Hello, it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕
I hope this note finds you lucky enough to be one of the TPM readers in the path of aurora borealis visibility this weekend. If it doesn’t find you, I wish you geomagnetic storm satellite-disruption bliss.
“. . . told him a parasite ate part of his brain . . .”
And a kitty.
require already overburdened election workers to spend time processing unnecessary voter challenges
So, if Georgia allows a Texas group to do that, then I can too? Everybody in the country can?
Hey, I have an idea…
What a world…
Former President Donald Trump reportedly held a meeting with some of the country’s biggest oil executives at Mar-a-Lago where, according to a remarkable report in The Washington Post, it seems he was trying to sell the future of the planet in exchange for filthy lucre.
According to the Post, after an oil executive there complained that the hundreds of millions they had spent lobbying President Joe Biden hadn’t influenced his position on environmental regulations, Trump offered to make a deal with the executives that left many of them stunned:
You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
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Bust his ass Pleeeeze?
Hmmm… Challenge every vote in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District?
Re: the MAGAlection law. Sure, it’s unnecessary, redundant, and superfluous … but by putting it to a vote, every Republican running for office can claim, with a straight face and even truthfully, that Democrats all voted NOT to make illegals voting a crime!!
A similar trick was pulled many years ago in the New Mexico legislature: Bills identical to bills that had already passed were introduced, so that Republicans could “homestly” claim my Democratic opponent voted AGAINST it!
I understand the worm that ate RFK Jr.'s brain died of malnutrition.
The jokes write themselves! Looking forward to what the professional comedians of “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and SNL have to say this weekend…
Excellent observation!
I commend you (Deep Bow)
I mean, if we’re not going to win anyway ; - )
… slides about migrants at the southern border."
Reminds me of the insult from back in my day:
[1st kid stretches fingers out over 2nd kid’s head and flexes/extends fingers]: “What’s this?”
[2nd kid]: “I don’t know”
[1st kid]: “A brain sucker. What’s it doing?”
[2nd kid]: “Dunno…”
[1st kid]: “Starving.”
Thanks for the additional detail of trump’s corruption escapade. At some level a quid pro quo for a political office is a federal felony. Not that it would make a difference to a guy who already has 88 felony charges to deal with.
And don’t forget mercury poisoning.
That parasite may be dead but it still will manage to eat RFK’s presidential bid.
IANAL disclaimer, but I believe the federal bribery charge only applies to government officials, and he’s out of office now.
If he’s elected, then he might have some liability if he delivered a quid pro quo for a billion dollar campaign contribution from Big Oil. But if he’s elected then it’s all over for our democracy anyway.
“Died of malnutrition”
Simply not true. It died of a broken aortic arch.
