True to his word, he ain’t woke.#DonSnoreleone pic.twitter.com/Bs861a2DQ2
— Scottacular (@Scottcrates) April 16, 2024
And Maggie was his favorite journo, too!
LOL! Donald Trump is apparently SLEEPING during his trial. Low energy Donald! pic.twitter.com/unbZhKwsIS
— Luke Beasley (@lukepbeasley) April 15, 2024
In the four weeks after the Hur report, the New York Times wrote 30 stories on Biden’s age.
Interested to see how many they write on this. https://t.co/DgEr0HFWlT
— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) April 15, 2024
If you're a courtroom artist you have one mission this month and it could save democracy itself https://t.co/MqrAEEnIyp
— zeddy (@Zeddary) April 15, 2024
but when maga needed him the most he vanished pic.twitter.com/cNAo5A1hMm
— Jean-Michel Connard 좆됐어 (@torriangray) April 15, 2024
.@PreetBharara: “You have an actual criminal case that’s proceeding — the peaceful transition to accountability, which is not a small thing. You have literally a defendant with Secret Service agents to protect him in tow… facing the music… That's a big deal." pic.twitter.com/NtsSuc9jv6
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) April 16, 2024
SpaceUnit
Wow. He somehow projects obnoxious even when he’s comatose.
JAFD
School board elections today in Nuuk, getting myself together to get the polls ready to open. Looks like a beautiful day here, hope ’tis great day for all you Jackals !
lgerard
Madison Cawthorn Crashes Into Florida State Trooper’s Car
Jay
President D.J. Trump took a power nap, to refresh himself during his unprecedented political trial,
Why that is bad news for Old Biden.
(NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
@lgerard: Good lord! That asshole is here too? At least Trump is obliged to remain out of state for the duration of the trial.
SpaceUnit
@Betty Cracker:
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Princess
@SpaceUnit: well, that’s an AI photo. I wished whoever made it had included the slack mouth, maybe with a bit of drool coming out.
lgerard
@Betty Cracker:
At least he is making n effort to fit in!
Baud
@lgerard: My Lord, he seems to have a history with cars.
Martin
This is how 11 dimensional chess players plan their next 6 moves. Checkmate libtards – you just made him stronger.
Baud
@Martin:
I actually heard something not too far from that on MSNBC yesterday morning.
Baud
@Jay:
“Trump dashes liberal hopes of courtroom blowup through quiet meditation.”
Jay
@Baud:
Ok, that’s better.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: 😂 With any luck, Rep./Dr. Ronnie Jackson will dial back on the monster’s sedatives, overshoot the mark and the “slack-mouthed old fart snoozes in court” story will be followed by accounts of incoherent tantrums. Pity it’s not televised.
hueyplong
The pig went all slack-jawed slumberland, not in the third week of trial, but on day one. We might be underestimating the concern of his chemical handlers charged with finding the sweet spot in between rage and unconsciousness.
You don’t want to miss any aspect of his fall.
ETA- BC rises early to hit the point first.
NotMax
@Princess
“If he’s drooling spit, you must acquit.”
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Mousebumples
Good morning!
The Trump election interference trial feels like a soap opera, no? Today on As TFG Faces Consequences, will he stay awake? Or face Court-approved consequences for an outburst? Tune in today!
Manyakitty
@lgerard: lock him up
Manyakitty
@Mousebumples: lol perfect 😂
NotMax
@Mousebumples
As the Churl Turns?
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Baud
Sad news for Denmark
Manyakitty
@Baud: that’s sad. At least everyone got out safely.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I blame Biden.
TBone
@lgerard: 😆😆🤣
Baud
TBone
🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p4
p.a.
Projecting nappytime strongly. No one naps more strongly! A perfect nap. A beautiful, perfect nap. People come up to me, tears in their eyes, they say “sir, your nappytime is an inspiration! I didn’t really know nappytime until I saw yours!”
