As always, I recommend you listen to this at 1.25 speed and follow in the text. For some reason the P4B is a better experience in that way. And stay to the end. There is an earth-shattering announcement coming today!
I chose a late Friday release as opposed to a “best of” because things are developing so rapidly. I’m still nursing and feeding my best girl and her busted wing. Enjoy.
Rules are rules…
…but I don’t expect butt-hurt swamp monsters to respect that. I have, for years, considered John Cornyn (R-TX) to be a weak sister. He is a swamp monster of the first order. While I am not doing handstands with Thune’s ascension to Senate Majority Leader, I knew it would be better than Cornyn and it was only be a matter of time before Cornyn made his resentment for his loss known.
I didn’t think he’d be as nakedly petty as to try to derail Trump’s cabinet picks right out of the gate. Be here we are.
The hill John Cornyn has chosen to die on is the nomination of Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for Attorney General. There WAS an investigation on Gaetz, in the House, before he left.
The rules say that if a House member leaves before any investigation into that member has concluded, that information remains a closed issue. It cannot be shared or released. I can see Dick Durbin trying to sidestep the rules for his party. He is in the opposition. And it’s NEVER beneath a Dem to sidestep rules. Hell, if I were him and the situation reversed, I might look for any angle I could to advance my party’s position…unless it was outright illegal. And trying to create a “report” from an incomplete investigation just might be.
But Cornyn? He gets voted down for the Majority Leaders post and IMMEDIATELY he starts playing for the other team. He is even more willing to do so considering that Matt Gaetz is a party firebrand and a thorn in the side of people like Cornyn, who are only in the game for themselves.
I don’t like or dislike closing the record on investigations when the member in question vacates his seat. This one is almost certainly a political hit job anyway, in retaliation for derailing McCarthy. But such investigations are for the benefit of the House and are intended to dictate the action the House should take. Should it be released to the public? I can see the wisdom in doing that. But to do it you must change the rules. And since you nor I can see it, that should mean that Durbin and Cornyn have no more right to it than we do. They are Senators, not sultans. They are even less deserving of consideration than we are, since the breach of protocol they seek is for low-rent political purposes.
Whether you like him or hate him, Gaetz is a policy wonk, very knowledgeable and fully capable of assuming the role of Attorney General. Unless the Senate finds hard evidence, on their own, of a seriously disqualifying issue, they should confirm Gaetz along with all the rest of the nominees.
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Your food is about to change.
Bobby Jr. has been tapped for HHS. This will be among the most interesting developments in the first two years of Trump’s Administration. He has a STRONG agenda to clean up the shit we eat every day. Hyper-processed food is killing us, or at least keeping us unhealthy and Big Pharma and Hospital corporations fat.
Bobby wants to give us healthy food. THE BASTARD!
Anticipate, in short order, a tidal wave of propaganda from the cronies in Big Ag, Big Pharma and the food processing industry telling you that RFK, Jr is a lunatic. In fact it’s already started. The same propagandists will insist all their shit is good for you. It’s not. And let’s not forget the oil and coal cronies. They sell most of the shit processors put in your food that is keeping you chronically ill. It’s byproduct they needed to make a profit off of.
But, as always, there is a price to be paid. If RFK succeeds, and I hope he does, your Honey Nut Cheerios and Cap’n Crunch with Chunchberries will be more expensive - if they can be made at all without the dogshit chemicals. To be certain you’ll be buying in smaller increments as you’ll have to eat a lot of the processed stuff faster before it spoils.
Eva Longoria is leaving America?!?! Say it ain’t so!!
Yeah…well…actually. She left a long time ago. She made a brave show of saying she’d leave the United States if DJT was reelected. So brave to be among the Hollywood show folk who have been making the same threats to expatriate going back to W’s first win.
But in Eva’s case, she turns out to be the least brave. She’s been splitting her time between Mexico and Spain for a while already - definitely before her ‘brave” announcement. She left California for Mexico because of crime, high taxes, and homelessness. Hmmm. That wasn’t cause by the GOP.
So, like all good Dem Lefties, she LIED to you. But insincerity aside, she is still light years ahead of the rest of the show folk who have said they’d leave if the Donald made a comeback, but they have no intention to leave at all.
The Left take their marbles and leave in a snit.
This week we learned that Don “Le Douche” Lemon and Joy “Race Baiter” Reid have left X, posting very persnickety messages as to why.
Their churlish attitudes are the embodiment of why the Left just got it’s shit kicked two weeks ago. Before Musk bought Twitter, they were in heaven, in their Lefty echo chamber, getting no push back. They were celebrities and their followers were Lefty drones. Every word they posted was from the mouth of the big-government-loving god. It was an online cult. Anything that was posted that would deviate from the cult program was down-listed or simply banned - banished from their protected, coddled world.
Then Musk came to town and opened up the discussion. Instead of seeing an opportunity to engage - perhaps make a few converts to Lefty thinking, the Left largely ran away crying. X is now seen as a conservative platform because the liberal do what they tend to do - they chickened out.
Many of the remaining Lefties are now lecturing their own tribe for failing in the last election. But a quick review of their own posts will tell you that they were a MAJOR part of the problems they now piously point out.
The Jordan/Cori Show is no more.
After 52 episodes, Ron Cori is moving on. He says he is trying to create an easier work/life balance. I think he’s leaving because he finally decided to get that sex change operation he’s been saving for (call him Loretta)1 or he’s been picked up by the Phillies to round out their bullpen. Either way, we wish him all the very best. Er,…wish her…damn it, you know what I mean. Anyway, he’s is a good friend, the best, and you can’t pick those up at Walmart for $7.59 per pound. I’ll miss our weekly rants.
So starting Wednesday, you’ll see a whole new P4B program here AND on Rumble. The Free Zone Communique2 will be celebrating life in the Red regions of these United States and sending hope to the freedom loving peoples trapped in the little, crowded, dank, depressing, crime ridden, Karen-controlled, Blue enclaves that dot the country.
Ron will be back for major sporting news, we’ll have guests in for special discussions and I will still scrounge around for interesting departures from politics.
Cheers.
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