"China is the next great superpower. The west cowers before its growing economic and military might. My whole family is learning Mandarin."
"The Anjin is running out of artillery shells." pic.twitter.com/NiLWT2caPD— Houthi and the Blowfish #WormGang?? (@canderaid) May 18, 2024
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They’re pretty confused, all right!
House Republicans ditch their day jobs to stand with Trump, while legislating languishes https://t.co/mDuPjTIAtm
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 17, 2024
Mr. Pierce, at Esquire — “Trump Brought His Little Gang of Weird Buddies to Court During Michael Cohen’s Testimony”:
As long as nobody calls it a cult or anything.
On Monday, two United States senators, Tommy Tuberville and J.D. Vance, took a pilgrimage to the Manhattan courthouse in which Michael Cohen was explaining to a jury everything he did while being paid by the former president* to be a schmuck to the entire outside world…
Far more interesting were the two legislative acolytes who came to pay homage. It’s like the courthouse is now Fatima, with farts…
“We got a courtroom, this most depressing thing I’ve ever been in,” Tuberville said. “Mental anguish is trying to be pushed on the Republican candidate for the president of the United States.”
For the benefit of those keeping score at home, Speaker Moses, who is a very good Christian man, is going to New York to support an unapologetic defendant in a criminal scheme that violated at least half the Ten Commandments. That should be a tinhorn tent revival of a type unseen since Jimmy Swaggart took to the podium and tearfully copped to doing missionary work in various motels in the neighborhood we like to call Out by the Airport. It is Politico’s analysis that these pilgrims are coming to court in order to meet the press and say all the stuff the defendant can’t say because Judge Juan Merchan may toss him in the hoosegow. How did these young journos ever get so cynical?
Since @JDVance1, @mtgreenee, @TuckerCarlson, @RobertKennedyJr, @VivekGRamaswamy and @RandPaul are such devotees of Russia's narrative and servants of its imperial aspirations, I thought they'd appreciate this nugget of The Great Russian Culture. pic.twitter.com/7p3aK9jzbV
— Slava Malamud ???????? (@SlavaMalamud) May 13, 2024
The Republican attitude on crime is explained by the fact their base voter is a dentist who sells cocaine out of his practice and a realtor who steals IDs from rental applications, both of whom have called the cops on every Black kid whose ever entered their neighborhoods. -OS
— Lyndon Baines Johnson (@lyndonbajohnson) May 10, 2024
Gaetz and Boebert Heckled at Trump Trial as Court Becomes New MAGA Hotspot: A Closer Look
bobbo
When the dumbest man in the Senate tries to sound smart.
Odie Hugh Manatee
It’s as if they have no faith in our judicial system. It’s like their lack of faith in law enforcement. Just like they have no faith in our government, Nor do they have faith in our elections systems. It seems that they only have faith in Rump and Jeebus.
I like how the nooz reported that Hair Furor had “his friends show up in court”. Fucking lying nooz, as usual. They’re not friends, they’re there to prove that he owns them and that they and their party are loyal to him.
They are nothing more than bootlicking suckups.
Betty Cracker
I applaud the ingenuity of the person who held up the “BOOTLICKERS” sign in the background and hope their effort inspires imitators for future post-court session news conferences.
Geminid
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Rats swimming towards the sinking ship.
Tony Jay
@bobbo:
“The Opposite-Universe CIA are here and they have moved on from peddling crack cocaine to producing dangerous synthetic emotiates leeched from the hopeless tears of white suburbanites who have succeeded in buying Cybertrucks. Make no mistake, if this farce of a trial is allowed to go ahead they will succeed in destroying Our Real President and imposing their perverted Woke tyranny on this America too!”
“Senor, this is a taco truck.”
Jay
@Tony Jay:
Nope, it’s an Arby’s.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
Trump reportedly froze for 30 seconds during a speech tonight to the NRA a la Mitch McConnell. Wonder if such a story (with video!) will have any legs
Shalimar
@Tony Jay: Oh, come on. Judging by sales, almost no one has succeeded in buying a cybertruck.
