So what do we call them? The Dingleberry Six? Five Jackoffs and a Jill? The Jan. 6 committee named five congressmen who asked Trump for preemptive pardons over their little putsch, along with hearsay that Madge Taylor Greene did, too. Her response: Nuh-uh, you’re the Nazi.
The more interesting news was yesterday’s FBI raid on the home of Jeffrey Clark, the DOJ apparatchik who tried to talk Trump into believing all this was legal. Observers think this signals a search for criminal evidence that will tie him to Trump, who says he hardly knows the guy.
Meanwhile, centrist Democrats everywhere cheered passage of a “gun safety” bill that does essentially nothing but piss money down a toilet and allow centrist Democrats to pretend they’ve accomplished something. Sorry, no joke for this one — it’s shit on toast, not even a second piece of toast to make it a sandwich.
Ukraine and Moldova are the newest members of the latest NATO pledge class. Call them Pinto and Flounder.
A new landlord bought the building wants her out, so Rep. Lauren Boebert might have to close her restaurant in Rifle, Colo.. I blame a lack of oxygen at that altitude.
Robert Reich is riled up about corporate welfare, and laments that corporations have politicians by the short hairs, pointing out it’s not just campaign contributions. He suggests solutions, but we all know there’s no incentive for any of it to change.
Finally, for those looking for a fast and easy escape from the daily media shitstorm, choose your cannabis wisely. It seems some of the high-THC extracts sold as oil or wax for vaping can cause some health problems, demonstrating that you can, indeed, get too much of a good thing.
The floor’s yours.