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The elections next door: Mexico’s cartels pick candidates, kill rivals
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-elections-next-door-mexico-s-cartels-pick-candidates-kill-rivals/ar-BB1mcOrd
Geesh, this Mfer
Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows
A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/trump-taxes-audit-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.9kGm.LErASNC3A4UD&smid=url-share
Kristi Noem’s dog killing is pure Southern gothic
A literary critic’s take on the South Dakota governor’s memoir, “No Going Back.”
https://wapo.st/4ajeMZZ (gifted)
Review by Ron Charles
May 10, 2024 at 11:16 a.m. EDT
Toward the end of Fred Gipson’s 1956 classic, “Old Yeller,” Travis says, “It was going to kill something inside me to do it, but I knew then that I had to shoot my big yeller dog.”
Reading that scene again yesterday, damn if I wasn’t struck by the same storm of tears that overtook me in seventh grade. It’s a devastating moment, full of anguish, permanently embedded in the memory of anyone who’s read the novel or seen the movie.
If this week is any guide, a dog-killing scene will be permanently embedded in our memories of Kristi Noem, too. On Tuesday, the South Dakota governor published a political memoir called “No Going Back.” But days before it appeared, everyone on planet Earth already knew about the passage in which Noem describes shooting her 14-month-old wire-haired pointer named Cricket.
What you can’t get from the 24/7 worldwide freakout, though, is how strange Cricket’s summary execution feels in context. That grisly story pops up in a chapter called “Will the World Awaken?” — right after Noem describes how much Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wanted to meet her and right before she lays out a series of clichés called “The Noem Doctrine” — e.g. “Fight to win.”
In the fight with Cricket, Noem won the battle but lost the war. Yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Republican garden gnome Karl Rove called “No Going Back” an act of “stunning self-destruction.” As Donald Trump considers whom to pick for his vice president, “bragging about shooting her puppy in a gravel pit ended her hopes of being selected.”
As a literary critic, I must object. The description of Cricket’s Last Stand is the one time in this howlingly dull book that Noem demonstrates any sense of setting, character, plot and emotional honesty. Otherwise, it’s mostly a hodgepodge of worn chestnuts and conservative maxims, like a fistful of old coins and buttons found between the stained cushions in a MAGA lounge.
And far too many people have been obsessing about Noem’s fantastical tête-à-tête with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Come on — who among us hasn’t mistakenly believed that we once faced down the leader of the Hermit Kingdom? As I told Joseph Stalin, “We all make mistakes.”
But the central moment in Noem’s memoir is that transcendent scene of South Dakota gothic.
Picture it: Harvest season, “the Super Bowl of farming.” But it’s hunting season at their lodge, too. “Balancing both at full throttle is enough to break a family,” Noem says. She does everything possible to make sure friends from Georgia bag some pheasants, but Cricket — “out of her mind with excitement” — ruins everything. “I was livid,” Noem writes.
Then, on the way home from that disaster, Cricket attacks some beloved, irreplaceable chickens at a neighbors’ house. The mother — holding a baby, no less! — runs toward the melee, sobbing: “My chickens! No, not my chickens!” Noem pays for the birds and hauls Cricket into her truck. “She whipped around to bite me,” she says. “I hated that dog.”
Once home, Noem leads Cricket to the gravel pit and dispatches her. Then she spots a smelly old billy goat that she wants to kill, too. The first shot goes awry. She has to run across the pasture for more bullets “to finish the job.”
Construction workers taking a coffee break at her house witness all this carnage. “When they saw me heading their way,” Noem writes, “they put their cups down, got up and went back to work — in a real hurry.”
Gripping, right? Disturbing, even. Forget Travis and his beloved yellow cur. For a few glorious pages, Noem feels like a Flannery O’Connor character with tax cuts. Honestly, as someone who had to endure all 260 pages of “No Going Back,” I wish Noem had shot more dogs — or me.
Ron Charles reviews books and writes the Book Club newsletter for The Washington Post. He is the book critic for “CBS Sunday Morning.”
