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Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Taylor Derangement Syndrome:

Darrin Bell: It’s not about race…

Electoral Dysfunction, 2024:

NowThis: Corporate drilling is sinking these Arizona towns

The Dotard Трамп and Other Ultra Maggots:

NowThis: Why this anti-EV argument is ridiculous

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    Who’s this Taylor Swift everyone is talking about? I don’t follow pop music. Is she the one who Kanye disrupted at an awards show?

  4. 4

    Because of course. This is why he’s a Dumbfuck.

    President Biden launches a significant airdrome in retaliation for the killing of three American soldiers in the same day he attends to arrival of their bodies in the U.S.

    What’s going on in the world over on the Fox News Dot Com

    Top
    Here are all the freebies that await suspects who fled for Golden State after NYPD attack
    #2
    Tech billionaire reveals what he thinks is behind Biden’s wide open border policy
    #3
    Finance expert reveals critical strategy for retiring comfortably
    #4
    Ex-Obama adviser cites toxic nickname as proof of young voters’ disdain for Biden
    #5
    Sylvester Stallone honors late ‘Rocky’ co-star Carl Weathers in emotional tribute

    And if you scrolled all the way down to the sixth most important story of the day

    US launches airstrikes in Middle East, hitting more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria

  5. 5

    4)Carl Wethers, he took over for Carol O’Conner in the last season of In the Heat of the Night after it switched to CBS. The show had already lost Tibbs after Howard Rollins’s legal and health problems.

  7. 7

    2% of total US electricity generation now goes to mining cryptocurrency, which is a completely useless and bogus thing with no conceivable value or utility.

    If you own crypto you are burning the planet.

  8. 8

    Looks like Northern Ireland has a government. The Democratic Unionist Party ended their 2 year boycott, over the post-Brexit trade rules with the Republic. So for the first time, an Irish Nationalist will be First Minister, but under the Good Friday Agreement, the deputy has to be from the opposite camp. I would not describe the swing to Sinn Fein as titanic, they still failed to get one seat in East Belfast.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/03/northern-ireland-government-to-reconvene-after-two-year-dup-boycott

  10. 10

    The dumbfuck Nazi coward has slithered away in defeat and is now pleading with Putin for political asylum.

    You FINISHED HIM!!

    Well done!

  12. 12

    @7 “If you own crypto you are burning the planet.”

    You’re also a fool. Unless, of course, you’re flipping it to bigger fools.

  15. 15

    An armed society is anything but a polite society. It’s a crazy and violent society where nobody is safe.

  17. 17

    Charles Marohn is an engineer who promotes what he calls Strong Towns, considers himself on the Libertarian end of the Republican Party, did serve a term in the Minnesota Legislature. Hails from Brainerd, and taking heat from backing a bill to abolish parking minimums.

    https://x.com/clmarohn/status/1750336591027999067?s=61&t=fR8FUvMqsy7ez2LZn8P9lw

    https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/articles/360061667111-The-Strong-Towns-Approach-Core-Insights

  18. 18

    The RNC apparently has decided to continue supporting fake electors, but only “vocally” instead of financially, and only “lawful” fake electors.

    https://www.rawstory.com/gop-fake-electors/

    Looks like the fake electors are on their own, but maybe they’ll still get prison visitors from their fellow Republicans.

  19. 19

    @17 Just another effort to push cars out of cities and force people onto buses to get shot by children.

    Heh, just kidding, rural areas are entitled to buses and children with guns, too. After all, arming kids was their idea.

  20. 20

    17,

    For someone working in the space of public planning and development, Marohn is a pretty apolitical guy, and someone whose very clear thinking and pragmatism have been an inspiration for me personally.

    I don’t agree 100% with Strong Towns on everything they publish. But I do embrace their approach to local/regional planning. And I’m encouraged to see the word is spreading.

  21. 21

    “Tithing to Trump: Some WA residents donate to him every other day”

    “There’s a school custodian in SeaTac who donated to Donald Trump 172 times last year. She sent Trump some money just about every other day. There’s a retiree in Pullman who gave Trump’s fundraising operation small amounts between $4 and $44 so many times — 165 times — that by the end of 2023 it added up to nearly $4,000. And there’s a self-employed handyman in Shoreline who started pushing the Trump donate button so hard beginning in July — sometimes giving 40 times in a month — that by year’s end he had sent $2,253.”

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/some-wa-trump-donors-are-sending-him-money-every-other-day/

    I dunno, I guess they think this gets them into heaven, or an earthly version of it called “MAGA!”.

