Blue Georgia

Today, Jon Ossoff offered an amendment to stop insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary care. Republicans blocked it.

Jon Ossoff on Bill Pulte: To put a completely unqualified political hack in that position signals an unmistakable ambition to deepen the politicization and abuse of America's intelligence community. We need Senate Republicans to have some spine and say enough is enough.

During today's public comments at the Georgia State Election Board meeting, Kristin Nabers from All Voting is Local asked about the Board's hiring of notorious election denier Jason Frazier and was immediately shut down by Trump sycophant, James Mills. He then threatened to call security.

More taxpayer dollars used to boost corrupt Derek Dooley, who is trying to unseat Jon Ossoff. A company led by Dooley's brother received over $27 million in Georgia school contracts during Brian Kemp's administration.

Jon Ossoff: In Georgia, these attacks on voting rights are provoking a defiant backlash. They are motivating people to turn out to the polls in defiance of these attacks on the franchise.

Jon Ossoff: We cannot let the fact that Bill Pulte is not a household name prevent us from informing the public about the danger posed by his appointment as Director of National Intelligence. This guy has no background in intelligence. He is a thug and a hack who abused his power.

Jon Ossoff: The Senate race in Georgia is the most competitive and crucial in the country. I'm running against two Trump puppet MAGA fanatics who are pro-war, pro tariff, pro cutting your health care, pro Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom, pro slush fund for Jan 6 insurrectionists.

Jon Ossoff: There is no way to regain the Senate majority without winning this Senate race in Georgia. I am the only Democratic senator running for reelection in a state that Donald Trump won... Georgia is a very, very tough battleground state.

The Georgia GOP is corrupt to the core. An independent investigation found that Derek Dooley — the clown running to unseat Jon Ossoff — had family members receive millions in taxpayer-funded state business, then donated $100K+ to Brian Kemp's PAC, which boosted Dooley's Senate campaign.

Katy Tur: 49% of the population uses the word 'corrupt' around Donald Trump. Bill Maher: He has this idea in his head, I'm doing this job, I got to wet my beak a little. Tur: It's not a little. He's pouring the whole swamp on his head. Kevin McCarthy: But Nancy Pelosi...

Kevin McCarthy went on Bill Maher to cry that investigators checked his phone records after January 6. Katy Tur shuts him down: They didn't get the information in your conversations. It was just the calls that were made between you and the White House.

Katy Tur on Trump's $1.8 Billion slush fund: The January 6th rioters are clearly who this is intended for. David Dempsey, who stomped on an officer's head, went on an hour-long rampage. Sentenced to 20 years in prison. Donald Trump pardoned him. And now we're going to pay him?

CNN montage of cabinet members praising Trump with North Korea-level sycophancy.

Brooke Nevils on the disgusting comments Mike Collins posted attacking her husband by invoking her Matt Lauer rape allegation. "Why was there a culture that permitted that kind of behavior? If you want to know why there aren't more women in politics, this is why."

"US Secret Service personnel are on the scene of an officer-Involved shooting at 15th St and Independence Ave in DC. One individual was shot by law enforcement. Their condition is currently unknown." Selina Wang is the ABC News reporter from the viral clip of shots fired by the White House.

This is not the first time... Stephen Colbert also hosted 'Only in Monroe' in July 2015, where he pretended not to know who Eminem was (kept calling him Marshall) and quizzed him on his knowledge of Bob Seger songs.

A day after his show was canceled by CBS, Stephen Colbert guest-hosted 'Only in Monroe,' a local public access show in Monroe, Michigan, along with musical director Jack White.

Jon Ossoff: I am running in Georgia against two Trump lackeys who, as they race for the president's approval, would be voting for this crooked ballroom and this insurrectionist slush fund.

Jon Ossoff: The GOP will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to try to defeat me in the toughest battleground state in the country, and there is no path back to the majority, there is no path back to stopping Donald Trump in the Senate without winning in Georgia.

