Dana Houle

Markwayne Mullin defends conduct: ‘Every now and then, you need to get punched in the face’ Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), the former mixed martial arts fighter who challenged a labor leader to a brawl in the middle of a Senate hearing room Tuesday, says that there’s a long history of v…

Markwayne Mullin, advocate of caning & dueling

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The seat wasn’t vacated by March 1 so it won’t be in the ballot until 2028, when the term ends. So someone will be appointed & serve out the term.

Correct. Honestly, I'm impressed they figured this out given their general incompetence. The cite for this is Okla. Statutes Sect. 26-12-101.

Trump keeping to his pattern of nominating people because he regularly sees them on TV defending him.

This post is going around again and I cannot stress enough that Mullin posted this knowing good and goddamn well that he's never served. "I'll expose myself to enemy fire to communicate" ohhhh get a load of Mike fuckin Murphy over here guys.

By waiting until after March 1 for Markwayne to resign from the Senate the Repubs avoided a special election. Yes, Oklahoma is a very Republican state, but with the way this cycle is going, if I were the GOP I would do everything possible to avoid any special election.

Could be interesting, given Corey’s history of slapping women.

Can he fire Bondi? Probably not, but she’s got to be a top target of a lot of people in the WH & of Repubs on Cap Hill

It appears John Kennedy gets credit for the kill shot.

Visitation only.

Less lurid, more dumber.

Nobody is fired anymore. They’re all just sent to some place where they’re expected to stay quiet.

Corey is no longer special.

Look, if a Republican does that when they have a 25 seat margin, eh, they can toss that guy overboard. But when they’ve got a 1 seat margin? That’s against their principles..which is to have no principles.

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Dog food? Did you mention dog food? (Starts at 1:30)

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We don’t fully avoid the bad retailers, but we buy far less from them than we did a few years ago (and for all their help to ICE/CBP I’ll never again shop at Home Deport; fuck those fuckers).

We shop at our local immigrant-oriented independent groceries, the unionized grocery chain, the local 100 year old hardware store, the sporting goods store across the street, & Costco. Costco has cut our costs so we can afford to spend a little more to avoid Target, Amazon, & Home Deportation

…rushing to get food in him, and as the man walked away I returned to the table from the salad bar, gave the kids watermelon (which they’d never had), & the boy gave me a huge smile.

But that road from SA to McAllen will always evoke a great memory. Kids were 13 mos, he started crying & by the time we stopped at a truck stop he was in full meltdown. We sat down & this 80 year old Latino guy w a cowboy hat walked by & put his hand on the boy’s head, & he stopped crying. I was…

…she lost Starr by a lot, but it’s tiny; Trump’s margin was <3K votes. But he won Cameron (Brownsville/Harlingen) by 5 & Hidalgo (McAllen) by 3.

Sorry, more I look at it more wrong I see he is.

If only he was saying that in front of me in a line at a movie theater…

Also, his characterization of the RGV is just wrong. Hillary lost Texas by 9, Biden lost it by 5. But Hillary ran prob 20 points better in the RGV; Biden mostly matched or exceeded Hillary’s vote totals but Trump got far more votes there in 2020. And Harris didn’t lose those counties big…

…in El Paso/Bexar (SA), Travis (Austin), Harris/Fort Bend (Houston), & Dallas. But probably his biggest potential gains would be gaining big in the fast-growing Dem-trending Repub counties around Dallas (Tarrant/Denton/Collin), Houston (Brazoria) & I-35 (Williamson/Bell)

…Trump +20 & +17 in 2016 to Trump +13 & +11 in 2024. And a good chunk of that net % gain came from Latinos.

There are 300+ counties in Texas & prob 100 have <10K votes. Talarico needs to do the Beto strategy of losing by less in all those rural counties, winning the RGV & boosting the margins…

Sure, but you probably remember I’ve driven that route more than once, & between SA & Harlengen/McAllen there are far more tumbleweeds than votes. In 2024 there were 350-400K votes in the RGV. 2016-2024 vote in Denton+Collin Co’s (north of Dallas) increased by about 350K to 1m, & they went…

It’s like years ago, a college friend was hired to do marketing for Dominoes. Tom Monaghan had already left the company but they still had huge PR problems because of his weirdo theocratic activism. But my friend said their biggest problem was that too many people just didn’t like their pizza.

They’ve been shitheels in the Trump era, & their anti-union practices are rotten. But even beyond the political reasons, I stopped shopping there years ago bc they began carrying far fewer brands that I recognized & trusted, & instead pushed their own branded products that I didn’t like

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Colby is the grandson of William Colby, Director of the CIA under Nixon & Ford. Elbridge is named after his great grandfather.

Under the Third Reich, interpreting Hitler’s words and taking initiative to implement his remarks was called “working toward the Führer.”

I have to agree with Pete Hegseth. Nobody wants to talk about how we've made our country safe from the Iranian navy.