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- Trump’s Truth Social is an echo chamber. That echo: “Hello (… hello…hello…hello…)? Is there anybody here (… here… here … here…)?”
- The GOP is an April Fool’s joke that doesn’t know when to quit: “Get it? Do you get it? I’m saying gay people are scary! Isn’t that great?!?! Scary, ‘cause it’s true, right? Right?!”
- Although the Republican team of a president, his advisors, scores of members of the House, various Senators, the wife of a Supreme Court justice (likely along with her husband), long-time political operatives, and Big Money donors have all been implicated in an attempt to undermine the Constitution, we’re still supposed to believe the Democrats are the ones running the Deep State coup.
- We shouldn’t dismiss Madison Cawthorn’s claims of cocaine-fueled sex parties on Capitol Hill. I hear Marjorie Three-Toes, The Rifle Rodent and Matt Gaetz throw amazing orgies. You expect “MaLauJorie” would party with geezers like Paul Gosar? Sheesh. They only hang with The Beautiful Republicans, the ones with the darkest souls.
- Jobs report shows half a million new jobs between the March numbers and earlier revision. We’re nearly at the same level of jobs as prior to the pandemic. The economy is springing back. And we’ve got a globe full of allies working with us. Wages are up. Grocery shelves are full. And spring is in the air. This is the product of the current leadership in the nation, particularly the quiet leadership of Biden. If Dems maintain this overall momentum into November, the predicted GOP win in the midterms will be in doubt.
- Could GOP coke orgies explain Marsha Blackburn’s perpetual bed-head? On second thought, I don’t want to know.
- What an idiot Trump is. He publicly asked Putin to manufacture–oh, sure, he said “find”–dirt on Hunter Biden, just as he did with Zelenskyy in 2020. Now, if anything should come up about Hunter, every rational, non-MAGAt will believe it came from Putin. And his lawsuit against people he claimed wrongly linked him to Russia is now moot.
- I’ll take a falsely smeared Hunter Biden staying out of the limelight anyday over the Trump Quartet of Quislings–Junior, Ewic, Princess and her ghoul–plastered everywhere spewing lies.
- In the first six years after the US invasion of Afghanistan and subsequent invasion of Iraq, American military forces lost 46 helicopters to enemy fire in both theatres combined. The Russians have lost 30 in Ukraine in one month. That’s unsustainable.
- CBS News hired former Trump budget adviser Mick Mulvaney as an expert on the federal budget–the man who miscalculated federal revenues by two trillion dollars.
- I hope to one day have the confidence of a dancer in an Old Navy commercial.
- The Thomases have a marriage that Clarence would have deemed illegal if he were on the Supreme Court in 1967.
- “But he was so nice, we forgot he was black,” Ginni Thomas’s aunt Opal said in a 1991 interview with the Washington Post, “and he treated her so well, all of his other qualities made up for his being black.”
- Being married to an educator, I hear Mrs. Jack tutoring students who cannot return to classrooms because of medical issues. Her enthusiasm, dedication and joy when her students finally connect with a lesson is a pleasure to see. Let’s not forget the work educators do daily, which was never easy even before the pandemic. Parents should give more respect to them after the last two years.
- Let’s make Navajo the official language of the nation so we’re never dependent on a foreign import.
- I want to be nominated to be a federal judge, but don’t worry: I would never be confirmed. I’ll intentionally sabotage my confirmation hearing before the Judiciary Committee by telling Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley they’re moronic dicks: “Raf, I can’t hear you with your lips planted so firmly on Trump’s ass. And Josh, I only speak to Senators who haven’t violated their oaths of office to defend the Constitution.”
- Best talk show joke about the Oscars Slap Flap goes to Seth Meyers: “The 94th Academy Awards were held last night featuring the first live performance of We Don’t Talk About Bruno from the Disney movie ‘Encanto’ followed by an unbelievable live performance of We Don’t Talk About Jada.”
- Remember the midterm messaging: Democrats are working to solve actual problems. Republicans are spending energy and YOUR money promoting non-issues and trying to legislate against the mythical “problems” they created. This is why no one should take the GOP seriously.
- Other than a salad, I love a small portion of seafood as an appetizer when dining out, even if it’s anchovies in a caesar. Shrimp cocktail is a classic, as are steamed mussels (the pistachios of the sea) or Oysters Rockefeller, which I enjoyed last Friday. But a raw bar is the most fun.
- Seriously, though, my favorite restaurant appetizer is from a restaurant in Baltimore: Polenta Fritta Bergamot. Crispy. Light interior. But the aioli makes it. I really miss being able to enjoy the subtle taste of the dish.
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