The toady who briefly rebelled crawls back to lick the tiny wingtips (Politico):
DeSantis says Trump can still vote in Florida despite felony conviction
The governor disputes the assessment of some experts who say Trump’s conviction would make him ineligible to vote in the state.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he’ll make sure Donald Trump can vote in his home state this November despite his felony convictions.
DeSantis said Friday that he disputes the assessment of some experts who say that Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts would make him ineligible to cast a ballot in the state.
But, in any case, the Florida governor said he would ensure the state clemency board cleared the way for his former rival for the Republican presidential nomination to vote back home.
“Given the absurd nature of the New York prosecution of Trump, this would be an easy case to qualify for restoration of rights per the Florida Clemency Board, which I chair,” he said on X.
According to what I’ve read, convicted felon Donald J. Trump would be able to vote in Florida anyway, even if he were random convicted felon Ronald K. Dump. Florida law bases felon disenfranchisement for crimes committed in other states on whether the state where the crime was committed bars the convicted felon from voting. New York doesn’t unless they are incarcerated, which Trump is unlikely to be.
So the DeSantis statement expressing casual contempt for the rule of law is just a loyalty stunt meant to curry favor with the convicted felon and his cult. Just as the state’s Senators Rubio and Scott’s refusal to do their damn jobs is a stunt.
I think we’ll see similar stunts from now to November — Repubs falling all over themselves to publicly pucker up and kiss the orange ass. I also don’t think it will redound to that party’s credit with voters.
Open thread!
PS: Jury selection in Hunter Biden’s trial is underway. I know a previous plea deal involving the gun charges and the tax case blew up, but is there any chance for striking a plea deal before this trial begins? If so, and if the terms aren’t ridiculously onerous, maybe the defense should take it.
The Delaware case isn’t in the same universe as convicted felon Trump’s since the younger Biden isn’t seeking office. But it’s got to be a huge distraction for the administration.
trollhattan
I’ll given him this, Rupert keeps trying, hoping to get it right, this time.
My regret is Tracey Ullman does not currently have a show on which to, uh, comment.
TBone
Speaking of RIGGED this important story shouldn’t get lost in the shuffle, so I’m reposting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits
I’m not quoting from it again because I think people should take a few moments to read it. The more you know…
Another Scott
I ass-u-me the prosecutors won’t be offering a deal. This prosecution of Biden seems to be over-the-top political, so they’re probably going to ride it to the bitter end.
But, we’ll see.
(And my prognosticator is often broken.)
Cheers,
Scott.
Jeffg166
Hunter is screwed up. Considering his life it’s not a surprise. I hope he gets a reasonable deal and takes it. It may mean some jail time.
West of the Rockies
The case may be a distraction for the White House, but the case shouldn’t really take more than a few days, right?
TBone
@TBone: 🎶😍 dirty lowdown gonna get legs underneath it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XMNmuAEhD_k
J. Arthur Crank
Doesn’t Desantis ever get tired of being a small pathetic little man? I mean, I would be if I were him.
Jinchi
@trollhattan: I wonder when Elon will get his Russian bride for all his hard work pushing Putin’s agenda.
Jinchi
@J. Arthur Crank: I’m surprised at the groveling. Trump’s transactional. He’s not going to be impressed with DeSantis unless the guy extorts him for it.
cmorenc
Hunter Biden being found guilty or copping a plea would be a significant counterbalance to the orange turd’s and MAGA whining about the UNFAIRNESS of the NY prosecution. Better still, the underlying charge in Hunter Biden’s case boils down to ineligibility to purchase firearms, restrictions against which right are among the top hobby-horses of MAGA / GOP. Hunter’s potential sentence includes incarceration, so if he was ordered to e.g. serve three or four weekends in jail + a fine – OK, so the GOP and the orange turd are steadfastly, wilfully blind to even the most blatant, indisputably, easily provable hypocracy, such as drump’s claim he never said “Lock her up” about Hillary, but it could make a significant difference to the modest-size but crucial slice of persuadable / turn-out-able voters.
Baud
I have no idea how strong the case against Hunter is, so I don’t know whether he should take a deal.
Like you said, he’s not running for office, so I don’t care, except to have some sympathy for Joe.
japa21
@West of the Rockies:
You do realize that if Hunter is found guilty of these very minimal charges, it will be far worst than Trump’s guilty verdict and reflect far more poorly on the President. We wouldn’t want a President whose son has been convicted of a crime. Far better to have an actual criminal be President instead.
TBone
@TBone: Comment of the Day
Jinchi
@Jeffg166: I thought Hunter did accept a deal, and then the prosecutor pulled the offer.
smith
@Jinchi: DeSantis is trying to preserve his credibility with MAGAs for 2028. Any reciprocity he might receive from the Felon would be coincidental and probably unexpected. The Felon’s toadies know their job is to be the rented mule he can abuse with impunity.
Baud
@TBone:
NO! Not an evaluation!
trollhattan
Does a gun beef give the Bidens cred among the MAGAs? Opinions vary.
—Frank Bruni
TBone
@Baud: that’s extra funny because of his upcoming presentence evaluation. He can’t threaten to sue 😆 person man woman camera TV
trollhattan
@smith: He’s trying, but has the shelf life of Scott Walker.
MattF
@trollhattan: Note that Rupert’s new wife is connected to the Russian oligarchy:
hueyplong
@Another Scott: Going in, I’ve assumed that the Biden prosecution exists for the spectacle, which precludes a plea deal of any kind. Trump’s conviction and pending criminal actions only increase the need for such a spectacle.
Josie
@Another Scott:
You wrote exactly what I was thinking. The fact that the original deal was pulled and that this is being pursued with such zeal makes one wonder who is pulling those strings.
raven
@Baud: I got fired from the post office because I checked “no” on the application that asked if I’d been courtmartialed when I was in the Army. I never knew if I did not check yes on purpose or if I just missed it. Getting fired from that hellhole was one of the best things that ever happened to me but I still was held responsible for checking the wrong box.
smith
@MattF: I guess it’s no surprise that mobster-oligarchs have groupies.
Jinchi
I’m sure you’re right, but I don’t think that strategy will work any better for him than it did for Pence.
There’s a natural limit to how high a toady can rise.
