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“Trump bled in Texas, and that sends a big signal to lots of Republicans everywhere, that he’s not bulletproof anymore,” Mark McKinnon says on Republican Jake Ellzey winning a U.S. House seat over his Trump-backed rival Susan Wright.

Trump poured $100k into Wright’s campaign from Club for Growth, did robocalls, and hosted a conference call with his Maga crowd on election eve.

And GOP senators ignore Dear Leader. 17 vote for it. Trump threatens Republicans who may back Senate infrastructure deal. “Don’t do it Republicans—Patriots will never forget! If this deal happens, lots of primaries will be coming your way!” he says in statement

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  1. also tripped and trapped yesterday 

    Appeals court: Arbitration won’t shield Trump from lawsuit – ABC News (go.com)

    Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who represents plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement that the appeals ruling will enable lawyers to schedule depositions and obtain documents through subpoenas “as soon as possible.”
    Kaplan called it an “important case about a years-long consumer fraud on hard working Americans perpetrated by Donald Trump and three of his adult children.”
    The gathering of evidence had been delayed while both sides waited for the 2nd Circuit’s decision.

  4. ‘The Lincoln Project’ Unearths Shady GOP Mega-Donors In New Video (bipartisanreport.com)

    The Lincoln Project has done it again, another home run right into the midst of the hundreds of millions of dirty dollars donated by people running some of the biggest corporations in the nation. The members of The Lincoln Project did what might be difficult for those not as familiar with our Republican politicians as they are. After all, they used to work against the Democrats.
    […]
    Some of those big donors are Koch Industries, AT&T, Cigna, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, and Blackstone. CEO of Blackstone Stephen Schwartzman helped finance the January 6 insurrection. He gave:
    $40 million to Donald Trump
    $40 million to Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
    $40 Million to Insurrectionists
    But he was not alone. The Lincoln Project listed other big Republican donors and what they gave:
    $70 Million Timothy Mellon

    $32 Million Ike Pearlmutter
    $17 Million Kelcy Warren
    $14 Walter W. Buckley Jr.
    $5 Million Patricia Dugan
    $4.8 Million Thomas Peed
    $4.6 Million Bob Duggan
    $4 Million to Lynda Blanchard
    3.1 Million Timothy Lomangino
    $2.8 Million Palmer Lucky
    $2.4 Million Robert “Hank” Seale
    $2.3 Million Vernon Hill
    $2.2 Million Bennie Kante
    $2.2 Million Julie Jenkins Fancelli
    $2.2 Million Duke Buchan
    $2 Million Roger Norman
    $2 Million Marilyne Sexton
    $2 Million Steven Witkoff
    $1.7 Million John McCall
    $1.6 Million Michael Borland
    $1.6 Million Brian Colleran
    $1.2 Million to David Duffield
    $1.1 Million David Centner
    $1.1 Million Don Ahern
    $1 Million James A. Bowen
    $1 Million Richard T. Burke
    $1 Million John H. Owok

  5. Trump is mentally deteriorating — and his ‘sadistic’ rhetoric has hit a dangerous new level: psychiatrist

  6. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/28/greg-abbott-texas-migrants-covid-19/

    “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state troopers on Wednesday to begin pulling over vehicles whose drivers are transporting migrants who pose a risk of carrying COVID-19, escalating his hardline approach on immigrants and eliciting outrage from advocates calling the order a ticket to racial profiling.“

    “…how would DPS accomplish this task without racial profiling?”

    “If it is followed to the letter, it’s going to violate someone’s rights,” she said.“

    “That’s unheard of and it’s blatantly unconstitutional,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an analyst with the American Immigration Council, a Washington, D.C., group that advocates for immigrants. “This threatens and disrupts months of coordination” from groups helping migrant families not get stuck in border communities, he said.“

    Greg won’t impose a mask mandate, though, nor will he allow schools to impose masks for anyone including unvaccinated children.

  7. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/26/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-2022-donald-trump/

    “It is going to take a PATRIOT like Ken Paxton to advance America First policies in order to Make America Great Again,” Trump said in a statement Monday evening.”

    Here’s hoping Orange Adolf sinks Ken Paxton, too. One day, hopefully soon, the invitations to speak will dry up and nobody will want to stand near him in photos. They’ll say they didn’t know him. Never met. Maybe he got them coffee.

  8. Imagine the negative publicity for Senators who won’t vote to bring infrastructure money/jobs to their states. Like McKevin, they are morons for listening to Orange Adolf.

