1/ Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.
Let's review the bidding: the governors of two of the largest states are letting COVID burn because muh freedumb plays to an audience of a network owned by a crank Aussie billionaire.
2/ Yesterday, one member of the US Senate said it was just fine for a President of the United States to plot an overthrow of the election with his claque of skells, mooks, jabrones, degenerate fops, soulless harpies, wannabe Leninists, and natpop snake-human hybrids.
3/ Another U.S. Senator is the leading antivaxxer in American public life, again lying that muh freedumb is at stake if we all just try to work together to defeat COVID.
There's a reason he's a consistent finalist on America's Most Punchable.
4/ The largest and most important GOP fundraising tool has been shown to be a giant interlocking set of quasi-lawless griftmachines bleeding granny of her social security checks due to dark pattern UI designs on their email floods -- and that story isn't even NEARLY told yet.
5/ Donald Trump is running for President again, and all the major donors flooding Tim Scott (the new hotness) after abandoning Ron DeSantis (old and busted) can't do a damn thing about it.
6/ Danny Bongdildo is launching a new payment service (FashBux? NazPay? Qelle? DickCoin?) at the same moment he's in a nuclear slap fight with Team Trump for censoring the latest Big Lie muh-stolen-election effluvium to trickle out of Trump's blubbery lie hole.
7/ Ted Cruz is grunting about muh mandates because, once again, it's all about 2024. He's the perfect slurry of oleaginous, delusional, and cynical.
Words heralding the Apocaplyse: "President Ted Cruz."
8/ The old GOP model of "the best government is local" and "muh 10th Admt" is gone and now telling local school districts and local health departments what to do.
Nothing but trolling, all the way down.
Because muh freedumb.
9/ People who absolutely know better assert the response to COVID is some nefarious Marxist plot to control Murica and impose gay sharia marriage or whatever nightmare closet hoo-ha fills their agitprop spank bank.
10/ 2028 GOP presidential nominee Tucker Carlson spent a week politically fellating the dictator of Hungary yet is somehow still on the air and considered an intellectual light of the party.
11/ This is how the world ends, not with bang but with a Fox News hit followed by a fundraising email.
12/ Done for now.
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1/ Insanely busy day for reasons, but let me make a quick point while I wait for someone to do something on a project.
The 1/6 Commission doesn't need to be bipartisan. 1996 called and wants their dumb trope back.
The poison-pill stunt-monkey addition of...
2/ of Gym Jordan et al shows the GOP is fundamentally unserious about this matter and no amount of "but muh bipartisan comity" bullshit mayonnaise will turn this chickenshit into chicken salad.
Don't. Get. Played.
3/ The GOP knows that the DC media looooooves the bipartisan both-sidesy claptrap. I have been too busy to read the coverage today, but I *promise* there will be DC conventional-wisdom stories that the committee won't be real and good and 'Murican if the GOP doesn't get to...
1/ There’s a tremendous amount of smugness right now on the part of Mitch McConnell and his team, including his all-powerful chief strategist and Consigliere Josh Holmes.
2/ They’re boasting widely across Washington how they’ve broken Trump, and ended his ability to select candidates in the 2022 cycle… all while raising low dollar donations from Trump voters by invoking his name over and over and over and over again in their email solicitations.
3/ More importantly, they cracked the will of major corporations like Toyota, who just happen to employ Mitch McConnell‘s former chief of staff as a lobbyist.
1/ Of *course* Qevin McCarthy opposes a bipartisan January 6th Commission.
If the Democrats have the stones to pull it off -- an open question, TBH -- it will make Benghazi look like a sewing circle.
2/ They can't possibly look inside the reality of that day and maintain the Big Lie. They can't admit to the clear causality of Trump unleashing his mob. It opens them to personal, moral, and political liability for that day.
3/ More important in their minds is something darker.
They see the majority in their grasp, and just as they did in the states this year, they'll strike quickly, mercilessly, and without a moment of hesitation of a scintilla of shame to make the next election the last.
1/ Those of you thinking Trump will go away if you call him “the former guy” miss the point; you cannot wish him away. It’s politically naïve and borders on juvenile.
The evidence is piling up: Trump’s iron grip over the GOP has been institutionalized axios.com/institutionali…
2/ “I’ll call this cancer a bad cold because then the algorithms won’t give it as much attention” isn’t a strategy. It’s — at best — a prank.
In 2015 and 2016 the entire American political class - myself included - had a massive failure of imagination.
It can always be worse.
3/ Trump’s minions — both in Mar a Lago and beyond — now entirely control the political and fundraising apparatus of the Republican Party.
His word is law. No one is coming to save the GOP from him; they’re accomplices, not hostages.
1/ The concept of all these new America First-themed think tanks, media outlets, and legal warfare PACS is not surprising.
For all that Republican Inc (e.g. the Chamber, McConnell) in DC wants to pretend Trump is gone and the world will be right again...
2/ ...and that Trumpism is a brief and uncomfortable interregnum which is now just a squicky memory, the reality is that the Trump apparat is out of the box now.
All your base are belong to Don.
They're going to build a government in exile, and...
3/ ...as we know, there is no middle ground with Trump; you are either entirely his creature or you are his enemy.
There is no escape.
These groups are going to raise $ (with some vig going to Trump, like stink follows shit) and hire people, land the loyalists the jobs...