Caution: This may be disturbing to watch.
Video shows intruder breaking into Pelosi home.
Police footage of Paul Pelosi hammer attack is FINALLY released and shows intruder launch vicious assault at San Francisco home that left the 82-year-old with a fractured skull
David DePape is seen on surveillance video outside Paul and Nancy Pelosi's house. pic.twitter.com/8ba4vzOPRA— sync (@syncmedia24) January 27, 2023
Call to 911 came after intruder surprised Paul Pelosi asleep in his bedroom.
#EXCLUSIVE
Just released police body camera video shows moments David DePape attacked Paul Pelosi at his# San Francisco homeWARNING: VIDEO IS GRAPHIC#PaulPelosi #BREAKING@Nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/rQZriBvOCm
— Bigad Shaban (@BigadShaban) January 27, 2023
Will this provoke apologies about instant conspiracy theories?
My guess is no.
- Nan’s Notebook has a preference for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2024: some candidate not suggested by the media.
Key description:
In my opinion, what I think we really need is a comparatively unknown DEMOCRAT to emerge from the shadows, step into the limelight, and thoroughly rattle the establishment.
- Republicans are using the debt ceiling to demand cuts that are mathematically impossible without slashes to Social Security and Medicare.
Acceding to their demands is out of the question. So is ruining the economy by putting a stop payment on what we owe.
There are a few paths that might be followed. Which non-compromise alternative should the administration pursue?
Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has a suggestion: Pursue all of them.
- No indication that this is inspired by Republican attacks on Social Security, but M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has a warning about messing with old people.
- If you have been following the horrific story of the mass shooting in Monterrey Park (and who hasn’t?) you may be surprised about the conspiracy to keep you from knowing it happened. News Corpse has been following Donald Trump Jr, who is on it. Don Jr has discovered a liberal plot among news networks to keep you from knowing the shooting occurred.
Key Tweet from Donald Trump Jr:You think you’d hear a lot more about the mass shooting of 10 people in California… But don’t worry you won’t hear anything about it because it wasn’t done by a white conservative man with an assault rifle. Doesn’t work for the narrative so it basically never happened!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 23, 2023
- There was a time anti-abortion folk would not say this out loud. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has the quote as Representative Jim Banks proposes federal legislation prohibiting any pregnant woman from leaving any state where abortions are outlawed.
Those of us having a passing familiarity with pre-Civil War history might think of it as a sort of Fugitive Woman Law.
- driftglass has a thought on the dangers of the unusual relationship between Kevin McCarthy and Margorie Taylor Greene.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony discovers the best Santos burn ever.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac has an idea how Republicans will handle their George Santos problem.
- Max’s Dad provides an ascerbic, but accurate, summary of textbook history according to DeSantis.
- My question: Is it hypocrisy if you abide by, and use, a rule you want changed? (Um ‑‑ No, it’s fine)
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara defends the Senate filibuster and accuses Democrats of hypocrisy for opposing it.
For the record, the filibuster has been with us for a very long time. Vice President Aaron Burr pushed the Senate to eliminate a rule that eliminated the filibuster. That was in 1805. The Senate voted to allow filibusters beginning the next year.
Problem:
There suddenly was no way to stop the endless talking. Things eventually got so out of hand, the Senate adopted a new rule. If two thirds of Senators wanted a filibuster to end, then – doggone it – it had to end!!
New Problem:
It was very hard to get 2⁄3 of the Senators (64 in those days) to end all the talking and get to voting. That was especially true of what passed for civil rights in those days: making lynching illegal. So Black people who offended White people by trying things like voting could be tortured and killed.
Finally, in 1975, the number went down to 3⁄5. So, instead of 66 (by then) votes, the number of votes required to get to a vote went to 60 votes.
So remember these dates for the next few lines:
1805: Aaron Burr proposes allowing filibusters to never end.
1806: The Senate votes to allow filibusters to never end.
1917: The Senate votes to allow filibusters to end with a 2⁄3 vote (64).
1975: The Senate votes to allow filibusters to end with a 3⁄5 vote (60).
Now we are ready for the one misreading of history: (hypocrisy?)
It’s also blatantly hypocritical. The party in control of the Senate wants to eliminate the filibuster? That’s nothing new. When the Democrats are in the minority, they love the filibuster.
And another:
In fact, although it may seem like the 60-vote filibuster has been with us forever, it’s actually only been around since 1917.
(When? How many?) Okay, we can forget all those dates now.
- Conservatives are attacking ads for M&Ms as “woke” because one feminine candy piece went from high heels to sneakers.
Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has it about right:You can take my M&Ms when you pry them out of my cold, dead, chocolate free because of the candy coating, hands. https://t.co/ZvyzuRykml
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) January 24, 2023
This response works for me:
- Goose and gander, turnabout being fair play, Disaffected and it Feels So Good applies the favorite rightist tactic and goes all conspiracy theory on conservatives.
Key is in the headline:
Did Donald Trump kill Diamond? Did Traitor Trump’s Plandemic and Operation Warp Speed Vaccine kill Millions? Why did the Republican Party attack America with Covid-19?
- Professor PZ Myers has figured out the predominant pattern of Republican politics: They still think they are in high school.
Key analysis:
The cliques, the drama, the petty squabbles, the abusive Mean Girls and jocks? It’s all coming back.
