Day: November 15, 2022
GOP Is Caught in a MAGA Catch-22
“Trump can destroy the party whenever he wants, yet the party can’t destroy him without also risking its own crack-up.”
— Christian Vanderbrouk
Midterms a Referendum on Election Deniers
“It turns out that trying to overturn an election is not wildly popular with the American people.”
— GOP pollster Whit Ayres, quoted by the Associated Press.
Average of 300 Americans Die of COVID Every Day
315
New York Times: “While deaths have plummeted since the beginning of the year, about 315 Americans are still dying of Covid on the average day. This year’s toll has so far exceeded 219,000. More than 27,000 Americans with Covid are in hospitals on any given day, and an uncertain number face lingering complications, so-called long Covid. Declines in test positivity and hospitalization are flattening, hinting at a possible reversal.”
Trump Hoarded $94 Million While His MAGA Candidates Lost
$94 million
“Donald Trump hoarded $94 million this election in his various political committees as his anointed candidates lost the Senate for Republicans in tight races where that money might have made the difference between winning and losing,” the HuffPost reports. Said one Trump adviser: “We didn’t lose because of Trump’s rhetoric. We lost because Trump is cheap. He left them all hanging dry …. It gave a free shot for all the right-wing pundits to turn on him.”
Sick of Politics? Take a Quick Quiz!
The New Republic (not necessarily known for its sense of humor) has published a pretty fun quiz that poses the question, “Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns?”
The quiz offers a series of quotes and you have to choose whether the snarky, obnoxious or cruel comment was made by Twitter’s new owner (whom Keith Olbermann calls “Elmo Muskrat”) or the reliably horrid businessman character from “The Simpsons.”
It’s entertaining, but it’s not easy. I missed two and scored an 83%.
Florida Will Go Blue Eventually
But not in a good way, if we’d don’t get climate change under control.