TBone
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse rings my bell! 📢
https://susiemadrak.com/2024/06/03/walls-are-closing-in/
Jeffro
Someone was asking on Twitter: “with all of these threats to ‘go after’ Democrats in general and President Biden in particular…to sic red-state AGs on them…to bring charges…to retaliate…what’s the crime supposed to be? What are they going to charge Dems with?”
Duh. The ‘crime’, in the RWNJs’ eyes, is holding Republicans (and trump most especially) to the same rule of law that the rest of us live under, full stop. It doesn’t matter what actual charges they’ll try and bring against Biden & the Dems. The crime is, “Dems didn’t look away from our repeated selection of a career criminal as our god-king; therefore, we must make them pay”.
Geminid
Ms. Cracker, have you seen much locally from Debbie Murcasel Powell’s Senate campaign? I see her Twitter ads but politically, Florida is terra incognita for me.
narya
@Jinchi: The judge did, more or less. There was a lack of clarity in some of it, at which she poked.
Delk
Hunter/Fauci. Fauci/Hunter. Which to choose?
hueyplong
@Jinchi: DeSantis doesn’t want Trump’s love. He wants the love of Trump supporters in a post-Trump world. For DeSantis, the only thing better than granting Trump clemency is the fact that such clemency is required.
His biggest regret is that this didn’t go down 6 months ago. It’s the one thing we have in common with Puddin’
prostratedragon
@Jeffg166: He had one.
TBone
One of the rare times I will make a prediction. Hunter will dominate the legal proceedings by reason of superior counsel and go to prison willingly, without fanfare, if that is the verdict. Just to show how a real man does his thang. Stark contrast, speaking without words.
Jackie
@J. Arthur Crank:
He knows nothing else 🤷🏼♀️
Kay
@cmorenc:
It’s kind of interesting because the gun seller actually did falsify the form- the seller did not verify Biden’s identity with ID (required) because they knew who Hunter was. They went back and altered the form and said they did, which the defense will say calls the whole charge into question. It doesn’t, really, but it is something for the defense to say :)
Kay
Jeffro
@Jinchi:
@smith:
I’m surprised that none of these clowns can think more than 15 minutes ahead. (Or in Nikki Haley’s case, 9 days ahead LOL)
They all seem to think they can stay ‘in the mix’ long enough and say all the right things to stay on good-enough terms with trump and MAGA to be viable for the 2028 election.
But by 2028, we’ll either have been living in a kleptofascist state for 4 years, one focused solely on exacting revenge on trump’s behalf while lining the trump family’s pockets, OR Biden/Harris will have remained in office and trump will be dead or in prison.
If it’s the former, neither trump nor his evil family nor his incredibly evil inner circle are going to share one bit of power with them. (There also probably won’t be an election in 2028)
If it’s the latter…once trump defeated and then is dead or in prison…how in the world would a DeSantis or Haley be the person to bring this disgusting mess of a party back together? The trump cultists won’t have it, and they’re a majority of the party. DeSantis, Haley, so many of them will all be seen as having stabbed trump in the back and weakened him enough that his enemies were able to win in 2024. (Their probably view, not mine obvs).
Anyway…I know the enablers will keep trying, keep saying and doing all sorts of corrupt things to keep on the good side of trump and his base. But the GOP elected officials who’ve gone back and forth, have challenged trump in any serious way in the past…they are completely fucked either way.
Baud
@raven:
Fired is different from conviction.
smith
@TBone: I’m sure he will appeal if convicted. What would be hilarious, though, would be for him to get the hung jury the Felon’s defenders were so confident that he would get.
Baud
Hunter is doing us a solid by not arguing that the gun laws are unconstitutional.
But he should definitely threaten the judge, jury and witnesses, as is customery in these situations.
Frankensteinbeck
Take Trump’s name out of the situation. An important Republican has been found guilty of a crime. Yes, of course other Republicans are screaming about this being the most unfair thing in the world. Most of them probably believe it, because their belief system “We’re always right, you’re always wrong.” Even the ones with enough awareness to know Trump deserves it must satisfy the base, and the base demands Total War. Democrats cannot be right, cannot be allowed to win anything, ever.
Ruckus
@J. Arthur Crank:
Deathsanta is just trying to crawl out from under the concept of him being a small, pathetic, useless little man. Give him a break he hasn’t yet grown up far enough to actually be a small, pathetic, useless little man. He’s still at the level of a pathetic, useless HS freshman that hasn’t figured out how anything works.
hueyplong
@Jeffro: That’s probably correct. GOPers have never really understood with whom they were dealing, and they’re still applying Nixon/Reagan/Bush strategy to a Trump world.
But that’s just the inner workings. Politically, Trump is an extension of what the GOP has been evolving to for some time. He just adds a more sociopathic emphasis and the wild card of a level of toxic narcissism that we’ve had to experience to believe.
CaseyL
@Jeffro:
As I always say: Trump is the spearhead, not the spear. There is a huge apparatus behind him. Mostly the Federalist Society, with a sprinkling of Oligarchs. (Or maybe the other way around.)
They’re the ones DeSantis and Haley (and others) are auditioning for.
Old School
@Kay:
I believe the judge ruled the altered form isn’t admissible in Hunter’s trial.
Edit: Yes, from this weekend:
danielx
So pretty much business as usual.
Geo Wilcox
@Kay: I thought the judge disallowed that as well as the expert witness who would claim Hunter did not “know” he was an addict. It really doesn’t matter, that last one, because the form asks if you use any illegal drugs not if you are addicted to any. If you smoke weed or eat edibles you are not allowed to buy a gun right now. That may change in the future once weed is classified differently.
Chris
@MattF:
If nothing else, you’ve got to respect the Russians’ ability to read a foreign society. They took one look at the entire system of elite impunity, corruption, and propaganda that’s been growing like crabgrass since Thatcher and Reagan (and, in a larger sense, for a lot longer than that), realized that it could be weaponized into a fifth column in the West that would make Vichy’s German handlers cry with envy, and went all-in on making it happen, with no small degree of success to date. Nowadays, it’s getting harder and harder to find anyone powerful and scummy in a Western nation who doesn’t lead back to Russia in some way or other.
