Speaker Johnson: Youse wimmin should shut up and stay in the kitchen. A fetus achieves personhood … then it, and its receptacle, will be ignored henceforth.
Next up...Speaker Johnson proposes legislation to make it clear that women of child bearing age cannot be seated as a member of Congress. That the Constitution doesn't mention sex in the qualifications list for Congress is immaterial.
This reminds me of 2020 when a California female legislator was told she couldn't vote by proxy because her recent labor and delivery didn't make her more at risk from Covid than anyone else. She appeared on the Assembly Floor with her 4 week old baby and stayed past midnight because it was the end of the legislative session for the year.
Hopefully she was breastfeeding and didn't use one of those silly modesty capes. Tough titties (pun intended) if it made the male legislators "uncomfortable."
Trump is NOT joking/kidding. He has no intention of leaving the White House. He will investigate some means or "loophole" that he will say gives him the right to a third term. He will go so far as to say he doesn't even have to run for office, but that he is entitled to a third term because he was cheated out office in the 2020 election.
As I have gotten older I have been less and less inclined to assume that I can read someone's mind. So when I offer a take on Trump I do so with a measure of tentativeness. The flip side is that I am skeptical of pundits who speak in definitive terms.
One thing I have noticed about the anti-Trump movement is that it can sometimes fixate on worst-case scenarios. And when those are presented as definitive takes, that can have the ironic effect of prematurely acquiescing to authoritarianism.
Does it ultimately matter whether Trump intends to get a third term if, for example, his health declines to the point where even MAGA fanatics no longer see that as a good idea?
By the same token, Trump is not immune to basic laws of political gravity. In 2028 he will be an 82-year-old incumbent who moved quickly and broke a lot of things. Along the way he may very well have pissed off a variety of people who voted for him in 2024.
So instead of letting Trump live rent free in our heads, I think that we should focus on driving up his negatives. We already have more than enough material to work with.
Three cheers today to Sen. Cory Booker for standing up and putting out in YouTube and into the Record just what Trump-DOGE-Musk are doing to our people both in the USA and in our Foreign Policy. 👏👏👏
I would suggest that people aren't fixated on the "anti-Trump movement". Every scenario I mentioned in my posting is something Trump has toyed with at some point in the past.
Not taking Trump seriously regarding any comment he utters is asking for trouble.
Glad to see you've modified your viewpoint from this morning's Morning Shots, when you simply dismissed the notion of trump insisting on running again as an hysterical overreaction by sufferers of an acronym you seemed rather fond of, tds.
That is correct. His second term is all, and only, about paving the way for that actuality, to normalize, intimidate and crush any American spirit we may have left. Then he'll install his gold throne underneath pictures of Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Orban, and Maduro and no one will know the difference.
Trump often tells the truth before he stops himself, especially if it's a "secret" around his getting more power. Note the many times he said "I don't need your votes" at rallies, his praise for Musk, who "knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide.", his boasting about a call with Putin right after the election (which Putin denied), his thanks to Roberts after his address to Congress, etc. His lackeys often have to do damage control with dismissive statements about "joking". I'm not conspiracy-theorizing, but it's not inconceivable that when he says "there are plans ... oops, I mean we've sort of talked about some stuff", the "there are plans" part could very well be true.
Is there any doubt in your mind that Trump will just refuse to leave office four years from now? There's not much doubt in mine. He didn't think he could get away with it the first time, but he's learned that Congress certainly won't stop him, and courts, including the Supreme Court can rule against him all day long, but without cooperation from the Executive Branch, they have no way to enforce their orders. If he wants to be King for Life, who's going to stop him?
Given that there’s an Election (which is run in the States, and by the States, in fact, so he can’t stop it) and assuming the US has not developed real Mass-Hysteria, & that there are constitutional candidates, and that there doesn’t appear “78 -million written-in votes for Trump”… then someone else will *be elected*. (And, no, he can’t run for VP under Vance, because another part of the constitution says, if you’re ineligible to become President, you can’t run for VP). Once *someone else is elected*, and he still doesn’t leave the WH? I suppose the new President gets inaugurated… and then the S.S. can set up a “Temporary Office of the President” in another government building, while they persuade Trump to leave, by say, carrying out The Resolute Desk in front of him. The man will be 82.5 years old at that time —-people need to stop talking about him like somehow he’s this Man of Steel guy. You think he holds on to the reins of power, with his 200 super-powerful hands, by himself?
