A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
President Trump asked then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper at least twice during the summer of 2020 if it were possible for the U.S. to fire missiles into Mexico to “destroy the drug labs,” Esper writes in his upcoming book, per an excerpt reported by the New York Times.
Ms. Jean-Pierre has some very big shoes to fill. I hope she took notes about how to deal with the likes of Doocy and others.
Thank goodness Esper waited until after the Orange Shit-Stain lost the election to mention this, eh? Because Biden is senile, or something.
She’s going to trigger Cons in so many ways.
Republicans accuse the Biden Administration of trying to form a ‘Ministry of Truth’ while they are actively engaged in rewriting history.
Man: taking principled stands that cost you something is so 1970s…
when tfg asked Esper about firing missiles into Mexico to destroy the scourge of drug labs he made sure to point out that we should take care so nothing we do causes disruption to jr’s coke supply chain.
Don’t let the kids watch the WH press briefings because LGBTQ content.
A handful of Republican senators on Wednesday fired a shot across the bow in the name of wholesome conservative values, demanding that television content ratings be reupholstered so that parents could better defend their children from shows afflicted by the dastardly scourge of LGBTQ+ representation. In a letter sent to the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board, Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana, Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, and Sen. Steve Daines of Montana “strongly” urged the regulatory body to “update” its guidelines to alert parents of content related to sexual orientation or gender identity. “In recent years, concerning topics of a sexual nature have become aggressively politicized and promoted in children’s programming,” the letter read, “including irreversible and harmful experimental treatments for mental disorders like gender dysphoria.” When asked by The Kansas City Star to provide specific examples, Marshall, the lead author of the letter, named Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
I’m more worried about the MSM. I think that prominent Black women are subject to the most intense press scrutiny. I hope I am wrong, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see ‘Is she up to the job?’ articles appearing within the first 2 weeks.
It’s not just her blackness I’m referring to. She’s an openly out Lesbian. In some circles that will cause a stir.
Oh yeah, in EVERY way and I can’t wait for the shrieking. 
It’s an open secret broadcasts of “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” spurred rebel forces in the Azores to storm a local golf course and occupy the 9th fairway.
Everyone agrees.
Has anyone seen anything on Joe Scarborough’s rant on the overturning of Roe? It was excerpted in Letter from an American this morning:
That open call for a rollback of rights we have enjoyed for 50 years seems to have been a wake-up call for those unable to see the rising authoritarianism in this country for years.
From 1995 to 2001, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was a Republican representative from Florida. Today he said, “[W]e need to look at what’s before us and how extreme these…MAGA Washington freaks are.” He went on to list some of the extreme statements of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and former president Donald Trump, and then said: “This is the party that brought you Jewish space lasers. This is the party that talked about that dude from Italy who they say stole the election with a satellite. Remember those bamboo particles that Republicans claimed were in Arizona ballots? And those ninja freaks or whatever they were called that went in and they were going to show that Biden stole the election but except it ended up that they get even more votes for Joe Biden. They’ve told one lie after another lie from websites run by Chinese religious cults…. This is what America wants?”
Scarborough continued: ‘“There’s always been one funny controversy after another churned up by Republicans so they can govern by gesture and proclaim their need to be radical so they could own the libs. But lately those politics of gesture morphed into actual policies that are hurting you…and your family. That are hurting Americans in Trump states. The Texas governor attacks truckers in his own state ‘cause he thinks that’s how he owns the libs, but he ended up costing Texans 4 billion dollars.”
“There’s the Florida governor’s crazed attack on Florida taxpayers, going to cost them about a billion dollars, via his war on the Magic Kingdom—again to own the libs. But he’s just ending up owning his own taxpayers in central Florida. And yesterday a harshly written Supreme Court draft…will end a 50-year constitutional right…that only 19% of Americans support being stripped away. Only 19% of Americans want to ban abortion.”
This, of course, is not a conversation the Republicans wanted to have before the midterm elections, and thus they have tried to focus on the leak rather than its substance.
Having spent 6 years around middle school kids on a daily basis I can assure them it matters not one whit because kids already know and accept gay as normal.
The adults are the ones who need to grow up.
Yeah like the Civil War was just a protest too I suppose. I bet the moron doesn’t even know how his own state came into being.
(It was carved out of Virginia during the Civil War, it only happened because there were no southern senators to block it.)
It won’t come from the MSM, who’ve had black women and men in prominent on-air roles for decades. I’d really prefer we not ascribe to the MSM every possible sort of vileness when the actual slurs obviously are coming from a different quarter.
How do you secretly fire missiles into Mexico - exactly? TFG’s addled brain makes the firing of missiles equivalent to leaving a flaming bag of doggie doo on someone’s doorstep.
Wow. The dire threats that our kids are getting groomed for sin & perversion even from White House press briefings show just how dangerous America is. Save us, Supreme Court, save us!
Marrying Mika has been good for him.
During the 2016 Presidential campaign, remember the criticism of DJT, i.e. that he “lacked the required temperament to hold the office of President of the United States?” That omen is borne out multiple times every damned day! We knew it then, and we sure as hell know it now.