As if Old Yeller is speaking from the grave;
Abigail Disney evokes Old Yeller in plea to reject Republicans after Kristi Noem kills dog
Exclusive: great-niece of Walt Disney issues appeal to appalled voters on behalf of Progressive Change Campaign Committee
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/kristi-noem-dog-abigail-disney
Evoking the classic Disney tearjerker Old Yeller, in which a family is forced to put down their beloved dog, the US film-maker and campaigner Abigail Disney exhorted voters to oppose the Republican party of Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor whose story of killing Cricket, a 14-month-old dog, shocked the world and seemingly dynamited her hopes of being Donald Trump’s running mate.
“My great-uncle Walt Disney knew the magic place animals have in the hearts of families everywhere,” Disney wrote in an email released by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and obtained exclusively by the Guardian.
“When he released Old Yeller, the heart wrenching story stayed with people because no one takes the killing of a family pet lightly.
“At least that’s what I thought until I read about potential Trump VP Kristi Noem shooting her family’s puppy – a story that has shocked so many of us.”......................
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She and Trumpty are a matched set- they make up whatever they want out of whole cloth. I wonder if she has SS protection. I would be totally unsurprised if she was declared "untrainable" and dispatched in the same way as she did her dog.
Perhaps her late dog had not been dewormed and she contracted.........anyway she acts like a worm chowed down on what little nourishment it found.
Who Was RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm? All the Possibilities, Ranked
BREAKOUT STAR
Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about in pop culture.
Kevin Fallon Senior Editor, Obsessed
Updated May 11, 2024 3:16AM EDT Published May 10, 2024 9:30PM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-was-robert-kennedys-brain-worm-all-the-possibilities-ranked?ref=home?ref=home
Possible RFK Brain Worms, Ranked
I, like most of America, have not stopped thinking about the story that doctors found a dead worm in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s brain. It’s a “well, that certainly explains things” anecdote in an era of entirely inexplicable nonsense. This bozo literally had “brain worms,” the catch-all phrase we use for someone whose asinine ideas suggest they are absolutely losing their mind.
Given my obsession with this, when I saw this tweet, I laughed for about two minutes, sent it to each of my four-to-five friends, laughed again each time I pressed “send,” and now am writing about it.
This little guy been driving RFK around??? pic.twitter.com/laluqwBIu6
— Tim Gill (@timgill924) May 8, 2024
The very hungry brain worm 🪱 pic.twitter.com/QQAvuOXIrM
— organizermemes (panda era) (@OrganizerMemes) May 9, 2024
I see white and gold
Keir Johnston who gained fame when a dress his mother-in-law wore caused a global debate over whether it was black and blue or white and gold, has admitted strangling his wife.https://t.co/TravuoJrNB
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 11, 2024
Not even for former noncoms let alone former generals.
I don’t believe what Trump posted. I think he will end up picking Haley because of how she has been doing in the primaries even though she dropped out.
This story quickly prompted a Trump post: https://t.co/lph9w5YTQ9 pic.twitter.com/RoYUdWLy3d
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 11, 2024
Maybe it never occurred t her that the people she involved in her lies would speak up to refute them?
France's government is disputing a portion of Kristi Noem's book that describes a canceled meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 11, 2024
A representative from the Élysée Palace disputed Noem's account, saying there’s no record of a scheduled meeting, nor was there an invitation…
They should call Flynn back up and then dishonourably discharge him. Is that a thing?
I have nothing to contribute to the discourse. Except maybe this…looking back on the headline that launched a thousand gags, let us raise a glass to the simple, comedic purity of the story as it broke:
R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
This is all a giant hoax, right?
Brainworms, Dead Puppies, and a Rapist Who Longs For Incest
Friday, May 10th, 2024
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal | 0 comments
https://showercapblog.com/brainworms-dead-puppies-and-a-rapist-who-longs-for-incest/
Let’s address the elephant in the room. Obviously, all the RFK Jr. brainworm jokes were long gone hours before my Friday night posting time. I don’t have some awesome, worth-the-wait, totally original, unheard RFK Jr. brainworm joke for you. Apologies. For about ten minutes, you delude yourself that no one else will notice the ivermectin bank shot, but who’re you kidding?
