Urs nicely granted me open access to the family and – yes, I am forced to admit that it is a combination of, me handing her enough cash (that might not be true) and having enough time now to write here again (probably true) and encouraging the friends I had here to roll on over to the Substack Newsletter and just subscribe, it’s free, emailed to you 3-4x a week, NO ADS EVER, just stuff, of the type another editor once said “Make it all ‘Jasony'” – for better or worse, I made the decision to take it as a compliment.
So one of the most popular things I wrote here was always the Friday grab bag, and – begging now – I’m going to put the first of 3 little stories in, and you hit the link to get the other two and the Pick Six and random thoughts.
Deal? I won’t do it again, I promise, this is the one time I’ll split things up because the Fridays are totally different, there were back when I was here, too: First short clip was on GOP Intra-parter warfare and how it relates to gopher tortoises. Story Below:
GOP HOUSE ‘MODERATES’ ARE LIKE GOPHER TORTOISES
Everything Trump touches dies. Part: 24,823
Kevin McCarthy may learn this unneeded lesson if the GOP wins in the House in 2022 as is the historical pattern and in this environment in particular (MAGA rage). He may not be the party leader when it comes time to name the speaker.
Why?
Because McCarthy must at all costs remain loyal to Trump. And “loyal” has never been a strong enough word. When you and I use the word loyal, it means we’ll be there for each other in bad times. With Trump, it means, “You do as I command, when I command it, and no questions asked.” McCarthy got a rocky start to the 2022 election cycle, what with a screaming four-letter phone call with Trump during the insurrection/attempted coup, blaming it all upon Trump a day later, and then spending a month in Trump jail before going to Mar-a-Lago and promising that it will never happen again.
And so it hasn’t. McCarthy hasn’t crossed Trump once and now it’s costing him with the moderates in the GOP House:
His decision to visit Trump in Florida three weeks after Jan. 6 alienated some GOP members who’d hoped the ex-president’s power would wane. Since then, a small but potentially pivotal clutch of centrists has privately vented about feeling swept to the side following the deadly siege.”
Interesting. Who knew? “Moderate GOPs in the House?” Are they a protected species? In the southeast they have these things called “Gopher tortoises” and they are so endangered that it’s a felony to touch one. Felony. Maybe something similar should be put in place for GOP moderates? Give them their own habitat, let them mate and reproduce (good F’ing luck, guys!), make every effort to allow them to thrive. Nancy, Chuck, and Joe might want to look at adding a new species to the list. I guarantee there are more gopher tortoises than moderates in the GOP House because when I lived in the country, I don’t know how many I moved to safety… I left totally alone, never touched them, I just built dog-proof safe enclaves for them.
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AS AN OFFER OF GOODWILL, I GIVE YOU NO. 3 ON THE PICK SIX, “MUCH ADO YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO” Nirvana’s consensus best live performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit:
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Last time: Much Ado About Everything
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