And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[KaraBulut]

God I hope that Chris Christie's descendant puts that ass in prison one day.

The most delicious part though is that they are no longer a 'power couple'. I suspect that these days they couldn't raise a bucket of warm spit.

There's murmurs in South Florida that their marriage is on the rocks because of the fallout from their terms in the White House. Ivanka has been running around without her wedding ring. The Kushners bought a ridiculously expensive house on Indian Creek Island in South Florida- it was originally listed at $25 million. There's nothing quicker to ruin a marriage than to buy an overpriced house... except maybe having one father who is a seditionist and another father who is a convicted felon.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Missouri has taken over Texas' claim to be the National Laboratory for Bad Government. Former Senator Claire McCaskill recently pointed out that during the 2022 legislative session, when the omicron variant was filling up Missouri's emergency rooms and ICUs, the Legislature passed a bill to make brass knuckles legal in the State of Missouri.

That bill never made it out of the Senate and thankfully, did not become law. Nevertheless, the bill was worse than you think. In addition to brass knuckles, it also legalized firearm silencers and switchblades. It also exempted firearms and ammunition from state and local sales taxes. It gets even worse...it removed the concealed carry restriction in places of worship without consent of the organization. And you think that's bad...if you had an extended or lifetime concealed carry permit, you were exempted from unlawful use of weapons laws.

But Claire is right...the House legislature passed such a bill in the middle of covid, and this insanity is what they were worried about.

 

[cityboy-stl]

There's murmurs in South Florida that their marriage is on the rocks because of the fallout from their terms in the White House. Ivanka has been running around without her wedding ring. The Kushners bought a ridiculously expensive house on Indian Creek Island in South Florida- it was originally listed at $25 million. There's nothing quicker to ruin a marriage than to buy an overpriced house... except maybe having one father who is a seditionist and another father who is a convicted felon.

I have heard/read a rumor or two over the years that Kushie is gay and the marriage to Ivanka was arranged. Don't know if that is true, though, and could be "fake news".

 

[KaraBulut]

I have heard/read a rumor or two over the years that Kushie is gay and the marriage to Ivanka was arranged. Don't know if that is true, though, and could be "fake news".

The one that I've heard is gay is Jared's brother, Joshua (he's married to Karlie Kloss). There were some rumors about him making out with guys when he was in Miami last year.

 

[rareboy]

hmmmmmmmmmmm. My gaydar alarms have gone off with Jarhead from the beginning because he reminds me so much of a homo I once knew....but yeah, I would do his bro....

 

[KaraBulut]

That bill never made it out of the Senate and thankfully, did not become law. Nevertheless, the bill was worse than you think. In addition to brass knuckles, it also legalized firearm silencers and switchblades. It also exempted firearms and ammunition from state and local sales taxes. It gets even worse...it removed the concealed carry restriction in places of worship without consent of the organization. And you think that's bad...if you had an extended or lifetime concealed carry permit, you were exempted from unlawful use of weapons laws.

But Claire is right...the House legislature passed such a bill in the middle of covid, and this insanity is what they were worried about.

I had a little trouble verifying the brass knuckles legislation because the Missouri house passed it TWICE - in 2021 and in 2022, both years were COVID-19 was resulting in the death of 22,000 Missourians. You are correct - HB 1462 was passed by the House but never got a vote in the Senate.

There isn't a "brass knuckles lobby" or a "National Brass Knuckles Association" that I'm aware of. I wondered whether the 2022 proposed law (which also repealed sales taxes on gun sales!) was a libertarian gambit or whether there was a lobbyist writing checks. The law Missouri is repealing also prohibited gun silencers, then it's easy to figure out where the money is coming from.

This stuff makes me think of the last days of Rome. When you have legislators worrying about what female legislators are wearing and trying to get more lethal weapons on the streets, while ignoring serious problems like Missouri's population loss, it's ranking in the top 10% in States with highest criminality and its dismal health, education and welfare rankings... it really is a symptom of a State on the way down.

 

[KaraBulut]

hmmmmmmmmmmm. My gaydar alarms have gone off with Jarhead from the beginning because he reminds me so much of a homo I once knew....but yeah, I would do his bro....

I hear a lot of rumors about "The Beard Club". I have to admit that a few of the rumors do make me go, "Hmmmm.".

Joshua has had a long-time close friendship with Mikey Hess, heir to the Hess Oil fortune. That friendship goes back to their days at Harvard. There's been rumors that Mikey and Joshua were more than just best friends.

Mikey Hess is not a looker. But Mikey is an another example of a wealthy guy with a glamorous, beautiful former-model wife from a wealthy family, Misha Nonoo, who has a fashion brand (like you-know-who).

Misha Nonoo is a BFF of Meagan Markle who is married to...

Hmmmm.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I suspect in Sinema's case, her influence will will fading fast as her sponsors know that she is a lame duck who is going to get primaried out of her seat and will lack much influence in the Senate.

I can't help thinking that Sinema is in Davos trying to land a high-paying job somewhere.

And it would be nice to see her resign and Arizona's new Democratic governor appoint someone to fill the seat.

 

[rareboy]

No question that she and Manchin were both there to lobby corporate interests for pay-offs in exchange for their votes this term. The problem with Sinema nailing a job though, is that they all know what she is. Disloyal and a whore for hire. Even more nakedly than Manchin, whose principal interest seems to be protecting the fossil fuel (coal) industry.

