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The Commentariat -- May 6, 2021
Late Morning/Afternoon Update:
Daniel Dale of CNN: "The top candidate to replace [Liz] Cheney [in the House GOP 'leadership'] is New York Rep. Elise Stefanik -- who promoted some of those election lies and sought to get the outcome of the election overturned. Stefanik, whom Trump endorsed Wednesday for the job of House Republican conference chair, supported a lawsuit that tried to get the Supreme Court to invalidate Joe Biden's victory. On January 6, after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, she voted to reject some of President Joe Biden's electoral votes. Both before the riot and immediately afterward, Stefanik made false claims about the conduct of the election in some of the states Biden won. And in previous remarks, she amplified baseless claims that there were major "irregularities" with both voting and election software. Stefanik did not match Trump's incendiary language about the election being 'rigged' or 'stolen.' But using slightly more artful rhetoric, she aided his damaging campaign to undermine confidence in the result. Here's a look at some of Stefanik's election-related words and actions between early December and early January." MB: But, see, that's exactly why Stefanik is the top candidate.
The New York Times' live updates of Covid-19 developments Thursday are here. The Washington Post's live updates for Thursday are here.
Joel Achenbach & Lena Sun of the Washington Post: "Coronavirus infections could be driven to low levels and the pandemic at least temporarily throttled in the United States by July if the vast majority of people get vaccinated and continue with precautions against viral transmission, according to a strikingly optimistic paper released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report comes as administration officials and leaders in many states are sounding more confident that the country can return to a degree of normalcy relatively soon. President Biden on Tuesday announced a new vaccination goal, saying he wants 70 percent of adults to have had at least one dose by July 4. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Wednesday the modeling results give Americans a road map out of the pandemic -- so long as they continue to get vaccinated and maintain certain mitigation strategies until a 'critical mass of people' get the shots." The article is free to nonsubscribers.
Hypocrites on Parade. Steve Peoples of the AP: "Every Republican in Congress voted against the sweeping pandemic relief bill that President Joe Biden signed into law three months ago. But since the early spring votes, Republicans from New York and Indiana to Texas and Washington state have promoted elements of the legislation they fought to defeat.... Polling suggests the Biden stimulus is overwhelmingly popular."
Florida. Amy Gardner & Lori Rozsa of the Washington Post: "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed broad legislation Thursday morning that imposes new rules on voting and new penalties for those who do not follow them.... Critics said the new law curtails poll access in a variety of ways that will intimidate, confuse and otherwise make it harder for people to vote by mail, which is popular in Florida."
Steven Mufson & Brady Dennis of the Washington Post: "China's greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 surpassed those of the United States and the developed world combined, according to an analysis published Thursday by the research firm Rhodium Group. China's share of global emissions rose to 27 percent of the world's total, while the United States remained the second-largest emitter at 11 percent. India's share came third at 6.6 percent, edging the 27 nations in the European Union, which account for 6.4 percent, the report found. China, India and other developing nations have long noted that over the past century, the United States and Europe grew their economies while generating massive amounts of greenhouse gases, and that requiring the developing world to clamp down on emissions as they industrialize and bring millions of citizens into the middle class is unfair." MB: That's sort of a ridiculous argument; when the West industrialized, the technology to reduce greenhouse gases had not been invented, AND -- although there was no question that air particles were negatively affecting health -- people didn't understand climate change & how greenhouse gases accelerated it.
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Jim Tankersley & Annie Karni of the New York Times: "President Biden delivered a clear and punchy message to America's highest earners on Wednesday: I'm going to raise your taxes, but your vacation homes are safe. In an exchange with reporters at the White House, Mr. Biden defended with gusto his plans to increase taxes on high earners and the wealthy. He railed against high-earning chief executives and promised that his plans were 'about making the average multimillionaire pay just a fair share.... We're not going to deprive any of these executives of their second or third home, travel privately by jet,' Mr. Biden said after brief remarks on an economic aid program he signed into law this year. 'It's not going to affect their standard of living at all.... But I can affect the standard of living that people I grew up with.'" ~~~
~~~ Gabe Hiatt of Eater.com: President Biden stopped by D.C.'s Taqueria Las Gemelas to pick up lunch. "'He also came to let us know that we were the first restaurant to be approved for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund in the country,' [restaurant co-owner Josh Phillips said]." Biden ordered quatro tacos y dos quesadillas -- for takeout. MB: And you thought I wasn't fluent in Spanish.
