Gosh. I do not like the work in the transit tunnel. It’s not normally a part of my commute and already I have just stood in the tunnel waiting too long, or I took the shuttle. It’s also just dusty and gross.
Maintenance is necessary and it’s going to be inconvenient. Still, so are complaints. At least it will be done in a few weeks.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
MAGA Republican piece of shit Steve Garvey running for the open US Senate seat in California is so weak that he’s quietly telling the local media that he would vote for Joe Biden for president over Fuckface VonClownstick. And he’s hoping Orange Fuckface won’t notice? Or that California voters won’t notice he’s a lying piece of shit ? 💩
I’m just thankful that this piece of shit 💩 Garvey will be soaking up hundreds of millions of California “conservative” asshole dollars and pissing them all away on his little baby-fascist ego trip.
$3.4 trillion in options will expire today.
Buying into shares at levels 20% below what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit pays to buy into shares is what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit refers to as “gambling”.
Fani Willis is now accusing her adulterous lover’s estranged wife of coordinating with the Trump campaign to disrupt her intended prosecution of Trump.
Nope, no prosecutorial conflict of interest here. Not at all.
I just hope Fat Midget and Shop Girl hang in long enough to bleed more of Trump’s declining funds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/us/politics/trump-haley-super-tuesday.html
It would be nice to see the GOP broke and crippled staggering into the general election.
@ 4
It would be
nicenecessary to see the GOP broke and crippled staggering into the general election.Otherwise Trump wins.
Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-second-term-plans-wildest-proposals-1234947327/
He will indict Biden and all his other political enemies. Trump has made abundantly clear that he will use a potential second term in office to take revenge on his enemies.
He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants
He will send the military to the border, sending hundreds of thousands of troops to help seal the border and build new detention camps to house migrants (before he deports them).
He will invade Mexico, because reasons.
He will round up the homeless into tent cities.
He send the National Guard into liberal cities to “fight crime” and do his bidding.
He will bring back the death penalty in a big way
He will make stuff more expensive by taxing all imported goods
He will roll back all of Biden’s climate progress and reinvest in fossils fuels
He will overhaul the education system in the conservative evangelical image
He will torch the First Amendment by punishing and destroying non-MAGA media. He will get revenge on anyone who does not praise him enough.
He will legally de legitimize trans Americans. (Guess who’s next?)
He will pardon the Jan. 6 insurrectionists
He will gut the federal government and take unprecedented control of what’s left
Oklahoma Republican’s bill labels Hispanic people ‘terrorists’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/oklahoma-bill-labels-hispanic-people-terrorists
The punishment would be forfeiting all assets, including any and all property, vehicles and money.
The bill defines a terrorist as “any person who is of Hispanic descent living within the state of Oklahoma”.
Not in Michigan with 15 EVs.
Where’s that leave him?
The guy who couldn’t get over 50 in deep dark red Iowa facing imperitive must win in PA and GA, or needing to flip all of Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
It’s not too early to start facing pathways. Trump is obviously the Republican nominee. Even the profoundly stupid trust fund troll now finally admits that he’s been completely wrong for more than a year.
It’s a rematch of 2020 in which incumbent Trump got his corrupt but not yet twice impeached, and not yet facing 90 felony indictments going to trial ass handed to him by a nice retired guy in a cozy button up light blue sweater campaigning from his basement.
Then take away Michigan.
Trump has to win these states where he lost, and where since he lost ultra-MAGA lunatics have seized control of his party and where, thanks to that he’ll be sharing a ballot with bug-fuck crazy unlikeable assholes like Kari Lake.
As Trump learned to his despair, nobody gets re-election handed to them. Biden has done a few of these. He’s the most experienced and competent campaigner alive today. He and Julie Chavez Rodriguez know exactly what is required of them and of our campaign to beat Republicans into the back pages of history. They aren’t going to quit. And they aren’t going to be distracted by lawsuits, criminal trials, appeals, and sudden unexpected outbreaks of secondary syphilis.
