“The indictment, filed in Federal District Court in Miami, is the first time in American history a former president has faced federal charges.” https://t.co/Tzqfa1RwYO
— Ari Melber, MSNBC (@AriMelber) June 8, 2023
Commence with the champagne popping and other celebrating…
ETA2: I made this, feel free to share with your TIFG friends and family
Baud
🍾🥂
Alison Rose
I’ll repeat myself from downstairs:
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT YOU LITTLE BITCH
God, I hope he’s enraged. I hope he’s angrier than he’s ever been. Eat a dick, Donny.
HeleninEire
YAYYAYYAYYAY. My night, my week, my month, my year, is made. YAY.
Rk
Pat Robertson dies today and Trump got indicted. A good day.
bbleh
Chocolate pie. Oddly goes okay with the beer I was having.
scav
Pop!!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
It’s Smithmas!
🎅 ☃️ 🎄🦌
HumboldtBlue
Wooohooo, yo, Jack, you got any more of those indictments in your bag?
(Phillies pitcher Zack ‘wheeler just went 7.1 no-hit against the Tigers before giving up a single in the top of the 8tth).
bbleh
@Rk: also too Roberts court does NOT complete the evisceration of the VRA, as a result of which Cook has changed ranking on several Congressional races from R to D.
All in all, not a bad roundup.
Brachiator
Is it official?
Oh happy day!
Rob
Excellent news capping an excellent day
Abnormal Hiker
@Rk: Comment on WaPo: I guess this is what happens when Pat Robertson stops praying for you.
hells littlest angel
Unfortunately, the indictment is in Florida, where justice goes to die.
Yutsano
I just got the video announcement from Brian Tyler Cohen right as I pulled up at home.
Eat it you fat fascist fuck.
Redshift
Happy Indictmas, everyone! I’d say “to all who celebrate,” but c’mon, who doesn’t?
hedgehog mobile
Fuck yes. ⚖️🍾
SiubhanDuinne
A good day. A good, good day.
MattF
Fundamental thing is that Trump has a very limited behavioral/political repertoire. He will do what he has done before, again and again.
Scout211
Whoa! I am speechless. But cake is on the menu. Yay!!!!!!
Baud
They better disclose who pays his bail.
zhena gogolia
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Hahaha! 😂🥳🥈🍾🐰💜💜💜
I hope strings of emojis don’t break the blog!
MazeDancer
Mark Meadows doing his dolphin imitation really means Trump screwed.
Though this is the documents case, which has tons of witnesses.
dmsilev
From WaPo,
(Clears calendar for Tuesday afternoon)
(adds popcorn to shopping list)
Delk
Putin and a window can make it a trifecta.
Matt McIrvin
Also, James Watt is dead.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Dark Brandon is having a week.
Mike in NC
Picturing Trump, with tears in his eyes, whining about how unfairly everybody treats him. Sad!
gene108
I never thought this day would come. Oh, happy day! The sun ☀️ 🌞🌈 shines on us (despite Canada not raking their goddam forests).
bbleh
@MattF: is doing. And the faithful will follow, and the media will broadcast the spectacle. But I suspect there is a substantial number of people — some medium-to-high-single-digit percentage of former TFG voters — who are starting to wrinkle their noses at the stink. And it ain’t gonna get any prettier.
frosty fred
A friend just suggested this might be the day to buy a lottery ticket.
dmsilev
Re: that Ari Melber Tweet, it wasn’t all that long ago that Trump was the first former US President to be indicted on state-level felony charges. At this rate, maybe The Hague is in his future….
scav
Seven counts, but if there is a miracle, there will be many more, enough to light us to justice. Burn on.
zhena gogolia
@dmsilev: Would love to see him there with Putler.
AxelFoley
That first image, tho. LOLOLOLOL
Mousebumples
We popped the bubbly. Going with (M)2ama Mango Moscato in the Mouse House. 🥂🎉
Wyatt Salamanca
Merry Fucking Christmas everybody!
Zzyzx
The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards suck it Trump!
zhena gogolia
It’s summer, so my academic peeps are having parties — one tomorrow, out to dinner Sunday, another party next Tuesday, so champagne will flow! 🍾🍾🍾
Too bad my acid reflux won’t let me drink it any more! I’ll watch!
Scott P.
@frosty fred: We can’t all win the lottery…
Jackie
🍿🍿🍷🍿🍿🍷🍿🍿🍷
Andrew Wiessman called it!
randal sexton
Woooot!! It’s beer indictment o clock. Future campaign slogan: “vote Biden so Trump don’t walk”
Albatrossity
Popcorn noises here!
different-church-lady
I woke up and I was in a good mood.
I had a good day at work. They brought us surprise food.
Now this.
Nobody wake me up.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Matt McIrvin:
No, no. Who’s on first and What’s on second.
brendancalling
@Rk: don’t forget James Watt—he died too!
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady: Pat Robertson and James Watt died.
Scout211
Here’s a taste of Trump’s defense strategy. Straight from TruthSocial: HaHaHa!
Baud
@different-church-lady:
I proclaim June 8 as different church lady day!
Wyatt Salamanca
Two songs to celebrate Indictment Day
The Traveling Wilburys – End Of The Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlnMIDKrtI
Jackson Browne – Running On Empty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKnnh8VDULs
dmsilev
The Post again
“Screed” is in the original story. Heh.
The full screed, seen in screenshot at TPM’s live blog, is quite something, even by TFG’s standards. Did you know that Joe Biden keeps his Corvette in a garage with a paper-thin door that is open most of the time? I didn’t.
steppy
Hot diggity! I was going to buy some good whiskey tomorrow, but I will gladly drink the rotgut tonight.
LOCK HIM UP!!
grumbles
In all seriousness, I am very pleased to see that no one is above the law, still.
Many are above some laws; some are above most, but America still doesn’t make kings.
dmsilev
@Scout211: I’m getting strong “second half of Flowers For Algernon” vibes from his “writing”.