Ruckus
@japa21:
In this context I’m not sure this level of snark is reasonable. Well done snark, but maybe it’s a bit much…
hueyplong
@Frankensteinbeck: “… and the base demands Total War.”
Henceforth, I am referring to them as the Totaler Krieg wing of the party and this is the last time you’ll be credited.
Omnes Omnibus
The evidence against Hunter is pretty sketchy. The application for gun purchase was altered at some point and only a copy that did not show the modifications was given to the defense. Not what prosecutors with a strong case do.
schrodingers_cat
@MattF: So was Wendy Deng
Chief Oshkosh
@MattF: Maybe a sink hole will open up at the wedding ceremony and they’ll all go straight to hell.
rikyrah
@TBone:
thanks for this.
Not a surprise at all.
Harrison Wesley
Am I the only person who thinks the highest elected officials in Florida look like creatures out of silent-era horror movies? Senator Nosferatu, obviously, while Thirsty Marco looks like the hapless victim of some shadowy horror and the white-booted Pudding Monster looks like one those ape/dinosaur/canine/WTFever creatures that directors in the early third of the 20th centure dreamed up.
Baud
@Chief Oshkosh:
Priest: If anyone should object to this union, let him speak now or forever hold his peace.
God: Ahem…
Ruckus
@Jackie:
One has to be true to one’s self. I believe that is an old proverb. Or maybe it’s something I just heard a long time ago….
But you are correct he knows nothing else – he is a small, pathetic, little man. Basically a 13 yr old that has to shave.
kindness
Any huge distraction the Hunter Biden case causes is entirely by the MSM, not so much John Q Puplic. And that distraction is by design. The media demands it’s horserace for it’s eyeball clicks.
TBone
@smith: 😆 something for my cauldron stirring intention casting. MAGA tears are soooo delicious.
TBone
@CaseyL: 👍
West of the Rockies
@Jackie:
Does a worm know it’s a worm?
TBone
@Chris: 🎯
William Capra
@Baud: Just FWIW, I’m pretty sure Hunter actually did argue that the gun law was unconstitutional. Judge didn’t buy it, but it will be an issue he could raise on appeal.
Baud
@West of the Rockies:
Is a worm grateful it’s not DeSantis?
trollhattan
@Harrison Wesley: You’re not wrong and Texas gives them a run for their money, starting with evil wheeled henchman Abbott, who only lacks a white lapcat and sunglasses to complete the tableau.
Ted Cruz? Phantom of the opera. Put the mask back on, Ted!
Baud
@William Capra:
Oh, thanks. Hadn’t heard that. Makes sense, but definitely is something that Biden would affirmatively disagree with Hunter on.
TBone
@rikyrah: thanks for spending time to check it out 💙 do-the-work girl! I’m hoping that Dotard’s 2024 Campaign will be charged with further “legal expenses” violations forthwith! As a result of Propublica reporting catching the eye of some prosecutor(s) who investigate. We might get somewhere before the election if they start now.
trollhattan
@William Capra: Phalanx of NRA attorneys surround Hunter in his defense.
They must be so conflicted. “You know, if we came to his defense….”
“Shut up, shut up, shut up, la-la-la I can’t hear you.”
Renie
Just read that the new editor for the WashPost is some guy from The Wall Street Journal. So with WashPost going down the drain now to become another right wing rag, what’s left? Why aren’t there any major non-bias newspapers around. Do right wing nuts own all the media?
Baud
@trollhattan:
They’re not conflicted. Hunter is an honorary black man. When is the last time the NRA came to the defense of a black man killed for having a gun? They’re not even breaking a sweat over this.
Tony G
“Repubs falling all over themselves to publicly pucker up and kiss the orange ass. I also don’t think it will redound to that party’s credit with voters.” I hope that that’s true, but I don’t know. Essentially all non-Republican voters already despise Trump. At this point, are there a significant number of Republicans voters who are NOT ready to kiss Trump’s ass? I’d like to think so, but I doubt it. I think that, at this point, almost the entire Republican Party is part of the cult of that piece of shit.
Baud
@Renie:
People here have said the LA Times is good. But, yeah, it’s bleak.
trollhattan
@Baud: Fun fact: Hunter just his nickname, actual name Corn Pop.
Harrison Wesley
https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2024/06/joe-biden-worlds-worst-system-rigger.html
Another scene in The Federal Government’s Defamation And Persecution Of Donald J. Trump As Performed By The Deep State Under The Direction Of President Joe Biden.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: It would be crazy not to raise the issue in the context of a criminal trial.
Renie
@Baud: Thanks I’ll start reading the LA Times and see how it is.
Kay
@Old School:
Thanks. I tend to think it’s irrelevant too – it’s bad if the seller did it but it’s just throwing up smoke around the charge. It doesn’t change any of the elements.
The three charges are felonies though – Biden is never going to plead to a felony and I don’t blame him. I wouldn’t either. That’s life changing for him.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: I hadn’t heard that he did. I thought it might have been to avoid a direct conflict with Joe. But, I agree, with this supreme Court, it’s legally dumb not to raise it.
William Capra
IANAL, but my understanding from dropping by emptywheel.net pretty regularly is that Hunter has requested dismissal of the charges on the grounds that the original plea deal was withdrawn in response to political/quasi-political considerations. The judge denied the motion, but Hunter’s team could still raise the issue on appeal. If they accept a new plea deal (which would certainly require Hunter to cop to a felony), they lose their appeal rights.
(Quasi-political, in this case means “Fox News and Republican Congress-Critters were riling up the MAGAts so much with baseless claims that anyone else would have been charged with a felony, that the prosecution started receiving death threats. Then, suddenly, they thought better of the offer to accept a misdemeanor guilty plea.)
becca
@cmorenc: bingo!
Ken
I’d say it’s the Mrs. Murdochs who are trying — each hoping to be the one with the gold ring when he kicks the bucket.
Baud
A conviction would only make Hunter’s art more valuable.
Harrison Wesley
@trollhattan: I did like that description of Ted that observed that his face compressed all of the Dick Tracy villains into one. Or maybe it was Batman villains, I forget exactly.
Shalimar
I don’t think massive media attention on the Hunter Biden trial helps Trump in any way. It shows what bullshit their claims of being selectively targeted are, and Biden will handle his trial with more grace than any Republican is capable of.