  11. add his name to the select committee’s subpoena list

    in re mo brooks on 1/6 from slate:

    Then, to prove his point about preparation, he revealed a new detail to me: that because of a tip he’d received about potential violence, he’d been wearing body armor at the very same Ellipse speech in which he encouraged rally attendees to “start taking down names and kicking ass.”
    “I was warned on Monday that there might be risks associated with the next few days,” he said. “And as a consequence of those warnings, I did not go to my condo. Instead, I slept on the floor of my office. And when I gave my speech at the Ellipse, I was wearing body armor.
    “That’s why I was wearing that nice little windbreaker,” he told me with a grin. “To cover up the body armor.”
    He didn’t say who warned him, or what the “risk” was that he’d been warned about. 

    if it was going to be such a love fest, why’d he wear kevlar – or has that become the new condom for conservatives?

  12. reuters via msn:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department’s refusal to defend a Republican congressman accused in a civil lawsuit of helping to incite the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could hamper former President Donald Trump’s legal defense in the same case, experts said.
    The department late Tuesday told a federal judge it had declined https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-wont-defend-republican-lawmaker-capitol-riot-lawsuit-2021-07-28 a request by Representative Morris “Mo” Brooks to grant him immunity by covering him under the Westfall Act, which shields federal employees from being sued for their words or actions in the course of their employment.
    Experts said the move appeared to send a message to Trump, a co-defendant in the case, ruling out immunity when it warned that inciting an attack on Congress “is not within the scope of employment of a Representative – or any federal employee.”
    Donald Ayer, a senior Justice Department official in the Republican administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, said: “The government’s filing sends a clear message… No leader in our government is acting within the scope of his employment when he acts to subvert the free and fair election by getting people to go up and riot and interfere.”
    “The leaders who perpetrated these travesties are personally responsible for their actions.” he added. A spokesman for Brooks could not be immediately reached for comment.
    Brooks and Trump are co-defendants in a lawsuit by Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell that accuses them of inciting people during a Jan. 6 rally to attack the Capitol and stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory.
    [continues]

  14. There was a time when Pat Boone was actually, even if only for a relatively brief time;  yes, at one time he had actual genuine coolness.
    He’s still fairly cool, all things considered.

  15. They had all these guys…..Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Ricky Nelson, Paul Anka, Pat Boone, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Vinton…….they were coming out of the woodwork, these guys.
    Pat Boone and Elvis.

  17. So I’m getting ready to test my belief in science and get on a plane (well, 4) over the weekend and connect through the world’s busiest airport twice, protected only by Pfizer and a 3M N95 mask. If you don’t hear from me next week you’ll know that both the morons and the scientists (and doctors and analysts and statisticians…) were wrong.

  18. Sturge, my mom loved Pat Boone.  And he had a really good career back in the day.  Pat tried to change and be cool when he got a bit too far into middle age and put on leather.  It worked for Elvis, but Pat came off as an upper middle class suburban biker.

  19. He’s on to something a little more reliable for the boomers now…….walk-in bathtubs.
    No reverse mortgages nor Medicare rot for Pat Boone, by golly…..

  21. How to play the fuck around and find out game:
    Nancy Pelosi has ordered that all House members and staff shall wear a mask. It appears that refusal by staff to comply will result in their arrest by Capitol Police. Members will be reported to the Speaker’s office.

  22. LOL.  Fuck around and [try to] find out should be my motto – just behind I drink and I know stuff – It’s what I do. (Stolen catchphrase – the best ones are). 

  24. Pat Boone cover of Tutti Fruitti 

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    Then Sun Records just wanted a white boy who could sing black.  Then he found Elvis Presley.  The rest is history except for a small glitch when Nancy Sinatra fell in love and then divorced Tommy Sands and her daddy made sure he disappeared

     

  25. Sturgeone

    Of the ones you listed only Elvis and Ricky are deceased.  The rest are holding up well into the late 70s and early 80s.  My cousin was the sound engineer for Bobby Vee under his real name of Robert Thomas Veline.  I love “Halfway Down the Road”

     

     

  27. pogo, but are you ready to face the belligerent passenger in the seat next to you?

    CNBCnews:

    Verbal attacks. Seat kicking. Throwing trash at crew.

    Those are some of the incidents flight attendants have faced this year from passengers. Eighty-four percent of flight attendants have had to handle unruly passengers this year and 17% of them have experienced a physical incident, according to a labor union survey published Thursday.

    [continues]

  28. patd, the thought has occurred to me, but I know where the flight attendant call button is and I’m not afraid to use it.  As for getting physical with a belligerent asshole – at my age and with my limitations (deconditioned, 4 replaced or repaired joints, arthritis here and there, etc.) physical assault is probably not a good idea, but I do have a mean streak so who knows?

  29. Well, all the concert venues across the country are booked solid, and every act that can fill a room is on tour, so herd immunity might not be too far away.
     
    I’ll be content with youtube until then😬

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