JPL
@different-church-lady: Well I have a not quite 2 year old and a 4 year old grand imp spending the night. Carter turned 4 in February and has already announced to me that he probably shouldn’t watch grown up TV.
I guess I’ll read about it more tomorrow.
It is a good day.
Tom Levenson
Old fashioneds on a deck overlooking the sea.
Perfect combo w. which to toast the moment: sweet, with a dash of bitter.
Alison Rose
@Scout211: Aww, someone’s having really big feelings!
zhena gogolia
I am literally listening to the Hallelujah Chorus.
FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNETH.
Thank you, Lord! 🙏🙏🙏
Splitting Image
This is shaping up to be a most pleasant day.
NotMax
Jackals will immediately recognize whence comes the accompaniment.
;)
zhena gogolia
Ooh, time to play the Star-Spangled Banner on my piano. But maybe I’ll wait for conviction for that.
Manyakitty
@zhena gogolia: Amen!
zhena gogolia
@dmsilev: 😂😂😂
JPL
btw Emptywheel wanted to remind everyone that it is a sober event. This was the other day when everyone knew it was coming.
How is everyone going to celebrate this sober event.
MomSense
Woohoo!!
MomSense +2
Jackie
@dmsilev: That’s noon my time: Gives me time to take flowers and small American flag to my Dad’s niche! He’ll be celebrating wherever he’s hangin out!😊
smith
The beauty of it coming now is that, unlike Nixon, he can’t make it go away simply by resigning. Guess that’s the advantage in having to wait and going through the courts instead of impeachment.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Somebody do wellness checks on Cacti and Will Stincel. I’m sure they’re feeling terribly betrayed because Merrick Garland didn’t betray them
Manyakitty
@JPL: think I might buy an American flag. Getting a patriotic feel.
JPL
@Manyakitty: Sweet
smith
@zhena gogolia: I’m feeling more like The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Manyakitty
@smith: that’s going through my head, too.
Mousebumples
⬆️ Merrick Garland apology form, for anyone who needs that…
NotMax
@Scout211
MAWFA!
Make America Witch-Free Again!
//
Dan B
@JPL: Sober: Nap, water front, shopping. Not sober: Champagne!
Baud
The courthouse is going to be a mob scene on Tuesday.
Bex
Newt Gingrich testified to the J6 grand jury today.
Baud
@Mousebumples: 👍
Baud
@Bex:
👍
stacib
MSNBC is reporting there will be mug shots this time. Please, please, please let these get leaked.
C Stars
I just happened to have poured myself a glass of Guinness when I stumbled upon this here post. First I had heard of it, but really couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy. Sláinte, everyone!
(Also I am pretty sure I made this happen by suggesting a couple of posts down that it wouldn’t happen. So you’re welcome 😁)
Manyakitty
@Bex: no shit?! Wow.
Baud
@stacib:
👍
Scout211
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nope. They will quickly switch into, “He may have been indicted, but the DOJ will never get a conviction!!!!!111!!!”
And a pox on any jackal who ruins the fun with that kind of statement.
Today through (at least) Tuesday is for celebrating, people!
Dan B
@Mousebumples: I had a few minor doubts about Garland but now my hope is for indictment in DC.
different-church-lady
@JPL: You keep using the word sober and I don’t like it.
smith
@Manyakitty: “Mine eyes have seen the glory…” Looks like we may have gotten our terrible swift sword after all.
Alison Rose
LOL Haberman doing that top-notch journalism: “It’s important to note that one of the charges is conspiracy to obstruct. That requires two people.”
No shit, Sherlock.
zhena gogolia
@Mousebumples: Of course the first reply is “Well, it was slow.”
KenK
@Rk: indeed. Don’t forget today’s passing of James Watt!
dmsilev
@smith: We’ll save Marching Through Georgia for when the locals there have their go at him.
zhena gogolia
@Scout211: We’ve already had one of those, something about florida
NotMax
Best Friday ever.
h/t: WaterGirl
:)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I know these things take years. But with all the parallel criminal and civil cases, and all the associated hearings and motions and squid ink and delays he’ll try to throw at the process, he’s going to spend every day for the rest of his life feeling despair, incoherent rage, and deep existential fear. However and whenever it all ends.
And I find that comforting.
@Scout211: Don’t pox me, bro! I’m celebrating!
PAM Dirac
@JPL:
reminds me of Nixon’s resignation. I was home from my first year of college and a bunch of friends and I got some beer and pizza and headed for Lafayette Square. It was party time. A huge cheer went up when a moving van came by. Someone had a radio and had a station where a news reporter was reporting from the scene. He was saying something like “I wish I could say it is a somber scene here”. Somber hell. We wanted that dick gone. Now we want the orange fart cloud gone and will celebrate bigly each step of the way.
Bex
@Manyakitty: It’s those pesky election interference emails he sent.
dmsilev
@Baud:
Rudy will be there as well?
Oh, you didn’t mean Mob scene. Sorry.
MomSense
@stacib:
Perp walk perp walk perp walk perp walk perp walk perp walk perp walk!!!
📢📢📢📢📣📣📣📣🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🍾🥳🎈🎈🎈👯♀️🍾
Alison Rose
Two people who have never been indicted:
“Did you hear the news, Hills?”
“Oh, you bet your sweet ass I heard it, I made it my fucking ringtone!”
Alison Rose
@MomSense: I want people to do like they do in France and throw flour and eggs at him.
Redshift
@JPL:
By sobering up once it’s over?
Manyakitty
@smith: “…truth is marching on”
Glory, glory hallelujah!
Anyway
Where’s WaterGirl?!? She’s been anticipating this moment for weeks….
Alison Rose
More stunning NYT brilliance, from Shear:
No, one might not think that, if one knows anything about President Biden, a man who actually has an adult level of maturity, unlike Trump.
Alison Rose
@Anyway: face first into a cake?
NotMax
@Alison Rose
Holy crepe!