TBone
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/holy-shit-donald-trumps-guilty-verdicts
Gloria DryGarden
@Baud: president? Does he keep the title now that he’s out of office?
do they really think he’s currently president?
sheesh, it’s confusing/ annoying
Betty
@Renie: He came to the Wall Street Journal from a British Tory paper. So there are two now from the British press. Tony Jay probably has more info on them.
TBone
@Harrison Wesley: Reminded me that I really like George Stephanopoulos because of his courage. Thank you for sharing that!
TBone
@Renie: Another recommendation by me: Philadelphia Inquirer.
TBone
@William Capra: thank you for that astute summary
Kay
Has there been any walk back from the hundreds of Rigt wing influencers who told people over and over that masks don’t work? This has been proven over and over now. Masks work.
The moronic contrarians should have to apologize.
TBone
@Baud: 💙 always looking on the bright side 🤣
Betty Cracker
@Geminid: I think I’ve only seen one DMP ad on a streaming channel, which focused on what a crook Scott is. (Accurate!) I reckon it will heat up later this summer!
jimmiraybob
@smith:
“I’m sure he will appeal if convicted. What would be hilarious, though, would be for him to get the hung jury the Felon’s defenders were so confident that he would get.”
And what would make it even more hilarious would be an NRA gun nut nullifying the jury.
Kay
Masks pretty much had to save millions of lives. Seems important to make that clear since people were lied to. I’m especially grateful children wore masks, since as it turns out Covid was dangerous to them.
TBone
@Kay: I would like them to kiss my ass if they could do it remotely.
Kay
And of course we’ll never know how many people Right wingers killed because they were too selfish and vain to wear a mask. But some. More than 1.
jimmiraybob
@CaseyL:
Don’t forget the Heritage Foundation and the largest, best funded coalition member, the network of Trump-MAGA evangelical Christian Nationalists.
CaseyL
@TBone: Ooh, thanks.I’ll check them out.
Also: The Guardian, though a UK newspaper, does have a US edition. It’s also free, though they do regularly (very regularly) put up a fundraising bleg.
For in-depth investigative reporting, I highly recommend ProPublica. They’ve gotten a lot of praise and publicity around their SCOTUS reporting- deservedly!- but they do other stories as well. They offer subscriptions, and I’ve been very happy to pay for their content.
Miss Bianca
@Kay: Pretty sure that one of the perks of being a moronic contrarian is that you *never* have to say you’re sorry.
TBone
@CaseyL: Propublica is Ah!mazing 😍
Did you see my comment #2 ?
Lily
🔥 Dr. Fauci 🧡 🙏
smith
Speaking of covid, the House GQP is holding its public crucifixion of Dr. Fauci today, and it’s exactly as illuminating and informative as you’d expect. They are way beyond masks and vaccines and into the world in which Fauci invented the virus and turned it loose on an unsuspecting world.
Soprano2
@Old School: That certainly seems like something that would be grounds for appeal if he is convicted. She’s a Trumpie judge, isn’t she?
Kay
@Miss Bianca:
“It doesn’t harm CHILDREN!”
And these are the people who whined for three years that “we”couldn’t trust public health people.
We couldn’t trust the ridiculous, arrogant contrarians who would have killed us all. I think it’s perfect that one of the biggest scammers was a former NYTimes employee.
Renie
@TBone: Thanks I’ll check that out also.
cain
@West of the Rockies:
The right wing noise machine and the media will make sure it is a distraction and will focus on it as a way to do false equivalence. Of course, if Hunter is found guilty – there will be unhappy. If he is found not-guilty – it will be RIGGED constantly.
You’ll then have GOP politicians falling over themselves to make to find ways to make him guilty.
cain
@cmorenc: It would be hilarious if the court case causes problems for 2A people because it could be used as part of case law.
Brachiator
I’m so glad that I live in California, not Florida. I would almost be in a permanent rage if Little Boots DeSantis was my governor.
As it is, I just have to deal with the right wing idiot mob. Here in Southern California, Topanga Canyon Blvd was re-opened three months ahead of schedule after repairs due to a mud slide, but neither Governor Newsom nor local Democratic Party officials will get credit for efficient planning and oversight because only Republicans can make cities, states and America great again.
Also, I am juggling all kinds of tasks, so I have not read many comments in this thread, so I may be adding to what has already been noted. We got the Hunter Biden trial. And what is certainly going to happen as a result of right wing outrage over the Trump hush money verdict is the phony prosecution of Democrats and anyone connected to Democratic Party political figures by Republicans. And I don’t know how long it will take for right wing fury to abate.
I am certain that many conservatives will be sickened by this behavior in former friends and allies, but it will take courage for people to stand up against the shit that is coming.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
Just like in GQP world, not all amendments to the constitution are created equal, not all are applied equally.
The Holy Second Amendment only applies to Republicans, RWNJs, etc., Now, if you’re one of the rare black Republicans who also happens to carry, well, their heads would probably explode at the mere thought of it.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: That makes sense from a legal standpoint. I was thinking of it from the point of view of a son who wants to (or should want to) minimize his father’s pain.
cain
@TBone: At least while he’s in prison he will be safe from more congressional subpoena. :) Of course, they might bring him out just to ask him how prison is.
Gloria DryGarden
@Kay: and dangerous to their teachers and paras.
TBone
President Biden’s Statement on today’s proceedings.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/06/03/pitch-perfect-2/
“By the way, Jill and Hallie Biden are in court today. Weird.”
I fucking love Joe Biden very much.
Harrison Wesley
Who is writing the script for the Hallmark teevee movie of “Melania’s first conjugal visit with Don at Rikers?”
sdhays
@William Capra: IIRC, they also made an issue of the Russian spy in the NY FBI office being a source of false information suggesting other crimes which the hacky Trump-holdover DA used to blow up the plea deal.
TBone
@sdhays: good eye!
👀
sdhays
@Harrison Wesley: They should use “Waiting for Godot” as the template.
Kay
@Gloria DryGarden:
I thought they should be in school – not being in school really harmed them- but I also knew we didn’t have enough information to just declare them “safe”. I would have kept them masked.
