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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen and Trevor: What Trevor learned about America by leaving America

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

John Fugelsang: “Mansplaining” in the Oxford Dictionary

Electoral Dysfunction, 2024:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

NowThis: How Reaganomics changed the economic landscape

Lauren Mayer: ♫ Greedflation ♬

The Dotard Трамп and Other Nazi Adjacents:

WaPo: Biden orders expanded contraception and abortion protections

LegalEagle: Can Texas really secede from The Union—National divorce?

Robert Reich: The silent revolution in American economics

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    I wonder if Haley will be out by Sunday, like DeSantis? Has she canceled any appearances on the Sunday shows?

  2. 2

    @1 Haley has nothing to lose by staying in. She’s already lost all her GOP friends (all one of ’em), and talks like she’s staying in. She won’t be Trump’s VP pick, an ambassador, or anything else in MAGA world; Trump has excommunicated her. Nor can she win. She’s trapped in the role of a kamikaze candidate. She should’ve been a Democrat; as a Republican, the only thing she gets to do is spiral into the water.

  3. 3

    “A former business associate of Hunter Biden gave a closed-door deposition to House Republicans as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden — and poured cold water on accusations that Biden profited from the business dealings of his son, Axios reported.

    “‘To be clear, President Biden — while in office or as a private citizen — was never involved in any of the business activities we pursued,’ Rob Walker told the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees. ‘Any statement to the contrary is simply false,’ Walker added.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/biden-impeachment-inquiry-2667098775/

    To be clear, a good lawyer never calls a witness to the stand without knowing what the witness will say. Republicans didn’t vet their witnesses. That’s why they insisted on taking testimony behind closed doors.

  5. 5

    2, 4,

    Trump will leave them with an empty bench.

    Whether they fall in line or whether they opposite him, they are destroyed by it.

    Not unlike how the troll has been destroyed by it.

  6. 6

    Republicans have blown up Southern border security because they think making a mess helps Trump The Rapist. They think Trump The Rapist can “fix everything”.

    Remember what Trump The Rapist’s big plan for border security looked like?
    Here’s a reminder:

    https://youtu.be/bOebX099dG4

  7. 7

    “What’s been negotiated would—if passed into law—be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country, It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

    Trump The Rapist is walking them right into the jaws of President Biden’s trap. Trump The Rapist is too stupid, and too emotionally overwhelmed by his rape trial losses to see any of it clearly.

    President Biden will take the issue away from Republicans and make them own all of the negative border security messaging they have planned for the coming summer. They either make this deal now and give him the “win” or he spoon feeds it to them until November.

  8. 8

    Wow, on the previous thread Dumbfuck is peddling an old theme on Dr. Kristian Anderson. One he testified about before Congress.

    In the very early days of the Covid-19 virus Dr. Anderson sent an email to colleagues (including Dr. Fauci) that he and several colleagues theorized that a lab leak was the most likely source. Within’ just a few months of further research he discarded that theory.

    And THAT’S what he told Congress.

    The collective research at one moment in time did not support a theory of origin to Dr. Anderson and others. . The collective research at a later time did support the conclusion to his satisfaction.

    In other words, how science works.

    Dumbfuck is now suggesting having a hypothesis that turns out incorrect is a ‘crime.’

    Dumbfuck is probably still saying AIDS gets passed by gays sitting on toilet seats.

  9. 9

    Dumbfuck is probably still saying AIDS gets passed by gays sitting on toilet seats.

    Hol up now.

    You saying it’s not?

  11. 11

    HA’s Maoists are doing the bidding of Donald Trump by taking the bias like action of censoring me. Their sensitivity to calling out the flaws of heterosexuals is getting the best of them.

    The HN Virus is real, and it escaped the lab when Adam fucked Eve. It kills and you can’t wash your hands or take some shot for it. Wait, I take that back, you can but Repukes have banned the hormone shots.

    So ladies, you like your groomers to groom you. Well there are consequences. You die because Neanderthal Heterosexuals have a heightened mentality for violent actions that they can’t control.

  13. 13

    How many womenz dead today because of the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus?

    Let’s ask the HA Maoist Gods! 🌈🏳️‍🌈😂🏳️‍🌈🕺

  14. 14

    The HN Virus was born in the lab too, it escaped like a little monkey.🙉

  16. 16

    Wondering how long these posts will stay up before they get deleted by the HA Maoists?🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

  17. 17

    Ron Filipkowski @ RonFilipkowski on xittter.

    Habbanomics:
    Turning a $5 million case into a $83 million dollar case in just one year!

    and

    For the first time in weeks, Trump didn’t post a single word about E. Jean Carroll last night. Turns out punitive damages work.

  18. 18

    Scott Hechinger @ ScottHech on Xitter

    Alabama murdering a man by drowning him w/ nitrogen.
    Kentucky introducing a bill to legalize the murder of unhoused people.
    Mississippi burying hundreds in unmarked graves.
    Texas fighting for the right to murder migrants.
    States imprisoning women for health decisions.
    “Pro-life.”

  19. 19

    17,
    He posted this morning. Basically he repeated the substance of the original defamatory claims he made about his rape victim.

    Good.

    If nothing else it significantly narrows his grounds for appeal. And since his only purpose in appealing is delay, it calls in the debt much sooner.

  20. 20

    Hey, who’s up for a very high-profile, public battle between trannies and normal people just as the conventions approach and people start paying attention?

    New York Post
    @nypost
    Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas mounted secret legal fight to overturn ban, with sights on the Olympics: report https://trib.al/UQgNBTG
    5:02 AM · Jan 26, 2024

    Nothing like women voters seeing women they admire getting their asses kicked by a chick with a dick to focus the mind just before they mark their ballots.

  21. 21

    @ 3

    When the House committee wants evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement it will lean on Devin Archer, whose appeal to SCOTUS was denied this past week.

    Archer faces significant federal prison time, and was much more closely aligned with The Biden Crime Family than was Walker.

    Here‘s what the GOP did learn from Walker:

    “Today we learned that Joe Biden met with the now-missing Chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming, as Hunter Biden and his associates received $3 million from a Chinese entity CEFC controlled. Evidence continues to reveal the Bidens sold the ‘Biden Brand’ to enrich the Biden family. Today’s interview confirmed Hunter Biden and his associates’ work with the Chinese government-linked energy company began over a year before Joe Biden left the vice presidency, but the Bidens and their associates held off being paid by the Chinese while Joe Biden was in office. The Chinese company paid Hunter Biden and his associates $3 million shortly after Joe Biden left office as a ‘thank you’ for the work they did while Joe Biden was in office. Members of the Biden family received payments from the Chinese deal even though they did not work on it. This is the type of swampy influence peddling the American people want us to end.

    “Additionally, as Joe Biden was leading anti-corruption efforts in Romania, Hunter Biden and Rob Walker began an ill-defined business relationship with Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu. Mr. Walker also confirmed that he and Hunter Biden received payments from Popoviciu beginning in 2015 that continued throughout the rest of Joe Biden’s vice presidency. In exchange for lucrative payments, Hunter Biden traveled to Romania and engaged with the U.S. Ambassador to Romania to discuss Mr. Popoviciu‘s foreign legal case.

    Walker was interviewed for other reasons, not because he’d roll over on his friend. Walker has no current need to cut a deal the way Archer has.

  22. 22

    Beau Biden’s widow was paid to fuck POS Hunter Biden.

    The Oversight Committee issued a memo on Wednesday morning saying that Hallie Biden appears to have received $10,000 in early 2017 from Popoviciu — before receiving another $25,000 later that year as part of Hunter and James Biden’s partnership with CEFC China Energy.

    Beau Biden’s widow is a dirty member of The Biden Crime Family. She really should get tested.

  23. 23

    Nothing like women voters seeing women they admire getting their asses kicked by a chick with a dick to focus the mind just before they mark their ballots.

    Im sure that’s right on the forefront of their minds….one person challenging their existence and a party that thinks they’re just vagina and ass.

    Shiver. Shiver. Shiver.

    And if that’s the case they can enjoy the grooming and death they get from their grooms….till death do them part!!!

  24. 24

    Lot more going on that married heterosexuals should be worried about than some girl wanting to swim.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x10fUk_ovTI

    But people aren’t that bright. I’m sure the rate of this occurrence is increasing exponentially. Not everyone can afford to be stupid enough to buy the horse

  25. 25

    Nothing like women voters seeing women they admire getting their asses kicked by a chick with a dick

    Wow! Just the thing to take their minds off dying from sepsis due to shitheaded repuke men wanting control over their medical decisions.

    No blowback from that shit. See Kansas..

    Noun, verb, here’s kreepshit!

  26. 26

    The Chinese company paid Hunter Biden and his associates $3 million…

    4.8 million more to go and you match drumpf’s corruption while in office to which yours truly responded, “that all?” Orange fucker is in a shit load of debt.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-businesses-received-millions-foreign-entities-presidency-house/story?id=106106433

    We’re sure kreepshit will dig it up for us in minute..

    Noun, verb, Hunter’s dick pics!

  27. 27

    Behold a female that kreepshit would deem “serious”:

    Two weeks from now, in a courtroom, a prosecutor would summarize what Ash said he heard:

    “You support Hamas.”

    “They kill babies.”

    “Your baby should die.”

    “You’re a terrorist.”

    That morning, it was one month into the Israel-Gaza war, and as the woman came closer, Ash asked himself what was happening. He scanned the playground, and now the facts of the situation came to order in his mind: Around his neck, he was wearing a kaffiyeh, a Palestinian scarf. He and his son had brown skin. They were not Palestinian — Ash was Punjabi, born in London — but they might look Palestinian to the woman, whose voice was getting louder now. Ash took a few steps back. He grabbed his son. He grabbed his phone inside his jacket pocket.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2024/hate-crime-israel-palestine-impact-justice

    Get ‘im IDF!

  28. 28

    The way the Canadian administrative state is attempting to crush Jordan Peterson is abominable. What happened to Canada? When did it become a totalitarian country?

  29. 29

    Toldja..

    But at the same time, we also have a much better sense of how ordinary Americans view abortion. Over 60 percent of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most cases. The Kansas and Kentucky cases, coupled with data from Pew Research Center, suggest that the number of Americans who have an absolutist view on abortion is shrinking. All of this appears to have derailed South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and House Republicans from passing a federal abortion ban this year.

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/23/dobbs-roe-abortion-surprises-00103084

    i.e. the forced birthers are DYING…

    https://incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php/millenials_generation_y_deathclock.php

    Following from the insane babble of teh widbee kreepshit – good for the kids..

  30. 30

    attempting to crush Jordan Peterson is abominable.

    He can walk to any port of entry and apply for political asylum in teh good ole’ USA..

    NORTHERN (fair skinned) point of entry of course..

    Try that in TexASS and he might get a bus ride to a sanctuary city.

  32. 32

    HA’s Unserious Twat, Queen YLB, equates @ 26 hotel room stays received in response to payments to Trump companies

    The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, released the report and provided documents from Trump’s former accounting firm that show that 20 governments, including China and Saudi Arabia, paid at least $7.8 million during Trump’s presidency to business entities that included Trump International Hotels in Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, and Trump Towers in New York.

    to access to the vice president/former vice president/future president paid for by companies run by hostile foreign nations.

    Hotel stays, which would have to be paid for elsewhere if not to a Trump property = influence peddling, according to Queen YLB.

    Quite the stretch but she’s gotta explain away the Biden grift somehow. This is what she came up with.

  34. 34

    @20 Roger Rabbit Quiz

    Which lawsuit is more likely to grab voters’ attention and influence the election?

    [ ] 1. A trans swimmer suing to swim in women’s events.
    [ ] 2. An $83 million defamation judgement against a rapist running for president.

    Choosing the dumber answer scores 0 points.

  35. 35

    @21 “When the House committee wants evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement it will lean on Devin Archer, whose appeal to SCOTUS was denied this past week.”

    What do you mean, when? He already testified, dumbfuck. Like, last year. In case you missed it, which clearly you did, this is the upshot of his testimony:

    “Testimony from Hunter Biden’s business associate, Devon Archer, before the House Oversight Committee this week undercut claims by Republican lawmakers that his appearance would implicate President Joe Biden in Hunter’s business dealings.”

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/05/devon-archer-transcript-testimony-takeaways/70528889007/

    Here’s a clue: Grasping at straws won’t get you a straw, anymore than it did for Gym or Farmer Jim, because there’s no “there” there.

  36. 36

    @22 “Beau Biden’s widow is a dirty member of The Biden Crime Family.”

    Assuming this is true, what public office does she hold or is she running for?

  37. 37

    @28 “The way the Canadian administrative state is attempting to crush Jordan Peterson is abominable.”

    Translation: He’s required to abide by the same professional conduct standards as every other licensed psychologist in Canada, if he wants to continue treating patients.

    Question: Do you think professional licensing authorities should overlook violations of professional practice codes? Would you allow quack doctors and unethical lawyers to continue practicing?

  38. 38

    Yeah, literally no one cares.

    Thomas’ case is unlikely to be heard in time for her to qualify for this summer’s Olympics, according to the outlet.

  39. 39

    @32 One of those hotels was a couple blocks from the White House. Another was at a remote Scottish golf resort hurting for guests to which Trump diverted military flights in order to fill vacant rooms for which he overcharged the government.

    Can’t prove bribery, but sure as hell is emoluments.

  40. 40

    @32 One of those hotels was a couple blocks from the White House. Another was at a remote Scottish golf resort hurting for guests to which Trump diverted military flights in order to fill vacant rooms for which he overcharged the government.

    Do you really think those foreign dignitaries would’ve flocked to Trump’s high-priced D.C. hotel rooms if he was just a hotelier? Can’t prove bribery, but it’s sure as hell is emoluments.

  41. 41

    The problem with the Emoluments Clause is that it’s only enforceable by impeachment, and Republicans wouldn’t impeach Trump even if he stood in the street and told an armed mob to attack the Capitol to overthrow an election.

    On the other hand, if Biden accepted a souvenir pen from a foreign dignitary, and put it in his pocket instead of sending it to the National Archives, they’d impeach him for that.

    Hell, they would even make up the existence of the pen and an imaginary foreign dignitary to impeach him.

    The Constitution doesn’t mean shit to Republicans. Or to you.

  43. 43

    to access to the vice president/former vice president/future president paid for by companies run by hostile foreign nations.

    heh.. kreepshit “seriously” pooh-poohed drumpf’s corruption as “hotel stays”… hmmm.. “stays” like this:

    Foreign governments seem particu­larly keen to patronize Trump’s property. Between Oct. 1 and March 31, lobbyists working on behalf of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia ran up a $270,000 tab on rooms, catering and parking, according to foreign lobbying disclosures filed at the end of May and first reported by the Daily Caller. That stretch coincided with a Saudi lobbying push against legislation that would allow victims of terrorist attacks to sue foreign governments. In May, Trump chose Riyadh as his first foreign stop as President, where he announced an arms deal, gave a major foreign policy speech and participated in a traditional ceremonial sword dance.

    In December, diplomats from Bahrain shifted that country’s National Day festivities to Trump International’s gilded, 13,000-sq.-ft. presidential ballroom. As if on cue, Kuwait moved its own annual gala in February from the Four Seasons across town to Trump International—even though the former location had already been reserved. The embassy of Azerbaijan co-hosted a Hanukkah party in the hotel’s elegant Lincoln Library, with a roster of guests that included Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, who has become notorious this spring for meeting with several Trump Administration officials. “You know, successful people own things,” Azerbaijani Ambassador Elin Suleymanov tells TIME. “That is a natural thing.”

    https://time.com/donald-trumps-suite-of-power/

    Wow, kreepshit, strong post there little fella…

  44. 44

    And…

    State-level American government officials, including five governors and six attorneys general, have also been spotted at the hotel 53 times. The numbers given above are likely to be even higher than shown here, as CREW’s tracking draws largely from publicly available sources.

    All of this came to a head last month during the Republican National Convention, large parts of which were held in Washington, D.C., down the street from the hotel. CREW’s tracking identified at least 20 visits from government officials during the four-day convention, including an appearance by the president himself—his 500th to one of his properties—ahead of his nomination speech. During the convention, the Trump DC hotel hosted a number of panels, receptions and parties for convention attendees, including a private bourbon tasting hosted by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and a policy discussion featuring Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. Throughout the week, rooms at the hotel were sold out at jacked-up prices.

    https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/public-officials-have-made-one-thousand-visits-to-trumps-dc-hotel/

    Yeah I know boring sort of run of the mill graft next to dick pics.

  45. 45

    “Neither Israel nor UNRWA have specified the nature of the alleged involvement of UNRWA employees in the events of October 7, nor did they specify the number of employees allegedly involved.”

    UNWRA fired 12 employees based solely on Israel’s accusations, and then launched an investigation. It is not established that Israel’s accusations are true. Israel is not the world’s most credible source of information about what’s happening in Gaza; most likely relief agencies are, with journalists a close second.

    UNWRA is the main UN agency in Gaza. It “has provided aid to four generations of Palestine refugees, according to its website, covering education, healthcare, camp infrastructure, social services and emergency assistance, including in times of conflict. At least 152 UNRWA staffers have been killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began, according to the agency.” That’s more than a dozen UNRWA employees killed for every one accused of being “involved” (whatever that means) in the October 7 attacks.

    Israel has bombed hospitals and schools, shut off water and blocked food supplies, and done everything it can to conduct a genocide against Gazans (and has been accused of just that in the International Criminal Court) short of getting caught conducting actual blatant genocide, has a vested interest in discrediting the UN agency providing the very aid it has tried so hard to block.

    Israel has lied about other aspects of the conflict that began on October 7, too.

    I’m not saying Israel is lying when it says UNWR staffers were “involved” in the October 7 attacks. It may turn out that a small number of UNWR staffers engaged in condemnation-worthy conduct. But we need details — how many staffers, and how were they “involved”? And we need proof. Prudent and reasonable people don’t accept accusations without proof.

    Doctor Dumbfuck is neither prudent nor reasonable. Anything Israel says he swallows whole. He always assumes the worst about other people, and treats accusations as guilt. At this point, his comments about UNWR are merely a typical Doctor Dumbfuck rant.

  46. 46

    Not everything coming from Freeland, Washington, is bad. Whidbey Island Ice Cream Company’s ice cream is good. Doctor Dumbfuck doesn’t have any cows on his Freeland acreage, only a horse and goat, so you can rest assured this ice cream is made from milk and cream that’s safe to eat.

  48. 48

    46)Nichols Bros Boat Builders, built the superstructure of Olympic class ferries. If only they could build the whole boat, maybe give Vigor some competition.

  49. 49

    @48 When I read your post, I wondered if the Nichols boatyard is where William A. Robinson’s legendary sailing yacht “Varua” ended up after her sea days at Intersea Foundation ended, but that was Lovric’s in Anacortes. Further online digging reveals that as of 2023, “Varua” has been moved to California to be rebuilt. For more about “Varua,” read Robinson’s book “To the Great Southern Sea.” She was built in Robinson’s wartime (WW2) shipyard in the 1940s, and toward the end of the war he sailed her to Tahiti, where he retired and died. Intersea acquired the vessel from him, rebuilt it in 1972 or thereabouts, then used it for marine research expeditions until she was laid up for good. This apparently is where she is now:

    https://thehighestcritic.com/news-releases/medvets-partners-with-meredith-project-to-restore-historic-varua-sailboat/

    It would cost millions to build this boat from scratch today. I have no idea what the restoration will cost, but undoubtedly a lot. I’m glad to read she may get a new lease on life. I loved the book, and what this vessel did in “the ultimate storm” (an entire chapter in Robinson’s book) is breathtaking. In the right winds and sea conditions, she was capable of sailing over 200 miles a day. Here’s a photo of “Varua” in Tahiti waters during her glory days:

    https://www.tadroberts.ca/pics/Varua.jpg

    Not as practical as a ferry, but way more romantic.

  50. 50

    Veterans shouldn’t support Trump. He’s not one of them, doesn’t understand them, and disrespected them by calling America’s war dead “suckers” and “losers” during his (very brief) visit to a D-Day cemetery in France. (Does he secretly wish Hitler had won? We know he admires him.)

    “Donald Trump on Saturday was slammed by three ‘Gold Star’ families who lost their loved ones in war and now say the former president has nothing but contempt for them. The veterans’ rights group VoteVets posted a press release outlining a feud stemming from the organization’s recent ad buy. In the advertisement, the families expressed anger over Trump calling their fallen family members ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ Trump’s campaign released a statement in response to the ad, calling the families ‘shills’ and saying the ad itself is ‘vile.’ But the families responded Saturday, saying team Trump’s reply ‘just underscores the outright hate Donald Trump has for those who serve and those who’ve lost loved ones in war. It is a dark day in America when the Republican party’s presumptive nominee, who never served himself and never had family who wore the uniform, sends attack dogs after Gold Star families in this way,’ the statement notes.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-gold-star-families-outright-hate/

    Trump is the most selfish major political figure in American history. He has no respect for the military, but wanted to use it to seize voting machines, and there’s a good chance that if he gets back into the White House, he’ll at least try to use soldiers to shoot migrants and protesters. But Trump isn’t just a sorry excuse for a commander-in-chief. Anyone who votes for him is a sorry excuse for a citizen and a human being.

    Besides, he’s too old, feeble, and senile to be president.

    https://www.rawstory.com/dementia-trump-questions-misfires/

  51. 51

    Another example of the incredible dishonesty of Republican politicians:

    “‘I was recently proud to announce that both Duluth, Minnesota and superior Wisconsin received over $1 billion in federal funding to help replace the Blatnik Bridge,’ Congressman Stauber, a three-term backbench Republican, proudly declared in his social media video (below). ‘The Blatnik Bridge has helped drive our Twin Ports economy for the past six decades, and it needs repair and replacing. Securing the money to help replace this bridge has long been a priority of mine. And I am proud to help deliver over $1 billion in federal funds to the north.'”

    Now for the rest of the story:

    “The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party blasted Stauber: ‘FACT CHECK: you said the law that’s funding the Blatnik Bridge replacement was a path to socialism and voted against it. Give it up.'”

    https://www.rawstory.com/reality-check-buttigieg-busts-republicans-claim-of-infrastructure-support-2667102100/

    Stauber is only one of many GOP congressmen who attacked Biden’s infrastructure bill, voted against it, and then tried to claim credit for projects it funded.

  52. 52

    Elise Stefanik likes her new role as chair of the House Republican Conference, and wants to be Trump’s 2024 veep pick. That’s why the following statement posted on Jan. 6, 2021, disappeared from her website:

    “This is truly a tragic day for America. I fully condemn the dangerous violence and destruction that occurred today at the United States Capitol. Americans have a Constitutional right to protest and freedom of speech, but violence in any form is absolutely unacceptable and anti-American. The perpetrators of this un-American violence and destruction must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

    Now that she’s expressing “concerns about the treatment of Jan. 6 hostages,” Liz Cheney is taking it on herself to tell the world what a two-faced douche Stefanik is by reminding voters of her original statement.

    https://www.aol.com/news/cheney-recirculates-stefanik-jan-6-235544109.html

  55. 55

    54,
    I don’t know about that.

    She has certainly narrowed significantly his grounds for appeal. And Trump’s own conduct has also.

    I don’t think he cares. I think he expects to raise more money off of the trial than it will ever cost him. The whole thing is a performance art exercise in grievances for the benefit of his aging impotent white male audience of mouth breathing dullards precision designed to make them empty their pockets.

  56. 56

    Acyn @ Acyn on Xitter

    Biden: Donald Trump when he was commander-in-chief refused to visit a U.S. Cemetery outside of Paris for fallen American soldiers. He referred to those heroes as suckers and losers. How dare he say that! I called them patriots and heroes. The only loser I see is Donald Trump.

  57. 57

    Republicans are the only US political party routinely offering proposals to strip away individual rights in general, individual rights in opposition to the state, to reduce or limit access to elections and ballots, and to vastly expand the size and empowerment of the institutional police/prison state complex.

    And the Republican party is the party most associated with vehement opposition to any form of “socialism” whether actual, adjacent, or merely imagined.

    Please keep these facts in mind whenever you encounter any “conservative” deploying slippery slope arguments that socialist policy solutions must be rejected in order to avoid authoritarianism.

  58. 58

    The Special Master, appointed to dig through the Trump The Rapist’s NY finances to help prepare a final criminal fraud judgement following The Rapist’s criminal conviction for fraud last month, revealed in a letter to Judge Engoron filed on Friday that Trump The Rapist used a fake, undocumented loan to avoid paying taxes on $48 million in income from one of his NY LLCs.

    Tip of the iceberg.

    The income in question was reported on the accounting statements as a loan. However absolutely no documentation exists memorializing the loan in any way. It should hopefully go without saying that normal business enterprises engaging in the responsible protection of assets and income in ways generally understood by auditors and accountants would require such supporting documents. Given the tendency demonstrated by Trump The Rapist to employ underpaid dipshits, the absence of any fraudulent documentation is likely to have resulted from lazy, incompetent oversight.

    So a valid and now supported criminal inquiry would ask how many of the loans supported with documents are in fact fake?

  59. 59

    “She can just put my name on the side of her house and the value goes up $83 million and we’re square.

    Square footage goes up too. No contractors needed.”

  60. 60

    “Fetterman, Fetterman, you can’t hide
    You’re supporting genocide!”

    Clay Travis
    @ClayTravis
    Pro-Palestinian protesters showed up to John Fetterman’s home to chant that he supported genocide. Fetterman went to his roof & waved an Israeli flag at them. I can’t believe it, but I’m starting to really like & respect Fetterman. 2024 is wild, y’all.
    From
    Israel War Room
    7:31 PM · Jan 26, 2024

    Queen YLB is an unserious twat, to be sure, but our darling girl is far from unique.

  61. 61

    What do Donald Trump @ 59 and Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit have in common?

    They both shamelessly inflate their net worth, to comic effect.

  62. 62

    News of the Day:

    Fact Check
    Did Biden Wear a Hard Hat Backwards in Photo Op with Construction Workers?

    Rating:
    True

    This was corrected from “False” after the outcry, meaning the imbecilic behavior of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president got to make the news not once, but twice:

    Editor’s Note: We received a ton of comments in a very short time challenging our assumption that wearing a hard hat “backwards” means wearing it with the brim facing to the rear, and “forwards” means wearing it brim to the front. On the basis of that assumption, we originally rated the claim that Biden was wearing a hard hat backwards as false.

    The prevailing counter-argument is that if the suspension of the hat has been purposely configured by its owner such that the bill and tightening knob are worn to the back (as was the case of the hat Biden wore), to wear that hat with the bill facing forward is, practically speaking, to wear it backwards. Therefore, it’s argued, it’s actually true that, in the photo op discussed below, Biden was wearing it backwards. The strap and tightening knob, which should have been behind Biden’s head, were on his forehead.

    A corollary to that argument is “Biden looks damn silly in any case.”

    We find these arguments sound. Therefore, the claim “President Joe Biden wore a hard hat backwards during a photo op with union construction workers in Superior, Wisconsin” is true, and this fact check has been re-rated as such. Thanks to all who argued on behalf of this correction.

    Snopes is nothing if not hilarious.

  63. 63

    They both shamelessly inflate their net worth, to comic effect.

    But our profoundly stupid trust fund troll will only be voting for one of them, twice, in the coming months.

  64. 64

    “Fetterman, Fetterman, you can’t hide
    You’re supporting genocide!”

    Fetterman waves an Israeli flag but is silent so far, to my knowledge, about defunding an AI-enabled IRS.

    Until the silence is lifted in the appropriate manner we’re sure Fetterman remains the dying troll’s “unserious vegetable”..

    Please understand the genocidal bombing of Gaza is AI-enabled as well..

    yawwwwn..

    knock, knock, knock..

  65. 65

    Rioting is a choice.
    Beating police with fire extinguishers and stabbing them in the neck with tasers is a choice.
    Planting pipe-bombs is a choice.
    Forging state election certificates is a choice.
    Insurrection is a CHOICE.

    The things that can disqualify a person from voting and otherwise participating in democratic processes, including appearing on state ballots and running for office are things arising from their own individual choices. Choices that betray us all collectively as a nation, that seek to destroy us as a democratic nation, should absolutely entail the most severe consequences. Preservation of our democracy depends at least in part on delivering those severe consequences consistently and without hesitation. Excuses should be irrelevant.

  66. 66

    Can we get another “good on her” for Hillary from the dying troll?

    Love what the country that can do no wrong’s effect on soft always wrong wing brains..

    When the bodies of babies, women and crippled old men with funny last names are stacked to the sky by the IDF..

    It’s called “mowing the grass”… A “serious” chore for the country that can do no wrong.

  67. 67

    Who’s one of the biggest arms suppliers to Hamas?

    Awwww.. It’s the country that can no wrong…

    A few miles away, members of an Israeli forensic team collected one of the 5,000 rockets fired by Hamas that day. Examining the rocket, they discovered that its military-grade explosives had most likely come from an unexploded Israeli missile fired into Gaza during a previous war, according to an Israeli intelligence officer.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-weapons-rockets.html

    Who’d a thunk it? All those rockets that overwhelmed Iron Dome defense systems on Oct 7, made of materials courtesy of the Gaza open air prison’s guards. Stack that next to Bibi’s suitcases of cash.

    How “serious” of the country that can do no wrong.

    btw, why couldn’t the country that can do no wrong “secure the border” w/ Gaza before Oct 7? Oh well, by definition Israel “does no wrong” and is always “serious” – well when stacking bodies of people with funny names, anyway.

  68. 68

    @ 65

    Choices that betray us all collectively as a nation, that seek to destroy us as a democratic nation, should absolutely entail the most severe consequences.

    Unless they are prisoners convicted of violent crimes, in which case they are likely Democrat voters and should be allowed to vote. Twice, at least.

  69. 69

    they are likely Democrat voters

    If this was from the babbling butthole it wouldn’t be “likely”, it would be “always”…

    How “unserious”.. yawwwn.

  70. 70

    Shop Girl now declares on MTP that if she goes down she vows to take down Trump The Rapist and the RNC with her.

    Shop Girl currently has 17 delegates compared to Trump The Rapist’s 32. She insists she will not back down and plans to contest Trump The Rapist all the way to the convention.

    🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿👍😀

  71. 71

    8,000 “likely Democrat voters” didn’t plant pipe bombs on Jan 6th or pay state campaign workers to pose as fake electors.

    Not even once. Ever.

    Trump voters did that dozens of times in just one election.

    It’s hard to imagine why or how Republicans think they can debate these things anymore.

    LPT: You can’t debate whether or not Trump The Rapist is actually guilty of rape anymore.
    It’s in his name.

  72. 72

    Shop Girl now declares on MTP that if she goes down she vows to take down Trump The Rapist and the RNC with her.

    Sounds pretty “serious”.. We shall see.

    “Good on her”.. If she’s successful then it’s..

    knock, knock, knock..

    for the dying troll..

  73. 73

    Trump The Rapist was forced to nope out of a “yuuuuge” Arizona MAGAT FREEDUMBFEST event at the last minute when dipshit organizers discovered they could not get Arizona state taxpayers to foot the bill for Trump The Rapist’s security.

    🍿🥳🤡

  74. 74

    Sounds like some governance reform is coming for Public Transportation Benefit Area Authorities. A bill in the legislature would require at least one board member of a PTBA to be someone who depends on transit, and one to be someone who uses public transportation as their primary transportation, and another to be a representative of an organization that represents transit-dependent individuals. Rather than list all 21 agencies it apologies to, its easier to list some it doesn’t, as it only applies to PTBAAs, it doesn’t apply to County Transportation Authorities, Metropolitan County Transportation Authorities, and city-owned systems, plus Regional Transit Authorities. Examples of those are Greys Harbor Transit, King County Metro, Everett Transit., and Sound Transit

    https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/01/25/rider-reps-could-be-coming-to-transit-boards/

    Also, it would require board meetings to be held in a place accessible by Public Transportation. That should have been obvious, which King County Metro and Sound Transit already do.

  75. 75

    72,
    Sounds pretty “serious”.. We shall see.

    All she’s got to do is organize a floor challenge at the convention…

    … and build a few simple pipe bombs.

    She can always blame the violence and bloodshed on Trump The Rapist. At this point nobody would think to question that. 😉🙏

  76. 76

    Well, well, well…three more service members killed and another 25 injured over in some Middle Eastern shithole. It’s time to dismember the Military Industrial Congressional Complex and wind down the Empire.

  78. 78

    @61 I never for a moment thought you’d stoop so low as to compare me to Donald Trump, but here we are.

    Calling you a horse fucker must really sting.

    To me, you’re just sport.

  79. 79

    …some Middle Eastern shithole..

    Specifically a shit hole where US service volunteers find themselves exclusively so that yet another Republican Fail-President could pose in an ill- fitted flight suit including a cod piece and bask in the adoration of “conservatives” as a “War President“.

    A Fail-President my brief research indicates this underperforming troll vehemently defended in these comments on many occasions.

    As the profoundly stupid trust fund troll would almost certainly say:
    “Asshole.“

  81. 81

    @70 “Shop Girl now declares on MTP that if she goes down she vows to take down Trump The Rapist and the RNC with her.”

    Sounds like wishful thinking, but good on her if she can pull it off. It would be the best public service she’s performed since hauling down the Confederate flag after thinking about it for several years.

  82. 82

    @76 Would you rather fight them on their soil or our soil? Because if we don’t take it to them, they’ll bring it to us. Mmm? Look up 9/11/2001 sometime.

  84. 84

    In 14th Amendment news, 25 Civil War and Reconstruction historians filed an amicus brief supporting disqualification, and a Republican judge reported to the Illinois Election Commission that Trump engaged in insurrection.

    I guess you could say the “friends of the court” are no friends of Donald Trump.

  86. 86

    There might actually be something noteworthy about the fact that “#Trumpsmells” remains a trending topic now after many weeks of various published stories and social media posts, and still Trump has not threatened any legal retaliation.

    https://youtu.be/8-4M85B3HNg

    Comedian Noel Casler who worked on The Apprentice published stories about the aging celebrity shitting himself from excessive cocaine use many years ago. And since then the stories have only proliferated. Yet the normally combatively vain and defensive Trump has never responded.

    Interesting.

  87. 87

    Tay tay is the lucky charm for the Chiefs..

    Unbelievable…

  88. 88

    Joe Biden said Beau was killed during WWII and is buried in France outside of Paris.

  89. 89

    @ 87

    Tay tay is the lucky charm for the Chiefs..

    Unbelievable…

    HA’s Unserious Twat, our darling Queen YLB, is upset at Taylor Swift. This spat goes back to the latter’s video, You Belong With Me, in which a cheerleader was unfavorably portrayed.

    Queen YLB is a cheerleader at heart, there being nothing in her brain, you see, and takes issue when her sister cheerleaders are affronted.

    No one treats a woman more viciously than another woman, and Queen YLB proves it.

  90. 90

    At minimum the GOP will be able to highlight that Biden spent three years claiming there is no crisis on the border before finally acknowledging there is a crisis, while Mayorkas hasn’t. Yet.