  22. 22

    19)I fear for tge board members of Lewis County Transit’s day jobs. Tgey are transitioning to Battery and Hydrogen buses. The former make sense on routes within Centralia, and Chehalis, but range anxiety would hurt on routes to Morton, Olympia, and Chehalis. The three member board is made up of an official from
    Centralia, Chehalis, plus a Lewis County Commissioner. Using their hubs as alternative fuels stations make sense. I doubt Hydrogen vehicles will happen up here, but if they do, there will need to be fueling stations, and Centralia would be a must. Though controlling the distribution, for now, would make them more than RINOs.

  23. 23

    @1 – Yes, that was Taylor Swift that Kanye interrupted and humiliated in front of everybody. It was poor white trash behavior on the part of Kanye, and he isn’t even poor or white!

  24. 24

    18,

    Not at all “lawful”.

    They might have met in public. They might have all signed documents as “provisional” Trump electors, declaring their votes for Trump by the federally imposed deadlines in the event of future adjudication. In other words, they might have done it all legally and without any fraud implied or intended.

    But that is not what fake Trump electors from seven states that Trump lost did. They met in secret. They voted in secret. They recorded their votes on documents that falsely and fraudulently declared those records to be the only true ascertainment of electoral votes from their states. They did it that way because that was their intent. By the time they met in secret to pose as electors and forge certificates of ascertainment they knew Trump was defeated. They knew there was no election fraud. They knew Biden had won.
    So instead they agreed to participate in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the US government with fake documents.

    From the beginning when they met and signed those forgeries this was a criminal fraud conspiracy.

    And so with this resolution by the Republican Central Committee the party as an institution is embracing criminal conspiracies to overcome election losses.
    Republicans are officially signaling their rejection of the most basic principles of free and open elections upon which democracies depend.

  25. 25

    It was poor white trash behavior on the part of Kanye, and he isn’t even poor or white!

    A premonition of the MAGAt and Nazi-curious idiot he is today. How far can one fall…

  26. 26

    Biden/Harris landslide happening in SC. Very exciting stuff 😃

    Looking forward to seeing the turnout numbers and demographics for a state where there was very little campaigning.

  27. 27

    Biden/Harris continue to clean up on union worker support.

    At a Michigan campaign rally at an actual, real union auto plant filled with actual, real union auto workers two attendees stood out.
    One held a sign reading “union members for Trump”. The other held a sign reading “auto workers for Trump”.

    When reached after the event by reporters from the Detroit Daily News both admitted to being neither a union member nor an auto worker. And when pressed each admitted to working for Kristina Karamo and one of the two factions of the splintered Michigan Republican party.

    Losers.

  28. 28

    All those jobs, and market highs, and productivity records are just FAKE NEWS!!

    You just don’t know it because you sad blue pill sheeple are too busy enjoying great jobs with big salaries in fabulous homes and going on amazing vacations. Oh boy are you in for a big surprise.

  29. 29

    @23 Kanye is trash, period. HIs lack of character has everything to do with it; his color has nothing to do with it.

  32. 32

    “Texas has paid $124,603,616.19 to bus more than 100,000 migrants from the state’s border communities to Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles as of Jan. 10.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/4445775-records-abbotts-migrant-busing-cost-texas-124-million/

    That’s $124.6 million that wasn’t used for better roads, improving teacher pay, school lunches, or building a more reliable electricity grid. And this doesn’t include the millions spent on barbed wire and river floats. I guess they have different priorities there.

  35. 35

    Solomon Peña is a convicted smash-and-grab thief who was released from prison in 2016 and had his voting rights restored in 2021. A former LaRouchie, he’s a big Trump supporter, which was good enough to win an uncontested GOP nomination for a state legislative seat in a solidly blue district the following year. He lost the November election against a 25-year incumbent by 73% to 26%.

    Peña refused to concede, alleged election fraud, and “approached the four Democrats on the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners in an attempt to push them to overturn election results. When that failed,” he hired Demetrio Trujillo “to carry out multiple drive-by shootings” at their homes. Peña personally participated in one shooting.

    Trujillo is awaiting sentencing; Peña goes on trial in June.

    https://www.rawstory.com/gunman-says-republican-who-lost-election-paid-for-drive-by-shootings-on-democrats-homes-2667162847/

    The GOP’s candidate recruitment standards aren’t what they used to be.

  36. 36

    Why is my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president scared to be interviewed by CBS for a segment to air during the Super Bowl afternoon festivities?

    It’s CBS. Softball questions.

    Did CBS refuse to permit the White House full editorial control?

  37. 37

    my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president

    Post that 10,000 more times and you just might pwn a libbie someday.

