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House Republican Twitter Hearing Was A Complete Flop Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) warned former Twitter employees that they would be arrested for rigging the 2020 election as the hearing flailed and failed. Higgins said, “You, ladies and gentlemen, interfered with the 2020 election knowingly and willingly. That’s bad news. It’s going to get worse, because this is the investigation part. Later comes the arrest part. Your attorneys are familiar with that. Mr. Chairman, I’d like to spend five hours with these ladies and gentlemen on depositions that are yet to come.” As Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained, the former Twitter employees were in a private company, and their actions were protected by the First Amendment. Twitter can decide what content it publishes and which users it allows on its platform. The employees committed no crime. There will be no depositions or criminal trials.

Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery.

Because the driving impetus behind media coverage is sensationalism The gong show in the US (and in the Canadian PC party to an extent) is aimed at the lowest common denominator of intelligence. Poilievre, Boebert, Taylor-Green, Gaetz and so forth are adored for saying what the worst of their followers are thinking and thus validate what their diseased minds believe. All this would be hilarious if these troglodytes weren't holding the levers of power,

All current Russian front lines consist of three lines: at the front are the "mobilized" troops- forced draftees, many of whom were press-ganged from their homes at gunpoint, The second line a hundred meters or so behind the first line are the mercenaries- recruited from every jail in Russia and from Africa as well. Their job is to shoot any first-liners who refuse to advance under fire towards almost certain death (for the past two days Russian casualties have exceeded 1000 per day compared to WW2 when Russian casualties averaged 450 per day). Behind the second line are regular Russian troops who are ordered to shoot any first or second-line troops who defy orders. Abused Russian Troops Relocated After Leaking Beatings by Own Allies If the leaked abuse videos and panicked pleas from soldiers are any indication, Russian efforts to integrate with Donetsk do not seem to be going well. The Russian Ministry of Defense is transferring some mobilized Russian troops out of Donetsk in Ukraine after they reported that the militia of the Donetsk People's Republic beat them earlier this month, according to Vladislav Khovalyg, the governor of Tuva. The Russian troops, who were trained in the Novosibirsk region of Russia, began fighting at the front in Ukraine in December, according to Novaya Gazeta. But come February, the militia in the DPR began beating them, troops said in a video message shared with Russian news outlets and posted to Telegram. “On February 4, the military from the DPR arrived. They fired at us with machine guns,” said the Russian troops, who came from Tuva, a region in southern Siberia. “The military police came and beat us.” Another video appears to show a Russian soldier getting knocked down and held at gunpoint. The withdrawal of the Russian soldiers following the beatings peels back the layers on Russia’s attempts to integrate the illegally annexed Donetsk in Ukraine with Russia, and could be a sign that Russia’s efforts to integrate the militia in Donetsk with Russia’s military are not going smoothly. Moscow illegally annexed Donetsk, along with Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, in October. Russia’s military has also just formally integrated occupied areas of Ukraine into its Southern Military District in an attempt to further meld together the occupied territories with Moscow, according to a British intelligence report released this week. “The Russian military likely aspires to integrate newly occupied territory into a long-term strategic posture,” the intelligence report stated.

An example of the "peter principle"?

Hemorrhoid hill was equally bad- maybe even worse .

Reports out of Ukraine indicate that the Russian army is so depleted that they have begun using their T-72 tanks (the ones where the magazine is directly below the crew and vulnerable to detonating from a side hit) again. American military assessments state that Russia has lost over 50% of all their armored vehicles and aircraft.

And on top of that, the O-line was sorting itself out for the first half of the season.

Painfully true.

Yup. no wonder he was such a good buddy of Trump.

And several premiers premiers immediately caucased to see how they could divert money from the healthcare funding to their friends and pet projects.

Taylor-Green is a typical GOPer and will suffer no repercussions- she will likely be praised.

Hmmm...in Mexican jurisprudence, that would be 3 1/2 years or a fine of $18.00 (US dollars of course.

I don't know they can even come close to the manic portrayal and semi-demented character interplays of the original. I get a belly-laugh every time I watch my DVD series of that show.

As the best o-lineman in CFL history, he ought to be in line for a huge raise.

There is no rational or ethical reason to pray for the death of another person. Bobert is simply following the Trump playbook to say inflammatory things that fall just short of incitement so that she cannot be held responsible if one of her weak-minded followers tries to kill Biden. The Trump-led GOPers establish the rhetoric to create the acts of violence and then they decry how the US is going to Hell in a handcart and its all the fault of the gays, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, Asians, lefties, wrong kind of Christians, etc etc. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it, too?

Big Government House Republicans Look To Impose Chocolate Milk Mandate Now that their gas stoves are safe, Republicans want a national law forcing schools to provide kids with chocolate milk. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is leading the charge to protect chocolate milk. Stefanik has even proposed legislation to mandate that all schools be forced to offer chocolate milk to students: @RepStefanik: Mayor Adams’ threat to ban chocolate milk in schools is a non-starter. I’m standing up to make sure our NY students have a flavored milk option. #SaveChocolateMilk!