Eli Rosenberg of the Washington Post: "The Labor Department is rescinding a rule that made it harder for gig and contract workers to argue they were entitled to minimum wage and overtime protections, part of a push to undo Trump-era decisions that favored businesses and employers. The withdrawal of the 'Independent Contractor' rule, which limited the ability of workers to argue that they were misclassified as contractors when they should have been employees, will be published in the Federal Register today, and become effective on Thursday. Companies have increased the use of contractors in recent decades in part to lower labor costs. Employees are entitled to a range of benefits not afforded to contractors, including a minimum wage and overtime pay." (Also linked yesterday.)
Allan Smith of NBC News: "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he is '100 percent' focused 'on stopping' President Joe Biden's administration.... 'One-hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration,' McConnell said, adding, 'We're confronted with severe challenges from a new administration, and a narrow majority of Democrats in the House and a 50-50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country, and that's 100 percent of my focus.'... McConnell's comments drew comparisons to remarks he made about then-President Barack Obama to the National Journal just prior to the 2010 midterms. 'The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president,' McConnell said then...." MB: Pardon my arithmetic, but. If Mitch is "100% focused on stopping Joe Biden, then he's "0% focused on passing legislation to help the American people."
Fadel Allassan of Axios: Donald "Trump and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise are openly supporting Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to replace Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as House Republican conference chair.... 'Liz Cheney is a warmongering fool who has no business in Republican Party Leadership,' Trump said in a statement. 'Elise Stefanik is a far superior choice, and she has my COMPLETE and TOTAL Endorsement for GOP Conference Chair. Elise is a tough and smart communicator!'... The public endorsements of Stefanik mark a new escalation in Republicans' internal feud over Cheney...." (Also linked yesterday.)
Olivia Beavers & Melanie Zanona of Politico: "Liz Cheney is not fighting to hold onto her job as House GOP conference chair, even as top Republican leaders openly campaign to replace her in the No. 3 spot.... Cheney has been telling people that if holding onto her leadership role requires having to lie or stay quiet, she doesn't believe that's a price worth paying.... Behind the scenes, Cheney has not been making calls or engaging in the type of campaigning that's ordinarily necessary in politics to build a coalition of support ahead of a vote.... Now it appears all but certain that Cheney will be booted from leadership, raising serious questions about her political future. Cheney, who passed on a Senate bid last year..., just posted a record-breaking fundraising quarter. But she's also facing a tough primary race next year in Wyoming, with pro-Trump challengers already lining up to take her out." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Well, There's This. Liz Cheney in a Washington Post op-ed: "In public statements again this week..., Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen. His message: I am still the rightful president, and President Biden is illegitimate. Trump repeats these words now with full knowledge that exactly this type of language provoked violence on Jan. 6. And, as the Justice Department and multiple federal judges have suggested, there is good reason to believe that Trump's language can provoke violence again. Trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work -- confidence in the result of elections and the rule of law. No other American president has ever done this." MB: That's how she begins, & there's more worth reading. However, she's Liz Cheney, so she has to get in her digs at Democrats & liberals. ~~~
~~~ Maggie Astor of the New York Times highlights the main points of Liz Cheney's WashPo op-ed. This Mother Jones post, by Abigail Weinberg, also provides a good summary & analysis.
Charles Blow of the New York Times remembers some of Liz's -- and daddy Dick's -- low marks. "... her present position does not expunge her past positions. The sword she's falling on is one she has spent her political career brandishing."
Josh Feldman of Mediaite: "House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is concerned about being called as a witness by a commission looking into the events of January 6th, CNN reported Wednesday. There have been calls for such a commission, and Liz Cheney has said she supports creating it. CNN reporter Jamie Gangel said, 'Kevin McCarthy was not an innocent bystander to the big lie. For weeks months, leading up to January 6th, he was talking to the president every day, a couple of times a day. Then, on January 6th, he has that critical phone call with the president where he's pleading with him to call it off.'"
