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- Republicans claim Hunter got paid so people could access Joe, but they don’t seem to care that people paid a six-figure sum to join Trump golf clubs so they could have access to him most weekends while he was in office, hoping perhaps to pick up nuclear triad secrets in the buffet line.
- Jim Jordan believes he should be the Speaker. Jordan has been in Congress for more than two decades and has never sponsored a bill that’s become law. If he should ascend to the role, he would do so as the personification of Republican incompetence.
- Of course Donald Trump would endorse Jordan. In a locker room at Ohio State more than two decades ago, Jordan proved his fealty to a cause close to Trump’s heart.
- There was no way in hell the Republican Conference’s Speaker’s Forum was ever going to be broadcast live on television. Leadership had to understand having the nation hear what Marjorie Taylor Greene envisioned as the goals for the GOP would cost the Party a decade of elections.
- How am I just learning about Cop Slide now?
- The most effective way to bankrupt Trump is to acquiesce, drop the lawsuit, and accept the $1.8 billion assessment of Mar-a-Lago. And then send him a series of revised property tax bills at that valuation, which at Palm Beach County’s standard rate, would cost roughly $20 million per year, or an $80 million past-due amount going back to the 2020 assessment Trump has now admitting to lying on.
- Pringles serving size suggestions should simply be listed as either “Tube” or “Half Tube.”
- How can you tell Republicans are desperate? By my count, a dozen GOP House members made their initial appearances on MSNBC (on non-weekend shows) on Monday and Tuesday. They know the Base isn’t with them.
- If I’m Matt Gaetz–[shudder]– who is not above paying a homeless man to start my car every morning in case a bomb was planted by his fellow Republicans–I would start taking public transportation… because Republicans aren’t above planting a bomb in his car.
- The Hot Ones show, with Sean Evans asking guests substantial, deeply-researched questions is not just an entertaining format, but a great tactic to catch guests off-guard. It’s like they’re torturing themselves as they submit to questioning, and then they get to plug whatever projects they’re promoting. Don’t say those actors don’t suffer for their art.
- I have no question that Donald would throw Junior and Eric under the bus to save himself, and I think Eric would do so willingly. Junior would flee to Vanuatu.
- Unpopular idea: Democrats should have voted “Present” during the roll call vote for McCarthy’s Speakership. Yes, it would have kept McCarthy in the position, but the Dems could hold his position over him to get things they want. And call me old-fashioned, but better the devil you know…
- My two top baseball teams are in the playoffs. My football teams (at various levels) are playing well. The NHL season quickly approaches. This October is like the Orgasmatron for the sports fan in me.
- I hadn’t realized how much watching late-night talk shows–particularly the monologue–is purgative for me before bed.
- Lara Trump hawking her shitty song is the pinnacle of the Trump grift: You can listen to it before you buy it. It’s shitty. It’s horrible. Cats in heat are more listenable. A second-grade holiday chorus is on-key more frequently.
- The classic Buffalo sauce is the King of All Wing Sauces and can never get knocked off that pedestal because if not for that, we would have no wings. Old Bay/Chesapeake or a good Cajun rub are my favorite dry flavorings. But if you get a chance to have a real, honest-to-god Jamaican jerk chicken, take it. Not the stuff you get at the local bar. I’m talking about the ones at the restaurant around the corner from the voodoo shoppe. That’s where the flavor is.
- Democrats stopped the shutdown and ousted Kevin McCarthy, everything Republicans wanted to do but couldn’t. Even in the minority, Democrats succeed in doing the People’s work.
- And yeah, blue cheese and celery are mandatory. Carrots work as well. But you Ranch people need to find another table.
- There are some legendary bad celebrities-trying-to-be-singers. Leonard Nimoy’s and William Shatner’s were galactically bad. Bruce Willis, Don Johnson and Eddie Murphy in the 1980s topped the worst list. But I do believe this is the first television producer/campaign executive/political pundit/royal spouse tried the crossover.
