Breaking wind: Boebert announces FART for House --
Lauren Boebert describes how her FART team, the “Floor Action Response Team,” monitors bills on the floor. pic.twitter.com/tqYcZ8wjwZ
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 16, 2022
You'll have to stand in line --
I volunteer to drive Rudy Giuliani to prison. But not Trump. let that fucker walk
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 16, 2022
Welcome to The Handmaid's Tale, Florida episode --
Florida appeals court affirms an order prohibiting a parentless 16-year-old from terminating her pregnancy on the grounds that she has not proved she is mature enough to get an abortion. So the state will force her to have a child instead. https://t.co/1UqnPUErG0 pic.twitter.com/z8uMmAoxub
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) August 16, 2022
The master con man's best tricks --
Turns out that the most effective sales pitch of Trump's life was convincing his base that the Deep State elites were targeting them, not him.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 16, 2022
It's so effective that Tucker Carlson is trying to repurpose it for his own use.https://t.co/5y5INJg6hk
Yes, Trump keeps offering different, contradictory explanations for the classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 16, 2022
THAT IS THE POINT.
This is Trump's strategy for every crisis. Flood the zone with so much garbage that the basic facts become obscured. He thrives in chaos.
He hires only the best people, too --
Trump is being represented in court by a former parking garage general counsel and a former OAN host.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 16, 2022
The "very fine people on both sides" fifth anniversary --
Already five years since Trump talked about the Charlottesville Nazis:
— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) August 16, 2022
"Very fine people on both sides" pic.twitter.com/qnlOJkhUZx
Russia's war at home --
⚡️Railway blown up in Russia's Kursk Oblast.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 16, 2022
Unidentified individuals in Russia's Kursk Oblast on Aug. 16 blew up a part of a railway only used for freight trains, Russian media Baza reported.
Bicycling while cat napping --
When your cat crashes his bicycle in his dream.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/X3THo8TGL1
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 15, 2022