What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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Remember the Nevada Senate primary, when GOP favorite Sue Lowden suggested that people pay for their medical care with chickens, like the frontier farmer doctors used to do? (Admit it. You do remember it, ya bastids.) Turns out she was ahead of her time. We could have an entire economy conducted with a poultry-based currency by now. Still a better idea than tariffs. Also, too: bird flu! |
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On Thursday, the House of Representatives censured Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for interrupting the president's farrago of lies and fantasies the other night. Speaker Moses was really puffed up, especially when Democrats in the chamber began singing "We Shall Overcome" and he had to pound his gavel to try and get them to stop. (Narrator: they didn't.) Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom greeted former President Biden's State of the Union like a matched set of howler monkeys, voted to censure Green without blinking, as did Rep. Joe Wilson, whose lasting fame is yelling, "You lie!" at President Obama. |
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On Thursday morning, the White House denied the report, calling it "fake news." Later in the day, Trump acknowledged he's weighing the decision. "There were some people that think that's appropriate, and some people don't, and I'll be making the decision pretty soon," he said. |
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By a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that would force the president to release $2 billion in previously appropriated USAID money. This, of course, was a ruling that confounds the basic business plan that has guided the president through his entire career—namely, stiff your creditors and dare them to sue. It turns out that the agencies of the government may be more formidable opponents than the gardeners and glaziers of New Jersey. |
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Yeah, no time for that blasphemous swill. Not from the most thoroughgoing heathen ever to hold high public office in this country. No time, either, for triumphal pronouncements about freeing us all from "unelected bureaucrats" shortly after praising Elon Musk's idiotic clear-cutting of the executive agencies. Not only did I not vote for Elon Musk, but he doesn't believe anyone should get to vote for anyone ever. Don't waste my time with this bullshit. I feel the need for a decontamination shower just reading the transcript. |
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