Jay Inslee is not going to seek a 4th term. Not totally unexpected, but still, it feels like the end of an era. It’s still a year and a half away from the election to replace him, so no need to pick just yet. Ferguson and Franz have both done a good job at their current positions, although I was not impressed with Ferguson on the King County Council. Should be an exciting campaign.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
And a DEAD Murdoch, Putin, the ENTIRE ECONOMY DESTROYING FREEDUMB KOOKUS and Matthew Kascmaryk.
We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.
Democrats are unhappy with Jay Powell’s actions:
He’s encroaching on their turf, you see. Crushing small businesses is what a Democrat Congress has historically accomplished.
When Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit gleefully reports the positive movement in his Generac holding later today, be sure and ask him how his Starbucks shares did.
@3
uh…Chairman?
Reuters
Forbes
BBC
Wall Street Journal
It seems, Mr. Chairman, the only people who still think greedflation can be solved with rate hikes are you and the members of the Republican Party.
This is a manufactured economic problem that began with a real supply side issue that is largely solved and is now 100% driven by corporate profit taking and shareholder enrichment.
Dumbfuck,
Party A: Trying to solve a problem FOR consumers
FED: Trying to solve a problem of “How can we make consumers suffer?”
@4
Wonder why you’re not talking about GE anymore?
+15% in 5Y
+67% in 1Y
+53% YTD
Yep, Starbucks is getting hammered today But up 40% over the last year. Earnings report yesterday beat expectations and sales in China are growing same store. Could today’s sell off spell doom for people who got in and put it in their retirement accounts in the 2000s? Sure. There’s also a slim possibility that Microsoft will go belly up in the next five years.
You really know how to pick ’em.
“Nothing is impossible. Merely improbable. All you need is the drive.”
It seems, Mr. Chairman, the only people who still think greedflation can be solved with rate hikes are you and the members of the Republican Party.
At HA, Hunter’s dick pics touch kreepshit only.
Guys…SERIOUSLY…the next one of you who goes all ape shit on “Rigged and Stolen” is getting taken out to the Nevada desert and dropped in a hole and buried after we Joe Pesci your ass.
We can’t deal with any more of this foolishness. The kids know. They’re onto us. And they hate us.
There’s a reason we’re looking at YOU, Nevada
@ 6
Wonder why you’re not talking about GE anymore?
Maybe because nobody owns it, and because I haven’t lately had to use Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s defense of GE during its freefall.
I can’t bring myself to buy GEHC just so I can own its imaging business. Everyone is making good imaging equipment these days, and after Toshiba was acquired out of bankruptcy, essentially, by Canon about the only imaging company in trouble is Philips, which is still a conglomerate.
Hopefully conglomerates are on the way out. It’s easier to understand a company if it stays in its lane.
The last companies Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has written about are AT&T (down from where he bought it), Citigroup (down from where he bought it), 3M (down from where he bought it, down from where he sold it, and down again from where he re-bought it), and Generac (down recently from where he bought it although it has had a good week, I’ll admit). In mid-April Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit was down on everything he told us he bought. Down A LOT on 3M and Citigroup.
Much more fun to write about Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s contemporary dumbfuckery than his classic dumbfuckery on October 20, 2017. Although he clearly has established a dumbfuckery trend. GE’s fortunes have risen of late, to be sure. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit didn’t stick around as an owner, and lost most of his gain on the shares.
Ah, but he still has Starbucks.
Kreepshit is sad today:
Tucker Carlson January 7, 2021 — 04:18:04 PM UTC
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?
Tuck’ems is DONE.. What a cuck!
“Not how white men fight”?? WTF… Kreepshit right now is planning to “train” its “grandkids” to “kick the living shit” out of every one on its enemies list as we write. Tricky Dick is smiling from the grave.
And FAUX LOOZ is a “cuck” network for firing tuck’ems not for Tuck’ems being a cuck but for having the shakes about this text coming out at trial and the lamestream media making Faux Loozer’s ratings tank as all the klownservatics run to Newswhackjobs and Onanism.
It’s so sad about the cucked out shit from Tuck’ems, kreepshit. Even sadder than the “man who understands [vulture] kapitalism” APOLOGIZING for assaulting a gay kid. How could he? That’s a cuck move. Willard blew its chance to be in the White House signing a tax increase on the poor!
I mean it was Tuck’ems who published the Menendez fucking fantasy that you still believe today.. You used to link to the daily nationalist whiner every fucking day!
It seems pretty clear now you are lobbying for just one more “grandkid” kreepshit. Three vs one is “kick the living shit” odds you like..”
AMIRITE?
No.
9,
Beautiful.
Rosen decisively defeated a comparatively moderate Heller in a pre-COVID, pre-DateRape, pre-Dobbs midterm cycle with reduced turnout when Cheeto Jeezus was not on the ballot and was actually coming off a high point.
This will be a rout.
And one less Senate seat for Dems to concern themselves with.
Oh noes we have a cuck @ 12.. maybe believes in the “correct” way white men should fight..
Well they’d better change quick. Because not only white men can’t jump, they can’t fuck for shit either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority_in_the_United_States
Kreepshit is trying to change that with its “grandkids”… Way more than “20 minutes of action” is in the cards.
They’ll have their work cut out for them.
