“I've had it with her’: McCarthy criticism of Liz Cheney caught on hot mic

“I've had it with her’: McCarthy criticism of Liz Cheney caught on hot mic

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught on a hot mic criticizing Rep. Liz Cheney, whose position in the GOP caucus is in peril following repeated criticisms of former President

It is fascinating that the right is saying Dick Cheney’s daughter isn’t horrible enough for them. - Tony Posnanski

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• U.S. spike in domestic terrorism 'keeps me up at night,' attorney general says
• Garland emphasizes national security, civil rights in budget hearing
• Armed suspect shot outside of CIA headquarters dies, FBI says
• Rick Santorum could not have been more wrong about Native American contributions to U.S. culture

Santorum is Latin for asshole. -- former Sen. Bob Kerrey

 

The Chinese Crowdfunded The Proud Boys. Yeah, You Read That Right.

The donations started coming in around 10 p.m. on Dec. 17.

A donor named Li Zhang gave $100. A few minutes later, someone named Jun Li donated $100. Then Hao Xu gave $20, followed shortly by $25 from a Ying Pei. In all, almost 1,000 people with Chinese surnames gave about $86,000 to a fundraiser on the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo for members of the extremist street gang the Proud Boys.

The BIG LIE is just like the Birth Certificate lie.

The 2020 election was not stolen for Biden and Obama was born in Hawaii. - Scott Huffman

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Rick Santorum Squirms and Says He 'Misspoke' as Chris Cuomo Grills Him on Comments About Native Americans
• Tucker Carlson Goes After Kevin McCarthy for Being 'Roommates' WIth Frank Luntz: 'Mystery Solved!'
• Tucker Carlson Rants About Colleges Requiring Vaccines: ‘They Will Have Total Power Over Your Body and Your Mind Forever’
• Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Trump for Roasting Mitt Romney in a MEMO: 'We'll Make Sure to Fax it' to Him
• Joe Walsh Blasts GOP's 'Surreal' Treatment of Liz Cheney: 'To Be Viable in Today's Republican Party You Have to Lie'
• Dominion says Sidney Powell should face accountability for voter fraud conspiracies: 'She leveled falsehoods as deadly serious assertions of fact'
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issues executive order suspending all local COVID-19 restrictions in state

Still haven’t gotten used to someone named Cheney being opposed to a lie. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

Anybody But DeSantis!

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, who served as Florida governor for a single term before running other offices, is seeking the state’s highest office once again — this time as a Democrat.

After releasing videos Tuesday confirming his candidacy, Christ held an outdoor rally that sought to contrast his record with that of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis Says Florida Will Lift Coronavirus Restrictions to Focus on Voting Restrictions. - Andy Borowitz

 

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden shakes up vaccine strategy as he sets new goal
• Biden formally lifting refugee cap to 62,500
• Why do the Carters look so tiny alongside Joe Biden and his wife Jill in this picture?

Dear Republicans: Donald Trump f*cking lost. Put on your big boy (and big girl) pants and get over it. - Stephen King

 

 

Fake Christian Alert! Fake Christian Alert!

A Christian pastor named Robin Bullock has told his congregation that it's a sin to refer to Joe Biden as "president."

A video of Bullock's sermon, reposted by Right Wing Watch, shows the pastor telling his congregants that they should pray for Biden.

The original Constitution counted black folks as 3/5ths of a person.

Today’s GOP consider that far too generous. - Tea Pain

 

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If Fox News were around in 1955, we’d still have polio. - Helen Kennedy

Business/Tech News

• MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL players groups voice support for pro-union bill
• U.S. House panel to discuss low-carbon fuel with airline, biofuel industries
• After $53 billion in European sales last year, Amazon paid $0 in corporate taxes
• Bill and Melinda Gates announce divorce

Romney's actually a rather sinister capitalist;

the kind that suckered the GOP for decades

until a racist landlord from queens did it better. - John Fugelsang

Good For Jake Tapper! He Doesn't Want Liars On His Show Anymore.

CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday questioned why any Republicans who promote false election fraud theories should be given any airtime.

“If they’re willing to lie about Joe Biden wanting to steal your hamburgers, and QAnon and the Big Lie about the election, what are they not willing to lie about?” Tapper said. “Why should I put any of them on TV?”

Americans, do you ever just look back at the last four years and go “what the actual f*ck was that?” 

Because I’m not American and I do that all the time. - Ida Skibenes

 

 

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Odd News

• Maryland woman sets house on fire with person inside, watches from chair on front lawn, officials say
• It’s Star Wars Day, and a meteor shower is on its way to Seattle-area skies
• Rocket debris from China's space station launch is hurtling back to Earth — and scientists aren't sure where it will land
• Belgian farmer mistakenly moves country's border with France
• Marshmallow launched 225 feet, 10 inches, caught in man's mouth

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I sure hope that raven found that earring on the ground and not plucked from someone's ear.
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping..." - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Peace.

CNN’s Jim Acosta Mocks Trump’s ‘Sad Old Elvis Act’ At Mar-A-Lago: ‘Like Watching the Hall of Discredited Presidents at Disney World’

CNN’s Jim Acosta Mocks Trump’s ‘Sad Old Elvis Act’ At Mar-A-Lago: ‘Like Watching the Hall of Discredited Presidents at Disney World’

CNN Newsroom anchor Jim Acosta mocked former President Donald Trump for putting on a “sad old Elvis act” at Mar-a-Lago, referring to a video clip of Trump halfheartedly repeating his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

I’d like to see Mar-a-Lago turned into a prison. - Mayo tweet

 

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• McConnell: 'The bipartisanship of last year has broken down' because Dems are 'stretching out the pandemic'
• Experts warn low vaccine levels among police officers are looming public health risk
• DHS weighs outside contracts to monitor extremists online

America won’t ever attain “Herd Immunity” because we have too much “Herd Stupidity.” - David Leavitt 

 

The Dumbing Down of Children Continues...
A fifth-grade math and science teacher peddled a bogus conspiracy theory Wednesday to students at Centner Academy, a private school in Miami, warning them that they should not hug parents who had been vaccinated against the coronavirus for more than five seconds because they might be exposed to harmful vaccine shedding.

Crazy that Matt Gaetz’s Venmo and text exchanges don’t even raise an eyebrow in a party that’s generated incredible conspiracy mileage out of “child trafficking”... - Cyrus McQueen

 

The people who preached herd immunity in 2020

are now the reason we won't reach herd immunity in 2021. - John Fugelsang

 

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP Congressman Defends Liz Cheney: She May Not Fit in Current GOP Because 'She Isn't Going to Lie to People'
• Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Botches Pledge of Allegiance at Lin Wood Rally
• House Republicans request hearing with Capitol Police Board for first time since 1945
• Trump lawyers up after Capitol cops sue him for inciting MAGA mob
• Chris Wallace Presses GOP Senator on Trump-Era Tax Cuts: ‘What’s Wrong With’ Corporations, Wealthy People Paying More?
• Brian Kilmeade Goes OFF on Biden Adviser's 'Unbelievably Insulting' Caution on School Reopening
• Pelosi's archbishop calls for Communion to be withheld from public figures supporting abortion rights
• Sen. Mitt Romney booed at Utah GOP convention
• Experts call for federal monitors of Arizona Senate election audit, citing violations of voting laws

The fact that Republicans are fighting against people like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney is so monumentally stupid and it will help Democrats. - Jason Elias

 

 

Dear Lord, Florida's Governor Is Taking Away People's Right To Be Safe
Gov. Ron DeSantis kept his promise and signed a bill into law Monday that bars businesses, schools and government entities across Florida from asking anyone to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.

