This is a good segment from All In with Chris Hayes:
He was in the meeting with Trump’s lawyers today. He’s apparently very hands on.
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Month: July 2023
Really????
Dreher is a big fan of modern fascist Viktor Orban, so I’m not surprised.
In case you don’t know, Nate Hochman was fired from the Desantis campaign this week after surreptitiously creating and disseminating two highly offensive videos, the first attacking transgender people (and Trump) and the second extolling DeSantis’ leadership using Nazi imagery:
DeSantis was warned and so was Dreher. They didn’t care. Tim Miller wrote about the hiring months ago:
There is no role in which the old maxim “personnel is policy” is more apt than that of presidential speechwriter. And there is good reason for that role to hold its exalted place in the mythos of the office.
Trump’s “American Carnage” was no doubt shaped by the dark, nativist views of his Gollum-like muse. Obama’s West Wing–era hopey-changey optimism was colored by the earnest and youthful pod-bros who wrote for him. And Bush’s Chesterton-infused evangelizing was sculpted by the faith of Michael Gerson and Matthew Scully. To say nothing of the last century’s legendary scribes for Reagan, JFK, and FDR (whose speechwriters included a multi-Pulitzer-winning playwright).
So I perked up when I heard scuttlebutt a few weeks ago that Ron DeSantis had chosen a speechwriter not from the ranks of the GOP’s classically liberal old order, but from the brash online “new right” that is more animated by culture wars and MAGA identity politics than by free markets and free people.
This week the writer, Nate Hochman, revealed himself in the very online way one might expect of a Gen Z wannabe power staffer—by updating his Twitter bio:
Earlier this month, it was reported that Hochman had gone to work for the Republican Party of Florida; his updated bio indicates that he won’t be just on the comms team, but will be crafting the words that come out of the governor’s mouth. (I reached out to DeSantis’s office for comment on the hire but have not heard back by the time of publication.)
Hochman, a conservative writer who has earned more ink by the age of 25 than anyone this side of Justin Bieber, has garnered a reputation as a young MAGA whisperer. The New Republic tagged him as one of “the radical young intellectuals who want to take over the American right.” He’s written for the Dispatch, National Review (where he was on staff), the Claremont Institute’s American Mind (where he interned), and more. Heck, even the Gray Lady turned to Hochman for a think piece about the secular culture war.
But like every MAGA intellectual (or “intellectual”) before him, Hochman, has found it necessary to cozy up to the movement’s gutter-dwelling racists in order to climb the ladder of influence.
As first reported by the Dispatch last year, Hochman participated in a Twitter Space with white nationalist virgin Nick Fuentes—and lavishly praised him. “We were just talking about your influence and we were saying, like, you’ve gotten a lot of kids ‘based’ and we respect that for sure,” Hochman said. “I literally said, I think Nick’s probably a better influence than Ben Shapiro on young men who might otherwise be conservative.”
The presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor wants to take the Republican Party in the…
He went on to discuss the merits and demerits of one of America’s most vile humans, saying the fact that he has said “super edgy things means that there’s a pretty strong ceiling to what you can actually accomplish in politics.”
“Edgy” is definitely one way to describe Holocaust denial!
When the Dispatch asked him about his Fuentes remarks, Hochman acknowledged that he said some “really stupid things, which I don’t actually believe”—but did not apologize.
In the intervening time The Bulwark was provided with the audio from the Twitter space—and it turns out that complimenting a white nationalist was not the only stupid thing Hochman uttered that day.
During his naked attempt to get Fuentes to think he was also based, Hochman says “when the man’s right, he’s right” in response to Fuentes’s claim that “women are goofy, okay, they should have no authority, they should have no authority over men.” Then, after Fuentes says that women “just really have no business in politics,” Hochman repeats his response: “When the man’s right, he’s right.”
Hochman later asked Fuentes how he plans to deal with the fact that “50 percent of American whites are, like, shitlibs now” if he wants to be successful in advancing white identity politics.
Women are goofy and shouldn’t be allowed in politics.
Half of white people are shitlibs.
Ron 2024.
Wanting to see if it’s true that Hochman “didn’t believe” the things he said in 2021 and was instead just trying to impress a racist douchebag, I listened to another longform interview from this past August during which the MAGA wunderkind laid out his ideology.