My old Kentucky Home that I might get foreclosed on if I can’t put the toddlers to work. Thanks Brandon. Keep up the fight Mitch.
11,
I sense this is maneuvering by FOX in preparation for whatever employment contract litigation they expect may follow. They will threaten and strategically smear Carlson to gain both his silence and his acceptance.
Child labor in America’s red-state hellholes is the new Republican thing. I guess they figure that’s the only labor force that’ll be left after they murder all the gays and liberals, unless they work themselves, which is unthinkable.
Doctor Dumbfuck probably wept when he looked at Generac this morning.
Wherein El Paso mayor gives Fox News liar his due.
https://www.rawstory.com/brian-kilmeade-oscar-leeser/
@10 Nobody’s asking you to own anything associated with GE, past or present. The last time I mentioned GE, I suggested you short it. GE then promptly dropped by half.
But since I still own the Starbucks I purchased in 1996 for $1.10 a share, you can gloat over SBUX’s drop from $114 to $104 today, given that it’s now worth only 94 times what I paid for it instead of 104 times.
Well, lookee here: A Michigan county where three-fourths of the voters are Trumpers recalled a pair of election deniers, including the township election clerk. The latter lost to a Republican challenger who said, “It’s time to make lying wrong again.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/voters-oust-michigan-clerk-doubts-election-results-99043972
Two Teslas, one charging station, at least one gun, and more testosterone than both cars weigh together. Predictable result.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-fatally-shot-altercation-tesla-charging-station-authorities/story?id=99051174
17,
Just last month, because “shortages”, Iowa Republicans passed new legislation allowing teenage girls to work closing shifts at Hooters and as “Bikini Baristas”, while paying even lower starting wages.
Wisconsin Republicans are pushing hard to outdo their Iowa counterparts by trying to extend this to fourteen year olds.
Children not even old enough to drive, being paid slave wages, to wear thongs while serving drunks late at night.
What could possibly go wrong?
Republicans = Groomers.
21,
It helps a bunch that this shit is happening among Republican voters in places with a disproportionately older voting population like Michigan. While at precisely the same time the national party is continuing to tunnel into the MAGA/BigLie/Qanon swamp like it’s a gold mine.
MTG News! Late Breaking and Credible!
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1lDGLnMMVkRxm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1653830667954692135%7Ctwgr%5E7e6820e261a1463439582c50bf55e86a8c218064%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fmarjorie-taylor-greene-biden-impeachment%2F
In what can only be either a monumental display of self-control or a once-in-a-lifetime distraction into masturbatory self abuse, it has been nearly eight hours since the New York Times ran a front page story celebrating the subway choke-hold killing of an obnoxiously disturbed rider by a fellow passenger, and I still haven’t posted something sickening about it.
@26,
What can I say?
He was obviously very poor. His behavior made me uncomfortable. So I choked him to death. This is America, after all.
Published details of the Tennessee House ethics investigation into a leading GOP lawmaker have revealed that the lawmaker in question actually committed a violent sexual assault against one of his intern victim. The other intern he tried to bribe for sex using marijuana candy.
And House Speaker Sexton buried the investigation, protected the lawmaker, harassed the intern, and kept it all secret for a full month while he was busy trying to throw two Black Democrats out of the legislature for disrespecting white people.
Instead, Speaker Sexton arranged for the intern to be paid $1000 in cash to move to a new apartment building (so it would be more difficult for investigators to locate her) and paid another $8,000 in Tennessee taxpayer funds to obtain a new short term apartment and relocate all of her belongings.
Republicans = Groomers.
@28 At some point this kind of behavior may impair Republicans’ credibility with voters. Hard to tell just when, though, because we’ll always have dumbfuck voters.
“Republicans subpoena FBI for document alleging unspecified ‘criminal scheme’ involving Biden” — The Hill
My guess is the FBI will give this document to them, and then we’ll never hear anything more about it, but we’ll continue to hear about unspecific “allegations” by an unnamed “whistleblower.”
@11
What a fucking perverted violent Hetero Neanderthal.
Disgusting.
One of the comments in the Yahoo article of the NYC Subway chokehold.
Daily?
Funny noone gets hurt in a Drag Queen story hour, but many people are very vocal and afraid of it. And Heteroseuxal partners are killing each other almost daily in this country, along with their kids and pets; happening more than a homless person killing another person.
Pro Life isn’t equal.
@25
32,
It’s surprising and very sad how media have fed these myths to fearful drooling turds for their own purposes and at the urging of cops.
Cops get lots of calls to respond wherever abandoned and desperate street dwelling substance abusers hang out. And some of what abandoned and desperate street dwelling substance abusers do to survive is sell drugs and sell their bodies. Because they can always get the first. And the second is the only other thing they’ve got.
But common sense tells you that the calls that predominate police encounters with these people are about “disturbance” and “suspicion”. And neither of those two things is precisely criminal. So we know that what is being investigated and criminalized most of the time is not their behavior, but rather their identity. They scare people. Who they are scares people. People don’t like to be scared. They want something done. About these people. And who they are.
But they often feel ambivalent about summoning police and demanding a response because they fully recognize on some level that often what is prompting them to summon police is nothing specifically criminal, but is simply their own fear. And if they interrogate that fear they soon discover that most of the time what they are afraid of is not behavior, even when it is outrageous. But rather, what they are afraid of is the identity. The people they see muttering and pacing like zombies or standing on a bus bench screaming scare them because they are filthy beyond description, ruined by alcohol, drugs, and poverty, and obviously desperate. That level of desperation is terrifying. Perhaps it should be.