You “highly educated coastal elites” are all living in a fantasy land.
“(F)antasy land” is believing you can protect yourself from a deadly respiratory virus by wearing a copper bracelet and drinking bleach.
The divorce proceedings between Wade & his estranged wife have been going on for > 2 yrs. The estranged wife no longer lives in Georgia. She & Wade had agreed to an uncontested divorce & both agreed to seal the case. The soon to be ex was approached by someone to unseal the case & get Willis deposed even tho she had never been mentioned in divorce proceedings. Willis has filed for a protective order to quash the subpoena & deposition.
11,
None of that means anything one way or the other.
Of course Trump MAGA operatives reached out to Wade’s ex-wife for dirt. They would be doing oppo on everyone involved in the prosecution to apply pressure in any way they can. They’d have reached out to neighbors, former co-workers, former colleagues, college roommates, or even random unstable, former temps with a history of pathological lying and car theft (FINGERBANG!!!!!). That’s how these things work if you bring a criminal prosecution against powerful people.
But it also emphasizes that so far at least, there’s no actual evidence to accompany Mike Roman’s accusation. Were it any other people facing prosecution I’d be inclined to assume that the defense would simply never level an accusation of this kind without at least some evidence to support it. But that would be before Stop the Steal and everything that followed, which is precisely who these defendants are. Mike Roman is a guy who claims that a dead Venezuelan dictator interfered to tip the election in favor of Joe Biden by using a space laser hidden behind the moon to alter voting machines.
These people are bullshit artists. So I’m not assuming anything until the hearing. But I won’t be surprised at all if Mike Roman shows up empty handed wearing a rented gorilla suit.
As expected, Republicans are lying about what Hunter Biden’s lawyer said behind closed doors. And they aren’t even lying about Hunter’s testimony yet, which is still to come.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/politics/kevin-morris-republicans-response/index.html
“What they do has an elementary school quality to it,” lawyer Kevin Morris said.
@2 Explain how you get prices 20% below market, and why you think I’m buying stock on a day the DJIA is up 400 points. Show your work for each specific position.
@3 “adulterous”
When was that ever a problem for you in politics?
@7 This low-information racist jackass doesn’t know (1) crime rates are falling and (2) undocumented immigrants have half the crime rate as citizens.
Still worried about crime? Then deport the Americans and keep the Mexicans. You’ll have a much safer country and neighborhood.
Immigrants, legal and otherwise, come here to work. They take jobs Americans don’t want and can’t do. They prop up our economy in a time of labor shortages. They’re responsible for cheap food, repairing your air conditioning, and replacing your roof. They help fund your Social Security. Throwing them out is shooting yourself in the balls. But that’s what Republicans are good at, isn’t it?
15,
What? Are you saying you think paying a porn star to hook up with you in a motel room and then fraudulently diverting campaign funds to hire a lawyer to arrange hush payments that you also fraudulently diverted from your business is “improper”?
We already settled that. Anyone in any office can conduct a consensual adulterous sexual affair with anyone and suffer no official consequences for it. The fucking cannot be the issue or the issue is already dead for them.
@9 It’s no fantasy that you get up at 4:00 am to milk the cows, and we get up at 9 am and drink the milk. That’s the reality you chose for yourself and we achieved for ourselves.
You should’ve at least gone to community college after getting your GED. Community college isn’t that expensive.
15,
Also, while stipulating that it cannot matter, it isn’t even factually accurate to describe a romantic relationship between Fanni Willis and Nathan Wade as adulterous. The Wade’s divorce was sealed two years ago.
Nobody is as gullible as Republican voters.
But NRA members can certainly give them a run for their money.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nra-wayne-lapierre-recording-private-jet-limousine-expenses
@ 10
“(F)antasy land” is believing you can protect yourself from a deadly respiratory virus by wearing a copper bracelet and drinking bleach.
Also, that six feet of separation will do any good.
Dr. Fauci and the ‘Sort of Just Appeared’ Defense
15,
If Mike Roman has any point at all it is limited to far less than what the profoundly stupid trust fund troll wnats or needs.
