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Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) is the latest Republican to announce his retirement from Congress. Republicans who want to remain know that Trump's attitude toward the end of ACA subsidies ("Don't make it sound so bad") is the kiss of death and have signed up to force a vote on Obamacare extensions despite the speaker's opposition, including Mike Lawler of New York and Brian Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mackenzie and Robert Bresnahan of Pennsylvania.
They're not the only ones trying to put daylight between themselves and disaster. Abby Spencer Moffat and Shane McCullar resigned from the board of the Heritage Foundation over board president Kevin Roberts's support for Tucker Carlson and his new bestie Nick Fuentes. Mick Foley has quit the WWE over Trump's "incredibly cruel" comments on the death of Rob Reiner: "I no longer wish to represent a company that coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our country towards autocracy." (Foley and Trump were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in the same year, 2013.) Even Ted Cruz got out of step with Brendan Carr over his threats to Disney and Jimmy Kimmel Live! before re-framing them as something Democrats might do (although they never have) and pronouncing Kimmel "angry, overtly partisan and profoundly unfunny." And Lindsey Graham, the Senate's weathervane, is all excited about the pending war with Venezuela ("Finish him off," he demanded, referring to Nicolas Maduro) but still wants Hague-seth to release video of the "double-tap," their breezy term for the murder of two men clinging to the wreckage of their boat. Graham porn.
As for the Secretary of Warfighting he's preparing for war by cleaning the dead wood out of the military chaplain corps. He's appalled that the Army Spiritual Fitness Guide "mentions God one time...it mentions 'feelings' eleven times." I'm appalled that it exists. Why are we spending public money on clergy? "Our chaplains are chaplains, not emotional support officers." No more secular humanism in this man's army and a man's army is just what it will be, until they can't make up the numbers and have to reinstitute a draft. What, you thought Pete would accept atheists, non-Christians and DEI (women, transgender, African Americans)? Let's hope we never have to fight a real war.
Hague-seth will be dismayed to learn that the Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned former education Supt. Ryan Walters's directive to indoctrinate K-12 students in his version of Christianity under the guise of teaching social studies. The state won't be spending $6 million on Trump Bibles, it seems.
It won't make Greasy Pete any happier to hear that Pope Leo is replacing anti-LGBTQ Timothy Dolan with Ronald Hicks as Archbishop of New York. Dolan's greatest hits include comparing same-sex marriage to incest and lying that churches were being forced to perform same-sex ceremonies after marriage equality was legalized in New York. Hicks is currently bishop of Joliet, near the pope's hometown.
Here's a first: A declaration of war on social media. Not even one of the big ones, Truth Social. With the Congressionally mandated release of the Epstein files a day away it was time to wag that dog: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America." How an armada can surround a country with land borders is not specified, but he got the continent right. Biden slur, check, "like nothing they have ever seen before," check, and a mysterious comment about "all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us." Nurse! Bring the restraints, he's out of his room!
Trump hosted a Hanukkah reception but I guess he couldn't make the atrocity in Sydney fit his narrative about evil Muslims, so he treated the guests to a lecture on "his" planes:
"They can fly those things. The way they can aim it at a target. In the dark of night, the darkest you've ever seen, they want it to be as dark as possible...the only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes opened up. Because it becomes totally un-stealth when it goes -- for some reason the plane is totally visible, not good...it's like I'm sitting home watching, you know, it's amazing, the Situation Room is an amazing place but I watched them go bing-bing, it went bing-bing, and two massive hundred thousand pound bombs come pouring out and the job they did was incredible." Happy Hanukkah! Who's got the dreidl?
At the Congressional Christmas party the host's remarks were less belligerent but equally appropriate: "The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all the stuff...it's coming out in truckloads. If the vote in California was legitimate, which it's not...we would win California by a lot." Funny but Jack Smith said something similar: His team developed "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that Trump criminally conspired to overturn the results of that very election. Back up the trucks! Let's see your cards. Smith wants to testify openly before Congress and I want him to.
There was another near collision of a re-fueling tanker with a private jet over the Caribbean Saturday. Since the commander in chief says they're invisible maybe they should turn their transponders back on. Before somebody goes bing-bing for good.
He slipped the restraints last night, too, and decorated his "Presidential Walk of Fame" with incoherent and ungrammatical abuse of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. I believe I read that the picture of Biden was replaced with an autopen, get it? DO YOU GET IT? How long before Obama gives way to a picture of a gorilla? Nurse!
If you want more of this drollery, Dear Leader has commandeered time on the networks he hates for another fact-free address about his amazing economy, his tarted-up White House and how the world respects us as never before. Turner Classic Movies is showing three films based on Jane Austen novels if you just can't face the Fireside Twat.
Since the host country gets to add an event, Victim Blaming should be included in the Los Angeles Olympics. We'd win every medal. Asked about the shooting at Brown University Trump suggested they "ask the school a little bit more...this was a school problem. They had their own guards. They had their own police...you'd have to ask the school, not the FBI." (The gunman remains at large.) This was after Brown agreed to pay a $50 million bribe last summer -- imagine if there was a shooting at Harvard. Rob Reiner and his wife died because "he was a deranged person," another victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Who's to blame for the high price of everything? We are, MAGAs and woke Marxist leftists alike! "Of course you're still struggling to get by. Rome was not built in a day," says J.D. Vance. Struggle harder. Eat less. Wear warmer clothes.
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