I almost always think they should be in school. I don’t think states should put up with truancy either. They simply don’t do well when they miss too much school, across a whole range of areas.
Kay
If people ask you the difference between Republicans and Democrats on I/P, point them to this article.
Trump needs money and he has (purportedly) already agreed to this:
Trump will do a mass expulsion of Palestianians, IOW, overt ethnic cleansing. Best case. Worst case is they all die.
trollhattan
@Harrison Wesley: It could become the first movie to air simultaneously on Hallmark and SHUDDER.
Wonder if Hollywood has enough camera gauze to film Donny in Hallmark golden blur?
Melanie to the guards, holding fat pillow: “Geeff me at least tveenty meeenuts with him, no interruptings. Geet eet?”
hueyplong
@trollhattan: I’m so comfortable with the idea of Melania as The Chief. But I’m a little impatient.
UncleEbeneezer
@Brachiator: I’m pretty good at avowing them, generally, but even once in awhile I stray into a public FB page or whatever about CA and see the endless whining of assholes who are convinced that living in our great state of California is like living in Iran or Cambodia under the horrific Tyrant, Gavin Newsom leading the Democratic Khmer Rouge. It’s such a good reminder that you can put these people in one of the nicest places in the world (though we still have our problems) and all they do is complain because they resent the fact that our state doesn’t hurt the people they hate enough.
Kay
It was probably naive to think the billionaires were coming around to Trump to retain the tax cuts. They can demand much, much more than that. I’m sure they are. He’ll agree to all of it too, because he’s a completely self centered monster.
MattF
@Chief Oshkosh: Like the ending of Drag Me To Hell.
Soprano2
@Kay: I think if Republicans hadn’t been so hell-bent on not wearing face masks we could have had kids back in school classrooms a lot quicker.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Gaza as beachfront condos…
they been told you, Kay.
suzanne
@Harrison Wesley:
Of all the Things That Will Never Happen, that Will Never Happen the most.
Gloria DryGarden
@Kay: it’s been challenging since they don’t require masks at schools. Since September I’ve had 4 2-week flus. Only one was Covid, but it’s wearing to catch every bug. That’s 8 weeks, too sick to work or do anything productive. The year of stay home school was rough on everybody. For sure.
Belafon
@Kay: Every “I’m not going to support Biden because he won’t stop Bibi” needs to read that. Biden doesn’t want Gaza wiped out.
MomSense
@Kay:
MY DIl’s brother had MIS-C as a child after a bout with SARS he contracted in S Korea during one of the first outbreaks. He ended up in ICU for a long time and it took years to fully recover.
It makes me so angry that we decided to conduct a mass experiment on our children because some adults couldn’t accept the pandemic.
Harrison Wesley
@suzanne: For more reasons than the Reason Fairy can ever imagineablearize (sorry, I have Dubyuh Syndrome).
TBone
@rikyrah: 👍
Kay
@MomSense:
Ooof. That’s hard to hear. My middle son, an adult, has had Covid four times (he was vaccinated). It worries me. Construction trades were some of the most mask resistant workers. He did electrical work at Wright -Patterson AFB where the entire electrical crew got covid.
TBone
@suzanne: he’ll write down Ivanka on the conjugal visitors list. Cross it out and say Oops. I meant Melanie 😂
Belafon
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/trump-classified-documents-aileen-cannon-complaints.html
Harrison Wesley
Wasn’t there supposed to be some big investment into studying Long Covid? I haven’t heard squat about that recently, and IMHO it ranks right up there with nuclear war as a reason for concern. Not that there’s anything you or I can do as individuals about that – and I do not mean that sarcastically: damn, that Princeton study back in 2014 indicated we’re run by oligarchs just like most everybody else.
smith
@Belafon: This “orchestrated campaign” was probably started by Glenn Kirschner in this video. The judge seeems to reason that because a bunch of people filed complaints around the same time they can’t possibly be valid.
Miss Bee
@Renie: It get worse–some of the new appointees are veteran of Murdoch organizations.
TBone
About last week’s trial and interview of Dotard
Consider the source (Moaning Joe) BUT this is mainstream opinion now.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/polls-sink-trump-keeps-babbling
Keep it up, Dotard!
MomSense
@Kay:
My middle was experiencing long COVID symptoms so I told him to go get a booster. He had a hellish couple of days and then the symptoms cleared. Anecdotally I know quite a few people who had relief from long COVID after receiving a booster.
Baud
@TBone:
And the leadership of the Democratic Party isn’t.
...now I try to be amused
@Chris:
(Emphasis mine.) When you put it that way, all the Russians had to do was recognize what Western society had in common with the post-Stalin Soviet Union and Russia.
The West won the Cold War in part by infecting the Soviet Bloc with Western culture. Turns out it goes both ways.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@MomSense:
Wow…and good.
Stories like this just show how little we still know and understand about covid despite the amazing work done to date.
It’s a generation’s worth of research which has just started.
Old School
@Harrison Wesley:
Here’s something HHS announced last July. No idea what progress in the research has been made since then.
Harrison Wesley
@…now I try to be amused: Yep.
Baud
@Harrison Wesley:
Recent story about it. Seems like it’s moving slower than people want, but NIH defends the process
According to the story, they got additional funding this year.
MomSense
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
What infuriates me are the parents who are concerned about the tiniest bit of thimerosal but are fine with letting a novel virus do dog knows what to their children.
HinTN
@Another Scott: Marcie had this covered at emptywheel and, yes it’s political on steroids. Also corrupt but you’ll have to read her analysis to see how deeply corrupt.
MomSense
@TBone:
Have you had MAGAts throw the shower thing your way? Any time their daughter comes up this is what they talk about. Jesus Christ I had no idea what they were talking about but now I need to figure out what to say if I get asked about it on a call.
Manyakitty
@Harrison Wesley: honestly, the entirety of Republicans look that way to me now. What a load of kooks and weirdos. Yikes.
smith
@MomSense: Shower thing?
Sister Golden Bear
Fuck yeah!
Florida Cities Raise Pride Flags Over City Halls After Failed GOP Attempt To Ban Them From Govt Buildings
Peale
@Soprano2: We had some choices we could have made to keep the levels of the spread down to keep the schools open, which would have helped keep the threat of exposures to the teachers down. But adults couldn’t do that. Also, could have done similar things to protect the elderly, but adults couldn’t be bothered to do that, either.
