Taylor Swift was speechless onstage as she won album of the year for “Midnights,” becoming the first artist to win the prize four times. (Previously, she was tied with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon, who have each won three.)
“Oh my God,” she said, gripping her trophy and urging her collaborators, including producer Jack Antonoff and sound engineer Laura Sisk, to join her near the microphone. She thanked Antonoff (calling him one of her best friends and a “once-in-a-generation producer”) and gave a shout out to her friend Lana Del Rey (“a legacy artist”), whom she had dragged onstage. (Del Rey had joined her for a duet on the album.)
“I would love to tell you this is the best moment of my life,” Swift said, but she said she feels just as happy when she finishes writing a song or rehearses for a tour. “For me, the award is the work. All I want to do is keep being able to do this.”
To the extent this drives mouth- frothing fascist MAGAts into an even greater frenzy, it's all GOOD.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called Donald Trump's treatment of women "respectful" after he was found to have sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll.
During a Sunday interview on CNN, host Dana Bash noted that Carroll's attorney had recalled how Trump "was so angry during a deposition that his team was providing her lunch that he threw papers across the table and stormed off."
"He also made a veiled reference to the C-word," Bash told Haley. "You're now his competitor, but you've worked very closely with him, as you've talked about even in this interview. Do you think he has a problem with women who challenge him?"
"Well, I challenged him a lot, and he actually handled it very well and was very respectful," Haley replied. "If I saw him doing something wrong, I showed up, or I called him, and I would say, you cannot do this, but instead, you know, do it this way, this way, or this way."
"He didn't challenge me," she added. "He is not a perfect person. He is flawed."
"Respectful"??? First slavery and denying America was ever racist. Now denying the obvious about serial sexual abuser and "grab them by the p*ssy" Malignant Loser. For someone who laughably claims to tell hard truths, lightweight windsock Haley is forever minding her words in kowtowing to the MAGAt base. Chris Christie was right: "she's not up to this."
If you want to know where Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson stands on any given political issue, he has a simple answer.
“Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it—that’s my worldview,” Johnson told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview shortly after winning the speaker’s gavel in October. “That’s what I believe, and so I make no apologies for it.”
While Johnson’s folksy answer dodges the question, you can find clarity elsewhere. And the more clarity you get, the more you understand why Johnson may be evasive.
A Daily Beast investigation of his affiliations, influences, and public statements shows that Johnson’s worldview was forged in a radical theological tradition—the leaders and adherents of which have disputed some of the country’s most important constitutional principles, including amendments that freed the slaves and extended basic rights to all citizens.
That may sound dramatic, but Johnson’s connections to one particular strain of Christian fundamentalism elicit legitimate questions about the speaker’s biblical and constitutional interpretations. Those questions are all the more pressing given how open leaders of this movement have been about using anti-democratic means to achieve their desired religious ends—and given Johnson’s own prominent role in the GOP effort to overturn the 2020 election.
While Johnson’s legal endeavors to keep Donald Trump in office have been well documented, so, too, have his ties to that fundamentalist strain, known loosely as Christian dominionism...
This retrograde far- right crank is vowing to block the bipartisan immigration reform and funding for Ukraine and Israel Senate bill once it reaches the House, because his puppeteer told him not to give President Biden and Democrats a major victory in an election year. His principle- free "religion" allows him to use the ends to justify the means, which is to establish a "Christian" fundamentalist theocracy in America.
