Sunday Serendipity

nostalgia night at snl’ season finale

The SNL cast reflects on writing and performing season 46’s sketches during the coronavirus pandemic.

these threats must have been what liz cheney meant when she said they were “afraid for their lives” and feared for their safety if they voted to impeach (or now to even acknowledge the insurrection and support a commission to investigate it).

Police records show threats to kill lawmakers in wake of Capitol attack | US Capitol breach | The Guardian

The revelation of the seriousness of the threats comes amid Republican opposition to forming a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January attack, which saw the Capitol roamed by looting mobs hunting for politicians and involved the deaths of five people.
The police documents were stolen and published by the ransomware attack group Babuk, and some were redistributed by the transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets, from whom they were obtained by the Guardian….
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The threats continued for weeks after the attack.
Almost a month later, a bulletin reported that “an identified militia group member” in Texas was claiming that if their “operation failed at the US Capitol”, there was a “back-up plan” involving the group “detonating bombs at the US Capitol during the State of the Union”.
The group was not named but was described as “a large organization allegedly with members from every state, which included individuals who were former military and law enforcement”.

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speaking of another bad combination,  the so-called smart + smart-alecky 

Ted Cruz reacts to ‘Kremlin Cruz’ nickname given to him by MSNBC anchor Brian Williams after the Texas senator shared Russian army propaganda

poor wittle guy got his wittle feewings hurt when big bad brian called him names. seems detesTED can’t take nasty name calling from anyone other than his mentor and master baiter*. 

*merriam webster def to bait:

transitive verb 1 a : to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks bait minority groups : to try to make angry with criticism or insults baiting a politician…

jamie, and here’re the muppets & guest to mess it up

sturge, what a way to start off a noir novel with those 2 sentences of yours

Once upon a time in Denver while locked down by a blizzard, I stumbled up Colfax a short way to the nearest bar.   There were a few people in, not a crowd, and I pulled up a stool next to a rather well dressed older lady, the kind of lady who would pull out a cigarette and wait patiently for some gentleman to light it, looked kinda like Marlene Dietrich.

i can just hear bogart as the voice over in the movie based on it.