Dune jokes. Tequila jokes. Shazam aficionados seized the moment for Mr. Mind. You wouldn’t be reading this if you hadn’t heard five thousand RFK Jr. brainworm jokes by now. I have nothing to contribute to the discourse. Except maybe this…looking back on the headline that launched a thousand gags, let us raise a glass to the simple, comedic purity of the story as it broke:
R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
Perfect.
Subheadline: “The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.”
Oh, the chaos agent who might just haphazardly swat the souvenir snow globe of American democracy to the floor, shattering it for all time, had an ACTUAL FUCKING WORM living inside his skull, eating parts of his ACTUAL FUCKING BRAIN, until it died, presumably poisoned?
Sounds about right.
I just assume we’re being punished by God at this point.
Golly I hope the brainworm guy doesn’t tip the election to that rapist.
You know the rapist I’m talking about. Always cold, likes to print out chunks of the internet to wave around? You’d recognize him from that interview where he talks about leading the “party of fertilization,” (he’s a branding genius, this rapist) or that time he whined about being cold or maybe that other time he whined about being cold or even that other other time he whined about being cold.
I bet it sucks to be so cold when you’re living through your worst nightmare.
Because that’s what this is, y’know.
When you’re a narcissist, it’s probably not a lot of fun to listen to any woman talk about how unappealing and unsatisfying you are sexually, but imagine how the torment deepens when A) it’s happening during your felony trial and B) the entire planet is watching.
Emasculation on a scale that never would’ve been possible had he not sought and obtained the presidency. That’s some Sophocles shit, right there. For Donald Trump, this is what’s in Room 101.
Of course, he’ll kill us all for witnessing it, given the chance. He’ll finish the oath of office, demand the nuclear football, and mash away at the button with those stubby digits until all life on Earth ends, because it’s the only way he can be sure there’s no one left who knows.
Yeah, Stormy Daniels Week was definitely American history’s dignifiedest yet.
Surprising no one, all the defense could muster was a spiteful burst of slut-shaming, which was revolting enough, but the real dry-heaving started when the story took its inevitable turn down the dank, mildewy alley where all tales of Donald Trump’s sexuality eventually lead: his attraction to his daughter, Ivanka.
Seems like that thought’s never too far from the front of his mind, y’know? He talks about how much he wants to fuck his own daughter…a lot. More than anyone I’ve ever met. Way more. It’s one of the things that makes him such an odd choice to build a cult of personality around, in my opinion.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-lewd-talk-about-daughter-ivanka-in-front-of-white-house-staff-recalled-in-new-book/
And times’re certainly tough for the Children of the Candy Corn, in the blinding glare of the God Emperor’s public degradation. You turn on Fox, and it’s this shame-drenched circle jerk, Jesse Watters moaning about the Dotard’s potential prison gym bod, while Gutfeld paws at his own groin with steel wool, squeaking “he’s a sex god!” Laura Ingraham pacing to and fro in the background, muttering “orange turd” in disgust, stopping periodically to flog Gutfeld.
https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1787644480100749544?s=61
In addition to the courtroom humiliations, everybody’s pointing and laughing at Wee Don’s latest feeble showing against Nikki Haley, but it coulda been worse. Imagine if he’d had to arm-wrestle her.
At least we finally figured out why he’s struggling to stay awake in court. Begging oil executives for bribes can really tucker you out, especially when you’re already woozy from the bronzer fumes.
He needs the money to pay Paul Manafort, y’see. Apparently, everyone’s favorite Kremlin conduit is headed back to the campaign trail, after a lucrative post-pardon stint influence peddling with the Chinese Communist Party. “America first,” though.
Oh, and congrats to Judge Aileen Cannon, on repeating as Trump Org employee of the month! Bet you’re in line for one of the very best parking spots in the Reich to come!
The week’s lowest point was definitely the moment Kristi Noem finally figured out it was within her power to just…stop making media hits. Like Mom unplugging the TV set right in the middle of Darkwing Duck. I watching that, dammit.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-bailed-on-fox-news-because-of-snow-so-they-nuked-her
Kristi Makes it Worse. Best show on television. Water cooler moment after water cooler moment. “Didja see where Kristi threatened to murder another dog?” “I heard it was the President’s dog!” “It WAS!”
