02/23/23
Good morning! It’s Thursday, February 23rd. National Chili Day!
Which is great news, because it’s very cold. And when it’s cold, you need chili. Because chili is hot and great for a chilly day.
Words are silly.
And now, the news.
Nipsey’s Killer Gets 60 to Life
-via AP News
The man convicted of killing rapper and community leader Nipsey Hussle was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison on Wednesday. After the monthlong trial, the 33-year-old was also convicted of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a firearm for gunfire that hit two other men at the scene.
Winter Storm Heats Up
Hey, remember when I was talking about chili earlier in this episode? Well what a coincidence… because there’s a winter storm a comin’. The National Weather Service has predicted this round of storms will leave a foot of snow across South Dakota through Michigan.
While here in California, LA County is preparing for a blizzard.
That’s right… a blizzard. Believed to be the first in the area since 1989.
So be safe everyone. People in LA already drive like ding dongs when it lightly sprinkles, imagine what’ll happen if a blizzard is a foot!
And while we’re on the subject, just because I need the reminder… it seems like everyone I talk to is having terrible allergies right now. So if you haven’t yet, make sure you take your allergy medicine. (That is a reminder for future Kim, too)
Jared and Ivanka Subpoenaed
-via NY Times
Jared and Ivanka! We haven’t talked about them in a while! And honestly… that’s been fine with me. But alas, all good things must come to an end because Jared and Ivanks have been invited by Coach Beard to come on down and talk to a special grand jury about the roll their pops, and pops-in-law tried to turn democracy into a thing of the past all because he’s really good at losing and really bad at accepting it.
This should be interesting, because Trump COULD try and stop them from testifying on grounds of executive privilege, since both of them worked in the White House during his presidency. However, he didn’t do that before they testified for the House January 6th Committee.
And testify they did – and we actually got to see clips of their testimony! Including a clip of Ivanks specifically saying that she believed Trump had lost the election and there was no widespread fraud.
No word yet on whether they’ll testify. As a reminder, Pence was also asked to come on down and he said… no thanks.
Which I’ll honestly never understand. This guy is dragging the whole party down – just testify and get him out of your way.
Arizona’s Top Prosecutor is No Good
-via Washington Post
Washington Post just put out a heck of an exclusive, so buckle up.
About a year after the 2020 election, the one Trump lost fair and square and then unfair and triangle tried to overturn it because he’s just… I mean, I can say it in a million jokey ways but the truth is, that dude sucks.
Anyway… about a year after the election, Arizona’s then-AG, Mark Brnovich started investigating voting in the state. Which… okay fine, whatever, do your thing. And they spent over 10,000 hours on this investigation.
Then, in March of 2022, so almost a year ago, investigators put together a report saying what every level headed person already knew – allegations of fraud and error were unfounded. And what did Mark Brnovich, a Republican, do?
He kept it a secret!
Not only that, but the next month he went out and released an interim report the next month saying his office discovered serious vulnerabilities, and left out anything from the investigators that ran contrary to the narrative that he, at that time a candidate for US Senate, constructed.
In September, his office put together an “Election Review Summary” that refuted claims of election fraud. And what did this guy do? He left office last month without ever putting out the report.
And, by the way… this was a tax-payer funded investigation!
There were armed “poll watchers” in Arizona, likely scaring off potential voters, in 2022. It’s a miracle that no one was hurt. All because, in 2020, some bing bong who can’t apply self-tanner correctly lost the election and said it wasn’t hit fault because nothing ever is. And after 10,000 tax-payed funded hours worth of an investigation showed that there was no fraud, Brnovich, an elected official, couldn’t go out there and tell people the truth. The truth that would have, perhaps, stopped people from taking their guns and standing outside of polling places like it was the 1950s.
This guy should never be able to hold office again and every other state that investigated fraud and didn’t come right out and say it didn’t happen should also be investigated.
Democracy is fragile because it depends on people. And when self-serving binkuses like this are in charge, it becomes even more fragile.
Things like this need to be taken seriously and investigated out completely.
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Shooting in Florida
-via CNN
And we’ve got some breaking news, literally as I sat down to edit… One Orlando TV news employee was killed, and another was injured, as they reported an earlier shooting incident in Florida.
That’s right. While reporting about an earlier shooting, they were shot. On the same street.
One person is in custody. Again, this is breaking news and unfortunately that’s all that’s currently known.
And that’s it. That’s the news.
Tomorrow I’m working on a special episode about everything going on a Fox when it comes to the 2020 election, January 6th, and Kevin McCarthy but, as you might imagine, it’s going to take more than a minute or two to sum it up. So be prepared for that tomorrow.
In the meantime… I’m proud of chili. I’m proud of Kevin’s chili recipe. It’s maybe one of the best cold opens in The Office and even though I’ve seen him fall in that vat of chili at least, no joke, 50 times, it still makes me laugh.
But more than that, more than Kevin Malone, because you are also kind… I’m proud of you.