The fucking alone cannot be the issue.
Nor honestly can any co-vacationing together alone be the issue.
But if Mike Roman can show that the reason for Willis’ hiring of Wade was their relationship, that he was/is being hired/paid improperly, then it would absolutely present a great big challenge to the prosecution going forward under Willis’ oversight and control.
First what I describe is very difficult to prove. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be proved. It just means that a much more thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding Wade’s hiring might have to come first, conducted by some independent Georgia third party, and that third party in Georgia is going to probably be Republican. And based on that investigation, if it is determined that Wade isn’t properly qualified and that his hiring was influenced by the relationship (a bunch of ifs to prove) then the judge might order the prosecution be removed to another office. The charges themselves aren’t disturbed by such a finding.
And again, if some other office gets handed the prosecution of the case that could go better for the defendants.
Anyway, that’s all a lot of ifs. And at this point there’s almost nothing to go on. And it also won’t change the posturing of ultra MAGA Trump supporters about the underlying charges.
RICO cases are bullshit cases. I’ve posted that here before. These are wars of attrition intended to very unfairly bludgeon the accused into submission. That’s probably why the defendants who were lawyers all took an early deal. They don’t want to go broke over the next five years. And so whatever the outcome of this motion, this case was not heading to trial any time soon.
@22 Social distancing didn’t “sort of just appear.” It’s been used as a primary tool for combatting infectious outbreaks since at least the Middle Ages, and figured prominently in the 1918 influenza pandemic:
“‘In 1918, this was a disease that, to the extent that it was controlled, it was done entirely by public health measures of social distancing,’ said Jones. ‘Some skeptics may say, ‘There were 50 million deaths around the world. Why would you even suggest that social distancing was helpful?’ A lot of people died. We’re not going to deny that. Social distancing did not cure the disease and did not prevent it. Mortality was still appalling, but it would have been worse if not for public health measures.’”
And it wasn’t just Dr. Fauci promoting masks and social distancing before we had vaccines or cures. (Think: better than nothing.) Almost the entire medical profession did.
What’s your evidence it didn’t save lives? Studies of the 1918 pandemic concluded it did that time, so why would this time be different?
@ 20
The Wade’s divorce was sealed two years ago.
The filings may have been sealed. The divorce is not yet final. If you read the motions, no one is describing the divorce using past tense terminology.
You’re better off arguing that it’s not adulterous because the Wades have been living apart since 2021.
@25 Are you just waking up to the fact that married couples who have split, are living apart, and have no intention of ever resuming their relationship, don’t always wait for the ink to dry on the final legal formalities to resume living and start new relationships?
@ 24
Studies of the 1918 pandemic concluded it saved lives that time, so why would this time be different?
In 1918 the methods used included closing schools and banning gatherings. Those are a far cry from six feet apart in the same room.
There is no evidence that six feet is better than, say, 4 feet WRT the Wuhan virus, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. It’s why Fauci isn’t claiming that the six feet thing was evidence-based. It’s not.
Pull your head out of your ass now and then.
Otoh, I totally understand Doc’s revulsion at how some prominent Republicans handle these situations:
“Throughout his congressional campaign in 1974, Gingrich was having an affair with a young volunteer. An aide who worked with Gingrich throughout the 1970s stated that ‘it was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie.’ … In September 1980, according to friends who knew them both, Gingrich visited Jackie in the hospital the day after she had undergone surgery to treat her uterine cancer; once there, Gingrich began talking about the terms of their divorce, at which point Jackie threw him out of the room.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich
I was repulsed by that, too.
Fail.
Trump never gave me six feet.
@30,
Me either.
Then he lied to me long enough to put my life at risk almost as much as yours.
@ 26
Are you just waking up to the fact that …
I was informing QoS McHillbilly of the fact that the Wades’ divorce is not finalized. The two are still married.