Mousebumples
@NotMax: 🤣
TBone
Each and every day, his life gets worse and worse. I wake up smiling.
Trump Denouement Syndrome suits me. Six weeks to go on just this trial, and we’ve only just begun the Finding Out. I don’t even care about the verdict that much, this trial is delicious. I know it’s a serious case about election interference, but having refreshed my memory on the full transcript of the Access Hollywood tape (horrendous), I am not looking askance at the salacious details – the more, the merrier. Make him squirm.
Ken
I’m pretty sure that if Joe Biden were in court facing 80-odd charges, he’d manage to stay awake.
TBone
Someone at another site posted Mags’ story yesterday that his aide who carries a little portable printer to constantly print out “good news” stories for him to read was forced to move from 2 rows behind him to the back row of court room seats where his other aides were seated. I’d forgotten about her and that utter weirdness. 😂
p.a.
I get email.
Maine joins National Popular Interstate Vote Compact.
Is this a viable EC work-around? Can’t R-majority state legislatures & governors read the popular vote trends & demographics and just back out of the agreement? Will it come down to something as simple as “fuck off, we deny the legitimacy of the gvt’s numbers.” According to Common Cause, the Compact is only 46 states’ EVs away from 218.
And I can’t believe there isn’t big reich-wing leaders’ $$$ working against this movement.
Citizen Dave
What if we all left the country while he is napping? Would we finally be free of the nonstop orange bullshit in our faces every single day?
OzarkHillbilly
Lawyers cost $$$ so they are saving it for the multiple law suits they will file.
Tony Jay
The RNC Media Dept has gone really downhill since the takeover. Probably.
Ken
@TBone: Trump’s lost his emotional support printer?
catclub
Really?? That is incredibly needy.
TBone
@Ken: 😂🤣😎 Yes, this trial just keeps improving my life and so did you!
OzarkHillbilly
If you are having a bad week/month/year, look on the bright side: At least your name isn’t Mike Lindell.
NotMax
@p.a.
There’s a twisty Constitutional question about compacts among states which will in time wend its way up to SCOTUS.
catclub
I think there are 535 total EV’s – 435 + 100
so if they are only to 218-46=172, that is not great.
The total needed is around 270, right?
TBone
@catclub:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/15/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial#trump-trial-hush-money-manhattan
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Baud: No doubt unable or pretending to be unable to distinguish between “Bill Clinton impeachment nonsense” and “Trump criminal trial because actual crimes”.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I don’t want to hear any more jibes about “Sleepy Joe.”
Marleedog
“Please wake up, sir, you have been found guilty. “
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: oh that poor man! I would petition a court for a name change, stat!
NotMax
@TBone
“Bigliest daytime ratings in American history.”
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TBone
@NotMax: and that’s why we can’t have
nice thingscameras in the court roomOzarkHillbilly
Clarence Thomas absent from US supreme court with no explanation
I have a wish list of reasons why.
TBone
I have, for the time being, banished all other “first thing” coffee news and begin each day with this exuberance instead 🎶 it’s great in it’s brashness and the neighbors hate it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7jgZTDLeIs
Living my best life in the beautiful outdoor Springtime mornings
Geminid
@TBone: A friend was talking Sunday about the upcoming trial and noted the stress points for Trump. He has always been free to come and go as he wants, and he manages to be the center of attention wherever he is. Now Trump is stuck in a courtroom and the attention is focused on the people up front, with him only getting the side-eye. An intolerable situation for a brittle narcissist like Trump.
lowtechcyclist
@p.a.:
I can’t see anything preventing them from doing that, and that’s the rub. And of course, one reason it’s only 209 EVs is that it would need to get through the legislatures in some purple states where the legislatures aren’t currently under Dem control, like Pennsylvania.
TBone
@Geminid: simply scrumptious! I’ve been so patient waiting for this, as have we all, so it’s even better.
🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4NwP3wes4M8
zhena gogolia
Unfortunately, the courtroom artists all think they’re McNaughton.
NotMax
@TBone
Alternative?
:)
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
Starting with his imminent obituary, I assume.
p.a.
@catclub: yes. Conflated two diff emails on the subject.
209 states’ EV in the compact.
Here’s the wiki. LOTS of roadblocks to the idea, as with all things, the question is about better uses for the resources spent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
Central Planning
@NotMax: I wonder if the SC will decide that the clause “unless actually invaded” doesn’t apply.
Kay
Oddly, no commentary on how a Senator advocating for killing peaceful protestors discredits this cause.
They all use “pro Hamas” now too, to describe anyone who disagrees. Very nostalgiac. Reminds me of the War On Terror.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Graduates of the matchbook school of art.
“Wanna see my pirate?”
OzarkHillbilly
No doubt “standing his ground.”
Kay
The centrist ninnies spent 2 years hand wriinging over whether or not Tom Cotton wanted to kill BLM protestors with is “send in the troops!” order, and, lo and behold, now Tom Cotton comes right out and says he wants to kill pro Palestinian protestors.
I think this debate is over. Tom Cotton wants to kill any and all protestors (unless they’re Right wing protestors – that’s like 1776).
TBone
@NotMax: 😆 oh my poor neighbors are in for it, my Bluetooth boombox is fully charged
OzarkHillbilly
@lowtechcyclist: Actually, mine begins with him losing both his feet because of his out of control diabetes.
TBone
@Kay: I hope I catch that guy in a crosswalk some day. If I’m on foot, he’ll get a brotherly shove.
RandomMonster
There’s a non-zero chance the Great Pumpkin decides he needs to counter this with some righteous Biden-at-the-SOTU fury, gets all hopped up on goofballs, and rants like a lunatic in the courtroom today.
NotMax
@TBone
The City of Brotherly Shove?
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TBone
@TBone: set it on repeat for a bangin’ dance party
https://www.tiktok.com/@monsoon_roastery/video/7130584384582831406
Kay
@TBone:
The NYTimes can stop holding meetings over whether he wanted to kill BLM protestors in the op ed they published.
We read him correctly – he wanted to kill BLM protestors. I’m glad he’s cleared that up. Protest = imemdiate extrajudicial death penalty. That’s the Right Wing Patriot Position.
TBone
@NotMax: 👍
TBone
@Kay: hubby bought a big Silverado over my vociferous protestation. It’s good for something besides hauling ass. It’s also good camouflage where I live, no one expects a flaming lib to jump out and laugh at them. They get really surprised and that’s a good fulcrum – keep ’em off balance if you know what I mean. Once we were accosted by some local teens in a parking lot because of our N95 masks. They immediately regretted that.
Kay
Imagine for a moment if a Democratic Senator called for people to attack Right wing protestors. It would be front page news in every outlet. The entire Democratic Party would denounce the Senator.
But Tom Cotton calls for extra judicial killings every time there’s a Left wing protest and not a peep out of the hall monitors in the media.
Uncle Cosmo
@catclub: Someone out there’s really crappy at arithmetic. From the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact website:
Fret not, or at least not so much.
Ken
Needs a touch more karma. What if there were a medication that could have prevented this, but the company stopped distribution because it can cause miscarriages, and they’re worried about the mifepristone case?
Mousebumples
@OzarkHillbilly: if we see his obit before June some very problematic SC cases might end in a 4-4 deadlock. Or a less devastating than it would have been 5-3 decision.
Also, I’d hope the Biden admin has a shortlist ready to go, just in case.
TBone
@RandomMonster: it’s only a matter of time
Kay
@TBone:
My husband has a big Jeep. We all buy Jeeps here because Toledo. It’s really nice to drive and I feel like he makes up for it because he rides his bike most places w/in 5 miles or so. I borrow it for long trips or trips with more than one person – I have a small car.
hueyplong
@TBone: My list is one item long, and it includes the word “mouldering.”
