-policy-shift-among-conservatives/, all designed to get Trump elected, three times, and to support Trump's lies that he intended to "End the Endless Wars," while camouflaging the Irregular Warfare he was waging against all of Russia, Iran, China, Cuba, and Venezuela, in the way Irregular War is defined, as promoted here by a one-time Trump DOD official:
While a purge of DOD ultra-militaristic, pro-war officers/officials in the Pentagon is long overdue, Trump's purge of DOD is like Hitler's purge of the SA after the Night of the Long Knives, in favor of the SS! And Himmler instead of Rohm.
Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions has supported waterboarding, saying “it worked” in extracting information. But he admitted in his testimony that “waterboarding or any other form of torture is absolutely improper and illegal” as Congress has outlawed it, although he voted against that legislation.
Jeff Sessions on Waterboarding (with legalistic wordplay to conceal his total support for it as it was happening).
"Mr. Sessions did not explain what he thought the military had done wrong, nor what he was suggesting as an alternative. But he pointed out that there is no need to prosecute anyone at Guantánamo in the sense that the detainees can be held in open-ended detention without trial while the war continues. . . . "On Tuesday, Mr. Trump falsely said on Twitter that “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield.” But 113 of the 121 former detainees deemed to be “confirmed” recidivists by the intelligence community were transferred under the Bush administration."
And having personal knowledge of what "returned to the battlefield" means," as a Guantanamo Defense Attorney, it's not what it suggests as "terrorism." It includes any released Guantanamo prisoner who may later criticize the torture and illegal imprisonment they were subjected to. Now we have all-out supporters of that, again, as every Republican administration supports, as our Dictator. Now comes the Deluge! This is not the Committee for the Republic I once knew when Bill Polk and Norman Birnbaum were still alive, sadly, if I may say so, in hopes that some internal dissent is still permitted here. At least until the NatCons/TradCons totally take over this email list. As Plea Deals With 9/11 Defendants Move Forward, Biden Must Move Quickly to Transfer 19 Uncharged Men from GuantánamoNovember 7, 2024, New York – In response to a military commission’s ruling that Defense Secretary Austin cannot rescind the plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other 9/11 defendants, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: The Biden administration should not appeal this ruling because, after more than twenty years of litigation and uncertainty for victims’ families, plea deals are the only responsible way to resolve the 9/11 case. The president must instead use this opportunity to transfer the remaining 19 uncharged men out of Guantánamo, 16 of whom have been approved for transfer by all relevant agencies based on a unanimous determination that they pose no security threat, including our clients Guled Hassan Duran and Sharqawi al Hajj. These two steps are essential to fulfilling Biden’s longstanding commitment to turn the page on the 9/11 era by closing this shameful site of torture and indefinite detention. The Center for Constitutional Rights has led the effort to bring justice to Guantánamo for the past 22 years. We were the first organization to file a case on behalf of men detained there, the first civilians to go there, and the first to meet with a survivor of the CIA torture program. We organized hundreds of attorneys to ensure that anyone held at Guantánamo who wanted legal representation could have it. We have advocated for our clients in legal proceedings from Guantánamo to the U.S. Supreme Court to the International Criminal Court. The 19 uncharged men who remain include two of our clients, Guled Hassan Duran and Sharqawi Al Hajj. The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for Constitutional Rights has taken on oppressive systems of power, including structural racism, gender oppression, economic inequity, and governmental overreach. Learn more at ccrjustice.org.
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