Not all do. Two, certainly.
This seems like an important subplot:
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In a sane world, the GOP would be running from Trump and his agenda after last weekâs disastrous polling was affirmed like a falling anvil yesterday.
Gerrymandering has created a GOP House delegation that is beyond redemption, but John Thune might not be enthused at the idea of losing his majority under circumstances where it should not be losable.
The fight between Trump and Senate Republicans over the filibuster that is engaged right now is going to be informative (and hopefully hilariously self-destructive). The best thing about it is that it is a lose-lose situation for Republicans and a win-win for Democrats.
This was in Comeyâs motion to have Halligan ruled as illegally appointed.
In the motion for vindictive prosecution, the DOJ has similarly failed to comply with discovery orders, and has been admonished by the presiding judge and told to get all discovery to Team Comey - including those same grand jury records - by 5pm tomorrow.
To wit:
Mike âI donât know about thatâ Johnson sees nothing concerning in yesterdayâs results.
Brenda and I talked about this today. Anyone but the proverbial Mongolian idiot would realize the country was slipping away and make changes. Not Trump. He will become more Hitleresque. Such a pity this is not 1930s Germany.
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As the results rolled in last night, a clearly triggered Trump was screaming on social media that it wasnât his fault and that Congress needs to impose new voting regulations.
So, yeah, Trump gonna Trump.
I was thinking that itâs not at all impossible that the SCOTUS puppet masters realize that Trumpâs tariffs are fucking idiotic and suicidal and have instructed their charges to shut that shit down lest they lose a significant amount of the power that they have managed to consolidate.
That would demonstrate a level of self awareness and forward thinking that Iâm not sure these freaks possess, but letâs see.
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It would be thoroughly self-serving - and so thoroughly on brand - to strategically back away from rubber-stamping Trumpâs nonsense, in order to stave off being court-reformed into irrelevance.
Blaming the libs along the way.
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Oh, please.
It would follow the precedent set with not staying the injunction against firing fed governor Lisa Cook, despite doing so for the fired NLRB and CPSC members. Either Humphreyâs Executor survives or not. Itâs the âdonât destroy the economyâ exception to indulging GOP executive overreach.
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Some of you may have seen that Trump has had stenciled on the wall outside the Oval Office the words âThe Oval Officeâ in gold in a distinctly Hobby Lobby font.
If you didnât see it, Newsomâs media team certainly did.
Iâm reminded of the quote from GoT: âA man who must say âI am the Kingâ is no king.â
But this is just probably an effort to help his memory problems.
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I found this article interesting. Basically, an article about the effect rising energy prices played in last nightâs results.
The article highlights the increasing buildout of energy consuming data centers and the Trump crackdown on cheaper wind and solar. Rising energy costs were likely to happen without Trumpâs stupid policies, but his idiocy has made it worse. The article has enough GOP quotes where Iâm confident the GOP wonât change course in the near-term, and quotes from Democrats that itâs a winning issue for them into the future.
Of course, the bad news is obvious: consumers and businesses will get fucked, as weâre delaying the needed investments for cleaner and cheaper energy, and for energy which allows us to compete on the global stage.
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Yep. Weâre not even standing still right now, weâre going backwards as Trumpâs henchmen take a sledgehammer to any project involving renewable energy. Meanwhile, China is building out its solar/wind infrastructure, and selling it to the rest of the world - giving them power and influence - and is miles ahead of everyone else on battery tech.
And Trumpâs purported deal with China over tariffs is that both countries will reset the tariffs to where they were before, and we will give them access to rare earth minerals. So, if this is how it pans out, the whole nonsense yielded zero benefit for the US and gave China exactly what it needs to stay way ahead of us in renewable energy tech.
Stable genius.
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It wasnât stenciled, âTheâ âOvalâ âOfficeâ was printed on three sheets of paper and stuck to the fucking wall.
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Itâs there to distract from the hideous cake decoration over the door.
This could be Texas.
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Oh the humanity!
A US immigration agent has testified he could feel through his ballistic vest the impact of a sandwich hurled at him by a Washington DC protester, who has gone on trial for assault.
Customs and Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore told the jury the snack âexploded all over himâ and he âcould smell the onions and mustardâ on his uniform.
