Biden, SOTU, Trump Temp Immune, 14th Waits, GOP 2025 Plans, Bye Mitch

  • Disaffected and it Feels So Good reviews this week’s SOTU and sees President Biden demonstrating health, vigor, and wit as he provokes Republicans into heckling him, then incorporates their televised boorishness into his own presentation.
     
  • Tommy Christopher has the President delivering a sharp and energetic SOTU that was well received by everyone except partisan Republicans, then “accidentally” slamming Bibi Netanyahu on a hot mic.
    (That would be accidentally, right?)
     
    Key Oops:
    I’m on a hot mic here! That was good!
     
  • Dave Columbo analyzes, as only he can, Biden’s SOTU, weird reaction from Congressional Republicans, and the weirder official Republican response:
     
  • Andy Borowitz brings us Trump’s dismay:
     

    Also from Borowitz:
    Amazing command of English for a guy who grew up in Kenya!
     
  • Max’s Dad reacts. Joe Biden won the night even before taking the podium, won it during the SOTU, then won it again at the very end.
     
    Key fighting style:
    Sleepy Joe became the Scranton Slugger last night.
     
  • My old friend Darrell Michaels is back (Welcome, Darrell) with his distaste for the prospective candidates from both parties. Darrell’s primary concerns (I did that on purpose) have to do with the malignant infection of progressivism in our schools, culture, businesses media, and even in many of our houses of worship AND the current senile and thoroughly corrupt head of the Biden Crime family.
     
    So he’ll vote for Trump in November to save America.
     
    Note: In fairness, my friend wrote this before the demented, old, incapable Uncle Joe went all SOTU, suddenly got energized, and cast his evil spell on the nation.
    However, I can’t find an excuse for his embrace of the Biden Crime Family tall tale.
     
  • Frequent Fox fantasist John Solomon has long joined Steve Bannon and Matt Gaetz in pushing the Biden Crime Family narrative. Sadly, evidence has been lacking.
     
    Republican attempts in Congressional hearings to prove Joe Biden is involved in something shady comically exploded as their main witness turned out to be an agent of Russia, paid to spread disinformation. Then Hunter Biden was forced into a transcribed hearing and managed to embarrass his Republican interrogators.
     
    Frances Langum has conspiracist John Solomon admitting that things are falling apart for the anti-Biden accusations.
     
    And she generously provides video of poor downtrodden Solomon conceding the obvious. He makes feeble excuses for a fallen narrative.

  • This past week included Super Tuesday. PZ Myers lives in Minnesota and voted Uncommitted.
     
    FWIW, Missouri goes to ballot in a couple weeks. I’ll mark mine for Biden.
     
  • News Corpse looks at the tabs in Super Tuesday results and finds good news for Joe Biden and Democrats.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life argues that we are stuck in a mental health issue. Nobody likes to be forced to do something. And Republicans are forcing us to vote for Biden.
    Again.
     
    I like President Biden. A lot.
    But Jack’s reaction reminds me of a comment by the late Foster Brooks about a fantasy election from decades back.
     
    Barry Goldwater lost in 1964 to Lyndon Johnson in a landslide election.
    Eight years later, George McGovern lost to Dick Nixon, getting a majority in only one state and one district.
    (One wit capped it: As Massachusetts goes, so goes the District of Columbia)
     
    Foster Brooks:
    What if McGovern ran against Goldwater and nobody won?

  • mr Trump can legally primary in all 50 states. The Supreme decision was unanimous, with dissenting concurring opinions. (Yeah, they can do that.)
     
    The Palmer Report educates us on this week’s court ruling. SCOTUS was always going to rule that Trump would remain on the ballot. And we shouldn’t sweat it. It’s truly okay.
     
    Key realism:
    Once you accept that this “Trump is magically disqualified” thing was never a real thing, and you look at what’s actually going on, you realize we’re in pretty darn good shape.
     
    Note: I saw no actual legal reason to overturn the Colorado decision, but I had hope anyway.

  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit says the real horror in the Trump/Insurrection/14th decision is the logic used in the ruling.
     
    Key stink:
    Only the self-styled conservatives on the Court could twist a 9-0 outcome in a way to make themselves seem even more partisan.
     
  • Dave Dubya sees plain old obstruction in the Supreme Court’s strange moves: agreeing to hear mr Trump’s absurd arguments on forever-immunity for ex-presidents, then postponing arguments on it. They are guaranteeing practical immunity for Trump without endorsing it for all Presidents.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has a bit of word play, while providing links to the story, as mr Trump asks for permission (Oh please. Oh pretty please) to appeal the $83 million defamation ruling that went in favor of E. Jean Carroll without having to post bond (which he earlier had insisted he could easily afford.).
     
    Updated: He has since come up with the bond his lawyers said he didn’t have.
    Where did he get it? Nobody knows but Jesus.
     
  • The Propaganda Professor examines the recent poll of presidential experts, the one placing Biden near the top, Obama even higher, and Trump at the rock-bottom. He finds surprisingly small differences between conservatives and liberals.
     
  • So it wasn’t just bleach.
     
    Hackwhackers summarizes the newest on the Trump years in the Oval. The Donald White House was, in the words of Rolling Stone, awash in speed with Xanax as an additive.
     
    Getting high became the new normal, for those 4 years, in order to deal with stress, extremism, and long hours filled with unpleasant surprises from their fearless leader.
     
    This all began with official prescriptions from a White House doctor, and continued after said doctor had left the building.
     
