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Ant then.....THERE WAS ONLY ONE!
Donald Trump's last soldier: We speak to only supporter left ranting outside court with huge pink flag
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/donald-trumps-last-soldier-speak-466561
The link!!!
Anyone watching Lawrence? His righteous rant about Hope Hicks crying is a must see
Basically, I don’t care why she was crying. She didn’t cry for the kids he put in cages. She didn’t cry for all the women who lost bodily autonomy. She didn’t cry about 10 yr old girls getting raped and having to flee their state. There was more, so much more. He even called out how reporters treated her with kid gloves, even hugging and kissing her at press events.
Hopefully someone will post it.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-you-get-monsters-like-donald-trump-thanks-to-people-like-hope-hicks-210249285691
Jonathan Karl
I cracked up when Lawrence showed that geek reporter kissing her in the press room.
Trump Trial Week Two: Still Sleepy, Still Cold, Still a Rapist
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
https://showercapblog.com/trump-trial-week-two-still-sleepy-still-cold-still-a-rapist/
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal | 0 comments
At the risk of repeating myself, adjudicated rapist/GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump spent the week napping through his felony trial, though rumors of farting in his sleep are just rumors and democracy dies in darkness so we must assume he is only napping and not necessarily farting the important thing is that he’s COLD.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4623680-trump-courthouse-kept-cold-on-purpose/
Him is a sweepy, chiwwy wapist. Poow wapist. Poow authowotawian wapi-okay, I’ll stop.
The point is, we’re dealing with not just a known rapist but a wannabe autocrat. (I confess I am leaning Biden at this point.)
Time Magazine took us on a harrowing, Apocalypse Now But With Cheap Bronzer expedition through the eighty-eight remaining brittle neurons that constitute the Dotard’s almost visibly deteriorating brain, and what conclusion could you possibly draw but…the horror?
The closest thing to a coherent ideology amounts, more or less, to “whatever the weirdos who show up to the rallies want so long as I stay out of prison and also nobody ever gets to tell me no and Daddy finally admits I’m not a loser and maybe says I love you just once real quiet nobody else would have to hear or anything.”
Turns out, during those long courtroom naps, the sloppy old fop’s been dreaming of deploying the military to conduct mass deportations. Of detention camps. Of granting Christofascist wet dreams like allowing the state to monitor pregnancies in case any of those uppity sluts/whores/jezebels get to thinkin’ they possess some sort of inalienable right to bodily autonomy or somethin’.
This power, and more besides, must be granted to a man whose body is no longer capable of executing basic commands like Pronounce the Word “Infrastructure,” even with all the extra rest he’s been getting. He requires absolute legal immunity, partly for the fascism, but mainly for what he’s got planned if he ever gets those tiny, inadequate hands on whoever’s responsible for the thermostat in that courtroom.
At any rate, the sleep-farting God Emperor requires nine thousand more of your dollars, rubes, to pay the fines accrued for pathologically violating that gag order. You don’t even get an NFT this time, just the thrill of participating in a cornered thug’s latest attempt at witness intimidation.
Oh, and if anybody knows of a good accounting firm, the one Trump Social was using just got charged with fraud. Or a good lawyer, all of his are either attempting to withdraw, facing disbarment, or testifying against him while he naps.
Spinning off from the smash hit porn star hush money trial, Nobody Liked Michael Cohen debuts on C-SPAN this July. According to the press release, it’s “a zany political thriller/comedy of errors, depicting a sordid criminal conspiracy perpetrated by an immense cast of malicious galoots, seen through the eyes of the guy who somehow managed to be the biggest scumbag in the room.”
I guess Hope Hicks got sad on the stand because her boss committed so many crimes in front of her. It was always gonna end up in either the courtroom, or a thousand-year Reich, Hope, and since we’re talking about a guy who bankrupted a casino, well…
Sipping a room temperature Capri Sun, Bill Barr couldn’t repress a fond chuckle, reminiscing upon those heady days when Off-Brand Orbán would stumble about, hopped up on an Adderall/hydroxycholorquine cocktail West Wing staffers took to calling “Rudy’s hair dye,” ordering the executions of whoever had bruised his fragile ego last. Well I certainly understand why you’d endorse such a fine, upstanding fellow for President, Bill.