Baud
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
According to Reddit, there was also this incident recently.
Princess
Best definition of the GOP base I’ve ever read. Those two guys plus their wives times a millionty. That’s our challenge.
The Thin Black Duke
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): It’s been said before, but I’ll add my voice to the chorus: Trump won’t debate Biden because he’s not capable of it anymore, either physically or cognitively. The GOP would be better off hiring a Trump impersonator than the real thing nowadays.
Tony Jay
@Jay:
It’s a cross-referencing shout-out, man! These are big, grown-up sentences, they can stand to wear more than one pair of socks. I mean, goddam, I give so much.
(kicks nearby bin, bin flies across the room, hits a table, table wobbles, glass of water topples from the table, splashes on electrical outlet, electricity arcs, ignites curtains, house burns down, man rushes next door, bangs on door, neighbour answers looking bleary eyed. Man gasps breathlessly.)
“I… help! Need…. Fire… Firemen!”
Neighbour smirks.
“I’m sorry, Sir. This is an Arby’s.”
Cut to trial reporting six months later.
“… while the defendant’s plea of Temporary Insanity was rejected by the Jury, the Judge presiding did allow them to find him not-guilty by reason of ‘actually, we totally get it and that dude pretty much asked for it’. The wheels of Justice, always rolling along. I’ve been Shonda MacApples, outside the East Duluth Municipal Courtrooms, for Truthbomb Newsx now back to Jack and Crysteynne in the Studio for more about how the ongoing heatwave is driving household cats.. to drink beer?”
@Shalimar:
Hence why those tears are concentrated.
OzarkHillbilly
Just gonna leave this little ditty here.
Tony Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Excellent.
Particularly love the handful of Winged Nuts in replies tying themselves up into hate- filled knots with their Bubblecode spewing about “Pronouns!” and “She’s beautiful!!”
Ken
@Shalimar: Remember that when Tesla recalled all Cybertrucks, sold and unsold, it was under 4000 units. Which, OK, it’s a relatively new vehicle, but it amounts to two days of F-150 sales.
I just realized, we could have called it the “Cybertruck Total Recall” — suitable, since everyone agrees the design looks like something from an old SF movie.
Betty Cracker
@Tony Jay: I am stealing “Señor, this is a taco truck” at the very first opportunity. Brill! 🌮
OzarkHillbilly
@Tony Jay: MAGA tears are always the sweetest.
sdhays
@Baud: That clip was pretty “meh” to me. He leaned on the podium and it started tipping and he righted himself right away. Trump wasn’t giving as speech, he was haranguing, and haranguing often calls for gripping and leaning on your
pulpitpodium.I have no doubt he’s losing it (I wish it was faster), but this video isn’t evidence, as far as I can tell.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Ken: I’ve seen a total of one cybertruck in the wild, in my neighborhood. Seen in person it somehow looks even stupider than seeing pictures.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Ken: I’ve seen a total of one cybertruck in the wild, in my neighborhood. Seen in person it somehow looks even stupider than seeing pictures.
Edit: I swear I hit that “post” button only once.
Sid
@sdhays: I watched that video- it looked like the pause might have been purposeful.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): He was over 2 hours late for that speech.
Michael Bersin
The Kansas City Chiefs posted their 2024 schedule on social media.
Much hilarity ensued.
Are you ready for some football?
Searcher
@Odie Hugh Manatee: They’re there to intimidate witnesses with their presence. “This man may be out of office, but the Speaker of the House is with him. Do you really want to cross him?”
OzarkHillbilly
@Searcher:
Hell yeah.
sdhays
@Searcher: That would carry more weight if the “Speaker” didn’t require Democratic votes to keep the big office.
sdhays
@OzarkHillbilly: “Ok, just checking!”
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
certainly it’ll raise a big stink
zhena gogolia
Sorry, Slava Malamud, but that quotation is from “Man in a Case,” and the hero of that story is so far superior to Trump in every way.
OzarkHillbilly
@sdhays: ;-)
@zhena gogolia: Pretty sure he knows that.
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m sure he knows what story it is. I’m suggesting that the comparison is off.