It’s a really specific genre, but there’s a market for this content. Let’s call it Watching a Terrible Person Fail to Extract Their Head From a Bag. James Comer is the Michael Jordan of this. The Excruciatingly Paced Downfall of Rudy Giuliani has already earned a loyal audience, I’m hearing it might even get picked up for another season.
And Kristi’s the star that burned half as long but twice as hilariously. How did she come to believe any of this was going to work out for her? Why draw attention to your puppy homicide at all? HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO GET YOUR HEAD STUCK IN THE BAG IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Turns out, her team tried to talk her out of it, but she was so sure Cricket’s execution would launch her to glory (or at least the NRA) that she would not be deterred. Somehow that certainty held right up until the moment she realized “My God, I’m getting clowned by a fucking Newsmax host,” at which point her soul just…dissipated into the ether. You’ll have to check the Whichever Dakota constitution to see if it’s even legal for a husk to govern the state, I won’t pretend to know. https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmax-host-rob-finnerty-gets-real-with-kristi-noem-about-her-political-implosion
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/06/kristi-noem-dog-killing-story-00156290
I miss her already.
The veepstakes is all dreary now. Sure, this makes Doug Bugman undisputed Prime Dakotan, but that and five bucks gets you a cup of livestock dewormer. Tim Scott’s an okay groveler, I guess, but I gotta be honest, I don’t see a breakout star.
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives continues to resemble nothing so much as a Lollapalooza outhouse crammed to bursting with clowns. But not fun clowns. Clowns from Tom Waits songs.
What a fucking madhouse. Chip Roy rails about the elves who want to impose Sharia law but refuse to mend his shoes while he sleeps. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/chip-roy-sharia-law-abortion-bans-rcna151314
Steve Scalise shouts out increasingly desperate impeachment justifications, like a drunk at an improv show. Mike Collins opines on, wow, a wide variety of topics. Distant shrieks indicate Nancy Mace just flayed the latest wave of
Oh, and Doc Ronny’s under Ethics Committee investigation, allegedly for distributing drugs that illegally enhance one’s ability to tell a drawing of a horsie apart from a drawing of a lion.
https://twitter.com/bidenhq/status/1787521537551085673?s=61
We got all hyped up for Moses v Marj, but the whole thing ultimately lasted about a minute, and her subsequent tantrum got drowned out by brainworm gags. Nice to see MTG on the appropriate end of a heckling for once, though.
Anyway, Mikey’s sure feelin’ himself now that he’s survived a motion to vacate. Throwing his shoulders back when he walks, so everybody gets an eyeful of that Slightly Better Than Kevin McCarthy merit badge. He’s got a new bill that outlaws something that’s already illegal. “That’s okay, baby, I couldn’t pass it anyway! I just wanna demonize some immigrants for a bit, baby! POLITICS!” and then he throws a smoke bomb but he forgets to walk away so he’s still there when the smoke clears.
Over in the Senate, Katie Britt wants a national pregnancy database, which she pinkie swears not to abuse. All she wants is an app that sends her an alert anytime some whore/incubator crosses a state line into a jurisdiction where her bodily autonomy rights are recognized. https://meidasnews.com/news/sen-katie-britt-introduces-bill-to-create-federal-database-of-pregnant-people
Let’s check in on the circus freaks looking to join Katie in Washington, and help her implement her vision, shall we?
I guess Dave McCormick thinks most Pennsylvanians are divorced. Strong Milhouse’s Dad energy with Dave.
In Montana, Tim Sheehy’s filling out his staff with anti-Semites, who get caught liking posts that say shit like “Don’t follow me for my cute cat posting if you can’t stand by me when I deny the Holocaust.”
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/08/montana-tim-sheehy-caleb-oriet-instagram
“Don’t follow me for my cute cat posting if you can’t stand by me when I deny the Holocaust.”
“R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain.”
“New Hampshire Pol Who Called Teens ‘Ripe’ Won’t Apologize to His Haters.”
