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Will Smith – “I’m in the worst shape of my life”

The actor shared a picture of himself in shorts, slippers and an unzipped hoody exposing his gut and chest in an instagram post on Sunday. The 52-year-old Smith simply posted, “I’m gonna be real wit yall – I’m in the worst shape of my life.”

His post was well received, with some commenting that getting back in shape would not be a problem for Will Smith. “You’re Will Smith!!, musician Sonna Rele said, “you can be in whatever shape you want.”

Others had fun with Smith. “It’s just a Dad bod! It’s not a grandpa bod!! cateyes_3 wrote. And ka51 wrote, “worst shape?!!! …some of us love a bit of squish!!!! Perfect”

See the Instagram post here

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Arrested for Riding his Bike…? Video

This is apparently a crime in Perth Amboy New Jersey. Four bikes were seized by cops and a black teenager was arrested. Prosecutors are looking into the incident.

“Every juvenile being taken into custody by law enforcement in Middlesex County is of the utmost concern to Prosecutor (Yolanda) Ciccone and this young person is no different,” Ciccone said in a statement. “What occurred before, during and after the incident depicted is under review.”

The office was reviewing the video and the circumstances of the stop with Perth Amboy Police Chief Roman McKeon and other Perth Amboy police officials, the statement said.

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Missouri Republican Sexually and Physically Abused His Kids

The shocking revelations were made before the Missouri House Ethics Committee, revelations that included recollections from his daughter about an incident she suffered when she was 9 years old.

In 1990, Rick Roeber’s 9-year-old daughter was tucked in bed wearing a long Simpsons T-shirt when he allegedly picked her up, took her into the living room, laid her on his bare chest and placed her hand on his genitals, the now-adult woman told lawmakers earlier this year in testimony against Roeber, 65, now a Republican member of the Missouri House.

“I didn’t know what to do. I just froze there. I was 9,” she said in her testimony before the Missouri House Ethics Committee.

The incident was one of several disturbing stories recounted to the committee by Roeber’s ex-wife and three of his four children, who accused the freshman lawmaker of terrorizing them while on alcoholic benders and regularly whipping his children with a belt. His ex-wife also said that he once “drowned several puppies” in a pond.

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Georgia Looses Another…

Since Governor Kemp signed a restrictive voting bill geared a limiting the votes of blacks in Georgia, advertisers and those with commercial interest in the state have steadily removed their business in protest. Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua are among the latest.

Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith will move production on their big-budget, runaway slave thriller “Emancipation” out of Georgia in protest over the state’s controversial new voting restrictions.

The announcement continues the economic fallout from Gov. Brian Kemp and the state legislature’s decision to pass new regulations that critics maintain amount to voter suppression, aimed at reducing the turnout of people of color. The new laws were passed in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and after Georgia voted for a Democrat for president for the first time in decades. The rules shorten the duration of absentee voting, require absentee voters to produce identification, limit the use of drop boxes and make it a crime to hand out free food or water to voters standing in line.

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DMX on Life Support

According to reports, The rapper was admitted to a White Plains hospital on Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Buzzfeed reports that the 50-year-old rapper, born Earl Simmons, is in a “vegetative state” with “lung and brain failure.”

“He’s still in the same condition — in a vegetative state, [with] lung and brain failure and no brain activity,” said Nakia Walker, DMX’s former manager. “We’re just praying and waiting. Praying and waiting.”

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Dr Fauci Wants Trump to tell Republicans to get Vaccinated

In an interview on Fox News today, Dr Fauci warns that based on what’s happening in Europe, another Covid surge could come to America. And he wants Trump to step up and allow his Republicans to get vaccinated.

Asked by Chris Wallace what could be done to combat vaccine skepticism in the U.S., particularly among Republicans, Fauci urged Trump to tell his supporters to get vaccinated.

“It would be very helpful for the effort for that to happen. I’m very surprised by the number of Republicans who say they won’t get vaccinated,” he said.

“I think it would make all the difference in the world” if Trump were to express support for vaccines, Fauci said. “He’s a widely popular person among Republicans.”

“I just don’t get it, Chris, why they don’t want to get vaccinated,” he added.

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Rush Limbaugh Dies at 70

Radio host Rush Limbaugh is pictured on the set of the public affairs television show "Meet The Press," March 1993. (AP Photo)

I would argue that Rush Limbaugh is singlehandedly responsible for our political divide today. While Not too long ago while Democrats and Republicans found ways to work together, Limbaugh was busy on his radio show recruiting an army of far-right conservatives willing to take his message of division, exclusion, and yes, even racism.

Today, Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer at the age of 70 years old, and he left behind the fruits of his labor – a failed president, a failed insurrection of the nation’s capitol and a completely failed and divided Republican party. Limbaugh never apologized to his audience for misleading them. He never told them that this was how he made his living, that it was all for entertainment.

My condolences to his wife and the rest of family.

 

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In Which I Say Farewell to Donald Trump

No.

Donald Trump will not be a major force in Republican politics for the next four years. He still has his fans, and they number in the tens of millions, but he’s done. The rest of the country has moved on to solving some of our most pressing problems. 

The Biden Administration will be focusing on cleaning up the environment and transitioning the country from one based on fossil fuels to one that increasingly uses renewable energy. It will create programs that address the terrible consequences of poverty, especially on children. The Affordable Care Act will get major upgrades, most of which will focus on affordability, access, and preventive care. Taxes on the wealthy will increase, mostly to fund infrastructure projects including making sure that all Americans have access to affordable broadband Internet service, reliable public transportation, and bridges, tunnels and roads that, well, function appropriately. Our allies will begin to trust us again, though that will take some time. Joe Biden will not proclaim his love for dictators.

Donald Trump would run against every one of those policies. He’s done.