In this sitdown with the MAGA nonprofit American Moment, Hochman says, “I would just describe myself as a culture warrior first and foremost. I think that’s the easiest way to really think of it.” He believes that “at the forefront of what conservatism means” is “putting whatever it takes to resist the cultural revolution” brought on by the left. He says he hopes that the “Republican party agenda is going to cohere around the culture war as its organizing, totalizing force.”
As part of that #war, he offers a statement that echoes the message being put out by former President Trump saying that America’s “enemies are domestic not foreign.” Hochman says that it’s a “tragedy” that the debate around the “definition of marriage” is over and claims that we “wouldn’t be talking about transgenderism if we hadn’t first destroyed the meaning of marriage.”
With someone like Hochman aboard, it’s not a surprise that DeSantis’s first foray into foreign policy was a Tucker-approved written statement in which he tilted hard toward the party’s MAGA isolationist wing. Or that he backtracked from that in his first interview following the statement.
This will be one of the defining questions of the DeSantis campaign: Will pre-MAGA Ron re-emerge and bring aboard the GOP old guard? Or will he keep leaning toward the groypers and Orbánists and culture warriors on the nationalist “new right”?
The answer will depend on DeSantis himself—and on the staffers and advisers he chooses to surround himself with. Hochman’s hire is an early sign of which way it will go.
I totally see why DeSanbtis wanted this guy on his team. His entire campaign has been based on culture war tropes, including neo-fascist ideology. He knew. He liked it. Until it became obvious that his shitshow of a campaign strategy wasn’t working he was all in.
I guess Dreher is either a liar or a fool if he doesn’t understand the relationship between fascism and Orbanism.
Even Fox can’t deny it anymore.
Dean Baker with the deets:
Soaring Structure Investment Makes Up for Slowing Consumption, as GDP Grows at 2.4 Percent in Q2
The economy grew at a 2.4 percent annual rate in the second quarter, as strong investment growth offset slower consumption growth. Consumption spending grew at a just a 1.6 percent annual rate, down from a 4.6 percent rate in the first quarter. However, non-residential investment grew at 7.7 percent rate. Investment accounted for 0.99 percentage points of the growth in the quarter, only slightly less than the 1.12 pp attributable to consumption.
Soaring Factory Investment Continues to be Major Factor Driving Growth
All the categories of investment showed healthy growth in the quarter, with equipment investment growing at a 10.8 percent annual rate after falling the prior two categories. Those drops were likely driven largely by continuing supply chain problems with cars and semiconductor chips.
Structure investment increased at a 9.7 percent annual rate after growing at a 15.8 percent annual rate the last two quarters. This is driven by factory construction growing at a 94.0 percent annual rate. This is the clean energy and chip boom, resulting from the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS Act.
Investment in intellectual products grew at a modest 3.9 percent rate. The weakness is partly attributable to the writers strike, as investment in the entertainment category fell at a 1.2 percent rate after growing at a 5.5 percent rate in the first quarter.
Service Consumption Drives Growth in the Quarter
There was a huge surge in vehicle sales in the first quarter, which led to a 16.3 percent growth rate for durable goods. Vehicle sales fell somewhat in the second quarter, resulting in a modest 0.4 percent growth rate for durable goods. This was offset by a healthy 2.1 percent growth rate in consumption of services.
This is a sustainable pace, similar to the growth rate we were seeing before the pandemic. It is also encouraging that the pace of growth in health care spending seems to be relatively tame. Nominal spending on health care services did increase slightly as a share of total consumer spending in the quarter, rising from 15.9 percent to 16.0 percent of total consumption. However, this is down from 17.1 percent before the pandemic.
If health care spending remains contained, this will leave a lot more room for other areas to grow. However, an important caution is that nominal spending on prescription drugs rose at a 11.7 percent rate in the second quarter, after rising at a 10.9 percent rate in the first quarter. If this rapid pace of growth continues, it will be a problem.
Housing Continues to Contract at Modest Pace
Residential construction fell at a 4.2 percent rate in the second quarter after falling at a 4.0 percent rate in the first quarter. This subtracted 0.16 percentage points from growth in the quarter. Housing construction fell at double digit rates in the last three quarters of 2022, subtracting an average of 1.18 pp from growth in these quarters.
Residential investment is likely to be a modest negative in the rest of this year. The big falloff in mortgage refinancing, the costs of which get counted in residential investment, is in the past. However, there will be some continued slowing as the falloff in housing starts we saw since the Fed began raising rates, shows up in a drop in homes under construction. This effect has been delayed by the large backlog of unfinished homes created by pandemic supply chain issues.