:)
Dopey-o
if you call your doctor first thing Friday morning, you can start taking Pantaprazole and by Tuesday afternoon you should be good to guzzle champagne!
alternately, if you’re on a proton pump inhibitor, double the dose.
@steppy: Tell us about this high quality whiskey you will purchase. I want to be ready on Tuesday!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
let ketchup fly!!
ETA: anybody know where he’s getting seven counts? I think I’m hearing The Beast is thus far the only named source for this news? The DoJ hasn’t said anything official?
Manyakitty
@Bex: oh dear. I’d love to see more sparkling consequences.
Rebel’s Dad
@Abnormal Hiker: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
dmsilev
@Anyway: Cake-induced coma.
Baud
@Anyway:
A watched pot never boils.
E.
@Matt McIrvin: Damn! He might be the first person I ever truly hated.
different-church-lady
@Alison Rose: Biden probably wishes none of this was necessary in the first place.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Cacti is in Trump’s inner circle?
JPL
@different-church-lady: that was empty wheel. Ha not me
MattF
Charlie Kirk has instructions for Republicans.
ETA: Comments on this tweet are… revealing
Baud
@different-church-lady:
True. He’s weird that way.
Alison Rose
@Baud: I LOL’d.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Weird how when you spend your life firing anyone who tells you something you don’t want to hear, all you have around you is people who tell you what you want to hear.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere (think, think, think)…
JPL
@Baud: deep
JaneE
Here’s hoping for a conviction on all counts.
Do we know if any of the charges carry mandatory prison terms? (wish, hope).
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
They will throw out their backs moving the goalposts.
Too bad Yarrow isn’t around for the final bit of “tick tock motherfuckers.”
zeecube
@Tom Levenson: Dark ans Stormy for me.
TS
@Scout211:
Where does he get this from – did the US really elect someone so dumb – or are his followers so dumb that they believe this lie of epic proportions.
smith
Seriously, regarding mob scenes — TFG will almost certainly spend the time between now and Tuesday trying whip up his true believers into a violent froth. It will be telling to see if he gets the same damp squib he got in NY, or if the crazies actually report for duty in FL. For years a lot of people have feared that GQP incitement will lead to something worse and more sustained than J6. This could be a clear indicator if those fears are valid.
Jackie
@stacib: TFIG (added *I* for Indicted) will profit from those😡
scav
@smith: In between fundraising on it.
hrprogressive
Cool, now throw his ass in jail / DQ him from office.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
MSNBC says indictment is for espionage
Alison Rose
@Jackie: Maybe TIFG? So it doesn’t sound like “indicted” is the “former” part :P
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@TS:
His 74 million votes in 2020 may have been a record.
Of course it was eclipsed on the same day by Biden’s 81 million. He won’t mention that part.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
can anything legally DQ him other than an impeachment conviction by the Senate? IANAL but people keep citing the Debs precedent that he can run from a cell
NotMax
@Splitting Image
Snarknado watch from sea to shining sea.
TaMara
And the good news continues:
different-church-lady
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Right, now that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Because not even four minutes ago I was thinking, “What if they know one of these documents got transferred out of the country?”
smith
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: And he has to phrase it carefully about votes a president got, because Hillary actually got more.
ETA, Sorry I guess you were talking about 2020. I think he started using that line in 2016, though.
Baud
@TaMara:
👍
snoey
@JPL: California sober here
Bill Arnold
@Baud:
They need to take his keys away from Trump Force One.
C Stars
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: He was obsessed with keeping the papers and hiding them. Of course he anticipated some profit to himself in doing so.
brantl
@Alison Rose: Eat a bag of SALTED dicks, Donny. Internet traditions must be respected.
UncleEbeneezer
Told ya so…
Fortunately I was already drinking some beer while grilling so I was already in party mode.
THANK YOU MERRICK GARLAND!!!!!!!!!!
Wyatt Salamanca
@smith:
Maybe we’ll see a human chain of assholes (MTG, Boebert, Gaetz, Tuberville, Ron Johnson) surround the courthouse.
Mousebumples
I may need to get an indictment candle…
BC in Illinois
Now, this is a good day.
Good to hear about Trump. And I think I have reason to expect a slam dunk of a charging statement — “the defendant did THIS . . . and THIS . . . and we will show THIS . . . and THAT . . . etc. Trump may put out tissue-thin, incoherent argle bargle. Jack Smith is not going to be embarassed in Federal Court.
On the other hand, this is only my second-favorite story of the day.
Last night, my wife and I pulled into the outer banks of NC, where youngest daughter was expecting her second son / our 9th g’child. And sure enough, we were awakened at 6AM (5AM Central Time); daughter and husband went to hospital at 7AM; and 11:06 AM the child arrived. June 8 — a day to remember. We were in charge of the two-year-old, who got to see his “cute,” “tiny” little brother at 6PM.
In addition, the new grandson has my name as his (middle) name. There was some discussion about how the name might be a surprise to some, which had brought up the legend of the name of our third child, some 39 years ago. It wasn’t my mother’s favorite name. Not that she said anything against it. What she said was (and I quote):
MomSense
@Alison Rose:
Cersei’s walk of shame would be acceptable. 😉
p.a.
Cell. Bars. Cot. Potty.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Wyatt Salamanca: Didn’t some Republican genius chain themselves to one side of a gate in a protest? Completely pointless, as people just walked through the other side?
Was that Boebert?
RobArt
#PrideMonth rulz!
smith
@Wyatt Salamanca: The other fun thing is that DeSantis may have a say in what kind of security will be present.
Jackie
Wanna bet Melania is secretly celebrating behind her securely bolted suite? She probably has A LOT of 🍾 stashed away… 🥂
MomSense
@BC in Illinois:
Congratulations!!!
Jackie
@Alison Rose: 👍🏻
Mai Naem mobile
Ketchup futures exploding. Popcorn futures popping. Bronzer futures collapsing.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jackie: “I will appear for picture standing next to when $1million dollars clears in Zurich, hold hand for 2. Walking into court home holding his hand will cost five, and large emerald”
Odie Hugh Manatee
Local radio (CBS News) reported that TFG was indicted “by the Biden administration”. Seriously…lol! Yep, it’s all Ol’ Joe’s fault!