  38. 38

    @32,

    Hey man, I’m no expert, but at an average of more than $1,200 per asylum seeker, I think they could have flown them… first class even.

    Wait a sec.

    I am an expert.
    Well, whaddya know!

  39. 39

    @36,

    I’m a successful guy. I’m President. So there’s lots of things your guy might do that I don’t have to. Scared’s got nothing to do with it.

    I’m not scared to sit when I pee.
    And I don’t do that either.

  40. 40

    I really like Whidbey Island Ice Cream, but because it’s made in Freeland, I’m a little worried the milk and cream may come from a cow with human DNA lodged in its reproductive tract.

  41. 41

    @37 I don’t think there’s a libbie that stupid and gullible. That’s more of a conservative phenomenon.

  42. 42

    @38 DeSantis paid more than $30,000 per nose to fly lawful asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard, using federal Covid relief funds to hire a charter company owned by a campaign donor under a no-bid contract. If you or I did that, we’d be cooling our paws in a federal prison, but apparently it’s okay when a GOP governor does it.

  43. 43

    Nikki Haley is shamelessly trolling for MAGA votes by promising to pardon Trump if she’s elected president. That’s enough to remove her from consideration by independent and Democratic voters if she turns out to be the Republican nominee for any reason.

  44. 44

    Haley doing better than Trump The Rapist one on one against Biden in the latest Quinnipiac is unsurprising to me.

    What is still surprising to me is how ill prepared the Haley campaign is to really promote her electability. To do that well she would have to remind her audiences of Republican base voters that Trump The Rapist lost badly in 2020. And it’s really clear that she’s terrified of starting down that road.

    It’s still the same story it was eight years ago. The lack of courage and strength of character in the GOP is what consigns them to the control of Trump The Racist.

  45. 45

    @34

    It’s really not that bad. It’s just that the font on the display that shows warnings of impending problems is too small. So fucking what that it affects pretty much every single vehicle we’ve ever sold in the United States.

    Fucking Joe Biden expected us to actually read the legal specifications on this stuff. But we didn’t want to be like Toyota and Ford and Honda. We’re different.

    We don’t need any government eggheads. This is classic overreach.

    It’s tyranny.

  46. 46

    Spent a good part of yesterday at the Washington Sportman’s Show in Puyallup, gateway to Yelm.

    As you can imagine for the Puget sound the MAGA Hat, FJB, Let’s Go Brandon and Fuck your Feelings clad crowd is over represented there. I even say an octogenarian wearing “No one believes Joe Biden got 81,283,501 votes. RIGGED AND STOLEN!” shirt.

    In between booking an Alaskan lodge and getting a great deal on some Danner Boots the best way I could amuse myself was walking up to the two different guys looking like they had bought every Kansas City Chiefs item at WalMart and saying, “I love Taylor Swift too!”

    Let me tell you these dude bros do NOT have a sense of humor.

  47. 47

    46,

    It’s been a terrible three years for them.

    While everyone else in America has been getting pay raises and promotions, buying fantastic vacation homes and new cars, saving for retirement, sending their kids off to great colleges and universities, and basically living their best lives, these poor saps have fallen further behind and grown increasingly bitter, aggreived, and disappointed in themselves and in their choice of leadership. They are some of the most dissatisfied people in America right now.

    And it’s only going to get worse for them!

    Some people worry that this is unsustainable. They argue that the continuing presence of a perpetual underclass stuck in a downward spiral is going to destabilize our communities.

    But I don’t see why.

    After all, their misery and decline is entirely of their own making and completely self-imposed. Whereas America sustained and imposed a de jure and de facto state of underclass citizenship on non-whites for almost two centuries.

    If ignorant, racist, authoritarian worshipping dumb shits choose to abandon their fair share of America’s prosperity and go pout and cosplay in the woods who am I to stop them?

  48. 48

    In her response filing on Friday Fulton County DA Willis requested that Judge McAfee cancel the evidentiary hearing scheduled for Feb 15th and allow the case to proceed on the grounds that her filing was enough to satisfy any legitimate questions the hearing might answer. Apparently persuaded by the filing McAfee immediately issued an order to the moving party attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, that she show cause for why the court should not grant the DA’s request.

    Ashleigh Merchant filed her response late Friday informing the court that she would bring witnesses who would testify that Willis lied to the court in her filing when she stated that a romantic relationship between herself and Wade did not exist at the time he was appointed.

    But this response may be inadequate and not responsive. Under Georgia rules of criminal evidence the moving party bears the burden of compliance with normal discovery. As I understand that for the purpose of this kind of hearing that means that Merchant must provide at least some disclosure of who these witnesses are and what their testimony will contain so that the responding party, in this case the DA, has an opportunity to prepare their own answer to that testimony. But Merchant hasn’t done that. And it’s not clear that she will.