Government Spending Grows at a 2.6 Percent Rate
The growth of government spending slowed to a 2.6 percent annual rate after growing at a 5.0 percent rate in the first quarter. The first quarter’s growth was driven by a 10.5 percent rise in non-defense federal spending. Spending in this category tends to be erratic, it fell at a 1.1 percent rate in this quarter. State and local spending grew at a 3.6 percent rate, down somewhat from the 4.4 percent rate in the first quarter.
Inventories Grew by Just $9.3 Billion in the Second Quarter
The rate of inventory accumulation plunged to just $3.5 billion in the first quarter, a drop from $136.5 billion in the fourth quarter. That falloff subtracted 2.14 pp from the quarter’s growth. The patterns in inventory accumulation have been even more erratic than usual in the pandemic and recovery due to supply chain issues.
The first quarter pace is still unusually low. A more normal pace would be in the neighborhood of $60 billion. This means we are likely to see some acceleration in inventory accumulation in the second half, which will be a modest boost to growth. However, this is offset by the fact that a large share of inventories come from imports, which means that a rising trade deficit will be a drag on growth.
Healthy Q2 Growth Implies Strong Productivity Growth in the Quarter
The index of aggregate hours from the establishment survey data was essentially flat in the second quarter, while self-employment was down from the first quarter. Value-added in the non-farm business sector (the numerator in the productivity calculation) grew at a 2.4 percent rate in the second quarter. This means that we should see a very strong productivity figure for the quarter.
That follows a reported decline of 2.1 percent for the first quarter. Quarterly, productivity data are always erratic, but have been even more erratic than usual in the pandemic recovery. The growth rate we are likely to see for the second quarter should put the post-pandemic productivity growth path somewhat ahead of the 1.0 percent rate we saw in the decade before the pandemic. If we see the promised benefits of AI, we would expect to see a faster growth rate.
Inflation Continues to Slow
The core PCE rose at a 3.8 percent annual rate in Q2, down from a 4.9 percent rate in Q1. It had peaked at 6.0 percent rate in the second quarter of 2021. With the prices of most inputs now stabilized or falling, and rental inflation slowing sharply, this downward path should continue for the second half of 2023.
On the Whole a Very Solid GDP Report
There is little not to like in this report. The economy is growing at a solid sustainable pace, with strong investment growth making up for slower consumption growth. Inflation is slowing and likely to continue to do so. And, we will get a very strong productivity number for the quarter. It would be difficult to envision a better picture at this point in the recovery.
Overthrowing democracy is not like a health care debate or a highway bill
A good piece by Mark Z Barabak in the LA Times:
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. That is an incontrovertible fact.
And yet for many Republicans — including most of those seeking the party’s 2024 nomination — Trump’s irrefutable loss and direct responsibility for the Jan. 6 insurrection are a verity they dodge and duck.
At least right now.
Florida’s flailing governor, Ron DeSantis offers a prime example.
The won’t-back-down-culture warrior, who gleefully stoops to swat at teachers and transgender people, meekly tucks his tail when it comes to Trump’s Big Lie and Jan. 6.
DeSantis won’t say if he believes President Biden was duly elected and suggests it’s wrong to call the assault on the Capitol “a plan to somehow overthrow the government of the United States” — though how else would you define a violent attempt to overturn the result of a free and fair election?
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott blames the attempted coup on “the folks who broke into the Capitol” but not Trump — which is like faulting the gunman for a murder and absolving the mob boss who ordered the hit.
Scott and others in the Republican presidential field glancingly acknowledge Biden’s victory (mumble, mumble) then go on to amplify provocative, unfounded claims of voter fraud and other election irregularities, which serves only to legitimize Trump’s bogus claims.
Their motivation isn’t hard to figure out.
Polls have consistently shown most Republicans buying into Trump’s lie about a stolen election, or at least telling pollsters they do. The sentiment is strongest among the likeliest GOP voters; roughly a third of the party base might be described as Bergdorf Goodman Republicans — those willing to back Trump even if he raped a woman in the department store’s dressing room.
The candidate most bluntly calling out Trump’s mendacity — New Jersey’s ex-Gov. Chris Christie — and the one most directly associated with thwarting Trump’s failed attempt to reverse the election — former Vice President Mike Pence — are both running far out of contention for the nomination.
