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Squishable Morning Thread: Just GO, Blago!

by Betty Cracker|  March 22, 20246:50 am| 89 Comments

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Corrupt former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who received a prison sentence commutation from kindred spirit Donald Trump, sued his state for barring him from running for public office again. U.S. District Judge Steven Seeger dismissed the case with Suessian flair: (The Hill)

“The complaint is riddled with problems,” Seeger wrote. “If the problems are fish in a barrel, the complaint contains an entire school of tuna. It is a target-rich environment. The complaint is an Issue-Spotting Wonderland.”

“The bottom line is that the judiciary has no power to unimpeach, unconvict, and unremove a public official,” he continued. “The legislature taketh away, and the judiciary cannot giveth back…”

“The case began with great fanfare. Surrounded by microphones and cameras, with a gaggle of press in tow, Blagojevich announced to the world that he might want a sequel in public life,” Seeger wrote. “The book is closed. The last page already turned, and the final chapter of his public life is over. The case never should have been filed.”

The judge then added a quote from Dr. Seuss’s 1972 children’s tale, “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now.”

“The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just Go. Go. GO!,” the quote reads. “I don’t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Marvin K. Mooney, will you please go now!”

“The case started with a megaphone, but it ends with a whimper,” Seeger continued.

“Sometimes cases in the federal courthouse attract publicity. But the courthouse is no place for a publicity stunt. He wants back. But he’s already gone. Case dismissed.”

Well done, Judge Seeger.

Open thread.

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    89Comments

    1. 1.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 6:53 am

      Sometimes a lifetime appointment can be awesome.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      Manyakitty

      March 22, 2024 at 6:56 am

      Yes. More like this, please. Immediately, if not sooner.

      Reply
    3. 3.

      MattF

      March 22, 2024 at 6:57 am

      There’s a long list of people that judgement should be applied to.

      Reply
    4. 4.

      Mousebumples

      March 22, 2024 at 6:57 am

      Lol, love it

      Reply
    5. 5.

      Betty Cracker

      March 22, 2024 at 7:01 am

      Speaking of corrupt skidmarks who should just GO NOW:

      Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez will not run for reelection as a Democrat this year but is keeping the door open to an independent run, he said Thursday.

      New Jersey’s senior senator, who is under indictment for a second time in a decade, said he is hopeful that “my exoneration will take place this summer,” allowing him to run in November’s general election.

      “Unfortunately, the present accusations I am facing — of which I am innocent and will prove so — will not allow me to have that type of dialogue and debate with political opponents that have already made it the cornerstone of their campaign,” Menendez said in a video. “New Jerseyans deserve better than that.”

      Gold Bar probably won’t be able to play spoiler even if he’s not in jail since only about 5% of Jersey voters are gullible enough to believe him. I hope New Jersey voters bounce his son out of the House too.

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:04 am

      @Betty Cracker:

      Hopefully, there’ll be a plea deal soon.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      Manyakitty

      March 22, 2024 at 7:06 am

      @Betty Cracker: next stop, No Labels.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 7:08 am

      Sunday’s Face the Nation (CBS) could be good. Guests are Senator Raphael Warnock and Rep. Michael McCaul. McCaul (TX), the Foreign Relations Chairman, is the House’s leading Republican Ukraine hawk, so I expect he will be asked about the stalled Ukraine aid package.

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:10 am

      @Geminid:

      Good on Warnock.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 22, 2024 at 7:13 am

      “New Jerseyans deserve better than that.”

      Is a very true statement by Gold Bar Bob, just not in the way that totally un-selfaware he thinks.

      He is to corrupt as Tuberville is to stoopid.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      Princess

      March 22, 2024 at 7:17 am

      Maybe Blago will be Trump’s VP.

      Reply
    12. 12.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:17 am

      @Princess:

      Unity ticket!

      Reply
    13. 13.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:22 am

      Via reddit

      All 6 officers from Mississippi “Goon Squad” have been sentenced to prison for torturing 2 Black men

      Reply
    14. 14.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 7:22 am

      @Baud: I suspect Warnock will get a question or two about Gaza. He made some important points about the conflict in a Senate speech last week.