And, of course, we haven’t even mentioned the insurrection at the Capitol, which was predicated on a lie. Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. By a lot. But, of course, he couldn’t lose, so he created a lie and millions of people believe it still.

Americans, including police officers, died because of the lie. Some were injured. Others were traumatized. But it was a lie. Told by a liar. Whose political career is over.

Donald Trump might still have some influence in conservative and fringe-right circles, and we know he’s uber-popular with the white supremacists, fascists, racists, and anti-Semites. This might translate into victories in Senate and House races in some states, but Democrats will run commercials using the attack on the Capitol to remind Americans that it was all the result of the lie that Donald Trump just cannot let go. 

Yes, he was acquitted in the Senate, but the fact that ten Republican Representatives and seven Republican Senators voted against him is a beginning. The trial laid bare what President Trump did as the mob began its attack. Nothing, for almost two hours. Yes, he did mention that he wanted his followers to be peaceful, but a responsible president would have said it immediately and would have repeated it. He did not do that. And did I mention that it was all based on a lie? I want to make sure I mention that.

I’m sure the press will continue to publish stories about Donald Trump’s influence in the GOP and how he will support candidates who support his lie, and who label the Russia investigation a witch hunt and fake news (Have you noticed that we haven’t heard these words much lately? Refreshing.), and I’m not against reporters and others having jobs and being paid, but Donald Trump’s political career is over.

And I am done writing about him.

Here’s to better days ahead.

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Trump’s Lawyers Misspell ‘United States’

Now I should be the last to talk. Any frequent reader of this blog would definitely recall times when the wrong word was used, or a word was misspelled, or a case of minor grammatical infractions, or punctuation misuse/overuse. Sometimes I may not use punctuations at all.

But I am not a lawyer representing a former President, and I’m absolutely sure I’ve never misspelled the United States! But I guess when the former President is Donald Trump, then misspelling the United States is okay. It’s acceptable. It’s probably even expected.  

On Tuesday, attorneys David Schoen and Bruce Castor responded to the House’s filing that Trump incited the January 6 Capitol insurrection and argued he shouldn’t face impeachment now that he is out of office.

However, it was a raft of typos that became a major talking point after astute readers were quick to notice an error in the first few lines of the documents’ address to the U.S. Senate.

The filing, which intends to address members of the United States Senate, instead misspells the recipients as members of the “Unites States.”

 

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We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

Our apologies for the four year descent into the Emergency Broadcast System. 

Every president has an opportunity to be great. Donald Trump had that opportunity, and he did change our political culture for good and (mostly) for ill. but instead of trying to unify the country around an issue that both Republicans and Democrats could enthusiastically agree, such as rebuilding our infrastructure, he went straight for the Muslim ban, building the wall, and repealing Obamacare. His response to Covid was to hope it went away. And then there were all of those tweets. He also wallowed, and continues to wallow, in baseless conspiracy theories. 

History does not treat wallowers kindly. Especially those wallowers who incite insurrections.

He’s ended his tenure with a graceless exit, refusing both to acknowledge his defeat and the importance of the traditional passing of power from one administration to the next. 

History similarly does not look kindly on unacknowledgers. See Adams, John; Adams, John Quincy and Johnson, Andrew. Add in two impeachments. Stir.

Joe Biden can also be a great president, and he’s set an  ambitious agenda to tackle not just Covid, but immigration, the climate, economic opportunity, paid family leave, and social justice. He will have a slim majority in Congress, and the hope is that a couple of Republicans will vote for bills that will move the country forward. There is much he can do with executive orders, but especially with immigration and climate, it would be best to pass some legislation. We’ll see if that happens.

My hope is that enough Americans see the insurrection of January 6 as a turning point in American history that ends some of the animosity we’ve built up over the years. Many Republicans are not in the mood to compromise. This will not be easy, but it will be necessary.

Biden will at least speak the words of unity and patriotism, but it’s up to all of us as Americans to welcome them in the national interest. I understand that Democrats did not do this in 2017, and my expectations are such that I don’t see Republicans doing it willingly in 2021. Time, though, has a habit of chipping away at the jagged stone of obstruction until it becomes, if not smooth, at least less perilous. Donald Trump did not try to unify the country, nor did he speak words that soothed or tempered the emotions of the moment. Joe Biden will do that. And words have meanings.

As always, I remain optimistic that we will become a more inclusive, more united, more compassionate country than we’ve been recently and that we will work to right the wrongs we’ve inflicted upon ourselves and others. 

Godspeed to President Biden and all who serve this nation.

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Two Time Loser – Donald Trump Impeached… Again

It’s hard to get impeached. Before Trump became president only two other presidents in the history of this country achieved that shameful accomplishment. It is even harder to get impeached two times… in four years!

House lawmakers on Wednesday impeached President Trump for his role in last week’s deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, capping an extraordinary week of violence, apprehension and partisan brawling in Congress just as Washington cranks up security in preparation for Joe Biden’s inauguration, just a week away.

The 232-197 vote was historic: It made Trump the first president in the country’s history to be impeached twice.

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Ana Navarro to Republicans – “You Own This Just As Much as Donald Trump Does”

Republicans are now, all of a sudden, angry and displeased with Donald Trump and his foolish antics. On Wednesday, Trump incited a mob to break into the US Capitol and that action, was their final straw. After all the lies, all the deaths and all the embarrassments, Republicans have now awoken. And they did it with only 13 days left in his presidency.

But they only managed to fool some people. They failed miserably in their attempt to fool Ana Navarro. Navarro made an appearance on The View and called out her fellow Republicans for the four years they spent “emboldening” Trump.

“I am livid at all of those Republicans who have spent four years enabling, normalizing and legitimatizing Donald Trump”, Navarro said. “You own this just as much as Donald Trump does.

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