'Scary week' ahead in DC as Jan. 6 rally planned and 9/11 anniversary brings new terror risks

'Scary week' ahead in DC as Jan. 6 rally planned and 9/11 anniversary brings new terror risks
Lawmakers and law enforcement officials are increasingly worried about upcoming rallies to support jailed insurrectionists and to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Breaking News: Trump issues a scathing statement against the January Insurrection investigation, claiming if his words and deeds aren’t protected by Executive privilege, it will sour all criminals from running for POTUS in the future. - 7Veritas4 tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• U.S. Evacuates 12,500 From Afghanistan in 24 Hours Amid Kabul Bombings
• Pentagon announces three more military bases to house Afghans in US
• Trump Repeatedly Refers to 'ISIS-X' Instead of ISIS-K, Corrects Himself, Then Says 'They'll Have ISIS-X Pretty Soon'
• Trump Calls Hannity to Excoriate Biden for Kabul Bombing: 'Our Country Has Never Seen Stupidity Like This'
• Rep. Kinzinger: Trump's Afghanistan Deal 'Would Make Neville Chamberlin Blush' But Biden 'Owns This Decision' as Much as Trump

Is now a good time to remind Republicans that the Kabul attack was carried out by ISIS and not Joe Biden? - Chip Franklin tweet

What Does This Trump Word Salad Even Mean?
Former President Donald Trump used the occasion of Thursday’s terror attacks in Kabul as an opportunity to repeatedly brag that his administration killed terrorists “many, many times bigger” than 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Can someone let me know when cable news stops hosting the parade of people responsible for 20 years in Afghanistan to give them an opportunity to transfuse their guilt onto Biden? - Schooley

Republican Shenanigans

• Republican-Led Texas House Passes New Voting Restrictions
• Judge blocks DeSantis from banning school mask mandates
• Walensky: Schools not following CDC guidance seeing 'large-scale' outbreaks
• Florida Surgeon General leaving Ron DeSantis’ administration amid coronavirus surge: report
• McCarthy: 'There will be a day of reckoning' for Biden
• Seth Meyers Blasts Fox News Hosts for Pushing 'Horse Pills' as a Covid Treatment: 'How Does This Sh*t Keep Getting Dumber and Dumber?'
• Frank Luntz Reacts to Bonkers CNN Anti-Vaxxer Interview: ‘It Used to Break My Heart and Now It Just Breaks My Brain’
• Pastor dies from COVID after church told members 'not to worry' about virus because 'God is in control'
• Georgia cop who pushed people to take horse dewormer instead of vaccine dies from COVID-19
• Judge rules that Sidney Powell and Lin Wood engaged in 'historic and profound abuse' of legal system
• Devin Nunes livid after Joe Biden has a moment of silence for fallen troops: 'What the hell is going on?

DeSantis Locks Down Florida After Spread Of Covid Vaccination Gets Out Of Hand. - The Onion

 

Cruelty Is Soooo Republican 

The Waukesha Board of Education opted out of a federal program in June that gives all students free lunch. Waukesha was the only district in the state to opt out.

Now concerned parents are responding with a rally.

Florida Judge Rules That Residents Have A Right To A Smarter Governor. - Andy Borowitz

The people who are screaming about Americans who died in Afghanistan are curiously quiet about red-state governors killing off Americans with COVID disinformation. - Kimberley Johnson

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden's child tax credit kept 3 million children out of poverty in just its first round of payments
• Jen Psaki Scolds Senators Calling for Biden Resignation After Kabul Attacks
• ‘My Name Is Michael Byrd’: Capitol Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Reveals Himself in NBC Interview, Says He Saved 'Countless Lives'
• Supreme Court Justice Breyer says he's struggling to decide when to retire
• South Africa to receive 2.2 million vaccines from US to battle COVID-19 surge

It’s so nice to have a Press Secretary who not only relays truth and facts, but simultaneously defeats all gotcha question scandal grab bullsh*t with ease, sass and class. Jen Psaki is a badass. - Ricky Davila

Thoughts & Prayers That Rudy Giuliani Will Do The Perp Walk Soon

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani says the FBI wants to obtain his emails and text messages dating back to 1995.

"This is as unconstitutional as you can get," Giuliani told NBC New York in an interview published on Friday. "Investigate my life, even my time as mayor for some crime, or something they can distort into a crime."

