Month: February 2021

 

From Hackwhackers:

In a “60 Minutes” segment last night on the attempted assassination last July of Federal District Judge Esther Salas, in which her son was killed and husband seriously wounded in their own home, the crisis of security for Federal judges was explored. Over the past 5 years, coinciding with the Trump era, there was an increase in threats against Federal judges of 400% according to the report, to some 4,000 last year. The report noted that the FBI found evidence that the killer involved in the Salas murder was also targeting Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

An ominous revelation, but one which shouldn’t surprise us, involved the case of Federal Judge James Robart. After issuing a temporary restraining order against white supremacist autocrat Donald “Mango Mussolini” Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban, Trump attacked the judge twice on Twitter, resulting in thousands of threats against the judge.

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From @momwino98:

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From Andy Borowitz:

“Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are the worst people who have ever worked for me,” he said. “And that includes Scaramucci.”

When the Supreme Court was deciding whether New York prosecutors could obtain his tax returns, Trump said, “none of those three boneheads even called to ask me what they should do. No gratitude whatsoever.”

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Ted Cruz is going to need a vacation after all this hard work. https://t.co/N2aDlenzgE

— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) February 22, 2021

From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

Senator Ted Cruz committed a giant political blunder. While his fellow Texans were suffering without heat in a below zero winter storm, Cruz and his family flew to Cancun in Mexico (where it was a balmy 80 degrees. He returned after one day there, saying he just took his family there and really wanted to be in Texas to help his constituents. No one believes that. He returned because he was being roasted in the media (and had become a joke on social media).

With her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, Eva Raggio of the Dallas Observer has “discovered” the real reasons Cruz returned from Mexico. She writes:

Through some relentless independent research, however, we were able to find the real reasons Cruz returned to Texas.

1. He’d forgotten to bring his “I really don’t care do you? “ jacket.
    
2. His all-inclusive hotel didn’t include free porn.
    
3. He got an alert for an Amazon package arrival and didn’t want to risk it getting stolen.
    
4. He was really on a secret plastic surgery trip but the doctors said they could not make him look “more like Stormy Daniels.”
    
5. He forgot he left his garage door open.
    
6. He couldn’t find a Taco Bell in Mexico. Or any “Tex-Mex.”

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From Joe Hagstrom in MadMikesAmerica:

Aside from being heroes to MSNBC, the Lincoln Project was for the most part a waste of time and donor money that could have been better spent on guns and yachts.

It’s good for George Conway’s ego that he got to be glorified for speaking the truth about Trump but in the end, Trump still got 74 million votes. It didn’t change anyone’s mind. The big shot Republicans that hated Trump before the Lincoln Project. But with loyalty being the first commandment of the republican party, it was proven once again that 95 to 97 percent of Republicans will vote for the Republicans no matter who it is.

Now if George and his Lincoln Project pals really wanted to get Republicans to do something about Trump they would have named their little band of do-gooders the Jefferson Davis Project and claimed Trump was spending too much time fighting pedophiles and Satanist cannibals when he could be fighting to reestablish slavery.

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*whistles tunelessly, kicks some dirt with his sneaker, looks up at sky…* https://t.co/MYnbfQ6f0g

— Tengrain ✂️ 6-feet-away-or-6-feet-under (@Tengrain) February 22, 2021

Tengrain runs the always entertaining Mock Paper Scissors

If you don’t bookmark his site…

(Think of your own denigrating phrase)

Shamelessly stolen from Political Irony.
With a proviso: please watch it until the end.
 

• @momwino98 goes back in TikTokTime to explain to her 2019 self what 2020 will be like. A bit of Wait, what? combined with Wait, what the HELL!
   
• Reductress covers one of the admittedly lesser tragedies of isolated living as one person is disgusted to discover she enjoys egg salad.
   
• Political Irony captures the whole embarrassing saga of Ted Cruz responding to Texans freezing in the dark with no water by flying to Cancun. Iron Knee goes into the damaging lies and excuses that simply made it worse for the good Senator.
   