Axios: "Facebook's independent Oversight Board ruled to uphold the platform's suspension of former President Trump's account but told the social media giant to rethink the ban's 'indefinite' nature. The board found Trump's posts had 'severely violated' Facebook rules but questioned the 'indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension' and 'insisted' the company find a 'proportionate response' within six months." MB: Bottom line: Facebook will put us through this again. And again. That guy will forever be a threat to democracy, even after he's dead. Update: The New York Times report is here. (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Eugene Scott of the Washington Post: "... Donald Trump and other Republicans expressed outrage Wednesday over the Facebook Oversight Board's decision to extend Trump's ban from the social media platform -- and at least one House lawmaker threatened that the company will 'pay the price.' [Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)]... In a statement, Trump called the decision 'a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our country. Free speech has been taken away from the president of the United States because the radical left lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before.'" MB: Once again, Trump demonstrates that he has zero understanding of the First Amendment. As for the rest of the lunkheads, they think attempting to violently overthrow a valid presidential election is not nearly as bad as getting kicked off Facebook for inciting the insurrection. ~~~
I defer to you, Nick. -- Mark Zuckerberg, regarding a decision about Donald Trump's account ~~~
~~~ Adam Satariano & Cecilia Kang of the New York Times: Nick "Clegg ... a former British deputy prime minister ... played perhaps the biggest behind-the-scenes role in decisions around Mr. Trump's account, colleagues said, an unlikely position for a British political veteran in such an important moment for American free speech. [MB: Bull!] He developed the main justification used by Mr. Zuckerberg for barring Mr. Trump, and he oversaw the creation of the board, including the selection of its members. The board's ruling on Mr. Trump tests the argument that Mr. Clegg championed inside Facebook: Instead of taking all the responsibility for moderation, the company should enlist a quasi-judicial board of outside experts to make the final decision.... Mr. Clegg joined Facebook in 2018 to oversee its policy and public relations team after his political star had faded." ~~~
~~~ ** "Facebook Whiffed." Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post: "It was not a close call in January to suspend [Donald Trump] indefinitely from the world's largest social media platform, with nearly 3 billion user accounts. The insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6 made that obvious. And it should not have been a close call -- or anything to agonize about -- for Facebook to keep him off the platform permanently.... 'This verdict is a desperate attempt to have it both ways,' responded a London-based group of academics and advocates that calls itself the Real Facebook Oversight Board.... What was called for here was a clear, unambiguous message: That a hugely influential public official -- arguably the most powerful person in the world -- can't use Facebook to endanger the public welfare. And once he does just that, hundreds of times, he can't come back.... [Banning Trump worked.] Online misinformation about election fraud plummeted by 73 percent the week after various social media sites -- particularly Twitter -- banned Trump from their platforms in January, a research firm found." ~~~
It's the International Liberal Jewish Cabal! According to a Washington Examiner report or op-ed or something, Facebook's oversight board "is mostly tied to [George] Soros," according to a headline. No link. Isn't this the same gang who used a space laser to start California's deadly wildfires? You'll have to check with Margie Greene on that. No link.
