Wednesday Stuff

Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ tells us about Repugs dragged down by polling data with the millstone of Pumpkin Pol Pot around their metaphorical necks (this clip predates the Dem “cave” by the “surrender caucus” on ACA health insurance credits, it should be noted)...and yeah, let’s actually take MAGA numbskull Chip Roy seriously about “leadership”; just keep playing that same old tune and see what happens a year from now...and I’d forgotten about cabinet members moving onto military bases, which is partly scary but also partly pretty damn funny in a way as far as I’m concerned...



...and Belle of the Ranch gives us an update on the pardons from our Tangerine Toddler...Ed Martin, who seems to be involved with just about every seamy, sordid legal maneuver from Combover Caligula, points out that 77 pardons have been issued by #47 since he was sworn in, with the latest aimed at anybody involved in the ’20 fake electors scheme...this of course is yet another legal gray area since a presidential pardon can only apply to someone convicted federally, and I’m pretty sure at least some of these are charges in particular states (do I have a suspicion that the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR is going to get involved and throw yet another bone to Cheetoh Benito? Damn right I do...and sorry to steal Belle’s thunder a bit, but we’ve already gotten to the outrage over the surrender caucus, though I know we will revisit that)...



...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report inform us of a 1-year-old girl getting pepper sprayed by ICE on the way home from Sam’s Club with her family because I suppose a child poses a mortal threat to these useless soy Paul Blart knockoff rent-a-cops, to the point where a projectile spewing some type of gas needs to be fired into the family’s vehicle...oh, and there’s “infighting” at DHS between mush mouth Tom Homan and Kristi “Unsafe At Any Speed” Noem? How “on the nose” for Trumpers, amirite?...



...and turning to “the land of the yellow rose,” Farron Cousins lets us know that Repug guv Greg Abbott recently threatened to punish New Yorkers moving to Texas; what a cunning plan!...personally, I think this is a case of wingnuts getting high on their own supply, you might say; I think the prospects of anyone from a blue locale actually moving to the “lone star state” are grossly overinflated (and Abbott thinks he can impose a “tariff”? That’s almost way too damn funny)...I give Cousins credit for unpacking all of this lunacy, which is a more heroic feat than I could come up with on this, to be honest...

...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look”...yes, we need to revisit the retreat by the Senate “surrender caucus,” and ALL 8 OF THEM should be haunted by that until they leave office by one means or another...and it was great to see the Gropenfuhrer get the treatment at the Commanders/Lions football game that he so deserved, but it was also worth it to make “I’ll Drink To That” Hegseth endure all of that also...OH, PLEASE SCOWL HARDER, MR. “SECRETARY OF WAR”...HAHAHAHA!!!...also, if you’re going to name a construction project such as a domed football stadium after Cantaloupe Capone, you’d better make sure the contractors are paid in advance or he’ll try to stiff them and the work will never get completed...and I didn’t know RFK Jr. decided to do the “exit, stage left” move when the guy fainted in the Oval Office – not surprising...



...and happy 80th birthday to Neil Young.