  I’ve seen some efforts to excuse Cruz. After all, what could he have done? Except, perhaps, follow the example of the single political figure Texas Republicans are taught especially to hate. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, having no constituency in Texas, has nonetheless asked her supporters to donate, so far raising over 2 million dollars for Texas relief. While Texas Senator Cruz was still in Cancun, the New York Congressional Representative traveled to Houston to raise national awareness of opportunities to help. Somehow compassion for some transcends congressional borders.
   
  I find some of this a little familiar. When I was a kid, I read about a sea change in Newark politics. I wrote about that a few years ago and how, more recently, weather conditions changed the fortunes of now ex-Governor Chris Christie and now Senator Cory Booker because of their very different responses to crisis.
   
  Ted has an additional disadvantage, his widely known personality wraps around him as an anchor might be chained around the neck of an an unlucky ocean swimmer. Years ago, when Al Franken was Senator Franken, he remarked: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.
   
• Hackwhackers goes cartoonish about Texas misery, tragedy, Cruz, and Cancun, then surveys reaction to the Cruz cruise from around the tweeternet. One question:
   

  Are we angrier that Ted Cruz went to Cancun or that he came back?

  — Travis Allen 🇺🇸 (@TravisAllen02) February 18, 2021

• Andy Borowitz reports as Ted Cruz describes his heroic mission to Cancun, investigating the theft by Mexico of Texas sun and heat.
   
• In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson quotes the now suddenly retired Mayor Tim Boyd of Colorado City, Texas, as he scolds his constituents for wanting life saving necessities like water and heat. …quit crying and looking for a handout, he says, Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish. I note the semi-religious misspelling. Perhaps he thought he was quoting Jesus? Stomp the least of these, I think it goes.

Continue reading “Pandemic, Texas Cruz, Impeach Done, Bum Rush, Trump Riot, Mirror Image”

 

From Tommy Christopher:

In a very Biden-esque moment that highlights his friendship with then-Senator John McCain, the pair cracked wise about each other during a 2004 committee meeting on Passenger and Freight Rail Security.

Addressing the two Delaware senators, McCain said “We usually take the oldest and the ugliest first Senator Biden, so we’ll take you.”

To laughter, Bide replied “I appreciate that, thank you very much Mr. Chairman. I promise that I will not say anything nice about you today to have Rush Limbaugh get all excited again.”

He also managed to work in another “malarkey.”

More recently, Biden was asked about Limbaugh’s Medal of Freedom during a CNN town hall last February. The then-candidate ostentatiously crossed himself, then expressed a mixture of compassion for Limbaugh’s illness and condemnation of the man.

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From The Propaganda Professor:

Just as Media Research Center could be considered the reactionary counterpart of Media Matters For America, AIM could be called the reactionary counterpart of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). And both acronyms are quite appropriate; while FAIR really does generally promote fairness, AIM has an ideological aim. (And speaking of interesting and appropriate coincidences, notice how its logo looks like a sideways Q.) In typical right-wing Orwellian fashion, “accuracy” doesn’t really mean accuracy at all — AIM has been known to continue pushing narratives even after they’ve been conclusively shown to be false. AIM’s aim is not only to “expose” those who do not follow the narrative, but to harass them and encourage others to do so.

And this kind of venom is directed toward other non-reactionary people outside the media as well.

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From The Psy of Life:

By now everyone who isn’t hiding out in the Texas desert to escape the FEMA camps and child support police because the Texas utilities disaster is the first sign of #BidenHarris taking everyone’s guns, has heard about the Texas utility disaster and Texans living for days on end with no relief in sight without electricity. Electricity supplies just about everything in our homes because electric pumps, so water and natural gas. Also, it is cold enough that water and natural gas have frozen in their pipes. Natural gas has frozen. It’s gone from its gaseous state, to liquid, to solid. That’s how cold it is.

Think about everything that electricity supplies and what having no electricity means for your daily life…

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