- Tommy Christopher reports on the possibility of violent physical attacks on the Georgia prosecution team if Donald Trump is charged. CNN analysts say they are stunned by the intensity of the necessary security preparations.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged notes the strangely strange turn in the Trump rape-defamation trial. After mr Trump mistakes a photo of the victim for one of his ex, the Trump defense evolves from
I’m not guilty, she’s not my type
to
It never happened and, besides, she had it coming and she liked it.
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson explores the lessons of classified documents found in private hands.
Key passage, beginning with a letter from a Pence lawyer:
The letter ended: “Vice President Pence has directed his representatives to work with the National Archives to ensure their prompt and secure return. Vice President Pence appreciates the good work of the staff at the National Archives and trusts they will provide proper counsel in response to this letter.”
Law professor and legal commentator Ryan Goodman tweeted: “This is how you keep your client out of jail.” He added: “Like the known facts in Biden case, the strong contrast with Trump’s conduct shows why Trump is in so much legal jeopardy and stands to be indicted.”
- The Palmer Report urges readers not be be distracted by documents found in spaces occupied by former VP Pence and President Biden or by pundits who both-sides-do-it the issues.
Key passage:
Do not let yourself be distracted by them. We have three people who were found to be holding classified documents. They are Mike Pence, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump. But only one of them committed a crime.
Pence alerted the right people. So did President Biden. Trump sat on those documents. He pontificated about how they were HIS. He moved them around. He hid them. He lied. He obstructed justice.
- Andy Borowitz is there as Trump angrily orders Pence to return all classified documents to Mar-a-Lago.
- Scotties Playtime considers the classified document issue and asks why a simple electronic solution is not applied.
- Infidel753 has insights on free speech and the accumulation of wealth.
- A judge seems ready to rule that anyone can force a private concern to publish deadly disinformation.
(So if I want Republicans to think injecting cyanide will enhance bedroom performance, I can force Truth Social to publish it?)
Julian Sanchez of Cato Institute seems skeptical:
- At The Moderate Voice, Robert Levine points out American exceptionalism in many areas. Death by gun violence is not the proudest.
- Green Eagle is skeptical about assertions of the Trans movement.
Much of it is built on a notion of gender that I have come to believe is very misguided. Without this, a great deal of the assertions of the Trans movement, I believe, collapse.
- YellowDog Granny reports on how dragonflies handle unwanted male attention. Strikes me as a bit extreme, but apparently it works.
- Imani Gandy and the staff of Rewire News Group have composed one of the season’s best summaries of the real cost and real dangers to real women of the Supreme Court repeal of abortion rights.
- Frances Langum provides video as the first Women’s March since the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade has thousands in the streets.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit keeps track of Ukraine’s desperate struggle for freedom against Putin aggression.
She notes that Putin can take whatever small comfort he can in the timidity of the Chancellor of Germany when it comes to providing essential arms.
Key Saturday criticism:
…every bit of foot-dragging along the way gives a little comfort to the Russians, that they can split the Western alliance apart and then prevail in their war of conquest.
So is Chancellor Olaf Scholz dragging Ukraine weaponry down at a crucial time?
Well… Maybe not! Germany’s top diplomat is saying Germany will not stand in the way.
Key Sunday development, also reported by Comrade Misfit:
The Poles dragged the Germans to yes by telling them that, whether or not the Germans liked it, Poland would give their tanks to Ukraine. The Germans may be content to being near the trailing edge, but they didn’t want to be seen as being wholly recalcitrant (or being, effectively, Russian tools).
- Hackwhackers has the sad story as India, the World’s Largest Democracy, takes a few steps away from freedom.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is okay with Putin’s aggression on Ukraine, allegedly encourages violence against Muslims, and now attacks press freedom.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has suggestions on what to do when you’re losing your faith.
Key passage:
Maybe it’s about asking yourself what you still know to be true; about the goodness of people, about the things that matter to you, about the gifts you’ve been given.
Maybe today it’s just about what’s right in front of you: about what you can see and hear and touch and smell and taste. Maybe the best thing you can do right now is to experience all of the things that you can know, and simply receive them with gratitude…
- Bruce Gerencser is a current atheist with a past. He was, for most of his life, a committed Evangelical Christian, devoting much of that time as a pastor. He has a unique perspective on whether Evangelical Christianity can be “reformed”.
- In The Journal of Improbable Research an analysis of a study about dimples in Greek children turns into a lesson about proofreading and what happens when you omit the word “not”.
- @whiskeywhistle98 is the perfect audience for a beauty contest:
@whiskeywhistle98 #duet with @murilorran #missuniverse My favorite has to be The British Virgin Islands……#laughing #dead #countries #fyp #foryourpage #tiktokmom #FastTwitchContest #hillarious #perfect ♬ som original – murilorran
(No idea why TikTok auto-starts and defaults sound off on some browsers.
Click volume on and reload) - Satiric clickbait artist Reductress suggests four movies that will make you wonder if there’s something wrong with you for not crying.
- Dave Columbo finds the perfect highway rest stop:
@davecolumbo We all know it’s true. #reststops #traveling #fyp #foryou ♬ Elevator Music – Bohoman
(No idea why TikTok auto-starts and defaults sound off on some browsers.
Click volume on and reload) - At The Onion a Kansas City woman shows off her new boyfriend.
Key quote:
I love that it has pockets.
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL and her husband provide a healthier recipe for Carrot Delight Cake.
- In a January that is ending up like a bad March, SilverAppleQueen has cats who like a warm fire.
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