you'd think that the way to do that would be to set an example by pulling out all the stops to help Texans. Nope.
So the line from Cruz is both that this was a "long-planned" trip AND that his daughters asked if they could go when their school was cancelled? 🥴🧐
Neither explains why Heidi couldn't go with them on her own.
So if this is something Heidi can't manage on her own is he planning to go back down to fly them back up? How would that work with the 10-day quarantine he's supposed to go into now?
as i suspected, this vacation was planned to fall when his kids were out on break. So not some kind of last-minute crisis of "being a good dad." nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/…
The tail of the personal fall-out will be long, at least...
extreme "like the kids, hate the parents" vibe
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A big, maybe even the biggest, reason we're in this hyper-partisan, post-truth, conspiracy reality is because of the destruction and underfunding of legit reporting media, up and down the food chain.
I feel like #TexasFreeze folks could use some tips from people used to extreme cold. No better source on that than dog sledder @BlairBraverman. Here's her thread
Watching “Ace in the Hole,” my rec for my movie club. Very cynical film about journalism, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas, costume by Edith Head.
“You’ll be glad to know I’ve been fired by 11 papers with a total circulation of 7 million for reasons I won’t bore you.”
City/country joke about “belt *and* suspenders” pays off immediately
Nothing more cynical that Mitch McConnell speachifying about Trump's is "practically and morally" responsible for insurrection but saying it didn't meet a "criminal" standard.
This was not a criminal proceeding.
Mitch was happy to use Trump's lies and conspiracies when he thought it would secure him control of the Senate and was happy to provide himself and other Senators cover from base by voting to acquit. But just in case the weather starts changing, he wants this on the record...
Somewhere there is a portrait of Mitch McConnell looking very young and iron jawed.