Robertson dead, Watt dead and now TFG indicted… what a good day!
Manyakitty
@BC in Illinois: mazel tov! May this excellent day be a portend of many more ahead ♥️
scav
@JPL: The “Event” is sober if we drink all the alcohol.
Leaves none for it. Stands to reason.
Baud
@BC in Illinois:
👍
different-church-lady
@Jackie: “They allow conjugal visits.”
“I don’t really care, do you?”
TaMara
@BC in Illinois: Excellent day!
Kirk
I cheered. I will celebrate a great deal more once the conviction happens. (And yes, I think it will. Not necessarily all counts, but I believe we’ll see one despite Florida and all the rest.)
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady: Right.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: You are so funny!
Omnes Omnibus
@BC in Illinois: Woohoo!
DarbysMom
OMG it actually happened! More Please….
BeautifulPlumage
The local radio station played Arrest the President (Ice Cube 2018) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y9oUnC8JtXY just after I read the news 😻😻😻
bcw
As long as we don’t get Aileen Cannon as the judge. I hope Smith is filing charges on any crimes that happened in Washington, in Washington, also.
BruceFromOhio
Nope. Miles to go before I celebrate, and that’s when that two-bit ratfuck soulless criminal is in his cell in a federal penitentiary, or a state prison in Georgia.
japa21
I am glad this has happened, but saddened that so many of my fellow Americans are undoubtedly outraged by this. And I have no doubt but that this has locked up the nomination for Trump.
schrodingers_cat
I feel vindicated about my decision to become an American. This is a great day for the United States of America and the rule of law. No one is above the law. Even the President.
#Proud American
zhena gogolia
@RobArt: Yeah! 🌈🌈🌈
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
👍
ETA: 🇺🇸
hedgehog mobile
Prosecco right now. Perhaps a gin and tonic later.
brantl
@E.: You don’t get out much? Take a good look at Bitch McConnell, and tell me why you DON’T hate him.
Spanky
@bcw: That is certain to happen. That’s where he stole the docs.
And (ohpleaseohpleaseohplease) possibly where more espionaging happened.
Burnspbesq
@Baud:
Cacti I’m not surprised about, but Loomis?
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I went to play the Star-Spangled Banner but my husband had tidied up my music and I couldn’t find it (can’t play by ear). I’ll find it tomorrow.
NotMax
Courthouse appearance June 13, the day before Dolt 45’s birthday.
How sweet it is.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Huzzah! My wife called from Utah at 7:56. My wee one was excited to answer the phone and after she said hello, I yelled from the kitchen, “tell mommy trump was indicted.” Grooming, baby.
Redshift
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
And Lyndon LaRouche, much more recently! I know a lot of jackals aren’t that young, does no one else remember “This is Lyndon LaRouche, speaking to you from prison!”
BC in Illinois
@TS:
And where does he get — and who would ever listen — to the argument of “I was elected to high office, so I can never be touched”?
Over-40 of my over-70 years of life, have been lived in the states of Maryland and Illinois. We sent our governors to prison on a regular basis. No one died of shock. My brother — who lived in Illinois longer than I did — had his proposal for a gubernatorial term limit. Everyone elected to the office of governor should be granted one six-year term in office, followed by an automatic ten-year prison term.
bbleh
@stacib: Leaked? From Miami? That bastion of staunch, upright respect for The Law?
Baud
Maybe Trump can have Robert Hanssen’s cell in Supermax. It just became available.
karen marie
@Bex: What does he have to add? I don’t remember hearing his name mentioned in relation to J6.
I can’t have popcorn because it’s almist dinner time, and I had my quota of alcohol (a Coronita!) yesterday, so my celebrating will be limited to enjoying the fuck out of the 2nd half of yesterday’s fish burrito.
It would be delicious anyway but Trump’s tears make it doubly so.
Alison Rose
@MomSense: oh God, but then he’d have to be naked
NO THANK YOU
Kayla Rudbek
It’s too late in the day to bake, otherwise I would put some wacky cake in. Orange smoke for indictments, indeed!
Wyatt Salamanca
One more indictment and Trump gets a free sandwich from Subway.
S Cerevisiae
The Friday news dump is going to be epic…
sdhays
Put me down as someone who thinks that the more that is revealed about these crimes, the worse it will be for Trump politically. I still don’t think anyone in that party has what it takes to defeat him for the nomination, but I think talk of indictments strengthening his support are wrong.
And I think the more we find out about these charges, the weaker, or at least smaller, his support will get.
Baud
@Wyatt Salamanca:
LOL
different-church-lady
@Wyatt Salamanca:
Nom-nom-nommmmmmminated!
sdhays
@Wyatt Salamanca: Is that the Jared special?
Adam L Silverman
Marking my beliefs to market: I am astounded and stunned that he was actually indicted at the Federal level. I did not think they would actually do it.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@BC in Illinois: Congrats on the new grandchild! Now it will always be easy for you to recall the date on which we heard about Trump being indicted.
Ken
I don’t see any mention of Fox in the comments. Has anyone done a wellness check? I figure they’re either howling in rage, or talking about anything other than the indictments — as in the joke that first circulated during the impeachments:
CNN: Trump indicted
MSNBC: Trump indicted
ABC: Trump indicted
FOX: Six ideas for tasty summer salads
SUMMER SALAD NETWORK: Trump indicted
karen marie
@MattF: I’d tell them to cry more but I deleted my account.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman:
Thanks for being willing to own up.
Burnspbesq
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
We may be about to find out, if there are one or more counts under 18 U.S.C. Section 2071 in the indictment. The issue will have to be litigated.
Suzanne
Weird feelings in this weird era: my MIL called and told Mr. Suzanne that the indictment was making her feel sad because she wanted to celebrate it with my FIL.
