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Monday, February 28, 2022

Pottersville Digest: Expanded edition

Matt Gaetz (R-Mann Act): "The Judiciary Committee should stop the DOJ from targeting political opponents whether they are parents, whether they are falsely labeled as extremists, or whether they are lawmakers engaged in the oversight of the DOJ."

Something a completely innocent guy would say.

Coming up after the break: Capitol Hillbilly Elegy.

Man, this bloated asshole's really the Pirandello of Projection, isn't he?

Keep telling yourself that, cheesebreath.

"After Barr offered his resignation instead, the former AG claims the former president flew off the handle, started pounding the desk while yelling at him, 'Accepted! Leave and don’t go back to your office. You are done right now. Go home!'"

Typical mob boss boiler room operation.

Cotton's theme song should be, "Torn Between Two Tyrants".

The very fact that they went apeshit over Adam Kinzinger and especially Liz Cheney (repeatedly) for enforcing the Constitution while pointedly remaining silent about MTG's countless lunacies tells you all you need to know about the latter-day GOP.

Over "aggressive statements"?! Sounds as if someone's permanently gone 'round the bend.

I hate to agree with my ex-governor on anything but I have to agree with Romney that MTG is simply a moron.

"They were invited to Youngkin's election night watch party in November, and when he won, the mothers said, they danced, cried and received a 'giant bear hug' from the new governor-elect."

Did Youngkin have bear sex with them after the bear hug?

Has anyone else noted that, for once, Trump didn't close out the CPAC circus?

Liberated from what? Affordable, accessible health care? Labatt beer? William Shatner?

So, over a half a million people are waiting to get in while they're creating sock puppet accounts. This will end well...

Meme intermission.

"Crack's not really my thing." (Crickets and tumbleweeds from the crowd at the end.) Yeah, sure, Fredo, save it for your sponsor.

"Today (January 24), people who are earning $1 million in 2022 stop contributing to Social Security. Those who are earning $2 million stopped contributing in January. Those earning $500,000 will stop contributing this spring."

This is Social Security's dirty little secret. (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader, CC)

For the first time ever, guns have become the leading cause of death in the US. (A second tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader, CC)

This is one of the very few hilarious moments that have come out of the illegal Ukraine invasion. Putin's spy chief says the quiet part out loud and announces the propaganda campaign about making Donetsk and Lunhansk Russian states before Putin was ready to officially catapult the propaganda. He literally tells his spy chief to shut up and sit down. (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Stan the Man Banos.)

Marjorie Taylor-Greene denouncing "treasonous fellow Georgians" in 3... 2... 1...

So, Nicolle Wallace invaded a sovereign nation and murdered its citizens, Sloppy Steve? Wow, I didn't know the old gal had it in her.

Judith Miller? That's one name I could gone the rest of my life without hearing again. Why are we giving that disgraced propagandist air time, even on Fox?

"Oh, look! The silverback's jerking off and flinging his shit again!" (Cell phones appear.)

Wasn't this the Aryan asshole who wanted to start up an Anglo Saxon Caucus? Why, yes. Yes, she is.

Rahm Emanuel once famously said, "Never let a crisis go to waste." Of course, one needs an actual crisis to exploit.

Before Republicans turn on Putin, and they will eventually, we should remember how they praised him.

Well, I believe they will recklessly escalate. The press is already reporting that Putin's staging his nukes in Belarus on Ukraine's northwest border. If you're a citizen of that country, that's a little too close for comfort to be firing nukes, even if they're low-yield ones.

I am so proud of these Ukrainians right now.

This is an excellent op-ed by Philly's Dick Polman.

Something snapped in the little guy's brain and this will end very badly for someone. And I just hope it's only him. And finally...

I was actually wondering this morning when Chris Christie was going to weigh in on this and what he'd say. And he reacted exactly the way I predicted he would- with scorn.