Month: October 2022
Trading Brains
If you and Herschel Walker traded brains,
You would not be taxed for capital gains.
You’d be slow as an old jock
And dumb as a sack of rocks,
And you’d belong locked up with the criminally insane.
Only 1 in 10 Eligible Have Gotten the New COVID Booster
15 million
New York Times: “Only about 15 million doses of the new shots have been administered nationally since their introduction at the beginning of September, representing less than one in 10 people who are eligible, and there are signs that many Americans are unaware of or simply uninterested in them.”
Newt Gingrich’s 2012 Presidential Campaign Still Owes Nearly $5 Million in Unpaid Debt
$4.63 million
“The ‘Newt 2012’ campaign committee remains technically active and more than $4.63 million in debt, according to financial filing submitted October 14 to the Federal Election Commission. No presidential campaign from any election cycle owes creditors more money,” reports Insider.
At Least 20 Conservatives Have Said There Are ‘Furries’ in K-12 Schools
20
NBC News: “At least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials have claimed this year that K-12 schools are placing litter boxes on campus or making other accommodations for students who identify as cats. … Every school district that has been named by those 20 politicians said either to NBC News or in public statements that these claims are untrue. There is no evidence that any school has deployed litter boxes for students to use because they identify as cats.”
Would You Trade Brains with Herschel Walker?
“You cannot tell me that anybody 60 years old would trade brains with Herschel Walker, ’cause you wouldn’t.”
— James Carville, in an interview with Vanity Fair.
Georgia Ad Spending Is Off the Charts
$128.5 million
The Cook Political Report notes that $128.5 million has been spent so far in the U.S. Senate race in Georgia — “a number that could rise exponentially given the increasing likelihood this race might go into overtime with a December 6 runoff.”
Another Accidental Truth
“I will never stop standing up for big pharma and standing against my constituents.”
— Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), making an unfortunate slip of the tongue during a debate.
Pelosi Wanted to ‘Punch Out’ Trump, Go to Jail, on Jan. 6
“If he comes I’m going to punch him out. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m going to punch him out and I’m going to go to jail and I’m going to be happy.”
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi, quoted by Insider, when a staffer told her on January 6 that Donald Trump would not join the March to the Capitol.
Herschel Walker Is ‘the Perfect Candidate for a Fallen Party’
Ex-Republican Peter Wehner in The Atlantic: “Donald Trump could not have changed the world without a party with which to do it. The GOP has turned on virtually every noble principle it once claimed to stand for. It has become a freak show, embodied in people like Trump and Walker, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, Ron Johnson and Josh Hawley, Blake Masters and Doug Mastriano, Adam Laxalt and J. D. Vance, Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and Mike Lindell, Tucker Carlson and Sebastian Gorka, Eric Metaxas and Paula White. They shape its sensibilities, providing the script for everyone else to follow.
“To make matters worse, those who surely know better—people like Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, and especially Kevin McCarthy—turned out to be hollow men, ‘shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force, gesture without motion.’
“For them and for so many people in their party and the MAGA movement, with exceptions so rare that you can almost count them on a single hand, politics have been stripped of any honor. Politics, for them, is about power in the pursuit of yet more power. Politics is purely performative, nasty and brutish, a way to stoke anger and grievances, a means to exact vengeance. That the most impressive person in the Republican Party, Liz Cheney, is the most despised, says everything.
“Whatever you thought about the GOP pre-Trump—and it may be that the ugliness was much closer to the surface than I wanted to acknowledge at the time—the Republican Party is today much more conspiracy minded, anti-democratic, and anti-truth. This worries me, because I love my country. And it disheartens me, because I once admired my party. Today, however, because of its diseased state, the most urgent political task is to defeat it in the hopes of eventually rebuilding it.”
