Today's Big Stuff 11.4.21

11.4.21

It’s Thursday. There are 369 (nice) days until the midterm elections. Biden says full-steam ahead, another horrifying COVID milestone  and holy freaking crap Jan. 6 terrorists are getting elected to office. In America! 

Be advised: Do you like cussing and typos? Then this this is the fucking fucking newsletter for you. 

Note: Hello there you sexy patriots. How in the hell are you? Still wounded? We feel that. And really, we just thought we’d be Frank today. Frank is our foul-mouthed friend who tells it like it is while also lifting our spirits. Frank, take it away...

​​Ok so everything is a bit of a shit-covered fucking mess right now. But what else is fucking new? We’re fucking Democrats! We follow Republicans! Messes are all we know! It just fucking sucks. Like it really sucks and it can feel like you’re banging your head against a goddamn brick wall until you poop yourself and forget your parents’ names. And you may damn well be. But you also might just be slowly knocking that wall down. It’s worth a try. Even if we have to get some kind of rubber pants and some name tags. So let’s get back to head-buttin’ bricks!

Ok, jeez, Frank, that was not your best. But we’ll take it. Hey, the absolute truth is we just took an ass-whoopin’ and we need to figure out damn fast how to fix it and how to get back to winning elections. We don’t have the answers. We’re guessing you can find them on twitter. But we do know it’s our job to stay engaged and stay in the fight. Because Frank was right. We will beat our heads against this wall until either it falls or we shit ourselves into a fucking coma. The free world depends on it. Let’s go!

Note two: Hey, btw, we got some really nice notes from some of y’all yesterday that suggested yesterday’s TBS helped you shake that post-loss funk a little bit, and we just wanted to say thank you. The truth is your kind words helped us get up off the mat too. So thanks for that. We really appreciate y’all.  

Note three: So yeah, we won New Jersey, but did anyone else have a mini-freakout at some point yesterday that that sonofabitch was coming back the other way? Yeah, we didn’t either. Phew. More: Washington Post

Note four:  Can you imagine the coverage if Rep. Omar was the one doing this shit? More: Rolling Stone

Note five: Before there was Joe Manchin to fuck everything up, there was Joe Lieberman. He was an asshole then, and he’s an asshole now. More: The Intercept

Note six: A single Black juror. A judge who sees obvious discrimination but says let’s go anyway. We just don’t understand. Mitch McConnell and John Roberts told us racism was over because Obama got elected president. More: CNN

Note seven: Remember when we were all excited about Smartmatic and Dominion suing all these scumbags to hell and back? Well, we’re still excited. We just wish all these folks would hurry the hell up. More: CNN

Note eight: Eric Boehlert nails something we really wish we could convince Democrats everywhere — there is no liberal media, and they are not your friend. More: Press Run

Note nine: Believe it or not, there was a time in American politics when someone like Tucker Carlson would’ve been embarrassed — and ridiculed mercilessly — for admitting he doesn’t understand something he has talked about and condemned endlessly. More: Washington Post

Note 10: Every time there’s another headline like this, Giuliani shits out of his forehead again. More: The Guardian

Note 11: Trump is in court today to try and block his Jan. 6 records. It probably won’t work, but we all know by now his game is just to delay it forever. And we all know that has worked pretty well for that asshole so far. More: CNN

Note 12: So Steve Bannon is still walking around free as a bird, but Trump’s revenge tour is being executed by DOJ quite nicely. So um what the effing fuck are we even doing here? More: New York Times

Note 13: Kids are getting shots. Woohoo! Even Trump’s dumbfuck surgeon general is getting his kids shots. So there’s your PSA — so obvious, even Trump’s dumbfuck surgeon general is doing it. More: Washington Post, The Hill

Note 14: Shit. Shit. Shit. We lose an hour this weekend, and then we are plunged into darkness until spring. Shit. More: LAist

Note 15: Congrats to the overwhelming majority of our armed forces for not being morons. More: New York Times

Note 16: So it sure seems like the Supreme Court is going to tell gun nuts they can be as gun nutty as they want to be. Not good. More: CNN

Note 17: So root for Gabby who is suing the NRA to hell and back. (We like that phrase) More: The Daily Beast

Note 18: So House Democrats put paid leave back in the BBB bill. Don’t get too excited. It will come out when the bill goes to the Senate. More: Huff Post

Note 19: Weekly unemployment claims fell to another pandemic low last week as the economy continues to recover. We get new jobs numbers tomorrow, so fingers crossed. But these claims are down 75 percent since Biden took office. That seems like a good number to us. More: Associated Press

Note 20: Ok, you damn fine freedom fighters, let’s get to the news. Thank goodness the weekend is almost here because this week has been a motherfucker. But you know what? We’re still standing, we’re still fighting and we’re still sexy as all hell. Hope y’all have a great Thursday.

LFG

Joe Biden returned from his most recent overseas trip to a panicky Democratic Party. So nothing new there. But Biden is pushing full steam ahead on his agenda, pushing Congress to get its shit together and start passing the agenda he ran on. We’re actually really happy to see this. You never know how Washington people will react to election losses, and it was entirely possible our people would just roll over and quit on this shit. So good on them. Let’s get it done. House Democrats are looking to pass both bills this week. When they do, the Senate will probably pass the infrastructure bill and then spend weeks fucking around with the social spending bill. But let’s hope not. More: Washington Post

750,000

So that’s how many Americans we’ve lost to COVID. It’s just a stunning number to look at, to contemplate. If you’ve lost someone to this horrible pandemic, you have our deepest condolences. It didn’t have to be this way. But we’re just not very smart as a country. How we do know that? Well, there’s an effective vaccine and yet we’re still losing more than 1,200 people a day. More: Washington Post

Holy fucking shit

Yesterday we ended on good news. No such luck today. Not only are Jan. 6 scumbag terrorists walking away scot free from their crimes against this country, some of these fucking snakes are getting elected to office. Yeah, we understand if you need a minute to throw up. At least seven pieces of shit who were there on Jan. 6 were elected to public office this past Tuesday. Like we said before, not the smartest country. More: Washington Post

Today’s clips

For the second time in under one month, workers at the agriculture equipment maker Deere & Company rejected a contract proposal negotiated by their union on Tuesday, extending a strike that began in mid-October. More: New York Times

The Biden administration announced Thursday that its vaccine rules applying to private businesses with 100 or more employees, certain health care workers and federal contractors will take effect January 4. More: CNN

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