Earlier this week, we covered how Republican House Representative Wesley Hunt likes to stay home and not do his job. Yet, despite all that, his chief of staff, James Kyrkanides, has apparently been racking up quite the hotel tab: James Kyrkanides, the campaign manager for Senate candidate Wesley Hunt, charged taxpayers more than $44,000 in hotel expenses over three years as Hunt’s congressional chief of staff. The charges average $457 per night, four times the national standard rate set by General Services Administration rate for many federal employees, according to a POLITICO analysis of House expense records. That...
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Texas Republican House Representative Wesley Hunt barely ever goes to work, wants a promotion
Nobody wants to work anymore. Hidden in this funnier story is this little tidbit: Clinging to a razor-thin majority, Johnson needed just one more Republican vote to defeat the measure. He kept the vote open for 22 awkward minutes while Democrats jeered and Capitol Police rushed Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) from the airport to the Capitol to cast the deciding vote. Hunt, who recently launched a primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), has missed 95 percent of roll-call votes since mid-December, showing up for just three of 58 votes. Now, I’m sure you’re not going to...
Continue reading...I can’t really write a good MLK post
I don’t really have the blogger credibility or the correct writing faculty to write a good post about Martin Luther King, Jr. Especially in light of the current climate: a bigoted idiotic wannabe dictator as president, the invasion of American cities by his fascist racist goons, everything that is going on. To be perfectly clear, King is as relevant now as he ever was, maybe even more so given events. But I understand my limits as a writer: that when I broach certain topics I veer wildly towards the way too overwrought. I cover a lack of...
Continue reading...January 6
Five years ago, the President of the United States instigated a violent insurrection with the aim of retaining power despite losing the presidential election. Somehow, no action was taken about this, and he is once again the President of the United States. January 6, 2021, is a date that should live in infamy, but sadly probably will not. Because everybody just moved on, forgot about it, and lived like it had never happened. Nearly an entire political party, deeply and unhealthily under the thumb of that president, pretended as if it was just a minor incident, no...
Continue reading...Questions
What the fuck? No, seriously. What the fuck. Did Donald Trump actually order an assault on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its leader? Is this a dream? Are we dead and this is hell? Did he really fucking say that the U.S. would run Venezuela now? Forty people may have died in the assault? Did he order and manage the assault and kidnapping from fucking Mar-A-Lago? Not the White House? Did they do it while on camera and reading fucking Twitter? What did Grok have to say about it? That it was a great idea or that...
Continue reading...Predictions, 2026
Wow still not used to typing “2026” even this late into the year. Anyways, everybody else is doing predictions, why not us? Let’s get started. The economy will finally break down Trump does seem to have the ability to escape gravity time and time again, but can number go up forever, despite him doing everything in his power to make number go down? The only thing anybody cares about is rising prices, and all he has done has been to make prices go further up. Despite what he says, consumers pay tariffs. Overwhelming immigration raids make construction...
Continue reading...Opportunity cost
We have wasted so much fucking time on this asshole. A constant theme of my posts since we have been back is how long it is going to take to get back to where we were before this asshole rode down that fucking escalator. People say years; I say decades or generations. We’re still trying to recover from the Reagan era: an era that is still around! We’ve been dealing with this asshole for over a decade now, way too long imho, but we still perhaps have three years left. God help us. Meanwhile, the world is...
Continue reading...Great moments in judicial history
Oh, hey, look: it’s December 12. Season’s greetings. December 12 is, among a very elite few, one of the worst days in and for American democracy. On this date, 25 years ago, the Supreme Court decided a presidential election, baldly and openly on partisan lines and with partisan aims. Funny enough, it was also the first election in which I was able to participate. Yay me. Bush v. Gore was a weird case. For background, the 2000 presidential election came down to the counting in Florida, all the other states having completed their counts and announced their...
Continue reading...Killing Lincoln
Today is the last day the penny will be in production in the United States. It will probably go out unnoticed for the most part, as durable as the reddish currency has been for centuries. Made now out of just a speck of copper (mostly zinc), it’s apparently more expensive to make than it holds as currency, so some people say it shouldn’t be minted anymore. Not a terribly good reason (currency doesn’t hold value as the value of itself), but pennies are pretty worthless nowadays so there are only a couple of reasons why not to...
Continue reading...Sandwich guy acquitted and towards a universal definition of what is not crime
The D.C. sandwich guy™ has been found not guilty of whatever crime they decided to charge him with this time. He’d previously beat a grand jury on a felony charge, so the U.S. Attorney for D.C., in her infinite wisdom, decided to charge him with a misdemeanor. For throwing a sandwich at a cop. It’s laughable. Why? Because if somebody threw a sandwich at me, and I called the cops on them to charge with felony assault, or even some misdemeanor, the cops would laugh at me. “Why are you wasting our time?” they would ask. And,...
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