of the golden governor of the golden state. but first, the washington post accused of running a hit piece on republican senator tim scott hours after it was announced he would be giving the gop response to president biden s address to a joint session of congress on wednesday. the article titled tim scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton, there s more to that tale, seeks the raise questions over comments the senator has made about being an ancestor of slaves. ultimately, the piece did not debunk scott s past claims about his ancestry, and people are quick to note the suspicious timing of the report which was published roughly 12 hours after scott was tapped to make the republican rebuttal against the democratic president. congressman steve scalise defending the senator. watch. tim scott s e a wonderful person, a dear friend, but he s also a rising star. and there is nothing that scares the left more than a conservative african-american leader who s gaining
it can literally take your breath away and hits randomly. some suffer barely any effects, and some wind up on a ventilator or dead and the other virus is not people are acquiring from breathing in but taking in ignoant garbage on their tv or social media and that virus may make you sick from covid or ingesting horse medicine but most definitely makes you stupid and right now in america, ignorance and stupidity feel like they have taken over. stupid is on a rampage worldwide. remember brexit? the american variant turned stupid into art. albeit, low art, like the one in the mall with the dogs playing poker. i m talking about the full embrace at every turn. you know the party that pumped itself up on the ideas of family values and fiscal property for mitch mcconnell and his army to play a game of chicken with the debt ceiling and nearly tanking the economy and country with it with 1 1 republicans willing to vote to let the republicans fix it. the party of owning the libs is choo
that biden is declining trump s request to withhold records from the january 6th committee. nbc obtained a letter saying, quote, an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the united states. trump is now formally exerting executive privilege over the documents. biden is expected to reject it setting up what could be a legal showdown. trump could sue biden or congress or both and try to keep those records hidden. remember, trump and his allies tried to bury this probe and the question is why? why are they hiding from fact finding if they didn t do anything wrong? after he told them to defy the speems, it appears one lawyer is listening. steve bannon saying he won t comply with the request. his lawyer writing, we must semitrump s direction and honor his invocation of executive privilege. committee responding, they will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of congress referral. bannon calling the committee a, quote, charade today. the democra
hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsuit brought by the then-republican attorney general of missouri, he has to be an attorney from missouri, pushing back against efforts by social media to fight disinformation schmidt was one of two witnesses brought forward by republicans, but republican majority on this committee who testified and was dismissed, sent away before democrats could ask one single question so much for a functioning committee in which the free exchange of ideas and sharing of witnesses prevails democrats were justifiabl
Powerful republican in the body. kevin mccarthy wouldn t be speaker if not for jim jordan. he is also - that s true. voted to, other than never wearing a jacket, investigating donald trump in ways that aren t rooted in any facts. so the fact that this, you know, i ll call it bad faith, you can call it whatever you want, jihad, that he got a mountain of money you described a money truck being backed up and poured on to this effort. the fact that it is so shabby, the fact that the witnesses are so subpar, the fact that the nine democrats to the 12 republicans are so scary to jim jordan that they are not allowed to ask any questions, that feels like a bigger part of the story that maybe if you are staring at the trees, the forest isn t as obvious. why does he suck at this well, i do like the no jacket look, as you can see i hope you don t lump that in his shabbiness i think, listen, a lot of these