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- Ten million new jobs in 20 months. Way to go, Brandon.
- Here's the thing Republicans don't get: if Trump loses a primary–not just the nomination, but any state primary–his mob will see those results as invalid and turn their violence and anger on the GOP candidate who won, claiming that candidate cheated. The same is true for any Trump-endorsed candidate: the mob will claim they were cheated. The GOP has not reined in its most vile element, and they'll be the first ones to experience its wrath first this coming presidential election cycle.
- Herschel Walker will become the GOP advocate against absentee fathers the same way Bristol Palin lectures about pre-marital abstinence.
- How bankrupt are conservatives? Watch Ron DeSantis: "Let's go, Brandon!" is now "Help me, Brandon!" Their staged principles go out the window when they're the ones in need.
- As the Oath Keepers trial goes on, I'm reminded that in 2016, weeks prior to the election, Stewart Rhodes declared there would be violence if Hillary Clinton was declared the winner. It didn't matter who was on the ballot; he wanted war. Trump facilitated his plans and gave him cover. He was set on starting a war to get what he wanted regardless of elections.
- Many Republicans believe abortion is only permissible in cases of rape, incest and/or impregnation by Herschel Walker, proving conservatives want to ban abortion except when they want their women to get one.
- "… when they're the ones in need." "…when they want their women to get one." "… to get what he wanted regardless of elections." I think I see a pattern emerging.
- I'm happy for a Velma. A 53-year-old cartoon woman should be free to be who she is in her cartoon world with her cartoon teenage friends and cartoon talking dog. The real-life sputtering conservative outrage is just a secondary benefit.
- How nuts was the Trump administration? Trump once lost his personal cell phone–he kept a personal cell phone while he was president, so where are those records?–for six hours after leaving it in a golf cart at Bedminster. In 2017. And this week is the first time I heard about it. That's how normalized Trump's idiocy became.
- Though I'm not convinced it's a done deal, Musk's takeover of Twitter means Truth Social is dead. Musk will allow Trump back on Twitter, and Trump will abandon Truth for the larger audience.
- Okay, folks, here's a mystery for you: Last night, letting the dog out before bed, I walked onto our back deck and stepped on what appears to be an eyeglass lens, right smack in the middle of the deck. Just laying there. I've lived in this house for more than 20 years. I've been on the deck thousands of times. Where the hell did an eyeglass lens materialize from? And how did it get to the middle of the deck?
- If you end a sentence with "… but they just don't care," you're either talking about Republicans, about morality, or about cats.
- As the UK tries to recover from the disaster that was Boris Johnson, the conservatives chose Liz Truss, whose job approval plummeted more than 30 percentage points in one week after announcing her version of "trickle-down economics," which failed in the US.
- The Most Annoying Person Possible: A vegan Trump-supporting Scientologist from Texas who golfs and does Crossfit. Bonus if he just got divorced.
- Ukraine is kicking Russia's butt in Donbas, which was the target of Russian aggression because of its industrial might. Would Putin nuke a small city in a "scorched earth" policy? "If I can't have it, nobody can." I think it's 50-50, which is scary enough.
- A number of states start early voting this week; a lot have already started. Time to call those like-minded friends to nag–yeah, I'll say it: we need you to nag–them to get to the polls. And remember to pass along candidate suggestions. Lazy liberals lose elections.
- It's really funny how holding a fountain pen in my hand creates the Pavlovian response in me of sitting up straight, squaring up to the desk and positioning the paper properly, as if the parochial school nuns continue standing over me.
- Plain pancakes are the perfect pancake. Buttered and topped with warm maple syrup, a side of bacon and sausage. Maybe a dash of cinnamon. You can choose to add things into pancakes–like chocolate chips, bananas, or berries–but you are not improving the pancake; you are modifying it.
- "Gram died alone." The lasting legacy of Republican advertising
