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On the Monday edition of Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, the jailbird vehemently attacked Speaker Johnson's approach to legislation calling him an utter failure.
Johnson is proposing a huge omnibus bill that will pass everything the MAGAts and Trump want.
BANNON: And Johnson, because you have failed yet again, here's what Johnson's good at, I finally figured it out over the weekend, here's what he's great at.
He's great at shuffling off responsibility and blame to President Trump.
CNN MAGA wingnut Scott Jennings used Monday's election certification by Kamala Harris to claim Democrats have objected to election results many times over, in order to equate them to the January 6th insurrection by Trump supporters instigated by Trump, who attacked and ransacked the U. S. Capitol in an effort to overthrow a free and fair election.
Jennings lies like no other on CNN and here he is in all his glory performing his liefest task; making them sound almost appealing.
On the same day a joint session of Congress formally certified the Bloated Yam's 2024 election victory, many Democrats marked the day in somber and sometimes bitter terms. Via HuffPost:
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said the expected quiet at the U. S. Capitol Monday, under heavy security measures as well as a blanket of overnight snow, should not be taken for granted.
“It’s because today in America, tragically, only one party respects elections.
After Vice President Kamala Harris swore in MAGAt Sen. Debra Fischer yesterday, she shook hands with her and then offered her hand to Fischer's husband Bruce -- who put his hand in his pocket and refused to look at her.
Why do you suppose that is?
It's not his wife's first Senate term, so odds are, he's been exposed to Black people before.
Maria Bartiromo cosigned Don Junior's claim that many people he knew in New York who were anti-gun, now want to buy a gun and learn how to use them.
Whenever Junior talks about speaking to "people," he's not discussing actual working-class Americans, but rich elitists. Whenever he claims to be speaking to "people," it's just a ploy he uses to bash normal Americans in defense of MAGAts.
Bartiromo tells her audience she also is training to learn how to use a gun.
Above, It's all Groundhog Day. In 1905 George Santayana write, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Well, here we go again!
The Dean's Report says it is right from Hitler's playbook.
Civil Discourse remembers January 6, 2021.
No More Mister Nice Blog refutes that everyone agreed on January 7 2021.
Anil Dash presents Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture.
Bonus Track: Miss Cellania goes to a photo shoot.
Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.