A man was arrested outside Rep Pramila Jayapal’s house on Saturday:
Seattle police arrested the man outside Jayapal’s house in the Arbor Heights neighborhood at 11:25 p.m. Saturday after she called 911 and reported an unknown person or people were in a vehicle outside, using obscene language, according to the probable cause statement released after the man’s first court appearance Monday. She told a dispatcher her husband thought someone may have fired a pellet gun, but he wasn’t sure, the statement said.
Officers found the man standing in the middle of the street with his hands in the air and a .40-caliber handgun holstered on his waist, the probable cause statement said. Police detained the man and secured the gun.
A neighbor told police she heard the man yell something to the effect of, “Go back to India. I’m going to kill you,” the statement said. The neighbor also saw and heard the man drive by Jayapal’s residence at least three times, yelling profanities, according to the statement.
AOC was sexually harassed by a creepy asshole on the Capitol steps yesterday (“here’s my favorite big-booty Latina, AOC”), and she and her colleagues had to push it to House leadership to get Capitol Police to check the guy’s id and look for priors.
This is just a couple of days of harassment of two Democratic women, but, yeah, tell me again about Brett Kavanaugh and the horrible lack of civility that’s overwhelming our country.
trollhattan
Chalking Susan Collins’ sidewalk was the last straw, you know?
cain
@trollhattan: The only legitimate thing is when GOP members are harassed. They need to be protected at all times. How the fuck does this system work like this?? Unbelievable the double standards that goes on here.
ETA it’s been a long time coming, thank you for #2
Baud
I think you’re comparing apples and oranges here. Unlike Jayapal and AOC, Kavanaugh is a Republican.
Paul M Gottlieb
Surely, Kavanaugh must know that by the time he gets to the end of his expensive dinner, someone in the kitchen has spit in every course
SFAW
@Baud:
I think there might be something(s) else that’s different, but I can’t quite put my finger on it/them. Hmmm … I’m sure it/they will come to me.
Old Man Shadow
Yea, but you know… unlike Kegs, they’re women, so you know… not even ‘real’ people. #angrybittersarcasm
Paul in KY
@trollhattan: The horror….
Paul in KY
@SFAW: Something to do with hue, maybe? In some way or something…
brendancalling
I would probably be kicked off BJ or roundly scolded for saying what I want to say about the harassment of AOC, so I will temper it down to “I wish she was carrying mace or bear spray.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Paul in KY:
Hue could be right.
FelonyGovt
That disgusting video is a perfect example of what women have to deal with our whole lives. Actually one of the only good things about being old is that I don’t get this kind of crap anymore.
Mike in NC
Kavanaugh’s favorite dessert is probably beer. Lots of beer.
Ksmiami
I would love for AOC to crush one of these dirtbags with her stiletto
Tony Jay
Speaking of sad, far-Right nutters…
A LETTER FROM BREXITANIA
“When there’s no more room in hell…”
…the Tory Party will hold a leadership election on Earth.
Tell you the truth, I pretty much turned out of paying any attention to UK politics over the last week. Things to do, places to go, basic mental health to look after. You can stare into the abyss only so long before the abyss starts licking its lips and winking back at you. It’s the same deal with the British political establishment’s Long March to the Right, the Tories just being the best organised and well-funded bubo of a spectacularly bad bunch of stinging arse-grapes. But this horserace will be run with or without my willing involvement, so, like the eponymous protagonist of Debbie Does Dallas, let’s form an orderly line and at least see what kind of rolling stock is going to be pulling this train to nowhere good.
The Leadership Race and Early Fallers
For the record, the Tories have jiggered about with their leadership race mechanisms (again) in order to try and weed out the no hope nutters and sea-lioning frauds (again) but since these are Tories, it hasn’t stopped a big bunch of both getting their camera time (again). Basically, anyone could – say – they were putting their name forward (apart from Flobalob himself, the 1922 Committee of Backbench MPs were quick to clarify, much to the disappointment of the Easy & Dramatic Headline Society), but only those with 20 confirmed support votes from their fellow blood drenched lunatics Tory MPs would be allowed to enter the first round of voting and join the race proper. The next day it would be 30 votes to progress, and after that each round of voting would see the capital L Loser with the fewest vote total eliminated until only two remained, at which point they would go into a run-off for the love and support of 51% of the Tory Party’s entire membership of Cenobites and dressage fans. Once again, a couple hundred thousand stark raving mental Patricians Minor concentrated in the Home Counties would get to invest the new Dictator with a mandate to make all of our lives as short, miserable and lacking in basic civilised norms as they can.
