Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Run Away
The House is going home again—this time to avoid a vote on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s impeachment.One for the THERE'S NOTHING THE DEMS CAN DO crowd (Massie did this).
House GOP leadership announced Wednesday morning that they will end their current slate of votes early and head home until the midterms, a nearly two-month break.
Cost-Push Inflation
At least it would not be the ideal policy response if we didn't have stupid psychos running the country.
It will do little to reduce price increases and could cause a recession!
How Much Does Ground Beef Cost, Michael, $2?
Doesn't seem like you're getting below $6/lb anywhere...Emmer says Republicans need to talk more about grocery prices that aren't expensive: "Eggs are at pre-pandemic prices. Ah, beef is at, ah, less than $2 a pound for ground beef ... I think we have a lot to run on."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Americans Reject Free Money
The four-day poll showed 63% of Americans - including four in 10 Republicans and nine in 10 Democrats - disapproved of Trump's offer made in his convention speech that he would ensure all Americans get a $5,000 dividend if Republicans retain control of the U.S. Congress in November's midterm elections.
A lot of Republicans probably reject it because they imagine all the undeserving who will get it, too, but it's still funny.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Sure Why Not
PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Is That A Lot
At least we've achieved so much.
A Pentagon watchdog has revealed that the United States lost dozens of aircraft, including at least 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones, and that hundreds of buildings and structures used by the US were damaged or destroyed by Iranian attacks during the conflict.
There's always money in the banana stand for catastrophic wars.
The Supreme Cult
One benefit of Trump 2 (hopefully lasting) is we all have permission to point and laugh at anyone who treats the Supreme Court with the Totenbagger reverence that was was the norm for decades.
Stripsearch Sammy
I was looking for something in my archives about Alito (which I haven't found yet) and came across this (there's so much linkrot on the internet - the Media Matters link at that link is broken).
I think it's impossible to compare The Media of today with The Media of yesteryear simply. Everything is just very different, including the fact that there are almost no newspapers anymore. But one thing people forget from that time is just how normal it was to have absolutely no Democrats or self-identified liberal/left-leaning commentators at all on cable news.
And a common Meet the Press "roundtable" list was: one host, two conservatives, and one "straight" journalist. Sometimes 3 conservatives! When they did let a liberal on it was, like, EJ Dionne. Nothing against EJ but he's hardly a full-throated advocate of woke communism.
An example I found from Meet the Press, December 2006:
Neoconservative and former Bush administration official Ken Adelman.
Neoconservative Eliot Cohen.
Former Bush administration official Richard Haass.
Tom Ricks, reporter, Washington Post.
I don't remember what else was going on at that moment, but one thing was THE DEMOCRATS HAD JUST WON CONTROL OF BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE. Fucking hell.
Judging by the guest list, it was Serious Foreign Policy Day for whatever reason, and people to the left of Joe Lieberman do not get invited!
Monday, September 14, 2026
To What
President Donald Trump on Monday all but rejected calls from AI industry leaders for more government regulation on their cutting-edge models, making clear he considers outpacing China a higher priority than addressing growing public concerns.
And a country's firms aren't the country, especially in our glorious multinational corporation age. What, exactly, do "we" "win" by outpacing China?
China is going to be outpacing us in plenty of things. Some of which we could imitate (SUPERTRAIN), and some of which we are destroying (universities). Being able to render Garfield with big tits in UHD a bit faster isn't that important.
Hunter Biden's Paintings
As with all things, the Democrats have some responsibility for not choosing issues and hammering them until most of the country is puking with rage about them, but plenty of journalists pretended to believe Hunter Biden's mostly harmless exploitation of the family name was a very serious issue indeed.
On May 24, Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating in the Bahamas, as scantily clad dancers in stilettos and sailor caps performed for him and his guests. It was the last night of his wedding, a lavish, three-day party held across a pair of ultra-exclusive private islands. A five-tier funfetti cake had been airlifted in from Florida, and helicopters and seaplanes descended on the islands before guests settled into their oceanfront villas. That night on the beach, Trump Jr. lifted his bride into the air while fireworks launched from a barge over the sea.
“It was everything we dreamed of and more,” his wife later wrote on Instagram.
That dream was heavily funded by a secret benefactor: Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin.
Odds are this will barely escape the propublica containment.