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.

WATCH: Illegal migrant at southern border explains why he's wearing a Biden-Harris shirt https://t.co/Dn9iHHAnvF

— GOP (@GOP) March 8, 2024

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.

Her last formal act of declaring the actual leader of her party to be its paramount, feckless figurehead Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel, forced out eight months before an absolute do-or-die election for the crime of having pretended there was a real primary and holding debates instead of focusing on “election integrity,” gave an emotional farewell speech to the party’s 168 delegates assembled at some hotel in Houston.

“It is a little bit bittersweet to be with all of you here today as I step down as chair after seven years of working with you all… I’m stepping aside today because I have long promised to put the nominee and their plans for the RNC first. Winning the White House back is just too important for me to do otherwise. President Trump deserves to have the team he wants in place at the RNC,” said the woman who literally changed her name to mollify the obese rapist former president.

Then, in a scene reminiscent of the highly choreographed functions of the Chinese Communist Party, the new appointed leadership team of Mike Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump were installed to enforce the Dear Leader’s iron rule of all of conservative politics with no challengers.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign on Friday opened up a blitzkrieg with a $30 million ad spend, hiring 350 new staffers, and opening 100 swing state field offices to capitalize on momentum coming off a solid performance at Thursday’s State of The Union address – as well as disgraced former President Trump’s self-created legal clusterfucks and money issues, Politico reports.

“I think Joe Biden might have changed SOTU into the Start Of The Uplift with last night’s speech. Democrats needed him to lay out the playbook for this election, in particular on the economy and immigration. We got the vision and contrast we need as the campaign season starts,” said Dem consultant Dan Sena on the first shots of the Second Battle of the Soul of the Nation.

Disgraced former President Trump on Friday put up the $91.63 million bond required to appeal the verdict against him in writer EJ Carroll’s federal defamation lawsuit. Saturday would have been the deadline before Carroll could start moving to collect from the fat fuck as Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday had denied Donald’s motion for a stay of execution of the $83.3 million judgment which was bumped up by $8 million and change for the bond due to fees.

Maria Bartiromo and pals were not having a great time with another solid monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, with a panel of seven yapping “financial professionals” simply resorting to conspiracy theories to explain why things are going so well for the US economy.

The embarrassment kept going with one panelist begging the Fed not to lower interest rates (which would help Joe Biden’s reelection effort) and then one Karen saying she’s “no expert on the Labor Department, but I would like to have a conversation with someone over there about these numbers”

Incoming Republican National Committee chairman Mike Whatley’s reception among the hardest core and most influential of the 2020 election conspiracy theory crowd is expected to be icy at best given his history of calling Biden’s win legitimate and that he only gained the Orange God Emperor’s favor by virtue of Donald’s extremely narrow win in North Carolina, where Whatley currently chairs the state GOP before his expected ascension to top national post, the New York Times reports.

Whatley has told allies that Trump said “That’s great. Why the hell didn’t they do that in Arizona and Georgia?” in response to Whatley explaining all his “election integrity” efforts in the Tar Heel State, like it wasn’t simply 74,483 votes making the difference between him now replacing Ronna and facing indictment or actually indicted for signing fake electoral college votes like former Arizona and Georgia GOP chairs Kelly “Chemtrails” Ward and David Shafer, respectively.

“Biden’s speech last night is getting ‘panned’ all over the World. Only the Radical Left lunatics are trying to make the best of it. It took him 41 minutes to talk, briefly, about Immigration and the Border, on the topic of which he was very weak. No talk of weaponization against his very calm and nice opponent. Angry as hell, this guy is a PSYCHO!” posted fat former President Trump on Friday morning after his personal social media platform shit out during what was hyped as a “rapid response” to his rival’s big election year State of The Union address, evidently upset that Biden did not do what he had demanded and announce a pardon or something for Trump’s crimes.

“Katie Britt was a GREAT contrast to an Angry, and obviously very Disturbed, ‘President.’ She was compassionate and caring, especially concerning Women and Women’s Issues. Her conversation on Migrant Crime was powerful and insightful. Great job Katie!” Trump also wrote Thursday night because of course he’s demented enough to think that was normal. Before that he posted “If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!” thereby endorsing continued Chinese Communist ownership of the platform, one that he tried and failed to destroy as revenge for TikTokers ratfucking his infamous June 2020 “comeback” rally in Tulsa.

Lefty Substacker Matt Yglesias writes the about-face was spurred by Trump getting “a bunch of money from formerly critical GOP mega-donor Jeff Yass, an investor in [TikTok owner] ByteDance.”