The White House has sworn officers of the law to escort him out when his replacement shows up January 20th. If they and the military are his and not the American people then we are screwed.
Sometimes Susan Collins' willful blindness is excruciating, but this time it made me laugh b/c it reminded me of the caricature of her in the too short-lived animated series Our Cartoon President, where the Susan Collins cartoon jumps out a window to avoid having to take a stand. If willingness to appear hapless and vacuous were $, Susan Collins would be the richer than Musk.
Not sure about shallow. It was blatant that MAGA’s were uninterested in democracy, but the rest of the voters who made up the 49.8% were the surprise and disappointment, along with the 7 million democratic voters who didn’t vote. It didn’t take long, the Bulwark is an example, who started agitating for resistance. People are listening. The courts are stopping Felon Trump, polls show Felon’s approval numbers dropping. Even Wall Street is talking against his policies. There is a change. Unfortunately there are no real paths to unseat Congress until next year. We have to work with what we have, so I would say we are strong and getting stronger.
I find it interesting what Speaker Johnson finds unconstitutional. Not Elon slashing and burning the government. Not deporting immigrants to a very bad prison without due process. But a rule that allows proxy voting for new moms. Republicans, want you to have babies, won't help you in any way if you do.
I live in Lafayette, IN about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
On Saturday, there will be three sites between our County courthouse in and the Statehouse in downtown Indy!!!
BTW - we had a townhall last Sunday to protest our empty suit, MAGAt, 2020 election denier not responding to constituents attended by almost 300 people.
My guess (hope) is that even though the weather will be rainy in the lower 50s, we'll see over 500 people.
Republicans can’t help themselves. Get on their high moral horse about a Democrat for something real or imagined and then turn around and due that twice as bad. But then whine that everyone is making fun of them because it is not the same. It’s worse!
Anyone notice how Hegseth uses the American Flag (the red, white & blue) for a handkerchief?
Does Kid'n Rock know it's against the law to wear the flag as an article of clothing? (The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform. https://us-flag.net/code/)
Why all the House folderol? Trump wants a Show House where his wishes are loudly acclaimed, otherwise he just ignores it while usurping Congressional power & status.
Luna's proposal was a good one, based in reality. However the GOP is not pro-life, just pro-unborn. The party of the family does not care about the family. And she is a woman with a job, unconscionable in the male-dominated christian nationalist right.
And Speaker Johnson does not believe woman are permitted to be a pastor. So it’s likely he doesn’t believe women should be elected officials either. I’ll give Anna 1 W for the effort, but 2 Ls, one for underestimating his determination to torpedo the her legislation and the second for letting the alligator eat her face by resigning from the Freedom Caucus.
It will be interesting to see what she does now. I'd like to think that she is starting to see the light, but she is only doing this because it benefits her. If she did not have a young child, I would bet she would not have made such a proposal.
Just because it affects her. The GOP seems to legislate against things unless they are personally affected. One example that I can think of is Rob Portman, former Ohio senator. He was against same-sex marriage, then his son came out as gay. Then he was for it. There have been a few less magnanimous examples whose details that I can't remember at the moment. The Dems seem to legislate for people, whether or not the legislator is particularly affected. Just keep an eye and ear out. I'm sure there will be more such turnarounds, particularly since Trump's actions are affecting red states. I do recall some legislators who voted against the Infrastructure Act, but then attended the groundbreaking of projects, stating their support. Their reason for voting against the act was that, while the projects in their community were worthwhile, spending the money in other communities was a waste of federal funding. GOP - For me, not for thee.
They didn’t state their support but tried to take credit for the money coming to their states without voting for it, and actively calling for the bill to be killed! Hypocrites with a capital H.