JML
@catclub: 538 electoral votes. (1 for each member of the House, 1 for each member of the senate, plus DC) 218 is only a relevant number for the House. 270 is the relevant number for the electoral college.
Baud
@Kay:
In yue interest of being fair to both sides, they have to hold Dems to a higher standard.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: I said it begins with losing his feet, that did not preclude the many and varied maladies I hope will follow
TBone
@hueyplong: that’s a great word. It’s also what diapers do while you have to sit in them for a few hours. Oh, that’s gonna be putrid 😆
Tony Jay
@Kay:
Reminds me of the UK between 2016 and 2019, when pro-terrorist smears of steadily intensifying virulence were deployed as standard to unperson anyone who happened to be on the wrong side of the Left/Right political divide.
You expect that from the Right and their Media allies, it’s harder to deal with when the chorus is padded out by all too many people who call themselves centre to centre-left, but simply can’t bring themselves to admit those damned embarrassing lefties are on the correct side of any argument.
Kay
@Baud:
The NYTimes should print the next Tom Cotton op ed “How I want to Murder All Left Wing Protestors”
That’s simple and direct enough for even the handwringing ninnies to get, although who knows. They seem to be dumb as fucking rocks.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Never been a Joe Scarborough fan, but he did a righteous rant on that topic just now.
TBone
Comment of the Day (so far):
sdhays
@p.a.: I support the idea behind the compact, but I have a very difficult time believing that if it ever went into effect that it would be found Constitutional by the Supreme Court.
I don’t have a legal basis for that because 1) IANAL and 2) this Supreme Court makes shit up as it feels necessary and I know they would hate the compact.
Soprano2
@Kay: I hate that “pro-Hamas” thing. Bill Maher says it too. It’s reprehensible that a U.S. Senator is telling people to run over peaceful protestors because they don’t like their cause. I don’t necessarily agree with their tactics – blocking traffic probably isn’t a way to get people on your side – but I don’t think anyone should run over them, either.
Kay
@Tony Jay:
All we need now is Andrew Sullivan and the “Fifth Column”:
Kay
@Soprano2:
It’s inconvenient in an election year but the truth is Israel still isn’t letting food aid in. Biden himself said it last week. Civilians will starve to death. Children will starve to death first – they’re smaller. Hundreds of thousands of people. They don’t have time to ask nicely.
Ken
@sdhays: True that, although as a counterpoint, the Trumpists have been pushing the idea that state legislatures can ignore their voters and send whatever slate of electors they want. Even this court might find it tricky to tack on “as long as it favors the Republican candidate”.
Kay
@Soprano2:
Anyone who fell for the “free speech” nonsense from the Right and Center sees what absolute horseshit that was now. They’re all for free speech as long as they agree with it. If they don’t agree they want the protests shut down and the protestors arrested or murdered.
Baud
@Kay:
As long as they publish a counterpoint op ed “How Joe Biden Lost Tom Cotton.”
Soprano2
@Kay: Not saying they have to ask nicely, but I’m not sure blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge is going to get people on your side. It’s unfortunate, because I agree that what’s happening in Gaza is a tragedy of epic proportions that’s preventable. I think it’s pretty obvious that Bibi’s government wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza and doesn’t care who knows it.
TBone
Expect this to get even more obnoxious: the jury nullification gambit
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/republican-congressman-begs-manhattan
Soprano2
@Kay: Yep, Maher casts himself as a “free speech warrior” but that breaks down as soon as it’s something he doesn’t agree with. Thus the “pro-Hamas” tag for people who want Palestinian civilians in Gaza treated humanely. Saying “pro-Hamas” is obviously meant to imply that all Palestinians are part of Hamas. I heard someone use the “but they voted for them” line just last week. Those elections were in 2005!!! Someone else on the panel pointed out how long ago that was. I wish more of them would talk about how Bibl has been complicit in keeping Hamas in power.