I just want to have a girls’ night with Jen Psaki where we wear footed jammies and drink cheap Chardonnay and then play “Pin the Deuce-y on the Doocy” and prank call Ted Cruz. - Liddle Savage tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Peloton Admits It's in Hot Water With DOJ, DHS, and SEC Over Its Treadmill Mess
• Tesla files to become electric utility in Texas
• The first crewless electric cargo ship begins its maiden voyage this year
• New sinking in tilting San Francisco high-rise halts repair

CNN is that one friend you defended for years but eventually had to admit they’re a sh*tty person. - cpoliticditto tweet

 

Texas House Speaker Bans The Word Racism During Voter Rights Debate. Freedumb, Y'all!
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan banned the word "racism" from a debate on a controversial voter rights bill on Thursday after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle became too boisterous.

Very hard week for our country, but I’m thankful that at least we have a president who doesn’t get up in front of the American people and lie to them about it all. - Kaivan Schroff 

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Odd News

• NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Sees Potential Martian "Road" Ahead
• China Developing an 'Ultra-Large' $2.3 Million Megaship That Is Miles Long
• Woman who hid 26 kids behind false wall at day care guilty
• Female hummingbirds avoid sexual harassment by being flashy
• Backseat cows spotted in Wisconsin McDonald's drive-through line
• Parents must pay $30,441 for getting rid of son's porn cache
• Diner leaves $10,000 tip for workers at Florida restaurant

Time To Deflate Photo

A Himalayan Griffon Vulture, the second largest of the Old World Vultures, showing off its fake eyes.

Best wishes for a peaceful weekend.

Biden braces for fallout as his dire warnings of a Kabul terror attack come true

Biden braces for fallout as his dire warnings of a Kabul terror attack come true

Terrorist explosions outside Kabul's international airport on Thursday that killed 12 US service members came after days of public and private warnings from President Joe Biden of a potential attack that could disrupt the massive airlift effort underway there.

How is it the Taliban can prevent civilians from getting to the airport but not armed terrorists?

Your reminder that when four American soldiers were killed in Niger in 2017, Trump's response was to say nothing for 12 days and then call one of the widows a liar. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Fox News military correspondent scolds GOP lawmakers: 'It's not a time for woulda, coulda, shoulda'
• Top State Department Diplomat Blames Americans Left in Afghanistan: 'We Put Out Repeated Warnings' to Leave
• German military evacuates Kabul after airport explosions
• Georgia to send national guard to hospitals amid COVID-19 surge
• At least 90,000 students have had to quarantine because of COVID-19 so far this school year
• Trump sued by Capitol police officers over Jan. 6 attack in lawsuit alleging ‘bias-motivated acts of terrorism’: NYT

The “Art of the Deal” guy cut more deals with the Taliban than he did with the Democrats. - cpoliticditto tweet

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John Bolton Chews Up Pompeo's Rhetoric & Spits It Out

Donald Trump's ex-national security advisor John Bolton criticized former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for distancing himself from the Afghanistan withdrawal when he negotiated the deal with the Taliban.

"Trying to extricate yourself from this withdrawal is I think difficult if not impossible to do, especially to rewrite history about what actually happened," Bolton told Politico in a report published Thursday. "I think that's a prescription for Democratic attack ads that would be fatal to someone's credibility."

The GOP is high-fiving after bombs go off in Kabul. Because they are the American wing of the Taliban. - Tim Hannan

Republican Shenanigans

• Conservative host cuts off Trump after he attacks Pfizer for ‘controlling’ the FDA
• Texas Supreme Court sides with Abbott in blocking San Antonio's school mask mandate
• Trump rages at 'pathetic' Capitol riot committee amid reports they want documents on his 'mental stability'
• Texts show William Barr congratulated Trump's impeachment lawyer as his first Senate trial wrapped up: 'You are a STAR'
• Five schools close due to rising COVID cases in Alabama town that hosted Trump rally
• A Florida dad tried to enter a school maskless. When a student confronted him, he assaulted her, police said.
• ‘You never served’: Trump Jr. mocked for tweet claiming troops refusing vaccine will get ‘re-education’
• 'Smoking gun' evidence shows Trump made illegal donation to Florida attorney general's campaign
• Meghan McCain rips Harris for leaving her dad flowers, not focusing on Afghanistan

Republican politicians right now vehemently outraged over the Taliban killing their own citizens...

...are the very same Americans who spent the last two years passing stand your ground laws and making it legal to drive a car through a crowd of protestors. - Stonekettle tweet

Isn't Poisoning Prisoners Against The Law? Apparently Not In Arkansas.

The head doctor at an Arkansas jail has been treating inmates suffering from COVID-19 with ivermectin, a drug commonly used to treat parasites in animals. A version of the same drug has been approved by the FDA for topical diseases in humans, but warned against by the agency as completely unproven—and downright dangerous—in treating the coronavirus.

