BONER CANDIDATE #1: OKAY. WHEN I SAY CHRIS STEWART IS DUMB, HOW CAN SOMEONE TELL ME, “NO, HE’S REALLY SMART”?
Rep. Chris Stewart told Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman on Tuesday that he was wrong to equate President Donald Trump’s request for “a favor” from a foreign power with an “order” or demand. “It’s nonsense. Look, I was in the military,” said Stewart, who retired from the Air Force as a major. “I could distinguish between a favor and an order and a demand, and so could my subordinates.” Stewart, a Utah Republican who has joined his GOP colleagues in attempting to peel apart the testimony of Vindman and other witnesses in the House impeachment inquiry, said Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have both said they understood Trump asking for a“favor” in a July phone call was a simple request, not a demand. “He never initiated an investigation,” Stewart said of the Ukrainian president. “In fact, he’s been very clear: He said I never felt any pressure at all. So you interpreted the word ‘favor,’ but the two people who were speaking to each other did not interpret that as a demand. That was your interpretation.” Read More
BONER CANDIDATE #2: F— THESE PEOPLE. F— ‘EM.
An Ohio dad who placed a half dozen signs around his local mall about his son RJ’s birth disorders and how others could help by donating got a cruel response. The next week, placed under several of those signs was another one with a very different message: “Let the baby die.” “It shocked me,” KC Ahlers, RJ’s father, told WTVG-TV. “I mean, it really shocked me that somebody would have that kind of cruelty.” Four-month-old RJ has two birth disorders; Agenesis of the corpus callosum, which affects brain development, and Trisomy 9 Mosaic Syndrome, a chromosomal disorder, according to a GoFundMe page. Read More
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