Jan 092026
 

Yesterday, I didn’t see any news big enough to supersede the killing of Renee Nicole Good (although the fact that the House passed Jeffries’s discharge petition on ACA subsidies – and then passed the bill – deserves a mention. Now it goes back to the Senate – which today advanced a war powers resolution.) I did watch what I could of a Substack video with Malcolm Nance, Michael Cohen, and JoJo from Jerz (and isn’t that a lineup!) which kept locking up. But what I could see and hear was cathartic. I do want to share something about this death which bothers me. Renee’s six-year-old was born from her first marriage to a soldier who died. She was now married again, to a woman. Her late husband’s father is, I gather, on his way to Minneapolis to collect the child. I am concerned that a custody battle, if it becomes a battle, or if it doesn’t, just taking him away from the only parent he knows could harm him as much or more than the loss of his biological mother. Heather Cox Richardson‘s remarks on what happened are well worth listening to if you can spare the time.

Archived from The Washington Post (referred by The Daily Beast), it is IMO a good sign that someone else – particularly someone who has been making money from the regime, is finally fed up. I might add that it required a whole lot of ordinary people to push Avelo to this point. So we do have a voice – at least some of the time.

A Pro Publica investigation found that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is producing enough debris to seriously endanger commercial flights of conventional aircraft. Is anyone surprised?

The top image for this article from The Conversation was (For me) reduced to a miniscule line of type, with the top half cur off. But by right clicking on that line, I was able to open the image in a new tab, and refreshing the page also worked. This, frankly, scares me as much as and maybe more than ICE.

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Jan 092023
 

Is it possible to overdose on schadenfreude?  Asking for over 81 million friends.

Democrats have so enjoyed watching the GQP in such a state of confusion, crisis and chaos (why, I even read they were in “DISARRAY” – a descriptor the MSM has heretofore reserved for Democrats) that Pres. Biden found it necessary to order the release of several metric tons of our nation’s Popcorn Reserves.

There’s no doubt you have all been closely following clownish antics of McCarthy, Gaetz, Boebert and other GQPers, so I’m going to try and find some that might have slipped under your radar.

As seen in this candid photo, it began when Kevin McCarthy first addressed the GQP Caucus as they set out to elect a Speaker for the House:

He appealed to their sense of unity when he closed his opening speech with this plea:

But to no avail.  As you all know, the voting dragged on and on and on and …

It got to the point that sports fans recalling the recent FIFA World Cup felt it was time to go to penalty kicks.

Putting a positive spin on it, other sports fans said that at the rate Kevin was losing round after round of voting, he at least was assured a first-round pick in this year’s NFL Draft.

Others not so sports-minded thought that Rock Paper Scissors would have been a better – and quicker – way to get this done.

But this is what America was stuck with:

(Maybe they should have tried unplugging the House and the plugging it back in again)

Someone was able to procure a list of concessions McCarthy was ready to offer to the Taliban 20 in the Freedom Caucus to get their votes:

Ad while all that was going on, on the other side of the aisle the Democrats demonstrated decorum, decency and dignity.  Why, Rep. Katie Porter even took the time to improve her mind by reading a tome that will undoubtedly prove useful over the next two years.

No, it was NOT this one:

C-Span was able to get a view of her selection:

And then Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries gave the speech that McCarthy should have – but didn’t – literally spelling out from A to Z how a responsible party prioritizes issues.

It won both laughter as well as cheers.  And needless to say, it went viral and has been viewed more than 2.4 MILLION times!

All in all, I think this clip from the Daily Show does more than justice to how Kevin McCarthy’s past week went:

 

But I want to close on a serious note, because THIS is what happens when you have no principles or core beliefs – just blind ambition:

We need to remember that the people blocking McCarthy were also largely the ones named as co-conspirators in the ex-president’s efforts to overthrow our government.  The great majority claim Trump won in 2020, and all but one of them voted against vote certification of the 2020 presidential election.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/04/us/politics/house-speaker-republicans-vote-against-mccarthy.html

 

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