Daily excerpt from A Stain that Won't Dissolve 23:
‘I mean, you don’t get paid for it,’ Alex said eventually. ‘It can be pretty thankless.’
‘Yes, well, but I also hate doing it,’ Jodi said, laughing. ‘I always have. I was like Sam as a teen, I didn’t want to do any cleaning, I left my mom to deal with all of it. Sometimes when I’m washing dishes I think about her. She always said she’d get a cleaner, but she never did. But we have one in the town now! I’m so excited thinking about it.’
Her enthusiasm was contagious, and Alex smiled.
‘I hope you don’t mind me just coming around like this. I talked to Kent about it a lot, and Sam said you were just really professional, and he’s been giving me money for a while now as rent.’
‘Not at all,’ Alex said. ‘Seriously, it’s fine.’
‘The house looks exactly the same,’ Jodi said, looking around. ‘And I thought on Tuesday that it was Evelyn’s birthday, and I can’t remember a time she wasn’t in the town, or that she didn’t make chocolate chip cookies for her birthday and then brought them out into the square for all of us. She did it for us as children too, and then she was still doing it when I had my own children.’
Alex felt sick. Grandma Evelyn’s birthday. The twentieth. He turned and looked at the wall calendar. It was the twenty second. He’d forgotten. He’d forgotten her fucking birthday.
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// OOC: Daily Jodie Fact #3
Revenge!Jodie used to be the ruler of Hell. But after trying to hyper-militarize the demons (after Hell was not Christmas-ified b/c Glenn died before Zhao was awakened), there was an uprising and he went on the run. Which is why they are currently staying in that empty grey void!
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House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and more than two dozen of her colleagues are supporting a resolution to "expunge" former President Donald Trump's second impeachment – as pro-Trump Republicans push to rally voters ahead of the midterms.
Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., is leading the resolution, which would apply to Trump's 2021 impeachment in the wake of the attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters. It's similar to a previous resolution Mullin introduced on Trump's first impeachment, which concerned him allegedly withholding military aid from Ukraine in exchange for political favors.
The Daily Beast first reported on the existence of the more recent resolution. But the support for it by Stefanik and other Republicans, including House GOP Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson, R-La., was not revealed until Wednesday. And although it will not pass the Democrat-controlled House, it underscores Republicans' continued support for Trump nearly 16 months after he left office.
"Democrats used their second impeachment resolution to once again weaponize one of the most grave and consequential powers of the House," Mullin said in a statement. "This was never about the Constitution; it was rooted in personal politics."
"The American people know Democrats weaponized the power of impeachment against President Donald Trump to advance their own extreme political agenda," Stefanik, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital.
"From the beginning of this sham process, I stood up against Nancy Pelosi’s blatant attempt to shred the Constitution as House Democrats ignored precedent and failed to follow the legislative process," Stefanik continued. "But President Donald Trump was rightfully acquitted, and it is past time to expunge Democrats’ sham smear against not only President Trump’s name, but against millions of patriots across the country."
Mullin's resolution rehashes many grievances Trump and other Republicans have about the 2020 election, including on recounts and mail ballots.
It also rails against the articles of impeachment themselves. One line argues that "Article I of the Resolution cites two quotes from President Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech on the Ellipse that lack any context, and are viewed in a light most unfavorable to the President." The resolution also makes process complaints about the lack of an "evidentiary hearing," and that "no witnesses were heard."
The resolution stands almost no change of advancing in the Democrat-controlled House. But if passed, the resolution says it would make it as if the impeachment article "had never passed the House of Representatives."
"Liberals couldn’t see through their blind rage long enough to follow parliamentary procedure, and instead barreled through Congress in order to have one more bite at the apple with President Trump," said Mullin, who helped barricade rioters outside the House chamber during the Jan. 6 attack.
The resolution has 28 cosponsors, including Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Brian Mast, R-Fla., and Jody Hice, R-Ga. Hice is running for Secretary of State in Georgia.
Mullin is also running for higher office. He announced earlier this year that he's seeking to replace retiring Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., in an upcoming special election. He faces a crowded GOP primary later this spring.
Supporting the resolution could help Hice, Mullin and their fellow Republicans polish their pro-Trump bona-fides ahead of the midterms. Stefanik, the third-ranking Republican in the House, has been doing the same. She recently declared, "I am ultra-MAGA, and proud of it," in response to a new label from President Biden for pro-Trump Republicans.
Trump's grip on the GOP was further illustrated Tuesday night when Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, a strong supporter of Trump’s repeated attempts the past year and a half to re-litigate his 2020 election loss, won his primary. Mastriano was in D.C. on Jan. 6, though there was no evidence he entered the Capitol or was part of the rioters Mullin assisted in holding at bay.
The Jan. 6 attack followed months of Trump falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen, before he called a rally near the White House on the day Congress was set to ratify the Electoral College results.
At that rally, Trump told supporters, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
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as i am now finally properly catching up with the thirteenth doctor, i can't help but find myself so baffled how much venom incels spit bc the doctor was portrayed by a woman... apart from the fact that there was always the possibility for the doctor to regenerate into a woman, and that no one seemed to have an issue with the master regenerating into a woman bc who knows why - bc the master isn't a main character probably - apart from that, jodie whittaker did such a phenomenal job of portraying the doctor! there's not a single second i doubt her as the doctor. she got the portrayal right from the start, she's marvelous at it!
and obviously every actor brings a different charm to the doctor they portray, and not everyone likes every portrayal - personally, i disliked matt smith as the eleventh throughout most of his run - but that so so many people didn't even want to give her a chance just because now it's a woman portraying a character who changes face every few seasons anyway and could always have been a woman too, is just wild to me. how much hatred do you need to have in you, how narrow-minded do you have to be to turn out so spiteful?? in this day and age????? man that's just. so fucking sad, actually
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