Maggie Haberman & Ben Protess of the New York Times (May 4): "As a federal investigation into Rudolph W. Giuliani escalates, his advisers have been pressing aides to ... Donald J. Trump to reach into a $250 million war chest to pay Mr. Giuliani for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Mr. Trump's behalf.' Leading the lobbying effort is Bernard Kerik. Kerik was once Giuliani's driver, and he was so good at it that Giuliani appointed New York City police commissioner. Then George W. Bush nominated Kerik to lead the Department of Homeland Security, a gig that didn't work out because Kerik's series of criminal acts soon began to surface, partially, as I recall, because of the FBI background check for the DHS job. Anyhow, Bernie landed in jail, but Trump pardoned him, so everything is good. They're all a bunch of incompetent mobsters of the type we recognize from "The Sopranos." Speaking of sopranos, a couple of pundits pointed out on the teevee Wednesday that Trump should pay up fast or Rudy will sing. ~~~
~~~ Gabby Orr & Paula Reid of CNN: "Allies of Rudy Giuliani continue to call on ... Donald Trump and Republicans to pay for his efforts around the election and, in turn, subsidize the mounting legal bills facing the former New York City mayor. Trump was recently informed directly by Giuliani associates of the increasing debts incurred by his onetime personal lawyer, one source told CNN. Giuliani's attorney, Robert Costello, also raised the issue in recent days with lawyers for Trump.... One of the most vocal is Giuliani's son Andrew, who worked in the Trump White House and told CNN, 'The nut may crack in the next 36 hours.' He called on Trump to 'take the lead on this one,' adding: 'He can be the hero.'... Andrew Giuliani said his father was reimbursed for travel-related expenses incurred after the 2020 election, when he visited Arizona and other states to argue election fraud lawsuits in court. He said his father has not, however, been paid for legal services." ~~~
~~~ In Andrea Mitchell's interview with Igor Novikov, former adviser to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, he says that Rudy Giuliani wanted the Ukraine government to smear Joe Biden on multiple fronts & get a statement from Zelensky that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for hacking into the Democratic party in 2016. Thanks to P.D. Pepe for the link:
Lauren Thomas of CNBC: "Peloton announced Wednesday voluntary recalls of both its treadmill machines over safety concerns. The announcement marked a major reversal of Peloton's initial reaction and comes after weeks of discussions with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. In a statement, Peloton apologized for not acting more quickly to resolve the issue after reports of one death and dozens of injuries." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Zack Whittaker of Tech Crunch: "My Peloton profile is set to private and my friend's list is deliberately zero, so nobody can view my profile, age, city, or workout history. But a bug allowed anyone to pull users' private account data directly from Peloton's servers, even with their profile set to private. Peloton, the at-home fitness brand synonymous with its indoor stationary bike and beleaguered treadmills, has more than three million subscribers. Even President Biden is said to own one. The exercise bike alone costs upwards of $1,800...." MB: You know, Zack, your first mistake was buying a pricey Peloton that probably makes your living room look like a gym. I have a $29 under-desk exercise bike. It calculates stuff, but -- to the best of my knowledge -- it does not reveal my private data to Joe Biden.
The Pandemic, Ctd.
** Thomas Kaplan, et al., of the New York Times: "The Biden administration came out on Wednesday in support of waiving intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines, siding with international efforts to bolster production amid concerns about vaccine access in developing nations. The United States had been a major holdout at the World Trade Organization over a proposal to suspend some of the world economic body's intellectual property protections, which could allow drugmakers across the globe access to the closely guarded trade secrets of how the viable vaccines have been made. But President Biden had come under increasing pressure to throw his support behind the proposal, drafted by India and South Africa and backed by many congressional Democrats. Katherine Tai, the United States trade representative, announced the administration's position on Wednesday afternoon...." The AP's report is here.
Glenn Thrush of the New York Times: "A federal judge on Wednesday struck down the nationwide moratorium on evictions imposed by the Trump administration last year and extended by President Biden until June 30, a ruling that could affect tenants struggling to pay rent during the pandemic. The decision, by Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is the most significant federal ruling on the moratorium yet, and follows three similar federal court decisions. The Justice Department immediately appealed, and will seek an emergency stay of the decision, potentially delaying a final resolution of the case past the moratorium's planned June 30 expiration." Friedrich is a Trump appointee.
The New York Times' live updates of Covid-19 developments Wednesday are here. (Also linked yesterday.)
Iris Samuels of the AP: "The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana provided about 1,000 surplus vaccines last month to its First Nations relatives and others from across the [U.S.-Canadian] border, in an illustration of the disparity in speed at which the United States and Canada are distributing doses. While more than 30% of adults in the U.S. are fully vaccinated, in Canada that figure is about 3%.... More than 95% of the [U.S.] Blackfeet reservation's roughly 10,000 residents who are eligible for the vaccine are fully immunized, after [Montana] prioritized Native American communities -- among the most vulnerable U.S. populations -- in the early stages of its vaccination campaign."
