Monday Open Thread

19 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread”

1. Grandpa “Person, woman, man, camera, tv” desperately needs therapy. 
    

   Georgia prosecutors ask FBI for security help after Trump protest remarks: report

   “If these radical, vicious racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had … in Washington, D.C, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere because our country and our elections are corrupt,” Trump said to a crowd of his supporters in Conroe, Texas. 

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   1. His grandfather Friedrich was permanently banished from Bavaria, which has to mean there's some sort of precedent that would enable the US to give TFG the boot.

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   2. No. Fat Donnie is psychotic. He needs very strong drugs. And, a padded room.

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2. So TFG is admitting Kamala has the absolute right to determine the outcome of the 2024 election? #BlackWomenForTheWin

   

    

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   1. I love how the statement looks so very official in the beginning, and then just descends into what looks like the rantings of an agitated 5th grader. So completely non-presidential.

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      1. Self Own: This must mean Trump thinks Kamala Harris has the right to change the election.

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      2. …or the President of Pfuitlandia.

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3. Statement by former President Blutarsky . . . 
    

   

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4. Apparently, we are all going to be joining in, chanting “Let’s go, Landon” as “Winter Storm Landon will impact a large part of the U.S. to start February,” including “Snow, sleet and freezing rain will spread from the Southern Rockies”

    

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   1. So we're all supposed to "prepare for blizzard conditions" just because the scientific establishment and the media say so? And anyone who says it will be sunny and 70 is canceled?  All's I'm saying is, lots of $ changing hands in snow shovel industry. Do your own meteorology.

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      1. Well, this is Colorado, so both forecasts could be true within one day. Also Thornton, where I drive to see grandkids a few times a week, seems to have completely different weather than downtown Denver.

         My daughter, who is training in meteorology, tried to explain the updrafts and terrain shifts to me. Our weather on the front range is complex.

         But yeah, Al Gore predicted the current GOP Assault on Reason

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      2. “Ya’ whinin’ libs wouldn’t have to worry about the weather now if Hunter Biden hadn’t stolen the election from Presidunce Ttump and His Magic Crayon! (. . . or if you’d have let Mike Pence do his job). Now, just go find your own damn paper towels, you people make me sick!”

         FOXMornin’News Pfruitlandia Area Weather Report for Nasty Old Men Suffering from Dementia

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5. The Rule of Holes Eduardo Rafael, Rule of Holes. What percentage of Americans are Canadian-born of Cuban heritage? You’re punching above your weight as a US Senator. 
    

   

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   1. Some people, especially some people with law degrees, should never attempt math . . .

      When All-White Was All Right

      Tucker Carlson also railed against the impending pick, saying, “Biden claims that his race counting is essential so that the court and the rest of his administration, quote, ‘looks like America.’” He continued, “Of all the lies that Joe Biden tells, this could be the easiest to check. We have the latest census numbers, and we can promise you with dead certainty that Joe Biden’s nominees look nothing like America, not even close.” Instead, Carlson said, a Black woman nominee will “represent about 7 percent of the population.”

      I say, look at it another way.

      Of the 115 justices who have served on the bench since 1789, 108 — roughly 94 percent — have been white men. Zero percent have been Black women.

      Viewed this way, through the long sweep of American history, the United States has some work to do.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/opinion/supreme-court-nomination-identity-politics.html

      . . . look who’s overrepresented now!

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      1. “When I’m sometimes asked ‘When will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]?’ and I say ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”

         ~Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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         1. Personally, I'm thinking 9 makes sense …. 9 women and 4 men, assigned one per circuit.  Those already confirmed can continue in their existing "life-time tenure".  The additional Justices would have life-time tenure as Article 3 judges, but NOT an assurance of staying as part of the Supreme Court.

            I'd also love to see them appointed to that circuit and then to the Supreme Court, with a steady rotation of 2 coming off every two years and moving to (their choice), active judge in "their" circuit or a district of the circuit, "senior status" to fill in around the country, or retirement.  The first 4 appointed may have "short" terms in order to start the rotation — but that would help lower the temperature of the confirmation process, too.

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6. Thank gob they're not calling it "The University of Colorado Plan" . . .

   Former Pence Chief of Staff Has Testified to the Jan. 6 Committee

   Mr. Short and Mr. Jacob were both closely involved in Mr. Pence’s consideration of whether to go along with Mr. Trump’s insistence that he try to block the official count of Electoral College results by a joint session of Congress. Three days before the proceeding, the two men met with John Eastman, a lawyer then advising Mr. Trump, about a memo Mr. Eastman had written setting out a case for why Mr. Pence had the power to hold off the certification.

   As a mob was attacking the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” Mr. Eastman sent a hostile email to Mr. Jacobs, blaming Mr. Pence for the violence.

   “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened,” the lawyer, Mr. Eastman, wrote to Mr. Jacob.

   Mr. Eastman has since invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to defy the committee’s subpoena.

   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/marc-short-mike-pence.html

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7. With.  Ttump.  There.  Is.  No.  Bottom.

   Trump Had Role in Weighing Proposals to Seize Voting Machines

   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/politics/donald-trump-election-results-fraud-voting-machines.html

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8. Drip. Drip. Drip. (and could someone please get Rona McDaniel Romney to define “considering”)

   LATE BREAKING via Twitter:  Republican National Committee is considering stopping payments for Trump’s upcoming legal bills; met in closed door session yesterday.

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