Crooks and Liars

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Talking Points Memo: The Jimmy Carter Renaissance.
The Status Kuo: What's in it for Elon?

While normal Colorado politicians paid tribute to former president Jimmy Carter, at least one MAGA politician, state Rep Matt Soper (R-Delta) decided to beclown himself instead. Soper's late night tweet did not go over well and he deleted it, saying later, "While I am not a fan of former President Carter, expressing the sentiments I did, I am very sorry for and apologise to the people of Colorado."

Until we got wind of the federal and congressional investigation into Gaetz’s – uh, intimate friends, we thought he was only a spoiled a-hole, taking up a taxpayer-funded Congressional seat for the sake of getting Fox News hits.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Elon Musk has been branded a “national security risk” by former U.S. army general Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré, who highlighted Musk’s history of appeasing and praising the Chinese Communist Party and his multiple business deals with the party, particularly in the modern space race.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon doubled down on his battle against billionaire Elon Musk over the use of immigrant visas that Bannon claims take jobs away from Americans.

Sarah Isgur, a former Department of Justice spokesperson in the first Trump administration, cast doubt on President-elect Donald Trump's ability to bend the Supreme Court of the United States to his will with a bid to delay a law that would ban the TikTok social media platform.

No one is coming to save us. Trump (and Musk) will be in charge of the United States in a few weeks. Watching the MAGA civil war is awesome but the fact remains that the people who will soon run our country do not have the best interests of Americans in mind.

Elon Musk pretty much declared civil war against MAGA over H-1B visas, but you'd never know that from watching Fox, where the discussion has either been nonexistent, or whitewashed the way it was on Fox & Friends this Sunday.

Pretty much sums up Republican caring and compassion by extending sympathies to a woman whose funeral you attended last year.
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Remi Bateman, a 9-year-old from Utah, is at that age where even minor differences make you a target at school. Hers is that she was born without a left arm, and kids were starting to bully her.