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Puckered and pursed Carlson, a national laughing stock after being astutely caricatured on Saturday Night Live, now vents more of his loveless perversity by attacking the Bidens’ marriage.

Texas is only the most recent example.

because Sen. Johnson is a stupid, entitled, inexplicably and undeservedly rich old white man–like most of the GOP dionosaur caucus (not that the younger guys are any better).

Johnson’s idea of COVID relief is more tax cuts for the rich.

Johnson was an active instigator of the Jan 6 attempted coup.

The minute Johnson’s lies are called out, he starts screaming. That’s his defense. No facts involved or desired.

Now Johnson is point blank denying that the attempted coup he helped engineer ever happened.

The GOP was terrified at the prospect of the impeachment managers calling witnesses, so responded with fire and fury bluff, and the Dems fell for it.

Mitch McConnell will vote to acquit Trump.

Some years ago I was reading Ashwell’s “Myself a Player,” an excellent theatrical memoir.
Can’t find the book at the moment, but I do know she recounts a cleric saying to her something like this: “God doesn’t place much stock in money–look at the people He bestows it on.”

Mehdi Hassan suggested that yesterday when he was covering for Chris Hayes.

Sen. Sasse is “a reflection and embodiment of so much of what’s wrong with his Party. . . who has “more in common with Marjorie Taylor Greene than he might like to admit.”

Why don’t we transport the Wrong Dishonorable Josh Hawley back in time to Moscow, 1937, so that he can learn what actual censorship is?

I mean, would Ovid have been “allowed” to write or publish the “Heroides” or Bocaccio his “Elegy of Lady Fiammetta” in today’s literary environment, wherein one group or another is presumed to have sole, proprietary control of all literary production that speaks for or aims to chronicle its own experience?

Apparently desperate to make Trump look good, President Biden may now clamp down on the income cap Trump established for COVID relief checks.

Robert Cruishank of Demand Progress tweets:

“Let’s be really, really clear. Doing this will cost Democrats control of the Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024. There is nobody out there in America aside from a few wonks who want to limit these checks. It is a colossally bad idea.”