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Forgive me if I am not celebrating the courage of all these South Carolina Republicans who are now shocked shocked! by President Chaos after spending years enabling him. With the stunning exception of Myrtle Beachs Tom Rice, you dont suddenly become a hero because you refuse to stand by the guy who inspired the worst attack on Americas Capitol since the British torched it in 1814.

Lindsey Graham, Mick Mulvaney, Nikki Haley, Nancy Mace all these profiles in courage who were more than happy to ride along on the Trump train are jumping off right on cue. It has been a hell of a journey as Graham put it, but enough is enough.

Going after the Mexicans and the Muslims was one thing. Sure, Charlottesville was a bit awkward, even for (some) Republicans, and those kids in cages at the border, too. But when the barbarians show up at the gate of your own house, the Peoples House, with zip ties, and they start breaking out gas masks on the Senate floor, then that is really infringing on your personal freedom. Besides, the base doesnt like masks.

They could have blown the building up, Graham said with all the outrage he usually reserves in defense of The Boss. They could have killed us all!

It was always going to end like this, or something like it. Trump didnt change; Trump will never change, and that is exactly what the MAGA faithful love about him. Its not like Graham didnt know. In the 2016 presidential campaign, he famously told us the truth: Trump was a kook, crazy, unfit for office.

And then Trump was elected, and Graham eventually became Sycophant One in Congress, on the golf course, on Air Force One. But he was hardly alone. Trump was Nikki Haleys ticket to the United Nations and Henry McMasters to the governors office. Mick Mulvaney went from tea party nobody to Trumps budget director and then spent a long year as the hands-off acting chief of staff letting Trump be Trump.

They were all cheerleaders and apologists for the worst president in American history. Trump lied, divided and played on racial animus. He leaves office with a virus killing 4,000 Americans a day, the economy in tatters, particularly for those at the bottom, and a nation more divided than any time since the Civil War.

To my Trump friends, I say this: Whatever you thought you got from the guy, it wasnt worth it. The price was too high.

And yet, after we knew exactly who he was, Graham, Mulvaney and the others wanted to put this narcissistic madman back in the White House for another four years. Over the past two months, as Trump relentlessly pressed his Big Lie, that the election was stolen from him, they were silent or worse. They fueled the fire.

The South Carolina Five Republican Congressmen Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Tom Rice, William Timmons and Joe Wilson shamefully voted to overturn the election. Lindsey Graham could not acknowledge Joe Biden won until he was scared silly by the Trump terrorists.

Our governor who liked to brag he was the nations first statewide elected official to endorse Trump wrote off the attack on the Capitol as a bad day at the office. Alan Wilson, our Republican attorney general, wants you to believe he was as surprised as anyone about those robo calls from his partys association of attorneys general summoning patriots to Washington.

The one South Carolina Republican who actually put his career in jeopardy was Rice, who out of nowhere voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday. It was a gutsy move in the bright red 7th Congressional District and virtually guarantees him a primary challenge in two years. It is called political courage, not something you see too often these days.

For four years, too many Republicans have been willing partners, complicit in the unraveling of our institutions and the trust that binds us together.

You cant pretend that all that came before the past two weeks was just a bad dream. The road to redemption isnt that easy. It requires a fidelity to the truth and facts that is sorely lacking in our society today.

Donald Trump didnt just happen. He had a lot of help, and his helpers need to own what they broke.

Steve Baileycan be reached at sjbailey1060@yahoo.com. Follow on Twitter @sjbailey1960.

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Bailey: Trump's South Carolina enablers need to own what they helped break - Charleston Post Courier

Kate Middleton returned to public royal duties this week alongside Prince William, after taking a break during the holidays. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took part in a virtual chat on Wednesday, and shared an image from the video calland revealed a peek inside their home in the process.

As the royal couple were confirmed to be at Anmer Hall, their country home in Norfolk, just last Saturday (their kids threw a tea party for Kate's birthday, naturally), and the U.K. is currently in lockdown, it can be safely assumed that Will and Kate were taking part in the video call from there.

The background shows a cream couch, topped with decorative pillows, as well as a couple plants and a table, on which the Cambridges appear to have placed a couple family photos. The duo has also arranged decorative porcelain plates on their wallhardly a surprise, as the Windsors famously love them some porcelain.

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The aim of the call was for the royal couple to learn about the counseling and bereavement support being provided to help essential workers amid the pandemic. National charity Hospice U.K. launched a helpline called Just 'B' to aid frontline workers cope with loss and trauma in March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Through their Royal Foundation's COVID-19 Response Fund, the Duke and Duchess have partnered with NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Department of Health and Social Care to help fund the helpline.

During their meeting, Will and Kate heard from Just 'B' counselors as well as NHS staff who've benefitted from the helpline's services.

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Kate Middleton and Prince William Offer a Peek Inside Anmer Hall, the Royal Couple's Country Home - TownandCountrymag.com

While the attack on the Capital is abhorrent, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Politics has been getting ugly for decades, but took a turn for the worse when Harry Reid forced through the ACA on a party-line vote, using raw, ugly political power, and against the wishes of half the country. Then he changed the rules for approving federal judges, opening up the door for Mitch McConnel to do the same for SCOTUS. The right-wing has been mostly peaceful over the years, while the left-wing has become more and more violent. Compare the Occupy Wall Street to the TEA Party. Compare ANTIFA and BLM "peaceful" protests to anything. Now having endured almost a year of violence in our largest cities, that the Democrats have yet to condemn, it was only a matter of time that the right-wing exploded.

