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- The internecine fighting in the Republican Party needs to continue. The remaining sane conservatives need to separate from the Greene-Gaetz-Gosar-Boebert caucus. Both sides would be smart to ditch the Republican name.
- Marge is adamant that the text she sent to Mark Meadows didn’t call for “Marshall law.” She’s insistent on that. She may have a point, because in that one, specific text, she says other members are talking about it (in the classic “Some people are saying…” way). But she hasn’t answered if she sent text messages to or had conversations with other members calling for Marshall Law, which is why she’s still maintaining she “doesn’t remember” if she called for Marshall Law. And why hasn’t anyone asked her which of her colleagues was talking about it.
- Republicans: “Our children are falling behind foreign kids in education.” Also Republicans: “We don’t want our children to learn science or social studies or literature or math unless those lessons conform with our very narrow religious beliefs.”
- Conservatives are more concerned that a child will be convinced he/she wants to “try” being gay or trans because they learn about it in school than they are worried about that same child getting shot in that same school. Better dead than trans-aware, in their world.
- Do you remember the Ty-D-Bol Man–the little guy who lived in a rowboat in your commode tank, making sure your toilet stayed clean? That’s a really shitty job.
- The fact that, in three days in January 2021, Kevin McCarthy went from talking about abandoning Trump to defending Trump, demonstrates that Republicans like him (and Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell) will do anything to defend the GOP, including bring down the nation.
- Republicans whining about a Ministry of Truth–as they call the Biden Administration’s effort to knock down disinformation–are saying they’re perfectly okay with letting the American people ingest propaganda and misinformation without the US attempting to debunk it. This means anything from Russia propaganda about Ukraine to Republican lies about election security to science misinformation about vaccines. They think the nation should do NOTHING to counter that. They are the pro-propaganda party.
- Madison Cawthorn just had the most kink exposed in one week since Denny Hastert was suddenly booted from GOP House leadership for molesting boys when he was a wrestling coach.
- Given a choice, I would prefer Democrats put money into keeping and extending the majority in the Senate rather than the House in the midterms. You can’t do anything if you control the House, but the Senate can confirm presidential nominations. (Obviously, I hope Democrats keep control of both.)
- Orwell’s Ministry of Truth from 1984 was a Soviet-style operation to stifle truthful information and replace it with the Party line, and demand the citizenry “believe” it. Republicans who are citing that in response to the administration’s effort to combat disinformation have obviously never actually read the book.
- Elon Musk’s plan to make Twitter a “free speech” platform will conflict with a number of foreign nations’ laws regarding stifling distribution of hate speech and threats. He’ll either have to change his vision or lose distribution in dozens of Western countries.
- I have a mindless game app, similar to the old card game (and game show) Concentration, that I play when I’m on boring calls. I just figured out how to cheat, and now it’s lost all appeal.
- If “mansplaining” is when a man oversimplifies concepts to instruct them to a more qualified woman, what do you call a new college graduate, on her first full-time job hired by a company, who is explaining to a contractor with 40 years’ experience how to do their job?
- In 1990, the BBC aired an original sitcom called Heil, Honey, I’m Home, about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in 1938 Germany living next to a Jewish couple with whom Adolf just couldn’t get along. It lasted one episode. Seven more were recorded but never aired. Did I mention this was in 1990? … and Hitler?
- I’m a better writer under deadline. In the days when you needed a floppy disk to boot up your computer, I once wrote an 8,000 word article for a publication I was working for on drug use in a white, suburban, affluent public school in Pennsylvania. When I took the disk to the “printer computer,” the disk was empty. My work was gone, three hours before deadline. I rewrote the entire thing, from the data sheets and memory, and it ended up winning an award for news writing.
- This just in… CPAC to debut seven lost episodes of a hilarious classic sitcom. Details to follow.
- No, you may not put your feet on the dashboard of my car. And put your shoes back on.
- In honor of Der Furor’s newly found phobia of fruit… Favorite fruits (in order): The best: A pear. Runners up (in no order): bananas, apples (Honeycrisp preferred, and never soft), cherries, honeydew melon, watermelon. Oh, and tomatoes. To throw, I prefer apples over tomatoes; they’re less slippery. Grapes and lemon (sliced in half) are best for close quarters combat.
- We should all have pineapple chucking contests to see who could hit Donald Trump from the farthest away. It’ll be a service to the Secret Service to see how far they need to extend their secure area around him.
