Liveblog - ICYMI: April 19, 2023

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Updates:

Congress:

🤡The CloWN HoUSe Holds a Hearing🤡:

MT-G Told to Sit Down and STFU:

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday was blocked from further participation in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing after she broke House rules by calling Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar” while questioning him on the Biden administration’s border policies.

Ms Greene, a conspiracy theorist who was assigned to the prestigious committee after supporting California’s Kevin McCarthy in his bid to become House Speaker, began her allotted five minutes by slandering Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell and accusing him of having had “a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy”.

Her Fee Fees are Bigly Bruised:

More Asshattery:

The Grown-Ups Take Control:

Sports:

The Worst and Stupidest People in the World:

Craven Assholes:

Idaho Republicans Auction ‘Trigger Time’ With Kyle Rittenhouse

Kyle Rittenhouse became a GOP celebrity when he got away with killing two unarmed protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, almost three years ago.

But the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee in Idaho sunk to a ghoulish new low this weekend with a fundraiser that underscored the right’s sickening obsession with firearms.

“TRIGGER TIME WITH KYLE RITTENHOUSE,” read the committee’s online promotion for an opportunity to blaze away with the baby-faced killer.

Red-State Voters Give Democrats Tester, Manchin Opposite Marks Ahead of 2024

Montana’s Jon Tester is one of America’s most popular senators; West Virginia’s Joe Manchin is one of the most unpopular

Other News:

State News:

Hot tubs, popcorn cart and wildebeest found after $340K in Ohio public funds go missing

A former Vinton Township fiscal officer has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison and ordered to repay almost $340,000 which he stole from his office and used in part to purchase a wildebeest, owls, hot tubs, a drum set, a gazebo and a snow cone machine.

According to the Ohio Auditor of State, Cyril “Cy” Vierstra, of Wilkesville, stole $339,717.86 in public funds from operations of Vinton Township to buy several exotic animals, and numerous items for his own personal use or for a primate exhibit at his roadside zoo on Huston Road, near the Vinton Furnace State Forest.

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