Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

After roe, women are no longer free.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

White supremacy is terrorism.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

In my day, never was longer.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

So many bastards, so little time.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

In after Baud. Damn.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL

Let’s finish the job.

Bark louder, little dog.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

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  2. 2.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    [in the voice of Fearless Leader]  about time, Badenov!  What took you so long??

  4. 4.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    Who’s the short guy with the funny hat standing next to Melania?

  5. 5.

    Suzanne

    So! I got SuzMom to go to her first physical therapy appointment today! Considering that I come from a long line of stubborn medical-help-decliners, that is a big step.

    I don’t get it. It’s some deep-rooted Puritan shit. It’s almost a desire to suffer.

  7. 7.

    Mai Naem mobile

    I’ve heard some pundits discuss TFG settling for a deal, like agreeing to drop out of the POTUS race and never run again. Seriously does any fucking person trust TFG with a deal?  This guy lied about returning the damn documents after agreeing to return them and you think he’s going to settle for some deal not to run again? Jeezus. Get a clue. This guy would sign a supposed deal and then run on getting off scot free the very next day.

  10. 10.

    Mike in NC

    The tacky photos from Mar-a-Lago led me to an article that mentioned a book called, “Dictator Style” by Peter York. Seems like guys like Amin, Marcos, Saddam, Khadaffi, etc. have the same bad taste as Trump. The bigger and gaudier, the better they like it.

  19. 19.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, harkening back to an earlier thread, … Phys.org:

    Researchers have now found out how to stop the formation of harmful acrylamides when deep-frying potatoes to make potato chips.

    Frying potatoes causes the formation of harmful chemicals called acrylamides. The acrylamide content in potato potato chips is influenced by factors such as the potatoes themselves, storage conditions and the heat treatment process. Researchers have been looking into acrylamides together with the food packing company Produsentpakkeriet in Frosta, north-east of Trondheim, Norway.

    “Here we face an additional challenge because colder growth conditions often mean that less mature potatoes are used to make potato chips,” says researcher Solveig Uglem at SINTEF, who has been heading the research team. “Less mature potatoes contain more sugar, and this can lead to a higher acrylamide content in the potato chips that we make from them,” she says.

    […]

    The team discovered that measurements of sucrose and aspartic acid contents in potatoes offered the best indicators of the acrylamide levels that potato chips will obtain after deep frying.

    “However, this method is slow and requires the use of expensive instruments,” says Erlend Indergård, who has been participating in the project. “We’ve found that measuring glucose concentrations using a blood sugar meter that anyone can purchase at a local pharmacy offers a quicker and more accessible means of getting an indication of whether a potato’s sugar content is too high,” he says.

    […]

    It looks like Frosta is at the same latitude as Iceland – pretty far north!

    This story doesn’t mention the best storage temperature, but Google tells me that it’s around 45F. Colder gives more sugars. There are apparently ways of storing them colder and letting them warm up before frying, and in that warm-up period the sugars change back to starches. You need the right airflow too in storage…

    Biology is complicated – even in potatoes.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  21. 21.

    dmsilev

    So, based on the few clips I’ve seen posted, TFG’s interview on Fox was basically “yeah, I did the crime”. I’d almost feel sorry for his lawyers, except that of course they signed on to be his lawyers.

  25. 25.

    Shalimar

    @Mai Naem mobile: My hope remains that DoJ will go after the additional documents that Trump still hasn’t handed over.  There is zero chance they were all at Mar-a-Lago while he himself was at Bedminster during the raid.

  26. 26.

    Gin & Tonic

    Look like Erick bin Erick got hit with a clue-by-four

    Guys, Trump admitted on TV tonight he withheld documents from the grand jury. Game over, legally. What an idiot.
    — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 20, 2023

  27. 27.

    Suzanne

    @WaterGirl: Well, yeah. But it’s maladaptive.

    I still remember the one time my grandfather took me to the doctor when I was a kid. It was my first Arizona summer and I caught some stomach virus. Couldn’t keep any liquids down, was rapidly dehydrating. When I passed out in my own vomit, he relented.

    Those are the kind of people we came from.

  36. 36.

    Ken

    @dmsilev: TFG’s interview on Fox was basically “yeah, I did the crime”.

    Every now and then I’m sad that Biden is a professional and serious about his office. I would toss a couple of Presidential Medals of Freedom to the Fox crew, thanking them for their service to the DOJ.

  37. 37.

    Scout211

    Trump has “zero” worries about the case against him. Link

    BAIER: So you are not worried about this case?

    TRUMP: Based on the law?  Zero. Zero. Presidential Records Act plus the Clinton case — the Clinton case which was won by Clinton as president because he took he and hid them in his socks. Zero.

    BAIER: Ok.

    TRUMP: Zero. And every good lawyer has said it, and you have seen that. Every good lawyer has said that.

  38. 38.