    Merchant claims in media appearances on conservative right wing outlets that she has been “investigating” this claim since last summer. But she did not publicly file her subpoenas until last Wednesday. It is hard to imagine that she has in her possession sworn witnesses statements that support her claim. And an evidentiary hearing like this one may not constitute a court imposed fishing expedition. Sworn affidavits from these witnesses should be provided to the court to support probable cause and to allow the DA to prepare a response.

    If Merchant can’t meet these low requirements ahead of the scheduled hearing then McAfee should cancel it and allow the prosecution to move ahead unimpeded by political theatrics.

  49. 49

    “Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday walked back her previous comment that Texas could secede from the US if it decided to do so.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/politics/nikki-haley-texas-secede-us/index.html

    This POS does this all the time. She panders to the electorate’s worst elements, whether it be waffling on the Confederate flag or refusing to acknowledge slavery, then “walks it back” when called out on it. She’s like the serial shoplifter (in her case, stuffing MAGA votes under her blouse) who tells the judge, “I’m sorry,” then gets caught shoplifting again a week later. That (plus other things) makes her unfit to lead America. She can’t be trusted; her word isn’t worth shit. Even MAGAites don’t trust her.

  52. 52

    The dumbfuck Nazi coward is on the ropes. The next time he shows up here…

    FINISH HIM!!

  53. 53

    “Trump said Sunday he would consider imposing a tariff upward of 60% on all Chinese imports if he regains the presidency.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/politics/china-trump-tariffs-taiwan/index.html

    And if you think that won’t cause massive consumer inflation, you’re not thinking.

    Trump also wants to eliminate the IRS and income taxes. It’s obvious what he’s up to. In its earliest days, the new American republic financed its government by collecting tariffs on imported goods. Trump wants to go back to that 200-year-old system.

    Well, why not? Here’s why not: The American consumer, not the importer or country of origin, pays those tariffs. If you don’t think they get passed through in the retail price of dutied goods, you have rocks in your head.

    Replacing the income tax system with a tariff system would result in a massive shift of the tax burden away from the rich to the working classes. Trump’s tariff will have exactly the same effect as a 60% V.A.T. or sales tax. It is a sales tax. So before you vote for him, ask yourself if you’re prepared to pay a 60% sales tax on imported goods (which nowadays is most goods).

    Now, you can argue that adding 60% to the cost of everything imported from China will bring manufacturing and jobs back to the U.S.A. — and it will. But the costs and ultimate prices of those goods will go up. Their production went to China in the first place because they could be made cheaper there, and if you have to make that stuff with costlier U.S. labor, it will cost more.

    So, if you think “Bidenflation” is bad, just wait until you see “Trumpflation.” I guess if you vote for that, that’s your business, although it’ll affect all of us.

  54. 54

    52,

    I think he was finished four years ago when he bent the knee and succumbed to being just another one of Trump’s Grooms of the Stool. The subsequent four years of groveling have only been for our entertainment, whether he realized it or not.

  55. 55

    @46 “Let me tell you these dude bros do NOT have a sense of humor.”

    Did they pull guns on you?

  56. 56

    53,

    Last time he did it Trump managed to close four Michigan auto plants.

    Putin wants them unemployed, restless, and discouraged.

    Trump obeys.

  57. 57

    This weekend’s Barrons magazine included a column by one of their staff journalists who expressed a darkly dystopian view of the 2024 election. If Trump wins, he said, the stock market could surge. But if he loses, stocks could be pushed lower by “a violent reaction by his political base” that would “make Jan. 6 look like a dance party.”

    I think that’s very possible. I also think it’s more than likely the Capitol will be surrounded by National Guard troops with loaded rifles, major rioting will be dealt with by law enforcement in the usual ways, and an armed insurrection will be met with martial law and military force. And potentially, one fuck of a lot of dead and wounded insurrectionists.

    So bring it on, crybabies. Better yet, stay home and cry into your beers. It’ll be healthier for you, and keep you out of prison or the morgue.

  58. 58

    @48 Another Farmer Jim in the making: “B-b-b-ut we’ve got evidence. We just haven’t found it yet. And all our witnesses are testifying against us, dammit!”

  60. 60

    @47 The Trump movement is a faith-based religion fulfilling emotional needs, not an exercise in reasoning. That’s why Trumpers are so closed-minded, intolerant, and violent.

  61. 61

    The Senate, in a bipartisan effort led by Senate Majority Leader Schumer joined lead negotiator Senator James Lankford and supported by President Biden will take the first major action on immigration enforcement and reform in decades this Wednesday taking the first of a series of procedural votes to pass the $118 billion bill and send it to the House.