 

[TX-Beau]

Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake posted another allegation this week purporting to demonstrate fraud in the 2022 election that saw her lose to Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs...

'These signatures are from 2020': Elections analyst makes quick work of Kari Lake's new 'bombshell' evidence

Attention trogs! Kari is short on money! Send her cash immediately!

 

[cityboy-stl]

So... the Worldwide Fascist Propaganda Network otherwise known as Facebook, is now open again to Der Trumpenführer.

Meta says it will restore Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts [CNN]

Facebook-parent Meta said on Wednesday that it will restore former President Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram in the coming weeks, just over two years after suspending him in the wake of the January 6 Capitol attack. “Our determination is that the risk [to public safety] has sufficiently receded”

 

[rareboy]

Just a reminder that these two are in the Deplorables Hall of Fame.

 

[cityboy-stl]

^ Charlie Kirk and Kellyanne Conway.

Photoshopped faces, exposes more of the ugliness that exists in whatever souls they have.

 

[TX-Beau]

A little something to brighten your day.

Two years after penning the infamous "coup memo," the California Bar Association is recommending that former Chapman Law Professor John Eastman be disbarred...

Trump lawyer faces disbarment as California Bar hits him with 11 charges

 

[TX-Beau]

Crazy Eye on aisle 4! Kara, Fai attenzione al malocchio!

Speaking at R-CALF, a convention for independent cattle producers, Hageman [U.S. House Rep (R) Wyoming] in August 2021 and 2022 baselessly claimed that conservation plans like the global initiative 30x30 are a government plot led by President Joe Biden to control Americans through starvation...

 

[KaraBulut]

Crazy Eye on aisle 4! Kara, Fai attenzione al malocchio!

Malocchio indeed. She looks like the villain in an action movie. This Cruella deVille character is what the people from Wyoming elected as their representative in Congress since they ousted Liz Cheney in 2020. She's a piece of work.


She's a nice pairing with Ryan Zinke, who has returned to Congress after serving as Trumps first Secretary of Interior. Zinke was ousted as Sec of Interior for Trump in 2019 because of rampant corruption and abuse of his office.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/15/663597698/ryan-zinke-is-leaving-the-interior-department

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081180054/ryan-zinke-interior-investigation-ig-report

Zinke was never prosecuted for his abuses and after being forced out as Secretary of Interior, became a cryptobro. The people of Montana re-elected him to Congress. This was his first floor speech after being re-elected:

Zinke was able to return to Congress because the guy who had succeeded Zinke in 2017 as the sole Representative from Montana, Greg Gianforte, is now the governor of Montana! Gianforte was the guy who assaulted a reporter from The Guardian who asked him a policy question in 2016 during his campaign for Congress.

 

[TX-Beau]

Dana Point, California CNN — Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was elected to a fourth consecutive term Friday after winning the support of about two-thirds of the RNC members who gathered here for their winter meeting...

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel elected to fourth consecutive term | CNN Politics

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was elected to a fourth consecutive term Friday after winning the support of about two-thirds of the RNC members who gathered here for their winter meeting.

www.cnn.com

It appears Ronna McRomney has won a fourth term at the RNC. I am bitterly disappointed. I had my heart set on Mr. Pillow and no one else. I even asked Santa.

Of course, this begs the question of why the 'pubs felt it necessary to return a three-time loser. Was Mikey just so very scary? My heart is broken.

BTW the toad's candidate limped in third, then quit. All hail the kingmaker!

Yet another man who received former President Donald Trump's "Complete and Total Endorsement" has lost an election...Michael Whatley, who was Trump's handpicked candidate...dropped out of the running on Friday afternoon after he finished in third place in the second round of voting...

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[TX-Beau]

Nipple sucking and dead vaccine babies - you decide.

Creepy new details emerge about drag-hating senator whose GOP colleagues mysteriously turned on her last week

 

[KaraBulut]

I think we need a "Kari Lake Batshit Crazy Stunt of the Day" Substack.

Right out of the Trump Grift Playbook....

Dissecting the dark heart of Kari Lake's evangelical jihad

A priestess of prevarication, Kari Lake borrows not from righteous pastors but from self-serving con artists like Jimmy Swaggart or Jim Bakker.

www.azcentral.com

Kari Lake did not hold a campaign event on Sunday in Phoenix. She held a revival meeting.

An old-timey crusade.

That’s because Lake is not now (and perhaps never has been) a politician.

She is a preacher. An evangelist of equivocation. A minister of misrepresentation. The high priestess of prevarication.

The salary of Arizona’s chief executive is $95,000, ranking near the bottom of the 50 states.

Meantime, as has been reported numerous times in the past week or so, Lake, who was defeated by Katie Hobbs, has collected more than $2.5 million since the election.

She has done so not by waging a political campaign but by preaching the gospel of conspiracy, the dogma of disinformation.

 

[rareboy]

Lake was only ever in it for the grift.

Her motivation is naked.

Hwo wouldn't look at the suckers giving millions of dollars to hucksters and confidence men and think...'my career as a pretty 'journalist' is done....I should get some of that moolah...)?

She is like a line sketch of a Trumpist grifter.

Like Santos.

Pathological liar. Stunt Queen. Hag.

FOAD.