The Georgia Republican primary is heading into a runoff. Arlette Saenz correctly refers to Lt. Governor Burt Jones as a "fake elector back in 2020." I urge everyone in the media to do this every time you mention his name.

David Axelrod: Here's the problem for Republicans. They can't live in the Republican Party without Donald Trump, and they can't live outside of the Republican Party with Donald Trump because he's an epically unpopular president.

MS NOW calls the race for Ed Gallrein. Michael Steele: What do you think is going to happen in the House now that Massie is no longer obligated to stand with that caucus, now that they've backed getting him out of there? It will be interesting.

Senator Raphael Warnock says he would trade all the great work they did when he first entered Congress for passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

David French: [Trump's] version of a deal is that somebody maybe, possibly says something positive, and then he announces a deal, or he just makes it up entirely. It's the Baghdad Bob administration here... Trump is constantly promoting deals that don't exist. Victories that never happened.

Dan Jones: Someone like Xi clearly thinks of himself as a philosopher emperor. You look at Trump and see more like a kind of deranged Roman emperor. Nero or a Caligula.

David French: Reagan and Gorbachev, Reagan's meeting with a peer and a rival. When Nixon and Brezhnev are meeting, their meeting a peer and a rival. What we're watching here is Trump meeting a peer and a pal. That very unusual, especially out of an autocratic, totalitarian country.

Ben McKenzie: When crypto crashes again, it could take down the entire financial system, and we'll end up bailing these fuckers out again. Bill Maher: Millions of people have lost their shirt. McKenzie: Trumpcoin, down 96%. The top investors got to have dinner with the president.

Ben McKenzie: A crypto company estimated $154 billion of criminal activity was facilitated via cryptocurrency. The largest stablecoin company is called Tether. The broker for Tether is Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick's firm. Tether is the primary instrument for criminal activity in cryptocurrency.

Ben McKenzie: Crypto is only good for two things: gambling and crime. Bill Maher: And bribes. McKenzie: That's the crime... Donald Trump, most of the money that he's made in office is via cryptocurrency.

Bill Maher: 44% of the money that went to the last election from corporations came from crypto sources. That's crazy... what do we expect they're going to get from this? Ben McKenzie: They're getting it right now... legislation that's favorable to the industry.

Kasie Hunt: Did you ever think about asking President Biden for a preemptive pardon? James Comey: Never. I wouldn't have accepted it. Supreme Court said in 1914 that the acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt. And I'm not guilty.

CNN montage of Trump's empty promises. Aug '24: Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down. We will make America affordable again. Sep '24: We're going to get the prices down. Nov '24: I will end inflation. A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper.

John Oliver: If a lower court issues a ruling that Trump doesn't like... he'll now run to the Supreme Court and ask them to rule in his favor on the Shadow Socket. And recently he's been doing that a lot.

"When the Supreme Court allows the president to act in ways contrary to statutes… that is seizing power from Congress. And maybe it is time to start taking a little power back." John Oliver on Shadow Dockets argues that Congress should use its leverage over SCOTUS, including its budget.

John Oliver digs up this incredible clip of Tennessee State Senator London Lamar humiliating Sen. John Stevens for claiming he didn't know Memphis was predominantly black.

Wolf Blitzer recalls a surreal moment from his 2010 trip to North Korea. The foreign minister recognized him from CNN and told him, "You are as powerful as the president of the United States. You have Situation Room, and he has Situation Room."

CNN's first broadcast June 1, 1980, including Ted Turner's speech. "To create a positive force in a world where cynics abound, to provide information to people when it wasn't available before... I dedicate the news channel for America, the Cable News Network."

Obama is so friggin' cool... Stephen Colbert shows him a photo of the tan suit. Colbert: When you look back at the tan suit, what occurs to you? Obama: Fly.

Stephen Colbert: What powers do you believe the president should not have? Barack Obama: The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants. We can't overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system.