Two things: Bulwark, please be sure to archive the Cruz and Johnson clips to have handy when they change their minds in 2027. That said, I don’t think Trump will run in 2028. I think he will declare some sort of national emergency and cancel or postpone the election altogether. That’s been the authoritarian playbook elsewhere and I don’t see why it won’t work here by then.
Speaker Johnson: Youse wimmin should shut up and stay in the kitchen. A fetus achieves personhood … then it, and its receptacle, will be ignored henceforth.
Yeah, once we pop them out, neither of us are people.
Unless the baby turns out to be a boy.
And then praise heeped. Get of rape? We welcome baby boy daddyless; girl babies, into the kitchen, sister.
I am sorry…they don’t give a darn about either if mama can’t feed them, etc.
They don’t give a damn. Period.
Only about themselves. An epidemic of narcissism has broken out in our so-called government.
But mostly just the first one, a second one is a spare for emergencies only.
Next up...Speaker Johnson proposes legislation to make it clear that women of child bearing age cannot be seated as a member of Congress. That the Constitution doesn't mention sex in the qualifications list for Congress is immaterial.
This reminds me of 2020 when a California female legislator was told she couldn't vote by proxy because her recent labor and delivery didn't make her more at risk from Covid than anyone else. She appeared on the Assembly Floor with her 4 week old baby and stayed past midnight because it was the end of the legislative session for the year.
Hopefully she was breastfeeding and didn't use one of those silly modesty capes. Tough titties (pun intended) if it made the male legislators "uncomfortable."
Re: speaker Johnson and Trumps third term:
Practice what you practice-
Preach what you preach-
Trumps third term-
Is well within reach!
Trump is NOT joking/kidding. He has no intention of leaving the White House. He will investigate some means or "loophole" that he will say gives him the right to a third term. He will go so far as to say he doesn't even have to run for office, but that he is entitled to a third term because he was cheated out office in the 2020 election.
As I have gotten older I have been less and less inclined to assume that I can read someone's mind. So when I offer a take on Trump I do so with a measure of tentativeness. The flip side is that I am skeptical of pundits who speak in definitive terms.
One thing I have noticed about the anti-Trump movement is that it can sometimes fixate on worst-case scenarios. And when those are presented as definitive takes, that can have the ironic effect of prematurely acquiescing to authoritarianism.
Does it ultimately matter whether Trump intends to get a third term if, for example, his health declines to the point where even MAGA fanatics no longer see that as a good idea?
By the same token, Trump is not immune to basic laws of political gravity. In 2028 he will be an 82-year-old incumbent who moved quickly and broke a lot of things. Along the way he may very well have pissed off a variety of people who voted for him in 2024.
So instead of letting Trump live rent free in our heads, I think that we should focus on driving up his negatives. We already have more than enough material to work with.
Three cheers today to Sen. Cory Booker for standing up and putting out in YouTube and into the Record just what Trump-DOGE-Musk are doing to our people both in the USA and in our Foreign Policy. 👏👏👏
I would suggest that people aren't fixated on the "anti-Trump movement". Every scenario I mentioned in my posting is something Trump has toyed with at some point in the past.
Not taking Trump seriously regarding any comment he utters is asking for trouble.
If any of Felon Trump’s voters were serious (!) about Joe Biden’s age then they have no choice not to vote for him. Sauce for goose=sauce for gander.
That has never stopped them. Ever.
Glad to see you've modified your viewpoint from this morning's Morning Shots, when you simply dismissed the notion of trump insisting on running again as an hysterical overreaction by sufferers of an acronym you seemed rather fond of, tds.
I remain convinced that he only leaves the white house in cuffs, a coffin, or a straightjacket.
That is correct. His second term is all, and only, about paving the way for that actuality, to normalize, intimidate and crush any American spirit we may have left. Then he'll install his gold throne underneath pictures of Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Orban, and Maduro and no one will know the difference.
I've been saying since 2018 that if he ever got back in the WH he'd only leave if he was horizontal.
Pete Kegseth and the sockless boys embarrassed us yet again
What’s wrong with these people?!? If it was a packing blunder, guess what, they have stores in Japan!
