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President Joe Biden’s campaign raised $10 million in the first 24 hours after Thursday night’s State of The Union address, NBC News reports on the fruits of a successful performance and beating Trump’s $7 million haul that came after he got indicted for paying off a pornstar last year.

“Ten million in 24 hours. To quote the boss, that’s a BFD,” said campaign manager Julie Chavez-Rodriguez in a statement that also touted $1.5 million raised on Wednesday. “We thank our grassroots who are motivated more than ever to reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris. The President’s State of the Union address reminded so many of our supporters who is fighting for them, and the stakes of this election for our freedoms, our rights, and our democracy.”

Scumbag Trump minion Kellyanne Conway is lobbying Republicans in Congress to vote against forcing Chinese-owned company ByteDance to sell TikTok, Politico reports on the dumbest shit ever.

The Department of Justice investigators have interviewed a number of witnesses relating to the January 5th blowout of a “door plug,” a fuselage panel that replaces an emergency exit door, from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet, the Washington Post reports, and a grand jury has already been empaneled.

There might be a few things to investigate, besides reports from other operators of the airplane that similar panel insertions had loose bolts or were missing bolts altogether.  As NPR reports, in a letter sent to Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, a Boeing executive said that after an extensive search, employees at the company were unable to find documentation related to the installation of the door plug, saying “the documents required by our processes were not created when the door plug was opened.”  How convenient.

President Biden and fat former President Trump will hold dueling rallies in Georgia on Saturday evening, with Joe in Atlanta at 6:15 PM EDT and Donald at 5 PM in scumbag Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s hometown of Rome. Even if Trump’s starting earlier, fuck him. Biden gets top billing here.

A significant fire at a cannabis processing facility near downtown Los Angeles that sent billowing smoke over the city on Saturday morning was put out in just under an hour by more than 140 firefighters who will presumably fail the next drug test, KTLA Los Angeles reports.

It’s unclear if the operation in the two-story, 69-year-old building was a licensed production plant or one run by an illicit supplier.  In a related story, crime was down in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, while food delivery drivers reported record orders, so we hear.

Alabama Republican Senator and covert Handmaid Katie Britt was referring to the tragic saga of a migrant sex trafficked by Mexican cartels in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration in the ’00s, not a recent case, her spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Post, adding another indignity to the roundly-panned Republican response to Biden’s well-received State of the Union address.

Worse, the tale appears to have been lifted from sworn testimony before a Congressional subcommittee in May 2015 from the trafficking victim, Karla Jacinto Romero, years after her ordeal, which happened from 2004 to 2008. In her performance, Britt said that she talked to the woman who had been sex trafficked during a recent visit to the Mexican border in Texas and implied that the incident had happened recently and in the United States, saying, “This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it.”

“It was an honor having Viktor Orbán and his lovely daughter, Flóra, as my guests last night at Mar-a-Lago. Viktor is a Great Leader, respected all over the World. Hungary is a Safe Country because of his Strong Immigration Policies, and as long as he is in charge, it always will be!” posted fat former President Trump after hosting the Hungarian dictator at his debauched den of corruption.

Orban is about as “respected” a leader Trump can get right now. All the real strongmen/despots such as Xi, Netanyahu, Bukele, and Modi are either too busy actually running their regimes or, like Kim, Putin, Lukashenko, and Maduro, can’t even enter the US without being arrested.

Sources close to fat former President Trump’s campaign tell Axios that bad publicity for Alabama Senator Katie Britt’s utterly painful State of The Union rebuttal is better than no publicity because, as Axios describes it, “the controversy means even more women voters are seeing the speech, which they believe will ultimately be positive for the party,” and apparently they’re fucking serious, lol.

“The strategy of reaching out to women voters will be a long-term and high-priority project for the GOP, which Trump allies conceded won’t be accomplished with one speech,” Axios continues, adding that one minion told them suburban women voters are “screaming” for a reason to vote Republican but the party hasn’t been able to click with them over the last two elections.