The point isn’t who fucked whom. The point is that the fuckers may very well have, at minimum, inserted a substantial delay into the Georgia case against Trump, and possibly may even have torpedoed the current effort so that someone else will have to start from scratch.
The prosecution is dirty. That’s a problem for Democrats.
@30, @31,
At least Trump never sent a violent armed mob to hunt you down and hang you.
26,
The profoundly stupid trust fund troll has been through enough of his own divorces to know better.
That’s not “adultery”.
That’s profound stupidity.
In RICO cases, delay favors the prosecution. And since this prosecution hasn’t even started yet, to “start from scratch” also favors the prosecution. How many more defendants will flip in 2024?
2025?
2026?
I hear that DeSantis and 6″ lifts, sore feet and aching back are focused on South Carolina where he’s presently down 10.8 in the RCP Average to Nikki.
Sure, that’s better than the 21.3 that he’s down in New Hampshire, but still, both suck, one just more so than the other.
It’s past time that DeSantis give his aching feet and sore back a rest.
Garvey got divorced and fathered two kids with two women in a single year.
He’s a Christian HERO! Man of God.
@29 They weren’t hot sellers in the $130K – $145K price range.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-lightning-ev-pickup-dealer-markups/
Or in the high 80Ks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31j45xUVljo
Automakers and car dealers tried to get away with egregious price-gouging on what they expected to be a popular vehicle. Market economics did its thing. Reprice these trucks and they’ll move off the lots.
Before “Bidenflation,” my local QFC sold a block of Vermont white cheddar cheese for $9.99. During “Bidenflation,” the price changed to $13.99. After “Bidenflation,” this block of cheese is now “on sale” for $9.99.
Even the business-pandering financial media reported that corporations exploited “Bidenflation” to price-gouge. Now “inflation” is coming down because shortages have dissipated and companies can’t get away with black-marketing their own products anymore.
Inflation my ass. Every single F-150 sitting on dealer lots will be sold … when they go “on sale.” Guess who else is cutting prices to move cars? Starts with a “T” …
@32 “still married”
That and $7 or so will get you a Frappuccino at the corner coffee shop, but not dismissal of grand jury felony indictments.
@34 I have to take issue with this. I don’t believe he ever had an adulterous relationship, or even a marital one for that matter. His wives married him for the status and money (i.e. being a “doctor’s wife”), and left when they discovered there was no money and he was cheating with a horse.
Looks like Sports Illustrated is history. Maybe they’ll still publish an annual swimsuit issue, though. That’s always a big seller.
“Reacting to Donald Trump’s Fox News interview on Thursday night where MSNBC labeled the former president as ‘dazed and confused,’ host Jonathan Lemire pointed out he has been covering the real estate magnate turned politician for decades and noted his decline is alarming.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mental-decline-2667005350/
Too old, feeble, and senile to be president, don’t you agree, doc? By this fall, he’ll be a jabbering idiot spewing gibberish.
Law school: “We don’t know this woman.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/GOOGLElina-habba-is-persona-non-grata-at-her-pennsylvania-law-school/ar-BB1gXeRR
Meanwhile, “Three lawyers who helped disgraced Trump lawyer Sidney Powell in her efforts to overturn the 2020 election have had disciplinary charges filed against them by D.C. bar investigators, Politico reported. Julia Haller, Lawrence Joseph, and Brandon Johnson are accused of making false statements in court about lawsuits they filed in the weeks after the 2020 election.”
https://www.rawstory.com/dc-bar-disciplinary-charges-trump-lawyers/
@37,
But that would be ADULTERY, would it not?
@38,
With TSLA down 36 YTD what else am I supposed to do but point out every tiny hiccup with all the other larger and far more successful EV makers.
Florida, man we actually love you! (I have only seen this on TikTok so far and I know how y’all feel about that so to the Google if you want it. It should be everywhere in a few hours)
The newly minted Florida GOP chair is Evan Powers. He has a DUI on his record. That’s not particularly remarkable. Lots of people have a DUI. Whether that precludes you from holding some kind of a political office is up to individual voters. But it is interesting from the “Law And Order” party. It’s also interesting because after having a Chair get blown up for being a rapist you would think the FL GOP would find a guy, not a gal mind you this is the GOP, with nary a blemish on his record.