Pence may not even qualify for the stage at next month’s scheduled Republican presidential debate.
Yeesh.
There is, of course, nothing new about a candidate running to the right (or left) to secure their party’s nomination, then scurrying toward the center in the general election. It’s a well-thumbed page from the campaign playbook.
But today’s Republicans aren’t simply running rightward. They’re running “Trumpward,” as GOP strategist Gunner Ramer put it, “scared of alienating the always-Trump bloc within the Republican Party.”
Ramer is political director for the Republican Accountability Project, a group working to deprogram members of the Cult of Trump.
As the 2022 midterms demonstrated, election denialism is a non-starter with most voters outside the MAGA minority. The GOP lost winnable races in Nevada, Arizona, New Hampshire and elsewhere around the country, turning an anticipated red wave into a pink puddle, by fielding numerous candidates who parroted Trump and his incessant lies.
Naturally, if he’s the 2024 nominee, Trump will keep it up. But if someone else emerges to lead the GOP, watch how he or she does an about-face, moving to get on the right side of most voters.
In Nevada, Adam Laxalt was one of the architects of efforts to overturn Biden’s victory and he recklessly fobbed off Trump’s falsehoods throughout the 2022 GOP Senate primary. Then, once nominated, Laxalt allowed as how, yes, Biden had certainly won the White House and was legitimately president.
(Laxalt was among those deservedly defeated.)
In California, 2022 controller candidate Lanhee Chen steadfastly refused throughout the primary season to say whether he’d voted for Trump for president. Then, lo, just a few weeks later Chen revealed to CalMatters that he’d never cast a ballot for Trump and wouldn’t in 2024.
(Chen also lost in the general election, though given California’s Democratic hegemony he doubtless would have been defeated even if he’d tattooed “I ❤️ Joe” to his forehead.)
In 2012, during the Republican primaries, a strategist for Mitt Romney discussed his boss’ positioning in the race.
Asked if he was concerned that Romney’s rightward movement would complicate efforts to win in November, Eric Fehrnstrom glibly responded, “I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it.”
Fehrnstrom’s statement was one of those gaffes in which he’d merely said the quiet part out loud — though his candor certainly didn’t help Romney, who was already dogged by an image of ideological elasticity.
Some Republicans may try to Etch A Sketch away their timidity toward Trump come the fall campaign. But voters should remember which candidates had the guts to speak truth and at what point in the election season.
Spreading Trump’s corrosive lies — or, at the least, enabling his mendacity by failing to call him out— is no typical infraction, like blithely promising a balanced budget or overstating the benefits of reforming the healthcare system. It’s a knife directly in the heart of our democracy.
They say character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.
But sometimes it’s doing the right thing when everyone is watching.
Bergdorf Goodman Republicans? It’s a little bit counterintuitive since most of the people who stand by Trump-the-rapist have probably never heard of the place.
He sounds a little uhm — over-stimulated to me.
Meanwhile, one of the most right wing members of congress doesn’t care for this idea that slavery was actually beneficial for the enslaved:
And …. DeSantis, of course, goes after Donalds:
Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. affirmed to superintendents Wednesday afternoon that the standards will be approved in their current form.
Responding to Donalds, Diaz slammed the congressman as “supposedly conservative” and part of the federal government trying to “dictate Florida’s education standards.”
“This new curriculum is based on truth,” he said. “We will not back down from teaching our nation’s true history at the behest of a woke @WhiteHouse, nor at the behest of a supposedly conservative congressman.”
Jeremy Redfern, the press secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis, also called Donalds a “supposed conservative.”
“Supposed conservatives in the federal government are pushing the same false narrative that originated from the @WhiteHouse,” Redfern said. “Florida isn’t going to hide the truth for political convenience.”
“Maybe the congressman shouldn’t swing for the liberal media fences like @VP [Kamala Harris],” DeSantis’ press secretary continued.
In response, Donalds noted he “expressed support for the vast majority of the new African American history standards” but only opposed “one sentence that seemed to dignify the skills gained by slaves as a result of their enslavement.”
“Anyone who can’t accurately interpret what I said is disingenuous and is desperately attempting to score political points,” Donalds continued. “Just another reason why l’m proud to have endorsed President Donald J. Trump!”
I hate to tell Donalds but DeSantis’ stand is very Trumpy.
