David Doel tells us here that pervy Matt Gaetz nominated Our Ochre Abomination for U.S. House Speaker (yeah, THAT will happen – not!), with Kevin McCarthy’s fail contest standing at 11 votes...and I take Doel seriously but definitely not Charlie Kirk, and this whole discussion about #45 as some kind of a “dealmaker” to resolve this is typically preposterous BS, for the reasons Doel points out; what just happened in the elections to Trump-supported candidates, with the exception of J.D. Vance in Ohio? (mildly NSFW/H...and I'm sure it isn't surprising to learn that some in our corporate media think that U.S. House Democrats are supposed to bail out these nitwit Republicans somehow who can’t elect a speaker, as noted here...a typically stoo-pid "take")...
...and I like where Beau is going with trying to pit McCarthy against the sedition caucus, but his argument assumes that rationality is going to prevail in this conflict, and as much as I’d like to see that at some point, I can’t imagine it unfortunately (love to be wrong)...if the Dems were to go through with a plan like what Beau describes, it should mean that the “gang of 20” should not be allowed to have committee assignments, and there would be written terms such as not holding the debt ceiling hostage as well as not withholding funding for governmental agencies, and Hakeem Jeffries should hold a press conference on the Capitol steps with McCarthy announcing everything that has been agreed to, so if McCarthy goes back on anything, the Dems will have a ready excuse to shame him every way they can and support those opposing McCarthy instead...again, I don’t see that not because of the MAGA yahoos out there who actually think Marjorie Traitor Greene is acting in their interests, but because everything I just described flies in the face of what the Repugs’ corporate puppet masters really want, and let’s not forget that THEY are the ones in charge of that party (and too much of Team D also, actually...and in a related vein, this bears repeating)...
...and speaking of corporate puppet masters, with the unhinged BS going on in one of the chambers of the U.S. Congress, let’s not think that that means that Not Your Father’s Republican Party isn’t hard at work at what they REALLY want to accomplish, as Ana and Cenk of TYT tell us...
...and no, I didn't forget about today's anniversary...
...and turning away from all of the idiocy on Capitol Hill for a minute, Ali Velshi reminded us recently that there were 648 mass shootings in 2022, with Kris Brown of The Brady Campaign and anti-gun activist and author Ryan Busse (who used to work in that business, but saw the light fortunately)...
...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report informs us that a Texas phone number to report drag shows apparently ends up nabbing a lot of actual predators in churches instead...can’t think of a hell hot enough for some of these pieces of sh*t (and of course, this Sarah Gonzales person rants on Dumb Face Tucker about drag queens, as if THEY are the actual problem...NSFW/H also)...
...and Thom Hartmann gives us another history lesson on neoliberalism (and I say that with respect), going back to the days of The Sainted Ronnie R, and wonders aloud if we’re reaching the end of that era, particularly given some recent comments from Mayor Pete as Transportation Secretary (Buttigieg is good at throwing out sound bites like that and going head-to-head with various media types, but hopefully he really means what he’s saying here)...
...and given the mind-numbing stupidity on display in the U.S. House this week, I can only think of this song as a response (and let’s not forget stuff like this also).
Update 1/7/23: Somebody on the bird app said that they didn't want the vote to get to 18 or older, or else Matt Gaetz would lose interest (here...story on pic is here).
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