But what’s also interesting is there’s body and dashcam footage of his arrest. And it’s quite a tape.
After being asked how much he had to drink:
“Two Drinks.”
What’d’you have?
“I had A Beer and (pause) a beer. Two beers.”
What kind of beers were you drinking?
“Regular beers. (Regular beers, says his female passenger.)”
What brand of beer?
“Probably a Bud Light.” (hee hee, Bud Light, but most people who aren’t shitfaced can tell you. Especially if it’s your regular non micro industrial swill you ALWAYS order.)
Then he utterly failed his field sobriety test and asked,
“Can I stop now? I realize (slurred) this is not gonna end well for me.”
Jan 5th, 2024:
After being cuffed officers found a loaded hundgun in the car. Drunk and in possession of a firearm is a misdemeanor in Florida punishable by up to six months in jail. Power does not appear to have been charged for that crime.
@45
While we’re talking about stocks, would a record high S&P 500 close indicate that recession is coming NOW, in a few months, By November or guaranteed DAY one 2025 unless Donald wins the presidency?
How about DJIA?
OH MY GOD!!!!
THE ENTIRE LEGAL SYSTEM IS RIGGED!!!!
The Timeline is not Dumbfuck’s friend.
Joycelyn Wade said her husband filed for divorce on Nov. 2, 2021 — a day after Willis appointed him as special prosecutor.
The credit card statements showing Wade had purchased tickets for himself and Willis to travel San Francisco and Miami in 2022 and 2023 were attached to a filing by Wade’s estranged wife, Joycelyn Wade, in the couple’s ongoing divorce case in Cobb County, Georgia.
So is 2022 AFTER she filed for divorce.
Is it also after he was hired?
Of interest, Florida is NOT a community property state so once she filed for divorce how her soon to be Ex-Husband spends his money is none of her damn business. The moral of the story is, don’t be a stay-at-home mom in Florida. He’s gonna take off with a younger woman named Milania or Marla or something and you get NOTHING!
@48
Way to focus on the little things. There’s an entire movement that is ready to take up arms against the “two-tiered justice system that is persecuting
our lord and saviorDonald J. Trump.”You yourself refenced it in a a jury questionnaire post yesterday.
Good work.
Solid Post.
Allow me to retort!
@49
Preemptive strike.
Get ready for this to blow up in Dumbfuck’s face.
The only impropriety that can be leveled is if Wills was in a relationship with Wade at the time of his hiring. Is it possible that they were, sure. If there was evidence of it it would be in the divorce filings that team Trump now has access too. That they have chosen to leak that they two of them went on two trips AFTER he was hired to cloud the waters as much as possible is pretty telling though.
@46 “Drunk and in possession of a firearm … in Florida” is a road rage waiting to happen. Like this guy, but I guess that’s how Floridians drive.
@51 What’s most telling is Trump always defends himself against accusations by attacking the judge, prosecutor, and jury, and never with evidence of his own innocence …
Being guilty in a world where everyone is guilty doesn’t make him innocent …
Being guilty in a world where everyone is guilty doesn’t make him innocent …
It does for Republicans.
Trump really could shoot someone in the face in front of hundreds of witnesses. But as long as a few of those witnesses once parked in a disabled zone and downloaded pirated music, and as long as the prosecutor once tied his necktie with the wrong knot, and as long as the judge cheated on a math test in middle school, then that’s really all Republicans need.
They aren’t voting “against Joe Biden”.
They really are voting for Trump.
They just need some kind of excuse. Doesn’t have to be good. Doesn’t even have to be plausible or make much sense. Just any reason will do.
Tan suit? Jail.
Odd name? Believe it or not Jail.
Kid in recovery? Straight to jail.
They will all vote for Trump in November no matter what. And the only way Democrats defeat them is by outnumbering them.