Originally published at: Trump Casts The Worst And Dimmest For Season 2
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The High Price Of Kakistocracy As we inch toward the holidays and the news slows, I wanted to step back and offer a bit more context on the slew of absurdist Trump nominations. The sheer…
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House ethics committee will release the Gaetz ethics report.
It’s on CNN, couldn’t get a good link.
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Herschel Walker. Heh.
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The MArcy Wheeler link doesn’t seem to be working.
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Criticizing Justice Alito
He’s the one who doesn’t like his job, doesn’t want to do his job, and isn’t very good in the job, isn’t he?
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behind the $!5M settlement.
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Via Reuters…
Trump nominates ex-US Senate candidate Herschel Walker as ambassador to Bahamas
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I’m sure Herschel is an expert in foreign affairs
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Merry Xmas, Fuckface!
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It is not retribution he is after. That is too complicated.
It is REVENGE! he is after. For all slights, real or imaginary.
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Just before they fly out of town for the holiday break.
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Like The Proprieter sez, this is a problem with vast mulitimedia conglomerates who dabble in “news”, aka “infotainment.” They’re too subject to commercial pressures, aka the influence of money and threats to take it away.
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For a nice change of pace, this MM didn’t depress or sadden me, it actually made me laugh out loud. Herschel Walker, naturally.
Robinson using his black nazi porn sign in for his official business, of course.
Liz Cheney under investigation for helping to uncover crimes, obviously.
I’m honestly surprised the Onion still exists at this point.
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Ambassador to the Bahamas. Dang, now THAT is a great post.
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If the Sinaloa Cartel whacks a witness for telling Los Federales where El Chapo is hiding, it’s “retribution.” The justice of the initial act doesn’t matter. “Retribution” is still the correct word.
Trump is seeking retribution against those who sought justice upon him.
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I read a Quora contributor named Misha Firer, who allegedly lives in Moscow and reports on the absurdity of Russia. (I say “allegedly” because, if he’s in Russia, I’m surprised he hasn’t had a surprise fall from a window yet. But he’s informative nonetheless.)
Anyway, he noted that after the Russian general was killed by a Ukrainian bomb, a local woman sneered that (I’m paraphrasing from memory) that Ukraine will never break Russia, because they’ve lived through the worst. There’s no misery too awful.
It’s been said before that tcf – or really Bannon – is trying to turn us into Russia, a nihilistic place where few people care and even fewer people are willing to fight back. Based on all the headlines I’ve seen, here and elsewhere, looks like we’re getting there faster than I thought.
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I was expecting his rationale to be "he’s been there on vacation.:
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