The Democrats Now Run the House, and RFK,Jr.’s Wormy Brain

With a one-vote majority and batshit-crazy lunatics like Moscow Marjorie, Gym Jordan, Beetlejuice Boebert and Massie in his caucus, if Speaker Johnson wants to pass a bill that has a prayer of being passed in the Senate, he needs Democrats to vote for it.

Which means the Democrats effectively have a firm veto on what the House does. All the Republicans can do on their own, now, is to hold stupid hearings for the sole purpose of getting their former-president-petomane-loving faces on Fox News.

Meanwhile, I don't know how much snark I can add to the fact that a worm or worms ate part of Baby Bobby Kennedy's brain. Except to say: Yeah, that explains a lot.

If You Really Believe That, Sen. Manchin, Then Sit Down and Shut the Fuck Up

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, days removed from announcing he won’t seek reelection, said Wednesday that if the nation’s voters give former President Donald Trump another term in the White House, “he will destroy democracy in America.”

Manchin, whose home state voters overwhelmingly backed Trump in the last two presidential elections, made the comment on a press call with West Virginia-based reporters amid speculation that Manchin himself might be weighing a third-party run for president.

The moderate West Virginia Democrat said Wednesday that he would never want to be a “spoiler” who contributed to getting any other candidate elected. But he said he would do what he had to in order to save the country.

“If they said, ‘You’re the only person to do it,’ I’ll do whatever I can to save this nation,” he said.

"They", being the same imaginary people who tell shit to the TOFF. Everyone with even a smidgen of polticial sense knows that if Traitor Joe runs for president, he will act as a sppoler and the TOFF stands a greater chance of getting in.

Traitor Joe is a consummate self-inflated narcissist if he even thinks there is a chance that he's the only one who can defeat the TOFF. That he would even utter such a thing betrays his mindset.

A vote for Manchin is a vote for Trump.

Traitor Joe Makes His First Move to Bring Dictatorship to America Plus Even More MAGA Terrorism

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Thursday that he won’t seek reelection in 2024, giving Republicans a prime opportunity to pick up a seat in the heavily GOP state.

Some Democratic officials are also concerned that Manchin’s announcement frees him to pursue a third-party presidential bid that could ultimately undermine President Joe Biden’s reelection. The 76-year-old Manchin has raised the possibility of a presidential bid in the past, and he made direct reference to national ambitions in the retirement video he posted on social media Thursday.

“What I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together,” Manchin said.

First off, he knows that the chances of him retaining his seat in 2024 are slim.

Second, one has to ask what adding a third old geezer to the mix brings to the contest. Americans are already less than happy that the choice now is between an 80 year-old incumbent and a 77 year-old insurrectionist.

But Third, and most important, any serious third party move by Manchin will be heavily funded by right-wing businessmen who have the clear-eyed agenda of returning the TOFF to power. They are nothing but the descendants of the business class that were trying to overthrow the government in the 1930s. Manchin will play the same role of Ross Perot in 1992 and Ralph Nader in 2000: Sucking enough votes from the incumbent candidate so the challenger wins.

Manchin is either seriously narcissistic to believe that he has anything resembling a chance of winning the presidency or he is fully aware that he would be nothing more than a sock puppet of the TOFF. So there is probably some cabinet-level job he has his eye on, because Manchin does nothing that doesn't benefit him or his family.

Meanwhile, MAGA terrorists are working to undermine elections.

Authorities were hunting Thursday for whoever sent suspicious letters — including some containing fentanyl — to elections offices in at least five states this week, delaying the counting of ballots in some local races in the latest instance of threats faced by election workers around the country.
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Pierce County Auditor Linda Farmer released images of the envelope and letter her office received. The letter contained a warning about the vulnerability of “ballot drops” and read: “End elections now. Stop giving power to the right that they don’t have. We are in charge now and there is no more need for them.”

Ballot drop boxes and early voting are bugaboos of the Right; the TOFF has ranted and railed about them for years. The letters were likely clumsy attempts to deflect suspicion from those who most likely did it.

No Shock About This

Harlan Crow, Clarence Thomas's bestie, is funding the "No Labels" Trump sock-puppet party.

A vote for "No Labels" is a vote for Trump.

Just as a vote for Ralph Nader was a vote for Chimpy.

It cannot be stated any plainer.