The puppy execution scandal roiling the Republican veepstakes finally filled the schadenfreude void that opened when Ron DeSantis slunk back to Florida. God bless Kristi Noem. Bless her dented, leaking brain, and the decisions she makes with it.
She truly believed this tale of puppicide would launch her national political career, leading perhaps all the way to the White House. And I get the thought process, frankly. The cruelty, as wiser folk have observed, is the whole dang point. Republican voters want cruel candidates. Candidates who will harm their percieved enemies. Candidates who would execute their smug libtard neighbors’ pets, perhaps, but not their own.
Still, the Cricket Had it Comin’ media tour has been can’t-miss comedy. I fancy myself a joke writer, but no man-made gag can compare with the natural beauty of this magnificent flameout colliding with Kimberly Guilfoyle’s promotional tour, for her children’s book…about a dog. That’s just God showing off.
“Hey, maybe it was a plot by deep state editors to make people THINK Kristi Noem executed a puppy when she really didn’t,” mused Kimberly Freaking Guilfoyle of All People, as Noem frantically concocted ever wilder tales to justify her crime.
The dog was putting rainbow fentanyl in the children’s Halloween bags, you see. Anyway, the whole thing was staged, in front of Kim Jong-un, to intimidate him into never fucking with America cuz we’re all puppy-killing psychos, and looking around, I think you have to admit it worked. Kristi’s the whole reason you’re not speaking North Korean right now. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/noem-backpedals-anecdote-book-meeting-kim-jong/story?id=109909803
I hear Paul Gosar is kinda fiddling with a story about this dentist that offs beagles with novocaine, but he’s not sure if it’s a novella or a podcast yet.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers came together as the Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus, proposing billions to fund an Underground Railroad-like endeavor to evacuate all canine life from both Dakotas just to be safe, sorry Doug Bugman or whatever your name is. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/02/noem-dog-caucus-congress-00155721
Even Willard got his weekly one-liner in. Could pointing and laughing at Kristi Noem unify our broken nation? We need to be asking ourselves these tough questions, friends.
Here’s another one:
When Ron DeSantis bends the knee, are there like, lifts in the knee pads?
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ron-desantis-trump-florida-meeting-rcna149785
I think Marjorie Taylor Greene liked things better when the Speaker of the House slept curled up inside a matchbox she kept in her bedside table. Now she’s all mad the uniparty vetoed her plan to replace the Whatchamacallits in the Capitol rotunda vending machines with individually wrapped bologna slices, so she called a press conference, alongside the guy Jacob Wohl said was banging Elizabeth Warren, a pet rock allegedly containing JFK Jr.’s soul, and Thomas Massie, to announce plans to waste a little more of everyone’s time next week. No wonder she’s making so many friends. https://www.thedailybeast.com/mtg-says-shell-force-doomed-vote-to-oust-mike-johnson-next-week
I guess Kevin McCarthy finally found a champion to defend his honor in the arena against Matt Gaetz, or at least to primary the little creep. I know we’re focused on Ukraine right now, but I’d hate to see this particular circular firing squad die down for lack of ammunition. If nothing else, somebody toss these two a single, rusty fork.
Seems Texas Congresscreep Troy Nehls may’ve stolen an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bit of valor. Gosh, and he seemed so honorable. Except for that time he got fired from that police department for “20 violations in just over a year, including destroying evidence, making an improper arrest and disobeying orders,” of course. Oh, and that time he participated in that plot to overturn that one presidential election.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/troy-nehls-bronze-star-combat-infantryman-badge/
Arizona Republicans selected a freshly indicted fake elector and a QAnon-spewing former state representative who was expelled from office for ethics violations to represent them on the RNC, where they will play tambourine and go-go dance in Lara Trump’s blasphemous Tom Petty cover band, while also attempting to end democracy in the United States. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/politics/jake-hoffman-indicted-fake-elector-arizona-gop-rnc/index.html
Vivek Ramaswamy says the Founding Fathers are waiting in the afterlife to judge us, and I’m not gonna lie, that sounds kinda hot. Suddenly overwhelmed by the urge to get somebody to handcuff me to the bed, put on a powdered wig, and read me Thomas Paine till I beg for mercy.
