The Pants, They’ve Been Shat

America This Week: January 22, 2022

Luella Schmidt
8 min readJan 22, 2022

Dispatches from the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed.

Shat Pants: The Dark Thriller, “Our Lives”

It has been a week filled with relief, terror, and schadenfreude for everyone rooting for our republican form of democratic government. For those involved in the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, it has been a week filled with losing and, it’s safe to say, some shitting of the pants.

Oops-I-Crapped-My-Pants, Shutterstock by diy13

We’ve Reached Zero Doubt: He Tried to Overthrow the Republic

The Supreme Court denied Trump’s effort to block 700+ pages of records from the January 6th Committee this week, and immediately afterward, the National Archives began sending those materials to the Committee. HOLY BUCKETS how close we came to losing our Republic. Among the material, there was a draft Executive Order — dated two days after he lost the Electoral College vote — that would have had the U.S. military seize the voting equipment from the 2020 elections. The order would have given the Secretary of the Department of Defense 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election, suggesting that the plan would have kept Trump in power until…

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Luella Schmidt
Luella Schmidt

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