Trump seems to question well-known part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood polio battle

Trump seems to question well-known part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood polio battle

President Donald Trump seemed to question a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood battle with polio — after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation Thursday as the nation's top health official. Trump attacked McConnell's mental acuity and said he had “no idea” if the senator had polio. The Oval Office barrage exposed the icy relationship between the Republican president and the former Senate GOP leader.

Just when you thought it all couldn’t get any stranger. 

Trump insults McConnell over RFK Jr. vote, casts doubts on polio diagnosis - Sen. Amy Klobuchar 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Judge Sets Five-Day Deadline For Trump Administration to Start Lifting USAID Funding Freeze
• Sweeping cuts hit recent federal hires as Trump administration slashes workforce
• With blitz of policies, Trump goes beyond Project 2025's goals
• The Free Press Shreds Trump's 'Shocking' Interventions at DOJ: 'What's Happening in New York Is Alarming'
• Israel-Gaza latest: Hamas to release three hostages including US-Israeli citizen this Saturday
• Zelensky says Ukraine's army will need to double in size if NATO membership is denied

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would. - Molly Jong-Fast

How To Alienate Your Allies In One Fell Swoop...

United States Vice President JD Vance launched a blistering attack on European governments on Friday, chastising them for ignoring the will of their people, overturning elections, ignoring religious freedoms and not acting to halt illegal migration.

It was a U.S.-style MAGA, red meat speech that eschewed detailed discussion of defense and security — the topic of the Munich Security Conference. Vance instead hit on some recent hot button cultural issues, from abortion laws in Britain to the recent election in Romania.

Thank you for the lessons, Mr Vance, but if you speak of democracy while supporting Europe's far right, you have no legitimacy. -  Guy Verhofstadt, President of European Movement International

It didn't end well for the people who drank Jim Jones's Kool-Aid. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Alina Habba Brags Trump Administration Has 'A Tremendous Amount of Billionaires'
• Bannon Warns Trump and Musk: There's 'A Lot of MAGAs on Medicaid' and They 'Can't Take a Meat Axe To It'
• Trump Gets Annoyed at Reporter Because ‘I Can’t Understand a Word He’s Saying’
• Kara Swisher Rips Elon Musk for Loving 'Dank Memes' and Insulting People: 'A 53-Year-Old Man Does Not Do This'
• Trump’s framed mug shot hangs outside Oval Office

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion. - Andrea Junker

Wow, This Is A Super Easy Way To Target People...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News host Laura Ingraham he might unleash artificial intelligence on the IRS to make the agency more efficient.

Bessent said on Thursday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle that he would decide what to do with the agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE finished its assessment.

We've got bird flu jumping to cows.

An unchecked TB outbreak.

Perfect time to confirm an anti-vaxxer.

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Rock The Voter News

• 'Learn To Read': AOC Fires Back at Trump Border Czar Who Threatened Her With 'Trouble'
• Democrats Go After Trump Over ‘Misguided and Detrimental’ NIH Cuts
• James Carville Says Dems 'Getting Overwhelmed,' Steve Bannon 'Is Right': 'We Are Flooded In S**t'

If a woman brought a toddler into the oval office she would never hear the end of it.

Killing Us Softly With Their Song...

House Republicans are putting cuts to Medicaid at the top of their list of budget cuts to help pay for their wide-ranging agenda that spans tax cuts, energy production and border security.

Republicans are eyeing changes to how much the federal government, as opposed to states, will contribute to Medicaid expenditures, a number called the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP).

Chuck Schumer has an exciting plan to appeal to younger voters and is at this moment recording his own dis track against Drake. - John Fugelsang

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Business/Tech News

• Canadians Say "Adios" to Disney World and Universal Studios, Canceling Their U.S. Trips and Going Here Instead for Their Summer Vacations
• NASA Astronauts Deny Trump's Claim Biden Abandoned Them In Plea To Anderson Cooper: 'Help Us Change The Narrative'
• House Republican Admits on CNN: ‘I Can’t Guarantee’ Trump Tariffs Won’t Raise Prices
• Chris Hayes Bursts Out Laughing When He Learns Trump Caused NYC Bank Account to Overdraft by $79.5 Million
• Internet Trolls Exploit Design Flaw In Elon Musk's DOGE Website To Push Fake Updates

I’m so over these mediocre white men and their fake f--king bravado. - Lakota Man

The Effects of High Egg Prices Continue...
With prices rising rapidly and showing no signs of slowing anytime soon, some of the nation’s biggest grocery store chains — including Trader Joe's, Walmart and Costco — have begun limiting the amount of eggs individual consumers can buy.

Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out.

Or when McConnell was chased out of a restaurant and not allowed a peaceful meal.

Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home.

That.

Do that. - Hillary Monahan  

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Happy Valentine's Day

from me to you! 

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Odd News

• Threat of newly-discovered asteroid hitting Earth has risen
• Alaska’s Largest Volcano Is Waking Up and There’s a 50-50 Chance of an Eruption
• Parts of San Francisco and Los Angeles are sinking into the sea — meaning sea-level rise will be even worse
• Michigan judge sentences Walmart shoplifters to wash cars in the parking lot
• Scammers using AI to dupe the lonely looking for love

Time To Deflate Photo

SHOUTOUT To My Canadian Friends. Chesterman Beach is a 1.7 mile stretch of sand bordering the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

Peace.