But the behavior itself is seldom significantly different than what you would encounter on any major university Greek row in the hours before and after a home football game, or at any time of day or night on South Padre during Spring Break. Those kids aren’t desperate, except maybe to get laid. And when was the last time you read about some wannabe Bernie Goetz choking out a drunk Phi Delt, and then getting away with it?
Add obstruction and evidence tampering to the charges of theft of government classified documents.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/maralago-footage-trump-special-counsel-calamari/index.html
A New York judge threw out Trump’s lawsuit against the New York Times and ordered him to pay the newspaper’s attorney fees.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/media/new-york-times-donald-trump-lawsuit/index.html
Another frivolous Trump lawsuit bites the dust.
Erstwhile candidate Herschel Walker panhandled billionaire Dennis Washington for $535,200. Washington sent it to him, believing it was a political donation. Instead, the money went to a Walker personal company undisclosed in financial statements.
“In the best possible circumstances, legal experts told The Daily Beast, the emails suggest exponential violations of federal fundraising rules; in the worst case, they could be an indication of more serious crimes, such as wire fraud.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/emails-reveal-jaw-dropping-herschel-walker-money-scandal
Lock him up!
@35
Calamari Sr. and Calamari Jr. should be menu items at Long John Silver’s NOT a nepo paired heads of a high end sex club for Chinese and Saudi spies.
There is no need to ban any book for any reason in US public schools. The kids can’t read well enough to understand the books, so there’s no point in banning any of them.
Heterosexual Neanderthals kill and cost money and love themselves some child porn?
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/nypd-cop-child-pornography-sentenced/
@ 33
The FBI uses FD-1023 forms to document information that the FBI obtains from sources or meetings with sources and can include unverified information.
I believe that this is one reason the request for info was made. Did the FBI verify the allegations? Did the FBI investigate the allegations?
No idea if this story has legs. But knowing whether the FBI looked into it or sat on it is worthwhile. Recall that McCabe sat on the Weiner laptop case, when he was the #2 man at the FBI. It’s not without precedent that the FBI would fail to act on important information.
Yabbut Clarence and Ginni got a free weekend at Harlan Crow’s.
Breyer recused when he had a very similar conflict with the same publisher.
Sotomayor took $1.9 million from Random House in 2012, and in 2013 voted in the question of whether to grant cert in a case involving the company.
She did it again in 2019 and 2020.
Where’s the outrage, libbies?
@42
Tell ya what. Thomas, Roberts, Gorsuch and Sotomayor resign under an ethics cloud.
Biden Nominates four new justices because elections have consequences.
6-3 Liberal court with a whole new set of ethics guidelines.
We could make it Bipartisan. 100 Senators get behind restoring faith in the court.
Oh right…you don’t actually believe ANY of the first three should go.
Hi freinds. how are you all
Hi freinds. How are you all. I hope you all will be fine. I like it so much
@42 It’s outrageous. They should all resign. And Scalia, too.
Bob will actually argue now for keeping Sotomayor.
Bob isn’t interested in what is right or wrong, he’s only looking to justify all his immoral and wrongs, which is everthing.
But one thing he can’t escape is the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus….If I were the Horse I’d be really afraid (and shiver).
Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus takes lives, yes daily, and cost taxpayer’s money that they are willing to pay for. Heterosexuals normalize anything immoral if it suits them.
There is no conviction of what is right or what is wrong when it suits them to look the other way, because they are sheep that are led to whine about issues they are brainwashed into believing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/7-people-found-dead-oklahoma-shot-head-apparent-murder-suicide-authori-rcna82773
Let this continue! It is part payment for their actions of hatred towards others.
Where are the Proud Boys? Oh yeah, they don’t want to ipose on their entitlement to kill the wife, and/or child and pets.
“Part of the problem when the community suffers with something like this is everybody wants to understand why,” Prentice said. “Normal people can’t understand why. People that perpetrate crimes like this are evil.”
Oh really? Where are the Proud Boys? Where is Bob?
These are your Heterosexual Neanderthals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ex-fbi-agent-feds-say-urged-jan-6-rioters-kill-police-worked-terrorism-rcna82775
They are disgusting POS fuckwads.
God is mad. Mad at the Heterosexual Neanderthals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/africa-rwanda-rainfall-flooding-129-dead-storms-mudslides-rcna82604
None of this would happen if they weren’t a bunch of fucking Neanderthals.
Not true.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/44-americans-cant-name-living-asian-american-rcna82714
They are very freindly with all of the ones trying to get into Harvard.
Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus (STD) causing Taxpayer Pain we believe in. White trash support to believe in.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/28/florida-man-who-murdered-his-wife-with-a-bat-strangled-four-kids-sentenced-to-death/
43,
The court is broken.
It’s credibility and value as an institution is ruined.
Roberts will be remembered in history for breaking it. He’s weak, incompetent, cowardly, and without principles.
It is time for term limits for all federal judges.
53:
“ It is time for term limits for all federal judges.”
And members of the House and Senate.
@ 43
Oh right…you don’t actually believe ANY of the first three should go.