      McCaul may have something to say about the two discharge petitions gaining signatures in the House. Yesterday, retiring Rep. Ken Buck was the first Republican to sign. Buck signed both petitions, and evidently his signatures are in effect until his successor is sworn in. That will take a couple months at least.

      Last week Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole said Republicans could either bring their own package on to the floor or live with what a discharge petition brings, so Cole seems to think a successful petition is likely.

      Reply
    15. 15.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 22, 2024 at 7:23 am

      @Princess: ​
       

      The Orange Fart Cloud could never do that cuz Blago’s somebody even more corrupt and could never be trusted to not figuratively shiv him.

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      March 22, 2024 at 7:27 am

      Wow. Judge Seeger is quite the wordsmith!

      Reply
    17. 17.

      montanareddog

      March 22, 2024 at 7:30 am

      @Princess:

      Why bother with criminal small fry like Blago? Ed Kemper is still alive, 2 years younger than TIFG, and a citizen of another state. That would be sure to win California for the 91 felony counts guy.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 22, 2024 at 7:31 am

      Not reading the post.

      Not reading the comments.

      Pavlovian response triggered!

      FUCK BLAGO!

      I am still embarrassed that I voted for this criminal pile of radioactive shit.

      Reply
    19. 19.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 7:32 am

      @Baud: Menendez’s wife Nadine is also indicted, and that gives prosecutors leverage. Maybe they’ll let the Senator save face by pleading “gilty” instead of guilty.

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:35 am

      @Geminid:

      It sounds like the trial is scheduled for the summer.  If there’s a deal, I suspect it’ll be just before trial.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      p.a.

      March 22, 2024 at 7:38 am

      @Baud: This article should be sent to the 6 usual suspects on our “Taney” Supreme Court.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      MagdaInBlack

      March 22, 2024 at 7:38 am

      @mrmoshpotato: Right there with ya.

      Reply
    23. 23.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:40 am

      @mrmoshpotato:

      Illinois Dems seem to have cleaned up their act the way NJ Dems are now doing.

      Reply
    24. 24.

      jonas

      March 22, 2024 at 7:40 am

      @Geminid:Guests are Senator Raphael Warnock and Rep. Michael McCaul. McCaul (TX), the Foreign Relations Chairman, is the House’s leading Republican Ukraine hawk,

      Well I’ll be. I guess Joe Manchin, Lindsay Graham, and some random former Trump cabinet member weren’t available.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      RandomMonster

      March 22, 2024 at 7:43 am

      Such an absurd figure as Rod Blagojevich deserves no less.

      Reply
    26. 26.

      Suzanne

      March 22, 2024 at 7:43 am

      If the problems are fish in a barrel, the complaint contains an entire school of tuna.

      Just needed to see that again.

      Reply
    27. 27.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:44 am

      Has Blago officially changed parties?

      Reply
    28. 28.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 7:44 am

      Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary is heating up. Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks is finally getting on the airwaves and countering Rep. David Trone’s long, self-financed advertising campaign. Alsobrooks picked a good time, because yesterday Trone made an awful “Freudian slip.” Trone was questioning OMB Director Shalonda Young, a Black woman, and at one point he meant to say “bugaboo” but that’s not how it came out.

      I believe the primary is in May.

      Reply
    29. 29.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:45 am

      @Geminid:

      How did it come out? Nothing obvious comes to mind.

      Reply
    30. 30.

      HinTN

      March 22, 2024 at 7:50 am

      @Baud: Sadly, “jigaboo” comes to mind, but I’m from the south and I’ve heard that horrid term.

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:52 am

      @HinTN:

      I’ve heard a lot, but that one is new to me.

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 7:53 am

      @Baud: I think Rep. Trone started the word “ji-” instead of “bu-.” Or at least that’s the scuttlebutt on Twitter. I have not looked into reporting on new sites about this.

      Reply
    33. 33.

      Spanky

      March 22, 2024 at 7:53 am

      Hogan is apparently leading the polls, but of course the Dems are still split, and as indicated above, horrible David Trone has been sucking up the airwaves. Can’t wait for Alsobrooks’ campaign to get rolling

      ETA, between Hogan’s popularity and Trone’s suckitude, there may be a real fight to keep this Senate seat.

