Jun 8, 2022
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Jared Kushner’s anonymous BFF at the New York Times vouches Jared hated the old man, honest. He and Ivanka Kushner want to return to their quiet life deep in Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud’s pocket.
New email shows how the Trump campaign instructed fake electors in Georgia to secretly infiltrate the state's Capitol to cast electoral college votes. That sounds pretty bad when it is put that way, but the people committing the crimes thought they’d be the ones defining “crimes” later, so they were pretty proud of themselves. You can put your mind to figuring out how things should go, but their intent in winning is to make you lose. What else would be the point, otherwise? Yet another election denier is running for election to oversee elections. Here is how to tell the Squad and the MAGA caucus apart.
Tuesday’s primary voters across seven states turned out to be different from each other, which is a challenge for both left and right. Therefore, another third party sees its chance. South Dakotans won’t let the GQP derail a Medicaid expansion, and pretty much support democracy. Dusty Johnson’s name recognition probably aided his primary win.
Ok, Christina Pushaw will register as a foreign agent, if you and the Department of Justice are going to make such a big deal of it. Former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan Richard G. Olson wondered how former Marine 4-star General John R. Allen got away with doing the same stuff he got in trouble for, and the FBI thought Richard made a good point.
Uvalde man, Matthew McConaughey, spoke intelligently and thoughtfully in support of gun legislation reform at the White House yesterday, in counterpoint, Republicans said the opposite.