"Once again, alas, Trump can’t count. It’s not a huge victory that five or 20 Republicans pushed a conference of 222 Republicans to go for measures that can’t survive the Senate. It’s an invitation to future failure."

DEBRA SAUNDERS: Voters Are About To Learn A Hard Lesson — The GOP Is A Paper Tiger

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/debra-saunders-voters-are-about-to-learn-a-hard-lesson-the-gop-is-a-paper-tiger/ar-AA16kitp

Really?

It sure didn't look like it to me.

Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes conspiracy theory that Ashli Babbitt was 'trying to stop people' from breaching Capitol chambers

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-conspiracy-theory-that-ashli-babbitt-was-trying-to-stop-people-from-breaching-capitol-chambers/ar-AA16k3fG

Somewhat good news, but will it continue, or is it short-lived?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/recent-rain-at-lake-mead-gives-respite-to-dwindling-water-levels/ar-AA16jeON

What so many people believe in and worked hard for. The promise shall not be broken.

Filmmaker/activist Michael Moore is fond of saying: If you like Social Security and Medicare, thank a liberal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/paul-krugman-house-republicans-will-risk-a-financial-crisis-to-slash-social-security-and-medicare/ar-AA16jYQD

"...calling the California lawmaker a "piece of sh*t" who will "say whatever he needs to say to stay in power."

Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger calls Speaker Kevin McCarthy a "piece of sh*t"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-gop-rep-adam-kinzinger-calls-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-a-piece-of-sh-t/ar-AA16jRZq

Seems that a lot of lawmakers say things then back track when called out. Why do they continue to be in a position of policy/law making?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/national-embarrassment-gop-lawmaker-faces-furious-backlash-after-comparing-women-s-reproductive-systems-to-cattle/ar-AA16jTRC

Interesting that venereal disease, the word venereal, derives from Venus (Latin for Veneris) the Roman goddess of love.

Quote of the Day

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

Sophocles
(496 BC-406 BC)

Happy Friday, everybody! It's the day of Venus, Latin for "Veneris dies". 🍵🙂👋

Prepared a salad for dinner. Cranberries, raisins, and apples are included.

Want some?

Attack on Brazil’s government raises concerns about how U.S. extremism has spread abroad

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/attack-on-brazils-government-raises-concerns-about-how-u-s-extremism-has-spread-abroad

RIP Lisa

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-01-12/lisa-marie-presley-dead-obit-elvis-presley-daughter

This Day in History

The Caves of Nerja Are Rediscovered (1959)

https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Caves+of+Nerja

Don't mess with autocrat Ron "El Duce" DeSantos. 🤨

Last year, DeSantis signed a law that in June 2023 would dissolve Reedy Creek. The move was a response to what the Republican governor saw as Disney’s criticism of a law he signed that limits elementary school teachings about gender identity. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/desantis-expects-more-control-of-disney-s-corporate-kingdom/ar-AA16hffj

“The United States must not be a safe haven for those who seek to undermine free and fair democratic elections or the peaceful democratic transfer of power, particularly by inciting violence, regardless of the position of power they previously held,”

A justiça deve ser feita para o povo do Brasil!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/congress-ramps-up-pressure-to-kick-out-bolsonaro-as-us-bides-time/ar-AA16hF9d

Hmm🤔

I've not heard from Mike Lindell, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, nor Steve Bannon on this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-candidate-s-wife-arrested-charged-with-casting-23-fraudulent-votes-for-her-husband-in-the-2020-election/ar-AA16hJmX

Brazil goes after Bolsonaro's security chiefs and allies for allegedly helping rioters.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148091834/brazil-riots-investigations-lula-bolsonaro

Quote of the Day

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

Willa Cather
(1873-1947)

My response to GOP Politicians looking at attacking Social Security and Medicare, abortion bans, school censorship, gun fetish, the list goes on and on...✊
https://youtu.be/ERDFCb11y5g

Turkish blend coffee.