Nancy Mace is trash

Today’s Big Stuff. November 19, 2024.

It’s Tuesday. There are 713 days until the midterm elections. Transportation gets a downgrade, Republicans are gonna hurt a lot of people to help the rich and Nancy Mace is trash. 

Be advised: This newsletter uses profanity. How can we not in a world that includes Matt fucking Gaetz?

Note: Well hey there, Sexy Patriots. How the eff are you today? Sexy and Patriotic? Yeah, us too. And frankly we won’t hear otherwise. Does that mean we live in an echo chamber? Because that seems to be a popular concern these days. We keep hearing well-meaning people suggesting we lost the election because we’re trapped in our silos and not listening to our fellow Americans enough. And if you subscribe to that, we definitely understand. But we would appreciate the opportunity to present a counter-argument…

Fuck that noise.

Our silo is full of cool people who aren’t fucking assholes and their silos are filled with fucking assholes. That’s why we left their silo. If the echo is the n-word or a bunch of woman-hating freaks saying vile shit then we’re gonna go find a new chamber and make new echos. We’re not disgusted by Trump and the garbage he attracts for the hell of it. It ain’t a hobby. It’s our lives. We don’t want to be around that shit, and we sure as hell don’t want to be that kind of country.

Protect your peace, y’all. You don’t owe anybody shit. If you want to sit down and have Thanksgiving with a Trump supporter, then awesome. If you want to tell them to fuck off and then throw the cranberry sauce out the goddamn window, then hell yeah. But you are under no obligation to surrender your values, your beliefs or your spine just because we lost an election. And you sure as fuck don’t have to force yourself to listen to all the crap we’re fighting against and pretend like it’s suddenly ok or no big deal. Do you, boo. Rage. Y’all have a blessed day. 

Note two: Oh and by the way big thanks to Katie Phang for not bending the knee and kissing the butt like some of her MSNBC colleagues did… BlueSky

Note three: HUGE congratulations to U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who was re-elected this morning as House Democratic Leader. Let’s do some battle, Leader Jeffries!

Note four: The scum at Morning Joke said this morning that the backlash against them for going to kiss Trump’s ass this weekend was just a disconnect between social media and the real world. So if you watch that show, it’s time to change the channel. It’s the only thing assholes like that understand.

Note five: And while we’ve had our differences with Jon Stewart lately, we do appreciate him making fun of the kiss-butt couple… More: Mediaite

Note six: We’ve been so focused on the child rapist Trump wants for Attorney General that we’ve almost missed the regular rapist he wants leading the Pentagon… BlueSky

Note seven: So here’s something horrifying. The New Republic’s Greg Sargent looked into whether Trump can force Congress to recess and then ram through his batshit crazy nominations. Apparently he can. More: New Republic

Note eight: The Senate was in session late last night as Democrats are busting ass to confirm every last Biden judge they can. More: The Hill

Note nine: Elon Musk, who paid off a woman he sexually harassed with a pony, is supporting alleged child rapist Matt Gaetz to be the “hammer of justice.” So that’s pretty fucking terrifying. More: The Hill

Note 10: We won’t be linking to it, but the cowards at the New York Times ran an op-ed today about how everyone should drop the criminal cases against Trump because he won an election. We say fuck that. More: NO LINK ON PURPOSE

Note 11: We’ve seen a lot of startling and infuriating developments in the last week or so, but Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis revealing himself as an RFK Jr. supporter is about to send us through the goddamn roof. Anyone else excited to vote against this asshead in a presidential primary? More: BlueSky

Note 12: Thank you to Democratic Rep. Susan Wild for publicly calling for the release of the Matt Gaetz ethics report. How is this even a debate? More: Politico

Note 13: Trump and Gaetz have been working the phones to try and line up support, but so far Trump’s Senate is largely non-committal. The nice thing is that we’ll find out pretty damn quick just how weak and fearful Republican senators are going to be. More: Politico

Note 14: Oh and we found out yesterday that Gaetz paid two other women for sex, using his adopted son’s PayPal account to pay them. Classy guy. Maybe we should change the name to Department of Johns. More: ABC News

Note 15: We saw this yesterday and thought it was important to share. We’re in a shitstorm right now, and nobody knows anything. The only thing we can control is how we react and whether we stay true to our values. And that’s what we plan to do. More: BlueSky

Note 16: A new study found that D.C. has the second most weed smokers in the country. Anyone wanna bet they’re about to go number one when orangey moves back in? Blaze up, D.C. We don’t blame you one bit. More: Fox5DC

Note 17: If you’ve got the money and good sea legs, then there is a cruise company offering to keep you on the water and away from Trump for the next four years. We’re tempted, but we think we’d rather stay and go down with this ship instead. More: The Guardian

Note 18: This is pretty funny. Zeteo made a list of all the bad things Trump’s cabinet picks have said about him. Our favorite is “Saudi’s bitch.”

'Con Artist,' 'Sore Loser,' 'Saudi’s Bitch': How Trump's Own Cabinet Picks Have Described Their New Boss

Note 19: For today’s Happy Ending, we’re leaning on the Onion to make us chuckle and forget for one second what a shit-stained hellscape America is about to become. More: BlueSky

Note 20: And on that hilariously disturbing note, let’s go do some news! We know y’all are probably having as hard of a time as we are right now, but please remember that we are in this together. And also please remember that our opponents are fucking idiots. Love y’all!

Road rules reject
The incoming Trump administration is going to be a giant downgrade in a lot of ways. But at the Department of Transportation, we’re going from a combat veteran former mayor to one of the idiots from the show the Real World. Yeah, yesterday Trump announced that Fox host Sean Duffy is his pick to replace Pete Buttiegieg. You might wonder what experience Duffy has to make him right for this pick. Well we’re wondering that too because it looks like he hasn’t done shit. More: CNN

Pain
We already know that Trump and his rich friends are about to hurt a lot of Americans, but yesterday the Washington Post started to reveal just how much. The paper reported that Trump and Elon Leon are looking at cutting Medicaid and food stamps in order to pay for more tax cuts for the super rich. They’re also going to end up putting a huge fucking sales tax on everything we buy. So get ready, America. This is what you asked for. More: The Guardian

Garbage human being
Nancy Mace has always been a terrible soulless piece of human trash. She’s a turd with eyes and a mouth. And yet yesterday she somehow got worse. On Election Day, Delaware voters decided to send Sarah McBride to Congress as the first trans member. So of course Mace has decided to be as cruel and unwelcoming as possible and try to keep McBride from using the women’s bathroom. Mace has been tweeting nonstop about protecting women and how McBride doesn’t get a say. It’s some of the meanest shit we’ve seen from some mean and broken people, and we assume it’s going to be an issue for a while. There are a lot of folks who want Democrats to stop standing up for trans people because it might cost us elections. But if we stop standing up for vulnerable people, then it’ll cost us a lot more than elections. More: CNN

Today’s clips
A Georgia appeals court on Monday canceled oral arguments that were scheduled for next month on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against President-elect Donald Trump. More: Associated Press

A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy in line with voters in yet more states voicing support for abortion rights. More: Huff Post