Dec 22, 2022
David Waldman and Greg Dworkin count down the days leading us to the next day and day after that, which is always a good plan. After all, them’s the rules.
Elon Musk might not really be suited to run Twitter, or much of anything, but at least Tesla, for as long as it lasts, shares his sense of humor. Musk’s fart mode sure beats Musk's petty asshole mode.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky wowed and inspired in an address to Congress yesterday with his intellect, confidence, charisma and style. If Zelensky’s line of clothing were offered on Amazon, he could cover half of his military budget. Zelensky’s look however isn’t Tucker Carlson’s style. Apparently, it’s not Matt Gaetz nor Loren Boebert’s either. Those two came into Congress armed to the teeth, as far as anyone knows, but then ended up only shooting spitwads. Right-wingers hate what Zelensky and Ukraine represent. It’s “Ukraine”, not “the Ukraine”, by the way.
Tucker and Sean Hannity are fervent believers in the separation of work and prison.
We momentarily rack focus from Trump treason over to Trump tax fraud, thanks to the generosity of the House Ways and Means Committee. So far experts reviewing the data have determined that Donald Trump is a big fat loser. Even those who believe Trump always lies have been surprised that the IRS wasn’t auditing Trump at all, for years. Oh, so that is why Donald leaned on Mitch to prioritize confirming the IRS general counsel.
Shapeshifting Congressman-elect George Santos can be whatever you want him to be. It looks as if he was whatever his wife wanted back when he was claiming to be openly gay. The closest Santos has been to Jewish-Catholicism is mixing the Pączki and Sufganiyot order at Dunkin’.
Title 42 wasn’t the answer to anything, except keeping some border patrol agents and a few migrants busy. Now Chuck Schumer and his trusty sidekick Kyrsten Sinema have come up with a solution.