And you don’t believe Sotomayor should go.
Apparently the UAW can’t bring itself to endorse the re-election of a corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president who has done so much to threaten their careers.
@ 54
The terms of all members of the House of Representative are already limited, to two years.
The terms of all US senators are already limited, to six years.
It’s easier to change voter behavior than it is to change the US Constitution. We elected a black man president and a black woman vice president more recently than we amended the US Constitution.
Years, not months, for the Proud Boy Chicken shit shoveler.
Amen.
More please, Mr. Smith.
54,
All members of Congress are already term limited, you ignoramus-for-life.
Nice temporal/size plot of bank failures this century.
TD Bank just walked away from an acquisition, paid a $200 million termination fee to the target. Flush with $200 million in fresh cash, the target’s share price fell more than 50% this morning.
Bidenflation touches all.
56, 57:
Yes, the length of the terms is two and six years respectively for the House and Senate. It’s the number of those two-year and for-year terms that I want to limit. I propose limiting the House members to two two-year terms and the Senate to two six-year terms. Let’s not have any more career politicians.
It’s not often that QoS McHillbilly @ 59 and I @ 57 are on the same page.
If we each said what we think with greater frequency, Queen YLB would be shamed off this blog in a heartbeat.
@ 61
It’s the number of those two-year and for-year terms that I want to limit.
The people undertake that decision, each and every time.
Vote harder.
Lots of “ifs”.
But if there are any principal organizing participants in the conspiracy who had coordination either with the lawyers at the Carlyle or the campaign and White House staff who would be predisposed to cooperation in exchange for favorable sentencing it is these shit-bag Proud Boys and their Shit-lord leader.
A half dozen of these fuck sticks were already cooperating as CIs at the time of the terror attack. And their op-sec was a joke.
61,
You can say it.
You aren’t fooling anyone.
We’ve all figured it out by now.
You’re a Republican after all.
You disagree with democracy.
Coded language, obviously.
Since in principle all votes are the same, and no individual vote can be “harder” than any other, we may well ask what does it mean?
For your answer simply look to places like the Tennessee state House, where gerrymandered majorities of white men eject duly elected Black lawmakers for failing to show proper respect.
Look to states run by ultra MAGA Republican extremists openly discussing ways to prevent younger people from voting.
“Vote harder”, which would otherwise be completely meaningless, can only mean restrict harder.
Ginnie….
Baby they’re all out to get me. It’s all a plot.
Come hold me and whisper the soothing words, “Bush v Gore, money is speech, uppity negroes are just looking for affirmative action handouts, the votes were rigged….I need the female touch.”
“Defense lawyers say the government’s theory that Tarrio and his co-defendants could be held criminally liable for using other rioters as “tools” of violence could be applied to many others who weren’t near the Capitol that day.”
And maybe they’re right 🤔😁
@55
“Well there you go again”
Projection is a hell of a drug.
We’re all for rooting out corruption wherever it’s found. They should all resign.
That is clear to the American people, at least the ones that aren’t brainless partisans for whom no amount of criminal activity by a member of their party is too much.
Say…how many Democrats are currently involved in proven attempts to hide that they live outside their district? How many republicans are still in office even though strong evidence suggests they covered up rapes?
How many Republicans are calling for Gym or that guy in Tennessee to resign?
a corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil
Odd, you’ve voted for a corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil for president 3 times so far and before 2024 comes to an end you’ll have voted for a corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil 5 times.
Of course, since you and your corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil both want to end democracy in America and to replace it with a fascist totalitarian form of government, you will have no problem what so fucking ever voting for your corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil 5 times.
@67
We’ve strayed beyond unethical into criminal. Given no rules on SCOTUS corruption, looks like the IRS is going to need to have a look if Thomas failed to declare $6k a month as income.
Hiding that much income is not an oversight it is a felony.
@ Term Limits guy.
No no no you’re an excellent employee. Employee of the month 38 times. Of the year 6. The customers love you. In fact on your days off more often than not someone will ask if they can have you take care of them and we have to tell them. Last year when you went on vacation we were actually slower than normal and we suspect it’s because you mentioned to clients you’d be gone two weeks.
It’s just that you’ve worked here eight years this January and we are required to separate you from the company.
@60
Now a normal not partisan hack would look at that and think, “wow bank failure dropped sharply and became for more than a decade and then something happened. What maybe regulations or safety mechanisms might have gone away that ALLOWED this kind of thing to come back.”
First time caller long time listener…I’ll take your answer off air.
That would be my preference at this point, as well.
Then Republicans in the Senate, in consultation with and advice from “moderate” Democrats like Manchin, Sinema, and many others, can advocate whatever concerns they may have about about nominees to replace them. The Senate can assign a appropriate and generous amount of calendar space for inquiry and debate both in the committee and on the floor. And whatever nominees are offered can be voted on in a public process, either up or down.
It’s truly remarkable at this stage to note that the single, overriding reason a Republican would offer to oppose any such nominee would be in a desperate effort to preserve a bad decision that is enormously unpopular with the overwhelming majority of Americans and American voters in the overwhelming majority of states, that strips more than half of our population of their most basic, fundamental, and intimate personal rights as citizens, and that has exacted and will continue to exact a terrible toll of misery and needless suffering on those citizen’s lives.
