We wish former President Jimmy Carter a happy 99th birthday today. Thank you for all you have done, Mr. President!

Henry Wallace of Iowa pretty well nailed today’s Republicans many years ago.

 

While this is bad for the country no matter how you slice it, there are some aspects to this brinksmanship game that MAGA Republicans seem to love to play. For instance they are walking out on a deal they made just a couple of months ago. You can’t trust them on anything.

Trump seems to think that a shutdown stops his being prosecuted. For being a former government official, he is sure going to be surprised when he finds out it isn’t.

And so far the only folks cheering for a shutdown are a few MAGA Republicans, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Just in case you were wondering their loyalties lie.

President Biden made a great speech Thursday on democracy. Earlier in the week his would-be opponent gurgled something about beating Obama and Biden starting WWII. Sounds like a certain candidate is slipping into dementia as he also slips into the prison system. Can the MAGA party find no one else?

It is as if the whirl wind is coming for the MAGAs.

A) Former top aide to Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, started doing the book promotion circuit for her new book named what?

B) Whoopsie. Donald Trump’s week started Monday with a New York State judge declaring Trump and his adult sons had committed what crime?

C) President Biden gave a great speech on democracy Thursday. Where did the President give this speech?

D) Embattled Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey had about how much “emergency” cash stuffed in various places around his house?

E) As part of the punishment for his crime in New York the judge canceled business certificates for what Trump business in New York?

F) As part of the above punishment the judge called for what to happen to the above business?

G) Besides having cash stuffed around his house in New Jersey, Senator Menendez also had what other valuables hidden there?

H) What long term California senator died Friday morning?

I) Last Sunday saw the return of a space capsule which returned to earth with samples of what?

J)  In truly important stuff, the media is going gaga speculating on a relationship between Taylor Swift and what pro football player?

K) With a shutdown deadline looming what major issue dominated MAGA senators this week?

L) With a shutdown deadline looming what faux issue did MAGA representatives focus on last week?

M) In a bizarre speech Monday in South Carolina, Candidate Trump declared that whales were being killed by what green energy source?

N) In yet another strange rant at a Michigan rally Trump said what would electrocute people if they got wet?

O) What US General is having to employ a personal security service after Trump declared the general was a traitor and should be executed?

 P) An eyeless beetle from SE Europe nears extinction because of its popularity due to its name. What is its name?

Q) Amazon and UPS announced hiring goals for the holidays. Can you tell us what either business will be hiring this holiday season?

R) FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announced that the FCC will begin hearings to restore what internet related rules abandoned under the Trump administration?

S) In Iowa Governor Reynolds pushes for more tax cuts for the wealthy as what low paid state workers discuss striking for more pay?

T) A man was denied entry into a Philadelphia Phillies game last week because of his emotional support animal. What kind of animal is his emotional support animal?

Bob Menendez was caught doing exactly, exactly, exactly what Clarence Thomas was doing. – Liam Nissan

Answers:

A) “ENOUGH”

B) Fraud

C) At the John McCain library in Tempe, Arizona

D) $480,000 so let’s say half a mil.  

E) The Trump Organization – that pretty much covers it.

F) Dissolution – assets to be sold off

G) he had gold bars, too. 

H) Diane Feinstein at age 90

I) dust from asteroid Bennu

J) Travis Kielce of the KC Chiefs

K) How John Fetterman dressed on the floor of the senate

L) Impeaching President Biden

M) Windmills. A few years ago he (Trump) said windmills cause cancer.

N) Batteries used in electric boats

O) Former Chair of the Joint Chief Mark Milley

P) The Adolf Hitler beetle. Seems the guy who named the beetle in the ’30s was a big Hitler fan.

Q) Amazon says 250,000 – UPS 100,000 – remember labor is tight right now

R) Net Neutrality

S) Grad Student Assistants

T) An alligator

One man, Kevin McCarthy, is responsible for the looming government shutdown, because he won’t bring to the House floor a funding bill supported by a majority of senators from both parties, the administration, and a majority of House members. It’s the Speaker’s Shutdown. – Bill Kristol