A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Also in the House today, facing a revolt from the Crazy Caucus the GOP leadership has given up trying to get anything done this week and adjourned the House until next week.

Not exactly Nostradamus over here.

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State media is conditioning its viewers to just take it in the swingers and ask for another.

Booker still going, 23 hours in.

Strom Thurmond is looking up at this with pure rage.

That’s a shame.

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Korea’s Boramae fighter is stealth and while it’s only a 4.5 generation fighter it’s pretty capable. Not only that but I think Korea would allow it to be built in Canada.

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In other news, the FDA is all-but gone. All the public-facing offices and staff are gone, so any work they can do cannot be communicated to the public.

“It’s always worse than we know” remains undefeated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/

They used their personal Gmail accounts in addition to Signal.

I agree. He’s like that Bug-Eyed pitcher that the Dodgers released for beating on women. I don’t feel bad making fun of his hideously deformed eyeball and eye socket.

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Deliberately killing your voters seems like a counter intuitive strategy, but they did it with Covid and the main takeaway among the inbreds was MASKS BAD MASKS BAD.

Hey let’s see if we can develop a herd immunity to salmonella.

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Almost like that whole “you won’t ever have to vote again” thing was serious.

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Special election update:

  • As expected, the GOP held the two Florida House seats, but saw their sizable vote advantage cut in half. The 6th district was Trump +30 and the GOP candidate won by 15 points. A sobering result for all those GOP House reps with smaller margins in their districts.
  • Not as expected, Democrat Susan Crawford won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, maintaining the liberal majority on that bench. This is the race that Musk decided was going to determine the future of the universe and pumped in over $20 million of his own money, making it the most heavily-funded state Supreme Court race in history.

All in all, a strong showing by Democrats on a day where Cory Booker removed Strom Thurmond from the Senate record books and Speaker Johnson took his ball and went home for the week because he cannot even pass a rules package for the House where he holds the majority.

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Here’s Mike Johnson’s little hissy fit:

Who knew that fascists were all such whiny babies?

What rule? Sounds like it should go down more often.

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This was also the race where he passed out $1 million checks to people in exchange for their votes. You know…the not bribes.

In “Liberation Day News”…

Trump preparing to bail out the farmers who will be hurt by retaliatory tariffs. So be prepared to pay 20% more for everything so that 20% can go to welfare programs. So much winning…

Trump weighs bailouts for farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs

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The funniest thing about that is that he got busted giving the fake prop check to a fake prop voter who was actually the chairman of Wisconsin College Republicans.

He’s even fake criming now.

Last time around the farm bailout wiped out virtually all the revenue taken in from his tariffs, so the net result of it all was to increase the cost of produce for Americans and fuck all else. It did lose American farmers a significant chunk of its foreign customer base, though.

And now he’s doing exactly the same thing again and scrambling to placate farmers because he didn’t see it coming? Stable genius.

Every accusation a confession. Sadly, this applies perhaps the most to when Republicans repeatedly called Democrats “groomers and paedophiles”.

For those who want more info.

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