OzarkHillbilly
@zhena gogolia: I doubt very much he’s making a comparison, just noting that the quote fits trump to a “T”.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: Though if you’re looking for Trump comparisions, I suggest the protagonist of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
Geminid
German military commentator “Tendar” posted some analysis of Putin’s China visit and its background. He begins:
Princess
@Ken: And I guess you’ve never read *that* story.
Baud
@Ken:
Jabba the Hutt.
lowtechcyclist
@sdhays:
Agree. I thought he actually handled it pretty well, much as I hate to say anything nice about Cheetolini.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
Baron Harkonnen as long as we’re using sci fi comparisons.
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
And it fits his fan club even better.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: Outside of a couple Dostoevsky books, I don’t think I’ve read much Russian literature.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Odie Hugh Manatee: If only law enforcement would wake up and realize these people aren’t their friends. Even before January 6 right wing radicals were the group most likely to shoot law enforcement officers. But most police forces are stuck in the late ’60s when punching hippies and harassing black people was what you did.
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: My comment was frivolous. It’s similar to the eternal comment, “Three-year-olds are smarter than Trump!”
zhena gogolia
@Geminid: The writer Akunin has predicted that Putin wants Russia to be a vassal state of China.
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: You’d love Chekhov! He’s very wry.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly: One the other hand, I bet you’re such a commie that you read Karl Marx in the original Russian.
SFAW
Morning dose of SFAW’s Curmudgeonlinessitude: I have now watched more than “N” Seth Meyers clips, and I am still waiting to see one that I find humorous, or even more amusing than a report on pork belly futures.
zhena gogolia
@SFAW: I don’t find him funny at all. I’m not big on Jimmy Kimmel either, but he’s better. OTOH, my unpopular opinion is that Jimmy Fallon can be quite funny. (Barry Gibb talk show, e.g.)
SFAW
@zhena gogolia:
At least in the re-spin, they got Anton Yelchin to play him, instead of some guy from Chicago affecting a Russian accent.
zhena gogolia
@SFAW: I see what you did there. I love Walter Koenig.
Geminid
@zhena gogolia: The whole Tendar post is not hard to find if you mess with Twitter. I’ll probably try to copy it and post it here later on. It gives a good overview of Russia’s current situation, and some analysis of China’s as well.
Tendar is an interesting commentator. He’s apparently a retired German army officer, and is very critical of Chancellor Scholz’s Ukraine policies.
cmorenc
@Shalimar: Someone nearby in my neighborhood has succeeded in buying a cybertruck. First time I saw it, I didn’t realize what it was, and wondered what had happened nearby that drew a police armored tactical vehicle to the scene.
Tony Jay
@zhena gogolia:
Never pegged Lil’ Vlad for a Moorcock fan, but I suppose the mysterious realm of Asiacommunista had to come about eventually.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Oh god lord, so these dimwits see blacks as rival drug dealers. That really explains so much, it’s all just double speak so they can pretend to be respectable to the rest of us whites.
I was talking to my dad about how I was noticing all the criminals I was seeing during that crime wave we had last winter here had lighter color skin than mine, and my dad jokes that “Cultural appropriation has gone to far, they are now stealing the racists stereotypes from the blacks”
different-church-lady
All thoae GOP visitors are just doing research for when it’s their turn to sit at the defendant’s table.
OzarkHillbilly
@zhena gogolia: Got it. My bad.
OzarkHillbilly
And I did actually read it…. Well parts of it anyway… In English.
RepubAnon
@zhena gogolia: And crows are smarter than 3 year olds. Logically, therefore…
Torrey
@zhena gogolia:
Akunin is a good guy. He left Russia in 2014. He has since received from Putin’s government the coveted titles of “terrorist,” “foreign agent” and “enemy.” I am about five novels into his list of Fandorin mysteries–I dropped the ball when work got too hectic and never picked that particular metaphorical ball back up–but I think it’s time I picked up where I left off. They’re excellent.
Princess
@Torrey: Agreed. Highly recommended.
ETtheLibrarian
Wonder if Putin realizes he is the junior parting that relation.