Kay
Here’s John Fettreman calling the 75% of people who don’t want the US to give Netanyahu and absolute blank check “the fringe” and pro Hamas.
I hope like hell Biden isn’t listening to him.
TBone
Here’s a good one
😆
Kay
@Soprano2:
It’s so insanely short sighted. Unless something changes these people are going to starve. Does Maher think no one will notice? He thinks hundreds of thousands of people being pitched into a deliberate famine will go unremarked upon? I mean, Christ. Even if it isn’t mentioned in the US the rest of the world will notice. How do they see this “the US lets half a million people starve” policy they’re promoting working out? That’s a fucking disaster for the US. It will be a stain Biden will never overcome.
TBone
Never thought I’d ever say this:
Kelly Clarkson, Shero!
https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/15/even-rich-famous-women-are-in-danger/
Jeffro
truth! and that non-zero chance is not single digits, either
A few weeks ago I was at a dinner with some foreign guests, and the table talk eventually got around to…well…their horror that trumpov could end up president again. I suggested to them that he was more likely than not to lose his shit and launch an outburst that either landed him in contempt (and thus in jail) or outright called for violence (also landing him in jail). And from that point onward, trumpov’s poll numbers would begin a slow, inevitable slide towards the fabled 27%.
I stand by that call.
Kay
@Soprano2:
They don’t care if people are on their side. They’re trying to get the attention of powerful elected officials and keep the ongoing huiman rights disaster in the news.
Also, just to be clear, people are on their side. The polling on a blank check for Israel is atrocious. 60- 75% of Americans disagree with that, depending on the poll. If the argument is “Biden’s approach is popular so these Left wiong radicals are the fringe” that’s not a good argument. It isn’t true.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@TBone: Jesus Christ, so the Idiot basically lives in a world of bullshit.
Chris T.
@Jeffro:
It won’t get that low because 40% is the floor for whatever is labeled “R” on the ballot. We could have “Satan (R) vs Hayzoos (D)” and some sort of divine apparition personally commanding everyone that they vote for the guy with the Hispanic name, and yet we’d still have a 40%-R vote (70% in Utah).
Anyway, I’m still predicting that Don Snoreleone will keel over within about two more years, but it could be much more sudden if he does overdose on uppers to prevent more Sleepy Don jokes.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Kay: more to the point, as North Korea has shown, it’s the people with the guns who eat first in those situations.
TBone
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: always has. His Tower condo is 30,000 square feet! Because disclaimer and elevator!
Honus
@Kay: please call him by his proper name “the bobble-throated slapdick from Arkansas” (courtesy of C. Pierce)
Betty Cracker
@Kay: I like Fetterman, but he’s dead wrong on this. He disagrees, which is fine, but painting the majority of Americans as “the fringe” is disingenuous bullshit — and disappointing since he’s usually refreshingly candid.
Raoul Paste
As for “Don Snoreleone”, it would be wonderful if he actually did snore in court. We can’t have it all
But at 77, up all night posting vitriol, big bags under the eyes, it’s not surprising that he’s snoozing. The woke“ jokes are just a bonus
Miss Bianca
@Betty Cracker: It’s possible that Fetterman considers his “pro-Israel no matter what” stance as being “refreshingly candid.” If so, that’s depressing AF.
Tony Jay
@Kay:
Sullivan? Good God, has no one dragged him into an alley and kicked him into a heap of class-conscious contradictions yet?
Such a wanker.
evodevo
@TBone:
Occurred to me: where are they gonna change them while in a courthouse for 10 hrs? The “family” restroom changing table? LOLOL
evodevo
@Soprano2: Major reason I quit watching him 6 years ago…what an ego! And only defends something if it’s HIS opinion, and got really snippy if the audience didn’t make like a claque immediately. Got really tired of it, no matter how engaging some of his guests were…