Sister Golden Bear
@TBone: I’ll note the Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to one of the door — thus leaving the open door free to use. IIRC, While Twitter employees may have used another door, a number of them used the other door next to Loomer. Yeah, she’s that stupid.
sdhays
@MomSense: Viruses are all natural!
UncleEbeneezer
Sister Golden Bear
@Betty: The Telegraph has been one the newspapers leading England trans moral panic — which has led the National Health Service to essential block trans healthcare for trans youth, threaten parents with investigation by child services if they get private trans healthcare for there kids, and now is vowing to arrest any parents who don’t immediately turn over any hormonal treatments or puberty blockers.
I fear that we’ll see the Post join the FTFNYT efforts to continue stoking a similar trans moral panic here.
Ksmiami
@Kay: but tell me again how mad you are at Biden… that’s helpful.
Ksmiami
@Manyakitty: completely- all scummy weirdos and vile garbage ppl
TBone
Moscowitz burned MTG again 😆
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1797668719088517492
Context:
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/suspend-fauci-hearing-goes-rails-when
Roberto el oso
Did Ron D specify that CFTrump will be allowed to vote 34 times? once for each count? with additional votes added should, by some miracle, there be future successful convictions?
Manyakitty
@Ksmiami: like their inner ugliness oozes out through their skin.
Soprano2
Wow, that transcript of TCFG’s press conference on Friday – just a bunch of incomprehensible babble. When I read that it’s hard to believe anyone wants him to be president again.
TBone
Thankful that I don’t know what you’re referring to, there are too many shower issues to choose from with Dotard and the cult!
@MomSense:
Scout211
@Soprano2: Hey, Soprano2, did you see my reply to your comment yesterday about the additional COVID shot for your husband? He is eligible for an additional shot this spring. The pharmacy was wrong.
TBone
@Sister Golden Bear: 😆👍
Ksmiami
@Manyakitty: and through their oversized showing guts…
Manyakitty
@Ksmiami: ugh, totally
MomSense
@smith:
It’s from the stolen journal.
TBone
@Soprano2: I saw it live
👀 👀 👀
Geminid
@UncleEbeneezer: That Grayzone bunch has been absolutely horrible on the Ukraine war. I hope the Justice Department takes a long, hard look at these payments, and prosecutes the recipients if they broke the law.
Jeffro
@Kay:
@Gloria DryGarden:
100% this.
Between the way that MAGAts turned on the public schools (to include teachers and admins, obvs) and the danger posed by America’s germ incubators (aka school-age kids), it’s really amazing that the teacher shortage is only as bad as it is. It could be a lot worse.
I think Biden/Harris can eke out another couple % of the vote nationwide just by harping on trump’s insane “no public school with any vaccination requirement will receive federal funding” remarks.
He wasn’t just talking about the Covid vaccine, which isn’t a statewide student vaccination requirement anywhere except California and Illinois. He was talking about measles, polio, Heps A&B, and a host of others.
Blast that shit out on repeat for a few months straight and especially just prior to the start of school this fall: see what happens
NeenerNeener
@MomSense: Yeah, I’ve heard it from my non-MAGAt sister. I remind her that the chain of custody on that diary is hinky as hell.
Also about Trump saying in an interview that he was more sexually attracted to his 13 year old daughter than to his wife, the picture of teenage Vanky grinding on Daddy’s lap, etc.
So, potentially unreliable source versus documented evidence.
Jeffro
This is why they’re gearing up for all of the insanity that’s laid out in Project 2025: they may never have such an amoral puppet at their complete disposal ever again.
It’s turning into the unholiest bargain I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, I think:
-trump: put me in power so I can stay out of prison and exact revenge on my many enemies
-RWNJ billionaires: ok but here’s this very detailed laundry list of how we want you to wreck the country
-trump: (doesn’t even glance at list) ok let’s go
Jeffro
@Baud:
And President Biden isn’t raging away on his own social media network about the judge, the judge’s family, etc.
And no one’s showing up in the exact same suit/tie combo that Hunter often wears.
and and and and and
Let’s go, snooze media: tell people that this is what normal governance and the. rule. of. law. looks like.
Bill Arnold
@Baud:
There was discussion about this (re Hunter Biden’s case) when the Fifth Circuit reversed a drug-user-gun-possession verdict.
USA v. Daniels, No. 22-60596 (5th Cir. 2023)
Chris
@…now I try to be amused:
We all took an emotional inventory, and their crooks realized they didn’t really care about World Socialism and Marxism-Leninism, and our crooks realized they didn’t really care about all men being created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and both crooks realized they did care a lot about living in a world of kings and peasants in which they got to be the kings and the rest of us either joined the brute squad or got fucked.
Take the “goes both ways” all the way. In the same way that the KGB, the supposed sword-and-shield of the USSR, were only too eager to jump on the process of looting post-Soviet Russia and eventually emerge as the top rung of the new gangster-capitalist structure… If the Soviets had been the ones to win the Cold War, just imagine how many of our right-wingers would’ve rushed to become the apparatchiks and commissars of our brave new world. Heck, knowing the anti-intellectual streak in American society, I can easily imagine them going all the way to the Maoist/Pol Pot level of “he’s wearing glasses, he must be a counterrevolutionary intellectual!”
trnc
@japa21: Either way the jury decides will be spun hard by repubs. No point in trying to second guess or mitigate.
TBone
@Bill Arnold: great precedent 💙
ETA I’m not pro gun. I’m pro Hunter.
Ksmiami
@Manyakitty: totally repulsive people I really hate sharing my country with.
trnc
@Jeffro: Sure, but a grand jury won’t do much with that
TBone
DO EET!
Bill Arnold
@Soprano2:
Yep. I avoided COVID-19 for 3.5 years with strict mask discipline
in indoor spaces outside the house. 3.5 years in, an undisciplined household member brought a SAR-CoV-2 case home.
This was with well-fitted dust masks until fall of 2020 when I scored some N95s. The early COVID-19 was much less infectious than than Omicron and later.
Baud
@trnc:
GOP Prosecutors can spend a lot of time “investigating.” The case against Hunter has been going on for at least 6 years.