Smashing.
It’s a (deliberately) short process, so we’ve barely had time to enjoy the spectacle of Sontar’s least impressive planetary despot, Sajid ‘The Saj’ Javid, complete his story arc as the beta-test Rishi Sunak by failing to get enough support to even enter the race. He had a logo and everything, but it turned out that only three years after reaching the final four in the race the succeed Theresa May no one wanted to be on Team Saj after all. How sad. It was a similar story with Grant Shapps, the current Secretary of State for Transport, whose attempt to stir up major industrial disputes with all the transport Unions in order to give the Tories a familiar enemy to successfully demonise have only been about 50% successful, and not in the way he intended. A man so unsure of who he really is that his campaign logo was just his name in two tone capital letters. He probably should have campaigned under one of his fake ‘business’ pseudonyms. Maybe Michael Green could have attracted more than 8 votes, or perhaps Sebastian Fox would have been less of a joke to his peers. Not the fragrant Corrine Stockheath, though, the modern Tory Party isn’t exactly a welcoming place for people who mess around with gender roles.
And as for Rehman Chishti… I can only assume that the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (I had to look it up, a PU-SoS is the person who books the hotel room for the person who orders the rent boys and bang-bang pills for the person who makes the tea for the Minister’s cat) has a self-produced album of Blues/Folk covers coming out and needed the publicity, or possibly he received a scam e-mail from Michael Green Ltd selling a “revolutionary online toolkit to guaranteed political success” and didn’t read past Item 1 “Put your name in the pot, you never move forward by standing still!” to Item 2 “Convince enough people for a mediocre orgy to vote for you”. How sad. Still, I hear track three on the forthcoming album is a passable cover of ‘Face in the Crowd’, if you like that kind of thing.
And We Begin
The first round of voting was last night, and like a Bad Santa who knows what you really, really want, it delivered on the schadenfreude.
Jeremy Hunt came a distant second to Flobalob back in the 2019 contest, and ever since then he’s been biding his time, air-brushing his past as a disastrous Health Secretary and potty-mouthed Brexiteer to model brooding ‘King o’er the Water’ vibes for friendly journalists and occasionally say something devastatingly honest about Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s disastrous Covid response as Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee. I’m sure he thought this was going to be the culmination of all his hopes and dreams. The momentous moment when he would stride manfully out of the pre-dawn mist clad in the pitted armour of One Nation Tory moderation, a mailed fist clutching the tattered banner of Conservative Credibility, the other holding high an ice-rimed blade called Cold Vengeance, marching unstoppably towards the faint sounds of acclimation and destiny audible just over the horizon.
Then he went and said Ether McVey would be his choice for Deputy Prime Minister and it all went pffffffffffffffft-pop like a fart under a nightie.
What possessed him? Not a euphemism. He must have actually broken open an inscribed clay pot in the British Museum and been possessed by some kind of proto-Sumerian jokester god to think that anyone in their right, wrong or dirty mind ever, as in ever, ever, ever, wants to see Esther fucking McVey within one New Forest archery oopsie of Ultimate Power. He could have been waving thick brown envelopes of untraceable cash (dollars or Euros only, s’il vous plait) under the noses of his fellow MPs while wanking each one off with a delicate skill and workmanlike vigour unusual on this side of a monastery’s walls and that still would have been a deal breaker.
Talk about bad judgement. He got 18 votes, out of 357 available. Which my maths calculates to be 2 votes fewer than he went into it with, which can only mean that all the rumours swirling around about other candidates (Sunak) loaning Hunt votes to ensure he was on the ballot (and thus a sponge for votes that would be ideologically drawn to more serious rivals) were likely true. For the second leadership race running! What a fucking maroon!
Almost equally as schadenfreudtastic was the implosion of Nadhim Zahawi.
Take a smidgeon of paranoid cokehead Henry Hill driving around with one eye always looking out for that damned helicopter, add a soupcon of the kind of shady businessman type Trump liked to shove into low level Cabinet posts, then wrap it all up inside every single character Omid Djalili has ever been allowed to play in a Hollywood movie, and you’ve got Zahawi. His role during the Flobalob Era was to be the second-to-last (last was always Kwasi Kwarteng) Minister rolled out to defend whatever lie or cock-up was acting as that day’s dead cat distraction. A shamelessly corrupt piece of shit with a long record of redirecting public money into interests he just so happens to have investments in, it was no surprise to learn he seemingly blackmailed Flobalob into making him Chancellor of the Exchequer (by threatening to resign if he didn’t get the job) purely so that he could start his campaign for Tory leader with Chancellor on his CV.
Obviously, that worked a treat. I don’t know who, exactly, he thought was going to want to vote for him after the Shit Brutus performance he put in last week, but apparently there were 25 of them, and one of those was called Nadhim Zahawi. The funniest thing is that the HMRC investigation into his dodgy finances that was sparked by his promotion to running the Treasury isn’t going to go away now that he’s destined for a rather lower post in life, one located somewhere around the lower posterior of whoever it is the Tory Mob ends up electing. Tiny violins, Naddy M’laddy. Tiny, tiny violins to go with your tiny, tiny hopes of ever living this down.
Today’s Failure Has a Face
In the second round of voting, which just took place as I was writing this, the candidate with the fewest votes was Suella Braverman (full title, Sue-Ellen Cassiana “Suella” Braverman, because whose parents didn’t watch Dallas and think to themselves, that self-destructive lush is exactly how I want my daughter to turn out? ) who for some very terrible, no good reason to do with Flobalob’s distain for the Law has been Attorney-General of the UK since 2020. Promoted from being a lowly barrister to the country’s top lawyer purely because of her Brextremist credentials and willingness to tell her boorish boss whatever he wanted to hear, she’s lived down to that expectation at every juncture, giving Johnson all the quasi-legal cover for his international law-breaking that Trump could only dream of.
Her platform was, as far as I could stomach finding out, your basic rudimentary Hard Right tirade against all the enemies on their tedious little list, while being in favour of the kind of ‘conservative values’ embodied by your typical Daily Mail cartoon of a gammon-faced John Bull standing on the deck of a dangerously listing HMS Great Britain pot-shotting boats full of brown paedophiles off the coast of Sussex while simultaneously wielding the Sword of Brexit to hack through a series of writhing tentacles labelled EU Regulations, Identity Politics and Leftist Bias. Because these people are nothing if not boring as fuck.
While all this would obviously be quite palatable to the kind of person who becomes a Tory MP, Braverman’s utter lack of charm and identification with the Brextremist wing of the Party was never going to do her any favours. Plus, she’s spent years proving herself to be as thick as mince and thin-skinned with it. The Hard Right in the Tory Party want and need a standard bearer they can promote without frightening the horses too much, and while Braverman was of the right hue and gender to shield them from accusations of racism and sexism, she just didn’t have the extra special something that makes Tories want to abase themselves before this person’s Will to Power.
In the event she got 27 votes, 5 down on the 32 she got in the first round.
Who is still in the contest?
Rishi Sunak – 101 votes, up 13 from the first round
The recently resigned Chancellor of the Exchequer who spent virtually the entirety of 2020/1 in full-on Vitruvian man pose with his ‘Dishy Little Rishi’ lodged firmly down the throat of the entire British News Media. Lauded beyond all reason or sanity for his grudging acquiescence in the furlough scheme that kept many businesses and working families afloat during the (acknowledged) Covid waves, the boarding-school boy from Goldman Sachs via the wacky world of high-yield hedge funds simply couldn’t do any wrong, and even though his Eat Out To Help Out scheme defrauded the Treasury of billions and did much of Covid’s work for it in recruiting new avenues for viral spread, his besotted fans in the Westminster Village were completely oblivious and already halfway under the sheets with their knickers off in expectation of their new idol’s inevitable ascension to the Big Job.
But then, as it always does, reality intruded. The tens of billions written off from fraudulent Bounce Back loans to well-connected businesses, the cruelly libertarian ethos underpinning all of his Make The Poor Suffer choices when cutting off even the most meagre crumbs of extra funding for society’s least well-off, the basic accountancy boo-boo that left the UK Treasury’s Covid borrowing uninsured, each of his emergency budgets over-promoted and under-delivering – fuck up after fuck up after fuck-up, all feeding into to the belated realisation that this low-level nobody elevated to high-level somebody by his connection to the Michael Gove/Dominic Cumming/Axis of Murdoch power-source had never really been Flobalob’s choice for Chancellor and, maybe, he’d gotten too big for his excellently stitched boots. Hence the sudden pistol-whipping his reputation received as soon as the blinding glow of Covid-era sanctity had faded to a fragile ember crushed easily underfoot.
Fined by the Police for attending one of Flobby’s parties. Exposed for having maintained possession of a US green card and permanent residency right up to 2021, while his multi-billionaire wife was most definitely living here with him, but still claiming Non-Dom tax status in order to avoid paying millions in UK taxes. 2022 wasn’t a happy time for the heavily lacquered marionette, and if it hadn’t been for Flobalob’s own troubles you’d have put a goodly amount of (borrowed) money on him sacking Sunak from the Treasury and loading even more of the blame for the cost-of-living crisis onto his creakily articulated shoulders, but Sunak jumped first.
As it stands, he’s leading the pack, and is probably certain to be in the final two because of his standing as Lord Murdoch’s man, but is he really going to be the next Prime Minister? As with Sajid Javid back in 2019, Sunak is a brown man with a brown penis asking a Tory Party membership of elderly, white racists to make him their Master and Commander. ‘Those’ people might be acceptable as glorified accountants, and even welcomed as party donors should their bank accounts be tappable and sufficiently flush with billions from textiles, or steel, or whatever it is their type trade in, but the very idea of placing one of them in ultimate charge of the Party once led by Wellington, by Disraeli Churchill, by Thatcher…. oh no, oh no, no, no.
Penny Mordaunt – 83 votes, up 16 from yesterday
“Penny Mordaunt? I thought you were dead”. Not quite, though I was surprised at how surprised I was to hear she was still around, as she’s been so very under the radar since Flobby appointed her Minister for Trade Policy last September that I’d more or less forgotten she ever existed. Though, to be honest, being the Minister for Trade Policy in the Age of Brexit is a bit like being Minister for Royal Garden Parties during the French Revolution, in that it’s hard to make plans when your entire brief is on the chopping block.
A firm Leave supporter without being a frothing Brextremist, though she was the proximate source of the Million Turk Migration lie that old Frogface Farrage beat into the ground in 2016. A former supporter of Trans rights when Minister for Women and Equalities who now ‘believes’ something different, she’s quietly moved further Right whenever her Party’s lurch into proto-Orbanism has called for it. From her past history with the GOP (she worked for the Shrub Maladministration and set up online links between US and UK conservatives back in the Naïve Noughties) I get the impression that she’s never stopped cultivating her connections to the wider Wingnut ecosystem, and can’t help wondering if she’s been quietly using her Ministerial position to sound out the big-bucks rainmakers of the international Right about what they would need from her to whisper sweet nothings into the ears of the UK’s Hard Right about fitting this Penny into the right slot. She appears, on the face of it, to be a middle-of-the-road Modern Tory, popular with the Party membership, who like her blonde hair, big boobs and Naval heritage (which she ‘never’ mentions, uh huh), while crucially being not-unpopular enough with all the factions making up the Parliamentary Party to trigger vehement opposition should she emerge Sunak’s main challenger.
OTOH, you only get one chance to make a first impression, and whoever Mordaunt paid for her absolutely bonkers promotional video certainly did that. It’s never a good idea to use footage of famous people in your PR without checking if they’re okay with it, and if having to pull it to remove scenes with Paralympian Johnny Peacock, vaccine scientist Dame Sarah Gilbert, and an unidentified but easily identifiable police officer wasn’t embarrassing enough, there’s the frankly mindblowing decision to feature a clip of Oscar Pistorious. I mean… why? If there’s a Party that respects and values the memory of white South Africans with hair trigger tempers and a love of big guns it’s the Tory Party, but unless it was all a convoluted Batman Gambit to hook the votes of those permanently outraged by whiny Lefty cripples and their Cancel Culture madness…. Meh.
Will she win? It’s certainly not outside the realm of possibility. Almost uniquely in the field she doesn’t have Flobby-stink all over her and can present as a fresh new face in the manner the UK Media absolutely adores. That may be enough to get her the MP votes she needs to make the final cut, and it certainly makes her viable should it be her and Sunak facing off there.
Liz Truss – 64 votes, up 14 from yesterday
What can be said about Liz Truss that hasn’t already been scrawled on the toilet walls of every British consulate on five continents? Delusional. Moronic. Utterly focussed first, last and always on Her Image to the detriment of whatever barely registered ministerial brief she’s hastily palmed off onto her bewildered staff. It’s always a genuine surprise when she arrives each morning in a soft-focus blur of Enya-soundtracked weightlessness, as the odds are always in favour of her having managed to electrocute herself with a plug-in face steamer the night before while practicing ‘confident but feminine pre-applause speech stance 13.4’ in front of a fish tank she thinks is an expensive Art Deco mirror. And all that vocal training, the regimented tics of pause and affect drummed into her by consultants who maybe should have concentrated on getting her to glance across an atlas now and again but, pertinently, knew that wouldn’t cut any thickness of mustard with her real audience of thick as cowturd Tory Party members.
Not so much a Thatcher- clone as a shoddily assembled deep-fake of the Unlamented One programmed to tout knock-off Ambassador watches and Bitcoin opportunities on the Balinese dark web, and yet rumour has it that she’s the Chosen One of the Flobbite Continuity Wing of the Greater Tory Borg. I guess Flobby has his eye on the history books after all. Wouldn’t do to be followed by an unflattering contrast, would it? Not when he can rely on Cheese Whiz Liz to plumb new depths of vacuous vanity and international scorn as the (short term) occupant of Number 10, potentially leaving the door open a crack for a Return of the (World) King “Miss Me yet?” re-election campaign for You Know Who some time in 2024.
Is that enough to get her to the final two and become the standard bearer of the Not Brown tendency? Or is the fact that she’s basically promising More Johnson, Less Fewer Brains actually hurting her with garnering votes in a secret ballot? One thing is for sure, she will not be at all amused to be behind Mordaunt at this stage. All that time spent gearing up for this shot at the shiny brass ring and she’s not the blondest belle at the ball, I pray for tears.
Tom Tugendhat – 32 votes, down 5 from yesterday
Army. Army. Army. Command. Army. Army. Army. Patriotism. Army Army. Army. Service. Military Service. Army. Command. Service. Patriotism. Army.
Tom Tugendhat was in the Army. He served. He commanded. He’s patriotic.
Because Army.
Oh, and he’s a big fan of those sterling democratic advocates, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
That is all there is to know about Tom Tugendhat. He’ll probably drop out as soon as someone offers him a plum job and a war or two.
Kemi Badenoch – 49 votes, up 9 from yesterday
Holy fucking shit and balls of napalm fire, is this one crazy. The Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities, because why not give that role to a lunatic fire-breather who embodies everything terrifying about a certain breed of Tory wannabe on the wrong side of the Party’s Melanin-Dixon Line? Her childhood visits to Nigeria apparently gave her an abiding hatred and fear of the dangers of Socialism, which could be a little bit puzzling, due to the fact that Nigeria at that time was enjoying the definitely non-Socialist charms of a series of full-on corrupt military dictatorships, were it not for the concurrent realisation that Kemi is a hardcore Conservative of the GOP school, and to her ‘Socialist’ is just another word for the Hard Right not being in charge.
Racist, homophobic, transphobic, an opponent of Green policies and a proponent of ‘limited government’ she’s the closest thing we’ve got to an authentic Wingnut transplant. Everything out of her mouth could (and probably originally did) come from a Newsmax diatribe. She’s venomously ‘anti-Woke’, thinks talk of institutional racism is proof of Lefty bias, approves of teaching about the ‘benefits’ of slavery, wants CRT stripped from University curriculums – really she’s the whole, stinking package, Candace Owens with an Essex postcode. Some wit opined that she’s so far to the Right she could be a GOP Supreme Court Justice, which is both funny and terribly sad at the same time. The fact that the Tory Party promotes deeply disturbed individuals like this to high office is bad enough, but she’s also getting double digit votes from her fellow MPs, which is the clearest evidence to date proving how scarily radicalised even the institutional Tory Party has become since Brexit.
Will she end up in the final two? Very, very unlikely, but the final three? That’s not out of the bounds of possibility if Liz Truss continues to fumble and Tugendhat stalls out below 50. And the terrifying thing, the better she does, the more prestigious the Ministerial post she can sell her votes for.
