Thursday Stuff

(And for the record, the Tangerine Toddler said that the birthday card he allgedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein was "fake"...sure it was.)

Nicolle Wallace gives us the latest update with “the dog that hasn’t barked,” referring to the Gropenfuhrer of course, and the “hours” he supposedly spent with a victim of the Epstein scandal (based on emails dated from 2011), including Virginia Giuffre, who Epstein allegedly “stole” from Mar-a-Lago (and don’t waste my time with the response of this White House; I don’t take them seriously on anything, especially this)...glad to hear Michael Wolff not escaping accountability for his role in this mess also...I have a feeling that this is just the tip of the metaphorical iceberg, as it were...and yeah, I’m sure Ghislaine Maxwell is going to be looking over her shoulder (and funny in a way that, suddenly, you’re not hearing a peep out of all of the fundamentalist nut jobs out there who got played, thinking that #47 was some kind of a “godly” man)...Wallace speaks with Dem Congressman Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois (I’m not sure why Wallace is bringing up the Russia stuff here, unless she’s trying to argue a pattern of people coercing Cantaloupe Capone based on his bad behavior; she may have a point, but it’s a stretch IMO)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen informs us of Utah Repugs’ attempt to redistrict their state’s voting map to give themselves an advantage (a la Texas), which was struck down by a judge, giving the Dems an extra seat in the U.S. House they’re likely to win next year...I’m sure Dem governors Wes Moore in Maryland and J.B. Pritzker in Illinois will do the right thing, but as far as Moore is concerned, I thought Maryland already had “fair maps” (just a little confused I guess, but I guess Moore and Pritzker need to be a little cagey about this)...important that Cohen mentioned that the 6 wingnut SCOTUS justices will likely jettison Section 2 of the VRA, which will enable MORE Repug-friendly seats, tragically...



...and lost a bit in all of this insanity is the news that Dem U.S. House Rep (and longtime speaker) Nancy Pelosi is stepping down...and I realize all of the people who want to be lied to will believe “MAGA Mike” Johnson about Pelosi supposedly being too far left for the neo-Marxists or whatever, but those in the reality-based community will see this as it is, which is Pelosi ringing down the curtain on decades of commendable service in public life and passing the torch to the next generation of leadership...and I hear what Brando is saying about Marjorie Train Wreck Greene; when we get ammo from these cretins whether it’s intentional or not, we should use it...I also agree with what Brando says about the “Democratic establishment,” embodied by this...and yep, I think Brando is also spot-on that Mango Mussolini CANNOT RESIST bragging about his damn ballroom and how rich he supposedly is, though that will NEVER be the “flex” that he thinks it is (slightly NSFW/H)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that our *preznit said something recently about getting something like a $2K rebate check, but along comes Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to say Na-Ga-Ha-Pen...I know we’ve been in 25th Amendment territory for a good while yet, but as Cousins says, our economy is doing the big swirl in the hopper...”factories getting built”? “Inflation cooling off”? Ignoring layoffs? This truly is the stuff of madness...



...and Josh Johnson of The Daily Show gives us a bit of a comedic take on the pathetic financial mismanagement from Don The Con...oh, and by the way, AFFORDABILITY AFFORDABILITY AFFORDABILITY AFFORDABILITY AFFORDABILITY AFFORDABILITY AFFORDABILITY AFFORDABILITY...how’s that? And a 50-year mortgage? Great...so we’ll end up paying for our house TEN FREAKING TIMES INSTEAD OF FIVE!!!...and yeah, here comes the bait-and-switch on the tariff rebate again (with Grace Kuhlenschmidt)...



...and I don’t know if this newer number counts as a “relationship” tune or not, but in my quest to add some variation to the selections appearing here, I thought I’d add it anyway.