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Quick Overview:  Joe Biden, the current President, was genuinely compassionate yesterday, holding a candle lit ceremony to commemorate the 500,000 plus who have died from coronavirus. While Biden was emoting, the former guy threw a hissy fit, issuing a crazy diatribe about how he really won the election and all his other usual stuff after “his” Supreme Court finally cleared the way for his tax returns and other financials to be released to Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.  Absent a leak or a quick indictment those financials won’t be available for public view anytime soon but former guy appears to be super concerned about what they’ll reveal about his income, debt and financial crimes which may be one of the reasons that he wants everyone to treat him as the presumptive Republican candidate for 2024.  There’s money to be made running and if former guy actually manages another victory, he would get at least another four year get out of jail pass, or so he probably thinks or prays.  Unfortunately, given recent polls it appears that a significant percentage of the Republican party is all in on him winning again.  Maybe he’ll discuss or at the very least hint his plans when he speaks at the CPAC conference this weekend.  The theme of the conference is Cancel Culture, intended to be a scathing critique of all those socialist liberals who’ve been out there cancelling right wingers and a few too many of their own so it was particularly ironic that CPAC actually cancelled one of their planned speakers, an avowed anti-Semite named Young Pharaoh who, despite all the evidence, including his name, they’d failed to notice was a hatemonger.  Then again with so many bigots among their crowd, it was probably easy for CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp to miss Young Pharaoh’s despicable tweet montage.  That’s the same Matt Schlapp who rejected all those court rulings concluding that Biden won the election fair and square, including yesterday’s additional announcements from the Supreme Court that it doesn’t plan to weigh in on any more of the 2020 election lawsuits.  Well at least most of the Justices were okay with leaving 2020 in the rear view mirror, three, including Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas would have been happy to reevaluate Pennsylvania to provide guidance for how best to suppress votes in the future, Thomas even took the moment to push some of those conspiracy theories his right wing wife and the former guy love so much about how all absentee ballots are suspect or at least Democratic voting ones are. 

As to conspiracy theories, the Dominion Voting Machine company followed up on their threats, suing Mike “Pillow Man” Lindell for those lies he continues to push about their company’s machines, George Soros and the very dead Hugo Chavez.   Their lawsuit points out that not only does Lindell continue to lie about their machines but that he uses those lies as part of his pillow marketing pitch.  While Lindell was being served, the Senate took up Merrick Garland’s nomination to serve as Attorney General.  Quite a few Republicans, many of whom probably sleep on Lindell’s pillows, seem very concerned that Garland will serve as Biden’s tool, something that they actually loved during the former guy’s term but that they now want us all to think is something that Democrats rather than Republicans tolerate if not encourage even though Biden has made it clear and Garland has repeated that they both view the Attorney General as the country’s lawyer rather than the president’s Barr.  A few of the same Republicans, including Josh Hawley, John Kennedy, and Tom Cotton, particularly Cotton, are very concerned that Garland might actually advance racial equity, a big no-no to them.  They’re right to be concerned, Garland who grew emotional discussing how he feels he owes America for taking in his family when they were fleeing anti-Semitic pogroms will go after white supremacists and the like and also appears okay with advancing equity.  On the tweeting front, OMB nominee Neera Tandem is probably toast, the victim of her tweets, truly ironic given what we’ve lived through during the past five years.  The Republicans may not stop there, they’re also lining up against a few other Biden nominees, and if Joe Manchin sides with them on any of those, the way he is on Tanden, they’ll succeed.  Lastly, though J & J’s vaccine hasn’t been approved yet, the company is prepared to deliver 20 million doses by the end of March assuming that, as expected, they get their emergency use authorization shortly.

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