• Joe Biden hit the ball out of the park, scored the overtime goal, and kicked the winning field goal as time ran out.  That State of the Union had power, vision, and opportunity.  It presented a stark contrast to the GOP’s intentionally frightening and false view of America as a decrepit hellscape.  The President’s vision was positive, and Americans will always veer toward hope.
• While Lara Trump taking the helm of the RNC screams nepotism, remember what Trump’s first pick for the job did:  she led the Party to Trump’s reelection loss; losing the Senate and another seat in the subsequent midterm; underperforming in the midterm; and flipping about a dozen state legislative chambers.  Let’s hope Trump’s second choice for the job serves Democrats as well as her predecessor did.
• I guess Kyrsten Sinema just wasn’t in the mood for a threeway.
• Super Tuesday is stupid.  Hell, the whole primary schedule is just plain stupid.  Days where only one individual state has a primary early on fucks up the whole system by giving small populations outsized influence.  Solution:  four sets of primary dates spaced three weeks apart, with states divided equally among the four weeks.  Every four years, the order of the four sets rotates, and the constituent members of each of the four sets are updated every two decades. 
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Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett, exhibiting an excessive amount of smugness, describes how he used his Southern story spinning skills at the behest of Florida Man and guy who just screams at you to use hand sanitizer Matt Gaetz to delay President Joe Biden’s arrival at the podium, attempting to engage Biden in tales of Corvettes and ice cream.

While Burchett is an admittedly engaging individual, the idea that two members of Congress wanted to do nothing more than delay the President of the United States from addressing the nation in a timely manner demonstrates how fucking shallow Republicans are and how they think everything is a laugh-riot game to them.  Because the American public are their pawns for their amusement.

The parachute on a pallet of humanitarian aid failed to open as the shipment plunged to the ground, crashing into a refuge camp and killing five, including two young boys, and injuring more than ten, CBS News reports.  With six countries–the U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium–currently conducting aid drops in the area, it’s unclear who released the shipment; however, US officials have confirmed that American aircraft were not in the region at the time.

By a 75 to 22 vote, the Senate passed a $460 billion spending bill after getting it from the House, ahead of the midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown once President Joe Biden signs the measure, CBS News reports.  This is the first of two pieces of legislation needed to fund the government, based on a plan by Preacher of the House Mike Johnson.  The deadline for the second part is due by March 22nd.

More than 32 million people tuned in to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday night, an 18% increase from last year, but lower than Biden’s 2022 address, according to Forbes.  But don’t worry, MAGA:  it’s not close to the viewership of Donald Trump’s annual Congressional addresses, the lowest of which, 2020, attracted 37 million while the others topped 40 million.

FBI agents arrested January 6th insurrectionist John Emanuel Banuelo on Friday on charges related to firing a handgun at least twice during the Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress, blowing a hole into the MAGA talking point that the crowd was comprised of a bunch of unarmed tourists peacefully demonstrating to undermine the Constitution.

Banuelo, who lives in Illinois, had been identified by online sleuths who had previously identified him in other locations.  Last week, though, Republican West Virginia House candidate Derrick Evans released cell phone footage of the attack showing someone firing a gun; the “sedition hunters” pounced on the video and matched Banuelo.

As a sidenote:  Banuelo was arrested in July 2021 after he fatally stabbed a 19-year-old man at a park in Utah, but he charges were dropped after he claimed he acted in self-defense.

Far right election denier and abusive husband Arizona state Senator Sonny Borrelli responded Thursday to Dem Governor Katie Hobbs’s call for the state legislature to pass a law protecting the right to birth control by telling the Arizona Mirror that “Bayer Company invented aspirin.”

No, he’s not that stupid to think taking aspirin works as a contraceptive. He is however the kind of piece of shit who would say – apparently to a female reporter no less – to “Put it between your knees,” as in “keep your legs closed,” adding Dems are “creating a controversy that doesn’t exist because nobody’s opposing – nobody has any kind of plan to ban any contraceptives,” and “Not in this legislature, not this term, not this session,” would any Republicans try to ban them.

Which means that as long as there’s a Dem governor and the Republicans are short of a supermajority, which they are currently, they won’t ban birth control. Which is why he doesn’t want to move to protect it now because they may get the chance to ban them in the future.

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Following weeks of back and forth over his 2024 campaign plans, Montana Freedom Caucasian Matt Rosendale on Friday announced he was no longer running for the House or Senate in November.

Rosendale cited some shit about threats to his family and “false and defamatory rumors,” as in that story about him supposedly having impregnated a 20 year-old staffer which is, uh… Why the fuck would he even be bringing that up if his retirement has nothing to do with it?

“Delegates” to pro-Trump scam operation – not an actual party – No Labels on Friday voted to move forward with their plan to put a presidential ticket on the 2024 ballot, Politico reports.

They don’t actually have a candidate yet and, per Politico, they “may not find one.” Too bad Joe Manchin, Larry Hogan, Mitt Romney, Kyrsten Sinema, and all the other “centrists” turned them down.

Whoever the hell this woman is officially nominating Lara Trump for RNC co-chair appears to have simply made up some kind of biblical justification for installing a former part-time Fox News contributor to be the second in command of one of the two largest American political parties.