As I write this, CNN is reporting that Trump’s lawyers are meeting with the Special Counsel today as the Grand Jury has convened in DC. Buckle up.
Meanwhile, here’s Trump caterwauling last night. It would appear he knew …. something:
Lol!
“We’ll have fun on the stand with all of these people that say the Presidential Election wasn’t Rigged and Stollen. THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY!!!” he declared, spelling “stolen” as he often does, as “stollen,” which is actually a popular German Christmastime dessert.
“To serve Man,” indeed
“The Beat with Ari Melber” on Wednesday featured a segment in which astrophysicist Adam Frank offered skeptical commentary on the congressional UFO/UAP hearings. In her wrap-up, MSNBC’s Katie Phang quipped that she got her information on aliens from a “documentary” called Independence Day.
I like a good movie about aliens as much as the next person, but they are movies. The Twitter/Xitter/whatever comments on the hearings were withering. Most ran along the lines of, “So aliens travel here possibly from hundreds of light years away only to crash? Repeatedly?”
Perhaps what we need more than a congressional hearing on UFOs/UAPs is one on the credulity pandemic.
Among the key findings in the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) report that Kevin Drum references is this:
Continued Widespread Distrust in American Democratic Institutions and
Belief in Anti-Democratic Political Conspiracy Theories
About 40 percent of Americans share at least one attitude reflecting deep distrust of American democratic institutions – such as elections will not solve America’s fundamental problems and political leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties are the most immoral people in America – and this deep distrust is shared across the political spectrum. About 20 percent of Americans believe anti-democratic political conspiracy theories about how the country is run, but the exact belief varies across the political spectrum.
The Guardian on the report:
The number of Americans who believe the use of force is justified to restore Trump to the White House increased by roughly 6 million in the last few months to an estimated 18 million people, according to the survey conducted by the university in late June and shared exclusively with the Guardian.
Of those 18 million people, 68% believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and 62% believe the prosecutions of Trump are intended to hurt his chances in 2024. An estimated 7% of Americans now believe violence could be necessary to restore Trump to the presidency, up from 4.5%, or 12 million people, in April.
There’s no mention of aliens in the report. (And I thought Trumpers believed the election was stollen.)
Sigh:
That’s 16.5% of Republicans.
Be careful with your car’s AC
North Carolina ain’t Phoenix, but it’s still hot. Especially on the coastal plain. Probably where you are as well. CNN’s Alexandra Meeks issues a warning in her “5 Things” newsletter:
More than 140 million Americans from coast-to-coast are under heat alerts today. Parts of the Northeast will see their highest temperatures this year while temperatures in the Midwest will be up to 20 degrees above normal. The extreme weather has also gripped the country’s southern tier from Southern California to Florida since June. And Phoenix, one of the hardest-hit cities in this summer’s scorching heat, is in its fourth week in a row of temperatures over 110 degrees, smashing a previous record of 18 straight days. President Joe Biden is expected to announce actions to combat extreme weather in a briefing today as the heat wave expands across the US.
This was Phoenix in May:
Another toddler got burned the same way in Colorado this month.
Solar-heated hot tub
You thought Florida was too politically hot for trans people? It’s not too safe for wildlife either (NPR):
It’s so hot in Florida right now that the ocean temperature in one area just crossed into the triple digits.
On Monday, a water temperature sensor in Manatee Bay near Everglades National Park recorded a temperature of 101.1 degrees, according to a park spokesperson.
The startling data matched high water temperatures observed elsewhere in the Florida Bay recently, and the scorching conditions could pose a major risk to coral and other marine life, experts warn.
BBC:
NOAA this week raised its coral bleaching warning system in the Keys to Alert Level 2, its highest heat stress level.
“This is a hot tub. I like my hot tub around 100, 101, (37.8C, 38.3C) That’s what was recorded yesterday,” Yale Climate Connections meteorologist Jeff Masters told Associated News.
Hot tub makers recommend temperatures of 37C-40C (9F8-104F).
I have to wonder if the three Marines who died of carbon monoxide poisoning near North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune over the weekend were running the air conditioner in their parked Lexus to fight the heat:
Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff’s Office found the three men Sunday morning in a privately owned Lexus sedan parked outside a Speedway gas station in the coastal community of Hampstead. Autopsies performed Wednesday by the North Carolina medical examiner’s office determined that all three deaths were the result of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the sheriff’s office.
