Making A (Fashion) Statement

The latest GOP fashion accessory is the assault rifle lapel pin. 

In a country that can't get through a week without someone losing their self-evident truth to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to someone else deciding the 2nd Amendment is their personal license to kill. 

Oh, also, too, this. 

Have a good weekend. 

A Feature, Not A Bug

And a Democratic politician would never be able to do anything even remotely similar.

Could Buy A Lot Of Peach Tree Dishes With $5.1 Billion

That said, yet another lesson in how GOP extremism is either rewarded or at the very least forgotten. 

MTG Genuine Daft's ridiculous or disgusting comments will get lost in the fog of political journalism..

In contrast, Kamala Harris will have quite a time trying to counter the impression that the Vice Presidency was too big a step up, an impression based, best as I can tell, on a single interview with Lester Holt (who uncritically parroted wingnut talking points about the border) and the subsequent foghorn amplification from the noise machine/puke funnel. 

Rinse, repeat. 

I Think They've Reached The Bargaining Stage

George decided junior committee member is still too big a role. 

So he'll limit himself to literal back-bencher.

Hmm, I suppose after that it'll be a seat outside the chamber, then maybe a desk in the basement, with or without a red stapler. 

Oh, and did anyone besides Charles Pierce (I think it was Pierce...update: or maybe Lawrence O'Donnell) notice that Santos skipped a White House event, and maybe it's just a coincidence or a schedule conflict or bad timing, but it's also the case that a valid ID needs to be provided for a routine background check. 

Imagine the howling you'd hear from the usuals if Santos was a Democrat...

Great Moments In The Use Of The Passive Voice

The same cult of the savvy that elevated [but] her emails to the worst political scandal in history while ignoring the entire sleazy history of TFG can't figure out how the public seems to think Biden's handling of classified documents is equivalent to TFG's. 

I'm sure they'll come up with something. 

My money's on "optics."