NY GOPer Targeted In New District Map Gripes About Thing Her Party Does All The Time | Talking Points Memo

Am I the only one who finds the Rudy Giuliani/Masked Singer news incredibly enraging, rather than merely amusing (as the coverage of this “leak” has seemed to trend)?

The Fox Entertainment network, not content in repackaging Sarah Palin from hack politician to “minor celebrity”, decided to try to do the same with insurrectionist leader Rudy Giuliani. This is a man who has already lost the privilege of practicing law in two jurisdictions due to his corrupt actions, and who is also facing multiple civil lawsuits for defamation. The damage he has done to basic truth, and the average American’s understanding of the Constitutional law governing our elections, is in its own realm of awfulness.

What producer thought this was a good idea? What executive from the Newscorp c-suite pushed this? Why must even the silly entertainment options that families may enjoy as a refuge from the current poisonous political arena be co-opted as a vehicle of public image rehab for these criminals and propagandists?

Ugh…

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That “imaginary little fat man” has an oversized effect on the global consumer economy. Odd for a dude who looks like an overstuffed Karl Marx.

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It’s never too early to be depressed. Excuse me while I indulge myself with a cup of Atavan.

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Replaced by TFG.

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In today’s lingo, he’s an imaginary socioeconomic “influencer”.

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My OT for this morning.

John Kennedy’s (R-LA) comment about the J Crew catalog is a direct slam at Michelle Obama.

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I would not really expect a regular reader of TPM to be a Groundhog Denier, and yet, here we are. Are you working for Putin? What?

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“Valium, yum yum yum yum. I just don’t care no more.”
Dandy Warhols
“Valium”

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"if they can’t win by the rules we changed, they’ll change the rules,”

fixed it…

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A strong phorce Phil has, he does.

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Yup–the first thing I thought of, too, when I read that.

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The local groundhogs and I had a falling out over who should be eating the string beans from my garden. Since then I haven’t subscribed to their weather forecasting services.

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There has been a Southern Groundhog who used to be at Stone Mtn. State park, and now relocated to a Jackson GA nature center: “Gen. Beauregard Lee”.
He gets less coverage these days.

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Phil has Phorce in PA but not as much as Boba Fetterman.

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Well, Buckeye Chuck didn’t see his shadow, so it will be an early spring here in Ohio.

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You’re right! I had to check it out on wikipedia. The little beasts go by many names:

  • The groundhog is also referred to as a chuck , wood-shock , groundpig , whistlepig* ,[5][6] whistler , thickwood badger , Canada marmot , monax , moonack , weenusk , red monk ,[6] land beaver ,[7] and, among French Canadians in eastern Canada, *siffleux
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I switched to WeatherUndergroundhog.

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Don’t be silly. Punxsutawney Phil controls the world!

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The other 1,000 U.S. troops are currently based in Germany but will be moved to Romania.

And remember when Trump was seriously invested in removing American troops from Germany? Something he’s sure to do if given a second bite at the apple.

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