And not for nothing, it is a decision that has ruined and will continue to ruin Republican electoral prospects with those voters on a national basis and on a statewide basis in most states. As was already well understood for a long time leading up to it, Dobbs would be more than terrible law. It would destroy the Republican party, slowly but inexorably eroding voter support, as emboldened and ungoverned Republican state lawmakers competed with each other for the most extreme policy positions.
Sweeping out four of the nine for arrogantly refusing to abide by common ethical norms would do much to heal the institution’s growing legacy of corruption and illegitimacy. For any nine people to credibly wield so much sweeping power over 300 million other people, without ever having stood for election and approval by those people, must demand better than this. That the members themselves fail to see this and are unwilling to address it speaks volumes about the compelling need for a change. As a body they have lost perspective and any shred of respect for the people they serve. And it is the people they serve first, before the law. A reminder is in order.
Sadly, I’m quite confident the yearning for power and the instinct for individual self preservation will prevail over any concerns for the institution.
@74
That we, as an entire voting block have not even mildly suggested that Thomas step down at this point is just proof our Patriotism and our deeply held beliefs in the Constitutional rules set down by our founding fathers.
The court is and always has been independent of politics.
75,
But not “independent” of the law and ethics.
All four should resign.
The people over whom the Justices wield so much power are absolutely entitled to that bare minimum of deference to legal and ethical norms, regardless of the politics.
And while it is true that the institution has lost a great deal of public credibility in recent years owing to political winds, that is not particularly new. And history has taught many times that the institution weathers that well, so long as it remains focused on the law and shuns politics.
This court, however, has not shunned politics at all. Which by itself would be bad enough. But with all of these revelations we now see a court that is unmoored from legal constraint and respect for rule of law as demonstrated by these incredible legal, financial, and ethical lapses. And these accounts tell us this has been the case for many years, at least since John Roberts become CJ. The court will not weather that. If there are no consequences, and if nothing changes, the public, across all political divides and all political spectra, will abandon respect for its decisions.
I woke up this morning and read this:
“The Republican billionaire donor Harlan Crow for several years paid the pricey private school tuition of a great-nephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a new report reveals. Thomas had custody of the boy, Mark Martin, at the time. He never disclosed in official filings that Crow was paying the tuition, even though he disclosed another, much less generous payment of $5,000 for a fraction of Martin’s tuition by another friend, the report by ProPublica noted.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/supreme-court-harlan-crow-clarence-thomas-nephew.html
Billionaire Crow pays Thomas’s mother’s rent. He takes Thomas and his insurrectionist wife on jet planes and private yachts to exotic locales. What does the rest of the iceberg look like?
@53 Is anyone surprised that if conservatives ever took over the court, they would turn it into a corrupt mess? The only surprise is how quickly they did it.
@55 What the hell, let’s start over from scratch by firing all of them and appointing nine new justices; I’m for that, are you?
@58 Twenty years sounds about right, and that’s generous; most other governments would’ve shot him without trial.
@ 75
That we, as an entire voting block have not even mildly suggested that Thomas step down at this point…
Democrats, as an entire voting block, have not even mildly suggested that Thomas step down at this point.
Why is that? I’ll offer a couple of reasons:
1) Applied to everyone, it means that a shitload of judges will have to step down, not just the one y’all hate the most. Y’all won’t be happy when a list is created.
2) Sotomayor will have to step down.
Think of it as a version of the #MeToo movement. It had legs until people did the math and realized that it was taking down more liberals than conservatives.
The SCOTUS thing is silly. An incredibly silly thing is @ 43 by some asswipe. Packing the court is even sillier.
@ 43 is sillier, even, than HA’s unserious twat Queen YLB would dare to write.
@60 GOP financial deregulation touches us more. And Republicans never learn from experience after experience after experience.
@61 “Let’s not have any more career politicians.”
No thanks. I don’t want amateur politicians. There’s already enough incompetent governing without adding to it exponentially.
DJIA is now negative for 2023.
I see that Generac has given up half of yesterday’s gain. So far.
Oh, and 3M is close, once again, to breaking the Benjamin.
AT&T is in the $16s now.
Citigroup now down into the $44s.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s investments are in the shitter. With even more shit piled on top of them.
@69 It appears to me, though, that one of the parties is much more corrupt than the other, and has many more corrupt members.
@72 “It’s just that you’ve worked here eight years this January and we are required to separate you from the company.”
Actually that used to happen right up through my dad’s generation. They were all expected to retire at age 65, and if they didn’t, they were handed a gold watch, certificate of appreciation, and show the door. The lucky ones got a small pension, too.
We Boomers aren’t all bad. Instead of perpetuating that system, we ended it.
@ 85
In late 2017 it appeared to you that GE was a good investment and that its dividend was a major reason, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@ 86
We Boomers aren’t all bad. Instead of perpetuating that system, we ended it.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you were forced out while still in your 50s.
“ The people undertake that decision, each and every time.”
That’s the current myth people believe. It’s the career politicians who have the advantage. That’s why they need to be eliminated.
@75 “The court is and always has been independent of politics.”
I doubt Harlan Crow was trying to slant the court politically, or at least not more than in a vague way. I think he was just trying to buy a favorable result in his own case before the court.
You know, nobody has raised this, but even if a corrupt justice is untouchable, I wonder if DOJ should go after Crow for bribing a judge? Isn’t that a crime?
Which is appropriate, for the time being.
As we already know, the federal judicial branch has its own judicial ethics panel, overseen by the Chief Justice. All of these revelations have been brought to his attention. In the interests of institutional credibility, legal norms, and out of respect for the due process rights of all involved, that is naturally where any formal investigation and hearing process should begin. The Senate should stay the hell out for now.
But of course, Roberts, the weakest, most feckless and incompetent Chief Justice in the court’s entire two hundred year history, dithers. He mocks himself and the institution to which he has dedicated his career. At some point time will run out. And at that point the Senate would be entirely in the right, and it would be their duty, to initiate their own independent investigation and public hearing process. Being the Senate, there will be political considerations. And they would likely prefer to wait until after the 2024 election. But this cannot go on hoping it will be forgotten. Not when extremist, ultra MAGA Republicans in backward states are prosecuting women for needing health care. People will run out of patience for that shit long before they forget about this rampant corruption and arrogance.
The Senate will then have a duty to act. But until then they should stay out of it, and let Roberts continue to destroy the institution through his remarkable cowardice.
My money says he will.
I’ll offer a couple of reasons:
Who the fuck cares?
No anyone here.
This is the same stupid fucking troll who fabricates imaginary victims of fake bureaucratic corruption simply because he can’t live with his perfect record of wrongness. Reason?
How the fuck can reason enter into any discussion with any of the MAGA brain worm infected freaks who continue to claim that the vaccines they themselves greedily sought out and took, that saved their own miserable lives, and restored our economy and public life from Trump’s incompetent ruin, are still “unsafe”. Reason and Pizza Birf Sertifikits can’t be made to live in the same universe.
Trolls don’t get to play with “reason” anymore. They treated it as a toy and smashed it to bits because Tan Suit.
@81 I don’t see anybody here defending any judge on the take. To the contrary, the unanimous sentiment being expressed is that they all should resign or be removed. And if you’re suggesting why stop with the Supreme Court, clean up the lower bench as well, I’m with you all the way on that. I think we all are. What we want is a fair, impartial, nonpartisan, unbought judiciary.
@ 91
I wonder if DOJ should go after Crow for bribing a judge?
I wonder if HA Legal Eagle Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit understands that Crow didn’t have business before the Court.
This is why Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit was forced out of his job and has had to scramble for retirement income.
@84 “I see that Generac has given up half of yesterday’s gain. So far.”
Now tell us you laid an options bet yesterday that it would. It’s not like I haven’t tried to tell you this stock is a yo-yo, up one day, down the next, so if you aren’t playing these wild swings, why aren’t you?
@88 I wasn’t forced out of anywhere. Unlike you, nobody put me out to pasture. I became a capitalist.
@89 And you’ll replace career politicians with what? A Congress full of gun-toting failed restaurant owners and two-timing gym owners? Do you want to be represented in Congress by someone who last week was dumpster diving for aluminum cans? No thanks, I want our government run by people with job experience.
Then eventually some state somewhere will refuse to implement an order arising from that justice. And a sympathetic Presidential administration will have to decide if they really want to enforce an order that they strongly oppose.
Remember now that in less than one year we’ve moved from a leaked decision telegraphing the theoretical overturning of Roe and Griswold, to states criminalizing healthcare services being provided in other states, and to proposing limitations on birth control. It is impossible to overestimate how extreme these ultra MAGA Republicans have become. Losing another national election in 2024 will not improve that one bit.
We will get to the constitutional crisis stage sooner than anyone imagines.
@94 You’ve fallen behind in catching up with the news.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/04/24/supreme-court-did-review-case-involving-harlan-crow-contradicting-clarence-thomass-claim/?sh=73d68a046c74
Untrue.
And weak.
But certainly not unexpected, coming from MAGA trolls who continue to claim that Trump won.
It is now an axiom in “conservative” politics to claim that the sky is not blue and then to invite a debate about “color”.
The Democrat mayor of El Paso has declared a state of emergency in advance of the shitshow that will occur when First Vegetable Joe Biden permits Title 42 to expire this weekend.
“We’ve been to the border.”, said the incompetent, unlikable Momala.
@ 99, 100
Noted. Thanks.
101,
“We now return you to your regularly scheduled trollbot programming about dick pics, pant suits, and swimsuit inspections.”
102,
Seeing as the worthless, cowardly, piece of shit is on such a great roll…
Barack Hussein Obama was born in the United States of America.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf
Any comment?
@81
Jesus Dude…what ate your brain.
And
We’ll say it again. Sotomayor should go too.
There already is a disciplinary method for Judges at every level EXCEPT Supreme Court so, “it means that a shitload of judges will have to step down, not just the one y’all hate the most” is a bullshit statement.
Impeach the the OBVIOUSLY corrupt one now. Then Sotomayor if you need balance. Then the other two then do a very very very deep forensic investigation of the others and if they are corrupt impeach them all.
Otherwise the institution itself is dead.
102,
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is the winner of the United States Presidential election held on November 3, 2020.
102,
On May 25th of 2020 George Floyd was murdered in police custody by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.
102,
The 2020 COVID-19 global, deadly pandemic did not just “go away in summer” that year.
@ 105
Jesus Dude…what ate your brain.