    Gvg

    @Mike in NC: Napoleon and Al Capone have also been described as having that kind of awful taste. Although I have to say….I think a lot of people have really bad taste and go for gold paint overdone when they have the means.

  41. 41.

    Scout211

    @dmsilev: So, based on the few clips I’ve seen posted, TFG’s interview on Fox was basically “yeah, I did the crime”

    And then adding, “But lemme tell ya why it’s not a crime when I do it.”

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    A bombshell in some quarters?

    The head of the International Energy Agency issued a stark warning to long-term investors, arguing against investing in international oil and gas companies because of mounting reputational risks and concerns that fossil fuel investments will soon become stranded assets.

    “I, myself, wouldn’t do it,” Fatih Birol said of whether he would invest his own personal pension in fossil fuel firms.

    In a wide-ranging interview, Birol argued oil and gas companies’ actions fell short of their rhetoric when it came to their spending plans to fight climate change, saying oil and gas CEOs were mistakenly focused on maintaining profitability by retaining focus on their core businesses. “In the medium- and longer-term, it may not be really profitable,” he said. Source

  43. 43.

    dmsilev

    @Scout211:

    TRUMP: Zero. And every good lawyer has said it, and you have seen that. Every good lawyer has said that.

    I’m assuming that his definition of “good” starts and stops with “tells me what I want to hear”.

  44. 44.

    Another Scott

    Thread:

    As mentioned previously, the next significant phase of the Trump MAL docs prosecution could be titled "The Education of Aileen Cannon." DOJ will have multiple successive opportunities to educate her about the nat'l security imperatives at issue in this case. But will it resonate? https://t.co/2h5oExIA52

    — Secrets and Laws (@secretsandlaws) June 19, 2023

    Interesting.

    (via BradMossEsq)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  45. 45.

    Brachiator

    @Scout211:

    TRUMP: Based on the law?  Zero. Zero. Presidential Records Act plus the Clinton case — the Clinton case which was won by Clinton as president because he took he and hid them in his socks. Zero.

    I would really like to see Trump convicted. I would like to see the look on his face when a jury found him guilty.

  47. 47.

    Jackie

    @dmsilev: I actually watched it. It was an amazing political ad telling Faux viewers why they should vote for Biden😂

    TIFG’s handlers have to be tearing their hair out. And TIFG Interview part 2 is tomorrow. (Unless it gets replaced by a rerun)

  49. 49.

    Brachiator

    Also, as previously noted, from BBC News…

    MPs have backed a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over lockdown parties at Downing Street.

    The Commons voted overwhelmingly in support of the report, by 354 to seven.

    No vote was recorded for 225 MPs, because they either abstained or did not turn up to vote.

    Boris Johnson was another leader who brazenly lied about his offenses and thought he could get away with anything.

  54. 54.

    sanjeevs

    TRUMP: Based on the law?  Zero. Zero. Presidential Records Act plus the Clinton case — the Clinton case which was won by Clinton as president because he took he and hid them in his socks. Zero.

    Trump is conflating three things here

    1. Bill Clinton kept some Presidential papers in his sock drawer
    2. Clinton’s NSA Chief Sandy Berger hid some classified document in his socks after he was out of office.
    3. The Clintons had a cat named ‘Socks’
  55. 55.

    Redshift

    I like that picture because it perfectly illustrates what dumbasses people like Lindsey Graham are for whining that he shouldn’t be charged under the Espionage Act because he didn’t commit espionage.

    The reason secret documents are kept in secure spaces is that is you leave them lying around, foreign agents can get to them even if you don’t intentionally give the documents to them.

  56. 56.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    I saw that one a few days ago and lol’d… There’s also one of a Saudi prince sitting on the can looking through a folder.

    We’re basking in the silence that happens when MAGA trucker and his clown car vagina wife move out of the neighborhood. Six kids less and while there are lots of kids still in the hood they are of a much quieter variety because their parents actually keep an eye on them. Fuck is it quiet tonight! Good riddance and it will be nice to be rid of the parents who think that watching their kids is putting a sign out in the road in front of their place that blocks traffic and warns people that their kids are playing in the street.

    The cops DGAF because they quit enforcing traffic laws a few years ago. Either way, what a nice quiet evening!

  57. 57.

    Redshift

    @Another Scott: From what I’ve heard recently, if Cannon makes any rulings that mess with the handling of classified info, DOJ can get an expedited appeal (no delays by Cannon) and can request recusal as part of the appeal.

  58. 58.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Gin & Tonic: It seems like the smarter conservatives have pivoted from “Trump is innocent and is being persecuted for political reasons” to “Trump is guilty but not holding him above the law still looks bad.” There’s a real catch-22 where the only administrations who would be interested in prosecuting him aren’t, in some moral sense, allowed to do it.

  61. 61.

    Steeplejack

    @sanjeevs:

    Bill Clinton kept some Presidential papers in his sock drawer.

