Screenshot. [What looks like a college classroom with a few dozen young men and women in business casual sitting at folding chairs with tablet arms. At the head of the class, standing before a whiteboard, is presumptive Speaker of the House in the 118th Congress KEVIN McCARTHY in a white shirt with sleeves rolled up, a red tie, khakis and athletic shoes.]
"...and also Black crime at Walgreens" is pitch-perfect, lol.
Really, Hunter Biden's laptop/the Twitter Files is the perfect next phase for Q-Anon types, because nobody really understands it, the villains keep shifting (FBI? Deep State? Tech Elites? Democratic Establishment?), the Big Reveals turn out to be Big Nothings, but there's always the *NEXT* Big Reveal coming, so everybody tune in and keep the faith.
Santos is really giving The Donald a run for the Liar of the Year award. Where are all the NYT goober safari reporters asking New Yorkers how they feel about being duped into voting for the world’s biggest fraud? I know it’s all AOC’s fault, somehow, and also Hochhul’s, but at some point the suckers have to wonder if they aren’t a little too gullible, thanks to years of excusing Trump’s prevaricating.
I admit I find the Santos story inspiring, that the Republican party can be a home where all Americans, regardless of ethnic heritage, regardless even of sexual orientation, can come together as one, unified by their shared love of grifting.
Two days ago, Kevin McCarthy threatened that, should Democrats release Donald Trump's tax returns, Republicans will BY GOD demand Joe Biden's tax returns. But then someone pulled Kevin aside and told him that Biden has released his returns every year for the last 30 years, so . . .
. . . the following day, another Republican congressman threatened that should Democrats release Trump's returns, Republicans may have no choice but to release the tax returns of Supreme Court justices. But then someone pulled this cretin aside and explained that the Supreme Court is 6-3 conservatives, so . . .
. . . today it's on to trying to explain why we should actually hate the Ukrainian guy who spoke to Congress last night.
I was struck by the complete dislocation between the vacuity of new mooks and the One True Thing that McCarthy's cohort learned in the last round. Indeed, this OTT stands shoulder to shoulder with era-defining slogans of the past and quite possibly the future. Even as "We hold these truths to be self-evident", "We having nothing to fear but fear itself" and "Ask not what your country can do for you", so too does this evergreen serve to define the glorious half-decade of the DC Local chapter of Swamp Drainers International. To wit and as follows:
“Now I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’re ever getting in your life. Get a great F’ing criminal defense lawyer, you’re going to need it”
I am having a lousy holiday season thank you very much, but I have to say the George Santos story is bringing me joy. Twists and turns several times a day! Best of all is knowing with all my heart that Kevin McCarthy, whose life is already just a carousel of shit, is going to have a fucked up holiday, er, I mean Christmas season. Who knows where it's going. Likely in the felony direction.
"...and also Black crime at Walgreens" is pitch-perfect, lol.
Really, Hunter Biden's laptop/the Twitter Files is the perfect next phase for Q-Anon types, because nobody really understands it, the villains keep shifting (FBI? Deep State? Tech Elites? Democratic Establishment?), the Big Reveals turn out to be Big Nothings, but there's always the *NEXT* Big Reveal coming, so everybody tune in and keep the faith.
We pay these people $140000 a year and give them many times that as a budget for staff and communications to spread their message far and wide.
This doesn't seem like a very good investment especially considering they
accept many many times that in ""contributions" They should spread the lies and ignorance on their own dime.
Santos is really giving The Donald a run for the Liar of the Year award. Where are all the NYT goober safari reporters asking New Yorkers how they feel about being duped into voting for the world’s biggest fraud? I know it’s all AOC’s fault, somehow, and also Hochhul’s, but at some point the suckers have to wonder if they aren’t a little too gullible, thanks to years of excusing Trump’s prevaricating.
Sort of cute in a way. Sort of like Teacher asking the first graders a question and they all shout out answers, all wrong. Something like that.
I have such hope for the incoming House, entertainment-wise, as I keep saying.
Of course, between that and the prayed-for GOP POTUS primary, Roy's surely will be stresed to keep up. Still.
I'm just gonna assume the "I AM NOT A CRANK" after all those speeches.
Or, for the Firesign-adjacent, "Now, I'm not a drinking man, Mr. Cox!"
I admit I find the Santos story inspiring, that the Republican party can be a home where all Americans, regardless of ethnic heritage, regardless even of sexual orientation, can come together as one, unified by their shared love of grifting.
Come for the sartorial regalia, stay for "Ukraine-without-the-The"!
That Walter Pikk sounds like a nice young man.
Poe's Law once again being a harsh mistress . . .
Two days ago, Kevin McCarthy threatened that, should Democrats release Donald Trump's tax returns, Republicans will BY GOD demand Joe Biden's tax returns. But then someone pulled Kevin aside and told him that Biden has released his returns every year for the last 30 years, so . . .
. . . the following day, another Republican congressman threatened that should Democrats release Trump's returns, Republicans may have no choice but to release the tax returns of Supreme Court justices. But then someone pulled this cretin aside and explained that the Supreme Court is 6-3 conservatives, so . . .
. . . today it's on to trying to explain why we should actually hate the Ukrainian guy who spoke to Congress last night.
I was struck by the complete dislocation between the vacuity of new mooks and the One True Thing that McCarthy's cohort learned in the last round. Indeed, this OTT stands shoulder to shoulder with era-defining slogans of the past and quite possibly the future. Even as "We hold these truths to be self-evident", "We having nothing to fear but fear itself" and "Ask not what your country can do for you", so too does this evergreen serve to define the glorious half-decade of the DC Local chapter of Swamp Drainers International. To wit and as follows:
“Now I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’re ever getting in your life. Get a great F’ing criminal defense lawyer, you’re going to need it”
"Because where we go one —
MOST OF THE ROOM: — WE GO ALL! "
One problem with conservatism is that norms, and hence normies, change. Stand athwart the shifting sands of your own base yelling stop why don'tcha
"Eu sou Brasileiro." Irmao! (The first "Hunter Biden's Laptop" made me convulse for a full 20 seconds.)
Latest on the supposedly gay Santos is that he has an "undisclosed divorce"--from a woman, no less.
I am having a lousy holiday season thank you very much, but I have to say the George Santos story is bringing me joy. Twists and turns several times a day! Best of all is knowing with all my heart that Kevin McCarthy, whose life is already just a carousel of shit, is going to have a fucked up holiday, er, I mean Christmas season. Who knows where it's going. Likely in the felony direction.
'Needs more "Hunter Biden's Laptop".'