House Democrats called on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign…
That’s not @ 75, 81 “an entire voting block”. That’s a few shrill twats and a dude who thinks Guam might capsize. Those few don’t speak for the Democrat party any more than Gaetz and Greene speak for the GOP.
There are, what, 213 Democrats in the House? Find me more than a handful who have come out to say Thomas should resign. Maybe one who doesn’t think that a lot of people at one end of Guam might cause the island to tip over.
102,
The right to individual privacy in non-economic areas of life is a substantive right, unenumerated in text, arising from and implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.
105,
Behold.
I give you at 109 a trollish invitation to debate the color “blue”.
102,
Clarence Thomas let a GOP megadonor take him on lavish trips, buy his mom’s house and let her live there rent free, pay for his grandnephew to attend a private boarding school and kept it all secret until he was found out.
Any comment?
@ 111
Let’s see the entire Congressional Black Caucus call for the resignation of a black Supreme Court justice.
I’ll even make it easier on y’all. Just the ones who aren’t under investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
But certainly not unexpected, coming from MAGA trolls who continue to claim that Trump won.
…and that 1/6 was merely a dozen cosplaying grandmothers who quite innocently neglected to use the Capitol visitor entrance.
Visitors enter the Capitol Visitor Center, which is located underground on the east side of the Capitol. Please leave time to go through security and review the U.S. Capitol’s prohibited items list before your visit.
105,
Behold.
I give you at 113 a trollish invitation to discuss the time at band camp when the sky was overcast.
So y’all libbies got a problem with me living a lavish billionaire lifestyle, my mom having a free home and paid tuition for the nephew, all thanks to the kind generosity of a billionaire who would have a case before the SCOTUS and who became my best buddy long after I was nominated and confirmed??
Ask me if I fucking give a shit.
Remanded into custody:
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1616889160509292550
@98 “We will get to the constitutional crisis stage sooner than anyone imagines.”
The Constitution isn’t a physical law of the universe with its own immutable gravitational force. It’s a piece of paper with words on it which is useful only insofar as it’s accepted as a social contract. Once that acceptance is gone, it’s only a piece of paper blowing in the wind.
There won’t be a constitutional crisis. The social contract will simply cease to exist. The crisis will be the social conflict that fills the vacuum left by its absence.
@113 Don’t look here, look over there.
Do you think Clarence Thomas should leave the court, yes or no?
It will be written that it was Mickey Mouse who ended the political career of Ron DeSantis who, by the way, will never be the other unserious twat’s president, which is likely the reason he never talks about him anymore.
DeSantis copying Disney font to sell merchandise could end in trademark violations: report
In today’s court proceedings,
“During his October deposition as part of the rape and defamation trial brought against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll, former President Donald Trump told prosecution lawyers that ‘stars’ like him had, ‘unfortunately or fortunately,’ historically been permitted to carry out unwanted sexual assault. That videotaped deposition was played for the jury Thursday at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in lower Manhattan.” Trump also asserted in that deposition that he had “a right to be insulting.”
https://www.aol.com/news/deposition-played-jury-trump-told-164131319.html
Nothing needs to make sense if you’re an unserious twat like me and the other unserious twat. We lap it up no matter how many of our brain cells it destroys. After all, our brains have already nearly expired due to our devotion to fascist idiots. What’s a few more brain cells at this point?
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Biden a criminal ‘mastermind’ after calling him ‘mentally incompetent’
Fucking POS St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has been forced to resign. George Soros’ garbage taken to the curb.
@123 Wow! You sure pwned these libbies with that one! I’m sure they’ll all soon be sobbing bitter tears over whoever that is.
Huh? Is he going to rape her again?
Trump to cut Ireland trip short to ‘confront’ E. Jean Carroll: report
George Soros
I know what you did there. Heh. It’s our way of saying “Jew”!!
Like I always say, there’s nothing wrong with a little antisemitism.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-multiple-killings-mcdonalds-c4da2529ff38308a0b0bd5b4f6eca185?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_03&utm_content=eyebrows
“I can’t for the life of me figure out what provoked him in that way,” Brock said in a phone interview.
It was the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus
Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake!
He grabs pussy – he don’t fuck it!
This whole country is dead. They killed it. The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus (STD) killed it.
This fucker ignores the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus…..just look at his stupid face.
https://apnews.com/article/cpac-hungary-orban-woke-gender-migration-da47d0febc22d935de0b48fe5e3ad4a6
Dame woke in Hungary too!
One time I couldn’t use 3 NY Yankees tickets, so as I was leaving town and going thru Grand Central for a train I offered them to the police officers standing duty. They said they couldn’t take them.
One time I wanted to give a Dunkin Donughts gift card to the two FDNY medics who picked me up when I broke my collar bone….they couldn’t take them.
But fuck SCOTUS can take that shit from a freind. I guess I should have said to them (police that I didn’t know) and the two paramedics that I have stayed in touch with that it was a friendship gift.
72 -Damn skippy! If we had term limits, we couldn’t make killings off of insider trading info. (It surely helps with the old retirement plan, if you get my drift!)
What we’re seeing in banking wouldn’t be happening if people had trust in Biden appointees Yellen and Powell.
We don’t.
Biden appointees.. Powell.
The same Powell that pivoted policy from tightening in 2018 to looser monetary policy afterwards…
Oh crap who was President then?