I am…unnecessary. Obsolete. Out-competed in the absurdity marketplace by the real-world news.
I’ve never encountered a more distressingly flashy meet-cute than When Vivek Ramaswamy Met Ann Coulter. Still, there’s an undeniable sort of incel live-streamer chemistry there, and a certain part of me wants Werner Herzog to document what would surely amount to terrifying copulation, if only for science’s sake, but why don’t we talk about something else? https://thehill.com/video/ann-coulter-to-vivek-ramaswamy-i-wouldn%e2%80%99t-vote-for-you-because-you%e2%80%99re-indian/9679860/
I know everybody’s excited to see Bannon report to prison, but I honestly doubt there’s a cell that can hold him, given all the corrosive secretions.
Kevin McCarthy is definitely living his best life, as an abnormally well-connected and well-funded mosquito, stabbing, for hate’s sake, at the doughiest bits of Matt Gaetz’s anatomy. God knows legislating wasn’t his calling.
Hey, RIP FreedomWorks! Man, remember when the weirdest Republicans were old White people in tricorn hats? You never had to worry about bear spray or zip ties with the Tea Party, y’know?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/08/freedomworks-is-closing-and-blaming-trump-00156784
On that note, I need a freakin’ beer. And I’m drinking for two tonight! No, Katie Britt, I’m not pregnant, I’m talking about the parasite I invited into my cranium, hoping to obliterate all memory of the last seven years or so, except maybe the ice cream and pro wrestling.
DickMovie with only a 3.4/10 rating
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt30413525/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Fascinating
Except one is only a worm dick.
Little at that
Two brain worm eating hosts debating each other would make fascinating TV.
And Joy was just talking about how Trump is beginning to fear RFK Jr, after initially praising him.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenges Donald Trump to debate at Libertarian Convention
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has challenged Donald Trump to a head-to-head debate for when both address a Libertarian convention later this month, a move that comes as the presumptive GOP nominee has ramped up both criticism of Kennedy’s independent bid and demands that President Joe Biden meet him on a debate stage.
Arguing that he is “drawing a lot of voters from your former supporters,” Kennedy said to Trump in an open letter posted Tuesday to X that the Libertarian convention provides “perfect neutral territory for you and me to have a debate where you can defend your record for your wavering supporters.”
Trump has been bullish in calling on Biden to debate him ahead of the November general election but has shied away from other rivals’ previous debate entreaties. Trump skipped the 2024 GOP primary debates, saying it was unnecessary because voters know him and his record.
https://apnews.com/article/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-debate-libertarian-fb72b3da879e368aad055d0fc86861c9
Katie is clearly not a quick learner.
Joy Reid: "If a worm gets in your brain, and it dies, that may say more about you than it does about the worm."
Good point. And as a matter of fact, RFK Jr has said it ate a little of his brain before shuffling off this mortal coil. So is the brain POISONOUS?
And here comes Katie!
Katie Britt shredded for 'Handmaid's Tale'-type proposal to 'register' pregnant women
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) is being ridiculed on social media for a new piece of proposed legislation that, while billed as a child support bill for new moms, is being panned as yet another dystopian intrusion into women's pregnancies.
Britt, who came to the forefront of the political conversation following her heavily-mocked response to President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address, announced the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed (MOMS) Act. The bill would create a registry of pregnant women, who would then be steered to support services that include "crisis pregnancy centers" — usually faith-based groups designed to shame or trick women seeking abortions into keeping their pregnancies anyway.
"To all of my fellow moms out there, my goal is to give you and your children the opportunities to thrive and to live your American dreams," Britt said in a video announcing the policy.
But it didn't go over the way she was likely hoping on social media.
"Handmaid's Tale sh-- right here," wrote Allison Gill, the veteran and political commentator behind "Mueller, She Wrote." "What happened to the party of 'small government'?"
"Katie Britt: Introduced a bill to create a federal database of pregnant women. Also Katie Britt: Opposes federal database of gun owners," wrote Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action.
