Новости за 28.09.2023

Representative Jasmine Crockett delivered an epic takedown on Thursday of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden when she read out a long list of criminal charges against Donald Trump.

It is a come-on long beloved by carnival barkers, casino billboards, and lottery ads: “You can’t win if you don’t play.” 

Representative James Comer on Thursday refused to let Democrats introduce testimony from one of his own star witnesses as evidence in the impeachment inquiry hearing into Joe Biden.

Representative Jason Smith struggled to explain how Republicans’ “evidence” actually shows that Joe Biden is guilty of corruption.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is hitting back at Ron DeSantis’s exaggerated claims about California crime.

Republicans’ own witness in their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden completely destroyed their claims multiple times on Thursday.

Donald Trump made a big show of appealing to union autoworkers at a campaign event in Michigan, but it turns out that none may have even attended.

It probably says enough about the current political moment that if you want to learn how people really feel about a proposed piece of legislation, you’ll end up watching a lot of monologues on your tiny phone screen delivered while greenscreened against screenshots of news stories. “Gen Z, come here,” began one video posted this summer by a TikTok creator with the username omarsbigsister. “Because this organization that claims to represent you is heading to DC.”

In April, the Facebook group “Protect Our Aviation & Eagles, Inc.—Palo Alto County, Iowa” posted a meme to share with its followers. “I SAW SATAN LAUGHING WITH DELIGHT,” the meme begins. The text is laid over the image of a man in red face paint with horns. Below the man is a seemingly endless row of wind turbines cast against a red sky, looking like soldiers in an army of darkness rather than a form of renewable energy. 

Alabama’s long, hot summer of defiance came to an end this week after the Supreme Court declined to stop a district court from redrawing the state’s congressional map to include a second majority-Black district.

Ron DeSantis has hinged his struggling presidential campaign on how he successfully passed a battery of ultraconservative laws in Florida. But what he doesn’t like to mention is the millions of taxpayer dollars he has wasted as courts repeatedly knock those laws down.

During the relatively kinder, gentler, and saner days of the Obama administration—way back in the early 20-teens—a misguided portion of the political commentariat subscribed to what was derisively termed the “Green Lantern Theory” of presidential power. In short, it posited that presidential accomplishment is simply a matter of willpower (a reference to the titular DC comic book superhero’s ability to manifest astonishing superpowers simply by channeling his resolve).

A lot of deplorable things were said during the Republican debate on Wednesday night, but this comment from Republican candidate Tim Scott may take the cake.

Nikki Haley finally snapped at Vivek Ramaswamy during the Republican debate Wednesday night.

It’s a big night for DeSantis, and he’s putting on a smile—a creepy facsimile of one, anyway.

Joe Biden used Republicans’ own words Wednesday to take aim at their party’s 2024 front-runner.

Joe Biden aired an ad on Fox News just 10 minutes before the beginning of Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate.