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- In a closed-door secret ballot within the House GOP conference, Trump did not get a single vote for Speaker–not one–proving their hero worship is nothing but performative bluster.
- RFK Jr. was literally a Democrat in name only.
- Steve Scalise’s chance for the gavel went up in smoke in less than a Scaramucci. That’s got to sting after he spent years at the #2 in the caucus working his butt off to get support for Party goals to little acclaim. Republicans have no loyalty to anyone but Trump.
- How much disdain do Republicans have for democracy? In their own caucus, the candidate for Speaker who got the most votes was forced to withdraw because a more radical member was supported by an intransigent micro-minority of the caucus. Republicans rejected the candidate who got the most votes. Again.
- The Republicans aren’t sending their best. They’re sending their rapists, their fraudsters, their criminal abettors. And they’re putting them in charge of their Party.
- My choice for Speaker of the House: Harmon Kardon.
- It should’ve been bigger news that the sitting President of the United States was questioned in the White House by a Special Counsel. But two things didn’t happen: the President didn’t make a federal case–literal or figurative–out of it. And the President wasn’t Trump; it was a man who knew how to take responsibility for his actions and trusted that his actions weren’t criminal.
- I’m just waiting for George Santos to proclaim he is the last of the Skywalker line. [Insert lightsaber sound here.]
- The Republican “establishment” had to have seen their far-right adolescent wing would ultimately doom them thanks in no small part to a bunch of cheating husbands and future ex-wives, driven by jealousy because they all think they’re God’s gift to ‘Murica. The RNC has largely stayed out of state legislative races, but they saw the nutcases filling the legislative ranks over the last few cycles, all with aspirations of “draining the swamp.” And the GOP establishment was so excited about getting “young blood” into the Party, they didn’t care that pampering the criminals, idiots, and/or douchebags they nominated was jet fuel for their egos.
- So…. the RtF curse is real. I shall never mention a sports team here again for fear of dooming its next outing. So it is written; so it shall be.
- Indulge yourself. Take a bubble bath. Have Crunch Berries for breakfast. Chew bubble gum. Buy the Rubik’s Cube because you want to fiddle with something. Those 10-minute relaxations reinvigorate your soul.
- Look at the list of the last generation of GOP Speakers: Gingrich (ousted for ethics violations); Hastert (ethics/kid diddling); Boehner (chronic alcoholic who turned into a decent guy out of office); Ryan (burned out and fled); and Kevin the Spineless. Jim Jordan fits the ethical profile needed to secure the job.
- John Fetterman could have a long, successful political career during which he could be an effective advocate for patients with cognitive difficulties. I don’t see him making a presidential run, and I don’t see him being a 24-year Senator, though.
- Seriously, restaurants, adopt the $2-3 dessert. Gelato has the right idea. Put ice cream cake into a two-spoonful cup. Even cherry pie, with a flame-kissed crust on top. Small desserts will sell–you don’t have to strain to finish them–and they can have a HUGE margin.
- Have the Northern Lights been getting more prominent lately? It seems we’re hearing more frequent sightings of them further south.
- Eighty-six years ago this week, the federal government got its first convictions for marijuana crimes after the Marijuana Tax of 1937 went into effect. A 57-year-old white man in Denver, Samuel Caldwell, and the 23-year-old migrant Mexican worker he sold the pot to were both arrested. They were the first jailed in what for generations would be a futile battle against something now so widely available, some towns have more dispensaries than Starbucks.