@ArtCandee wrote, "Omg. Katie Britt has dropped a new super cringe video for introducing a bill to create a national registry of pregnant women. Clearly she didn’t learn her lesson about overacting and not coming across like a serial killer."
"This is Katie Britt, the Senator from Alabama, in her vanilla kitchen 98% of Americans could not afford," wrote @RogerZenAF. "She's talking about creating a database of pregnant women. Totally not cult behavior. Or fascism. Totally..."
Katie Britt: Introduced a bill to create a federal database of pregnant women.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 10, 2024
Also Katie Britt: Opposes federal database of gun owners. pic.twitter.com/wm4EmwhZ1M
So it seems. Mace is just bizarre.
MAGA women make horrible bosses. 🤮 Nancy Mace up to bat!
Mace accuses former staffers of sabotage, ‘massive invasion’ of privacy
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who has experienced a string of staff resignations and firings, accused her former employees of sabotage and invading her privacy in a new interview.
“I knew that they were sabotaging the office for a while. I didn’t know to the extent that they were doing it,” Mace told the Daily Mail in an article published Friday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4656470-nancy-mace-staffers-sabotage-privacy-invasion/#:~:text=Nine%20of%20Mace's%20staff%20members,week%20period%20in%20summer%202021.
Yes, that's what people are saying at X. A pity, but probably sooner or later she'll have to do more firing... I suspect she's a bitch to work for.
But... There's nothing at all online about Lara firing people. Not since her big purge in early March...
Wouldn't this be considered a quid pro quo? Impeachable offense?
Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn - report
Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches
Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.
According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.
In front of more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.
(snip)
Trump’s exhortation to the oil executives that they were wealthy enough to pour $1bn into his campaign war-chest, at the same time pledging a U-turn on Biden’s efforts to combat the climate crisis, was immediately denounced on Wednesday by environmental groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation
I think this might not be true. More like they were fired when Lara took over.
LOLOLOLOLISSIMO!! How embarrassing for the poor thing. GOD she's awful. And so STUPID.
More trump news.
Lara Trump's staff, all 25 of them at the RNC just resigned. I guess they have a conscience and don't want to be criminals.
— Kate (@Lessafetoday08) May 10, 2024
I wonder how Barron feels about that. What 18-year-old wouldn't HATE having his mother speak for him? And make decisions for him?
And who thought it'd be okay to begin with? It obviously wasn't Trump, who appears not to have known about it till the news was announced. If it was Melania, she changed her mind abruptly.
Maybe Barron should be wondering if he has a helicopter mom who'll only become more annoying the older he gets.
I guess the whole "Barron is fair game" now, got to Melania and mommy nixed the whole thing.
Change of plan: Barron Trump will no longer be a delegate at the Republican convention
WASHINGTON - Barron Trump won't be an at-large convention delegate for his father after all.
"While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments," said a statement Friday from the office of former First Lady Melania Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/10/barron-trump-delegate-gop-convention/73646811007/
Wonder how it was that he allowed Ivanka, and Marla and Melania to have their babies born in the 9th month?????
Trump: “In a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month. It is wrong. It has to change.”
Yes, you're no doubt right.
I don't think he is. He just wants his cult to think he is. It's just like "I'm going to take the stand in my trial" Uhhh yeah right. "I've been planning forever for Barron's graduation". Sure you have. Once he is the nominee, he will come up with some excuse not to debate.
LOLOLOL!! That's funny. Though I find myself thinking I SHOULD be a year or two younger.
Something that's seemed strange to me in recent days is Trump's insistence debating Biden. He says Biden is afraid of stepping up.
WTF? Trumpty is a TERRIBLE debater. He just opens his mouth and lies, as he always does. Biden is not a great debater, but he's not a bad one, either. He had a great moment in 2020 when he turned to Trump and said: "Will you just shut up, man?"
The other two debates were cancelled, the second, because of Trump's COVID. The cancellation of the third was for reasons I forget. But Trump didn't want to debate face to face again. Why's he so hot to trot now?
Meanwhile, this is so cool. Enjoy
Coolest cop ever pic.twitter.com/GsSPAvOdoE
— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctvidiots) May 10, 2024
He does yes. However- that memory is affected by his current mental illness and also that he lies all the time and it's way harder to remember all those lies than it is the truth. I think his failures will continue to become more evident as he tries to campaign.
