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Following a very humiliating failed previous try, MAGA extremist Republican Speaker Mike Johnson just presided over a MAGA extremist Republican vote in favor of impeaching DHS Secretary Mayorkas for not preventing MAGA extremist Republicans from creating a MAGA extremist Republican border crisis.
The challenge that now lies ahead for MAGA extremist Republicans will be persuading Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer working in collaboration with Democratic Senator Dick Durbin to formulate Senate trial rules that somehow avoid mentioning any of that.
Thoughts and prayers.
After all, unlike the House where every single member faces running a campaign this summer, a full two thirds of the Senate has a wide open schedule and can very easily be available for a prolonged public proceeding that puts the MAGA extremist House on trial instead of Secretary Mayorkas.
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The challenge that now lies ahead for MAGA extremist Republicans
will be persuading Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer working in collaboration with Democratic Senator Dick Durbin to formulate Senate trial rules that somehow avoid mentioning any of thatis exactly the same as the challenge faced by extremist Democrats when they impeached Trump in 2019.We have seen all of this before. Different uniforms, same game.
Speaking of the uniform swap but no real change to the game being played, it’s the GOP’s turn to play “We’re gonna impeach the motherfucker!”
Democrats loved it
‘We’re gonna impeach the motherfucker’: the Democrats’ new street fighters
Progressives cheer as Congress’s new intake pledge to take the fight to Trump
when they had the ball.
In 2019 Senate Republicans had an incredibly powerful incentive to keep an impeachment trial proceeding brief, with limited presentation of evidence, witnesses and testimony.
Ask me how I know.
Almost perfectly inverted.
2019 – “Guilty as fuck. Let’s move on quickly and turn the page.”
2024 – “They don’t even have an actual criminal charge. And they’re the ones who created the crisis.”
2019 – “He’s finished in a few days anyway. We can run out the clock and then move on like it never happened.”
2024 – “We’ve got until November. And the more the voters learn the truth about this the worse it is for them,”
@2 With the important difference that Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
History will record that it took House Republicans fewer tries to impeach Mayorkis than to elect a speaker.
Suozzi won.
A bunch of old hippies are whooping it up at the Rowie, high fiving white guys buying rounds.
Somewhere in a damp wooded compound on an island in Puget Sound a silent scream goes unheard.
Here’s Mud In Your Eye Dep’t:
Election called for Democrat in Santos seat race.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-suozzi-wins-special-election_n_65cbb292e4b065628a60ffa9
Democrats also won the Pennsylvania special election.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/pennsylvania-democrats-pad-narrow-state-house-advantage-special-electi-rcna137918
Jim Prokobiak won Pennsylvania LD 140 in Bucks County.
That’s a poll we can rely on.
MAGA Mike and his mob have lowered the impeachment bar from “high crimes and misdemeanors” to “whenever we feel like it.”
I wonder if Democrats will take advantage of the new, looser standard when they’re in charge of the House again?
Think of the opportunities this opens: Clarence Thomas, Judge Cannon, Ted Crud, Ron Johnson, MTG, MAGA Mike himself, and of course Trump for a world-record third impeachment if he gets back in.
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History will record that it took House Republicans fewer tries to impeach Mayorkis than to elect a speaker.
Fewer tries than it took Democrats to elect Biden (3) or #CrookedHillary (2 and counting), too.
This evening’s NBC News headlines:
“Republicans impeach Alejandro Mayorkas over the border after failing to last week”
“ICE will face a $500 million budget shortfall for border security unless Congress takes action, officials say”
Guess which of these is higher priority for MAGA Mike and his MAGA mob …
Doctor Dumbfuck sides with the wide open borders crowd.
But it’s okay, because under States’ Rights’ government this formerly federal responsibility is now a state prerogative, and Texas taxpayers will pay for securing the border so the rest of us don’t have to. Bless you, Texans, for taking this load off our shoulders!
It wasn’t close in New York, and Suozzi could be “sworn into Congress as early as Thursday,” according to NBC News.
That means MAGA Mike may have only 24 hours left to impeach Biden, and he may not have that if his members keep quitting, getting expelled, get Covid, or it keeps snowing back east.
School resource officers keeping schools safe …
“A Pennsylvania school resource officer is accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage student he met at the high school where he worked.
“Jordan Jones, 29, of Horsham, was arrested Tuesday and has been charged with institutional sexual assault, endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors ….
“The student allegedly told a counselor that she and Jones had been having a sexual relationship since November, the DA said in statement.
“Jones, a full-time officer with Abington Township police who was assigned to the school as a resource officer, is accused of having sexual contact with the teen numerous times at his home, according to prosecutors.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-resource-officer-pennsylvania-charged-sexual-assault-student-rcna138739
It’s not consensual if they’re underage, and every cop knows that.
But of course he’s presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law, except for Doctor Dumbfuck’s firing squads.
MAGA Mike wants a photo-op with Biden so he’ll have something to show for his congressional career when he’s a backbencher again.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mike-johnson-wants-biden-meeting-action-ukraine-israel-aid-package-rcna138751
CNN Headline:
Renton minimum wage hike up 15 points.
Given how late counts around here tend to move left…it’s done.