The extreme right-wing is pretty much disavowed by rank and file Republicans, but the extreme left-wing is the rank and file Democrats. This will not end until the Democrat leadership puts an end to their own radical movement and violence, and the Republican leadership sits down with the Democrats and comes up with a way to diffuse the powder keg that violence created.

In the meantime, our Republic is on shaky grounds, more dangerous than anything since the Civil War. The nation will not make it to 300 years if something doesn't give. I'm just glad I'll be dead when the nation implodes in a violence that is unimaginable.

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What is the most significant impact of the insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol? - The American Legion

Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, owners of Uline shipping supply company located in Pleasant Prairie, WI, and major donors to Republican candidates including President Donald Trump, contributed more than $4 million to the Tea Party Patriots.

The group participated in the rally before the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. While the organizers have taken down their website, and many tweets, since the rally led to the mob takeover of the Capitol, Mother Jones and others have reported on the March to Save America, AKA the March for Trump, sponsors.

That contribution of $4.3 million, reported by Chicagos public radio station WBEZ, has led the Democratic Attorney General Association (DAGA) to call on attorneys general and its counterpart the Republican Attorney General Association (RAGA) and Republican attorneys general and candidates to refuse any future contributions from the Uihleins.

This declaration and other corrections to their association are necessary actions on the only path forward for those who claim to believe in the rule of law and protecting our democracy, said Sean Rankin, executive director of DAGA in a statement. Republican AGs or candidates who choose to accept Uihlein money moving forward will be turning their backs on our country and ignoring the deadly attack on Congress on January 6th.

According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC)s website, the Uihleins (and others related to Uline shipping) have given nearly $1.5 million to Wisconsin candidates including the annual maximum $32,500 in donations to former Attorney General Brad Schimel who frequently used the slogan law and order to describe his views in the race he lost in 2018 to Attorney General Josh Kaul.

RAGA also has direct ties to the Jan. 6 rallies. WDC reported this week that an arm of RAGA, called the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF) urged followers to attend a Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally making robocalls, according to reporting from Documented, a watchdog group.

WDC describes RAGA as a Washington, D.C.-based group, which raises and spends unlimited amounts from special interests to help elect state GOP attorneys general throughout the country. The group was active in the 2018 Wisconsin state elections, doling out more than $2.8 million on electioneering activities to attack Democratic candidate Josh Kaul.

Between January 2018 and late November 2020, RAGA took in around $279,000 from about two dozen Wisconsin contributors, including MillerCoors (now Molson Coors), Foley & Lardner, Wisconsin Realtors Association and Kwik Trip.

The Uihleins have also given amounts of $1,000 each election cycle to many Republican legislative candidates, WDC records show.

Rankin continued: We must demand accountability from our elected leaders and future leaders, and we must refuse to let funders of terror and spinners of dangerous conspiracy theories undermine our democracy.

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Uihleins, owners of Wisconsin company, gave millions to group sponsoring the Jan. 6 March for Trump - Wisconsin Examiner

There is a touching story about how Queen Liliuokalani bid farewell to her people.

Every Hawaiian remembered the sad days a few years before when intruders stormed the capitol of their country and stole their kingdom. Worst of all, the intruders had put their beloved queen in jail, keeping her captive in her own palace.

The day finally came when the proud Hawaiian people had to watch their flag lowered and a flag of a foreign country raised in its place. The foreigners cheered while the crowd of Hawaiians stood in silent protest watching their noble kingdom pass away.

As their flag was slowly dropping down, they heard a beautiful voice singing above. They looked up to the balcony of the palace and there was their royal queen sweetly singing Aloha Oe. Farewell to you. Tears flowed as hundreds of Hawaiians said goodbye to their kingdom with peace in their hearts.

This is fairly close to what happened and the protest was based on truth with a heart of goodness and aloha.

Journeying back many years to early America, trouble was brewing in the colonies. England was oppressing the colonists by over-taxing them and pushing them around in the streets. Taxes were too high we all know that problem.

The tax they paid on tea was especially high. and they had no voice in how they were governed. It was making life hard for the people. They had to fight back.

A few daring patriots in Boston came up with a plan.

One night, they dressed up with painted faces and wore feathers, and with danger all around they snuck onto British ships in the harbor and tossed all the tea into the sea.

It was called the Boston Tea Party. They had fought back and gave themselves dignity.

Like the queen and her people singing their song, the Boston Tea Party was a protest of truth and justice with a heart of goodness.

There were many marches yet to come, the right of women to vote was a big issue.

From the very beginning, women could not vote. America was a country for 140 years and women still had no say in elections. Right after the Civil War, former male slaves got the vote, but not women. They had to wait another 50 years for equality.

Women marched in the streets, were beaten down and put in jail but they kept on until justice prevailed and they had the same rights as men.

All their protests were based on truth and justice with a heart of goodness.

The biggest wrong of all is racial prejudice. Blacks went through so many hardships until Rosa Parks sat down on a bus, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up with a dream and marched until finally African Americans had equal rights. But the fight goes on.

They protested with truth and with heart and finally won.

Hawaiians, Native Americans, and many others have marched for their beliefs to gain a better life. And every single protest from the beginning of this country, and of all time has had a bit of truth and heart behind it.

That is until last week at the U.S. Capitol. It was not a protest with a cause, it had no cause.

Another riot with looters.

It was not based on truth and goodness. It was based on a lie and darkness.

Time for all of us to join together and step into the light.

Dennis Gregory writes a bi-weekly column for West Hawaii Today and welcomes your comments at makewavess@yahoo.com

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Making Waves: Protesting with a heart - West Hawaii Today