I like the freeze frame. All 3 have the same head tilt and arrogant smirk.The actual sketch is hardest on Elise Stefanik though, unsurprisingly.
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"Only 23% of voters say Biden's policies have helped them personally, while 53% say they have been hurt by the president's agenda."
By Ann Althouse
“By contrast, about half of voters say Trump’s policies when he was president helped them personally, more than the 37% who say they were hurt…. ‘Bidenomics,’ the president’s signature economic platform, is viewed favorably by less than 30% of voters and unfavorably by more than half…. …Biden is holding only 87% of voters who told Journal…
Who are the "we" who say "That's not who we are"?
By Ann Althouse
I’m reading “Trump Voters Are America Too/If he wins a second term, perhaps we’ll finally dispense with the myth that ‘this is not who we are,'” by Mark Leibovich, in The Atlantic.“This is not who we are”: The would-be guardians of America’s better angels have been scolding us with this line for years. Or maybe…
I'm reading a Vox article from 4 years ago — December 12, 2019.
By Ann Althouse
The headline is “Gaetz’s effort to make the impeachment hearing about Hunter Biden’s problems backfired spectacularly”:During Thursday’s impeachment hearing, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee repeatedly tried to shift the focus from President Donald Trump’s apparent abuse of power to the Bidens — their goal being to establish that Trump had legitimate reasons to…
"Does the shade remind anyone else of a complexion? Specifically, a light one? That gave me pause, for a moment."
By Ann Althouse
“I think about how brands like Fenty Beauty have pushed the cosmetics industry to make shade ranges that include people of color, especially those with dark skin. This color, plus the skin connotation of the Peach Fuzz name, hews pretty closely to the shades worn by white people that there are no shortage of.”Said Callie…
"Not since Bill Clinton was asked about having sex with Monica Lewinsky and replied, 'It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is,' has there been such parsing."
By Ann Althouse
Writes Maureen Dowd, in “The Ivy League Flunks Out” (NYT), talking about the line “It is a context-dependent decision” spoken by U Penn president Penn’s Elizabeth Magill.We were just talking about Bill Clinton rhetoric — 2 posts down, here — but that was about “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” and the…
"Petitioners visiting the Executive Office learned to keep talking, because the President usually had an open book on his desk, and was quite capable of snatching it up when the conversation flagged."
By Ann Althouse
I’m reading page 108 of “Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt Series Book 2),” by Edmund Morris (Amazon link, commission earned).Also, on page 126:His “beach book” for the season was Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln: A History, in ten volumes. Unfazed, he read it straight through, along with his usual supply of dime novels and…
"With a formal House vote on an impeachment inquiry expected next week, President Joe Biden was confronted this week about his knowledge and involvement…"
By Ann Althouse
“… in alleged influence peddling by his son and brothers. An irate Biden seemed to morph into Bill Clinton and — echoing his predecessor’s ‘I did not have sex with that woman’ denial of an earlier scandal — effectively declared that he did not have relations with ‘those people.’
As with Clinton, the denial was…
"The Texas Supreme Court late Friday temporarily halted a lower court order allowing a Dallas woman to obtain an abortion in spite of the state’s strict bans…"
By Ann Althouse
“The [Texas] Supreme Court said that, ‘without regard to the merits’ of the arguments on either side, it had issued an administrative stay in the case, to give itself more time to issue a final ruling…. [The lower court] judge, a Democrat, found that Ms. Cox, 31… met the criteria for an exception to the state’s…
"Some users suggest that Grok 'sounds way more intelligent' than other chatbots as a result of its edgy 'personality.'"
By Ann Althouse
“As for this writer, I’m not so sure. Cutesy prose and crassness — however entertaining or inflammatory — don’t equate with cleverness, necessarily.”From “X begins rolling out Grok, its ‘rebellious’ chatbot, to subscribers” (Yahoo Life).I wanted to check out Grok, which required me to sign up for X Premium+ and locate “Grok” in the left sidebar…