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1784607039567651213?s=61
Speaking of politically themed sex acts, I just read the headline “J.D. Vance Goes Full Memory Hole With Claim About Mike Pence On Jan. 6,” which conjured an image that’d make Hieronymus Bosch slap me. Regardless, as one of the GOP’s most craven Trump enablers, Vance doesn’t deserve to get “memory holed,” whatever that may entail, ever, even if he pays for it. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-donald-trump-mike-pence_n_66335cace4b0849b2ede59e3
According to the Wall Street Journal, the culture on RFK Jr.’s potentially world-wrecking spoiler campaign runs a little on the “cultlike” side. I refuse to believe it. The blithering anti-vax kook attracted a small army of malcontents with emotional problems? Gosh, I thought I knew a thing or two about human nature, but…I’m gonna have to really rethink some stuff, y’know? “Cultlike.” Golly. https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/rfk-junior-campaign-staff-cb17cf42
Mega-smart super-genius Elon Musk finally reversed the historic failure of his disastrous acquisition of Twitter; turns out all the joint needed was one more yapping Nazi incel, and now that Nick Fuentes has his platform back, it’s literally raining money. I’ll leave you to the long line of advertisers begging to be taken back, Mr. Genius, sir.
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/03/elon-musk-nick-fuentes-x-account
Young Nick’s getting normalized all over the place these days, if his boasts about infiltrating Charlie Kirk’s brownshirt bureaucrat temp agency are to be believed. You know, it might be a good idea to keep the American Right away from the levers of power for a spell.
Actually…y’know what? I’m finally convinced. Longtime readers would characterize this blog as staunchly anti-Trump, but somewhere around the eighth or ninth time he waddled out to whine about the temperature, I finally saw a personality worth building a cult around. It’s suddenly so clear to me: IT’S TOO COLD. Only by warming this one specific rapist can we hope to restore American greatness.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-cold-court-jimmy-fallon_n_6630be85e4b0c9bc8758ca27
And if I’m gonna go MAGA, I’m gonna need EVEN MORE BEER, to kill off all those brain cells.
I don't have a link yet but Lawrence O'Donnell is totally destroying Hope Hicks. Lawrence is my absolute favorite.
I wonder if it's planned for indoors or outdoors?
Doubtful he'd see anymore excused absences if he violates a 'for expressed purposes' absence.
He can just sleep through it.
I think sitting through a boring HS graduation would blow up his brain. What will the valedictorian talk about?
Does he dare not show up after all the fuss he made? I'm sure he doesn't want to, but..........
What are the chances he doesn't show up? Both Melly and Barron appear to hate him.
Let us know if it gets picked. Short and sweet......right to the point! #DementedAndDeluded 🥰
MeidasTouch is looking for help with naming one of their billboards. It's going to be a dementia one. 7 words or less. My contribution was
TRUMP
DEMENTED AND DELUDED
I know and- other than being totally repulsive, I don't know one guy who would agree with that even if he IS a cultist.
Michael Ian Black: Here’s the Speech Trump Should Give at Barron’s Graduation
VERY STABLE GENIUS
The 45th president has the opportunity to lay his unique brand of wisdom on his son’s graduating high school class.
Michael Ian Black
Updated May 01, 2024 4:28PM EDT Published May 01, 2024 4:46AM EDT
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty
Now that Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that the World’s #1 Dad, Donald Trump, is permitted to skip a day of his criminal trial to attend his youngest son Barron’s high school graduation, I thought it might be a nice idea for a professional writer to prepare some remarks for the former president to deliver to the graduates. Just a few words of life advice from an old man who has seen and done it all.
And, because I’m a generous spirit, I decided to take up the assignment myself.
I’ll set the scene. As the high school band performs a stirring rendition of The Village People’s “YMCA,” President 45 strides onto stage, perhaps performing his “I’m flossing the space between my ears” dance. Magic.
Then, the speech:
“To the wonderful students of this very expensive private school whose name I do not know, congratulations. Today is the day all of your hard work pays off as we celebrate your incredible achievement. Not as incredible as being elected President of the United States twice, the way I was, but incredible nonetheless.
Your incredible administrators came to me with tears in their eyes to ask if I would deliver a few words of advice as you begin the next chapter of your lives. Perhaps you will attend one of our corrupt universities or join the military to serve this great country of ours, although I have to tell you, some of the dumbest people I ever met in my life were generals. John Kelly, what a disaster. That’s why we need tough generals like the great Mike Flynn who was treated so unfairly by the failing New York Times.