From October 2021: "Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has confirmed that in 2014, as a lieutenant, he was a dues-paying member of the Oath Keepers. The acknowledgment comes following a hack of that organization's website."

Extreme Trump sycophant and clown extraordinaire Steve Hilton busts out the MAGA talking point: We should all be interested in ensuring the integrity of our elections and restoring faith in our elections in California.

Kaitlan Collins: You're part of a lawsuit against Sheriff Bianco over his seizure of more than half a million ballots. Do you believe that the sheriff committed a crime? Xavier Becerra: The Sheriff is supposed to enforce the law, in this case Sheriff Bianco violated the law.

Kaitlan Collins: You recently put out a fundraising email with the subject line, 'F Trump', and you went on to say, 'we're going to kick Trump's ass in November.' Will F Trump be your guiding principle in dealing with the president? Katie Porter: If he's going to attack California, yeah, F him.

The California Governor Primary Debate is wild. Antonio Villaraigosa: You're an Oathkeeper. We all know that. Chad Bianco: I'm very proud of it. I don't think you know what an Oathkeeper is. Villaraigosa: I saw them on CNN attacking the Capitol.

Tom Steyer: I do think it's rich to hear someone talk about $3 gas who is owned by Donald Trump, who has driven up the gas price by at least $1.50. And I do think it's rich for somebody who's kicking 1 to 3 million people off Medi-Cal, so that he can lower the taxes on the richest Americans.

Antonio Villaraigosa to Steve Hilton: How can you say that Democrats have it wrong when you can't admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election? Gloves off.

Nicolle Wallace on MTG: The accusation that Trump said to her that if her son was killed she would deserve it is extraordinary. Greg Bluestein: Some see her as a traitor and some still stand by her. Both sides see her as a canary in a coal mine, an early warning system about MAGA turning on itself.

Nick Corasaniti on DOJ demanding names of 2020 election workers: This spans the gamut, from professional election workers to volunteers, people who drove a bus that moved around a mobile voting unit. Just feels like a fishing expedition.

CNN montage of Trump saying he and private donors are going to pay for the ballroom, followed by clips of him lying about the cost: "$250 million... about $300 million... approximately 400 million." Now taxpayers are going to get a bill for $1 billion.

Judicial nominee John George Edward Marck refuses to answer Chris Coons' question whether Trump can run for a third term.

Jimmy Kimmel cooks Trump for his insane late-night posts. "He posted a warning to Iran that said, 'I have all the cards,' and holding a bunch of UNO cards, which is a game you win by having no cards."

Trump's approval rating from Republican-leaning independents is collapsing. Harry Enten: Just 53% of independents who lean Republican now approve of the president... that is a 38-point drop from where he was in the 2024 election.

John Oliver called Georgia Lieutenant Governor candidate Greg Dolezal a "radicalized Frankie Muniz" lmao

Good grief. California GOP presidential candidate Steve Hilton refuses to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

Gavin Newsom: Since I've been governor, no other developed nation has outperformed our economy. No other state has outperformed the economy of the State of California. We're dominating every key industry.

Gavin Newsom: Every day it's a corruption story, the Trump administration, it's meme coins, it's crypto, it's World Liberty Financial. It's the greatest grift we've ever seen in our lifetime.

Gavin Newsom: The day after he talked about a beach photo and an indictment of his enemies. He talked about his Kremlin ballroom. He's not doing anything to try to unite this country The biggest reflection of this moment is the sewer that we're living in because of Donald Trump.

Bill Maher: We're not here to talk about politics. Gavin Newsom: What do you want to talk about? Maher: Your book. Newsom: I forgot, this is a book tour! Maher: How is the book affecting your campaign for president?

Jon Ossoff: Total Pentagon spending was about $1 trillion. Next year, the president has proposed increasing it to $1.5 trillion from one year to the next, paid for by effectively ending LIHEAP. The priorities are all out of whack here.

Damn, Nancy Mace uses part of her time during Pete Hegseth's testimony to expose Cory Mills.

