Who’s got the football?

News broke this morning that Mike Pence’s nuclear football was within grabbing distance of the blood-thirsty mob at the Capitol.

Military officials overseeing the authorization process to launch nuclear weapons were unaware on January 6 that then-Vice President Mike Pence’s military aide carrying the “nuclear football” was potentially in danger as rioters got close during the violent Capitol insurrection, according to a defense official.

The vice president is always accompanied by a backup of the “football,” which contains the equipment to carry out orders to launch a nuclear strike. It must be ready at all times and is identical to what the president carries, in case he becomes incapacitated.

Okay, so here’s the deal – you can see the guy carrying the damn thing in the pictures of the security people taking out Pence and his family.

Now look, I seriously doubt that the mob boys would know how to use the damn thing if they got it, but you know those kinda rebel flag carrying guys, they would have taken it over to Woody’s Transmission Repair Shop and tinkered with it. And that’s the best option. If the triple digit IQ guy got it, he’d have sold it to China.

I found out this very day that the Vice President has a duplicate football. I was actually kinda relieved when I first heard it, thinking that somebody had been wise enough to take it away from Trump.  They gave Pence a duplicate in case Trump got his thumb stuck in the handle.  That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Just in case you need it. Here is a handy dandy list of sitting Republican senators who voted to impeach President Clinton over a blow job.

Blunt
Burr
Crapo
Grassley
Graham
Inhofe
McConnell
Moran
Portman
Shelby
Thune
Wicker

What will we tell the children?

Adam Kinzinger is a Republican congressman from Illinois.  He announced that he, along with several of his colleagues, was going to form a PAC to target Matt Gaetz and Majorie Taylor Greene, among others, in the next Republican primary.

As you know, when Matt Gaetz stands up you can either measure his height by his body or by how much man he is.  Shorty Gaetz went to the Twitter Machine and told the whole damn world —

Woo … wooo … okay, everybody now … wooo … wooo … (chuckle)

Gaetz did not realize that people were going to laugh at that?

Yeah, that’s how tall he is.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Written by Nick Carraway.

In my current job I work with a lot of numbers. It could be kids’ test scores on STAAR, IQ tests, or achievement tests. I look at grades so often i usually get dizzy. So, you’ll forgive me if I like to look at numbers away from work as well.

I certainly have found it interesting that the last two votes in the Senate (on the constitutionality of impeaching the ex-president) had the exact same results as this CBS poll. So, the Senate voted 56-44 and the people currently support impeachment 56-44.

You rarely see that kind of alignment. Most of us don’t see the Senate voting differently when this whole shindig is over. What might change is that number from the overall population. We noticed it last time when the people heard the evidence from the first impeachment trial. It won’t be a ton of movement, but no one really expects it to be.

In terms of data and statistics, a swing of even a few points is a huge deal. It could be the difference between breaking even in House races in 2022 and gaining maybe ten seats. Think of the difference between a four point Biden win and a seven point Biden win. It’s a huge difference even if it looks small in the moment. If you can shift that 56 number to 60 then you’ve made some serious headway. That’s true even if the Senate turns in the same 56-44 vote they have the last two times.”

Nick

Trump’s goons came within seconds of grabbing Mike Pence.  Let me ask a question: do you think they would have performed a citizen’s arrest and taken Pence to a judge to get his warning and see a magistrate?

Oh hell no.  They killed one cop, cut fingers off another and Trump didn’t even send out a nasty tweet about them.

Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021

This tweet went out about 10 minutes after it was reported that Pence had been taken off the floor.

Trump saw what was happening.  Mike Pence, who had stuck by Trump through at all, was issued a death warrant.  Those Republican senators have to wonder if they are next. Is Trump going to put a bounty on their heads?

I am convinced that Trump wanted Mike Pence dead just to put terror in the hearts of any who crosses him.  I am. I am convinced. I think he is that evil.