Sarah Sanders Mocks Joe Biden’s Childhood Struggle with Stuttering

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Mocks Joe Biden’s Childhood Struggle to Overcome Stuttering

From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

I’m posting a screencap (click to enbiggen) because she’s bound to delete it after a long-enough period of roasting, but it really does appear that Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted an impression of a stutter during tonight’s Democratic debate, and then, instead of apologizing when being called out for it, tried to explain that her critics are the dumb ones for not understanding that what she was saying was, Biden doesn’t make himself understood very well.

Because she’s a nasty piece of work, of course, which might have been part of her home training. But also because even though she isn’t still Trump’s press secretary, she still sounds just like him. A hurtful asshole, in other words.

Biden responded without calling her an asshole, which is better than me, I guess.

Although I feel like it’s implied.

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How Donald Trump Knows John Dingell is in Hell

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Donald Trump’s Terrible Vision

From The Onion:

Terrifying Inferno Every Time He Closes His Eyes

WASHINGTON—Clarifying controversial remarks he made about the deceased Michigan lawmaker last night, Donald Trump told reporters Thursday he can confirm the late congressman John Dingell is in hell because of the window into a terrifying inferno the president sees every time he closes his eyes.

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We’ll See You in Hell

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Impeach

From nojo:

Impeachment was always going to go down in flames. We knew that going in. It would pass the House, die in the Senate. Some argued that the certain futility made the exercise pointless, perhaps even prone to backfire.

Our attitude has been: Go down fighting.

What makes impeachment futile, what makes any advance on almost any front almost impossible, is the structure of our government, the enduring system of misrepresentation. The Founders preached that a legitimate government only exists with the consent of the governed, but what they created precludes that.

The House comes closest to representing the citizens of America, but gerrymandering and suppression tip the scales, sometimes profoundly. The Senate is a farce of democracy — Los Angeles County counts more citizens than 41 states. The Electoral College has twice this century chosen a President who lacks a majority of votes cast, and is on track for a third. A minority President and Senate have now appointed one quarter of lifetime federal judges, and two Supreme Court justices.

Changing any of this would require assent from the people who benefit from it.

That’s what we face. That’s what allows tyranny to take hold in America — it already has. It’s built in. We’re lucky as a nation that tyranny has taken this long to manifest itself, for purportedly representative government to veer so afar from the wishes of its citizens.

But it has, and here we are.

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The Economy Is Not So Great For Many Americans

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From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

Donald Trump likes to brag about what a great economy the U.S. has. He tells us that it is the best economy this country has ever had, and it’s due to his actions since assuming office. But he’s either living in a dream world, or just lying to make himself look better.

The truth is that the economy is great for some Americans — the rich. But it’s not so great for the middle class, and it’s downright terrible for the poor. The GDP is rising (although not nearly as much as Trump promised) and the unemployment rate is low. But most of the benefits of the growing economy is going to the rich. Wages for middle class Americans remain stagnant, and the poor struggle to make ends meet (because too many of the jobs being created are low-wage jobs with few benefits, and don’t pay a livable wage).

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Wednesday’s Worst Person from the Impeachment Vote

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Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)

From Mark Bear at MadMikesAmerica:

The Congressman said the following:

“When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process.”

Again: If you do not share in my faith, please just pass over this debacle and allow me to deal with this gross lie to those who do.

THIS! This comment quote from above should be more than sufficient to separate yourselves from those promoting supposed Christian values while making their belief systems public.

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Impeach, Christianity Today, 6 Pages, Why Not Bi, No Defense, Trump Boss

Christianity Today Headline

  • At The Onion, a prominent Christian magazine encounters controversy by suggesting that Trump does not belong in the Holy Trinity.
     
  • Okay, so that primary Christian magazine, Christianity Today, actually calls for the removal from office of President Trump. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz explains why Christianity Today is right.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever has a few thoughts about impeachment. Democrats have been out to get President Trump for a while. So John wonders why Republicans didn’t make it bi-partisan, since Trump is a lawless, heartless, crooked, incompetent President and a malignant human being. Picky, picky.
     
