February 19, 2021 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, February 19th
Good morning, y’all. I’m in for Ginny today. Pitchers and catchers reported yesterday, so spring is right around the corner.
Here
- Governor Kemp announced four state-ran COVID-19 vaccination sites
- Gwinnett County Public School administrators are urging school board officials to limit public comment period during meetings
- Secretary of State and State Election Board send another batch of potential voter violations to prosecutors
- Cult leader and former Marietta resident sentenced to 30 years in prison
- You might want to keep an eye to the sky during the spring
There
- Memeing on Capitol Hill: “I am not a cat” was uttered during a virtual hearing on Thursday
- Some Republicans are jockeying for position within Trump World (formerly known as the GOP), others are departing including Arkansas State Senator Jim Hendren (who is also Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s nephew)
- Senator Ted Cruz has a new controversy: traveling to Cancun during the winter
- Facebook and Australia are playing a game of chicken
Yonder
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From a tweet:
Anyone else realize Ted Cruz had no problem crossing a border to give his family a better life?
Another one:
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover
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@NASAPersevere
I’m safe on Mars. Perseverance will get you anywhere.
#CountdownToMars
As far as the new election laws being sneaked through the legislature, does anyone here really think these laws will pass muster in a Federal court? I really doubt it.
Well, at least one local party is taking the right approach- and excising the disease:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/proud-boys-member-warns-i-m-coming-for-you-as-sacramento-gop-votes-to-expel-him/ar-BB1dQY55?ocid=msedgntp
I have advocated for more robust expulsion of the ill and diseased from the Republican party- or any party.
But many, including the racist in the article, feels like it’s somehow violative of his rights of association.
I hope he does bring the suit he threatens, because I have no doubt that the freedom of association does not mean the right to force association (it is awful to even think of the implications of nonconsensual organizational association).
Such a ruling may then clear the air for political parties to expel those they simply would rather not be associated with. Of course, there may then yet be a gap between the power to do something, and actually doing something….
Speaking of “Trump World”, as a former Republican this is frightfully discouraging on many levels:
An exclusive Suffolk University/USA TODAY Poll finds Trump’s support largely unshaken after his second impeachment trial in the Senate, this time on a charge of inciting an insurrection in the deadly assault on the Capitol Jan. 6.
By double digits, 46%-27%, those surveyed say they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. The rest are undecided.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/21/exclusive-trump-party-he-still-holds-loyalty-gop-voters/6765406002/
This coupled with Trump being scheduled to address CPAC later this week indicates to me that in this country now conservative=crazy. Stephen Aaron touched on this in this forum a couple of weeks ago with his excellent post on where the parties now stand with their factions. I can only hope that the Democrats faction off as well to perhaps leave us with a sane middle-ground party. I can always hope…