Still, the drug has been prematurely and widely hyped by conservatives and far-right types—some of whom oppose vaccines—as a sort of latter-day pandemic miracle drug. 

“But the vaccine doesn’t even guarantee you won’t get sick, it really only stops you from dying.” 

Not dying sounds pretty f*cking spectacular, to me. - Angry Staffer tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden to address the nation this evening on deadly explosions in Kabul 
• Pelosi prescription drug bill faces centrist resistance
• Monica Lewinsky Pushed to Include Infamous Thong-Flashing Incident in Impeachment: Crime Story

Desperate Trump Orders Eric To Become Lawyer. - Andy Borowitz

This Is How A Powerful Republican Is Punished
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg pleaded no contest Thursday to a pair of misdemeanor traffic charges over a crash last year that killed a pedestrian, avoiding jail time despite bitter complaints from the victim’s family that he was being too lightly punished for actions they called “inexcusable.”

FDA withdraws approval for whatever drug Rand Paul is on. - Andy Borowitz

Americans in Afghanistan have long known it was dangerous to be there. In most every cases it is NOT the USA’s fault they are now stuck in a bad situation. News media finger pointing at Biden is over the top and the MSM should be asking why a war they ignored is now so important? - John Dean

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Business/Tech News

• Oil producers push Democrats to preserve key drilling subsidy
• McConnell: Democrats plotting 'complete assault' on economy
• Federal agencies planning to expand use of facial recognition
• Facebook considering formation of election advisory group: report
• Politico to Be Sold to Publishing Group Axel Springer for Amount Reportedly Near $1 Billion

Same people who won't get vaccinated, wear a mask, or wash their hands to protect others against a disease...

...are right now telling you how they would have defended an airport in the middle of a warzone. - Stonekettle tweet

So, How Are Things Going In Covid Infected Florida?
Efforts to keep the sickest COVID-19 patients breathing are draining resources across the state and in Tampa Bay — creating competition between hospitals and municipal water systems for crucial supplies of liquid oxygen.

I wonder about a nation that does more vetting for the host of Jeopardy than for the president. - Jeet Heer tweet

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Odd News

• Fossil confiscated in police raid is one of the most complete pterosaur skeletons ever found
• Woman sentenced to jail, fined for stepping off trail at Yellowstone geyser
• Female hummingbirds look like males to avoid attacks, study suggests
• Virginia woman donates 6 feet, 3 inches of hair to charity
• Australian farmer honors late aunt by arranging sheep into a heart

Time To Deflate Photo

Sky camping in China. Maybe I'd camp there if I could wear a parachute. Maybe.

Peace.

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Charging $6,500 for Seat on Flight Out of Kabul

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Charging $6,500 for Seat on Flight Out of Kabul

Blackwater founder Erik Prince is among the growing number of private defense contractors and former spies who are attempting to turn a profit on desperate Afghans who want out of their country before the U.S. shutters its 20-year mission on August 31.

Just so there’s no confusion…

Prince Eric: Husband of Ariel.

Erik Prince: Brother of Cruella de Vil. - OhNoSheTwitnt

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Dozens of California students, parents stranded in Afghanistan after summer trip abroad
• U.S. Officials Reportedly ‘Infuriated’ by Two Congress Members Who Went to Kabul: ‘As Moronic as It Is Selfish’
• African American Mayors Association says they'll coordinate with White House, others to take in Afghans
• Jan. 6 Select Committee Probe Zeroes In On Trump Officials With Record Requests

Pro tip: if you sat silent when Trump abandoned Syria and evacuated exactly zero of our Kurdish allies and handed over our military bases to Russia, kindly sit the fuck down and shut the f*ck up and spare us your fake outrage over Afghanistan. Biden is rescuing tens of thousands. - Jeff Tiedrich

Say What? If The Supreme Court Is Going To Enforce Trump's Policies, Then They Should Make Mexico Pay For The Wall!
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied President Joe Biden's bid to rescind an immigration policy implemented by his predecessor, Donald Trump, that forced thousands of asylum seekers to stay in Mexico awaiting U.S. hearings.

Why are Republicans cheering for the US to fail in Afghanistan? - Tristan Snell tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Lindsey Graham: 'I think Joe Biden deserves to be impeached'
• Texas attorney general's own office clears him of bribery, abuse of office allegations
• More than half of Fla. schools defy DeSantis
• Kayleigh McEnany Says When Trump Was President, 'You Didn't See Crisis After Crisis'
• MyPillow launches yet another effort to get Dominion's defamation lawsuit dismissed
• 'He is a perverted narcissistic': Minnesota GOP strategist paid teen girls with cash, gifts for sex, prosecutors say
• FCC proposes $5 million robocall fine against right-wing operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman

Jacob Wohl is 23 years old. He's facing possible prison and $5,100,000 fine for racist voter suppression aimed at black people in five states.

