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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is as popular a figure in statewide politics as former President Donald Trump, according to a recent poll. https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-donald-trump-popularity-rating-texas-1867470#:~:text=New Fairness Meter!&text=Texas Governor Greg Abbott is,according to a recent poll. Stupid Texas voters.

And to think he was once a close friend of Lawrence Tribe. What happened to that guy?

Solid take. And I should point out that there were probably more white people in attendance at the BBC than there were black people.

Donald’s, who is not unacquainted with the criminal justice system, and Noem certainly have resumes that only Trump could love: https://nypost.com/2023/09/15/kristi-noem-corey-lewandowski-affair-shakes-up-trump-running-mate-stakes/ Married Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has engaged in a years-long affair with longtime Donald Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski, multiple sources told The Post Friday. Though no images of the two getting frisky are known to exist, the pair have been less than discreet about their relationship, with one source recalling them making out at a hotel bar during the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla..

Not only do we have a Moscow Mitch problem, we also have a rogue, egomaniacal billionaire who think he has a right to shape and conduct US foreign policy.

Trump spoke a butter biscuit confab last week in SC. And there are still some buying into the ridiculous notion that this fool is enlarging his footprint in the black community:

Man, wouldn’t it different if those words had been applied to the whole pursue happiness thingy.

Texas has spent more than $148 million busing migrants to other parts of the country https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/21/texas-migrants-busing-cost-greg-abbott/ Since Gov. Greg Abbott announced the program in 2022, Texas has paid to bus more than 102,000 migrants to cities around the country. This should put an end to the specious argument about scarcity and abundance. It’s should be a debate about priorities and allocation.

My money is on her teaming up with George Santos on some really trashy reality TV show.

Me too. Those west Texas billionaires have him cornered. They want the promised ROI and they want it now.

Anybody get the feeling that Abbott’s owners are leaning on him pretty heavily to make good on his promise to sign voucher legislation into law?

Well, it really is the [nationalist] Christian thing to do.

Magalitia.

She’s horrible. Unwatchable.

No need to thank me.

Getting ready for the high brow discussions that take place on TigerDroppings.

Obrey M. Hendricks writes extensively about Christian nationalism in his book, Christians Against Christianity-How Right Wing Evangelicals are Destroying our Nation and our Faith. He writes the following: “What distinguishes right wing evangelicalism from more main stream evangelicalism is that right wing evangelicalism contains an unabashed substratum of Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is the engine that drives white American evangelical politics. It is the ideology…that the United States is intended by God to be a Christian nation. This movement is a form of nationalism, explains Catherine Stewart, because it purports to derive its legitimacy from its claim to represent a specific identity unique to and representative of the American nation. Christian nationalism, not only purveys the myth that America was founded as a Christian nation, but also that it should be governed, according to biblical precepts that Christian nationalist themselves identify as germane.. They routinely ignore all evidence to the contrary, so no matter how compelling, including the testimony of founding fathers, like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams that America was not founded as a Christian nation. Thus, Christian nationalism is best, understood as a political ideology, that holds that America’s government is not legitimate, nor can it be until its laws and policies are thoroughly consistent with the Christian nationalist, narrow, sometimes idiosyncratic, and at times convoluted reading of the biblical text.

I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me the floggers have not been able to establish relevance when it comes to Trump’s crimes and what they are alleging.

I’m sure Eric was thinking about all the money Harlan will give him as his his ass was being dragged to hell and back during open mic:

The public flogging itself may not be dispositive, but it sure is fun.

Congress Goldman who later said House Republicans could be criminally charged: https://x.com/danielsgoldman/status/1760300849098613113?s=20

Just heard that should GOP House goons persist in advancing a Biden impeachment, they could be charged criminally if they use known Russian Intel to interfere with the election.

How Biden has led the country and the free world is all the more impressive when one considers he is governing during one of the most difficult times in recent history. He took over on the heels of a concluding pandemic, and even as he worked to stabilize the economy, Biden has been confronted with a series of political conundrums. To those of us on the sidelines, decisions that seem simple are anything but. Israel versus Gaza, an intractable border crisis, the unrelenting assault on democracy and supporting institutions at home and abroad, and anti intellectual malaise that has taken hold in much of the country, an ever encroaching fascism. Who ever thought we’d see the return of polio and measles? And through it all, Biden has persevered.

I don’t really get why most people seem to accept that Pope Francis, while feeble in body, and up in age (will turn 88 this year) is capable of making significant changes within a stodgy, difficult organization of one billion people, while they constantly whine about our transformational 81 year old president.

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1760058482026250328?s=20