There’s video circulating of the moment people in the room realized what a blunder this was, and the looks on people’s faces are hilarious. I’ll try to link later when I have a moment to dig it up.
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I spent way too much time trying to figure out if this was a ‘furry’ joke or a misspelling of ‘farriers’ given the barn.
Foreigners dressed as furry animals?
They’ve already covered it right after the gaffe. Schmitt said later that the texts referenced a basketball game and they looked up the NBA schedule and saw there was only the Atlanta game. That, too, reportedly is a verifiable lie, of course, as there were, I think I heard, six games that day.
there were. easy enough to find the NBA schedule for the day
but only one in Atlanta
Saturday, February 3, 2024
| MATCHUP | result | winner high | loser high |
|---|---|---|---|
 Brooklyn |
@  Philadelphia |
BKN 136, PHI 121 |
Cam Thomas40 Pts
Tyrese Maxey23 Pts
Golden State
AtlantaTrae Young35 Pts
Stephen Curry60 Pts
Sacramento
ChicagoDe’Aaron Fox41 Pts
Coby White26 Pts
Los Angeles
New YorkLeBron James24 Pts
Jalen Brunson36 Pts
Milwaukee
DallasGiannis Antetokounmpo48 Pts
Luka Doncic40 Pts
Cleveland
San AntonioDonovan Mitchell31 Pts
Devin Vassell22 Pts
for what it is worth it looked like a great game
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Oh look, prominent Republican talking heads are indeed racist.
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in America, Christopher Rufo is considered part of it. He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, the tony midtown think tank that holds black-tie galas; he recently enjoyed a polite sit-down interview with Ezra Klein on Klein’s massively popular New York Times podcast; and he has over 120,000 subscribers on Substack, a publishing platform whose owners have celebrated Rufo as one of their “best” political writers who readers can “trust.”
This veneer of legitimacy has helped Rufo mainstream an arguably fascist agenda. The 42 year old, after all, largely masterminded the destructive, racist moral panics targeting “Critical Race Theory” and “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI) programs. He helped spearhead the spurious attack on “gender ideology” in public schools, smearing queer-supportive educators as “groomers.” He helped foment conspiracy theories about fraud at Somali daycare centers in Minneapolis, providing the pretext for ICE’s deadly incursion into the city. And he played a central role in spreading the ugly lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were stealing and eating people’s pets.
He’s been up front about how he approaches these propaganda campaigns — and how to get those in power to act upon them. “You have to be very aggressive,” he explained once in a speech at Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian liberal arts school where he is a Distinguished Fellow. “You have to fight on terms that you define. You have to create your own frame, your own language. And you have to be ruthless and brutal in pursuit of something good.”
This past weekend Rufo introduced an alarming new term that feels like an escalation, even for him: the “Indian Question” — that is, what to do about the very existence of Indian people, citizens and noncitizens alike, in America? Rufo’s new phrase formed the title of the latest episode of “Rufo & Lomez,” the BlazeTV podcast he co-hosts with Jonathan Keeperman, a lesser known and less “respectable” proprietor of white nationalist talking points, who previously plied his trade anonymously, from behind the pseudonym “Lomez,” until he was unmasked in a 2024 Guardian exposé.
This is part of why I think the entire current Republican party has to go.
GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal.
“We now know more about the deep state and its power and ability to literally change things at the top,” the lawmaker said during his remarks at the Nixon Foundation’s annual Grand Strategy Summit in Washington.
“An interesting aspect of this as it relates to Richard Nixon — he knew all of this,” Moore continued. “He knew it, and he stayed quiet about it. Because he didn’t want to erode the confidence of the American people in our system of governance and our institutions.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6124635-moore-nixon-couped-watergate/
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and a full slate of NCCA men’s games (around 150); seven of them I recognize as being in the DC area.
The suggestion that it is somehow unfair to Trump that POTUS was held to higher standard 50 years ago is quite the argument.
And yes, I am making a bit of a leap on that being the motivation.
It just sticks in my craw that Nixon is being held up as being noble in any way.
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The darndest element about this is that they weren’t happy when CT imposed a gas tax holiday in 2022 (that just happened to end shortly after election day).
Dark blue CT hasn’t implemented a gas tax holiday this time around. I have my suspicions why.
I just read the whole story about the Eric Schmitt Hawks/Hawkeyes thing. 
I love all the cameras that zoomed in on Katie Britt being shocked that someone could be that dumb. 
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While he had failings as a person, his presidency had several accomplishments:
Foreign Policy Achievements
- Opening Relations with China: Traveled to Beijing in 1972 to meet with Mao Zedong, ending two decades of diplomatic isolation and issuing the Shanghai Communiqué. [1, 2]
- Soviet Détente and Nuclear Treaties: Pursued détente with the Soviet Union, leading to the 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Leonid Brezhnev. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- Ending U.S. Involvement in Vietnam: Signed the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973, which ended direct U.S. military combat involvement and secured the return of American prisoners of war (POWs). [1, 2, 3]
Domestic Policy Achievements
- Environmental Protection: Created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and signed major legislation including the Clean Air Act of 1970. [1, 2]
- Ending the Military Draft: Halted the military draft in 1973, shifting the U.S. military to an all-volunteer force. [1]
- Civil Rights and Education: Oversaw the peaceful desegregation of southern public schools and signed Title IX in 1972, banning sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs. [1, 2]
- Health and Welfare: Signed the National Cancer Act of 1971 to launch the federal “War on Cancer” and established tWhite House Historical Association
Compare Nixon with Trump, W Bush, and Reagan and I would take Nixon any day of the week. Bush and Reagan were decent as human beings but terrible in terms of what they did to the country. Trump is a vile human being, ten times worse than Nixon and is in the process of destroying the country.
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I’ll point out that it’s good to remember that bad presidents and bad people can still sometimes have good deeds.
Nixon did some good. I can acknowledge that while still thinking that efforts to rehabilitate his reputation might be going a bit too far. 