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- Ya gotta love slow news weeks. I hope we have one again soon.
- Congrats to Ketanji Brown Jackson on her nomination to SCOTUS. I can’t wait to hear from Republicans how appointing her is an attack on the Constitution while they simultaneously claim the January 6th attack was just a rowdy Capitol tour.
- When Judge Jackson gets confirmed, it will be the first time in the Court’s 233-year history that two Black people will have seats on it. And no, right wingers, that doesn’t mean racism is over.
- In my piece about Trump’s enabling Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, I missed a point about why Putin didn’t invade when Trump was in office. Putin’s overall goal is to destabilize democracies. Simply put, he didn’t have to do anything while Trump was in office because Trump was accomplishing his mission for him, including throwing Ukraine’s democratically-elected government into the midst of an international scandal.
- It’s too bad we don’t have a military expert on Ukraine like Alexander Vindman at the White House now. Funny how Trump fired him. It’s almost like Vindman was taken out to facilitate an invasion of the country.
- Why are quislings like Tucker Carlson and Mike Flynn more concerned about the security of adversarial Russia’s borders and than the security of the democratic nation of Ukraine?
- Patriotism is taking to the streets to protest your nation waging an illegal invasion under the threat of arrest from your autocratic head of state. It’s not refusing to wear a mask.
- The GOP loves some trucker convoys. They’re just like the astroturfed Tea Party buses, but the GOP and the Koch Brothers don’t have to pay for them.
- The right wingers claiming that Biden’s appointing a Black woman to the Supreme Court is racist are, in fact, making the argument that there is not a single Black woman qualified to sit on SCOTUS, and that is actually racist.
- I know a good number of people who came to the US as war refugees, whether it was from World War II, African or Central American revolutions, Vietnam, the Middle East, even Yugoslavia. The future of the tens of thousands of people fleeing Ukraine will not be easy for the next year or so.
- Spawned by the Airplane! movie series, “Police Squad!” was one of the funniest shows ever on television. It was canceled after four episodes in 1982 because network executives thought audiences couldn’t pay attention to the rapid-fire jokes. Such is American society.
- We’ll soon learn NFTs were a Russian scam to bilk silly people out of billions to finance the Ukrainian invasion. That digital print of a robotic mallard you paid $8,500 for? Congrats. You own an electron.
- For as much as it takes to run a “live feed” and try to fill the regular feed, it’s kinda fun to get NatZero operating like that. It’s a lot more work, and kudos to Spartan for taking a lot of it on this week.
- Loving the seamlessness with which Biden is dealing with the Ukraine invasion, the SCOTUS nominee and the ongoing pandemic simultaneously. Plus, he quietly got a continuing resolution through Congress to prevent a government shutdown. No meltdowns. He’s not hiding from the media. He’s not ranting on Twitter about how everyone is unfair to him. He’s leading the administration which is competently handling these issues without histrionics and daily internal drama.
- On Tuesday, I applied for an account on Truth Social. I was told I would get an email when I could apply. I got it this morning and immediately clicked the link. It went to a message saying the link was only good for 24 hours and had already expired. That’s TRUTH.
- Believing Devin Nunes can run a social media company is like the drunk at the bar thinking he can run the whole restaurant. A normal, non-political company would never have hired him, and by all rights, he should be fired. The rollout of Truth Social was nothing short of a disaster. Hiring people based on loyalty and not ability or intelligence is why Trump is currently in the legal and financial pickle he’s in.
- Tuckers with souls: Chris, Cameron, Justin, Tanya, Forrest, Marshall, even the car. Hell, serial killer Karla Faye even demonstrated a soul. But not Carlson, ‘cause puppets don’t have souls.
- Best potato chip flavors–and no, not the abomination of flavors Pringles has, but good ol’ ‘Murican-type flavors–are sour cream and chive; Old Bay; cheddar; and salt and vinegar. I had the best barbeque chips as a child, and don’t like any of them on the market anymore. All chips must have ridges. And dip is an add-on not all chips need.
- Will the GOP put the tents up for the confirmation hearings or will they just use three rings?