The Arizona state Senate has completed their audit and has proven that Donald Trump did in fact win the Emmys. - Jeremy Newberger

 

Republicans never call it socialism when they give away trillions to the rich.- Andy Borowitz

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Thousands of Fact-checkers Laid Off In Biden’s First Hundred Days. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Not The 'Enemy of the People': Biden Salutes 'Fierce Bravery of Journalists' on World Press Freedom Day
• DNC Raises $15.4 Million Online During Biden's First 100 Days
• Bill Nelson has been sworn in as NASA Administrator
• Most in new poll say government should help Americans age in homes, not institutions
• Joe Manchin says he opposes DC statehood bill, dealing blow to efforts to make nation's capital the 51st state

Republicans Lack Critical Thinking Skills, In Case You Haven't Noticed.

Some Florida Republicans are reportedly growing concerned that a new bill curbing the use of mail-in voting could end up backfiring on the party...After all, the bill will be "curtailing a practice that millions of state Republicans use," the Post writes, and Republicans are worried their "political fortunes are in peril" as a result.

The idea that you can’t add states to the Union is pretty much undercut by a flag with more than 13 stars. - Dan Rather

 

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Business/Tech News

•  Cruz, Rubio ramp up criticisms of big business
• Facebook Set to Decide Whether Trump Will Be Allowed Back on Platform
• Chip shortage forces production cuts at two Ford plants in Germany
• German Oktoberfest canceled again due to COVID-19

Private equity Buys Yahoo! and AOL.. I guess they'll figure out how to get people to pay for email. 
Verizon announced on Monday that it is selling Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion to private-equity firm Apollo Global Management. Verizon made the deal official just a few days after news reports said that Verizon had put Yahoo and AOL up for sale. The media division will be known just as "Yahoo" after the sale is completed later this year.

From The Archives: Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs. - The Onion

From My Archives, 7 Years Ago During The Benghazi Hearings

I’m waiting for the first great pandemic literary novel—LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID. - Stephen King

 

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Odd News

• Good samaritan jumps off bridge to rescue infant after violent crash
•  Ancient DNA retells story of Caribbean’s first people
• North Carolina man breaks record with 3,050 pushups in one hour
• Police find reported COVID-19 violation was a mannequin
• Bird flocks become unwelcome guests in California homes

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Sunflower seeds growing into sunflowers while still in the sunflower.

Peace.

Bombshell Letter: Gaetz Paid for Sex With Minor, Wingman Says

Bombshell Letter: Gaetz Paid for Sex With Minor, Wingman Says

A confession letter written by Joel Greenberg in the final months of the Trump presidency claims that he and close associate Rep. Matt Gaetz paid for sex with multiple women—as well as a girl who was 17 at the time.

Donald Trump refuses to talk to Matt Gaetz because he likes rapists who don't get caught. - Middle Age Riot

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'Crisis' Update: Children in Border Patrol Custody Drops 84 Percent in a Month, Time in Custody Drops By 105 Hours
• White House: 100 million Americans now fully vaccinated
• CNN's Brianna Keilar Lists All the Insane Ways Capitol Insurrectionists Were Arrested
• DOJ to Indict Derek Chauvin, Was Going to Arrest Him at Courthouse if Found Not Guilty: Report
• Georgia deputy said that beating Black man was 'sweet stress relief,' feds say

The NRA reminds you that your children aren't quite as important as the right of convicted felons to obtain a gun. - John Fugelsang

 

Go Merick. Go Merrick. Go Merrick. GO!
Attorney General Merrick Garland is quickly negating the Trump administration’s law enforcement legacy, dismaying conservatives with a burst of aggressive reversals and new policies.