My first piece of advice would be to have me as your father. (Hold for laughter and applause.) Barron knows that better than anybody. Stand up, Barron. Look at the size of that kid. Tallest presidential son in history, they tell me. Even Honest Abe didn’t have kids that tall. Taller even than James Comey, who I had to fire like a dog.
You’ve got to be loyal, kids. Loyalty is everything, isn’t that right, darling? (Turn to Melania.) Our beautiful First Lady is here. No other First Lady in our nation’s history has a figure like hers.
Stand up, Melania. Spin around. Look at that figure, just gorgeous. Can you imagine Ted Cruz’s ugly wife doing that? Not a chance. Sit down, darling, and try to put a smile on your face. Thank you darling. Be best.
Back to the advice. Find yourself a good lawyer. I mean a killer. Preferably Jewish, but not like Michael Cohen even though I did more for his people than just about anybody in history, except Moses. And some very smart people think I did even more than him.
Here’s a piece of advice nobody else will tell you—no email. You can still do the Tik Tok. I know kids love the Tik Tok even though Sleepy Joe wants to ban it. Terrible.
But the email is no good. Even when you erase an email, they tell me it’s still out there on “The Cloud.” Do you know what that is? I call it “The Cloud.” Everything you ever write on the computer lives up there forever. Well, if you don’t have anything up there, guess what?
We call that “plausible deniability,” folks.
As my great friend Roy Cohn once said, “Deny, deny, deny.” You don’t even have to know what you’re denying. You weren’t there, you don’t know about it, it’s somebody else’s fault.
You are the future leaders of this great nation which won’t be a nation much longer if I don’t win the White House.
It’s true. If I don’t win the White House in November, most of you will be dead within six months. My wonderful family will be safe but the rest of you will be on the streets killing each other for half a Chicken McNugget and a thimbleful of gasoline.
We love our Chicken McNuggets, don’t we, folks?
So sad.
(Leaving some space here for the former president to ramble incoherently for 90-100 minutes before wrapping up.)
In conclusion, great job.
I hope all of you go out there and make a tremendous fortune. And when you do, I hope you remember that it was your favorite president who cut your taxes. It was me, your favorite president, who saved this nation from pronouns. It was me, your favorite president, who created the greatest vaccine this nation ever produced in the shortest amount of time ever which I am hoping none of you took because it’s poison.
Thank you very much and God bless America.”
At this point, 45 picks up the stack of diplomas and throws them into the audience the way he did with paper towels to the victims of the hurricane in Puerto Rico as people salute, applaud, and—almost certainly—vomit.
I've never seen this clip before. The MAGAts just throw the American flag on the ground.
Hey Jim Jordan, He Lauren Boebert,
— J Blue (@BlueGirl714) May 2, 2024
WHY THE SILENCE ABOUT THIS? https://t.co/v9IJDrnHBT
I Sh¡t You Not... MAGA Embraces The Slogan "Real Men Wear Diapers"
“Real men wear diapers”, but -
— @nancyann at other “places”. (@nancy_annn) May 2, 2024
It’s not a cult. It’s not a cult. https://t.co/LgVXbxXjAK
Exactly!
John Oberlin
How Karma works.
Dr. David A. Lustig
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Your reminder that Fartacus, Don Snorleone, and Donald VonShitzenpants are all the same person— and no one enjoys demeaning nicknames more than he does.
Mark Meadows unmasked in Arizona fake electors indictment, faces 9 felony charges: Report
Source: Law & Crime
Charges have formally been made public against Mark Meadows, the onetime chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, in the expansive fake electors case now underway in Arizona.
Trump is not charged in Arizona but is considered an unindicted co-conspirator.
As Law&Crime recently reported, 18 fake electors in the state were indicted by a grand jury on April 24 for their alleged efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. Though several Republicans were named directly in the fraud and forgery indictment including, among others, leaders of the state’s Republican party and two incumbent state lawmakers, some of those charged had their identities redacted, including Meadows and Trump’s former attorney also facing indictment in Georgia, Rudy Giuliani.
F0rmal charges have still not been confirmed for Giuliani in Arizona. The Associated Press reported first on Wednesday that the state’s attorney’s general office confirmed Meadows was being charged with nine felony counts and has been served. An attorney for Meadows did not immediately respond to a request for comment to Law&Crime on Friday.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/mark-meadows-unmasked-in-arizona-fake-electors-indictment-faces-9-felony-charges-report/
His and others' names were redacted in the original announcement last week but were confirmed Wednesday for those who were successfully served.