Beyond the Beltway
Arizona. In Search of Bamboo. Rosalind Helderman of the Washington Post: "Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) on Wednesday sent a letter outlining a string of problems that she said observers from her office have witnessed at a Republican-led recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona's largest county.... Ballots have been left unattended on counting tables. Laptop computers sit abandoned, at times -- open, unlocked and unmonitored. Procedures are constantly shifting, with untrained workers using different rules to count ballots.... [Hobbs] questioned whether procedures were in place to hire qualified, unbiased people to serve as ballot counters, noting that reporters have spotted former state Rep. Anthony Kern (R) among the ballot counters. Kern was on the November ballot and was photographed attending pro-Trump rallies in Washington on Jan. 6." According to a person working on the so-called audit, some of the processes the "auditors" are using to examine the ballots are designed to find traces of, uh, bamboo. Because of "unfounded accusations that 40,000 ballots were flown from Asia into Arizona." ~~~
~~~ Marie: Personally, I think they should be looking for sticky rice & green tea stains. Helderman outlines many of the irregularities in the GOP's supposed recount of a recount of a recount, but she doesn't mention that -- based on the small percentage of ballots they have examined -- the "auditors" can't possibly finish the process by the deadline, which is May 14. The Veterans' Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, where the so-called recount is being held, has been reserved by a number of high school students for their graduation ceremonies shortly after May 14. ~~~
~~~ Uh-oh. Bob Christie of the AP: "The U.S. Department of Justice expressed concern Wednesday about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate's unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County. In a letter to GOP Senate President Karen Fann, the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said the Senate's farming out of 2.1 million ballots from the state's most populous county to a contractor may run afoul of federal law requiring ballots to remain in the control of elections officials for 22 months. And Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela S. Karlan said that the Senate contractor's plans to directly contact voters could amount to illegal voter intimidation.... The Justice Department letter came six days after voting rights groups asked federal officials to intervene or send monitors to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix at the state fairgrounds, where the ballots are being recounted." Helderman briefly mentions the DOJ's letter.
Minnesota. Doha Madani & Tim Fitzsimons of NBC News: "Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin filed a motion for a new trial Tuesday after he was convicted last month of murdering George Floyd. Chauvin's attorney, Eric Nelson, is alleging pretrial publicity affected Chauvin's right to a fair trial. The motion alleges the court abused its discretion by denying the requests for a change in venue and a new trial. Because the court failed to sequester the jurors or 'admonish them to avoid all media,' Nelson's filing said, they were subjected not only to prejudicial publicity but also to 'jury intimidation or potential fear of retribution.'" (Also linked yesterday.)
South Carolina. Jeffrey Collins of the AP: "The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state's execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs -- a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation. The bill, approved by a 66-43 vote, will require condemned inmates to choose either being shot or electrocuted if lethal injection drugs aren't available. The state is one of only nine to still use the electric chair and will become only the fourth to allow a firing squad.... The Senate already had approved the bill in March, by a vote of 32-11.... After a routine final vote in the House and a signoff by the Senate, it will go to Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, who has said he will sign it." MB: Next up, guillotine. The representatives of the people are bloodthirsty barbarians, leading me to conclude that so are many of the people.
Way Beyond
Colombia. Julie Turkewitz & Sofía Villamil of the New York Times: "Colombians demonstrating over the past week against the poverty and inequality that have worsened the lives of millions since the Covid-19 pandemic began have been met with a powerful crackdown by their government, which has responded to the protests with the same militarized police force it often uses against rebel fighters and organized crime. This explosion of frustration in Colombia, experts say, could presage unrest across Latin America, where several countries face a combustible mix of an unrelenting pandemic, growing hardship and plummeting government revenue.... On Wednesday, after seven days of marches and clashes that turned parts of Colombian cities into battlefields, demonstrators breached protective barriers around the nation's Congress, attacking the building before being repelled by the police.... The clashes have left at least 24 people dead, most of them demonstrators, and at least 87 missing...."
France-U.K. Brexit Was an Excellent Idea. Sunita Patel-Carstairs & Alix Culbertson of Sky News: "A fleet of French fishing boats has descended on Jersey after threatening to blockade the island's main port over a post-Brexit fishing rights row. The UK has sent two Royal Navy ships to Jersey 'as a precaution' - HMS Severn and HMS Tamar are patrolling the waters around Jersey [Thursday] morning. And French authorities have confirmed to Sky News that a vessel, the Military Ops ship Athos, will be arriving 'imminently' to carry out a 'patrol mission' - while local reports suggest another is also en route. The deployment, France says, is to 'guarantee the safety' of people at sea and 'accompany' the flotilla of around 50 French fishing vessels currently protesting off St Helier over a lack of access to waters around the Channel island.... Jersey fisherman Josh Dearing described the scene at the port of St Helier as 'like an invasion'." MB: Fishing rights issues in the English Channel, I assume, were the sort of disputes that the E.U. courts used to work out.