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    34. 34.

      MattF

      March 22, 2024 at 7:53 am

      @Geminid: Another ‘control-of-the-Senate at stake’ race. Ex-Governor Larry Hogan will be the R candidate, and he’s quite popular. There was a poll showing Hogan ahead of both D candidates, but the WaPo article never mentioned that Trone and Alsobrooks combined equaled Hogan’s number, and both were barely under 50%. So, it’s a real race.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:53 am

      @Geminid:

      Thanks.  I wouldn’t necessarily trust Twitter takes.

      Reply
    36. 36.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:54 am

      @MattF:

      Name recognition affects polling this early.

      Reply
    37. 37.

      Ken

      March 22, 2024 at 7:55 am

      @p.a.: I’d worry they’d take “The judiciary has no power to unconvict a public official” as a challenge.

      Reply
    38. 38.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 7:58 am

      @MattF:

      but the WaPo article never mentioned that Trone and Alsobrooks combined equaled Hogan’s number, and both were barely under 50%.

       

      This math doesn’t make sense to me.

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Spanky

      March 22, 2024 at 7:58 am

      The Dems need to (and probably will) point out that Hogan was prevented from enacting standard horrible Republican policies by a very Dem legislature. His own words can sink his campaign.

      Reply
    40. 40.

      TBone

      March 22, 2024 at 7:58 am

      I’m only as far as Episode 3 r.n. but wow, this show is why I’m glad didn’t get rid of Netflix.  A history primer and recent history is included. Review:

      https://www.thereviewgeek.com/turningpoint-bombandthecoldwar-review/

      Two thumbs up!

      Reply
    41. 41.

      billcoop4

      March 22, 2024 at 7:59 am

      Is Rep. Menendez (fils) also corrupt, or do we just want to clear the family? I don’t know of anything that he’s done himself…but I’ve been out of NJ politics for some time.

       

      BC — from the North Country

      Reply
    42. 42.

      MattF

      March 22, 2024 at 8:02 am

      @Baud: I.e., Trone + Alsobrooks = Hogan. With a small amount of ‘other’, I suppose.

      ETA: So, the D votes to beat Hogan exist, they just need to be roused off the sofa. Note that Maryland is a vote-by-mail state.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      Gin & Tonic

      March 22, 2024 at 8:02 am

      According to the FT’s Christopher Miller, the US, which has stopped supplying Ukraine with arms, is now advising Ukraine to stop attacking Russian oil refineries.

      There’s no direct translation of STFU into Ukrainian, but there are several analogues which I’m sure are being echoed in Kyiv.

      Reply
    44. 44.

      randy khan

      March 22, 2024 at 8:04 am

      @Betty Cracker:

      Mr. Menendez’s support in the last poll for the Democratic primary was 9%, so 5% in the general probably is generous.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 8:04 am

      @MattF: It sounds like Hogan is already bobbing and weaving on abortion rights questions. He’ll eventually have to give straight answers on this and other questions like, “Do you support your party’s Presidential candidate?” Like Youngkin, Hogan wants to be all things to all people but Democrats will not let the Republican get away with it this time.

      Reply
    46. 46.

      TBone

      March 22, 2024 at 8:06 am

      Also recommend today’s take by Matt Stoller.

      https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-suit-matters

      It’s about MUCH more than Apple.

      Reply
    47. 47.

      prostratedragon

      March 22, 2024 at 8:06 am

      A lifetime in 1m15s, with J.S. Bach.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 8:09 am

      @TBone:

      Is that the same perennially anti-Dem Matt Stoller? I vaguely remember that there may be two people with the same name.

      Reply
    49. 49.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 8:11 am

      @Baud: Also, I think a lot of people think “U.S. Congressman “outranks “County Executive.” But Angela Alsobrooks has run a County of almost 1 million people for as long as Trone has represented ~750,000. Before that, Alsobrooks was county prosecutor for two terms while Trone ran his liquor distribution company. So I’d say Alsobrooks brings a lot more experience to the table than does Trone.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Betty Cracker

      March 22, 2024 at 8:12 am

      @billcoop4: I assume, perhaps unfairly, that the son owes the seat to the father’s corrupt machinations. Crooked Dems make me especially angry because they lend false equivalence to the both sides lie, so I want them destroyed politically, personally pauperized and all corrupt gains dissolved.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      Frankensteinbeck

      March 22, 2024 at 8:12 am

      @Baud:

      As grotesque a place as we are in with police murdering blacks, we have moved a step forward.  It used to be, not long ago, that convictions like this did not happen, ever, no matter the evidence.  So far to go, but every time is important progress.

