It was very, very bad. When she wasn’t talking about herself she was casting very ugly aspersions on her political rivals and then telling an interminable story about flying to Iraq on Christmas without ever saying Donald Trump’s name. These speeches are almost always bad but this one was for the books. Here’s how it started: Trump had a rebuttal too. Oy vey: This video campaign of his is bizarre. The dilated pupils (which appear in all of them) are very suspicious. Maybe it’s just the lighting or something but they’re weird. I think he and Huckasanders are pretty representative of the GOP in general. And that’s frightening.
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Aaron Rupar covered the first Hunter Biden “oversight” committee meeting this morning and it’s a doozy. I highly recommend that you go over to twitter to watch his highlights because it’s even worse than you might have imagined. I’ve pulled up a few of the right wing fools contrasted with the Democrats on the panel. Dear God …
Senator Rick Scott is getting a lot of attention for proposing to sunset all spending, including Social Security and Medicare, every five years and making nasty ads like the one above, in which he accuses Biden of cutting Medicare and cheating on his taxes. Mitch McConnell himself is sick of him and removed him from the Commerce Committee which really ticked him off. Scott is corrupt to the core and should be nowhere near government. If you are unfamiliar with his history in business, here’s a piece Chris Hayes wrote before Scott won the governor’s seat in Florida back in 2008. (WTF Florida???) Rush Limbaugh offers Democrats an irresistible target as the de facto leader of the Republican Party, but for my money, Rick Scott is the man who best embodies the spirit of the current conservative opposition. The name may not exactly be a household word, or it may ring a faint bell, but Politico recently reported that the millionaire Republican would be heading up Conservatives for Patients’ Rights (CPR), a new group that plans to spend around $20 million to kill President Obama’s efforts at healthcare reform.
Those Memphis cops were proud of their work The NY Times reports: As Tyre Nichols sat propped against a police car, bloodied, dazed and handcuffed after being beaten by a group of Memphis police officers, one of those officers took a picture of him and sent it to at least five people, the Memphis Police Department said in documents released by the state on Tuesday. The documents painted a picture of repeated misconduct by the officers, starting in the first moments after Mr. Nichols was pulled over for a traffic stop, through an arrest carried out with excessive force and continuing on through the many minutes when Mr. Nichols lay on the street in dire need of medical help. Sending the photograph to acquaintances, including at least one outside of the Police Department, violated policies about keeping information confidential, according to the documents. But police officials said it was also part of a pattern of mocking, abusive and “blatantly unprofessional” behavior by the officers that also included shouting profanities at Mr. Nichols, laughing after the beating and “bragging” about their involvement.
He’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore: The tense showdown between Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and George Santos (R-NY) that had tongues wagging ahead of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address has been revealed—and it’s even juicier than first thought. Earlier, Santos could be seen on the chamber’s video feed sitting near the center aisle in the House Chamber, seemingly waiting to shake President Biden’s hand. As Santos stood around, Romney appeared and the pair could be seen having a tense conversation. Even after the conversation appeared to be over, Santos turned towards Romney and spoke in his direction, despite the senator moving on. Biden evaded Santos in the end, with Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, (R-IA) snagging the shake in his place. It was initially unclear what was said between Santos and Romney—but the mystery was soon solved. Santos recounted the exchange to Semafor political reporter Kadia Goba, who detailed the conversation as below: Mitt: You don’t belong here. Santos: Go tell that to the 142K that voted for me. ADVERTISING Mitt: You’re an ass.
Elon Musk has been making a lot of comments on government debt recently, and though I have a lot of respect for what he’s done in electric vehicles and space travel, I couldn’t restrain myself from ridiculing his views on government debt: That led to another tweeter having a go at me, because obviously someone … Continue reading "Just Because You Know How to Make Money, That Doesn’t Mean You Know How to Make Money"
Is Ron DeSanctimonious going to stick? If so, I’m surprised. I assumed it would “Fat Ron”, “Nasty Ron”,”Phony Ron” or “Ron the con.” Ron DeSanctimonious seem a bit “elitist” for the MAGA crowd but what do I know? If there’s one thing Trump understands (the only thing, maybe) it’s mean nicknames.
This piece in the Atlantic wonders why the 2024 presidential field is so slow to materialize. When Donald Trump gave his 2019 State of the Union address, several of the Democrats listening inside the House chamber had already declared their plans to run against him. But when Joe Biden delivers his speech tomorrow night, his only official competition will be Trump. My colleague Russell Berman wondered over the weekend, Does anyone want to be president? By the time a president gives the State of the Union address at the beginning of his third year in office, at least half a dozen people are typically already in the presidential race, Russell explained. But this year is different. Besides former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who is expected to announce her candidacy next week, the 2024 campaign is off to an extremely slow start. “This [is] what happens when you have a former president who lost reelection but still inspires fear in his party, along with a Democratic incumbent—the oldest to ever serve—who is not exactly itching to campaign,” Russell explained.
He wielded them both “Here’s my message to all of you out there: I have your back,” President Joe Biden told Americans in his second State of the Union Address. Biden’s 2022 SOTU audience topped 38 million. His speech Tuesday night would be his most-watched of the year. He might not be able to match the right’s 24-hour disinformation networks for daily screen time, but for 75 minutes last night he had as much of the nation’s attention as he would have this year. He knew it and he used it. Democrats cheered. Republicans, many of them, jeered. Their style is their only substance. Biden brought both. If he meant to contrast his administration with his opposition’s chaos, he succeeded famously. “Biden made perhaps the best speech of his presidency,” tweeted The New Yorker‘s Susan Glasser.
No agenda except trolling I missed this observation but Marcy didn’t: Former House Speaker Nacny Pelosi told CNN that the GOP heckling during the State of the Union Address was “showbiz” to cover putting Medicare and Social Security “on the table.” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters after the SOTU that he considers Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) “a sick puppy” who had no business being there. Cameras caught their exchange on the House floor but not the dialogue. It’s who they are. It’s all they have left. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, we’re paying their salaries.