A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Welcome back from the holiday break. Three stories dominated the holiday period: (i) Kevin McCarthy’s shambolic campaign for the House speakership, (ii) the public release of the Jan. 6 committee’s historic work product, and (ii) the unraveling of the serial fabulist George Santos.
First. Retaliation against 1/6 witnesses would be a feature, not a bug. Should we revive Countdown’s “Today’s Worst Person In The World”?
Looking forward to the R meltdown today.
Shameful the stupidly
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Kev is not all that. Or any of it, really.
I think McCarthy will soon find out (assuming he ever becomes speaker) that most American people will see through his “investigations” so that trick won’t work the way it did with either Benghazi or Hillary’s emails. Tricks like that usually only work once, or maybe twice if they’re lucky, but after all of the revelations of the January 6 committee along with the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago, no one but an extreme right wing nut job will buy in to sham House investigations this time.
That trick has already been played at least once too often.
Because of course they will
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It’s going to be an interesting day in the House. How low will Kevin go?
Edit: happy new year peeps!
It’s new variations of the covid virus, not the vaccines that cause unexplained deaths and probably a dose of stupidity mixed in.
“How low will Kevin go”
With the House in Limbo.
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That’s gotta hurt. Like TFG, Santos will discover that running for public office was the dumbest thing he could have done.
Wish i had time to watch the McCarthy horror show in full.
Government will not function under the new GOP controlled House That is the goal of the 1% and Corporations. No Democracy means they rule us.
It’s absolutely going to be a meltdown — something of the order of a full on middle school cafeteria food fight times a million.
Should be fun to watch. From a safe distance and with popcorn, of course.
There is no limit to the vulgarity that McCarthy will embrace to fulfill his lust for power & position.
Almost half of adults do not understand science, also how the world works.
Getting out in public as politicians hafta do opens them up for close examination of foibles and fuck ups in their past and present.
I agree with your thought on Santos.
One of the big problems facing self-driving cars is that even if they cause one death (as opposed to tens of thousands from human driven cars), they will be considered too unsafe for use.