The most unhinged part of the Georgia GOP Secretary of State debate was probably Ted Metz claiming that the 2020 election was certified under a Canadian law. 🥴

Highlights from the Georgia GOP Secretary of State debate. 90% was about election fraud. Jones: I stand with those who believe there was election fraud. Metz: Our election systems are hackable. King: 2020 is still in question. Sterling: They want to let illegal aliens get onto the rolls.

Jimmy Kimmel plays this incredible CNN clip. Brian Stelter: The administration is calling out Kimmel, trying to pressure ABC, but they're being careful not to explicitly demand that ABC punish him. Boris Sanchez: The president actually put out a note demanding that Jimmy Kimmel be fired by ABC.

Jimmy Kimmel: It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.

John Oliver highlights that Kevin Warsh failed Elizabeth Warren's 'independence test' when asked if Trump lost the 2020 election, reinforcing concerns that the Fed Chair could be easily influenced. Then brings back Senator John Kennedy's cringiest line ever uttered by an elected official.

"The sure-fire sign that someone hasn't been drinking; Sudden, uncontrolled belligerence." — John Oliver roasts Kash Patel for his insane response when asked if he was ever drunk on the job.

60 Minutes did a piece on former Senator Ben Sasse, who stood up to Trump after January 6: Personality cults aren't conservative. Conspiracy theories aren't conservative. Lying that an election has been stolen? It's not conservative. Acting like politics is a religion. It isn't conservative.

Norah O'Donnell: He had a lot of anti-Christian rhetoric. He was part of a group called the Wide Awake. He had attended a No Kings protest in California. Trump: I'm not a king. If I was a king, I wouldn't be dealing with you.

Donald Trump: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. Norah O'Donnell: Oh, you think you think he was referring to you? Trump: I'm not a pedophile.

Trump tells 60 Minutes' Norah O'Donnell that Secret Service told him to get down on the ground, but it's clear from the video that he fell. He can't help but lie about everything.

The entire Georgia GOP US Senate debate in 20 seconds.

Buddy Carter used his closing statement to say Mike Collins is under federal investigation, mentioned Jon Ossoff (again), tells people to vote for him because he's on Fox News "with Scott Jennings fighting democrats" (LMAO), and stops short of begging Trump to endorse him. Total freak show.

Mike Collins: "I campaigned on President Trump's policies." - Most unpopular president in decades - Failed tariffs that caused market uncertainty - Attempt to end birthright citizenship - From "no new wars" to Iran war - Negative job growth - Ongoing ethics and insider trading scrutiny

Mike Collins says he supports banning members of Congress from trading stocks, but he's reported 40+ total trades and hundreds of thousands in volume since taking office.

Wild: Mike Collins admits he doesn't look at everything his account posts on X.

Derek Dooley, whose wife is an OBGYN, refuses to answer whether he supports Georgia's six-week abortion ban: "That's not the way I would've written it."

Tia Mitchell: You represent the town of Social Circle, where the federal government had initially planned to open an ICE detention center. Do you think the mostly Republican leaders in that town were justified in cutting resources to open that center? Mike Collins blames Jon Ossoff and Joe Biden.

Mike Collins and Buddy Carter are going at it. Carter: We all know you're under federal investigation by your own Republican colleagues for misuse of taxpayer funds. If taxpayers can't trust, how can they trust you to be a US Senator? Collins: If you want a conservative, he's not your Buddy.

Buddy Carter supports Georgia's 'Heartbeat Bill,' which caused Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old Georgia mother, to die from treatable septic shock after a 20-hour hospital delay.

Q: You introduced legislation called the Red, White, and Blue Land Bill, renaming Greenland. What would you say to those people, and especially those who are concerned when we're dealing with an affordability crisis here in the state of Georgia? Buddy Carter: Word salad.

Fox News abruptly cut off Aishah Hasnie as she said she was told "to be safe" by Karoline Leavitt's husband moments before the WHCD shooting.