Today’s Big Stuff 6.22.22

Today’s Big Stuff 6.22.22

It’s Wednesday. There are 139 days until the midterm elections. Holy crap we actually got a deal on guns, an emotional hearing day and Fox might be in deep doo-doo.

Be advised: We love cussing almost as much as we love democracy. And we really fucking love democracy.

Note: Well, Sexy Patriots, it might be a short week, but it’s still intense as hell. We don’t know about y’all, but we were glued to our televisions yesterday as we listened as two incredibly brave Black women talk about how Donald Trump sicced an army of scum on her and her amazing mother.

Given the power of the testimony, the Beltway media decided to stop being childish clueless idiots and focus on the lethal threat to democracy this country is facing. Right?

Goddamnit. And the wimps at Punchbowl, which is to Politico what the children of Georgia are to Herschel Walker, even talked to Trump and just didn’t bother asking about Ruby and Shaye. Probably because they’re so brave and not at all out of touch.

So we keep wondering, when the fuck are these glorified tourists with press passes gonna get a fucking clue?! Then we realized that they won’t. Remember back in 2016 when Trump started running and his friends in the national media just couldn’t say if the birther asscrack was a racist or not because they didn’t know what was in his heart? It sort of reminds us of this transcript we found of the New York Times interviewing a klansman named Jim Racist…

NYT: Is your last name really racist?

Jim Racist: Yep! And it’s perfect because I’m super racist!

NYT: Oh. So you do and say things that are racially tinged?

JR: What the fuck does racially tinged mean? I told you I’m a fucking racist. It’s even in my name.

NYT: Yeah, but we can’t know what’s in your heart.

JR: I just fucking told you. There’s racism in my heart because I’m a racist.

NYT: This is a cool diner. Do you come here often?

JR: Yep, with all the other racists.

NYT: So how’s your economic anxiety?

JR: What the fuck is that?

NYT: It’s why you voted for Trump.

JR: I voted for Trump because he’s a racist asshole just like I am.

NYT: Well thanks for your time, Mr. Racist. Watch out for cancel culture.

Hard to believe that really didn’t happen! Anyway, sorry we went long today, but someone has to call these dim-witted fuckers out.

Note two: WHAT?! That motherfucker from Arizona had tears in his eyes and seemed so brave and we were all cheering him on AND THEN HE SAID HE’D STILL FUCKING VOTE FOR TRUMP WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE GODDAMN IDIOTS?!

Note three: Just a reminder that we are expecting SCOTUS decisions tomorrow, so brace yourselves. UPDATE: They’ve also added Friday as a decision day.

Note four: Remember when the NYT’s Peter Baker and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser told us that Jared and Ivanka were totally innocent on Jan. 6. Well even the other Javanka stans at the NYT didn’t buy that crap. More: NY Times

Note five: Ok, we’ve been very hard on the press today, so let’s pass out some praise. This is some top-notch journalism.

Note six: This morning, President Biden proposed a three-month gas tax. We know he’s trying, but it doesn’t look like this thing will get through Congress or make much of a difference if it did. More: CNN

Note seven: Btw, Fox is running stories about how sad the oil industry is that Biden is being mean to them. We won’t link to it, but goddamn shit is backwards over there. NO LINK

Note eight: You want a fun movie to watch? Major League. We did a rewatch the other night, and damn that is a delightful movie. “You trying to say Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?”

Note nine: There’s some wild stuff going down in Uvalde. The mayor lost his shit yesterday! And really, after learning those fucking cowards didn’t even bother to check to see if the door was locked, we want to lose our shit too. More: Texas Tribune

Note 10: Want to see what a gutless coward looks like?

Note 11: Want to see the flipside of that depressing shit? We saw quite a few of these yesterday, and our hearts did that Grinch thing.

Note 12: Trump’s picks in Georgia lost again last night. More: AJC

Note 13: And poor insurrectionist Mo Brooks is now out of a job. He’s welcome to kiss our asses, but it doesn’t pay well. More: NPR

Note 14: Hey, Japan, get your shit together. More: CNN

Note 15: Y’all see that Florida a-hole who wears his skull on the outside call us all spoiled?

Note 16: LOL. “Dr.” Oz is trying to downplay Trump’s endorsement. Good luck with that, buddy. More: Axios

Note 17: South Dakota finally impeached the murderer they had serving as AG. More: Washington Post

Note 18: When Roe is overturned, more than 200 clinics will have to close immediately. More: HuffPost

Note 19: Newt Gingrich is the scum of the earth, and he needs to keep our vice president’s name out of his gross assmouth. More: HuffPost

Note 20: We have gone on way too long today. So we’ll just close by saying we love you and we think you should listen to John Cougar Mellencamp.

A deal!

Ok, so we were wrong. We thought Cornyn and McConnell were stringing us all along on this gun stuff. And maybe they wanted to. But damnit, we’ve got a deal, and it will save some lives. Is it enough? Not even close. But closing the boyfriend loophole is real. This is one of those moments when we can complain or celebrate. We’re choosing the latter.

So many tears

Did you cry listening to Shaye and Lady Ruby? Because we sure as fuck did. It was an emotional day of testimony for the Jan. 6 committee as we heard from people who were tortured by Trump fans for simply doing their goddamn jobs. One thing we were disappointed by — Lindsey Graham is getting a pass. You might remember that Lindsey called Raffensperger 10 days after the election and asked him to throw out votes. Schiff said on Maddow last night that they had to cut stuff for time but it might be in the final report.

Totally foxed

So the Dominion defamation suit against Fox got the greenlight, and we have to believe that Rupert and his mutant offspring are shitting bricks. This is where they’ll try to settle. Let’s hope Dominion is more interested in causing some pain.

Today’s clips

A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the deadliest temblors in decades, the state-run news agency reported. Officials warned that the already grim toll may still rise. More: HuffPost

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