      @Baud:

      A jigaboo, also called a Step’N’Fetchit – and I apologize for ever using those words even to inform – is a stereotype of a black person.  It has a history in books and media.  Have you seen the Star Wars prequels?  Jar Jar Binks is one.  The splay footed walk, cheerful stupidity, “Me’sa” speech patterns, helpful clumsiness – that.

      You can also just use it as a generic ethnic slur, if you’re a racist asshole.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 8:12 am

      @Geminid:

      Primary voters can decide. I’ll be rooting for whoever the nominee is.

      Reply
    53. 53.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 8:14 am

      @Baud: I trust Democratic Terrapins to slowly but surely make the right decision.

      Reply
    54. 54.

      TBone

      March 22, 2024 at 8:17 am

      @Baud: If he’s anti-dem, that’s news to me. He’s an antitrust news-focused writer.  His newsletter is titled “Big.” This article highlights the newly strengthened focus by our Dems on taking a bite out of corporate malfeasance.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      SFAW

      March 22, 2024 at 8:19 am

      @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

      He is to corrupt as Tuberville is to stoopid.

      To paraphrase Miracle (Not)Max: Menendez is only mostly corrupt, but Tuberville is all stoopid.

      Reply
    56. 56.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 8:19 am

      @Betty Cracker:

      Crooked Dems make me especially angry because they lend false equivalence to the both sides lie, so I want them destroyed politically, personally pauperized and all corrupt gains dissolved

      I agree. Although I’ve become disillusioned about expecting that people won’t invent whatever they need to to stay faithful to the both sides dogma.

      Reply
    57. 57.

      Betty Cracker

      March 22, 2024 at 8:19 am

      @Geminid: I read somewhere that Trone supports eliminating the filibuster. Do you know if Alsobrooks does too? This is a litmus test for me, not that my opinion matters in Maryland.

      Reply
    58. 58.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 22, 2024 at 8:24 am

      @TBone:

      Apple is financializing; it now spends twice as much on stock buybacks as it does on R&D.

      That right there is telling.  I have an iPhone, originally had one forced on me for work so I’d be electronically tethered 24/7.  When I retired, I finally had to get a phone of my own and per the article, stuck with Apple. Not because I have any love of Apple, it was simply easier.

      Very interesting, and typically infuriating, piece.  We don’t tax those bastards enough.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      lowtechcyclist

      March 22, 2024 at 8:26 am

      @Geminid: ​
       

      I believe the primary is in May.

      The MD primary is May 14.

      Self-financed campaign, huh? Trone must have gobs of money, I’ve lost count of all the mailings I’ve got from his campaign.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      NotMax

      March 22, 2024 at 8:29 am

      @Baud

      Missed the discussion on this earlier on in a thread where Dolt 45’s use of “peekaboo” as a dogwhistle slur was brought up?

      Reply
    61. 61.

      lowtechcyclist

      March 22, 2024 at 8:29 am

      @Spanky: ​
       

      horrible David Trone has been sucking up the airwaves.

      What don’t you like about Trone? Other than being aware that he’s a Congressman from some other MD district, I don’t know jack shit about him.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      TBone

      March 22, 2024 at 8:29 am

      @comrade scotts agenda of rage: 👍 maybe Baud is thinking of Matt Taibbi?

      Reply
    63. 63.

      Betty Cracker

      March 22, 2024 at 8:30 am

      @lowtechcyclist: He’s the founder of Total Wine (my favorite corporation).

      Reply
    64. 64.

      WaterGirl

      March 22, 2024 at 8:30 am

      @Geminid: Maybe.  But first they are going to ask him about appearing to have said “Go fuck yourself” to someone in the chamber during the recent hearing.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      TBone

      March 22, 2024 at 8:32 am

      @WaterGirl: said to Darrell Issa 😆

      Reply
    66. 66.

