Mo Brooks belongs in jail, not the senate, after fomenting violence on January 6. Nonetheless, he’s announcing his candidacy for retiring Alabama senator Richard Shelby’s seat on Monday, after having taken a recent pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago and receiving the blessing of Trump himself. You recall that Brooks was the first congressman to announce he would challenge election results. I don’t think you need to be Clarence Darrow to argue that Brooks is an insurrectionist, and that the horrific rally was the proximate cause of the death and destruction at the Capitol that day.
Yeah. So here’s Mo Brooks at Trumps insurrection rally inciting the MAGA cult that “today was the day to start kicking some ass”
Now today he’s like I knew they were all really antifa pretending to be MAGA so what I did doesn’t count.#TrumpCoupAttempt pic.twitter.com/p1vl9XvUQ5— Hadley Sheley (@HadleySheley) January 7, 2021
Now here is where it gets beyond parody. The Bullet and Barrel is a shooting range in Huntsville, Alabama, a town which earned the nickname “Little Bavaria” because Werner von Braun and other Nazi rocket scientists moved there in 1950, as part of Operation Paperclip. Now, Huntsville, once known for its moonshine and the propensity of its inhabitants to forego footwear, then known for its famous Nazis, is hosting Brooks and Miller.
Do you love the Valentine’s Day style of the invitation, the colors and the cursive writing?
Mo Brooks “I’d like to invite Stephen Miller to come on up and say a few words,” pic.twitter.com/TL09FC1lXV
— Chuck U. Farley (@ChuckUF03412926) March 18, 2021
Are they wearing their sheeted hoods at this event or going casual?
— Cranky old Feminist Ladyeng48 (@griestho) March 18, 2021
And make no mistake about what a real sweetheart Brooks is. He doesn’t believe political leaders should speak out against domestic violence.
Asked by @ChrisCuomo if he thinks political leaders should speak out more forcefully against domestic violence, @RepMoBrooks says he thinks "too often there's a rush to judgment," mentions single example of men being wrongly accused.
"She was lying for whatever reason," he says. pic.twitter.com/Fd0SiVf1CX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 12, 2018
We’ve got to get Doug Jones elected to this seat. This is Roy Moore sicko time, redux, with Stephen Miller reprising the Steve Bannon role.
I was wondering where Miller would turn up. This should be totally gross.
News like this makes me glad that I haven’t lived in Alabama since 1982.
I was stationed at Ft.Rucker Alabama from 1982-84……nothing but red dirt, red ants and red-necks.
To this day I wonder who exactly, up the chain of command, I pissed off to deserve that.
Yikes!
Regarding your final thoughts on the subject, Ursula, unless Brooks gets slapped with a few dozen women coming out and accusing him of sexual improprieties (or some even more whack-a-doodle GOPer announces), he’s as much a shoo-in as Tuberville was.
Let’s also not forget that Brooks ran in the GOP primary in the special election in 2017 and came in 3rd behind Roy Moore and Luther Strange (Brooks got 19.7% of the primary vote to Moore’s 38.9% and Strange’s 32.8%). What’s funniest is that, in the primary, Brooks could only manage to win his home county and lead in one other county in his district while Moore managed to lead the other four counties in the Brooks’ own district.
It’s worth noting that Brooks also was first elected to the House as the result of Alabama’s GOP’s shenanigans. The party had managed to convince then-Democrat Parker Griffith to switch parties in 2009 and “promised” to back him in his re-election bid as a GOPer in 2010. But, when the primary came up, the party pulled back on that promise because a “real” GOPer decided to run and “party rules” demanded that the party back someone who’d run as a GOPer in previous elections. Democratic leaders in the state warned Griffith about the all-too-likely bait-and-switch but Griffith chose to believe the state GOP’s promises. As a GOPer, he’d challenge Brooks again in 2012 but lost the primary by an even larger margin and then, in 2014, he went running back to the Democrats to run for Governor. The Party reinstated him and backed his candidacy in the primary which he won (his opponent wasn’t really all that big a name and didn’t really stand any chance in the general election) but he ended up losing to the incumbent, Robert Bentley (of course, if more folks had been aware of Bentley’s little shenanigans* at the time, Griffith might’ve stood a better chance of winning–then returning to the GOP).
*I should note that it’s not really clear if those shenanigans had been going on during Bentley’s first term or if they began after re-election but the primary chain of events that led to Bentley’s resignation and forfeiture of any future political career began in March of 2016, more than a year after being sworn in again. The main issue was Bentley’s firing of his state’s “Homeland Security” Secretary (part of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency) due to a misuse of state funds but the man then claimed he’d been fired for refusing to cover up an extramarital affair between Bentley and one of his political advisers (a woman). As the HS Secretary had been appointed in 2013 and he claimed that the affair had been a lengthy one, it stands to reason that Bentley was involved in it before his re-election.
Truly the behavior of a first world nation, not a third world one.
Anyone having Stephen Miller show up at any of their campaign events should be assumed to be a white supremacist.
Which one is the racist and which one is the criminal. Know they both qualify for both positions. Does it matter. They both belong in jail.