Today's Blast From The Past

5 years ago on Jimmy Kimmel live:

Ad Wars

"God made Trump"

The Lincoln Project answers - God made a dictator

So many rakes

So little time

Talk Better

So all the time I've spent being annoyed by the way some people talk, I thought maybe I was just being unreasonably judgey - I've been slammed as a misogynist - and I should shrug it off.

Well, crap - now I've got a Brit telling me I'm not the only one, but that I am being a bit sexist about it, and now I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to think.

Damn you, scientific inquiry!

Falsetto

Modal

Vocal Fry

Dr Geoff Lindsey

Fly Away Now

Why vote for Biden?

Cuz he beat Trump last time by 7 million votes, and he'll beat him again.

Jennifer Rubin

Trump has a strangle hold on the GOP. If there's any good news, it's simply that the Republican party is shrinking, so he has more and more influence over fewer and fewer people.

The MAGA GOP has entered its final Geejy Bird phase.

There is reason for hope

Today's Keith

TRUMP ROMPS, TALKS ABOUT "4 YEARS AND BEYOND" - 1.16.24

SERIES 2 EPISODE 106: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44)

SPECIAL COMMENT:The obvious headline from Iowa last night: Trump romped, around 50%, with the reminder that if it were Biden only getting 50% in the first primary the Democrats would be considered dead in the water. The real headline from Iowa: Trump mused, in that skillfully ambitious way of his, about being in charge for "four years and beyond" and he can deny he meant refusing to leave office in 2029 but of course all he's TALKED about since 2017 was how he deserved more than two terms or more than eight years or more than the constitution allows. And the NEXT headline out of Iowa is the missing ingredient in the implausibly tight race between a psychotic dictator with dementia and a gifted dedicated president: the report that internal Biden research and polling says three out of four undecided voters really DON'T believe Trump will be the nominee and will have an "oh shit" moment.

Plus: Marjorie Barney Rubble Greene thinks President Biden can communicate with the dead by phone.

B-Block (26:08)

POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Rep. Barry "Your Tour Guide" Loudermilk makes a huge mistake. He wants to investigate Cassidy Hutchinson. And the Baltimore Sun is sold to a fascist and a one-time columnist who took a quarter of million in bribes from the Bush Administration. (30:50) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: When the NFL playoff game in Buffalo was postponed by snow, the Outkick The Coverage idiot whined that they didn't postpone D-Day because of bad weather - except of course they did. Plus Billo is back in the list. And Laura Loomer underscores the fundamental stupidity of the right. They don't believe in man-made climate change but they DO believe that Biden has a machine to manipulate the weather.

C-Block (37:05)

THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: A silly story about ESPN fudging nomination lists for the Emmy Awards (Erin Andrews became "Erik Andrews," etc., to allow ineligible talent to get trophies) ignores the real problem: the hosts of Emmy winning shows were ineligible to GET Emmys because the producers who ran the Emmys thought the talent had enough good stuff as it was. It flashed me back to a memorable conversation with Gil Stratton, an actor and sportscaster who insisted that every producer and executive he ever met was a bigger prima donna than an old colleague of his named Judy Garland.

The Race Is On

So Trump won in Iowa yesterday, and for the most part, the reaction has been a mix of:

• Yeah, so what? He'll be in prison by Labor Day, and then I'll have the excuse I need to stop acting so stupid
• I'm not goin' out there in this weather
• Of course Trump won - it's rigged
• Yay - Trump's still popular, so I'm still popular by proxy

Trump won in all but 1 county, and even though DeSantis took 2nd overall, Haley finished 2nd in 20 counties, winning outright in Johnson County of them (something DeSantis didn't manage).

The campaigns spent $123 million on this thing, which works out to almost $1,150 per vote.

11% of all Iowa Republicans, including almost half of Haley voters, say they'll vote for Joe Biden if Trump is the nominee.

There's nothing that sats we can extrapolate that across the board to show Biden's got the edge, but it might be helpful to keep it mind as we try to decipher polling (which is IMO pretty fucked up to begin with).

Anyway - no matter what - get out and vote dammit.

Where's My Voter Frauds At?

Big discrepancy uncovered in Prince William County Virginia in the 2020 election!

Biden was stiffed out of 1,648 votes

Trump was over-counted by 2,327 votes,

giving him a margin of 3,975 votes -

and he still fucking lost.

Trump.

Still.

LOST.

Today's Today

MLK Day.

This one made me a little misty.

Today's Pix

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She spent the whole day wondering
why she was trending on Twixter

It's Not - But It Is - What We Tho't

In spite of this nerd's maddening difficulty landing the fucking plane, he does finally get around to the point:

The idiots who fucked up the Capitol trying to shitcan American democracy are racist assholes who are scared to death of brown people.

Soak that one in. All these hyper-macho faux-big-dick "alpha" males can't stand the competition, so they'll burn down their own shit rather than see it shared with people they can't admit are out-working them.

Meritocracy my dyin' ass.