It pisses me off that my FIL did not live to see the fucker go to jail.
Manyakitty
@schrodingers_cat: heck yeah!!!!!
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re welcome.
Andrya
@TS: The statement is actually true, just totally irrelevant, and in no way an achievement of TFG . He confined the comparison to “sitting presidents” by which he clearly means “presidents running for re-election as an incumbent”. And he’s comparing absolute numbers of votes, not percentages. Purely due to population growth, TFG got more votes ( 74.2 million) even than major landslides such as Reagan in 1984 (54.5 million), Nixon in 1972 (47.2 million) , LBJ in 1964 (43.1 million) and FDR in 1936 (27.7 million). Of course, Reagan, Nixon, LBJ and FDR got much higher percentages of the votes, but TFG did get the most votes in simple numbers.
He’s not really being stupid himself (this time) he’s counting on his MAGA followers being stupid.
MisterForkbeard
@TS: I always love it when Trump goes off about how many votes he got.
Hillary got more votes than he did in 2016. Biden got 7 million more than he did in 2020. Sad.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I think I stole this from someone on here:
Today’s lesson: Live your life such that the DOJ doesn’t have to send to the Hague for a war crimes prosecutor to drag you into court.
NotMax
Kraken released. Film at 11.
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sdhays
Well…a lot the national elite think this way. Remember, there was a massive elite consensus that Ford’s pardon of Nixon was “good for the country” because Nixon going to trial would have been bad.
Manyakitty
@Baud: can’t think of a more fitting replacement.
NotMax
@Andrya
Of course there’s more votes. There’s more voters.
Do the math. (Offer void in Florida.)
;)
different-church-lady
Wow, I bet the New York Times feels pret-ty stupid righ… OMG, no, I can’t do it, I can’t keep a straight face…
schrodingers_cat
Will the rest of the Republican party and our failed media flee from him or continue to make excuses for him. I am not holding my breath!
SiubhanDuinne
@BC in Illinois:
What wonderful news! A day to remember and celebrate indeed! Congratulations to all involved, and a big welcome to the brand-new Jackal.
Sister Golden Bear
With all the champagne coming up, it looks like I’m calling in
hung-oversick tomorrow.different-church-lady
Oh, yeah, and even the Supremos gave us reason to smile today. Even them.
sdhays
@schrodingers_cat: Maybe Chris Licht can organize a town hall on Twitter Spaces so we can find out more about what Trump thinks. I hear he has some time on his hands.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
Tomorrow’s NYT headline.
TRUMP INDICTED ON FEDERAL CHARGES AS BIDEN CONTINUES TO AGE
MisterForkbeard
@Adam L Silverman: Astounded and stunned in a good way, or…?
Anyway, always happy to see you here man. Maybe sometime in the next few weeks we can get a look from you on how the republican cults are treating this
different-church-lady
@sdhays:
Dude can’t organize his sock drawer.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
Now I’m getting a little frightened about the future.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Colbert and the other late-night comedians must be SICK that they’re forced to be off the air right now.
So. Much. Wasted. Material.
Elizabelle
Yippee! And me w no cake in the house. A glass of wine will have to do.
All this and Pat Robertson’s demise too. Plus, the Supreme Court thought better of eviscerating more voting rights. Big news day.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
Good to see you on this wonderful day.
MisterForkbeard
@sdhays: There are STILL a lot of semi-moderates in media that were openly pushing for Biden to pre-emptively pardon Trump just a few weeks ago. Geraldo was one of them IIRC
snoey
@Burnspbesq: TPM says that there is a charge under that section.
different-church-lady
@Baud:
BIDEN BREAKS OWN RECORD FOR OLDEST PRESIDENT
ALSO IN THE NEWS:
Trump indicted for espionage (page A16)
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Ken: Hannity is complaining there are different rules for republicans. Blah-blah-blah. Joe Biden is currently under investigation for bribery. How come no one talks about that!
Andrya
@hells littlest angel: @bcw: After initial celebration, I started to worry if it’s even possible to get a Florida jury to unanimously vote to convict.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I usually think no one should pay any attention to Jonathan Turley, but tonight, I most sincerely hope that trump is thinking of adding Lawyer Hurley to both his defense team, and his campaign
different-church-lady
@Baud:
I don’t know about you but I’m going to go home and tell my family I love them…
Omnes Omnibus
@Andrya:
JFC!
Manyakitty
@Baud: <laughing bitterly>
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
TRUMP 2024: Do it for Me!
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne: Yes, that is sad. I’m sorry.
Adam L Silverman
@MisterForkbeard: More just surprised surprised. My assessment was that AG Garland appointed a special counsel to 1) protect the institution of the DOJ and 2) run through all the traps and then quietly put this to bed to protect the institution of the DOJ as an apolitical institution.
I only popped in because I’d just hit publish on the war update post. Basically doing that every day is all the bandwidth I have for Balloon Juice. Since those updates are the priority, that’s where I place the effort and energy.
Hope all is well with you!
citizen dave
Man, I wish Rush Limbaugh had lived to see this day.
Not really.
Also, Fuckin’ A! I call it a good start.
Reboot
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
🥂🍾🎉
Alison Rose
@Ken: I snorted.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Absolutely! That will be it!!!
Elizabelle
@Baud: Hello bud. And may it be the first of several federal indictments! We are here for it.
Hungry Joe
@MisterForkbeard: But 10 million of Biden’s votes don’t count because they came a million illegal immigrants who voted ten times each. Or maybe ten million illegal immigrants each voted once. Whatever. It was rigged, I tell you, RIGGED!
Citizen Alan
@Matt McIrvin: Man, this has just been the best week of my life and it’s only Thursday!
Omnes Omnibus
Statement from DeSantis.
MisterForkbeard
@Adam L Silverman: Doing well here, thanks for asking. And I don’t get to visit the Ukraine War posts while they’re still active, so it’s cool to see you around in realtime here.
Thanks again!
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Heh.