Right. So that’s that. It’s all terrible for the country and predicts a uniformly gloomy future, but that’s what happens when millions of people are bombarded with years of propaganda telling them that voting for the only viable option to Tory Government would give them leprosy or something.
My money is on Mordaunt. God help us.
Alison Rose
It’s like the flip-side of IOKIYAR. Harassment is only bad when the victim is a GOPer.
Spanky
@Paul M Gottlieb: Spit? I’m willing to bet that Ol’ Beerbong has consumed mass quantities of jizz.
WaterGirl
@Paul in KY: It’s a hat trick!
Democrat.
Female.
At least a little bit brown.
Paul in KY
@Mike in NC: If there’s a beer flavoured ice cream, you know he’s got a few gallons. Probably pours beer on it…
Anyway
@Tony Jay:
Has the Tory Party always been so friendly to minorities/Asians (not sure what’s the right term across the pond)? I was surprised to see a number of non-AS names in the mix.
trollhattan
@Tony Jay: Five shades of awful, evidently.
Odds BoJo pops out of a cake and gets reselected at the 11th hour?
bbleh
@Baud: @SFAW: @SiubhanDuinne: @Old Man Shadow: @WaterGirl: And AS women, just like that so-called 10-year-old so-called rape so-called victim in Ohio — and just because someone was arrested and indicted doesn’t prove anything because something something innocent until proven guilty haha pwned again libtards! — they probably DESERVED it, because you KNOW how those women are …
bbleh
@Alison Rose : Indeed, the only possible victims of ANYTHING are Republicans. They’re ALL victims, really, when you think about it, because of how they are OPPRESSED! It makes them even MORE like Jesus!
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: I can’t believe any foreigner would ever name their kid ‘Sue-Ellen’. Pretty sure there’s 2 in the entire U.S.
Tom Levenson
@Tony Jay: I can only offer my deepest sympathy.
trollhattan
@Anyway: IDK if this is the case but if they’re Brahmins, they perhaps don’t consider themselves to be among the brown rabble and have hobnobbed with the British swells for generations. Maybe some have polo ponies.
trollhattan
@Paul in KY: Both are lawyers.
Alison Rose
@bbleh: Help! Help!
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: ‘Penny Mordaunt’ sounds like a Bond girl who works as an undertaker. Man, they do have some names, don’t they!
bbleh
@trollhattan: Oh sure, all those Tories’ ponies are for polo. Riiiight.
Kent
@Tony Jay: Which ones of these have “secret children” and which ones are your UK version of Hershel Walker?
Wasn’t the “secret family” thing something that BoJo rode to power?
Baud
@bbleh:
FelonyGovt
@Tony Jay: Thank you! I’ve been trying to follow these votes but as always, you have supplied valuable insight into who these people really are.
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: I’m thinking Kemi. Hates all the right stuff with a vengeance!
Thank you for your great screed! Hope your time away from bedlam was enjoyable to the extreme.
The Thin Black Duke
No matter what you do, these MFers are gonna hate you, so you might as well Do The Right Thing.
Paul in KY
@Spanky: Don’t get any gayvibe from him, but I bet when he was pledging Delta Tau Delta he drank a bunch in various concoctions he had to imbibe. Pro Tip: Kavanaugh will drink ANYTHING, as long as beer is an ingredient.
Tony Jay
@Anyway:
About a decade ago the Tories had a major push to promote black and Asian candidates so they could dodge the (accurate) accusations that they were, are, and always will be, screaming racists. The stock they had to graft from was drawn from black and Asian people who were already part of the Tory Party machine, so you can imagine the kind of fucked up, ideology uber alles, See No Racism mess they had to work with.
Like I implied above; the Tories have always been happy to let Those People work for them, as long as they know their place and don’t cause a fuss when ‘traditional humour’ rears its ugly head. They just don’t, as a Party, want one getting above their station.
Paul in KY
@trollhattan: Ha!
Omnes Omnibus
@Paul in KY:
Kavanaugh was DKE not DTD.
Villago Delenda Est
@Tony Jay: Why don’t we just cut to the chase and ship the lot of them off to Land’s End and push them into the surf?
Cacti
I’m certain that a SCOTUS GOPer leaked the Dobbs draft so that they could get themselves extra police protection before ruling that women are livestock.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus: One would think he was Delta Tau Chi.
Tony Jay
@Paul in KY:
I’m pretty sure that, when/if she wins, ‘Penny Dreadful’ or some spin on Penny Mordor will see a lot of action.
And, yeah, Kemi is a very ‘Proud Girl’.
@Kent:
Sirrah, these are Honourable Members of the Mother of Parliaments! They don’t have ‘secret’ anything, their vices are all entirely public.
Tony Jay
@Tom Levenson:
Sympathy? While the other UK gets rocket systems and actionable intelligence? Another Brexit benefit. 8-)
ian
I found this and thought it worth sharing
Mississippi gives more than 1 million dollars in Temporary Assistance to Needy Families money to Brett Farve
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/07/12/phil-bryant-welfare-scandal-nancy-new-filing/
Tony Jay
@Villago Delenda Est:
Fortunately I’ve been subscribed to your newsletter for a good while now.
Paul in KY
@Omnes Omnibus: Couldn’t you just see him as a Dah Tee Dah, though?
DKE is another one that would fit well for his type.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
And it says everything that judges, who are supposed to be impartial and apolitical, are almost universally seen through the lens of their political views. Judges are not supposed to be Republicans (or Democrats) first and jurists second.
H.E.Wolf
@Ksmiami:Setting aside the folly of Democrats modeling their behaviour on that of the worst Republicans, I’ve never understood the appeal of advocating that *other* people do something to get themselves arrested for assault.
I guess that’s behind the old joke, “Let’s you and him fight!”
Joe Falco
@Tony Jay:
Have you heard this news piece about an ancient tomb in merry old England about to be excavated? https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/arthur-stone-tomb-excavation-scn/index.html
When I read the article, my first thought was that I heard the Tories were having a hard time looking for a replacement for Johnson, but this is getting ridiculous!
Tony Jay
@Joe Falco:
I’ve seen this movie before. “Let’s open the ancient sealed tomb. What could possibly go wrong?”
They never consider that it’s sealed for a reason.
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: You gotta do what you gotta do to secure that endowed professorship…
Ben Cisco
@Tony Jay: It’s like none of them have EVER watched that movie.
I mean, we know they didn’t read the book…
zhena gogolia
@FelonyGovt: Yeah.
Omnes Omnibus
@Paul in KY: No, I could not. FWIW I am a Delt. As far as I know, our last Justice was Brennan. In fairness, Paul Ryan was a Delt, so we do need to live that down.
Miss Bianca
@Paul in KY:
I was thinking a character out of Harry Potter, one of the lesser Death Eaters, perhaps, but methinks your take is, shall we say, Right On The Money(penny).
Urban Suburbanite
@Ksmiami: I suspect a lot of them would pay for that.
Wasn’t there one of these weird twats caught trying to sneak photos of her feet?
Johannes
@Tony Jay: Even the Doctor knew better at Devil’s End! (Not that anybody listened, of course.)
Tony Jay
@Johannes:
Always listen to the crazy Space Wizard. He knows his shizzle.
misterpuff
@Paul in KY: Ms. Mordauntpenny. Now that’s a Bond name. and Q, of course.
sab
@Tony Jay: Mordaunt as the next John Major?
Quaker in a Basement
@Tony Jay: Penny Mourdant? Sounds like an undertaker in a Dickens story.
kalakal
@Tony Jay:
A proposal for the Tory leadership election
The highlight for me so far was Liz Truss’ announcing her campaign. She made her statement, walked off the podium and then wandered around unable to find the exit. In a room with one door. Which she had entered 5 minutes earlier.
Truss is eye wateringly stupid. Here’s some of her more egregious moments
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2022/07/14/trust-liz-to-deliver-11-of-our-favourite-liz-truss-owns-and-self-owns/
Even better in order to block a Labour vote of No Confidence in the UK government that criticised Johnson directly the UK government is now putting forward a motion for a No Confidence vote in the UK government
Skepticat
And he’d be lucky if it were only spit.
Paul in KY
@Omnes Omnibus: At your school, DTDs were probably cool. You sure are. At my school (UK) they were complete arrogant douchewads. Worse than Sigma Chis.
Paul in KY
@Miss Bianca: I think Harry Potter character name is spot on! A nobody Deatheater. I like it!