  • Jonathan Bernstein watches the impeachment debate and wonders why Republicans didn’t try harder to defend Trump.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit finds what everyone wants to know about impeachment: What does Trump’s boss say?
     
  • Max’s Dad conducts a close analysis of the recent 6-page response by my President to Speaker Pelosi, and finds within it a compelling argument that Donald Trump is a mad hatter.
     
  • News Corpse thumbs through old news stories and finds another manifesto that resembles Trump’s 6-page diatribe.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson offers uncritical coverage of Republican criticism of Nancy Pelosi. Seems Pelosi is caught in a contradiction, since Democrats say removal of Trump can’t wait, but now she’s going to wait.
     
    Well, my president has been caught trying to fix the 2020 election with an elaborate smear by a foreign government, and still continues trying to fix the 2020 election with a smear by a foreign government, which kind of explains the can’t wait part.
     
    And McConnell says he’s got the fix in, and promises no real consideration of the charges. So Nancy will wait to submit the articles of impeachment until the Senate reveals how they will conduct an actual trial. As opposed to a sham dismissal.
     
    James doesn’t include any of that reasoning, though. An oversight, I imagine.

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It Will Always be a Stain

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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

There’s something exceptionally gratuitous about Senator Graham’s assertion that he isn’t even trying to be a fair juror, rather like Senator Mitch McConnell’s assertion that he is letting the White House call the tune regarding the Senate impeachment trial. They could, after all, just make appropriate serious noises about the respect they have for the Constitution and feign interest in a fair process. We’d still know it was likely a sham on their part, but it would maintain some of the dignity of the office of US Senator, which might even have more than sentimental value. Instead, they are making it genuinely clear that they have no intention of letting little things like facts or propriety interfere with King Trump’s abuse of power.

It may be, simply put, that nuance is no longer something they have any faith that either Trump or their base understand and that even the mildest imposture of taking this seriously would be seen as disloyalty.

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Nativity Updated

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Nativity Scene – Claremont United Methodist Church

From Claremont United Methodist Church, Claremont, California:

What if this family sought refuge in our country today?

Imagine Joseph and Mary separated at the border and Jesus, no older than two, taken from his mother and placed behind the fences of a Border Patrol detention center as more than 5,500 children have been the past three years.

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SCOTUS Sells US Out

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

From Hart Williams at The Moderate Voice:

Pete Williams / NBC News:

Supreme Court agrees to consider whether Trump’s tax records should be released — By granting review of these cases now, the justices made it possible for them to be heard during the current court term. — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal …

The Supreme Court waited a day so as not to plop this jurisprudential turd on the American table.

Yesterday was the 19th Anniversary of the death of the American democracy (December 12, 2000) in Bush v. Gore, where the prior SCROTUS decided that the VOTE was NOT the basis of American constitutional democracy, but, rather, that George W. Bush would be irreparably harmed if the Florida recount was allowed to proceed.

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The Crossfire Hurricane Report’s Inconvenient Findings

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Alternate Hurricane

From Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez:

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s long-awaited report on the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation is finally out, and notwithstanding furious efforts from all quarters to claim otherwise, it fails to neatly validate anyone’s favored political narrative. Contra the hopes of Donald Trump’s more ardent admirers, it fails to turn up anything resembling a Deep State cabal within the FBI plotting against the president, or deliberate abuse of surveillance authorities for political ends. Yet it also paints a bleak picture of the Bureau’s vaunted vetting process for warrant applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), documenting a host of material omissions or misrepresentations in the government’s case for wiretapping erstwhile Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, whose privacy was invaded for nearly a year on disturbingly thin grounds. Though it does not describe an investigation motivated by political bias, it is a textbook account of confirmation bias that should raise disturbing questions about the adequacy of the FISA process—and not just in this investigation.

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