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Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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  1. 1.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Zoey Jordan Salsbury @zoeyjsalsbury

    One of Nancy Pelosi’s granddaughter, I believe, keeps running up to her and dancing. When someone near her voted for her she hugged her.

    I am very emotional right now.

    1,376
    10:11 AM – Jan 3, 2019

  2. 2.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    WASHINGTON — (USA Today) Nancy Pelosi is the new Speaker of the House, but her granddaughter Bella stole the show Thursday on the House floor.

    As her grandmother was sworn in again – the only woman to have ever served as House speaker – Bella couldn’t hold her excitement in, and Twitter loved it.

    She was spotted pumping her fists and clapping as the votes poured in for the California Democrat.

    When it was Pelosi’s turn to vote for herself, she took Bella’s hand and the 9-year-old shouted “PELOSI” and jumped up and down.

    As Pelosi took her oath of office, she invited all children to gather around her – and Bella was front and center.

  3. 3.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    “We’re not doing a wall.

    Does anyone have a doubt about that?

    We’re. Not. Doing. A. Wall.”

    Pelosi addressing corporate media pigs.

  4. 4.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Documentary filmmaker and journalist Alexandra Pelosi says the Speaker of the House is a great negotiator and is predicting trouble for President Donald Trump when he meets with her. “She’ll cut your head off and you won’t even know you’re bleeding.”

  5. 5.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    I have to tell you I did not know Nancy Pelosi before I ran for office. And she generously came to my district and worked for me and tried to lift up the message that I had for voters.

    She came multiple times. I had the chance to visit with her in other places. And I’m just one of the many people who were running for office that she helped out. She is a team builder. She is tireless. You’ll see her at meeting after meeting after meeting in her high heels. I don’t know how she does it. But she does it with a purpose and her purpose is good government and lifting people up and doing good things for other people.

    Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA)

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Your morning Blech:

    The Trump administration has stopped cooperating with UN investigators over potential human rights violations occurring inside America, in a move that delivers a major blow to vulnerable US communities and sends a dangerous signal to authoritarian regimes around the world.

    Quietly and unnoticed, the state department has ceased to respond to official complaints from UN special rapporteurs, the network of independent experts who act as global watchdogs on fundamental issues such as poverty, migration, freedom of expression and justice. There has been no response to any such formal query since 7 May 2018, with at least 13 requests going unanswered.

    Nor has the Trump administration extended any invitation to a UN monitor to visit the US to investigate human rights inside the country since the start of Donald Trump’s term two years ago in January 2017. Two UN experts have made official fact-finding visits under his watch – the special rapporteurs on extreme poverty and privacy – but both were invited initially by Barack Obama, who hosted 16 such visits during his presidency.

    The silent treatment being meted out to key players in the UN’s system for advancing human rights marks a stark break with US practice going back decades. Though some areas of American public life have consistently been ruled out of bounds to UN investigators – US prisons and the detention camp on Guantánamo Bay are deemed off-limits – Washington has in general welcomed monitors into the US as part of a wider commitment to upholding international norms.

    There is simply a moral rot at the heart of the GOP.

  9. 9.

    low-tech cyclist

    The Congress of the United States looks a lot more like America this morning than it did yesterday morning.

    Long overdue, but it’s happening.

  10. 10.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Backlash Blech:

    An attempt to humiliate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she was sworn in as the youngest ever US Congresswoman has backfired impressively, prompting a huge outpouring of support for her.

    A 30-second video was posted by a Twitter user called AnonymousQ, showing Ocasio-Cortez dancing on the roof of a building while in college.

    “Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is,” read the post, with the user, who has since deleted their account, claiming it was a “high school video of ‘Sandy’ Ocasio-Cortez”.
    …………………..
    But instead of humiliating Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected to represent New York’s 14th congressional district in November, the video has bolstered her popularity, with many people on social media praising her for being joyful and having fun.

    Comedian Patton Oswalt joked: “She’ll never recover from the world seeing her … (watches video) … dancing adorably and having fun with her friends in high school?”
    ………………….
    Imagine what a major ass-head one would have to be to think that video of @AOC dancing is anything but adorable and endearing and charming. -Zach Braff

  11. 11.

    MagdaInBlack

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    That video was delightful.
    These are people who are born yelling at clouds and worry their whole lives that someone somewhere is having a good time.
    Or as I call them” carpetpissers.”

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    @MagdaInBlack: I just don’t understand why some people cling so tightly to hate. I left one of the mocking comments on that tweet and the ratio was astounding, something like 3,000 to 132 at the time. Even the Russian bots couldn’t bring themselves to like it.

    ETA: Hoarse is absolutely right that today wouldn’t have happened if Hillary had won. It took that enormous insult to rouse the rage that made so many people determined to avenge her or die trying.

  16. 16.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Mary G:
    Resentment and anger are powerful drugs. I imagine it has to do with highly magnified personal insecurity.
    I look to our present occupant of the oval office as a prime example.
    It must be a sad thing to go thru life never seeing the magic.

  17. 17.

    satby

    @Mary G: That entire Hoarse Whisperer thread brought me to tears this morning.
    In a more sane, less racist and misogynist country we could have had both Clinton as President and a better, more diverse Congress.

  19. 19.

    Butch

    Good lord – plaid, and Gowdy looks like he slept in them. Don’t give up your day job for fashion consulting, dude.

  20. 20.

    Karen S.

    Gowdy’s unrecognizable, to me at least, in that sad trombone photo of him. What a wreck.

  23. 23.

    schrodingers_cat

    What is a Hindu Vera? The book I see there is the Geeta, which is a part of the Mahabharata. There are 4 vedas and they are much older than the Geeta.

    Geeta = comes from geet which means song in Sanskrit. It is a long poem about the advice Krishna gives Arjun at the beginning of the battle of Kurukshetra, where he faces his cousins, friends, relatives and teachers whom he reveres.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    @Anne Laurie:

    I don’t see a food joke anywhere, so it should be “just deserts” in the title. From the same root word as deserve.

    Grumble, grumble.

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