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The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

T R E 4 5 O N

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

People are weird.

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Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Come on, man.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

So many bastards, so little time.

Everybody saw this coming.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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President Biden delivers remarks on rebuilding American manufacturing through the CHIPS and Science Act at the groundbreaking of the new Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility.

The president starts speaking at the 30 minute mark.

Since we’re in Ohio today, could some of you Ohio peeps bring us up to date on the state of the redistricting tug-of-war?  We are so close to November, surely there has been a final disposition of that.  Good?  Bad?  Indifferent?

Adding this link, too, since I inadvertently put this one up late!  I haven’t watched it yet, but I am guessing it will be fun.

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    I swear this speech was set for 1:15 pm when I put the post together.  So either they moved it, or more likely, it’s because I screwed up the time

    Maybe I need to take LIVE out of the title!

  2. 2.

    cintibud

    I’m in Ohio and I have no f-ing idea about the redistricting either. It’s just another  example of GOP totally ignoring norms though

     

    Edit. Gee, I’ve never been number 2 before. Although after not getting any sleep last night I sure feel like number 2

  3. 3.

    Layer8Problem

    I have an issue with the venue:  what was wrong with the OLD Albany?  Maybe germy shoemangler can weigh in on this.

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    just clicked on MSNBC and they’re giving live coverage to Chuck E Three. I agree Old Betty’s passing is a news event, but I don’t really need to know that Charles remains conscious of the obligations of the monarchy to the Church of England.

  5. 5.

    Eunicecycle

    Oh the redistricting was bad. Despite the citizens referendum passed by an overwhelming vote for fair districts, the Republican led committee just refused to do it. The districts were rejected at least twice by our Supreme Court, which is 3-2 Republican, including the governor’s son. The Chief Justice, though an R, voted with the Democrats. But they would never hold the Committee in contempt! I thought they should have jailed them all until they came up with better districts. The result is, the Court said well now it’s too late (May) so we have to use the bad maps, oh and we had to have a special election in August just for Congress because they couldn’t print the ballots for May primaries. The Committee just refused to meet because they were all too busy! It’s so frustrating! Ohio is about 54-46 Republicans but the districts were drawn to be 12-3 Republican! Don’t get me started. Too late?

  7. 7.

    sab

    They are going with one of the maps the Republicans on the Commission wanted, since the Federal judge stepped in and undercut the state supreme court.

    Sucks in my area. All the biggest Ohio cities got chopped up into at least two districts, so Republican exurbs dominate.

    But the map will only be good until the next election, when we start the whole process again.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Renée Graham @reneeygraham 16m

    ABC, NBC, and CBS are all airing Charles’s first speech as king. None of them aired President Biden’s primetime speech about the ongoing threats to American democracy.

    Fucked. Up.

  12. 12.

    Barbara

    Things I don’t care about:
    –How Megan and Harry navigate the complexity of their status after QE2–

    –Whether William will be able to handle the pressure of being next in line–

    –Camilla’s formal title
    I do care about the fate of the queen’s corgis. Did she really ask for them to be euthanized? That would be ghastly.
    Go Joe. We are so much better off without a monarchy and MSM slobbering over them is disgusting.​​​

  17. 17.

    zhena gogolia

    @Barbara: No, she didn’t. It was a stupid joke. At one point she said she wasn’t going to get any more because she didn’t want them to outlive her, but she seems to have changed her mind and gotten a few in recent years. But there is no question of euthanizing them.

  18. 18.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    @Barbara: I am certain the euthanasia thing was not real. What she had said was that she didn’t want to keep breeding them because she didn’t want to leave any young dogs behind. Here is WaPo on the doggies (“gift article” so you should be able to view it).

     When she died this week at 96, Elizabeth reportedly left behind two Pembroke Welsh corgis, a corgi-dachshund mix known as a dorgi, and a cocker spaniel.

    It’s not clear what will happen to the queen’s beloved pets. Royal biographer Ingrid Seward said they might go to her children.

    “I imagine the dogs would be looked after by the family, probably Andrew [as] he’s the one that gave them to her; they’re quite young, the corgi and the dorgi,” Seward told Newsweek.

  22. 22.

    Ken

    @Barbara: Things I don’t care about:
    –How Megan and Harry navigate the complexity of their status after QE2–

    I got the definite impression that they don’t care about it either.

    My main worry was whether wikipedia could handle the change, but pages are being updated at blinding speed. It reminds me of the scene in 1984 where the Ministry of Truth changes all the records to show that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

  24. 24.