It’s tragic. And it’s getting worse. Look again at the cartoon at the top and at the dinosaurs posing with the asteroid.
I literally walk off the morning’s bad news each day after posting and need to get done before temperatures reach the 80s. Today, that’s 10:30 EDT.
They have brainwashed the right into being pro-Putin and even Sean Hannity can’t stop him.
I’m too tired to go into why he’s wrong about everything so I’ll just let Evan at Wonkette explain:
Legitimate Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was feeling like ending the polarization, so last night he visited Sean Hannity, where the polarization ends, for an exclusive town hall.
That’s what he literally said at the end of the interview when Hannity asked him why he was running for president. He said he would end the polarization by telling the truth. SPOILER: When somebody asks you why you’re running for president, and the beginning of your answer is “I mean …” and then a long pause, you’re definitely about to tell the truth.
That’s how the interview ended, so now we’ll backtrack.
The meat of the interview didn’t do much to end the polarization or spread the truth, unless you’re one of the fluffers in King Putin’s court, in which case the message was exactly what you instructed your propagandists to disseminate to the useful idiots.
This next clip is just astounding for the amount of Kremlin-infused bullshit it contains, and the anti-American lies. We don’t know if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been literally turned or compromised by Russia, or if his brain is just so unvaccinated against obvious Russian propaganda that he’s always ready and eager to regurgitate it on command. He’s absorbed these lies good.
Hannity couldn’t even put up with it, not that he did an actual good job of pushing back like a real journalist or anything.
It started when Kennedy began babbling that we (America) had “pushed” Ukraine into war with Russia. He has said hallucinatory DSM-V freakshow shit like this before.
“Because of our pushing the Ukraine into the war—” [Kennedy said], before Hannity sought clarification.
“We pushed them into it or did Putin invade?” the Fox host asked.
“Well, let me answer your question,” replied Kennedy Jr., who then accused the U.S. of sabotaging the Minsk agreements in 2014 and 2015, which aimed to end the Donbas war yet largely failed to stop the fighting between Russian separatists and Ukraine’s armed forces.
“Putin, in good faith, began withdrawing troops from the Ukraine. What happened? We sent Boris Johnson over there to torpedo it because we don’t want peace. We want the war with Russia,” he argued, drawing applause from the audience.
“Drawing applause from the audience.” That’s the kind of anti-American fools a typical Fox News audience is full of now. Tucker’s shadow looms large.
Kennedy just babbled out conspiracy theories somebody has syringed into his brain, for instance claiming State Department official Victoria Nuland ordered Zelenskyy not to make peace with Russia. (She was a private citizen at the time Kennedy cited.) Nuland factors into a lot of pro-Russia conspiracy theories, and plays a starring role in the one about secret Ukraine/US biolabs. Guess which other dumb shit believes in that one.
Kennedy has said he loves Tucker Carlson’s favorite Russian propaganda dispenser Douglas MacGregor. Maybe that’s the turncoat he’s getting some of this shit from.
Wonkette has explained why Kennedy’s understanding of the very recent history he tried to explain in the town hall doesn’t speak well to the overall health of his brain.
So did Alexander Vindman, after the town hall aired last night.
“Absolutely nothing this clown said is remotely correct,” he tweeted. “The dates, names, places, context, everything was wrong. To anyone who understands this topic he sounds like a complete ignoramus.”
Guess that’s what happens when you’re on the receiving end of a game of telephone that starts with Vladimir Putin’s morning farts.
In this video, Bobby’s just cheering for the home team. You know, if the home team is Russia. He’s furious at even the suggestion that Russia won’t win its genocidal child-raping war against Ukraine, saying it would be like America losing a war to Mexico.
Of course one way to make sure Ukraine does win the war is for the entire western world to rally behind Ukraine and make sure it has every dollar and weapon it needs to fully kick the shit out of Russia, and beat it back all the way to Ukraine’s 1991 borders. And then once the foul stench of the last Russian soldier leaves the country, grant Ukraine full NATO membership to make sure this never happens again.
But something tells us the shame of the Kennedy family wouldn’t like that outcome. Too much winning on the good guys’ side.
What has happened to this country???
Republicans are all saying that this proves Hunter Biden needs to go to jail for the rest of his life. And it means that Joe Biden is the most corrupt leader in the history of the world:
We now know that the deal is on hold and they will appear in court in a couple of weeks presumably with this deal ironed out.
This is just par for the course these days. As I Xitted earlier: