Sunday, August 31, 2025

MASS HYSTERIA!

And the stars would cease to shine, the moon will bleed, the Union would be dissolved, dogs would be sleeping with cats! 

(Still trying to figure out how the military fails. But if the Supremes take this, I want this outburst slipped into the brief.)
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Character Counts

 Gruden says: “it all sounded s lot less racist and homophobic in my head:”

"I'm ashamed I insulted De Smith. I never had a racial thought when I used it," he insisted. "I'm embarrassed by what's out there. I certainly never meant for it to sound that bad."
Clearly Trump’s kind of “character.”
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“If I Hadn’t Called The Fire Department…” 🔥

... that grease fire I tried to start in kitchen might have burned down the whole restaurant.!”

What started those protests around the LA federal building, again?  🤔
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Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

 No, really, this time. 🙀

The Constitution doesn’t technically grant the president the right of prima nocta.
It doesn’t technically grant him criminal immunity, either.
(The Constitution does not give the President any authority whatsoever over elections.  But after Trump v US, I guess opinions vary.)
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Trump Wants To Sue Norway

"Never took drugs, there is no proof that he took drugs, has steadfastly refused that he took drugs," the president wrote. "Frankly, I think he has a major lawsuit against Baseball. If it were me, I'd sue them."
If a lawsuit would get Roger Clemens in the Baseball HOF, surely it would net Trump a Peace Prize.

Or has he decided those grapes were sour, anyway? (He’s already blaming Europe for Putin’s intransigence. Norway is in Europe. Ergo…)
"PUT ROGER CLEMENS IN THE HALL OF FAME, NOW — NOT LIKE YOU DID WITH PETE ROSE, WHEN YOU WAITED UNTIL HE WAS DEAD!" he continued. "It shouldn't have been because of death, it should have been because of TALENT! This is not going to happen with Roger Clemens."
Who would refuse such a reasonable demand from Mr. Art of the Deal?
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Do Tell

Really? Trump screws his workers over? Imagine that. On to Chicago!
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Newsom Shouldn’t Do That

Only Trump can do that.
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You Hate To See It…

If our AG wasn’t Blondi, maybe people actually would be held accountable.

Just another indictment of her total incompetence.

How embarrassing. I spit my coffee out.
…except you don’t. 😸

The replies are even funnier. They seem to all want to bypass the judicial system and just send everyone to jail. Everyone they dislike, that is.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” is not government reform they think it is.
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Better Question:

Does OKC need its parks raked, and litter picked up? And do they want people armed with sandwiches charged with felonies?
"There's at least one high-profile case where they're making a lot of headline news about the fact that you couldn't get a grand jury to indict," the Fox News host said.

"I know the case that they're referencing, and there's not a lot I can talk about in terms of grand juries, but what I can tell you is this," Pirro replied. "You know, there are a lot of people who sit on juries and they live in, you know, they live in Georgetown or in northwest or in some of these better areas and they don't see the reality of crime that is occurring."

"And my office has been instructed to move for the highest crime possible consistent with the law, the statute, and the evidence," she continued. "And in that one case, in that particular article, we were on point. But the grand jurors don't take it so seriously. They're like, you know, whatever."
Fuckin' juries, amirite? Get Jeanine Pirro to bring it to a grand jury? She’s 0-4 with assault cases.

Well, I guess if the murder was connected to leaf raking? Or being a litter bug? Or some tacky gilt on government property?
Why Sunday Morning TeeVee is known for its hard-hitting journalism.
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Why Won’t She Address…

...the complex issue of gun laws and how taxing ammunition would mean only rich trans men on antidepressants could use guns? And what kind of solution is that, I ask you? Huh? Riddle me that!
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
If I understand the argument, the government isn’t doing that to the people who have guns, because that’s what protects them from tyranny. Or something.

It doesn’t protect our children. It doesn’t protect the general public from mass shootings. It doesn’t protect people from armed criminals.

But it does keep the tyrants away? From the people who have guns? The rest of us just…deserve tyranny?

So keeping the tyrants away depends on your…politics?
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Trump Doesn’t Want People To Vote?

That seems to be the goal, but even the Sinister Six aren’t going to allow that. I know what GNC’s getting at with this picture, but isn’t MAGA old people, if it’s anything? And if they can’t vote by mail, what then? (Trump is also demanding paper ballots, hand counted by midnight on Election Day, which simply isn’t going to happen. Oh, and federal control of elections, which is pretty much what Shelby rejected, at all. So he’s screwed, there.)

Maybe instead of being afraid, we should recognize Trump is scared shitless. Pointing and laughing is certainly in order.
And I know we’re supposed to think such people become more dangerous, but where is that “feral cunning” we’ve heard so much about? FoxNews is almost guaranteed to make sure more people know about the parody than the original.
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Saturday, August 30, 2025

Yeah, He’s Fine

This reminds me of Oral Roberts trying to save his “ministry” from financial ruin. In fact, I think more than a few TV evangelists from those days claimed God was calling them home, as a fundraising appeal. It has limited effectiveness, for obvious reasons. Chauncey de Vega argues it’s a clever appeal to Christian MAGA. Not all that clever, really. It’s not exactly a well you can go back to. Which doesn’t mean he’s not having intimations of mortality.
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Feral Cunning, Right?


Or maybe he means this:
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
One word: Covid. In Trump’s mind, Covid screwed him blind. He’s wanted to take it out on science and healthcare ever since; especially since McCain screwed him on the repeal of Obamacare. Like an elephant, Trump never forgets. 

That’s my theory, and I’m sticking with it.

More feral cunning, I’m sure.

“Spiritual Streetfighrer”? Really?

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Rent Free AND Theology

Satire in the wrong hands can be dangerous, I suppose. See?  GNC is hardly Swift, but Swift (and satire, which dates back to the Romans) has faced that criticism before. Things are still “normal,” and satire is still here. Only a fool thinks he can control what “normal” is. I’ve noticed fools aren’t fond of satire, either. 💯 😹😹 💯, again!

And Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed. Trump is never responsible, Part 1,000,000:
Notice how all of the people attacking Steve are on background? That means it's two or three deep staters who are angry that Witkoff has succeeded where they've failed.

You know what this "reporter" left out to make room for anonymous quotes?

The full quote from the sitting vice president, on the record.

A quote from the secretary of the state, on the record.

A quote from Jared Kushner, on the record.

The full quote from the UK's Jonathan Powell, one of the most respected national security people in the Western World, who defended Steve vigorously from these malicious smears.

The person who wrote this garbage is @felschwartz. Aside from the failure to include on the record information directly contradicting her reporting, I wonder if she ever asked herself why these anonymous sources came to her at this moment with this particular story. They have an agenda to blow up the president's efforts to make peace, and they saw her as a useful vessel to launder garbage into the conversation, truth be damned.

There are two possible explanations: Felicia is just not very smart, and allowed herself to be used by deep state con men. Or she's in on it, and used her position to willingly participate in a literal foreign influence operation. Either way, it's disgraceful.

To set the record straight: Steve Witkoff is an invaluable member of our team. He did not mislead anyone on what the Russians told him and what the Russians conceded. (Trust me, I've seen the intel.) The fruits of his negotiations are that we have narrowed the list of open issues in the Russia-Ukraine war to a set of clearly defined issues--specifically, security guarantees and territorial concessions.

Maybe we make peace, and maybe we don't. If we do, it will be because Steve Witkoff and the President of the United States worked their tails off, in the face of outright lies from the mainstream press.
And if “we” don’t make peace, it’s Europe’s fault. Or he’s thinking about the courts undoing the tariffs. Same energy, anyway.
Release the Epstein files.
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Who’s He Going To Blame If The Supreme Court Upholds?*

 


Tell it to Congress, you fascist clown.🤡


*I can dream, can’t I? We’re more likely to get a Democratic Congress take action. Which means we’re screwed.
As I was saying. (Yes, I think there are excellent factual and legal arguments against Trump. No, I no longer expect the Sinister Six to listen to them.)
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And On The Fourth Day…

 


It’s a MAGA miracle!

OTOH: Pics, or it didn’t happen. Meaning one with Trump holding a newspaper displaying today’s date. Complete with correct metadata.

Inquiring minds want to know for sure.
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Raising New Questions About Biden’s Health

George Conway:
guys please please don't jinx this
Schooley:
This must be what it was like to scour for clues that Paul was dead.
Pretty much.
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And You Thought School Vouchers Were An Obvious Attack On Texas Public Schools

Huffines wants to win the GOP nomination to be Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Basically the state’s bookkeeper.

The incumbent comptroller pointed out to the Lege and Abbott two years ago that most of the state surplus (at the time) came from school taxes. He advocated returning the monies to the schools.

No one, of course, listened. 

It actually violates the black letter of the state constitution to have a statewide property tax.  Due to the way the Lege decided to make school finance “equitable” 40 years ago, school taxes now go to Austin, where it’s the state government’s slush fund. But it’s not effectively a state property tax (school taxes are property taxes), because the Texas Supreme Court said it wasn’t. Might have ruined the state budget to say otherwise, don’t you know.

Which has bugger all to do with Huffines, because the Comptroller has bugger all to do with taxes. Huffines knows that. He’s just trolling the rubes.

Anything that denigrates the public schools that most GOP primary voters rely on to babysit the kids, if nothing else, sells well with them. Why they consistently act in violation of their own interests, is one of the enduring mysteries. I think they all imagine they’ll one day be rich, and have “fuck you” money, as long as they don’t vote for Democrats.

Texas politicians could give Trump lessons in fleecing the rubes and keeping themselves in office.
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Friday, August 29, 2025

In A Nutshell

 The problem with saying it’s okay to treat non-citizens differently than citizens is, who’s in charge of the definitions? Stephen Miller, perhaps?

When it comes to people living in the interior of the country, prioritizing speed over all else will inevitably lead the Government to erroneously remove people via this truncated process," wrote Cobb. "That is because most noncitizens living in the interior have been here longer than two years, rendering them ineligible for expedited removal, and many are seeking asylum or another form of immigration relief, entitling them to further process before they can be removed. The procedures the Government currently uses in expedited removal, however, create a significant risk that it will not identify these disqualifying criteria before quickly ordering someone removed. And the lack of available review means that once the removal happens, it is largely too late to correct the error."

"In defending this skimpy process, the Government makes a truly startling argument: that those who entered the country illegally are entitled to no process under the Fifth Amendment, but instead must accept whatever grace Congress affords them," Cobb continued, which, she said, is an untenable legal argument.

"Were that right, not only noncitizens, but everyone would be at risk," she continued. "The Government could accuse you of entering unlawfully, relegate you to a bare-bones proceeding where it would 'prove' your unlawful entry, and then immediately remove you. By merely accusing you of entering unlawfully, the Government would deprive you of any meaningful opportunity to disprove its allegations. Fortunately, that is not the law."
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. That includes judges. And then who’s in charge? Who decides the rules? The kangaroo court of Act 4 of “The Dark Knight Rises,” where every accusation brought to the court are given the choice of exile; or death. Except exile is being forced out on to a frozen river, to the thin ice. He who makes the rules is golden. The rest of us are fucked.”

Do not send to ask who the rules are for. They are for thee.

Stephen Miller wants to trample the rules, declare all non-citizens of America, non-persons. He’s not doing that for you.

And if the Sinister Six decide it is, or even could be, a tenable legal argument, we should finally agree as to who they work for.
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