Jackie
@japa21: Nothing more Patriotic than voting for an indicted, twice impeached, convicted of sexual assault, one term ex-president.🤪
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: Dolphin imitation?
Baud
@WaterGirl:
You’re here! We missed you.
scav
@sdhays: Oh, look at the BBC’s current efforts.
Their current Live headline is New indictment a disgusting act of election interference, says Trump & tidbits from Donald Trump indicted over classified documents case
bbleh
@sdhays: concur. the cult will never give up, but some of the periphery will evaporate.
Adam L Silverman
@MisterForkbeard: You’re welcome.
TaMara
@Ken: This may be one of my favorite comments in this thread
Soprano2
The odious Pat Robertson is in hell and TFG was indicted. It’s a good day!
Jackie
@NotMax: I consider it an EARLY birthday gift to me! I’m quite sure I’ll be enjoying my Flags Day birthday MUCH more than TIFG😉🍷🍿🎂
Ken
@TaMara: I only steal the best jokes.
Alison Rose
@Suzanne: Was just texting with my mom about this, in re: her parents. They were both born in NY, lived there until they moved to Florida in their mid-60s, and they hated the everloving hell out of Trump. They both passed before he was elected, and I’ve always been glad that they didn’t have to witness that or live through all of it (also that they didn’t have to suffer under DeSantis). But now I wish they could see the news, because they’d both be thrilled!
japa21
@Baud:
She just finished eating 3 cakes and drinking 2 bottles of champagne.
Alison Rose
@Omnes Omnibus: To be fair, that’s pretty much the content of his brain most days.
Kent
Geraldo might be semi-literate, semi-insane, and semi-debauched.
But he isn’t semi-moderate.
schrodingers_cat
Are the indictments public or not yet? Can BJ legal eagles describe the charges.
Thanks.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
I think they are sealed until Tuesday.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud:
Yep.
Kent
They don’t count because they were cast in blue states.
I mean, take California and New York out of the picture and Trump wins. Electing Biden is a blue state conspiracy!
Omnes Omnibus
@japa21:
Piker.
Noskilz
Sounds like a good excuse for a very festive weekend. Might have been nice if the story broke earlier in the day for dinner planning purposes, but that seems very first world problems.
Jeffro
it’s like man, I blink, and we’re 250+ comments in…almost like today is a…a…
…CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION!!!
(FYI, I am wearing my special “Dirty Fucker* ” t-shirt with trump’s ugly mug on it – per musician Dave Hause – and the rest of the Fro family is like, “well, Dad has waited a long time to wear that thing”)
LOLOL
*go listen to the song if you have a minute! Dave didn’t originally write it about trumpov, but he had the shirts printed up once he realized what a good fit it was for that orange asshole
Timill
So now I have to consider: what to celebrate with: the marzipan, the butter almond, the cherry, or the gourmet? Opinions?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@TS: No, it’s true. Only problem for Trump is that his opponent got still more votes. Millions more, in fact
Eta: There’s a good reason for this, population growth.
Burnspbesq
@Omnes Omnibus:
Filipowski has his moments.
Jeffro
@Alison Rose:
get out of my head! =)
TaMara
Here I made this for you to share with your TIFG friends and family.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I wonder if the MAGAts are gonna make this a litmus test for Tiny D and… whoever else is pretending to run for president over there
Citizen Alan
@MomSense: AH! MY EYES!
Jeffro
@randal sexton:“vote Biden so Trump don’t walk”
It’s a good campaign slogan!
Especially considering that all of the GOP weasels (save Christie?) will now be campaigning on “vote for me and I’ll pardon trump”
and BEST WISHES with that one, Republicans!
JaySinWA
For today for some of us it is “let us eat cake” (Ice cream bars and alcohol will have to do for us). What’s on the table for Arraignment Tuesday and hopefully for Conviction day?
schrodingers_cat
@TaMara: Hey good one!
Randal Sexton
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Also given the Democrats an unusual slogan: “Vote Biden so Trump Don’t Walk”
CaseyL
Chiming in from overseas to say this news has me so excited I can’t sleep.
Not sure when or if I’ll have internet access tomorrow, which kind of sucks. But I will definitely raise a glass at the first opportunity!
Wyatt Salamanca
@Adam L Silverman:
I never thought I’d see this happen either.
If only the WGA strike had been settled. I’d love to hear from Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, the Daily Show, and SNL right now.
jonas
@scav:
He should know. It’s exactly what he was trying to pull with Biden in Ukraine. What a fucking scumball.
May he rot in jail. And then hell.
rikyrah
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
😂😂😂😂
WaterGirl
@Anyway: WaterGirl had a friend over for adult beverages and a meal and missed the whole thing!
Ramona Rosario
@Kirk: I think so too – that there will be a conviction. This is a pretty cut and dried procedure to try theft of national defense information and the government has a lot of experience trying such cases. If Trump truly knew what was good for him, he would do what Petraeus did and plead out.
Citizen Alan
@citizen dave: I’m sure they get CNN in Hell.
Jeffro
I’m good with a plea deal that involves trumpov walking coast to coast at the point of a pitchfork while being pelted with rotten tomatoes.
Seriously, Don! Just complete the walk and all charges are dropped, your “fortune” stays intact, all of it. =)
pasiphae
@schrodingers_cat: Love this comment!
mvr
@E.: Trump’s the person I’ve hated third longest, the other two being my middle school Gym teacher and Henry Kissinger both of whom I started hating in the early 70s and I’m not sure which came first. Was the early to mid 80s that I started hating Trump.
Steve in the ATL
@Timill: I went with chocolate mousse, which is always a good answer
Suzanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Will Vivek Ramaswamy’s star ever stop rising?
mali muso
What a day! And apparently in other karmic justice news, Assange just lost his appeal against extradition. When it rains traitors, it pours.
kalakal
Ode to Joy turned up to 11
mvr
He is in fact positively denying it in the tweet (or whatever) complaining about his indictment.