    Clinton kept some audiotapes of a historian’s interview with him in his sock drawer. Nutter outfit Judicial Watch sued to get them declared presidential records and seized, but a judge ruled that they were personal.

  62. 62.

    Matt McIrvin

    @NotMax: The funny thing is, the IEA has consistently underestimated the speed of the transition away from fossil fuels in all of their reports. If they’re telling people it’s not a growth industry, they ought to be concerned.

  64. 64.

    piratedan

    well Erik is still wrong, Trump didn’t hide documents from the Grand Jury, there was a Grand Jury that decided that there was cause for indicting Trump for hiding documents from the National Archives and the FBI (and his own lawyers).  I’m an idiot and even I can understand the difference…. sheesh.

  65. 65.

    kalakal

    @sanjeevs:

    lol!

     

    @Gvg: In Napoleon’s case it seems more that he was putting on a show, he was setting himself up as a replacement monarch, and the Bourbons weren’t exactly known for their understated taste. He’s on record as much preferring Fontainbleu to Versailles and his apartments there are a lot less flashy. He was building a brand hence the (B)ees logo everywhere

  67. 67.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, … Phys.org:

    Countries are starting to get more serious about slashing avoidable methane emissions from fossil fuel production, as the rapidly warming planet forces leaders to double down on solutions that can reign in scorching temperatures within decades.

    Last month Bloomberg Green reported that U.S. officials are discussing with their Turkmenistan counterparts ways to help the central Asian nation cap some of the world’s worst methane emissions that spew from its aging oil and gas operations. Separately, European Union rules could pave the way for cuts to the greenhouse gas seeping out from the continent’s coal mines

    If all the gas that’s leaked or vented by Turkmenistan’s energy sector was salvaged and burned instead and the EU rules take effect, the combined measures would have roughly the same short-term climate effect as wiping out roughly 290 million tons of CO2 each year, according to calculations by Bloomberg and energy think tank Ember. That’s like canceling the emissions of Taiwan—the world’s leading chip-maker and its 21st worst polluter. In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency also is expected to outline its plan in coming weeks for implementing a new fee on methane emissions mandated by the sweeping climate law enacted last year.

    Although massive emissions reductions of the gas from the energy sector are still needed from many more countries globally, including from major emitters like China and Russia, the measures may mark a shift toward concrete climate action.

    Good, good.

    It would be best, of course, to capture the methane and do something else with it, like make it into some polymer or something. But keeping it out of the atmosphere is important (it’s a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 (but methane breaks down much faster than CO2, so the long-term effect needs to be considered as well).

    More at the link.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  68. 68.

    dww44

    I just finished catching up on the day’s news and apparently reporting from the Washington Post confirms what many of us have long believed…DOJ has been politicized in favor of no accountability for Donald Trump and the FBI has actually impeded efforts to hold him and his aides accountable.

    On the one hand, too much timidity (Garland) and on the other too much partisan loyalty to the detriment of our democracy (Wray). Or perhaps neither man is strong enough to effectively steer the helms of their respective department or agency. In any case those men are the reason Trump has not had to face real accountability.

    I Do Not want to hear any more arguments about it being too close to the election.  If they had acted sooner Trump would not even be a candidate.

  70. 70.

    Jackie

    Lawrence O’Donnell’s show absolutely lambasted TIFG’s Faux interview. Well worth watching!

  71. 71.

    Chetan Murthy

    @dww44: I’m sorry, but we have been advised by Lawyers Who Know Better Than Us Mere Civilians (LWKBTUMC) that these things take time, and we need to be patient.  I hear that’s true of the heat-death of the universe, too.

  75. 75.

    eversor

    @Jackie:

    I wonder if the word came from on top to Mortal Kombat style FINISH HIM! because that was brutal.  Baier has some chops.

  78. 78.

    Shalimar

    @dww44: Too much timidity is giving Garland way too much credit.  He was internally pursuing a move-on-without-punishment policy while lying about it to the public and saying they were investigating.  They weren’t investigating for that entire first year.   Garland has lost all credibility.   He should resign.

  83. 83.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @sanjeevs: Oh, that’s a relief.  For a moment I thought Bubba  hid documents in his cat the way Fawn Hall hid classified material in her panties.

  85. 85.

    WereBear

    @Suzanne: My mother was raised that way. Doctors cost money. Try kerosene.

    WE got all our shots, too! This was another point of pride that shows what slaloms the poor dodge.

    Only the strong survived.

  87. 87.

    Tony Jay

    Maybe it’s just because I came here straight from the Tacky O thread below, but the very first thing I thought when I saw that picture was “I didn’t know Trump had had the De Santis’ over to Mar Illegal-Go”.

  89. 89.

    StringOnAStick

    @Scout211: Folks, this “I know I will be exonerated” talk is just classic extreme narcissism; he has decided how the world will be and that’s that, no logic will intrude on that level of narcissistic delusion.

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