So the MAGA crowd is likely to see it as a catastrophe?
If you ignore abortion, it’s true that the platforms of the two main parties in the US are identical.
Well, except for gay rights. And oh, maybe taxation. And I guess immigration, voting rights, education, foreign policy, tuition loan forgiveness, universal healthcare, minimum wage, and global warming. But aside from that…
“What have the Romans done for us?”
Candles?
This makes a lotta sense. 
…And there’s essentially zero chance Fox News will back President Biden’s reelection. So we will very likely be treated to the otherworldly spectacle of a network that believes its favored candidate is too reckless and irresponsible to appear in live interviews but somehow isn’t too reckless and irresponsible to be president of the United States.
Apparently, if you’re the type of person who gets your news from Fox—which is a little like snacking on lead paint chips for the fiber content—you’ve noticed that Trump hasn’t been interviewed live on the network for many moons.
Why? Because you can’t trust him to tell the truth—or at least to avoid telling demonstrably false, and potentially slanderous, stories—so they simply can’t platform him without first editing out his fusillade of fibs. Because irresponsible, democracy-undermining lies are just fine until they affect your bottom line, right?
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WA state senator gets arrested in Hong Kong after “accidentally” packing his gun in his carryon.
Irony is dead, dismembered, covered in lime and buried in root cellar.
At least he can now spell two-letter words…
Hey, we should always encourage people to expand their literary horizons!
Hopefully one day he can make it to words of more than one syllable
Shades of the time when he realized in the middle of a bill-signing that The Apprentice - you know, the show he was on for a decade - was about apprenticeships.
Gym Jordan thinks it’s a bad thing that Biden is better at arresting terrorists than Loser Donald.
Dark Brandon can use that in his ads. A Fox endorsement!!! Same as when Marge accused the Biden and the Dems of helping people - thanks for the boost - Marge.
My dumass rep, Ron Estes, posted this on FB tonight:
The Biden administration released new border encounter data for September over the weekend hoping few people would notice – but who can ignore a record setting month of 269,735 enforcement encounters at the southern border?
I pointed out that a border encounter is either apprehension or expulsion, according to DHS. I asked Estes to comment, but he has thus far declined.
How did you like his blame shifting?
In an interview with OPB, Wilson tried to make the case that U.S. airports should have caught the gun.
“I should have never been out of security in America,” Wilson said. The statement later added that “baggage screeners failed to note” the pistol in his briefcase while going through security in Portland.
And I liked this bit of optimism (same source as just above):
“We’re hopeful that I will successfully adjudicate this and look for a conclusion within a week, no problem,” he said.
Well, let’s see what you’re facing, shall we, Senator? Barron’s tells me:
Possession of arms or ammunition without a licence in Hong Kong carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in jail and a HK$100,000 ($12,800) fine.
Aren’t you pubbies the “law and order” folks? Shouldn’t you be locked up for the full 14 years, then?
Regarding Smapti’s link: Yeah, that Tan the Conman can bleat how great he thinks a real president was–FDR’s “A day that will live in infamy” is great wordcraft–but Tan will never be able to erase his own mocking of the disabled. And FDR was disabled.
We should be more concerned that his gun went through security on US side.
I wonder if he went through “VIP” screening that mostly isn’t.
In many situations, a gun in checked baggage is perfectly legal. Would they be obligated to tell him it wouldn’t be legal where he was landing? Particularly if it wasn’t a direct flight?
Except this was in a carry on bag.