Lauren Boebert Tells Church To Pray For Biden’s Death The congregation laughed and cheered as Rep. Lauren Boebert told them to pray for Joe Biden’s death, and that his days be short. Boebert said, “We pray for our president. Let his days be few and another take his office. That’s why I filed the articles of impeachment for Joe Biden. Unfortunately, he does have a really good insurance policy named Kamala Harris.” The psalm Boebert was referring to: The verse Lauren Boebert referenced, Psalm 109:8, is clearly about praying for the death of an enemy in office. Context: “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”

The Dark World was almost as good as the first one (IMO) but Ragnarok was a giant step downward with Thor using contemporary phrases and misplaced humour attempts, not mention several glaring plot holes. Jeff Goldblum was a symptom of the degradation of the character and story line. And i still think Thor should have had the accent of the Swedish Chef from the Muppets TV Show.

The last couple of Thor movies have been absolutely trash. The last one was entirely the fault of the director who openly admitted he had never researched the character in the two first movies or in the comics and decided to make it a comedy. I believe that Marvel/Disney lost a ton of money on the last one and Hemsworth was said to be very unhappy about the change of characterization and that played into his decision to step away from movies for at least a while.

I see your Kari Lake and raise you a Jim Jordan: Jordan’s first hearing on 'so-called' weaponization of government mocked Over conspiracy theorist witnesses Its first hearing isn’t until Thursday but already Chairman Jim Jordan‘s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is being mocked after the list of witnesses was released. NBC News’ Garrett Haake reports testifying before the committee on Thursday will be ex-Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and former FBI special agent Nicole Parker. Gabbard left the Democratic Party and is now an independent and a Fox News contributor. In 2019, Hillary Clinton suggested she was a Russian asset being groomed for a third-party presidential run. She sued the former Democratic presidential nominee and former U.S. Secretary of State but later dropped the defamation lawsuit. Also, Gabbard “shared false information,” Forbes reported last year, “about U.S. involvement in Ukraine biological laboratories … giving credence to an unfounded Russian-backed conspiracy theory the U.S. has warned could serve as justification for Russia to use biological and chemical weapons against Ukraine.” Sen. Johnson, who narrowly won re-election after being among the top promoters of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie,” is a conspiracy theorist who uses his Senate seat to spread false information about COVID and a host of other crises. CNN’s Chris Cillizza branded Johnson the “Senate’s leading conspiracy theorist” just one year ago. The Washington Post reported last May that Sen. Johnson “expressed openness” to “a fervent anti-vaccination” commentator’s “idea that maybe the coronavirus vaccines are a conduit for deliberately giving people AIDS.” Sen. Grassley has come under fire for his racist remarks about COVID-19, dangerously false claims about the IRS, and apparent falsehoods about the January 6 insurrection and its participants. Last year The American Independent reported Grassley told a constituent “what you said is accurate.” According to The Independent, the constituent said during a town hall: “Knowing that the FBI and Capitol Police were complicit in Jan. 6, what have you done to get the political prisoners being held in gulag conditions out on bail?”

George Santos is the superstar MAGA deserves The political media fascination with Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican who appears to have faked approximately 95% of his life, is such that it was inevitable that it would draw a "savvy" backlash piece scolding the press about their priorities. The wannabe party pooper finally emerged last week at the Washington Post in an opinion column headlined, "Real people don't care about George Santos." In it, self-assigned buzzkill David Byler argued "America doesn't seem to care" about Santos, which he can tell based on Google search traffic. Our nation was founded by puritans, so as soon as people had a laugh over Santos, inevitably someone would shake their finger disapprovingly. But there were some flaws in Byler's argument, starting with his assumption that Santos' own embarrassed constituents are not "real" people. There's also the fact that Google Trends isn't a very exacting measure of interest in a subject, as it only measures if people are searching out information. It doesn't capture people who read articles they saw on social media or directly on a news website. Traffic to stories about Santos is plenty healthy on that front. But perhaps most importantly, this narrow-minded focus on search traffic ignores what a lot of the sneered-at political observers saw coming a mile away: The imminent George Santos makeover into MAGA's Next Top Superstar. Santos may not matter to "average" Americans, but his story is being leveraged directly into the right-wing propaganda machine that currently controls the Republican Party. On Thursday night, for instance, Santos was sanctified into the echelon of MAGA saints by the Pope of neo-fascism himself, Tucker Carlson. In a typically dishonest segment on his wildly popular Fox News show, Carlson painted Santos as a hapless victim of the bigoted news media by pretending that the only thing Santos lied about was his volleyball career. (Which is one of the more minor fake careers and hobbies Santos has claimed on his resume.) https://www.salon.com/2023/02/06/george-santos-is-the-superstar-maga-deserves/