One thing I did find interesting a few weeks ago when helping my DIL plan for my oldest boy's Bday, was that his youngest brother actually did NOT know which Bday it was.
We do know that Trumpty has a poor memory for most things.
yeah- I'm all for it!
You haven't any kids, so it's not a situation you're familiar with. I have no problem knowing the ages of mine - so anyone else on the board who has any can chime in. I do have a good memory so that might influence why I know ages.
I think they remember birthdays, but not the age. As I vaguely recall, my mother did remember my age, but sometimes my father forgot.
Not sure why you would think that parents underestimate their kids' ages. I think most of us know exactly how old they are. I do sometimes have to stop and think to get a grandchild's age correct.
Unfortunately, that article's been updated. Was this part of what was added?
Bannon was sentenced to four months in federal prison, and that sentence was also upheld Friday by the appeals court. The ruling could pave the way for Bannon to eventually report to prison, though the timing is unclear.
The judge who presided over Bannon’s trial previously agreed to let him hold off from serving his sentence while his appeal played out. In its ruling Friday, the three-judge appeals panel gave Bannon time to appeal its ruling to the full DC-based appeals court before it formally notifies the trial judge that the conviction was upheld.
Bannon could also turn directly to the Supreme Court for additional appeals, possibly further delaying when he needs to start serving his prison term.
Oh goody!! Bannon is so sinister.
Memory failure- or he just doesn't care enough to actually keep track?
To be fair, I think parents often think their kids are younger than they are. But I find it interesting that Trumpty didn't seem to have been involved in making Barron a delegate. I wonder who was.
Here is the story.
Giuliani Is Suspended by WABC, and His Radio Show Is Canceled
The radio station disciplined Rudolph W. Giuliani after he violated company policy by trying to discuss the legitimacy of the 2020 election on the air.
By Nicholas Fandos
May 10, 2024, 3:16 p.m. ET
Rudolph W. Giuliani was suspended by WABC radio on Friday and his daily talk show was canceled after he violated station policy by trying to discuss discredited claims about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election on air.
John Catsimatidis, the billionaire who is a major Republican donor and owns the station, said he had made the decision after Mr. Giuliani refused to comply with the policy related to the election after repeated warnings.
“We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” Mr. Catsimatidis said in a brief phone interview. “We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it.”
“So,” Mr. Catsimatidis continued, “he left me no option. I suspended him.”
Mr. Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, was one of the leading figures in former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to contest and overturn the 2020 election results. He was Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer at the time and helped coordinate legal challenges to Mr. Biden’s victory in several states in a bid to keep Mr. Trump in office.
Mr. Guiliani’s removal from WABC, one of his only current sources of income, could add to the mounting legal and financial woes that have accumulated since then. The suspension will also deny him what may be one of his largest public platforms.
Mr. Giuliani has been criminally charged in two states, Georgia and Arizona, for this role in the effort to overturn the 2020 results and has been implicated in a number of recent lawsuits. He has also been besieged by creditors, including two Georgia election workers he defamed in the aftermath of the 2020 election, and to whom he now owes $148 million.
Mr. Giuliani could not immediately be reached for comment.
WABC aired Mr. Giuliani’s show every weekday and on Sundays. Mr. Catsimatidis said he did not pay Mr. Giuliani a salary; the former mayor instead earned a percentage of the advertising revenue the show brought in.
Mr. Catsimatidis said Mr. Giuliani had tried to speak on air during the closing minutes of his Thursday show about election-related issues, but that station employees had cut him off.
“Look, I like the guy as a person, but you can’t do that,” Mr. Catsimatidis said. “You can’t cross the line.”
He added: “My view is that nobody really knows but we had made a company policy. It’s over, life goes on.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/nyregion/giuliani-radio-suspended.html
Oopsie!
Scoop: Rudy Giuliani’s two radio shows, which air on WABC in New York, have been suspended until further notice per an internal email. pic.twitter.com/1U6MytxPoZ
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