“Think back to the day after 9/11. Someone tells you that in the future the home and office of #AmericasMayor would be invaded by the authorities and he’d most likely wind up being charged.  You’d think  they were nuts.” - Bette Midler tweet

 

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Michael Cohen Predicts Giuliani Will Flip on Trump: Rudy Would Give Him Up ‘In a Heartbeat’
• Rudy Giuliani Claims Feds Raiding His Home Refused to Take Hunter Biden's 'Hard-Drives'
• Firing of U.S. Ambassador Is at Center of Giuliani Investigation
• Tucker Carlson Says Media Performed 'A Series Of Symbolic Sex Acts' on Biden After Speech to Congress
• Noem sues Biden administration over rejection of Mount Rushmore fireworks
• MAGA Attorney Lin Wood Crazily Insists Donald Trump Is Still in the Oval Office
• Ghislaine Maxwell appears in photo with bruise under her eye
• Former Reality Star And Scion Of Famed Evangelical Family Josh Duggar Arrested
• More abortion restrictions passed this week compared to any week in last decade

Let this sink in.

Currently, key figures in the Republican Party are under investigation for human traffickin’, child pornography and willingly workin’ with Russia to end democracy. - Tea Pain tweet

 

 

Anyone who thinks the Republican Party is not a cult should ask Mike Pence why he is cool with his boss trying to make him a human sacrifice. - Middle Age Riot

Grifters Grifting. Good, More Evidence.

Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), two of the most conservative members of the House, are joining forces.

The pair filed paperwork with the Federal Election Committee (FEC) on Friday for a joint fundraising committee dubbed Put America First, a move that will allow them to combine their star power on the far right and take in larger checks from donors.

 

 

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McConnell Refuses To Stand And Applaud After Biden Says Puppies Are Nice. - Andy Borowitz

 

Rock The Voter News

• Kamala Harris to speak at the Naval Academy's commencement ceremony
• Joe Stops to Pick Flower for Jill Biden on Their Way to Ga. Rally and to Visit Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
• Joe and Jill Biden Confirm There Will Be a White House Cat That Major Has Been Trained Not to Eat

Major is going to eat the cat.

Fox News is going to go wild.

Republicans take back the House.

Louie Gohmert leads five investigations into the death of the cat. - Charles P. Pierce

 

 

 

The Nazization of Florida Continues

Florida on Thursday passed new voting laws that place restrictions around vote-by-mail and ballot drop boxes.

Florida’s state legislature passed a bill that specifies who can drop off a ballot at a drop box and where drop boxes can be placed. It also stipulates that drop boxes cannot be moved 30 days before the election and that an election official must be around when the drop box is opened

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Business/Tech News

• Europe's economy falls back into recession
• New York Post Denies it Ordered Reporter to 'Deliberately Publish Factually Inaccurate Information'
• Billionaire Lee Cooperman Fumes Over Wealth Tax on CNBC, Rips Elizabeth Warren for Pushing it: 'A Politician in the Worst Sense of the Word'
• Amazon shares hit record high after blowout earnings results

Class Warfare is when top 1% uses the media to instruct you that a slight tax increase on the top 1% is Class Warfare. - John Fugelsang

 

Surprise, Surprise! People Spent Their Stimulus Checks

Consumer spending and personal income rose sharply in March, according to data released Friday by the Commerce Department, driven in part by President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief bill.

Personal income rose a staggering 21.1 percent in March after falling 7 percent in February, thanks in part to a third round of direct payments and other forms of aid authorized by Biden’s American Rescue Plan.

I’d like to reassure my fellow celebrities that you don’t *have* to run for governor. - Conan O'Brien

 

 

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Odd News

• 5 arrested in shooting of Lady Gaga’s dogwalker and theft of her bulldogs in L.A.
• Elderly woman missing for 5 days found alive trapped inside car
• 64-Year-Old Woman Bitten by Shark While on Her Paddleboard in Florida: Reports
• 'Untouched' Bronze Age tomb containing human remains and a mysterious stone found in Ireland
• Colombian farmers break Guinness record with 9.36-pound mango

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I name thee Sir Camo. - Mother Nature

Peace.