Terrorism in Israel, MyPillow Trumped, Speaker Squeaker, Jordan Jumped

Begin with hope:

  • Mike Lindell (MyPillow) could have become famous as the latest Come Back Kid, fighting his way up from gambling and cocaine addiction to running a successful nationwide business.
     
    But sometimes a personality flaw can mutate into other destructive behavior, like latching onto a disastrous conspiracy cult run by a con artist.
     
    tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors seems unsympathetic as poor Mike becomes a very poor, pretty much broke, Mike.
     
  • In Hackwhackers, a reporter pouring through a mountain of court filings notices an interesting entry. The feds say they have discovered Trump’s reason for stealing those top, top, very, ultra secret documents.
     
  • Georgia Prosecutor Fani Willis, ready to tie Donald Trump and all his co‑conspirators into a RICO case, has already made Congressman Jim Jordan (um…the possible next Speaker), look foolish as he tries to interfere.
     
    The Palmer Report has the repeat performance as Willis educates Jordan again on Congressional jurisdictional limits. This time, it gets politely brutal:
     
    Key hard nose:
    Now Willis firing back with a publicly released letter in which she not only rips Jordan a new one, but also reminds Jordan that if not for the speech and debate clause, she’d be prosecuting him for obstruction.
     
  • Frances Langum has reactions as the Fox channel goes all Jim Jordan for Speaker.
     
  • News Corpse finds Marjorie Taylor Greene, currently Shadow House Speaker, has published her Tweeted (or ‘X’ed – who the hell knows any more) manifesto and helpfully translates from MAGA to standard English.
     
  • We thought it would be Jim Jordan, but Andy Borowitz reports the new GOP candidate for Speaker of the House will be a Republican intern named Zach.
     
    Key quote:
    “This is gonna be dope,” he said.
     
  • jobsanger gets help from Drew Goins (WaPo) in making the case. When it comes to rebuilding the GOP, Congressional Republicans are halfway there.
     
  • In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson provides context to Republican legislative chaos during international crises.
     
    Key parallel:

    • House Republicans spent another week not bringing themselves to elect a Speaker.
    • Senate Republicans can’t bring themselves to tame one Senator who is sabotaging National Security.

     

  • Senator Tommy Tuberville attacks the entire US military, blocking promotions, so former CIA Director Michael Hayden jokes that Tommy should no longer be considered part of the human race.
     
    M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has a collection of links to the story, as self‑described very tough pro‑military Tommy reports Hayden to police as threatening his life.
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony compares how those on the left and right view their political leaders.
     
  • There’s preemptive both‑sides reporting, then there’s this:
     
    driftglass explores a Washington Post thought piece blaming Illinois Democrats for Republican extremism. Then it gets worse.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life has figured out how we can save democracy.
     
    Has to do with voting or something.
    Oh my! The something part is kind of cool!
     
  • Author John Scalzi at Whatever reminds everyone in Ohio that early voting has already started for two important issues. If all goes well, the ballot:
    1. keeps busybodies out of other people’s uteruses
    2. generally legalizes marijuana use

     

  • A fifteen year campaign by right‑wingers to take over local school boards has most recently devolved into a single fringe group. PZ Myers says that, in Minnesota, Moms for Liberty is having a tough time with local folk.
     
  • @whiskeywhistle98 carefully considers a pro‑gun argument against gun‑free zones.
     
  • Data is not the plural of anecdote, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan liked to point out.
     
    Still, the reaction at a Florida grocery is encouraging, as staff and customers learn that Scottie and his partner are married.
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara takes on the Migration Crisis with a largely mainstream analysis.
     
    An aging population in Europe and the US creates an economic need for migrants.
     
    Economic deprivation in countries of origin adds an additional push.
     
    Authoritarian rule creates a refugee crisis.
     
    So Michael’s solution:
    …substantial Capitalistic freedom powered by extensive fossil fuels use.
     
    Yup. That’s his advice: Make sure the world uses more gas.
     
  • Legal expert Imani Gandy looks into Brazil’s universities and sees a country where racial quotas in higher education get great results.
     
  • In acknowledgement of what has been Columbus Day and, more recently, is celebrated as Indigenous Peoples Day, SilverAppleQueen goes back several decades to A People’s History of the United States.
     
    Historian Howard Zinn examined original writings by European explorers on their first impressions on first meeting Native Americans.
     
    Wonderfully friendly, peaceful, generous, and strong.
    Will make excellent slaves.
     
  • MadMikesAmerica considers the relationship of my more conservative Christian brethren with women, and suggests it may be inspired by a version of Jesus that has little to do with the Jesus we find in scripture.
     
  • Dave Dubya has a lot of wishes based on a simple idea: if your religion makes you hate someone, you need a new religion.
     
  • Author and comedian Sarah Cooper has a thought on the unity of spirituality:
     


    Her hilarious, and insightful, new book is available on-line.

  • YellowDog Granny has a few insights on adulthood, character development, and swear jars.
     
  • Mark Waulberg (No, not Mark Wahlberg, the other Mark) teaches us that everyone has a claim to fame:
     
  • Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez objects to a scam:
     


    And has an award-winning reaction:

  • Must be someone voted in by us hippy libtards:
     
    At The Onion, Senator Darkness calls for a thousand year of reign of blood.
     
  • Clickbait satirist Reductress provides helpful advice on how to drink water, even though it doesn’t contain 28 grams of sugar.
     
  • Dave Columbo has one hell of a memory:
     

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One thought on “Terrorism in Israel, MyPillow Trumped, Speaker Squeaker, Jordan Jumped”

  1. Calling this horrific invasion “a great [political] opportunity”, and desperately throwing accusations at Biden in the hope that something sticks, are pure examples of American narcissism — the attitude that events overseas only matter insofar as they can be used for cheap point-scoring in American domestic politics. The same goes for those who sit here at a safe distance from the conflict and pontificate about what Israel shouldn’t do in response to the atrocities, in order to avoid offending the delicate “moral” sensibilities of Americans who are in no danger of being gang-raped or butchered by barbarians. It is despicable.

    Any blood shed in the Gaza Strip is on the hands of the savages who used it as a launching pad for these horrors, and then skulked back behind Gazan civilians to use them as human shields.

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