How is this guy still alive?
Shortly into Hope Hicks’ testimony, 45 nodded off, probably fantasizing about her.
— Rubicon (@Rubicon1313) May 3, 2024
His “Beautiful Blue Eyes” are closing; overweight giant Lizard with blue eyes… pic.twitter.com/gBOuKLJq6G
I thought sure she was going to say her dog bit him so.....
@NoLieWithBTC
New: Kristi Noem has just been caught in a massive lie. She claimed in her book that she “stared” down Kim Jong Un when she “met” him.
Now her spokesperson just admitted Noem has never met Kim Jong Un.
Me too......
Well?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218917514
There are 17 gop states suing the federal government over the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The act protects access to very basic things, among which are:
— Miranda (@DoomScroling) May 2, 2024
- bathroom breaks
- access to water
- being able to sit or stand as needed
- allowing for lactation
So let's be clear, in… pic.twitter.com/IYVmtbvDNT
Hope Hicks witnessed nearly every Trump scandal. Now she must testify.
Friends say the former aide and Trump have not spoken since she testified to Congress about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, but the two continue to have fondness for each other
https://wapo.st/4a2hvH6
Trump Media’s accounting firm charged with ‘massive fraud’
BF Borgers, Trump Media & Technology Group’s independent accounting firm, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday with widespread fraud impacting more than 1,500 filings.
The SEC made no allegation of wrongdoing against Trump Media, which is not mentioned in the charges from the regulator.
The SEC accused BF Borgers of “deliberate and systemic failures,” including “fabricating” audit documentation and falsely representing to clients its work would comply with accounting standards. The agency described this as “massive” fraud taking place between January 2021 and June 2023.
Trump Media currently lists BF Borgers as its independent auditor. According to filings, Borgers served as Trump Media’s independent registered accounting firm before it went public in March. Later in March, the audit committee of Trump Media approved the hiring of Borgers as the public company’s accounting firm.
Although Trump Media may be the highest profile client of BF Borgers, the firm had 350 clients during this time period subject to SEC rules, according to the agency.
The SEC review only focused on public companies, meaning BF Borgers’ work for Trump Media when it was private was not included.
Neither Trump Media nor BF Borgers responded to requests for comment.
The SEC said in the press release that to settle the charges, BF Borges agreed to pay a $12 million civil penalty and its owner Benjamin Borgers agreed to pay a $2 million penalty.
Michael Cohen’s Mean Nickname For Trump | Noem Defends Killing Her Puppy | Boeing Sends A Message
Mike Huckabee’s son hanged a dog. Sarah Palin’s son stood on one. Tomi Lahren kicks hers. Mitt Romney drove with his on the roof of his car. Ted Cruz abandoned his. Kristi Noem shot hers. In conclusion, Republicans are a bunch of dog-hating sociopaths.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 2, 2024
Fox and Trump are very mad about Donald VonShitzenpants being entered into the court record.
Please stop referring to him as Donald VonShitzenpants. It makes Donald VonShitzenpants very upset. Be cool, everyone. Stop using Donald VonShitzenpants.
Ingraham is not happy with CNN using a certain Trump nickname today pic.twitter.com/iOLnx6S4k7
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 2, 2024
SleepBoy
Courtroom sketch artist 🎨 Jane Rosenberg became the 1st artist in history to paint a portrait of a sleeping President or ex-President, and the first artist to paint a criminal defendant sleeping during jury selection - Lawrence O'Donnell 4/16/24 pic.twitter.com/fDB2l33Djb
— Rick Tasker (@RickTasker) April 17, 2024
I Hate To Harsh Anyone's Mellow, But Justice Amy Coney Barrett Is Not Some Kind Of Hero
I'm thinking in particular of The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus, who sees some hope in Barrett's brief walk-on role as Not Insane Person in the dramas of the moment.
By Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: MAY 02, 2024 5:03 PM EDT
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60674203/amy-coney-barrett-abortion-ruling/
Alex Wong//Getty Images
Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post, onetime scourge of teenaged potty-mouths—I kid! I kid!—is the latest smart person to go digging for the pony in the current carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Marcus seems impressed by some mavericky impulses out of Justice Amy Coney Barrett who, to be entirely fair, does not seem to be as much of a wild-eyed fanatic as Justice Sam Alito, as much of a conservative apparatchik as Justice Neil Gorsuch, as much of a vengeful sublet as Justice Clarence Thomas, as much of a lab-grown wingnut as Justice Brett Kavanaugh, or as much of a predictable irrelevance as Chief Justice John Roberts. That's all of them, I think.
Anyway, Marcus sees some hope in Barrett's brief walk-on role as Not Insane Person in the dramas of the moment.
Still, benchmarking Barrett against her conservative colleagues — and against expectations at the time she was confirmed — she has been what passes for a pleasant surprise since being named to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020. Barrett’s long-standing ties to a conservative Catholic group, People of Praise, raised warnings that she would be an eager handmaid to the conservative male majority; in reality, Barrett has been no submissive pushover. And despite academic writings that suggested Barrett would not hesitate to overturn constitutional law precedents with which she disagreed, her judicial opinions have shown her to be more cautious technocrat than ideological fence-swinger.
I don't mean to harsh anyone's mellow but, at the moment, Florida is living through an example of Barrett's "hesitation" to overturn one particular constitutional law precedent. From Politico:
Florida’s six-week abortion ban went into effect Wednesday, making the procedure nearly impossible to access for many would-be patients throughout most of the southern United States. Women from Florida to Texas are cut off from obtaining abortions either entirely or beyond the very beginning stages of pregnancy — unless they have the time and means to travel across states to a place where appointments are available, an option many women will not have.
The shift away from abortion access in Florida opens a new phase in the post-Roe v. Wade world, with severe new limitations on abortion in place across a vast and unbroken stretch of the country. The new landscape further limits access to care for women and is guaranteed to strain reproductive health care services in nearby states that still allow for broad access to the procedure.
Leaving aside for the moment the clear fact that Barrett played hide-and-seek with the truth in her accelerated confirmation hearings as deftly as her brethren did, she is as responsible as the rest of them for the consequences of the Dobbs decision. Every woman who has suffered since that decision is on Barrett's tab as much as she is on Alito's. Any woman who dies as a result of complications that could've been avoided with a therapeutic abortion goes on her side of the ledger as starkly as it's written in Kavanaugh's. That's not moderation. That's accessorial conduct, and history is going to arraign her for it as surely as it's going to arraign the other members of the carefully manufactured conservative majority.
Marcus also cites, as a number of observers have, Barrett's performance during the oral arguments in the presidential immunity case.
In the immunity case, Barrett tag-teamed with Justice Elena Kagan to obtain potentially significant concessions from Trump attorney D. John Sauer about actions Trump took as president that Sauer acknowledged could still be prosecuted because they constituted private acts. Barrett expressed incredulity at Sauer’s claim that the constitutional remedy of impeachment means that a president can only be criminally convicted if he is first impeached and removed from office.
“There are many other people who are subject to impeachment, including the nine sitting on this bench, and I don’t think anyone has ever suggested that impeachment would have to be the gateway to criminal prosecution for any of the many other officers subject to impeachment,” Barrett said. “So why is the president different when the impeachment clause doesn’t say so?”
All these wise heads miss the entire point. The Supreme Court never should have taken this nonsense case in the first place. Barrett had no apparent problem with the order that granted certiorari back in February, nor with the four-month delay in hearing the case.
The whole point of taking the case on at all arguably was to delay the actual trial until after the November election. Barrett's vaunted middle position also added to the delay and if, as expected, the Court devises some phony procedure to distinguish between "official" and "private" presidential actions, Barrett is the one who gave them the running room to do so. Hope is a thing with feathers. Alas, so is a vulture.
Gawd i hope you are right , this whole thing is so freaking insane
He's losing. He knows he's going to lose and his internal polling shows it. No one is protesting for him in NY and this won't be 1/6. All the insurrectionists are already in prison.
Add it to unintended consequences for Russia, like the 800 mile border with new NATO member Finland.
Too bad a viable candidate can't run against Putin on the platform 'is Russia better off now than it was in pre-Ukraine invasion Russia?' Shoot a TV ad in front of a cemetery with voice overs from the mothers of dead Russian soldiers.
