Well, I was going to write about the Supreme Court telling tRump to go get Kilmar Obrego Garcia back, but I did a piece earlier about why they are fighting so hard to NOT get him back, and it tanked, so writing about something silly instead.
Y’know, Marjorie Taylor Greene picks the strangest hills to die on (and then doesn’t die). This time, she’s having a fit because people in the US and other countries don’t say Gulf of America. Really? Good grief! This isn’t even worth people’s time to read, let alone vote for or against. This grasping at straws is getting pitiful. We have a trade war that’s *decimating* the economy, and she goes after something like this? Oy! Girl, please. (I can hardly wait for Jasmine to say something and make the news about it. This could be fun. I hope she does….)
Democrats came up with all sorts of ridiculous names, and I am *dying* about it! From Raw Story: But at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing marking up her bill, Democrats ridiculed the situation by forcing votes on amendment after amendment on a raft of possible odd names for the gulf, Politico reported on Wednesday. But it gets better! “One amendment would have renamed the Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of Ignorance.’ Another would have dubbed it the ‘Gulf of Helene,’ after a major hurricane that wreaked havoc off the coast of Florida last year,” reported Ben Jacobs. “In a similar vein, Democrats threw out calling it the ‘Gulf of American Should Rejoin The Paris Accord’ — the global emissions reduction pledge from which Trump has on two separate occasions withdrawn the United States.”
And just a little bit more: Perhaps the grandest attempt to troll House Republicans came from ranking member Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA), who introduced an amendment to rename the entire planet Earth to “Donald Trump.” “Let’s skate to where the puck is going,” said Huffman, adding that the amendment would be an opportunity for Republicans to “show how mindlessly cultish you are.” Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) criticized Huffman over this amendment, saying it was not relevant to the proceedings since it didn’t involve renaming the Gulf of Mexico — a point Huffman conceded.
Lawdy, I’m going to pull muscles laughing so hard! I can just imagine MTG sitting and fuming at the names suggested and not being in control of the floor. What a great reply to this ridiculous submission! Agent Orange was banning AP from the White House press pool because they didn’t use Gulf of America. That really shows just how *petty* this whole thing is – another wild idea from the festering cesspool that is Traitor Tot’s infantile brain. Oh, and this was supposed to force other *countries* to use Gulf of America. Not. Happening!
Good grief, MTG, get a life! There *have* to be better things you can do. This one is ridiculous. Stop it and go back to sleep, or talk about something much more important, like how our country is going to hell. Please? (Ha!)
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Hi, Susan, I put my my thoughts on the new SCOTUS decision on your story of yesterday; please forgive me for repeating it here:
🤔 Court decisions can be very clear when judges want them to be, but can also be designed to obfuscate and hide meaning. Danny Cevallos, the MSNBC legal analyst, reminded us this morning that the spin masters in this administration will be able to call this a Trump win because SCOTUS used the wiggle words “facilitate” and “effectuate,” which means the game is still afoot! Cevallos referred back to the already adjudicated case in 2019 which gave protection that Abrego Garcia never be returned to El Salvador. If he is still alive, which I really doubt, Trump could just put him in a cell at Gitmo or wherever and keep playing.
Cevallos also claimed that that one of the big reasons for the wiggle words is that Chief Justice Roberts wanted some 9-0 decisions to slap against the Trumpheads so they know not to attack judges and courts, but couldn’t get all his justices on board if he used honest words.
Former Senator Claire McCaskill was also on MSNBC and made an important point that is getting lost and is almost never mentioned in media stories about this case…this is a business arrangement! Pam Bondi’s arguments about courts getting too far into the executive powers on international relations are meaningless. Trump and El Salvador President Bukele are parties in a contract and it is contract law that should rule. As McCaskill said, “this is a contract to house people for a time certain (one year) for money certain ($6M).” The original number of housed persons was 300, which works out to $1600/month per unit (person). You can be sure that there are no personal identifiers for each unit, so just take out one unit, replace “it” with another and there is no breach of contract. What McCaskill did not mention, but I have been screaming for days, is that if even one unit (Abrego Garcia) is dead/gone, Bukele is in breach of contract because he is charging us for housing a unit that no longer exists! At the least, we need to demand an inventory audit!! 🤬
Empty G (Old Sporkfoot) actually introduced the bill on January 9 to get ahead of her colleagues in the ass-licking contest! She told us all:
“The American people are footing the bill to protect and secure the maritime waterways for commerce to be conducted. Our U.S. armed forces protect the area from any military threats from foreign countries. It’s our gulf. The rightful name is the Gulf of America, and it’s what the entire world should refer to it as. Congress has to take the Trump Agenda mandate seriously and that means acting fast to enact it. This is a piece of Day 1 legislation that can easily be awaiting President Trump’s signature the moment he takes his oath of office!”
Greene got mocked in January and, now that the bill is in its mark-up hearing, the Dems are getting their second chance! Like you, Susan, I wish Congress would do real work, but mocking “Planet Trump” is a delicious 😋 little distraction!! 🤣
Maybe you’re not old enough to remember the popular show Sing Along With Mitch back in the 1960s. It ended with a parody of John Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes forever, which many don’t know has actual lyrics although there’s seldom a chorus present to sing them (at the appropriate time during it) as the band/orchestra plays the stirring tune. No one knows the origins but a parody of the lyrics turned up on college campuses back in the 1930s. Silly but fun and it made for a cute children’s song eventually, hence ole Mitch deciding to use it to close out his TV show each week. But take a look at the lyrics and tell me if it applies to the literally web-footed MTG:
Be kind to your web footed friends,
For that duck may be somebody’s mother
She lives in a hole in a swamp
Where the weather is always damp
You may think that this is the end:
Well it is, but to prove that we’re all liars
We’re going to sing it again,
But only this time we will sing a little higher
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=be%20kind%20to%20your%20web-footed%20friends&mid=0096EB2F62ECB92D0D040096EB2F62ECB92D0D04&ajaxhist=0
😁👏🎶 OMG! You betcha I remember singing along with Mitch! My family once a week caterwauling along as we followed the bouncing ball on the lyrics! When the wonderful Leslie Uggams became a featured singer on the show as a teenager, I dreamed of being a singer as good as her! (I didn’t make it!)🤪 I was a young white girl, but I could feel the significance of this young Black girl standing in front of of all those white men who were her back-up singers!! That vision was powerful and I wish all of her new fans loving her hilarious turns as Blind Al in the “Deadpool” films could realize how important she has been for decades!! 🥰