Thursday Open Thread

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1. For your schadenfreude pleasure: MTG gets schooled. (Sorry, Twitter)

   The Republican chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, is forced to strike MTG's words after she calls Alejandro Mayorkas a liar.

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   1. More schadenfreude: Colorado assault weapons ban fails. Memory holed in 3, 2, 1…..

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      1. Taking joy in the slaughter of kindergartners. More guns. More grenade launchers.

         Twisted POS with a gun fetish.

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         1. Pretty much. Negev is pathetic.

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      2. I would hope more Republicans are more open about their celebration. 

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2. MyPillow clown forced to eat his words and pay up his $5 million prize!

   The panel said Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert and 63-year-old Trump voter from Nevada, was entitled to the $5 million payout.

   Zeidman had examined Lindell’s data and concluded that it not only did not prove voter fraud, it had no connection to the 2020 election. He was the only expert who submitted a claim, arbitration records show.

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   1. I love that story very, very much.

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   2. I love pillowman's comment how he's going to take it to court.  Dude, don't set a dispute up for arbitration if you want to go to court.  His options in court are limited and narrow in scope and quite unlikely to succeed.  Delicious

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         Amen to that. Generally speaking, an arbitration panel can say that day is night, up is down, and a contract is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad, and there's not a goddamn thing a court can do about it.

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         1. Too bad Clarence Thomas already sold his mommy’s house — I could have seen him and PillowMike becoming such “good friends.”

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         2. It's why I advise clients to think carefully before proposing or agreeing to arbitration. 

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3. Worthwhile spending a few minutes listening to Chris Hayes talking about how the Right-wing Fox bubble was created, and why it’s so awful for the country. Again, apologize for linking to Twitter.

   Hayes is saying that it was an intentional strategy to destroy trust in established, shared-community institutions: Government, Media, Science, Universities. That was replaced with trusting only the FOX, which made it easy for Trump to come in a seize the trust. Cult -> Cult.

   I’d like to hear a report from Michael about his family’s existential crisis from the Fox News loss to Dominion. 

   The Republican Party is “all-in” on Trump as DeSatinist’s primary campaign collapses. Trump will win the primary because he always wins the dominance chest-thumping.

   80% of the country supports abortion rights, so if Democrats run on protecting the right to abortion (thanks, CHB), then I anticipate that they will gain a 10-15 point improvement in all the House seats. That puts a lot of seats into play, even if they’ve been gerrymandered.

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   1. I think you mean to say: "run on pro-choice."

      Desantis has been believing too many of the press clippings generated by his adoring, boot-licking, minions. In taking on Disney, it's being clearly shown that he is not in Bob Iger's league (Disney CEO). Disney is also a major economic driver in central Florida. Figure I saw was 463,000 jobs created by Disney.

      Desantis' "war" against "woke," drag queens, trans-genders is generating how many jobs again?

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      1. In think you are referring to Ron DeCantis.

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4. Has anyone seen Powerful Pear on here of late? I haven't seen him since before the Trump indictment. 

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