    Kathleen

    @WaterGirl: Appointed. One positive (hopefully) outcome of these dreadful maps was that my district – OH#1 is all in the city of Cincinnati, which is very blue. In the past the city was divided between OH#1 (Chabot) and OH#2 (Brad Wenstrup). Cook has called this “Republican Toss Up”. Dem candidate Greg Landsman is on the DCC Red to Blue List. Per Red to Blue web site:

    After decades of advocating for issues affecting children and youth, Greg was elected to the Cincinnati City Council. During his tenure on city council, Greg advanced comprehensive legislation on issues like eviction prevention, good government ethics, criminal justice, and equitable, growth-centered development. He fought consistently for youth jobs, affordable housing, comprehensive preschool, domestic violence prevention, small business support, and helped raise wages for city workers and strengthen relationships with local labor unions.
    Since being redrawn, OH-01 has shifted and the divide has narrowed, giving Greg a real opportunity to unseat Chabot. There are easily 100,000 new voters who have never voted for Chabot. The GOP spent over $10 million to keep Chabot in this seat in 2020 and are expected to spend even more to attack Greg’s record of fighting for families and putting their interests first. Greg Landsman needs to raise at least $3.5 million to flip OH-01 from Red to Blue.

  26. 26.

    Barbara

    @Ken: I was just paraphrasing the headlines I have already seen this morning in my news feed.

    I thought the thing about the corgis had to be false. I mean, who would do that?

  29. 29.

    zhena gogolia

    @StringOnAStick: She never intended to euthanize any dogs! She was just going to stop acquiring them so that the ones she had would die of natural causes before she did.

  31. 31.

    Kathleen

    @WaterGirl: Dante has to come back and create a whole new iteration of a circle of hell for the Ohio Republican Party. I’m trying to find a cogent summary of where we stand with the maps (other than the fact we ended up using Rethug drawn maps for both legislature and Federal). It’s so confusing. I had seen a very good summary awhile back and can’t find it.

  32. 32.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ​
      Projection.

    Lil’ Marco knows what God approves of:

    The book, titled The Wilderness and written by former Newsweek political correspondent McKay Coppins, alleges there were claims a woman associated with Florida politics “had supposedly been impregnated by Rubio, and then went on to have an abortion.”

    The book further claimed there was possible proof of an affair “when Rubio’s credit card statements were leaked,” referring to “multiple airline tickets purchased on her behalf.”

  33. 33.

    Kathleen

    @WaterGirl: Short summary, for state legislature and federal districts in 2022 we will be using unconstitutional maps which state Supreme Court declared unconstitutional then its ruling was superseded by a Federal Court. Then new maps are supposed to be produced for 2024 using this same commission process. Would be great to have Dem governor and Secretary of State because governor and SOS are both on Districting Commission.

  38. 38.

    Juju

    • @Barbara: If my mother left me £25 million in her will, I’m pretty sure I could navigate things quite nicely.

      I think William will have time to figure things out.

      If people don’t make a horse whinny sound when they call Camilla whatever they decide is appropriate, I’m sure it will be fine.

      If the queen can’t find a good home for her dogs, then who can?

  39. 39.

    ian

    @Barbara: It was all a twitter joke.  The thing with twitter is that a lot of twitter jokes don’t make sense to non-twitter people.  So when people tweet jokes about euthanizing corgis, those of us in non-twit land don’t seem to find it very funny, for some strange reason.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    @Matt McIrvin:

    The Queen dying is the kind of 100% predictable event that you can easily prepare for.

    From a business perspective that may be true, but not so true when there is an emotional component to something.

  43. 43.

    Ken

    Found at Popehat, TFG’s lawsuit against Hillary Clinton et al for conspiring to try to win the 2016 election by saying mean things about him has been dismissed.

    Plaintiff’s theory of this case, set forth over 527 paragraphs in the first 118 pages of the Amended Complaint, is difficult to summarize in a concise and cohesive manner. It was certainly not presented that way. Nevertheless, I will attempt to distill it here.

  45. 45.

    Eunicecycle

    @Ken: I just read that this lawsuit was filed in Ft. Pierce back in March trying to get Judge Cannon! But by some twist of fate, it was assigned elsewhere, and Trump tried to get the judge to recuse because he was appointed by Bill Clinton. And the judge called him out on it. Lastly, Bobb was the attorney who wrote the abomination.

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