I was going to link to the Raw Story article but it has a photo of Kari without soft focus. I found that I just couldn’t do that to you, even though you’re nothing but a bunch of socialist-commie-fascists.
Kari Lake’s lawyers slapped with $2,000 sanction for pushing election conspiracy theories in court
I hesitated about whether or not to link to this one. Damn, that bitch truly fucking ugly. Soft focus has its limits.
Conservative activist arranged for Clarence Thomas’ wife to get secret payouts: report
125,
Closing is scheduled to begin Monday. His neckless mob lawyer has already informed the court that he will not be putting on a defense.
With the trial so far having consisted of jurors facing a steady onslaught of shocking disclosures about the orange man-pig, now would be the absolute perfect time for the idiot client to force his overwhelmed attorney to abandon the trial and get on an airplane to fly across an ocean to plead with his client to STFU and stay put. Ill prepared, jet-lagged, puffy, and grumpy is the best look for an all-or-nothing close.
And putting the soon-to-be loser client in front of NY cameras to snarl and sob like a bitch can only “bigly” improve his chances of appealing the result. /s
132,
Without changing the constitution to enact term limits, we can impose requirements on all federal elected officials that they divest.
Last year brave Kevin backed the Bipartisan Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership Act of 2022 while it was bottled up in the Senate.
This year he won’t put its House successor on the calendar.
Funny world.
Don’t vote for Republicans and things just get better.
@133 This time you have a legitimate criticism of Biden: He found his Fed chief by dumpster diving behind Mar-A-Lago.
@135 She always looks like she’s wearing makeup a half-inch deep. It’s probably to hide the sweat on camera or the witness stand.
@136 Yeah, and he chose Kellyanne Conway as the intermediary funneling the bribes to her.
@136 Yeah, and he chose Kellyanne Conway as the intermediary funneling the bribes to her.
Republicans are boycotting the Oregon senate to prevent passage of bills on guns, reproductive health, and transgenders. “State GOP leadership said the lawmakers were ‘engaging in a constitutional protest,’” according to CNN.
I just mention it for the next time Republicans express outrage over Democrats engaging in similar quorum-depriving tactics, because what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/politics/oregon-republicans-senate-gun-gender-affirming-care-bills/index.html
Now that our resident Dumbfuck has been made aware that’s not true…how about Crow WAS on the executive Committee of an Activist think tank that filed 70 Amicus Briefs and so far no one can find a single case Thomas recused OR voted against that advocacy group. But we’re assured the two of them never discussed any of those matters over a million dollar paid vacation.
@144 The Dumbfuck lives in a fantasy world where lavish extracurricular emoluments only influence a judge’s enjoyment of life and nothing else.
His response is, “B-b-but Sotomayor does it, too.” She sure does, and the unequivocal reply of the liberals on this blog has been, “They should both resign.”
After all, what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. But dumbfucks want rules that only apply to others.
A federal jury has deprived Doctor Dumbfuck of another talking point by acquitting Andrew Gillum of lying to the FBI.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/andrew-gillum-ex-candidate-florida-governor-acquitted-lying-fbi-rcna83008
Friend of yours, doc?
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/man-arrested-after-police-catch-him-having-sexual-contact-with-a-horse-quincy-illinois-adams-county-sheriffs-office
@142,
Sir,
“It is no secret”.
Unless I order Kellyanne to keep it a secret.
In which case it is a secret for decades or at least until we all get caught.
And then “it is no secret”.
143,
It’s a stunt for attention.
In 2022 Oregon voters, having apparently grown sick of their constant bullshit, passed ballot measure 113 which amends the state constitution to automatically disqualify lazy shit birds from running for any state office once they hit 10 days of unexcused absence.
You sure that it’s not Doc?
And to think the Kentucky Derby is tomorrow, a horse cock sucker’s dream.
No outrage from the Right.
Chicago, Chicago, Chicago. Bail Reform, Bail Reform, Bail Reform.
Heterosexual Neanderthal Supemacy. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-sex-offender-suspected-killing-6-was-free-sex-crimes-charges-rcna82884
US military advisors may have criticized it, but Ukraine’s insistence on digging in to defend strategically unimportant Bakhmut appears to have been a great success.
Overnight Wagner PMC owner-oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin further escalated his frank and vulgar media attacks on Russia’s general staff and announced he would be completely and unilaterally withdrawing his private mercenary forces from the region by May 10th, citing massive failures in Russian resupply resulting, he said, in force depletions that render his units incapable of further combat operations.
Prigozhin says he’s been deliberately under supplied for months by senior Russian staff jealous of his “success”. At the same time Prigozhin claims massive casualties and loss of fighting equipment. And the strategic imagery shows his forces mired in a series of costly standoffs for months that his commanders have been unable to change.
Ukraine almost certainly has much better and fresher humint sources than any other intelligence service. US military advisors should learn to trust that more. Russia, like everyone else, is well aware of the US sigint capabilities. It is cardinal Russian playbook to flood the zone with sigint misinformation, even to the point that doing so degrades their own strategic coms. It can be an overwhelming challenge sorting wheat from chaff in that environment. Ukraine is also engaged in misinformation, deliberately misinforming US and EU allies. But watch what they do not what they say. Ukraine probably has a clearer idea what’s going on inside the Russian Army.