Ooh, I like the “Kegseth”
Ugly Americans at work.
Trump often tells the truth before he stops himself, especially if it's a "secret" around his getting more power. Note the many times he said "I don't need your votes" at rallies, his praise for Musk, who "knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide.", his boasting about a call with Putin right after the election (which Putin denied), his thanks to Roberts after his address to Congress, etc. His lackeys often have to do damage control with dismissive statements about "joking". I'm not conspiracy-theorizing, but it's not inconceivable that when he says "there are plans ... oops, I mean we've sort of talked about some stuff", the "there are plans" part could very well be true.
He spreads this stuff like manure to see how his base and the media responds.
Is there any doubt in your mind that Trump will just refuse to leave office four years from now? There's not much doubt in mine. He didn't think he could get away with it the first time, but he's learned that Congress certainly won't stop him, and courts, including the Supreme Court can rule against him all day long, but without cooperation from the Executive Branch, they have no way to enforce their orders. If he wants to be King for Life, who's going to stop him?
Given that there’s an Election (which is run in the States, and by the States, in fact, so he can’t stop it) and assuming the US has not developed real Mass-Hysteria, & that there are constitutional candidates, and that there doesn’t appear “78 -million written-in votes for Trump”… then someone else will *be elected*. (And, no, he can’t run for VP under Vance, because another part of the constitution says, if you’re ineligible to become President, you can’t run for VP). Once *someone else is elected*, and he still doesn’t leave the WH? I suppose the new President gets inaugurated… and then the S.S. can set up a “Temporary Office of the President” in another government building, while they persuade Trump to leave, by say, carrying out The Resolute Desk in front of him. The man will be 82.5 years old at that time —-people need to stop talking about him like somehow he’s this Man of Steel guy. You think he holds on to the reins of power, with his 200 super-powerful hands, by himself?
They could just change the locks on the White House doors when he is golfing
The White House has sworn officers of the law to escort him out when his replacement shows up January 20th. If they and the military are his and not the American people then we are screwed.
He declares a state of emergency and martial law. Over and done.
…because, yeah, there was a Rival Pope, in Avignon France, for a quite a number of years, but that didn’t destroy the Roman Catholic Church, either.
Pete Hegseth with brown shoes and white socks? Disrespectful,rude and in poor taste.
Mos def a wannabe-hipster with anger issues and an addictive personality.
Wish he’d go back to Fox . He can model all he wants there…
And notice the expression on the white-haired Japanese guy's face as he stares across the room at the disrespectful footwear.
This was the thing that stood out to me too!
They're yellow, amigo. Our Man in Washington (and sartorial observer) even noted that they are yellow.
Why am I not surprised?
Sometimes Susan Collins' willful blindness is excruciating, but this time it made me laugh b/c it reminded me of the caricature of her in the too short-lived animated series Our Cartoon President, where the Susan Collins cartoon jumps out a window to avoid having to take a stand. If willingness to appear hapless and vacuous were $, Susan Collins would be the richer than Musk.
My Senior Senator Susan Collins is clueless. Remember the old 50's hit "Wake Up Little Susie"? Collins is the poster woman for that song.
What a comedown; Margaret Chase Smith, Olympia Snow and now Susan Collins. What did Maine do to deserve this?
Thanks for bringing up the truly great Senators from Maine...regardless of gender!!!
Also, SNL nailed her sniviling persona when dealing with questions about Trump's outrageous behaviors.
Now that she knows about it I'm sure she's concerned.
Hahaahahahaha!!!
No longer amazed that MAGAt CINO s (Christian In Name Only) lie, relish cruelty towards others, and have no regard for the rule of law.
While some claim that our democracy is fragile, I suggest that MAGAts prove our democracy is actually quite shallow.
