A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
In addition to struggling with Twitter advertising, the new owner of Twitter dot com and purported free speech champion Elon Musk seems less than amused by the Twitter users with blue checks impersonating him in response to his Brilliant Plan to charge $8 a month for said blue checks.
FURst.
WhiLE beiNG fURSt, I Was PondERing LibtardS conteNtion that WOMEn are sUpposed TO have BODy autonomy and Can GEt abORtion on DEmaND uP until THE exACT MOMent of BirTH. If SO, WHY IS it cALLEd His-torecomy? Uter-US? Man-nery GlanDs?
The combination of wealth and an unrestrained ego is (fill in the blank). There are many known answers.
Kanye West: I can’t believe how quickly I destroyed my career and ruined my reputation.
Elon Musk: Hold my beer.
(***If by great, you mean essentially lighting $44 Billion on fire to watch it burn to ash, then yeah, “You’re Doing Great, Elon!”)
Corrupts absolutely.
The House Jan. 6 Committee announced on Friday, which was the day Trump was supposed to turn over the records the panel sought in its subpoena to him, that it had extended the deadline…
Don’t make me stop this car! I’ll stop this car! You wanna see me stop this car?! I will!! I’ll stop this car!! Oh, you don’t believe me??!! You just watch, I’ll stop this car!! Uh huh, yes I will! You just wait! And wait some more!! It’s happening!! For sure!!
Doing great Elon…
Snooze…
Hey Elon …Elmo… howz it goin over at tweeterville??
Oopsie, i impersonated you and now i am banned…
Boo hoo
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has refused to commit to accepting his potential defeat, saying on Thursday that “I sure hope I can, but I can’t predict what the Democrats might have planned.”
Oh, gee-whiz. I wonder what the Democrats have planned tomorrow. 
Maybe getting more votes than Republicans and removing your shit-stain from this nation’s Capital? Just what on earth is the purpose of having an election if you don’t know what the opposition has planned?
- Twitter is also asking dozens of the employees it fired in the massive round of layoffs (which wiped out half the workforce) to come back. Some of the employees were fired by accident, and others were fired before Twitter realized it actually really needed their experience to run the website the way Musk wants it to, according to Bloomberg News.
I hope they all say, nope, nope, and nope.
- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has refused to commit to accepting his potential defeat, saying on Thursday that “I sure hope I can, but I can’t predict what the Democrats might have planned.”
The Wis-Dems plan to vote your a$$ out of office, that’s what they plan.
- McDaniel told CNN that the RNC “cannot do in-kind contributions to any candidate right now,” plus “he’s certainly raised more under the RNC than we’ve spent on these bills.”
- The RNC has shelled out more than $2.3 million to pay for Trump’s defense.
What a great return on their investment. Anyway, it’s less money they have to run their lies non-stop in the midterms.
- 39.2 million votes have already been cast as of Sunday. Early voting in 2018 reached a total 39.1 million.
And watch as the GQP, who set the early voting counting rules, run off to court because they want to stop the count of those ballots as being fake and fraudulent.
In both cases, Barrett acted alone instead of bringing the matter to the full court.
I suppose that’s in order to help her image, but nope, nope, and nope.
That’s my thinking.
Early voting is so convenient! I filled out my ballot at home and dropped it in a local official drop box. Isn’t it the norm in most countries, at least our peers? It’s only here that it’s been demonized exactly because the GOP doesn’t want it to be easy.
Gee Elon, if only there were a way to make it clear who’s real and who’s a parody. What ever could that possibly be.
Headlines are about to reach peak insufferable. Just saw one from The Hill that read: “Democrats, not Democracy, are in danger Tuesday” and the continued downplaying and both-sidesism is simply maddening. Hope your clicks are worth it all going to shit, media.
Twitter is also asking dozens of the employees it fired in the massive round of layoffs (which wiped out half the workforce) to come back.
Nothing says Master of the Universe, Sooper Biznus Jeenious Division ™ better than this right here.
Poor donnie will hafta pay his own legal bills if he announces a run.
Donnie has a sad.
McDaniel made it clear on Sunday that if Trump launches a widely-expected reelection campaign for 2024, the RNC won’t be footing the bill for the legal fees the ex-president has amassed
Sure, sure.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you:
Republicans sue to disqualify thousands of mail ballots in swing states (msn.com)
And now, this:
Dr. Oz Rally Sees ‘Half the Crowd’ Leave as Trump Still Speaking: Reporter (msn.com)
Donnie’s legal bills will be paid by the PACs he runs, which get their money from the rubes and proles he grifts.
Twitter abandonees
