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Reporting this morning that Rep. Thomas Massie told Speaker Johnson he needs to resign as Speaker or he will join Marge Greene's Motion to Vacate. To quote Rodney Dangerfield,
I saw that but Tom Suozzi and Jarod Moskowitz, both Dems, have said that they will oppose a motion to vacate. And a few other Dems (Spanberger in VA, for one) have said that they would vote to spare Johnson provided he bring Ukraine aid up for a vote.
So, while it's nice and it turns the heat up on Johnson, I'm not expecting it to have the same result as it did last October.
I agree with you that the Dems will come to his rescue as long as he puts the Ukraine aid up for a vote. “Dems as his life raft” is only going to send Marge & Co into orbit. It’s actually a great way to keep the nutjob cockus distracted and the circus 🎪 on full display for this Fall’s independent/moderate voting bloc.
But how is Johnson gonna feel about being beholden to Dems for saving his ass? We know what the Freedumb Caucus will say, but won't it chap Johnson's hide, too? Kinda hard to slight the people who saved you.
Does he have a third option? If not he’ll either be humiliated by Dem support or humiliated by the Orange Buffoon. His very own Sophie’s choice?
You miss another option … Seeker Johnson cannot be humiliated by anyone, since he was chosen by God as the Moses for this moment.
Perhaps in the moment of crisis, with Putin's army in pursuit, he'll be able to part the Potomac River and lead the Republicans across. What awaits? Republicans worshipping a golden animal (calf? gorilla? elephant?) and years of wandering in the desert.
They've already gone past their idolatry stage …
CPAC’s “Golden Calf” Trump statue is a perfect metaphor for the state of the Republican Party – Vox
Maine has passed National Popular Vote! NPV needs 270 electoral votes to be effective, and Maine puts it at 209. I know there will be god-awful legal challenges if it actually gets to 270, and I wouldn't expect it to hit 270 soon. Still, a Swiss psychoanalyst can dream (oh boy can we dream!)!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/15/maine-national-popular-vote-compact/d2cc9cfc-fb6c-11ee-87ac-20f7e67cbe29_story.html
Is this Moddy's financial advisor? Is there a financial category for the annual Darwin Award? Crispi is a 2024 Trump delegate. He may need to launch a Go Fund Me account to get to the convention.
The Bill for the DJT Grift is Presented: OPINION
…which means whatever pile of cash people have invested in $DJT has just been lit on fire.
I have absolutely no sympathy for any of these fools.
What the hell did they expect? I'll let them in on a little secret. He's screwed over almost everyone he's done business with beginning with those fine lenders who loaned him money only to see it all go poof in bankrupcty court. And more than once.
Or all of his lawyers – except for the notorious late Roy Cohn – may have agreed to work for him on an hourly fee basis but found that along the way, it became their arrangement became a contingency fee contract.
Then there are all those construction contractors he refused to pay after they did the work.
These fools who thought they were going to ride his wave by buying into his Truth Social were just as stupid as the white trash MAGA folks who are cutting back on their booze, cigarettes and ammo to squeeze a little more $$$ to send to Trump's campaign.
"A fool and his money are soon parted." Proverbs 21:20. Indeed.
I sure hope that windfall Moddy accrued from Drumpf’s big ol’ tax cut (I assume he’s finished counting it by now) wasn’t invested in $DJT.
The Dominated and the Dominator. Josh Marshall at TPM.
Trump's going to be sitting in court for full days (9:30 until the judge calls it a day — today's proceedings continued past 5:30 p.m. ET), 4 days a week, for weeks to come. And the standard Trump defense has been to try to drag things out.
Trump can't do social media from the courtroom. He can't make calls to raise money. He can't choose to attend optional events such as the Supreme Court arguments on Presidential immunity. And every day, he will be seen for HOURS each day, sitting and unable to rant to an audience.
Wow, Just Gettysberg, Wow. Via Jon Stewart on FB.
Donald Trump cribs from Jon Stewart’s 7th grade book report. Seldom is Jon Stewart struck speechless. I suggest that the Democrats just run with the video of Trump's garbled history lesson.
Did you see the segment ahead of Gettysburg? Where they were arguing whether Trump was more like Mandela or Jesus? On Mandela: "well John, Trump may not have spent 27 years in jail, but if you add up all the sentences from his friend, associates, advisors and J6-ers, he's easily racked up 10x that much!"
And then there was this gem coming from the mouth of the man who is reportedly the leading cause of vaginal driness …..
Cotton Urges Citizens to Forcibly Confront Pro-Palestinian Protesters – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Shall we just say that "when
MexicoArkansa sends its people, they’re not sending their best. […] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us.Some, I assume, are good people”And while we are on the subject of Arkansas, there was this piece about Sarah "La Vaca" Huckabee Sanders and her grifting (well, she certainly learned at the foot of the master)…..
Audit Questions Purchase of $19,000 Lectern by Arkansas Governor’s Office – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
While Tom Cotton may be the leading cause of vaginal driness for women, the image of Governor Huckabee Sanders is a leading cause of ED amongst men.