    House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security’s Mayorkas over the border

    Republicans contend Mayorkas is guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that amount to a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” on immigration and a “breach of the public trust.” Impeachment, they say, is “Congress’s only viable option.”

    Election of a Republican president in November is the voters’ viable option.

  91. 91

    An Iranian proxy earlier today killed three American soldiers in Jordan. At least a couple of dozen more were wounded.

    Iran has zero reason to fear my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president. The nations who do are our allies.

  92. 92

    Trump is not wrong.

    The fact is that if Joe Biden truly wanted to secure the border, he doesn’t really need a bill.

  93. 93

    Say, let’s give more “war” money to Ukraine.

    Fox News
    @FoxNews
    5 Ukrainian officials arrested over theft of $40 million in war funds as Ukraine corruption persists
    From foxnews.com
    4:26 AM · Jan 28, 2024

    While we’re at it, let’s make the retirement fund contributions to corrupt Ukraine government employees.

  94. 94

    Blog comment:

    This is why it is important to read past the headlines. Biden did not agree to shut down the border for more funding, but only to “shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed.” Guess who gets to determine whether the border is “overwhelmed.” I doubt it is Governor Abbott. This is an empty, meaningless “commitment” that will change nothing.

    What will change is that more money will be spent on Ukraine and Gaza.

  95. 95

    White House transcript now having to clean up Biden gaffes that are spoken so clearly that they can’t be written off as [untelligible]:

    Did you see what he recently said about that wants to — that he wants to see the economy crash this year? A sitting [former] President. As they say in my faith, “Bless me, Father, for…” — (the President begins to makes the sign of the cross). I mean, come on, man. (Laughter.)
    …
    And here’s what it did. It helped cut Black poverty in half for Black children in America. (Applause.) Because no child in America should ever go hunger [hungry] — ever.
    …
    Now, maybe Donald Trump and his MAGA friends believe that they have — they — to — you have to hold us down to lift everybody else [themselves] up.

    …

  96. 96

    @ 91

    Iran’s gonna need more than one word spoken by a corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president who in no uncertain terms displayed his cowardice when he abandoned Afghanistan.

    Biden: ‘To anyone thinking of taking advantage of the situation, I have one word: don’t’

  97. 97

    @88 Do you have a source for that? You won’t be able to post that on Wikipedia without a reference and footnote.

  100. 100

    Republicans don’t give an actual damn about the border. They only care about politics. The border crisis has to be prolonged because doing anything about it is a privilege reserved for Trump.

  101. 101

    Charlie Dent said The Drumpf is making it hard for Repukes to win.

    I really take exception to everyone just hating on Drump. Drumpf wouldn’t be the problem he is, if other Repukes had spines and morals and convictions to stand by.

    Boot lickers like Bob really have fucked over the GOP.

    Oh and by the way, heteros keep hating while the Gay people are loving.🏳️‍🌈🖕🏳️‍🌈

  102. 102

    Trump lies about his net worth, and Bob lies about my net worth.

    What a pair.

    It’s a Trio….he lies about his wealth too. He’s no richer than PI. He lives on a shithole island for God’s sake.

  103. 103

    This is fun!

  106. 106

    “viable option“

    … is just one helluva bumper sticker come down from the Trumpium of “The Pain®”.

  107. 107

    Republican hypocrisy is endless. They claim to be the “law and order” party, but defy the courts and even threaten civil war. This isn’t MAGA riffraff I’m talking about, it’s elected Republican officials in positions of responsibility. Whatever the crime problem may be, America also has a Republican problem.*

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ayman-republicans-border_n_65b73be0e4b0d407294f9e05

    https://www.rawstory.com/noem-texas-border/

    * Statistics show crime is declining, but insurrection is increasing

  108. 108

    Here’s a pretty good description (at least I think so) of the 14th Amendment by a law professor:

    “Congress and the states ratified the amendment, including Section 3, after the Civil War because they believed that oath-breaking insurrectionists could, if given the power of elected office, dismantle the country’s constitutional system from within. The 39th Congress considered Section 3 a necessary measure of self-defense – ensuring that those who had proven themselves faithless would be deprived of the political power to threaten the future peace and security of the United States.”

    https://theconversation.com/colorado-voters-seeking-to-disqualify-trump-from-the-ballot-tell-supreme-court-jan-6-will-forever-stain-us-history-221714

    If this is indeed how Section 3 should be interpreted, then it doesn’t make sense that a criminal conviction of insurrection is required to disqualify a candidate; “proving himself faithless” to his oath of office ought to be sufficient.

    The article contains links to briefs here and here.

  109. 109

    If the Supreme Court disqualifies Trump and Biden drops out, we could end up with two brown-skinned women as the Republican and Democratic nominees. That sure would be interesting. Would a lot of white guys refuse to vote?

  111. 111

    I’m only in favor of expanding the “welfare state” when doing so exclusively benefits a retired, millionaire quarterback who gets me tickets.

  112. 112

    For decades Brett Favre performed, produced, and delivered proving both his discipline and his worth. His children deserve any extra opportunity taxpayers can give them.

    Those opportunities would be wasted on hungry, mal nourished, poor kids in Mississippi. And giving them freedom from hunger and mal nourishment would deprive them of the cruel lessons they must endure.

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