Downpuppy
trollhattan
How do Brits say “Ohio diner”? Today, it’s “Clacton.”
I’m calling foul on the writers for giving us Mr. “Allen Forecast.”
TBone
Video xit at link by Biden Harris HQ
https://digbysblog.net/2024/06/03/four-years-ago-today-21/
PILE ON
MomSense
@NeenerNeener:
Typically I’ll refer to factcheck.org but they basically said she confirmed she had a journal so it’s true. WTF And just like you said, there are major chain of custody issues with it. Same for the Hunter Biden hard drives.
karen marie
@J. Arthur Crank: What’s he supposed to do with Mrs D screaming at him because SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FIRST LADY!
Now that that option is sort of off the table (there’s always the hope of a brokered convention and a miracle), she is working the angles for the VP slot so she can play First Lady in Melania’s absence, waiting for Trump to keel over, when her dearest wish will come true. She will then get her picture on the cover of Vogue, because, of course, that will be her right.
Baud
@Downpuppy:
Tax cuts for billionaires live in darkness.
trollhattan
@Bill Arnold: Avoided the covid bastard until last summer, when the spouse had a rebound case while we were on a car vacation, 2-3 weeks after testing negative from her bout, caught from nursing the kid after she came down with it even though both were bemasked while mom was being Nurse Mom.
Sigh.
HATED every second of it, until my considerable fever broke. Then it lingered maybe 6 weeks.
Next jab, I’m there with bells on.
Roberto el oso
@Chris: Exactly. For every RWer who fancies him/herself a Wolverine/partisan, there are 20 who would trample one another to become collaborators.
brantl
@J. Arthur Crank: That’s why you can’t be him; you’ve got standards.
trollhattan
@TBone: “The gentlest gassing. The best, classiest gassing, really, they were so lucky I was in charge that day. They never had it so good.”
karen marie
@TBone: Oh, please, oh, please!
Yeah, not gonna happen.
Manyakitty
@Downpuppy: I don’t even need to give the Vichy Times a click. Cancelled my WaPo subscription yesterday after they came out with that horrendous Dan Balz false equivalency story about deciding which of the two candidates poses a greater threat. Gimme a mfing break with that shit.
TBone
@karen marie: 😆 Propublica has lawyers to vet their reporting. Better lawyers than Dotard can afford anymore!
Baud
@Manyakitty:
The two candidates had to be RFK, Jr. And Trump, right? Right?
jimmiraybob
@Jeffro:
WOW.
Donald “Children’s Disease Cesspools are OK with Me” Trump promising to defund schools that have health standards for students and faculty.
“I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or mask mandate.”
Somehow I missed this but it seems important (understatement).
It might apply only to COVID-19 or maybe polio or maybe plague or it could include all vaccine requirements. Either way it’s a death sentence. (At least he could throw in funding for bleach cocktails and inserted light-bulb therapy.)
I’m starting to have trouble maintaining that the otherwise “good people” that support Trump are, in fact, good people.
TBone
@trollhattan: 🤢🤮🎃
Jackoffolantern 😆
Geminid
@Jeffro: Ready or not, here she comes! John McGuire’s Congressional campsign just sent out a “MAGA ALERT! 3 @mtgreene/McGuire for Congress rallies Wednesday.”
Rep. Greene will rally (with McGuire I guess) in the town of Louisa at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Then she’ll head down I-64 to appear at Charlottesville’s City Hall Annex, at 4 p.m.
The Horrible Hoyden will finish up with an evening rally at a fancy wedding venue in Prince Georges County called “The Barn at Poor House.” You can RSVP at the McGuire for Congress website.
karen marie
@Kay: I am still wearing mine at the grocery store. It only takes one sick asshole.
Dorothy A. Winsor
The freakout over masks was just bizarre. Why? Why get so upset about something you see in TV medical shows every day?
RaflW
This is why Democrats up & down that ballot need to be reminding voters “You have the choice of competence, or criminals & their excusers. Calm and effective, or chaotic and corrupt. Please choose wisely. Oh, and fuck those jerks!”
RaflW
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Millions of man-babies (and some women-babies, to be sure) have never stopped their childhood defiance b.s.
Manyakitty
@Baud: hahahaha alas
Yutsano
I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere else on the blog lately (and it’s possible I missed it) but Representative Shiela Jackson Lee has cancer.
(Gift WaPo link
EDIT: Annnd I killed the thread.
Also, too: FUCK CANCER!!!
Ksmiami
@jimmiraybob: they are not, in fact, good people at all.
Carol
Would this open a crack in the scotus gun policies If he is convicted on the drug/gun charge? If upon appeal, a conviction on these grounds is upheld then it seems to me it would put some room to convict people carrying firearms on other charges. Or perhaps that’s already the case. I don’t know.
artem1s
@Harrison Wesley:
https://reporter.nih.gov/search/LGCCS5KqsE67EcTWwdlFsA/projects
NIH and other federal funding awards are public. NIH awards are typically for 5 years. We haven’t even reached the fifth year of the first wave of NIH COVID grants. DoD also awarded a lot of COVID research money. Sorry, real science take time.
Jackie
@Harrison Wesley:
You forgot Rick Scott, who looks like a reptilian snake-lizard just hatched from the seas.
Bostondreams
@Dorothy A. Winsor: North Carolina is about to ban the wearing of medical masks in public. It’s insane.
Baud
@Bostondreams:
Apparently, some sanity may have prevailed after the push back.
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-protests-masks-b0a929d65ba3d44b0c1c2e659a2b586b
...now I try to be amused
@Chris:
Heh. I hadn’t thought of it that way before but as you say, the Cold War ended when the conservative ruling classes on both sides recognized that they were really on the same side. It was just more obvious that the Soviet Union had betrayed its founding principles. In the US, wanting to bring back inequality is the Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name.
Geminid
@Carol: This story was in the news a year or so ago, and a former U.S.prosecutor discussed the federal “firearms possession while on drugs” offence. He linked to a study showing several hundred people charged during something like a 6 year period (I think), typically as add-ons to more serious offenses.
chrisanthemama
@trollhattan: Second (and third, fourth, and fifth) marriages are proof of the triumph of hope over experience (with apologies to O. Wilde).
rikyrah
Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) posted at 2:40 PM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
Katy Tur wants to know if it’s that bad to elect a convicted felon. They are trying to normalize this madness.
https://t.co/Wn4Nil4KnZ
(https://x.com/cbouzy/status/1797715123118997839?s=03)
Ramalama
@Harrison Wesley:
That’s Governor Cuck’N’Stein to you.