Jeffro
this is true, not just for next week in FL but going forward
his crazies here, there, and everywhere are already just waiting for his instructions to go violently berserk (or as I put it a few days ago, for him to just say ‘kill them all’)
if trump does it, I can see him being taken into custody almost immediately and charged for that, too. It would be yet another clarifying moment for the country and while the hardest of the hard core would stay proudly defiant, I have to believe that a former president telling his supporters to flat-out kill his enemies would leave the vast majority ready to throw trump in jail and throw away the key.
Burnspbesq
If you’re not sure you can handle more good news, skip this comment.
FBI has arrested Nate Paul, the Austin real estate developer at the heart of the misconduct charges that led to Paxton’s impeachment.
WaterGirl
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Who is Watts?
Manyakitty
@TaMara: thank you! PERFECT!
TaMara
OMG, it just keeps happening. And I think Elie might just have a handle on it:
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@TaMara: I didn’t know Jack Smith served on the Enterprise.
WaterGirl
@NotMax:
June 13 isn’t the day before TRE45ON’s birthday. It’s my birthday! Happy birthday to me! I’m sure Jack Smith timed it that way for me on purpose.
Anyway
@WaterGirl:
We missed you!
Jeffro
Everybody’s bringing their A-game for Smithmas, I see! LOLOL
Jackie
@TaMara: ♥️
Mr. Bemused Senior
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: this time line is very confusing.
Alison Rose
@TaMara: I LOVE YOU
WaterGirl
@Ken:
hahahahaha
Anyway
James Watts, Raygun’s Secy of Interior
Manyakitty
@Burnspbesq: OMG. This is an amazing day!!!!!!!!
karen marie
@Burnspbesq: OMG!
kalakal
@MattF:
You’re not kidding about the responses. There’s some weapons grade delusion in that lot
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Anyway: only one watt, not very bright.
James E Powell
@Omnes Omnibus:
I feel like I got rick rolled.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I think that might have been the other Jack Smith in a tweet.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
OT: This made me chuckle
smith
@Jeffro: Well, we will soon find out. As I recall, there was a thought that a mob might gather to make trouble at MAL on his NY indictment day, but only a few dispirited diehards showed up, and they just stood around looking lost. Of course, they weren’t in a place to personally hurt the libs who were persecuting their Great Leader, so that may have taken the fun out of it.
WaterGirl
@Baud:
I laughed out loud and then thought how sad it is that it’s true
Jeffro
OT but bringing you all this amazing snippet from Brooksie as the cherry on the sundae after the Robertson, Watt, and now trumpov-indictment news:
I know, right? Wow.
June 8th is now a quad-fecta of a banner day in American history!!
*but we must remember to properly mock the lumping-together of Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt with…McCain and Bloomberg…at SOME point!
mvr
Deleted due to being false.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: Oooh! I celebrate mine the 14th! Something tells me I’ll be celebrating much more profusely than TIFG will be celebrating 😂
Bunter
@JaySinWA:
Alcohol poisoning and/or a diabetic coma?
E.
@brantl: Dude chill. I said the first person. I was like thirteen years old.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: Snorting is high praise, indeed!
jonas
It will be interesting to see which lawyer(s) step up as Trump’s defense team. Will it be actual legal talent or the usual motley crew of marginally-qualified mob lawyer hacks whose main tactic is to scream and threaten and pound the table? He no doubt recognizes that shit just got real and he needs real legal representation now, but anyone competent he could retain will surely only take the case if he agrees to remain in a Hannibal Lecter-style restraint system with a ball gag throughout the entire process so he can’t run his mouth in court or post on social media about the “stupid, fat lady judge” or threaten jury members or whatever.
Oh, well. Amateur hacks it is, then!
TriassicSands
Indicted? This is the worst news ever. Trump is the nicest, kindest, most honest, competent, loving, sweet, benevolent, brilliant overachieving saint in the history of human kind. Sigh, the witch hunt has continued until this poor beleaguered man, who has never done anything wrong in his entire life was finally trapped by corrupt traitors in the Justice Department.
Not.
My real response?
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
Ad infinitum…
Have fun in court you rancid piece of fascist shit!
@Burnspbesq:
Thanks. I can effortlessly handle a never ending amount of news like what we’ve heard today.
In truth, I care the most about the case in Georgia. If they indict him and manage to put together a jury without a single MAGAt on it, then Trump won’t be able to pardon himself, if re-elected.
I don’t think any of these cases are guaranteed to cost Trump the nomination. But if they can get 12 honest jurors in Georgia (a very tall order), then Trump could actually do time.
Best case scenario? All these cases cause Trump so much stress that is head explodes and we’re done with him forever. (Except, of course, for his elevation to martyr and saint.)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jonas: I forget which recent (and maybe already former) attorney had to resign from his “white shoe” law firm because the firm wanted no association with trump. Parlatore?
I’m sure Dershowitz will want to be there. I wonder if Turkey isn’t already on thin ice with the rest of the faculty at his law school
WaterGirl
@Anyway: Thank you, that’s nice to hear!
Percysowner
@Mousebumples:
I worked in a law library for 40 years AND in Akron, Ohio where there was a HUGE scandal in the courts. The big take away was the law moves SLOWLY. Also, too Merrick Garland knows that “if you come for the king, you best not miss” and made sure he had all his ducks in a row before he moved.
We will have to see how it plays out. Florida is Trump friendly, but jury selection will be tight. The Right Wing Circuit and District courts in Florida may try to throw a wrench in the process. For now, I’m happy.
jonas
@Jeffro:
Dear God, is someone holding a member of his family hostage? That certainly came out of nowhere. Well, I guess the old adage about blind squirrels, nuts, etc., exists for a reason…
TriassicSands
@Ken:
Truth Social: Salads? I don’t want no steenking salads. Give me a giant quadruple cheeseburger. Make that six!
James E Powell
@WaterGirl:
Maybe the backwards tail walk?
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That is too funny! I am saving that tweet for an open thread this weekend.