  • Nan’s Notebook gets help from a recent Robert Reich article emphasizing a largely unemphasized danger posed by a possible Trump win in November.
     
    Key warning:
    This man’s vengeful nature should NEVER be ignored!
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara is discouraged by the choices this November.
     
    He will never vote for President Biden. He supported Trump in 2016 and again in 2020.
     
    This time, he is disturbed by the primary loss of Nicki Haley and mr Trump’s over-the-top attacks on her. In November he will not be voting at all.
     
    Key issue:
    …Trump’s anti-Constitutional attempts to overthrow the 2020 election crossed a moral line…
     
  • Extreme conservative groups, led by The Heritage Foundation, compose a detailed plan to radically change the way government works if/when Republicans (read Trump) take power in 2025.
     
    The director of the project says Republicans are systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.
     
    The plan includes suspending some constitutional freedoms, and assigning military units to enforce the new rules.
     
    The project is dedicated to the proposition that freedom is defined by God, not man.
     
    Legal expert Imani Gandy thinks the Biden campaign should explain in detail what the Republican plan entails.
     

    She is stunned by the passive response.

    The plan is to win, so don’t worry?

  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger wonders whether the Republican party can heal itself after Trump is gone, or if the GOP will simply die.
     
    My consistent thought:

  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson longs for better days:

  • In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson describes the indescribable: as sacrifice, suffering, and death became the price voting rights activists had to pay for federal equality laws in 1964 and 1965.
     
    A conservative 2013 activist Supreme Court stripped away important parts of those protections in the Shelby County v. Holder decision. They reasoned, in part, that voting protections were no longer needed.
     
    Key harm:
    Since then, states have made it harder to vote; in 2023, at least 14 states enacted 17 restrictive voting laws.
     
    Ms. Richardson’s historical analysis is now available in audio format, as she narrates in podcast.
     
  • Scotties Playtime has the links as Trumpers in multiple states access voting rolls to target the right of random Democrats to vote.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reveals a new strategy by Black Voters Matter, working on behalf of mr Trump, to appeal to …well… Black voters.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice Joe Gandelman surveys the net for informed reviews of the career of Mitch McConnell.
     
    Consensus: He is the moral equivalent of an arsonist who set the fire and ran away.
     
    Key Critic Jen Psaki:
    A cynic focused on power… only to be swallowed by the monster that he enabled to obtain it.
     
  • The Putin embassy advances a new conspiracy theory from a frequent Tucker guest, and Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez seems skeptical:
     

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  • driftglass finds more reflexive always-both-sides coverage. NewsNation is a rightward cable network whose special niche is UFO conspiracy theory. But they recently launched a new Sunday interview show that they promise will be the one REAL both sides program.
     
    driftglass brings us the REAL story NewsNation doesn’t choose to share.
     
  • In Happiness Between Tails da-AL guest hosts Vedha who, having grown up in the male dominated society of South India, wants his daughter to experience gender equality.
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz sees a conservative war on women, and says decent men should care.
     
  • Yeah, the man really did say this.

    Vixen Strangely responds with a combination of restraint and contempt:


    Then eloquently points out that he accurately reflects Christian nationalism.
     

  • At The Onion, Christians explain how Jesus would handle the border crisis
     
    Key satiric quote (my favorite):
    What the hell does Jesus know about Christianity?
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce looks back on his history as a conservative Christian preacher and has regrets.
     
  • Clickbait satirist Reductress goes self-help with useful advice on how to believe in yourself as much as you believe in astrology.
     
  • Last week, Nan posed a question about those who believe in God: Are their lives so deficient that they cannot exist without a crutch?
     
    Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes suggests that the deficiency may be more specific: We feel the need to pray.
     
  • MadMikesAmerica spots an old man walking his dog, and glimpses his own future.
     
  • Infidel753 brings us thoughts and images.
     
    My favorite:

     
  • YellowDog Granny has memes that illustrate that Granny is going through a lot.
     
  • Mark Waulberg (No, not Mark Wahlberg, the other Mark) explains a secret cell phone feature that ensures partial privacy:
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever overcomes his initial prejudices and embraces a new flavored Coca Cola. He explores the simple causes of the irrational American bias against raspberry.
     
  • @whiskeywhistle98 on the importance of breakfast beveraging:
     
  • SilverAppleQueen is recovering, with the help of her cats.
     
  • In Georgia baseball, The Savanna Bananas discover not every creative move works:
     

2 thoughts on “Biden, SOTU, Trump Temp Immune, 14th Waits, GOP 2025 Plans, Bye Mitch”

  1. Howdy y’all!

    I like the way Imani Gandy goes on TWITTER about the lack of response from Biden and his campaign about her complaint on TWITTER about them not mentioning Operation Plan 2025 from the Heritage Foundation and the only response she gets is from people on TWITTER, so she screeches on TWITTER about the only response she gets from the Biden campaign is from people screeching on TWITTER. It’s almost like she doesn’t really want to do anything other than drive clicks, likes, shares, and follows on TWITTER by screeching on TWITTER when she has enough of a platform to actually reach out to the Biden campaign and could reasonably expect a response from them unlike say 99% of the folks on TWITTER who can only screech made up bullshit on TWITTER.

    And people wonder why we’re in the fucking fucked up shape we’re in.

    Huzzah!
    Jack

  2. you’re sweet to let us know when our blog-sphere friends are ailing, such as YellowDog Granny – much appreciate the opportunity to send her some love <3

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