H/T Scissorhead D-Cap
Amply be-chinned Mitch McConnell continues his out-of-shell experience:
And that’s your Senator at work, Kentucky.
People are saying that Cap’n Guyliner left this on a couch in AF-2. Allegedly.
(Hat tip: Scissorhead Pharmakeus Ubik)
Do you see them, Cadet Bone Spurs?? Are the caravans in the room with you right now? What are they saying?👆
👆And Jackie Kennedy loved Dallas!
(H/T Scissorhead Skinny-D)
They always find a way to give the finger to Vets. On Veterans Day though does take balls.
What a bunch of shitheels.
“Everyone needs a farm hand, Hoomin!,” said the many animals interviewing for the job.
(Hat tip: Scissorhead M Davis)
U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz —who quit DOJ after a few months in 2025 to run an unsuccessful campaign for Texas AG— is threatening Sen. Richard Blumenthal over his probe of White House ballroom donors. Quid meets Quo and goes Pro, dontcha know?
Anna Bower is the much-esteemed senior editor at the Lawfare blog, so I kinda pay attention when she pops up in my feed:
Imagine my surprise upon learning that Connecticut is actually located within the southern district of Texas. Who knew?
There is no First Amendment issue here. But more importantly, this US Attorney doesn’t seem to be aware of Article 1 of the Constitution, which gives Congress its powers to investigate.
Even the corrupt and illegitimate John Roberts’ SCOTUS might be reluctant to take this one on appeal as Congress has all the cards for SCOTUS. Congress can eliminate their funding (except their salaries which is in Article 3); congress could decide to return SCOTUS to the circuit and sell their chambers (and imagine the stuck pig squealing sound coming from Witchfinder Alito, though Clarence Thomas might enjoy filling-up Harlan Crow’s luxury bribe, er, Winnebago and hitting the road, Ginnie in tow). Congress can play hardball here.
Anyway, this will not end well for Mr. Reitz, my guess is that his law license is going to be in question, even in Texas.
The Washington Sun (née NOTUS) email thingie leads their morning with…
“Democrats: Putting the lame in lame duck. The minority party seems to have forgotten how the House works, The Sun’s Hill team reports. First, some Democrats spaced out on the impeachment vote of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Then, yesterday, they fumbled a vote around veterans’ benefits. To be clear, this is not your old fashioned can’t-agree-on-anything Democrats. This is a new thing where they kind of wander into walls and say hey, who put that there? Despite the missteps, our team reports rank-and-file Democrats were not willing to trash the leaders who are in charge of the caucus now and will continue to be in the next Congress.”
I will trash the leaders, well, one in particular.
It is inexcusable that Hakeem Jeffries’ team allowed eleven (11!) members to miss the vote, even if he didn’t demand a uniform result; FFS he didn’t even know that they were missing.
This does NOT instill confidence that he knows how to herd cats.
I don’t think I’m always a process enthusiast (preferring outcomes), but it was absolutely lame that his team didn’t even know what was happening.
I don’t care that the Republicans were unified and got this thing shuffled-off the floor into limbo, I hate Hate HATE that Jeffries so publicly fumbled the ball; he wasn’t Charlie Brown, he was Lucy. He’s giving the loud-mouthed cynics and doubters in the cheap seats all the ammo they need to say, “See? Nothing changed.”
Nearly 150 years after Reconstruction, Mississippi —the birthplace of the Blues and the resting place of Emmett Till— sent a Black American to the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1881.
We congratulate Senator-Elect Scott Colom for his historic win and we congratulate Mississippi —a state whose history is slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, segregation and violence to deny Black Americans the right to vote— for electing him.
“Don’t tell me, I tell you
Me and my people just about due
I’ve been there so I know
They keep on saying “Go slow!”
It went slow, but goddam, it finally is here.
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang —he of the endless black leather Members-Only black jackets— has resigned after TWO THREE extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy and another the others with a direct-report employees.
As regular readers know, I generally don’t give two merdes about what consenting adults do with each other “as long as they don’t frighten the horses,” as the victorians used to say. But I guess I draw the line at Mata Hari-style national security whoopee. I’m not so keen on bosses banging subordinates either, come to think of it. Power dynamics and all that goes along with it never ends well for the employee.
The W$J has the unintentionally funniest line:
“Huang, who has roughly 60 direct reports, has said he doesn’t believe in succession planning and that leaders should continuously pass on knowledge and information as they have it. It wasn’t immediately clear who would succeed him.”
Someone in Nvidia’s HR is probably gonna lose their job over that, too. That’s textbook incompetence.
And now for the politics… The Mouth of Sauron scoops that Epstein Island luncheon habitué Secretary of Commerce and obvious anagram Howard Lutnick knew about Huang’s affair with the spy and did nothing—even though he is the one who is charge with keeping sensitive technology out of the hands of America’s enemies. So we have Trump, Rubio, Lutnick all knowing about it, so the incoming Democrats are going to have a field day starting in January.
Anyway, Huang is gone, and now the search begins for a replacement, presumably for someone who’s zipper isn’t loose.
H/T @NamelessCynic
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(Sorry about the short posting today: out of town guests.)
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