Political Jason

GOP stunned by Hunter Biden’s offer for a public hearing Republicans have obsessed over President Joe Biden’s son Hunter for years, hoping they can somehow smear his father by association. Yet the past year of nonstop House investigations have uncovered nothing of consequence, and the most that a federal investigation on Hunter dug up was some minor tax issues and lying on a gun application. Big deal. But Republican incompetence on the matter reached absurd new heights today. Having been…

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After Donald Trump echoed both Hitler and Mussolini in a Veterans Day speech, saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections,” Republicans defended him with a “both sides” argument, pointing to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 “deplorables” comment. But Republicans didn’t need to work very hard to defend Trump—because the media wasn’t paying…

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After months of being treated as a punching bag by Republicans in the House and by right-wing media, Hunter Biden has reacted to a Republican subpoena by offering to testify in person before the House Oversight Committee that’s supposedly looking into allegations of misconduct by President Joe Biden and members of his family. It’s a direct challenge to Republican committee Chair James Comer and to the GOP’s ongoing efforts to create an excuse to impeach the president. Hunter Biden’s testimony…

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Over the weekend, a major winter storm spread across Ukraine. Bad weather affected all regions of the country, destroying Russian defenses in occupied Crimea and causing 10 reported deaths in the Odesa area. The storm wasn’t quite as bad along the Zaporizhzhia front as it was further to the west, but all regions of Ukraine appear to have been affected, largely putting a stop to major military operations while both sides hunkered down against wind, snow, and plunging temperatures. However,…

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House Republicans are still all-in on their plan to impeach President Joe Biden for Something Something Hunter Biden, even if they still haven’t been able to work out the pesky details. But Hunter threw a wrench in the gears Tuesday morning with an offer to testify, in person, to the House Oversight Committee investigating him—but only if his testimony is public. Crack Republican investigator and committee chair James Comer immediately shot that idea down, because at no point in the process…

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Sure, Republicans want to take away rights, but the real problem is that women won’t date them! In an editorial published last week titled, “If Attitudes Don’t Shift, A Political Dating Mismatch Will Threaten Marriage,” The Washington Post’s editorial board fretted that political polarization in this country has reached the point where it is now a prominent and often decisive factor in determining who Americans settle on as their potential mates. They emphasize this trend is now so acute, it…

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The so-called “legal architect” and co-defendant in Donald Trump’s coup plot says he hasn’t been able to to raise the kind of funds from MAGA land that would protect him from dipping into personal savings to pay his legal bills. Newsweek reports that John Eastman told Julie Kelly on the “Happy Hour with Julie and Liz” podcast that he has only been able to raise enough funds to cover about “a third of what we’ve already incurred and less than…

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In a decade or so, the summer of 2023 will be looked back on as a beautiful, cool, enjoyable time. We will tell each other, “Those were the days.” That is likely to be the case whether or not we Earthlings do finally get it together to take the actions necessary to keep the climate crisis from turning us all to toast. Because, as has become clear over the past few years, many global warming impacts are already baked in or…

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war. Powered by WPeMatico