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- Remember the whole NSA was spying on Tucker Carlson scandal from last week? Apparently, neither does Tucker Carlson. He’s barely mentioned it this week.
- The federal government should tie the aid sent to states getting hit by the newest wave of the coronavirus virus to the amount of money they spent on vaccination promotion before. If a state like Texas and Mississippi didn’t spend a cent, they shouldn’t get a cent. And any future aid should be indexed to the percentage of the population vaccinated in the next four weeks. Hell, tie it to hurricane relief: if you’re not vaccinated, you don’t get FEMA rebuilding money.
- There is no way to have a rational conversation with someone who believes a vaccine makes you magnetic or tags you with a Bill Gates microchip.
- The duty of the Surgeon General is literally to combat misinformation about public health and medical issues. At some point, Fox News has to have a mandatory civics class for its entire staff.
- If Republicans had their way, high school teachers would have to teach novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Roots without discussing slavery because, y’know, they talk about bad things white people did.
- In a recent poll, 63% of Republicans from the states that formed the Confederacy in 1863 said they should secede from the United States. These are the same states that bitch the most about dishonoring the American flag and the national anthem, and sing the one hit song by Lee Greenwood the loudest. Cognitive dissonance much?
- I can never buy one book at a time. Whether in a bookstore or online, print edition or ebooks, I simply cannot only purchase a single book. I’ve always to got get two from opposing genres. This week, it was one of the new books about the Trump administration and another on mindfulness.
- Tennessee firing a state health official for promoting coronavirus vaccines for children–and canceling a program to promote vaccines for all kids–demonstrates how little Republicans support science and their constituents.
- And kudos for the kids who are getting vaccinated behind their parents’ backs. You’re smarter than they are, and you deserve better.
- Why did the man in the back say, “Everyone attack!” and turn it into a ballroom blitz?
- We learned this week from leaked Russian documents that Putin and the Russian intelligence agencies deemed Donald Trump to be an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex.” Kudos to the Russian GRU for nailing it when the GOP ignored it.
- Hot dog toppings (in order, for traditional hot dogs, not the “chicken asiago sausage”-type fancy sausages): Mustard (most any, except stone ground; it’s good on a sandwich, but not a hot dog), sauerkraut, relish, onions. I will *on rare occasion* put ketchup on a hot dog. And the best dog is a Chicago dog.
- During the Clinton impeachment trial, GOP House icon was having an affair with a staffer on his hospitalized wife. GOP Speaker of the House Denny Hastert was molesting children. And this week we found out Ken Starr was a misogynistic boss who had affairs with his young female staffers. The psychological projection of Republicans, from affairs to sex trafficking, is decades old, and it continues with their current claims that Democrats want to bring down the Constitution.
- Even though Trump wouldn’t say it to Milley, I will say it now: I would coup with you, Zeros.
- When Joe Biden took up the infrastructure bill, he promised a $3.5 trillion bill. Democrats will pass a $3.5 million infrastructure bill. THAT’S the art of the deal.
