Rachel Maddow brings us this clip of Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling, speaking yesterday with his thoroughly appropriate utter disgust over the threats to himself and others involved in the prior elections in that state as well as the upcoming runoffs between Raphael Warnock and incumbent Kelly Loeffler along with Jon Ossoff versus incumbent David Perdue...
...and speaking of Perdue, this tells us that he may be even more crooked than Loeffler (to help Ossoff and Warnock, click here)...
...and John and Jason Carter of The Damage Report tell us about the part-time deputy showing some “casual racism” in a Facebook post about VP-elect Kamala Harris with an image of a watermelon (what the hell is going on in Michigan?)...
...and David Doel discusses Neera Tanden, who the incoming Biden Administration intends to name apparently for the position of head of the Office of Management and Budget...I’ve heard some other criticisms of Tanden which are just stoo-pid, but Doel “brings the receipts” here on what Tanden has said about cutting entitlements...that brief segment of her talking on C-SPAN I believe was incredibly revealing, and not in a good way at all, basically acting like “well, OF COURSE we have to look at cutting Medicare and Social Security”...actually, no, we don’t; we need to look at removing the ceiling on earnings subject to SS withholding to make it completely sustainable...I’ve seen some comments along the lines of “well, if you criticize Tanden, it’s because you’re a chauvinist,” which is the wrong reaction too...I’m tempted to reserve judgement on Tanden for now, but the bottom line is that, if Biden does anything to cut Medicare and Social Security, especially in the middle of this pandemic along with the ensuing economic crisis, he most definitely will be a one-term president, which would truly be a shame...
...and here are two more seasonal selections.
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