      WaterGirl

      March 22, 2024 at 8:33 am

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: No wonder Betty Cracker posted this.  Game knows game.

      Reply
    67. 67.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 22, 2024 at 8:33 am

      @Baud: He is the former Iraq war cheerleader who worked for Alan Grayson if that’s what you mean.  I don’t know much about his current work, but his political judgment is a bit iffy.

      Reply
    68. 68.

      WaterGirl

      March 22, 2024 at 8:34 am

      @mrmoshpotato:

      I am still embarrassed that I voted for this criminal pile of radioactive shit.

      If I could go back in time, I would vote for him again because he is still better than the Republican governors we have had.

      Reply
    69. 69.

      Baud

      March 22, 2024 at 8:36 am

      @Omnes Omnibus:

      Thanks.

      Reply
    70. 70.

      SFAW

      March 22, 2024 at 8:37 am

      @prostratedragon: ​
       
      Thank you for that.
      Disclaimer: I am not a musician, nor do I understand music theory as well as many — my father, for example. That said: I have always thought of (rightly or wrongly) Beethoven and Mozart as geniuses and innovative. But after listening to Glenn Gould’s version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations numerous times over the years, I am ceaselessly amazed at/by Bach.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      TBone

      March 22, 2024 at 8:37 am

      @Omnes Omnibus: yikes, I just read up on him.  Oh well, back to the drawing board (facepalm)…

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 8:46 am

      @Betty Cracker: If Trone is saying it I expect Alsobrooks will also. That’s not such a controversial issue among Democrats in a blue state like Maryland. I doubt if Senators Tester or Rozen will advocate for filibuster elimination.in their reelection campaigns. Same with Supreme Court expansion, which is a reason Schumer hasn’t put either initiative up for Senate vote.

      Same also with DC Statehood., which was passed in each in the previous Congresses and disappeared without a trace. Schumer did not want Senators Kelly, Cortez-Masto, Warnock and Hassan to have to vote on DC statehood, and its House sponsors understood that and didn’t raise a fuss like they could have.

      As a practical matter, there are not nearly the votes for a complete elimination of the filibuster, So I just care if a Senator is open to carve-outs.

      Reply
    73. 73.

      Soprano2

      March 22, 2024 at 8:47 am

      @Geminid: I wish more Americans understood what Biden is fighting against as far as Israeli attitudes toward Gaza are concerned. I listened to this story on Morning Edition today; one woman said that the Gazans “brought this on themselves” because “they voted for Hamas to be in power”, and “Hamas is stealing all the food anyway”. The whole thing was like that, the Israeli public has no appetite at all for helping the Gazans because they see them all as Hamas terrorists. Lawmakers there who even try to talk about assistance get savaged and have to backtrack. I guess Biden could deny all aid to Israel, then they would still do this and we would have zero things to leverage them with.

      Experts say Gaza faces imminent famine. Israel says that is a myth

      MARCH 22, 20245:07 AM ET
      HEARD ON MORNING EDITION

      By Steve Inskeep
      Daniel Estrin

      Israel denies it is using starvation in Gaza as a military strategy. Many Israelis do not approve of aid entering Gaza and blame Hamas for hunger.

      Reply
    74. 74.

      Soprano2

      March 22, 2024 at 8:54 am

      @comrade scotts agenda of rage: Apple also pays a pathetic dividend compared to the value of their company. We have a decent amount of Apple stock in our ETrade account, and hubby has always complained about their relatively small dividend. They’re at a point now where they can’t say they’re using the money to grow the company.

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Shalimar

      March 22, 2024 at 8:55 am

      @Gin & Tonic: I am not a military strategist, but it seems like concentrating fire on the most damaging targets is what you do when you have less ammo.  Why would Ukraine stop doing what has been most effective?  American advice has not been impressive for the last few years.

      Reply
    76. 76.

