Tell Laura

Laura Ingraham telling better than two and a half million viewers about the plot that has silenced her and all her friends.

Sorry I can't hear you. Your tweet is all strangely muffled. Are you ok?

— Gestating Turkey (@Yastreblyansky) August 25, 2018

I took a look at the Federalist piece Ingraham links, "Despite Twitter’s Protests, The Stifling of Conservative Speech On The Platform Is Real", by David Reaboi and Nick Short, and was taken aback by the opening graf:

For the Record: Bad Numbers and Conspiracy Theories

Alphabet Bad Student. Hand-drawn grunge font by Arkady Kazantsev via dreamstime.

Wait until Charlie learns people die pic.twitter.com/lQdlIbnP4B

— jordan (@JordanUhl) July 11, 2018

Not only that. I don't know where young Charlie's getting his numbers from, but they're totally wrong: there were

• 224,603,562 US citizens of voting age in 2016 and
• 200,081,377 registered voters the same year

—24.6 million being a lot more than minus 3.5 million by most calculations. Just so you know.

I'm surprised there are that many registered, almost 89%. Let's get those people off their asses in November.

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Laura Ingraham's feet, via WikiFeet.

Laura Ingraham quoted at Americans Against the Tea Party:

The Republicans shouldn’t fall into the media trap of ‘We have to work with Obama! We have to work with Obama! Obama is going off on his own. He’s going to sign an executive order, he’s going to close Gitmo, he’s draining Gitmo down.

Republicans have been successful, and the economy has been improving with two things: gridlock and opposing Obama. The economy has been getting better!”

I left a comment at Susie Madrak's C&L report:

Wait folks, she may be right--it's all that dictatorial executive action with the quantitative easing. If GOP had been willing to do some of the work there would have been more austerity and we'd be worse off. From the audit of all government contracts he ordered the week he took office to the boost of consumer financial security last October Obama's been taking care of business while Congress holds Benghazi hearings.

Then there's the Affordable Care Act that has created more jobs in California alone in one year than the Keystone Pipeline would create in the whole country in its entire lifetime. Republicans would have stopped that if they'd been able to get off their asses.

Now there's immigration reform by executive action. I hope the Republicans continue to find themselves unable to show up so the country can get the maximum profit out of that too.

Cheap shots: Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, sometimes it's not

Robert Dudley dancing the lavolta with Queen Elizabeth I. Possibly by Marcus Gheeraerts, ca. 1580. Wikipedia.

Armed and dangerous:

A state senator who is advocating for arming teachers in the aftermath of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, accidentally shot a teacher with a rubber bullet during a training course, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. [jump]