    Republican extremists in the House have vowed to kill it as instructed by their unelected leader working from his private sex club in Florida.

  62. 62

    @51 I believe these extremists are capable of genocide, and their ilk are part of Bibi’s governing coalition. If he won’t reign them in, we shouldn’t arm or support them.

  63. 63

    58,
    I guess we’ll find out soon enough one way or another if Judge McAfee follows through as I believe he should and requires Ahleigh Merchant to submit sworn affidavits.

    If she can’t do that it will provide convincing proof that this was bullshit from the very beginning.

    The Georgia statutes and the case law cited by Willis are convincing to me. The standard for disqualification of a prosecutor over legal conflict is considerably higher than has been supported so far by Merchant. It includes decades of defense motions seeking disqualification on very similar grounds wherein prosecutors had pre-existing personal and in some cases marital relationships with law enforcement investigators tasked with investigting the crimes being indicted. And in each of the cases cited the Georgia courts have reached the conclusion that these personal relationships do not create conflict or bias implicating the due process rights of the accused.

    At this point the very least the court should demand of the moving party is that they make some kind of minimal showing of probable cause to form the basis for the hearing. Otherwise it’s an impermissible stunt intended merely to harass the prosecution and delay the trial. If there are witnesses produce them and produce their sworn statements. If not prepare your clients for trial.

    I’m frankly more than a little bit disappointed at the media conduct surrounding this so far. They have been embarassingly willing to indulge in lurid speculation about the private lives of the public servants being targeted by this motion. I don’t think the scheduling of the motion hearing was improper. And preceding it with deadlines for response filings , witness subpoenas, and preparatory information was also entirely appropriate. But the media response to each of these perfunctory legal procedures was as if their mere existence proved misconduct on the part of the DA. I can’t help but suspect that both her race and her gender played an enormous role in that media reaction. And it is looking increasingly as if that media reaction was completely biased, misinformed, and grotesque.

  66. 66

    Quarterly fundraising of note.

    The race to replace Feinstein
    Adam Schiff, just short of $6M
    Katie Porter, just short of $3m
    Barbara Lee even managed a bit over a million.

    Steve Garvey…$600k

    This is your California Republican party. No one is still willing to dump money on a lost cause. Not even billionaire fascists Thiel and Musk. Better to blast your money figuratively into space.

  68. 68

    Why you can’t make deals with Republicans:

    “In Barack Obama’s first term as president, Republicans issued a challenge to the Democratic White House: Increasing border security would open the door to a bipartisan reform package. Obama accepted the offer at face value and significantly increased border security.”

    Republicans then reneged.

    https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-reps-validate-old-obama-joke-border-alligators-rcna136768

    Republicans always act in bad faith. Always.

  71. 71

    A modern commercial airplane arguably is the most complex piece of machinery on earth. It has countless components, each of which must be precisely manufactured to exacting standards, and then flawlessly assembled. The enormity of the task is mind-boggling — so daunting, in fact, it can’t be done.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/business/boeing-737-max-holes-hnk-intl/index.html

    Man was never meant to fly, anyway. If the Great Mother Rabbit Spirit had wanted people to fly, she would have made them into birds.

  72. 72

    In this morning’s political news, Nancy Mace — whose entire staff quit or was fired — has a very thin labor pool to dip into, namely, George Santos’ former staff.

    https://www.rawstory.com/nancy-mace-2667169433/

    And J. D. Vance was called “a traitorous pile of owl droppings” for saying he wouldn’t certify the 2020 election as vice president — something he should never be.

    https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-constitution-14th-amendment/

    For that matter, he shouldn’t be a senator, either (see #70 above for details). Ohio voters fucked up bigly when they sent him to the senate.

  73. 73

    Ohio voters fucked up bigly when they sent him to the senate.

    Republicans fucked up bigly.

    In Ohio and lots of other places too. They can dump these dipshits in the next election and move on if they so choose. But they won’t. They have not so far. They are stuck with themselves and they just can’t face that.

    The rest of America needs to move on without them and just forget about Republicans.

  74. 74

    The Senate unveiled its border bill. House Republicans immediately declared it dead.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ajgvbz/the_senate_unveiled_its_border_bill_house/

    Dems: “We had a bipartisan agreement to pump money into the border and codify more strict immigration policy and Republicans wouldn’t even vote on it due to Trump’s fear of it helping Biden.”

    And while this is going on, Canadian Raphael Cruz wants to pass a bill that provides special treatment for republican politicians at airports.

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