A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461131
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461131
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Is it possible that I’m first?
Cat picture to follow.
Apparently one must be smarter than I to transfer photos from an iPhone to a PC via Bluetooth. Until I get to my Mac and I can post a recent picture of the dustmop Darius, here’s Bill the Cat.
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Fritz
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Meaning no disrespect… this is NOT news. I mean, if there was anyone who was unaware of this… it isn’t because the evidence has been hidden.
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Archived if you want to read it
Justice Samuel Alito: ProPublica Misleads Its Readers - WSJ (archive.is)
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Yea for Virginia
‘Trump in heels’ Amanda Chase loses GOP state Senate primary in Virginia | FOX8 WGHP (myfox8.com)
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Re: Paul Singer
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Legal experts say the charges against Hunter Biden are rarely brought (nbcnews.com)
(In other words, Hunter Biden was treated MORE strictly/harshly than the average citizen would have been.)
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You’re so very, very first!
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“I really don’t want to talk about it because, as a Republican, it’s not a great thing to talk about, because for some reason it’s just not,” Trump added.
“For some reason?” Baier responded.
“Yeah, for some reason. Because people love the vaccines and people hate the vaccines. But conservatives aren’t — And I understand both sides of it, by the way.”
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Donald Trump on the history of China…
“And that was bad. Now, today, if I did what I say, that you have to do, and again, I’m not sure if the country is ready for it. You know China was hugely, a 150 years ago China was taken over by much lesser countries because they were all drugged out on the opium, and then things happened and they had strong leadership and they put in the death penalty.”
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The world they’ve constructed for themselves is getting harder and harder to maintain as it rubs up against reality. They’re down to just relentlessly flinging their own poo in all directions. I wish I could say this was the last gasps of a dying desperate party, but they are still capable of so much more damage.
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Well, that explains it then!
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Observations:
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The WSJ editorial board is well-sourced on internal Supreme Court matters.
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Sam Alito runs straight to the WSJ editorial board with a preemptively whiny blog post when his integrity is about to be annihilated.
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Sam Alito is so obviously the leaker.
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Alito shows that even at the top end of the MAGAt spectrum, the most highly accomplished and educated among them drop to the party baseline:
Everyone else is a liar. All other parties, entities, institutions, and ethics-sworn people who abide by the social contract are liars. It is only the MAGAts and Republicans who get caught with their titties/scrotums in a wringer who are completely innocent because they are beset by liars and America Haters on all sides. “Pay no attention to me or my scrotum caught in this here wringer! It’s a setup!”.
Everything you read or see in accredited forums is elaborately faked…and the people you should believe are shadowy billionaires and their kept lackeys…because people of such stature would never work behind the scenes to skew outcomes.
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My favorite Alito “defense” is his claim that the seat aboard billionaire Paul Singer’s private plane would have otherwise been unoccupied so no additional expense was involved in hauling Alito to Alaska:
Sorry to disappoint, but Alito’s absolutely correct.
I snuck up into an unoccupied first class seat on a long-haul United flight once and they threatened to turn the plane around if I didn’t get back to peasant class that I had purchased on a basic economy fare. Not fare!
I should take my case right to SCOTUS where I have 2 votes already in the bag.
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Things happened. Trust me on this.
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It would appear that the WSJ editorial board has a member or two who seem to know far two much about real time activities inside the SCOTUS.
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