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- No. No, you weren’t “disenfranchised.” You lost. Your vote counted, but your team got fewer votes than the other team. So… you lost. Losing is not disenfranchisement. Get over yourself.
- Fulton County special grand jury report shows one thing: on charges against the top-line defendants, Trump and Giuliani, there was one “no” vote on all charges. One “no” vote in a grand jury is no big deal. In a criminal trial, though…
- Biden in Florida: Presidential. Trump in Florida: Disaster. DeSantis in Florida: Stranded.
- Enrique Tarrio is a self-important sociopathic twerp who plays with guns. And now he’s going to jail for a very long time.
- Anti-choice advocates are trying to de-brand the term “pro-life” to find something more palatable to the electorate because when your so-called morally-based political position costs you power, you abandon the morals and conduct focus groups.
- Republicans: We’ll vote for Trump no matter how many times he’s indicted! Also Republicans: Joe Biden must be impeached and cannot serve because his son was indicted.
- Should Trump be found guilty in Fulton County, his name should never appear on another ballot in Georgia again. You fuck around with an election and you don’t get to play.
- Not loving the MSNBC plan for having single-night hosts on Monday, even with Maddow anchoring the 9 p.m. hour. Maddow will boost Psaki’s ratings at the 8 p.m. slot, but the lack of consistency throughout the week won’t help anyone, particularly the ratings. It would have been better to have the Monday 8 p.m. hour as a recap of key local, state, and national election news to keep it at the forefront if any change was needed.
- I am one who thinks it’s time for a new generation of leaders in DC, but I’m not fuming over Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that she’s going to run for reelection in 2024. Given the uncertainty of the POTUS race, her presence will provide added stability to the House even as Jeffries leads.
- Never cared for Jimmy Fallon, and not surprised at all to hear he was something of a high-maintenance diva on set. He’s always had that vibe.
- Has anyone figured out how Elon Musk learned about the planned Ukrainian attack in time to pull the plug on his Starlink system to thwart it? He heads tech companies, not a nation. Was he eavesdropping on the communications his satellites transmit?
- Two things happened this week that many people never thought we’d never see: a Trump White House advisor held accountable by a jury, and a Scientologist going to jail for rape.
- Fani Willis’s burn of Jim Jordan in her response to his demand for evidence for his sham committee investigation is epic: “For a more thorough understanding of Georgia’s RICO statute, its application and similar laws in other states, I encourage you to read ‘RICO State-by-State.’ As a non-member of the bar, you can purchase a copy for two hundred forty-nine dollars [$249].”
- Here’s a good rule: don’t nominate people for public office who you would not trust to teach your child’s third-grade class for three days. If they can’t be trusted to teach kids and you don’t think they could competently manage a classroom of 25 nine-year-olds, do they have the skills for Congress?
- It still baffles me that Ivanka Trump got Chinese trademarks for voting machines… because obviously people are going to trust a voting machine with the Trump name branded on it now, right?
- The best old-school, no-add-in macaroni-and-cheese I’ve ever made was (reportedly) Thomas Jefferson’s recipe copied from one of his old diaries. The best I ever ate involved white truffle sauce. Alfredo sauce is “adult respectable-in-public” mac and cheese. And the stuff in the box? Only if I’ve got to crave that taste to sate a childhood memory.
- It’s Star Trek Day: 57 years ago tonight, arguably television’s most successful series franchise was born. It has lived long and prospered.
