Just to be sure I've got it all covered, I'd like to take this opportunity to assure my loyal readers that the Super Bowl confetti was not made entirely of shredded head injury studies.
thanks - The Onion
Feb 3, 2020
Covering It All
Just to be sure I've got it all covered, I'd like to take this opportunity to assure my loyal readers that the Super Bowl confetti was not made entirely of shredded head injury studies.
thanks - The Onion
In The Land Of Poe
WaPo:
Rep. Rodney Garcia, a state lawmaker in Montana, told a roomful of Republicans he believes the U.S. Constitution says socialists can be jailed or shot simply for being socialists. Garcia initially made the statement at an election event, then he reiterated it to a Billings Gazette reporter.
The Republican Party in Montana swiftly rebuked him.
Garcia’s inflammatory assertion first came Friday night, after former interior secretary Ryan Zinke gave a speech at the party event in Helena. According to reporting from the Gazette, Garcia said he was concerned there were socialists “everywhere” in Billings, which he represents in House District 52.
Billings Gazette reporter Holly Michels later asked Garcia to clarify his remarks, and the lawmaker doubled down.
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States, [if you] are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” Garcia told Michels.
- and then -
Anthony Johnstone, a law professor at the University of Montana, told The Washington Post that “nothing in the Constitution of the United States authorizes the government to punish socialists or anyone else on the basis of their political beliefs.” In fact, the First Amendment prohibits punishing political speech, and the Constitution of Montana “expressly prohibits discrimination on the basis of political beliefs,” Johnstone said. All state lawmakers swear an oath to uphold those doctrines.
...because of course. That's where we are now.
The rubes giggle and run off to make this new bullshit part of the "conservative" dogma, while the Press Poodles feel compelled to fact check it - they stopped long enough to go find someone to tell them whether or not the US-fucking-Constitution says it's OK to shoot socialists.
Feb 2, 2020
Today's Bazinga
Well, when you get inside Donald Trump's head, all you're gonna discover is a putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video, & someone else's credit card.
-- Tim O'Brien
Today's Tweet
This is a guy who's very very lost.
When you’re really drunk and you hear a good song pic.twitter.com/jlilnSAFWm— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) February 2, 2020
Feb 1, 2020
Boiling The Frog
We should remember right now that the vote probably won't happen until Wednesday, the 5th.
And we should remember that there's practically no fucking way it's going to turn out to be anything but the 51-49 bullshit on the question of witnesses.
Rolling Stone:
We may be witnessing the end of the United States presidency as we know it. It doesn’t come in large, destructive gestures, like the demolition of the White House. Instead, we most often see it arrive in the mild utterances of old men. Such was the case on the Senate floor on Wednesday, when Alan Dershowitz spoke up in favor of President Trump’s autocracy.
We should have seen this coming, as Trump hardly ever misses an opportunity to reach for more power, not even amidst a process ostensibly about stripping it from him. Ironically and most unfortunately for the Democrats who sought even a modicum of accountability for President Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors, the impeachmentprocess is being perverted into a process to make Trump into a dictator.
Trump’s defense against impeachment has, to this point, been somewhat bifurcated. At once, Trump was supposedly utterly innocent of the charges being brought against him — it was a perfect call with the Ukrainian president, we keep being told; just look at the White House’s doctored transcript — and it was also perfectly fine if Trump did everything he was charged with, because he is allowed to do whatever he likes. It was hard to discern which argument was more disturbing or less befitting of a president.
- but the money quote:
This is how reckless Republicans are with America, willing to give untold amounts of power to a man whom they still don’t fully understand in a frantic attempt to maintain their own grip on advantage in a country that has already elected a black president once and whose demographics are quickly turning against them.
And we should remember that there's practically no fucking way it's going to turn out to be anything but the 51-49 bullshit on the question of witnesses.
Rolling Stone:
We may be witnessing the end of the United States presidency as we know it. It doesn’t come in large, destructive gestures, like the demolition of the White House. Instead, we most often see it arrive in the mild utterances of old men. Such was the case on the Senate floor on Wednesday, when Alan Dershowitz spoke up in favor of President Trump’s autocracy.
We should have seen this coming, as Trump hardly ever misses an opportunity to reach for more power, not even amidst a process ostensibly about stripping it from him. Ironically and most unfortunately for the Democrats who sought even a modicum of accountability for President Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors, the impeachmentprocess is being perverted into a process to make Trump into a dictator.
Trump’s defense against impeachment has, to this point, been somewhat bifurcated. At once, Trump was supposedly utterly innocent of the charges being brought against him — it was a perfect call with the Ukrainian president, we keep being told; just look at the White House’s doctored transcript — and it was also perfectly fine if Trump did everything he was charged with, because he is allowed to do whatever he likes. It was hard to discern which argument was more disturbing or less befitting of a president.
This is how reckless Republicans are with America, willing to give untold amounts of power to a man whom they still don’t fully understand in a frantic attempt to maintain their own grip on advantage in a country that has already elected a black president once and whose demographics are quickly turning against them.
Today's Tweet
Don't ever forget what that felt like last night.
This is what the wrong side of history looks like. #ImpeachmentTrialSham pic.twitter.com/GAr9NFUeLD— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) January 31, 2020
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