Jeffro
Yup – we all saw this coming. It is indeed the new GOP litmus test and everyone in their race at the moment save Hutchinson and Christie will fail it.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Watt. He was Reagan’s Interior Secretary who said something like, we shouldn’t worry about the environment because we need the Second Coming.
Jeffro
@smith: some folks were worried about that, perhaps – I’m more worried about nuts around the country who will attack statehouses, prosecutors (and their families) identified by the trump cult as enemies, and so on.
unfortunately it’s easy to picture more loons driving into the WH and Capitol barriers, etc. my hope is that trump himself slips (he’s usually pretty good at keeping his violent suggestions vague) and says something so obviously intended to incite violence/murder that he gets charged with that, too.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
These two proposals do not align.
WaterGirl
@James E Powell: More confused than I was before!
Omnes Omnibus
@TaMara:
When he is right, he is right.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia:
Fuck that guy.
jonas
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Re: Turley or Dershowitz — It’s one thing to act as some talking head to spout legal-sounding bullshit on Fox where neither the host nor the audience have any remote understanding of the facts or the law. It’s another to try to peddle that shit in a federal courtroom. Ask all the idiots who tried multiple times in multiple courts to get electoral votes tossed in the 2020 election or delusional whackaloons like Kari Lake. Guys like Turley are shameless hacks because it pays the mortgage on their Georgetown colonial, but they’re not idiots. I doubt they would touch Trump with a ten-foot pole in an actual courtroom case — at least if they were interested in winning.
JGreen
Remember when that miserable bastard said that he saw people dancing in the street when the towers went down on 9/11? Of course, that was a lie.
But, I’ll bet he can see people dancing in the street now. And he can take credit for it, which he loves to do.
pajaro
Summer’s here and the time is right…
I’ll give you indicting, so much indicting this summer that you’ll say, please, no more indicting, I can’t take it any more.
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne:
I hope the announcement was in time for the BBC political comedy shows which are recorded on Thursday evening. The Now Show, The News Quiz and Have I Got News for You.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
WaPo, 1983:
jonas
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
They do if you’re a fascist who believes The Leader is by definition above the law. Princeps legibus solutus est and all that…
Kent
@zhena gogolia: Ryan Zinke says “hold my beer”
Jeffro
@zhena gogolia: Watt was a precursor, a beta test run for the GOP’s strategy of “put someone most completely opposed to a cabinet department’s mission in charge of that department”
And as we saw with Bush Jr and then especially with trumpov, they do LOVE that strategy.
NobodySpecial
I’ll be damned, they actually are gonna do it.
Of course, I’m still waiting for the rug pull, but that’s my Fitzmas allergies talking.
Manyakitty
@Jeffro: unexpected. Good.
Manyakitty
@Percysowner: are you coming to the Ohio meetup?
schrodingers_cat
@pasiphae: Thanks!
Anotherlurker
I just found out about the continuing slog toward justice in this country and I couldn’t be more pleased. To see that the bloated orange sack of corruption will have his day in court has made me happy.
Couple this with the passing of Robertson and Watt leaves me with almost ecstatic. I will enter full ecstasy mode with convictions.
Until then I will have to be content with a wee dram or 3 or 4 of Jamison. Slainte!!
jonas
@JGreen:
IIRC, he also claimed that his Trump World Tower on the Lower East Side was the tallest building in Manhattan after the towers collapsed. Which, of course, was also a lie (the Empire State Building, and about half a dozen others were taller). Leave it to Trump to make one of the country’s biggest national tragedies all about him. As I wrote earlier: fucking scumbag. May he rot in prison and/or hell.
Kent
You know it is a wild news week when Lionel Messi coming to Miami to play in the MLS gets flushed down the memory hole because of Trump.
jonas
@Kent:
Props to Messi for not following craven sell-out Ronaldo to the fucking Saudi league. Like David Beckham when he joined the LA Galaxy, he’s a senior player now and probably won’t be a huge factor on the field, but could still bring some excitement to the US MLS and Miami in particular. Wishing him well!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@pasiphae: I love your nym
dm
@MazeDancer:
I assume you mean “Flipper”?
Mousebumples
Agreed. Mostly aimed at those that said it would never happen. And props to those who are admitting their shock and surprise.
Not a lawyer, but I’ve been cautiously optimistic, based on all the super obvious criming that’s been happening.
Just… Slow… Moving… Process.
KrackenJack
@Manyakitty: It has occurred to me that the MAGAts have gone so far around the bend that the Dems can honestly reclaim patriotism while they denounce it to own the libs.
BeautifulPlumage
Just a wafer-thin bit of more schadenfreude: there was a hearing today for the lawyers who used Chat GPT for research and submitted non-existent cases for their legal doc.
Thread
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@MomSense: Monsense +2
Boris Rasputin + 10 and climbing.
You know, the usual for bad GQP news.
Timill
@Steve in the ATL: Nice, but the election has to be between the stollen I have…
TriassicSands
In the unlikely event he is convicted, I think we can expect house arrest at Mar-a-Lago with full golfing privileges. Anything more would clearly be “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Poor baby.
Kent
He is going to jack attendance through the roof. Not just Miami. But every away game as well.
Josie
Been without electricity for the last five hours due to local storms. I couldn’t wait to get here to join the celebration. Hooray for Jack Smith and Merrick Garland and all their hardworking DoJ cohorts. This is just the beginning.
Sally
@Old Dan and Little Ann: There are different rules. They are protected but not bound. We are bound but not protected.
Chris T.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Along the lines of “X can’t fail, it can only be failed”, isn’t this a case of “Garland can’t fail-to-betray, he can only be failed to fail-to-betray”?
yellowdog
@PAM Dirac: I was there, too! Best party of my life. Such joy!
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Wow. I had no idea.
WaterGirl
@dm: Oh, duh.
Miss Bianca
So, the big news yesterday was that James Watt died? I had no idea that fucker was still alive – he’d been dead to me for years.
Oh, and I guess a couple other things happened too.