Kagro in the Morning - December 14, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin bestride athwart the metaphoric battlements, on crénelé parapets betwixt embrasures and merlons, to bear their benevolence, your benefaction. Hark! Behold KITM.

A day we must not forget, no matter how painful the memory.

Republicans remain in disarray, torn between their traditional cynical nihilists, and the new wave of fanatical demagogues. The two things holding them together, hatred of democracy, and complete aversion to work, have had plenty of like-minded supporters in the past, but the latest data shows that the straight-R voter just might be dying out.

Donald Trump keeps spinning, spinning around the drain. Another flush or two has got to do the trick. I’m no lawyer, but I don’t get how anyone could afford to be Trump’s. 

The bird site needs someone to love them, so maybe Putin? Sorry Elon, Vlad’s love is not going to pay the electric bill. The Russians are moving over to Truth Social, where there’s low-hanging fruit to pick.

Heavens to Heinrich! Germany’s far right Reichsbürger are just like our lost-cause dead-ender QAnon bumpkin shitkickers... except they don’t use rebel flags for curtains in their teeny tiny castles.

TPM’s exclusive series, The Meadows Texts, is now exploring Team Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 vote in Georgia and reverse the vote in Arizona. The Department of Justice is getting in on the fun, attempting to access Scott Perry’s texts for their probe into 2020 election interference. Not everybody was selling insurrection leading up to January 6. In fact, some in the DHS were trying to sound the warning.

AI finally benefits humankind, by taking on the scourge of Artificial Intelligence.