      Gin & Tonic

      March 22, 2024 at 8:57 am

      @TBone: I don’ think anyone should think of Matt Taibbi.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      Betty

      March 22, 2024 at 8:58 am

      @comrade scotts agenda of rage: Don’t understate Tuberville’s corruption. Check out his stock trades in conjunction with his Committee assignment.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      Soprano2

      March 22, 2024 at 8:59 am

      @SFAW: Bach is the father of Western European music. Much of music theory is based on his work. (Music theory classes were the hardest classes I took in college, especially the second year.) Without him, we probably don’t get Mozart and Beethoven and all the rest. His “B Minor Mass” is the hardest piece of music I’ve ever performed. I told our conductor that if we ever do it again, I’m moving back to the second soprano section because I already know that part!

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    79. 79.

      Soprano2

      March 22, 2024 at 9:03 am

      @Shalimar: I suspect it has more to do with the world price of oil. In my area, the price of gas keeps going up to around the $3.19/gal range, then slowly working its way down to around $2.60/gal, then popping back up to $3.19/gal. I have no idea why, refinery problems perhaps, or maybe it’s the “gas season switching” thing.

      Reply
    80. 80.

      Gin & Tonic

      March 22, 2024 at 9:05 am

      @Shalimar:

      Why would Ukraine stop doing what has been most effective?

      They shouldn’t, and they won’t.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      TBone

      March 22, 2024 at 9:05 am

      @Gin & Tonic: 😆

      Reply
    82. 82.

      Betty

      March 22, 2024 at 9:08 am

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: And a great sense of humor. He clearly well read too.

      Reply
    83. 83.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 9:12 am

      @Soprano2: Biden has some heavy hammers he can use on Israel on this matter, and he’s finally starting to use them. That may not be in time, though.

      I’m watching some important devrlopments that are happening today. One is the ceasfire resolution the US plans to present to the UN Security Council. The other is a meeting in Doha, Qatar with CIA Director Burns and his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts. They are trying to push through the hostage/ceasefire agreement that has not been finalized for 5 weeks now. Qatar’s Prime Minister will attend in a dual role of mediator and interlocutor with Hamas.

      Next week, Israeli Defense Minister Gallant comes to Washington to present a list of armaments requests to Defense Secretary Austin. That will be an important test of US policy, but a lot will happen between now and then.

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    84. 84.

      lowtechcyclist

      March 22, 2024 at 9:25 am

      @Soprano2:

      I wish more Americans understood what Biden is fighting against as far as Israeli attitudes toward Gaza are concerned.

      That just gets me from “Fuck Bibi” to “Fuck Israel.”

      Yeah, we should deny all aid to Israel. What’s the point of “having leverage” that we’re never gonna use because then we wouldn’t have the leverage?  What would it take for us to use it, if not now?

      At the very least, it would be saying to the world that whatever atrocities Israel is committing, whether in Gaza now or in the West Bank on an ongoing basis, they’re doing it on their own, without our help or support.

      We can help them out when they’re ready to GTFO of Gaza and the West Bank, and live within some close (and mutually agreed on) approximation of the pre-1967 boundaries of Israel.  Until then, fuckem.

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    85. 85.

      Marcopolo

      March 22, 2024 at 9:57 am

      @Omnes Omnibus: it’s true Stoller has done some stupid shit. hell, you forgot to mention his short association w/ Russell Brand.  I am definitely not a huge fan, but the one place he seems to be right is when he talks about monopolies & monopoly power & the linked substack was actually a good explainer for why the feds have filed  anti-trust charges against Apple.  It’s funny, after years of bashing D politics as too status quo (though that simplifies his position), you get the feeling from that article he’s really warmed up to the Biden admin.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      RaflW

      March 22, 2024 at 10:06 am

      @Princess: Blago is definitely angling for something from MAGA-land. Scammy sleaze does tend to congeal together.

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Geminid

      March 22, 2024 at 10:43 am

      @Geminid: Well, WTOP played Trone’s comment and he said it alright. Trone apologized not long after.

      Reply
    88. 88.

      Paul in KY

      March 22, 2024 at 1:57 pm

      @Frankensteinbeck: God do I hate Jar Jar Binks. That whole movie, except for some special effects, sucked balls.

      Reply
    89. 89.

      Paul in KY

      March 22, 2024 at 1:58 pm

      @TBone: That’s fine if he said it to Issa.

      Reply

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