Not sure about shallow. It was blatant that MAGA’s were uninterested in democracy, but the rest of the voters who made up the 49.8% were the surprise and disappointment, along with the 7 million democratic voters who didn’t vote. It didn’t take long, the Bulwark is an example, who started agitating for resistance. People are listening. The courts are stopping Felon Trump, polls show Felon’s approval numbers dropping. Even Wall Street is talking against his policies. There is a change. Unfortunately there are no real paths to unseat Congress until next year. We have to work with what we have, so I would say we are strong and getting stronger.
I find it interesting what Speaker Johnson finds unconstitutional. Not Elon slashing and burning the government. Not deporting immigrants to a very bad prison without due process. But a rule that allows proxy voting for new moms. Republicans, want you to have babies, won't help you in any way if you do.
This is going to be remembered the way Woodstock was remembered. And YOU have a chance to be there.
Democracy is NOT a spectator sport.
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I live in Lafayette, IN about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
On Saturday, there will be three sites between our County courthouse in and the Statehouse in downtown Indy!!!
BTW - we had a townhall last Sunday to protest our empty suit, MAGAt, 2020 election denier not responding to constituents attended by almost 300 people.
My guess (hope) is that even though the weather will be rainy in the lower 50s, we'll see over 500 people.
Thanks, I have signed up. Appreciate the link!
Bare ankles and loafers? Are they at the beach?
How about that clown outfit worn by the washed-up MAGAt performer, Kid Rock?? 😉
Who?
The picture was taken in the WH of the washed-up current rocker, channeling the washed-up Elvis of the 1970s in a red lame suit.
I know who he is
Republicans can’t help themselves. Get on their high moral horse about a Democrat for something real or imagined and then turn around and due that twice as bad. But then whine that everyone is making fun of them because it is not the same. It’s worse!
Anyone notice how Hegseth uses the American Flag (the red, white & blue) for a handkerchief?
Does Kid'n Rock know it's against the law to wear the flag as an article of clothing? (The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform. https://us-flag.net/code/)
what does kid rock know and when did he learn it? a burning question
I'll drink another Bud Light to that!
the yellow socks are totally appropriate for a yellow-bellied sucker.
Why all the House folderol? Trump wants a Show House where his wishes are loudly acclaimed, otherwise he just ignores it while usurping Congressional power & status.
Luna's proposal was a good one, based in reality. However the GOP is not pro-life, just pro-unborn. The party of the family does not care about the family. And she is a woman with a job, unconscionable in the male-dominated christian nationalist right.
And Speaker Johnson does not believe woman are permitted to be a pastor. So it’s likely he doesn’t believe women should be elected officials either. I’ll give Anna 1 W for the effort, but 2 Ls, one for underestimating his determination to torpedo the her legislation and the second for letting the alligator eat her face by resigning from the Freedom Caucus.
It will be interesting to see what she does now. I'd like to think that she is starting to see the light, but she is only doing this because it benefits her. If she did not have a young child, I would bet she would not have made such a proposal.
Do you think she is seeing the light or just cares about this issue because it now affects her?
Just because it affects her. The GOP seems to legislate against things unless they are personally affected. One example that I can think of is Rob Portman, former Ohio senator. He was against same-sex marriage, then his son came out as gay. Then he was for it. There have been a few less magnanimous examples whose details that I can't remember at the moment. The Dems seem to legislate for people, whether or not the legislator is particularly affected. Just keep an eye and ear out. I'm sure there will be more such turnarounds, particularly since Trump's actions are affecting red states. I do recall some legislators who voted against the Infrastructure Act, but then attended the groundbreaking of projects, stating their support. Their reason for voting against the act was that, while the projects in their community were worthwhile, spending the money in other communities was a waste of federal funding. GOP - For me, not for thee.
They didn’t state their support but tried to take credit for the money coming to their states without voting for it, and actively calling for the bill to be killed! Hypocrites with a capital H.
Yes, this is correct - taking credit rather than giving support, and with their stupid rationale. Thank you.
Two things: Bulwark, please be sure to archive the Cruz and Johnson clips to have handy when they change their minds in 2027. That said, I don’t think Trump will run in 2028. I think he will declare some sort of national emergency and cancel or postpone the election altogether. That’s been the authoritarian playbook elsewhere and I don’t see why it won’t work here by then.