23 years old. 

I mean, this kid is making old white Republican Senators look like rank amateurs. - Stonekettle tweet

Seriously, you’ve got to be pretty stupid to prefer to take horse deworming medication to treat Covid-19 instead of an FDA-approved vaccine to prevent it. - Jon Cooper tweet

Nancy Pelosi Gets The Job Done

The House of Representatives narrowly approved a budget resolution that provides the framework for a $3.5 trillion spending deal following an impasse between House leaders and centrist Democrats that threatened to derail progress on the vast majority of President Biden's domestic agenda.

Tuesday's vote was 220-212 along party lines.

White Golfer Glad He Supported Trump

No mulligans for Jack Nicklaus – in golf or politics. After publicly endorsing former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election, the famed golfer has no regrets.

Last October, Nicklaus tweeted a six paragraph letter preaching his support for Trump. “This is not a personality contest,” the 18-time major champion wrote. “It’s about patriotism, policies and the people they impact. His love for America and its citizens, and putting his country first, has come through loud and clear.”

Let’s be honest..

If Donald Trump had evacuated 24,000 people from Afghanistan in 24 hours, Van Jones would be on TV right now saying “this is the moment he became President” or some sh*t like that. - Santiago Mayer

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Before Facebook & Fox News you would have to go to a bus station lobby at 4am to meet someone who would tell you that vaccines were a government plot meant to destroy us. - Noel Casler

Rock The Voter News

• Biden to convene cybersecurity summit with tech executives
• Biden’s Approval Rating Drops to 41%, Disapproval Up to a Whopping 55% Amid Kabul Crisis: USA Today Poll
• Apathetic voters could hand California recall to Republicans: ‘Folks seem unaware’
• N.Y. governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally on 1st day in office

Let Me Take A Wild Guess, This Doofus Is A Proud Boy.
Police in California say they found a man found passed out in a vehicle and in possession of stolen mail that included 300 recall ballots for the state’s gubernatorial recall election next month. They also reportedly found Xanax, methamphetamine, a loaded handgun, and California drivers’ licenses with other people’s names.

Things won't get "back to normal" until domestic terrorists start going to jail. - Middle Age Riot

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CVS and Chevron joined other large employers, the U.S. military, and some states and universities in requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for many workers. Delta Air Lines is raising health insurance premiums for unvaccinated workers. - Joel Rosen

Business/Tech News

• China Announces Major Shale Oil Discovery
• Afghanistan Coverage Powers Fox News to No. 1 in Weekly Primetime Ratings — Network Tops All Broadcast and Cable Rivals in Rare Feat
• Spirit Airlines says canceled flights cost $50M, hurt bookings
• Woman taken off Spirit Airlines after lighting a cigarette and blowing smoke in passengers' faces
• Top official says LA fire department a 'very hostile work environment' for women

Spirit Airlines be like:

Roundtrip from Tampa to Denver: $7

Carry on + Check in bag: $984 - Antonio Paris

Pfizer CEO Delivers Sobering News

The current COVID-19 vaccines may reach a point where they no longer work against variants, says Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. 

Bourla went on FOX News’ America’s Newsroom Tuesday to discuss his company’s recent FDA COVID vaccine approval. He explained while the vaccines are effective against the current set of variants, the company is working on a system to develop new vaccines for any new mutations that arise.

Still trying to understand why evacuating over 80,000 people and ending a war that’s older than me is supposed to be a bad thing. - Santiago Mayer

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Yesterday a friend came by to visit and was fully masked. After exchanging greetings from a distance, I asked if he had gotten a vaccine. He smiled and said that Jesus would protect him. I frowned and said Jesus won't protect you but the vaccine will. Then why are you wearing a mask? No answer.

I then asked him what was the most famous quote from Jesus and he proudly replied -- Love Thy Neighbor! I said follow Jesus' advice so you won't give me or anyone the virus. And do not visit me again until you are vaccinated. He was saddened and so was I but I don't want the virus. 

Was that mean of me?

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Odd News

• Rare 'Einstein Ring' captured by Hubble reveals the depths of the universe
• Ancient DNA from a teen girl reveals previously unknown group of humans
• Doctors warn against viral Milk Crate Challenge: 'Real people are getting real injuries'
•  Nirvana Sued for Sexual Exploitation by Baby on 'Nevermind' Album Cover
• Florida house for sale has a giant oak tree at the center

Time To Deflate Photo

Bora Bora in French Polynesia looks like my idea of heaven.

Peace.