@19 How do you be bipartisan when there’s only one political party and a disorderly mob of seditionists who shoot down their own legislation?
Utah’s state house speaker is hiding his calendar of speaking engagements. For good reason.
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-utah-speaking-calendar/
2024 Tea leaves.
PA-140
Biden +10
2020
Prokopiak +35
2024
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Utah’s state house speaker is hiding his calendar of speaking engagements. For good reason.
Well, that’s not gonna age well, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Toldja.
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2024 Tea leaves.
Well, let’s investigate that, shall we?
PA-140 is a district in which the Democrat ran unopposed in ’14, ’16, and ’18. Took 100% of the votes, he did.
2020 was a Trump year, which caused 40% of the votes to go to the Republican candidate.
2022 was back to the Democrat unopposed, so 100%.
If your guy only took 65% tonight, that’s 35% of the vote lost because it’s a Trump year, only Trump wasn’t on the ballot tonight.
Wait until he is.
Tea leaves, indeed.
Inflation is increasing again.
Queen YLB’s fucked kids are at the mercy of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president’s horrid decisions.
If he did, he’d have to take it to Jill for help.
The White House is understandably concerned that the results wil leak.
@24 I’ll bet you wouldn’t find prayer meetings with Christian nationalists in Biden’s visitor logs.
@26 “Inflation is increasing again. Queen YLB’s fucked kids are at the mercy of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president’s horrid decisions.”
So is Elon’s paper net worth. Maybe yours, too.
@27 “even after a
damning reportpropaganda bulletin fromhis own Department of Justicea partisan Republican hackhighlightingpenning a hit job on his alleged ‘poor memory’”ftfy
Biden’s had a speech impediment since birth, and has been making verbal gaffes for as long as anyone can remember, so your “evidence” that he’s “senile” is thinner than camel piss.
What he doesn’t do is disparage our military personnel and veterans, or insult our allies and encourage our adversaries to attack them, like your guy does.
Saying Trump is mentally ill would be an act of charity. You and your ilk vote for him anyway. Trying to explain that is futile.
Fiction writer J.D. Vance is sketching an outline for his forthcoming political novel.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-vance-warns-imagined-impeachment-time-bomb-trump-rcna138551
Hey dumbfuck, this man is talking to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXE5nPeXADc
Trump nearly won Bucks in 2016, missing it by fewer than 3,000 votes on a turnout of about 340k. That kind of energized support from old white people is what helped carry him over the top statewide and capture all those EVs. In counties where Clinton won, her margins were too thin to overcome the big numerical leads Trump The Rapist rang up in Trumpy counties statewide. Trumpy old white people were out and proud for him in 2016, with flags, banners, shirts, hats. Remember?
2020 looked quite different. Turnout rebounded. But Trump The Rapist didn’t come even close to winning half of that increase. Which left President Joe Biden to cleanup winning the county by over 4% and more than 40,000 votes.
Now this here is an SE for an LD where Republican strategists normally count on the turnout among old whites to give them some numerical advantages in an otherwise closely divided county. And where the same venerated strategists often spend Wednesday mornings tut-tutting their rival campaigns for failing to turnout all those “lazy Blacks and Gimme-Gimmes”, “dirty poors”, and “unserious youngs”.
So either old whites in Bucks are walking away, or DEI and Dobbs are on the ballot, or both. The numbers defy copium. And they absolutely signal very serious trouble for MAGA, Republicans, and especially Trump The Rapist this coming fall after he’s been criminally convicted.
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Trump’s fine:
https://youtu.be/pTriLPQRDAU
Somebody has “things” on his mind:
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-sends-criminal-arrest-themed-valentine-to-melania-and-millions-of-potential-love-donors/
Without the support of NATO and other security allies, in order to achieve equivalent security aims the United States would have to double our current expenditures for defense.
CNN Monday Headline:
The “expert” analysis accompanying the headline argued that the results would determine Democratic prospects in November.
Now I’m not arguing any of that is correct. It isn’t. Obviously so I would hope.
But it is helpful insofar as it perfectly illustrates how media companies manipulate and shape perception to drive clicks, views, and engagement.
Democrat “panic” is money.
CNN doesn’t really give a fuck what’s going on or whether or not you know it. What they care about is your panic. Because they know it will reliably drive you back to doom scrolling, clicking through, and sharing.
Your “Trump Panic” is being monetized. Leaning into that panic makes assholes wealthy and weakens democracy.
@34 “So either old whites in Bucks are walking away” or, maybe, are dying off in electorally significant numbers.
@36 The funny thing is she’s not at his side. Have you seen her at his side recently? Neither have I. She’s hiding out somewhere. Apparently wants nothing to do with him and his manifold legal troubles.
@38 “But it is helpful insofar as it perfectly illustrates how media companies manipulate and shape perception to drive clicks, views, and engagement.”
It’s a business. They have to pay their staffs somehow, and can’t make money selling classified ads to people looking for lost dogs or display ads to car dealers and department stores anymore, so they have to drive clicks and views. So what do they do? They post clickbait. Like I said, it’s a business, and the media are so desperate for revenue it’s all content-driven now. There’s no real journalism, or damned little, left. All the journos, or most of them, have been laid off.