- Via the NYT: 3 Things to Know About Nicole Shanahan, R.F.K. Jr.’s Running Mate. Spoiler alert: she’s an incredibly wealthy anti-vax political neophyte.
- Via Gallup: Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%. Spoiler alert: they will almost all end up voting R or D in November.
- Via TNR: MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse. Spoiler alert: it is just depressing.
- Via RawStory: Publisher’s slip-up reveals James Comer is hawking book about Biden impeachment inquiry. Spoiler alert: its just grifts all the way down.
- Via the Daily Beast: Trump’s Former Defense Secretary Tells Bill Maher He Is ‘Definitely Not’ Voting for Ex Boss. Spoiler alert: MAGA won’t care, but is still more of the drip, drip, drip of Republicans against Trump.
- Along the same lines via Axios: Exclusive: Larry Hogan says he won’t vote for Trump. Hot take: not a surprise at all, but one wonders if this could hurt him in the primary.
- Via WaPo: GOP official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally 9 times, judge rules. Sigh.
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I don’t think Hogan has any serious competition in the primary. I just looked up the race at Ballotpedia and as near as I can tell there isn’t a recognizable name there. None of the other candidates appear to have any government experience whatsoever.
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Publisher’s slip-up reveals James Comer is hawking book about Biden impeachment inquiry.
I can’t wait for the whoppers in that cheap paperback.
GOP official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally 9 times, judge rules.
I loved the judge pointing out that he went to several probation hearings during the time he was illegally voting. “You can’t plead ignorance, Buddy.”
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Via WaPo: GOP official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally 9 times, judge rules. Sigh.
A reminder that a Black woman in Texas who didn’t realize she was ineligible to vote did this ONCE, and was sentenced to FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. A Texas appeals court just acquitted her, but not before completely wrecking her life. So.
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@Flat Earth Luddite: Easy, I never read the news in absence of believing that humans are seriously flawed. It dovetails into the idea that Easter is both essential and insufficient.
ETA: Regarding the GOP stolen election official: How do you suppose that he knows how serious the problem of illegal voting is except by personal experience?
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@Jen: A black woman who the state of Texas registered to vote, failing to verify whether she was or was not eligible*. A black woman who had every reason to believe that she was doing the right thing.
*: an election security reform I would support is to make all voters who registered within 30 days of an election use provisional ballots, to ensure that they are eligible to vote. Since voting rules vary by state, but news is generally national, there’s a lot of room for good faith mistakes, plus it cuts down on opportunities for fraud (which has never been shown to happen at scale… but since Republican office holders seem intent on committing voter fraud, we should harden security)
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@Slugger:
I just had a 90s flashback: a book about nothing.
Of course, the deplorables should appreciate a thick tome with 799 blank pages.
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Despite warning that a second Trump term would be a threat to democracy, Esper still couldn’t bring himself to say he’ll vote for Joe Biden. I’d love one of these “I wrote in X” voters to tell us one day what point they think they make by metaphorically shouting into the void.
And if Comer doesn’t move to impeach the president, nobody’s going to buy a book full of whiny excuses. Trump Republicans will be too busy looking for a lamppost to hang him from.
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@steve:
Nah. The deep staters want to deprive the Trumpkins of vital supplies that come through the Port of Baltimore.
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@Kathy:
Of course, the deplorables should appreciate a thick tome with 799 blank pages
Only if it comes with crayons.
