Originally published at: The House GOP Has Been Ungovernable For More Than A Decade
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Pass The Popcorn, I Guess? If you trace the current era of Republicanism to the tea party era that started in 2010, then we’re 14 years into the kind of chaos being demonstrated again today…
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Fuck every one of these ignorant, smug fascist motherfuckers. Here’s hoping we finally quit the virtue signaling and the identity politics and get down to fucking work, starting with bringing these fuckers down. It’s time to fight, or shut the fuck up.
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Your FirsT Frist of 2025. Congratulations.
Net Neutrality being nixed is going to open the floodgates to bad behavior by the usual suspects.
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Dear lord, is there no one who can rid me of this meddlesome GQP? It’s like a mad scientist made a potion that would conjure up beings primarily made up of Malice, vanity, arrogance, and then he tripped on his way to the boiling cauldron and spilled the entire jar of stupidity into the creation. Then he (obviously a he, given the hubris) turned to his familiar, we’ll say a crow because this is such a pro-cat group, and said, “fuck it, good enough.”
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Fairness Doctrine 2.0.
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I think what’s missing from the conversation about the incidents in Las Vegas and New Orleans is the acknowledgment that both individuals were combat veterans who may have been suffering from PTSD or TBIs. These conditions can make individuals more susceptible to impaired judgment, heightened emotional reactivity, and difficulty managing stress. Often, these challenges are compounded by inadequate mental health support, potentially leading to behaviors uncharacteristic of the individuals they were before their injuries. Rather than attributing one incident to “radicalization” by ISIS, and the other a big MAGA guy committing suicide before blowing up his Cybertruck, it would be more constructive to recognize these issues as stemming from the lack of proper mental health services provided to veterans, underscoring the urgent need to address these challenges to prevent such tragedies in the future.
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Puppy 2025!!
(Quite the glamor shot…)
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Well sure if they wanted to be rational, yes. But easier to blame the browns.
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“No one could have predicted…”
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But neither of them were in Cleveland!
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Lol!
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As long as someone gets rich off it, fuck everyone else.
God, but do we need a public square and a guillotine.
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Extra Incentive For Dry January
Surgeon general calls for cancer warnings on alcohol as growing body of research shows risk of even moderate drinking.
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I voluntarily gave up alcohol in 2003.
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First I’ve seen about recent personal life of the noisy suicide from CNN:
His former military colleague told CNN he’d stayed in occasional touch with Livelsberger since the end of their deployment and even sent a gift when he became a father in April last year. Livelsberger’s second wife, who he married in 2022, sent the colleague a thank-you letter, he said.
ETA: There were social media pics online from 2015 from a probable (former it seems) wife. I also saw that he was not in the marital home since Christmas because of “marital infidelity.”
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Morning Joe guest mentioned bollards “under construction” for a while and named graft as a reason.
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Good thing the incoming GOP trifecta has targeted disability benefits for veterans as a potential source of money for more tax cuts for the wealthy. And the billionaires can use that money to hire more armed guards for their private compounds, usually from a pool of military veterans…oh dear.
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Those are good points, and may have been a contributing factor in both cases. However I don’t think we should minimize the Islamic radicalization of the New Orleans attacker. His choice of targets was driven by his religious and jihadist beliefs. From CNN:
Jabbar, a Texas-born US citizen and Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, made reference in the videos to his divorce and how he had at first planned to gather his family for a “celebration” with the intention of killing them, two officials who had been briefed on the recordings said.
But Jabbar said in the videos he changed his plans because he wanted news headlines to focus on the “war between the believers and the disbelievers,” Raia said. Jabbar stated he had joined ISIS before this summer, Raia added.
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Heresy!I! There’s neveR been grAft in the state of LouiSIAna!!
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