Mfer nailed
(One of few times that agree with ClayDick)
Pro Palestine protester tries to record and shame a Jewish University of Michigan student. It doesn’t go well for her. Bravo to him: pic.twitter.com/IVWaSrHLII
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 2, 2024
How cool is this
One of the many impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a rejuvenation and expansion of the U.S. military supply chain - not exactly a strategic win for Putin. https://t.co/DU3b8K4Xtw
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 2, 2024
Yvette Wang, former chief of staff for Miles Guo and his codefendant in the $billion criminal fraud and racketeering case is changing her plea to guilty ahead of their trial, starting in three weeks. Prosecutors have listed Steve Bannon, who was advisor for Miles Guo, as a "co-conspirator" in the case.
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BREAKING: LTG (Ret) Mike Flynn says he received “eight subpoenas last night” 🚨👀#ArrestMikeFlynn pic.twitter.com/b2Ehh0vtju
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) May 2, 2024
Fenton allegedly got approval from leaders at Abide in the Vine Church to "betroth" the girl to him "with an understanding that no sexual activity would occur."https://t.co/Vg6MhTTxqt pic.twitter.com/U0dgHqrvp7
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) May 2, 2024
Summary of Trump Contempt Hearing
Hearing held this morning on 4 new violations.
Ron FilipkowskiUpdated:1 hour agoOriginal:1 hour ago
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/summary-of-trump-contempt-hearing
Judge Merchan conducted a hearing for the second time for alleged violations by Trump of his gag order. Just like he did after the first hearing, he reserved ruling to issue an order later.
At the last contempt hearing, Merchan warned Trump that further violations could result in jail time. However, these most recent violations were committed before that warning was issued.
There were 4 new violations. The first was when Trump left court after the last hearing on the gag order and attacked Michael Cohen. The second is when he gave an interview where he claimed that the jury was 95% Democrats. The third was when he again attacked Cohen in an interview with a local TV station in Pennsylvania. The fourth was when he praised David Pecker in the middle of his testimony.
Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche argued that Trump's statements were political in nature and he was responding to attacks that against him that hurt him politically. He said that there have been "multiple and repeated attacks" against him from Cohen and he has a right to respond.
He also noted Biden's comment that Trump "had a few tough days" lately because of "stormy weather," and said that Biden was mocking him with a reference to Stormy Daniels. Merchan immediately interrupted and said that Trump was free to respond to Biden and that the subject of this hearing was not about that it was about him attacking witnesses.
Blanche also argued that Trump's comment about Pecker was simply him saying nice things about an old friend, and wasn't code to encourage him to testify in his favor. Merchan interjected to say that he had already expressed his concerns about Michael Cohen continuing to make negative comments about Trump in the media, which might negate some of Trump's violations against him if they were simply in response.
When Blanche echoed one of Trump's common complaints that witnesses and other people can talk about him but he can't respond, Merchan noted that they are not under a gag order because of their previous conduct and they are not the defendant in this case. Merchan then noted that Trump is not responding to reporters questions when he attacks the witnesses - he is seeking them out and going out of his way to make the disparaging comments.
Blanche then readdressed the statement about Pecker, and Merchan interrupted to note that he didn't really see a violation in that statement so he should just move on.
Blanche then complained about several of Cohen's social media posts about Trump, including one where he said that he wouldn't put any money in his prison commissary and one where he referred to Trump as "Vonshitzenpants," which resulted in laugher from the audience in the courtroom. He then argued that Cohen is going on TikTok every night disparaging Trump and making money off it. He closed by saying, "This is not a man who needs protection from a gag order."
Merchan then wanted Blanche to focus his arguments on the violation about the jury that he seemed most concerned about. Blanche argued that since Trump was talking about the jury as a whole instead of one particular juror, then it isn't a violation. Merchan seemed incredulous at that argument.
He then took a brief recess and will issue an order later.
Not surprised
Breaking:
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 2, 2024
Trump just refused to commit to accepting the results of Wisconsin's presidential election in November if he doesn't win and again lied that he won the state in 2020.
Trump also repeated similar language to what he said around Jan. 6: "If everything's honest, I'd…
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Gunning for Mike Johnson
She announced plans to call a vote to oust the Speaker of the House next week.
By Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: MAY 01, 2024 2:19 PM EDT
reps greene and massie press conference on house speakership
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“The beauty parlor is full of sailors / The circus is in town.” — Bob Dylan
You didn’t think she was going away quietly, did you? From The Washington Post:
Standing alongside Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who also supports removing Johnson, Greene announced during a morning news conference that she is formally bringing up her motion next week. She intends to act under special rules forcing the House to vote on the motion within two full legislative days.
Republican leadership will then decide when to bring up the vote once Greene triggers it. “Mike Johnson is not capable of that job. He has proven it over and over again,” Greene said, adding that she wants to see lawmakers vote on the record. “Now we have [Democratic leader] Hakeem Jeffries coming out over and over again, embracing Mike Johnson with a warm hug and a big wet sloppy kiss.…They want to keep the band together.
“Everybody needs a weekend to prepare. I’m not irresponsible. I care about my conference. I have been measured. I have given this time. I have been giving warning after warning,” Greene said. “It was a warning to stop serving the Democrats and support our Republican conference and support our agenda. And [Johnson] didn’t do it.”
Of course, Johnson and the rest of the Republican squishes had to know this was coming. Greene has no skills applicable to the job of making the laws, or any apparent desire to acquire them. Now, we know that minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has committed the Democratic caucus to the defense of Speaker Moses.
Jeffries has said the Democrats will vote to table Greene’s motion to vacate. Even more fascinating is the fact that, by next week, newly elected Rep. Tim Kennedy, Democrat of New York, is due to be sworn in, cutting Johnson’s majority to a single vote and intensifying Speaker Moses’s need to make nice with the Democrats if he wants to do anything, including remain speaker.
“Bless her heart,” Johnson said, deploying a subtle insult often used in the South. “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about her. I’ve got to do my job, and we do the right thing and we let the chips fall where they may.” In response, Massie said that Greene is “the most serious representative up here.”
“If you listen to the speech that she just gave, she captured exactly what Republicans back home are thinking. They are tired of this swamp,” he said.
Speaker Moses, with the deft southern shiv, bless his heart. As for Massie, he knows that if Greene falls, he and the rest of the Angry Children’s Caucus are next. She’s the blunted tip of a broken spear.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60660988/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-vote/
How different editing creates different thoughts. In the political arena with a constant deluge of disinformation tactics, manipulated thoughts can be the difference in installing a dictator or saving a democracy or literally between life and death or at the minimum to the quality of one's life. Where the conservative amygdala is larger and more prone to amygdala hijacking, the disinformation tactics have more effect. “Amygdala hijack” a term out the book “Emotional Intelligence” by psychologist Daniel Goleman if anyone interested. Pretty powerful reading. It refers to "an intense emotional reaction that’s out of proportion to the circumstance".
Good to learn about, the perpetrators of the massive disinformation campaigns have learned about it and use it extensively to our detriment. A brain is designed to "think before we act", with an manipulated intense "amygdala hijack", the acting overpowers the thinking.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24894-amygdala
Your amygdala is a small part of your brain, but it has a big job. It’s a major processing center for emotions. It also links your emotions to many other brain abilities, especially memories, learning and your senses. When it doesn’t work as it should, it can cause or contribute to disruptive feelings and symptoms.
Toward a Theory of Political Emotion Causation
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244016662106
https://www.durhamprobonoblog.co.uk/post/your-brain-already-knows-who-you-are-going-to-vote-for
Your brain already knows who you are going to vote for
The editing is insane on this tbh
— Wolf of X (@tradingMaxiSL) April 26, 2024
The real video, in case anyone was curious. 👇pic.twitter.com/YtEJlaoySs
Mfer nailed
KAITLAN COLLINS: So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 2, 2024
JD VANCE: Yes
COLLINS: Ok, I'm just checking, because you helped raise money for people who did so on January 6 pic.twitter.com/nEztSPrQlC
At least he didn't fall out of a window. 😬
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.
Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.
He died after two weeks in critical condition, his aunt Carol Parsons said.
Spirit spokesperson Joe Buccino said: “Our thoughts are with Josh Dean’s family. This sudden loss is stunning news here and for his loved ones.”
Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/
Dean was represented by a law firm in South Carolina that also represented Boeing whistleblower John “Mitch” Barnett.
Barnett was found dead in an apparent suicide in March.
The attack of the chicken pieces
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/fried-chicken-battery-675930
The "sermon on the mound"?? I never knew St Paul and Jesus played baseball.
Ouch...yikes
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