Thank you, Jen Psaki! (I wish I didn’t keep forgetting about her show because it’s amazing and enjoyable and kept me from losing my mind in the hospital, being as I have no laptop. But I digress really badly.) The GOP is trying to make itself look better in time for the midterms. It’s not going to work. Not with Moses MAGA Mikey Johnson in there. And they have some folks in Congress making really bad decisions, which only makes them look worse. (Wow, this is long.) I’m grateful for Raw Story:
MS NOW’s Jen Psaki kicked off Thursday night’s edition of “The Briefing” by ruthlessly mocking the House GOP’s latest rebranding attempt to try to stave off defeat in November.
“It seems like little Mike Johnson has finally, finally settled on his pitch for the midterms,” said Psaki. “He has managed to boil it all down to one simple message.”
“House Republicans continue to deliver for the American people,” said Johnson in a clip. “We will continue to do that for the remainder of the year, and that is a large reason why we are going to win the midterms, so that the grown-ups can stay in charge here.”
Grownups? Mikey Johnson? Pardon me while I go laugh my ass off at this (and hopefully I can get it back on). I can’t even! Oh, my goodness gracious, the grown-ups! That’s about as milk-toast as he is. I wonder if that’s what he has for breakfast. But I digress again. Johnson is weak and ineffectual. The only reason he’s Speaker is that he’s so inoffensive and quiet that folks could agree on putting him in that position, or at least that’s my theory. He is not a grown-up in the way we consider one to be. He can’t even make up his mind on anything until he’s pushed into it.
“They have full-on Trump Derangement Syndrome, okay?” he said in a second clip.
“And it informs how they see the world and how they react and how irresponsible they are now is on full display for the whole country.
I hope voters remember this in the fall.
“Does that make Mike Johnson the grown-up?” laughed Psaki. “Like if you’re a grown-up, you don’t have a spine?
That’s how it goes these days. Who knows? But that’s their message du jour of this week.
Well, today, the 79-year-old man-child in charge of all of those little grown-ups was on Truth Social, bragging about the cognitive test he passed not once, not twice, but three times.
You know, the tests where you name the animals drawn on a piece of paper.
And Donald Trump might have felt the need to brag about acing those tests, because lots of people noticed that he can’t even keep his wars straight right now.” She played a clip of Trump.
“I think Ukraine, militarily, they’re defeated,” said Trump.
“Okay, you wouldn’t know that by reading the fake news, but militarily, look, their navy, so they had 159 ships. Every ship is right now underwater. They have no navy, no air force, no anti-aircraft apparatus other than what they may have put there — they may have brought in some light stuff during the ceasefire.”
I don’t know whether to laugh again or bang my head on my desk ‘til it goes away. TDS showing up, according to Milquetoast Johnson? And then Trump mixing up the two wars is almost incomprehensible. Trump is a Republican. They’re the grown-ups in the room. Trump is barely a grown-up these days. He can’t even keep things in his head. His brain is leaking out through his ears. But he’s our ‘president’. No wonder we’re in such hell. All his machinations haven’t done a damn thing for Americans. But we’re not the ones who can get him out of there. That lies with his ‘cabinet’ *snort* or Congress *another snort*. Neither of them is apparently looking to get him outta there, no matter how big a mess he makes, like, oh, the Iran war. Aren’t you thrilled by this news? … Me, either. There isn’t anything to be thrilled about, especially now.
“Ukraine is defeated,” said Psaki. “That’s what he said. All their ships are underwater. Think you mean Iran? Their pal Iran.
See, Donald Trump doesn’t even know which war he’s talking about.”
“So, I’m going to put this in terms I think he can probably understand,” said Psaki.
“Donald Trump started a war with Iran.
That war with Iran has made the price of gas go up.
And gas is the thing that makes cars go zoom. Got it?
And thanks to the war Trump started with Iran, Americans have spent the last two months watching the price at the pump climb higher and higher.”
Oh, have we ever! It’s a good thing that our household can work from home. We rarely drive any distance. It’s mostly to the grocery store (and those prices continue to zoom upwards), or to his family. They aren’t very far at all. My insurance jumped by $40 this go-round. That’s ridiculous. And it’s a result of the tariffs. Automobiles are more expensive, so the insurance has to increase. I think it’s excessive. Wow, I digress again!
So, Republicans are the grown-ups in the room? That’s not even close. All you have to do is look at the far, far-right caucus to see they aren’t adults. They are children whining about money. It looks like Congress isn’t going to do anything to stop the war tomorrow. They will bow down to Trump and slobber all over him (ewww) to do what he wants. It’s another forever war. What the eff.
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Well, *that* is unusual. I wonder if it’s good or bad!
“grown-ups in the room” good grief.