Trump capitulates on border closure (ONE YEAR!), Ann Coulter was right when she called him a wimp

Ann Coulter takes victory lap after Trump backs down from border closure:

Trump recently scaled back his threat to close the border, saying that Mexico now has a year to get illegal crossings under control before Trump takes drastic action.

 

Incompetent Trump: Republicans will always support pre-existing conditions!

He means coverage for pre-existing conditions, not the conditions.

I think.

And over at Drudge they're having "tempter" tantrums

Incompetent CNBC: "MacKenzie shared that her and ex-husband completed the process"

That's how they talk around here in west Michigan. Not supposed to happen in New York.

LOL Incompetent WOOD Radio 1300 in Grand Rapids has run Wednesday's weather report today at 1230pm, 100pm and just now at 130pm

And then "Want to hear it again?" they advertize right after that.

Can't make this stuff up, but hey, it's the station of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in Grand Rapids.

Wednesday's weather report was better anyway, sunny and windy. Today it's cloudy and less windy. I like how they help me remember yesterday.

Update 203pm: We're tracking a sunny but very windy Wednesday!

Update 232pm: We're tracking a sunny but very windy Wednesday!

Update 303pm: Fixed it! Chucky took over the microphone from Megan at 230pm and didn't like the tape he was hearing! "Hey, this is Thursday! Why are we playing yesterday's weather?"

Hillary scored the popular vote in two elections and is 0-2

England swings . . .

England swings like a pair of tits do
Boobies on buildings, two by two
Elizabeth Hurley the Tower of Pig Pen
The rosy-red cheeks of embarrassed children

Stacey Abrams, who knows a thing or two about being petty and uninterested in stability, still hasn't conceded in Georgia, and Ralph Northam is still governor in VA

Climate update for Grand Rapids, MI, March 2019

Max temp 61 / Mean 66

Min temp 8 / Mean 7

Av temp 32.2 / Mean 34

Precip 2.23 / Mean 2.45

Snow 7.9 / Mean 9.1

Snow to date 76.4 / Mean 63.7

Heating degree days 1006 / Mean 955

HDD to date 5910 / Mean 5849

So, it's been 20% snowier than the mean and 1% colder by HDD.

Even when correcting himself Rush is wrong: Beto won election to the Texas House and quit after a year

Democrats Are Ignoring Their Frontrunner [Bernie]:

Oh. I erred, folks. I said Beto O’Rourke had never won an election. He did. He won an election to the Texas House and then quit after a year to run against Cruz in the Senate. What I meant to say was that Beto O’Rourke’s biggest life achievement is losing to Ted Cruz in the Senate race, not that he’s never won an election. Because he has.

Beto was elected to the US House three times, in 2012, 2014 and 2016, representing TX-16.

John Gray: The possibility that millions value some things more than economic gain is not considered by the British political classes

Sounds oddly familiar.

Brexit has left the British political class trapped by its own history:

Persistently denying respect to Leave voters in this way can only bring to Britain the dangerous populism that is steadily marching across the European continent.

Gay mayor runs for president, launches Buttkrieg, gets Justin Raimondo's attention

President Kushner has alternative facts about Florida voter registrations by felons

Florida's ex-felon voting rules slow to impact registration: By some estimates, changes to the Florida state constitution could add as many as 1.4 million new voters to the rolls in Florida:

The Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald looked at the most recent year of data on citizens who lost their right to vote in the 20 largest counties in the state and found a lot of Democrats. In those counties, which hold more than 80 percent of the state’s voters, 52 percent of those who lost their voting rights because of a conviction were Democrats. Only 14 percent of those who lost their voting rights because of felony convictions were Republicans. The rest had no partisan affiliation. ... Democrats could see a net gain of several hundred thousand votes from the new amendment.

Kulaks everywhere: The failure of Kristolnicht's kulturkampf in the countryside has him worried about 2020

Cobra, a few bricks short of a load, cops a feel at a cop funeral

New York's moron Senatrix, Kirsten Gillibrand, doesn't know seven states, including her own, didn't have a popular vote for president, for example in 1796

There was no principle of one person, one vote. The legislatures of Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Vermont appointed Electors to the Electoral College. Other states actually had Electors names on the ballots, not the names of the presidential candidates. And women didn't get to vote everywhere as a matter of federal law until 1920.

Kirsten is giving Hawaii's Crazy Mazie a run for her money.

There are so many women suddenly coming out against Joe Biden that . . .

Everything human beings touch turns into a shit-hole, including near-earth orbit

Space debris from India’s anti-satellite missile test a threat to ISS, NASA says :

But speaking on Monday, Bridenstine said NASA had identified 400 pieces of orbital debris from the test, with at least 24 of them — each one larger than 10 cm — having gone above the apogee of the ISS, something he described as “a terrible, terrible thing” and which put the safety of the ISS at risk. However, he confirmed that because the test was carried out low enough in Earth orbit, the fragments — and therefore the risk — would dissipate over time. The space agency is currently tracking 23,000 pieces of orbital debris, each one 10 cm or larger. Scientists, meanwhile, have been working on a number of different projects aimed at getting rid of the debris.

 

When Republicans like Rush Limbaugh keep blaming loss of the House on "retirements", just remember Republicans didn't even run candidates in 38 districts

Republicans ran no one against the Democrat in 38 districts in 2018:

 

AL-7

AZ-7

CA-5

CA-6

CA-13

CA-20

CA-27

CA-34

CA-40

CA-44

FL-10

FL-14

FL-20

FL-21

FL-24

GA-5

LA-2

MA-1

MA-4

MA-7

MA-8

MI-13

MS-2

NY-5

NY-6

NY-7

NY-8

NY-16

NY-17

PA-18

TX-9

TX-20

TX-28

TX-30

VA-3

WA-2

WA-9

WI-2.

Democrats meanwhile abandoned the field in just four districts:

AK-1

CA-8

GA-8

NC-3.

Like lotto, you gotta be in it to win it.

It also helps to have a message.

Do Republicans have one anymore, except more freedom?

You know, freedom to ship your jobs overseas where the labor is cheaper and safety, health, and environmental regulation is next to nonexistent, freedom to cut the taxes of the businesses that won't give you a job, freedom to spend your tax dollars on defense of "US interests" abroad which are really the interests of those businesses not yours, freedom to keep bringing in millions of cheaper laborers to compete for your jobs and drive down your wages, and freedom to keep charging 4.45% for federal students loans in a 2.49% 10-yr note economy.

Yes, we need freedom all right. Freedom from Republicans.

Unfortunately that means Democrats.

Which is why we are well and truly screwed.

Today's fact that doesn't matter: Not everyone gets parody of Beto