News Lede
CNBC: "The U.S. employment picture improved sharply last week, with first-time claims for unemployment insurance hitting a fresh pandemic-era low. Initial claims totaled 498,000 for the week ended March 1, against the Dow Jones estimate of 527,000. That was down from the previous week's total of 590,000, which saw a substantial upward revision from the initially reported 553,000."
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If Mitch McConnell was the head honcho of some rinky-dink corporation he'd treat his workers like slaves–-so intent is he not to give other humans an inch more than he needs to. His latest ugly testament about Biden steering us head long into, horrors! Socialism! and , by gum, he's going to do everything he can to stop it. The fact that this same threat was uttered by him ( sans the socialism bit) when Obama became president doesn't seem to bother ole Mitch none. He looks like a withered, stingy, tight-ass little man because that's exactly who he is.
I loved M.B.'s " Pardon my arithmetic, but. If Mitch is "100% focused on stopping Joe Biden, then he's "0% focused on passing legislation to help the American people."
I bring Mitch up because at the moment I am reading a long piece in the New Yorker about Ari Emanuel–-brother of Rahm and Zeke. Ari teamed up early in his endeavors when he created Endeavor, a Hollywood agent company, with a man the opposite of himself–- self described as a bulldog. His partner, Tom Strickler, his best friend. was urbane, thoughtful, instinctively gracious and Harvard educated. When asked by a reporter years after their success what posed the biggest threat, Tom answered:
"Probably our success. Success which usually breeds hubris and arrogance in Hollywood."
and then he did what he did every Friday: Made his way up the firm's three floors and shook hands with every employee and wished them a good weekend. And when they had to fire someone, Tom made sure they would get a salary for six months plus the same period for covering health care–-sometimes up to a year. Now here's the part that McConnell will never get:
"If you're trying to build a business with a soul, souls are expensive."
The Republican Party's business is to destroy, not to build, and somewhere along the way they have lost their souls, if indeed they ever had them.
"If you're trying to build a business with a soul, souls are expensive." Thanks, PD. We would all do well to keep those words in mind. Liz, her Dick, Kevin, Moscow Mitch all have no soul. It facinates sometimes how being a decent and better person matters not all all to certain bright people. And, boy, it is hard to knock them out of the batter's box.
Anyone else tired of Liz? I am sure there is some nefarious reason she has opted to "tell the truth," as if there is the possibility that she would appreciate the truth if it conflicted with her views. She has only been decent with regard to the impeachment and right now, about the Big Lie. Never before. Maybe a religious conversion? Is Liz trying for the priesthood if she gets bounced from whatever it is she does, and then congress itself? Her family is a carpetbagger to Wyoming anyhow, isn't it? Not that I am defending Wyoming...Anyhow, I am tired of her martyr role, or any other role she plays. It is about as useful to the national angst as Susan Collins and her endless wondering about whether she should look into being "concerned" or not...
As for Moscow Monster Mitch, he is simply mean and ugly and nasty and miserly and dishonest and and...(I could go on--), not playing games, just used to running the show as he has since he fell into power in time to bedevil Obama. He is a s***-faced gargoyle and not worthy of human consideraation. I hope Biden at last sees this.
When Governor Ron DeSantis signed that voter suppression bill today, he signed it on Fox news, no other cameras permitted. If Trump doesn't run in 2024 Fox is going to be all in on Ronnie.
Joy Reid says that De Santis is the "Worst of the worst" in a competition in which he took all three spots leading up to the "WOTW" big prize. Yeah, nothing like announcing on Faux and shutting out all other media for really talking to the voters. Of course, the crap he was announcing wasn't worth hearing, so there's that...
Charlie Chris has announced for governor of FL-- back to the future. He is far too sensible and Democratic to lead in Florida. Ugh.