Soprano2
@smith: You must not know any MAGA’s. They claim that Joe Biden forced his daughter to take a shower with him when she was young, that it’s in the diary that they stole from the house where she had lived for awhile. That’s the source of their claim that Joe Biden is a pedophile. I don’t know what actually happened, but I’m sure it’s not what their fevered brains think happened.
rikyrah
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 5:52 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
On CNN, @gtconway3d asked why the network pays Scott Jennings to lie for Trump. The host told him off.
On our pod, Conway goes further.
“The notion that he’s doing it as a paid contributor to CNN really gets my goat…I’m ready to say this more.”
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 10:20 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
One other point: Media rules of decorum/civility require not calling out Trump/MAGA lies too aggressively, and Trump supporters *knowingly* exploit these rules. In our interview Conway forthrightly declares that these rules have helped Republicans game the debate for many years:
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1797649618869903779?t=46qciS4vEUWsKWIWetKC1A&s=03)
rikyrah
Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 7:22 PM on Sun, Jun 02, 2024:
Trump praises Clarence Thomas, who says the Supreme Court needs to look at overturning the right to birth control and marriage equality now that Roe is overturned https://t.co/oJrC8RMCyn
(https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1797423637642858758?t=a0wfuCg_tyLDY8T6tU-Ilw&s=03)
TBone
@Soprano2: wasn’t the person who stole said diary prosecuted? I seem to remember that there were consequences involved.
And…here it is!
PROJECT VERITAS
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/ashley-biden-journal-project-veritas-guilty-plea/index.html
Spanky
@Geminid:
Price Edward County, I think you mean. Near Farmville.
Don’t try to foist her off up here in Maryland.
rikyrah
Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) posted at 7:34 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
NEW: Republican AG’s are in court trying to strip minority voters and civil rights groups from enforcing the VRA.
I explain.
https://t.co/o2CmeJwFW5
(https://x.com/marceelias/status/1797607894369927480?t=pJiI8l7Qi3JWs055RA6AmA&s=03)
rikyrah
digby (@digby56) posted at 1:18 PM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
Great. So MSNBC is covering the Hunter Biden trial like the Trump trial? Way to push that false equivalence.
Even CNN isn’t doing that.
(https://x.com/digby56/status/1797694304586219859?t=rWCNwTvHjM23ts8nQSxukw&s=03)
Smiling Happy Guy (aka boatboy_srq)
That is nothing more than garden-variety MAGAtry these days. It explains Charlottesville, Ammon Bundy, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jan6 and every single court case springing from those events. It explains Cannon’s delaying tactic as much as all of Felonious Thunk’s legal teams’ chronic missteps. We cannot allow ourselves to be numbed to it.
rikyrah
The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) posted at 1:13 PM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
4 years ago Covid was allowed to ravage America due to Trump’s incompetence, prolonged by MAGA conspiracy theories.
It only changed bc we changed presidents. President Biden held us together as a country during tumultuous times. Today is no different.
https://t.co/REIjF1JRMf
(https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1797693106185474354?t=UvSOW0rciL7KKK8feVV9TA&s=03)
rikyrah
Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 9:04 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
MAGA operative introducing Trump says Trump will enact their Project 2025 agenda, which includes a de-facto national abortion ban, puts Medicare on a path to privatization, and seeks to end marriage equality https://t.co/BtGb4i1E9W
(https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1797630382172451014?t=oVJt3TJXYG41vYrWbwh9Ig&s=03)
rikyrah
Tim Hogan 浩勤 (@TimInHonolulu) posted at 7:32 PM on Sun, Jun 02, 2024:
1. As the GOP and Trump become more unhinged and erratic I think I know why. They are likely learning what I discovered that Trump can be put in mental and medical assessment that can isolate him for up to 30 days. He likely suffers from dementia and stimulant addiction.
Tim Hogan 浩勤 (@TimInHonolulu) posted at 7:32 PM on Sun, Jun 02, 2024:
2. The state has an obligation to protect prisoners, prison population and staff and so that assessment will likely be part of what the judge decides upon sentencing when he determines whether to commit him to rehabilitation initially. I’m watching for how long it takes for
Tim Hogan 浩勤 (@TimInHonolulu) posted at 7:32 PM on Sun, Jun 02, 2024:
3. Trump to report to probation for PSI. If he’s as bad as he appears, they’ll have to clean him up. He was sniffling so likely used yesterday. The urine test may clear in a few days but hair is good for 90. I noticed he had gotten a noticeable hair cut in the past few days.
Tim Hogan 浩勤 (@TimInHonolulu) posted at 7:32 PM on Sun, Jun 02, 2024:
4. My best friend in college was a chemist and had to do a hair analysis. I was someone with long hair so he asked me to give him a sample because the amount of hair needed in the 70’s was fairly extreme. Based on my experience and Trump’s Propecia-created doll’s hair
Tim Hogan 浩勤 (@TimInHonolulu) posted at 7:32 PM on Sun, Jun 02, 2024:
5. I think his hair cut would require them to cut him close to baldness if they needed the amount I gave my friend. So if he can’t give hair and delay 3 or 4 days from yesterday he might pass the Adderall/Cocaine urine test.
(https://x.com/TimInHonolulu/status/1797426190602702997?t=uQLUfjhc3Q1PtQMBkyrH_A&s=03)
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Manyakitty:
Yup. Not giving to Totebagger Radio rounds out the trifecta of Corporate Media Outlets That Don’t Deserve Our Money Or Our Eyes/Ears.
rikyrah
Booker G. Washington (@BookerGWash) posted at 7:27 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
I thought we were at the point that HBCU alum and students understood that we cannot “alumni giving” our way out of intentional state underfunding and bad laws and policies.
Even if we could give $1 billion, these red state legislatures are withholding and cutting $2 billion.
(https://x.com/BookerGWash/status/1797606030488285502?t=zrM_xHxeMmDicGP9Tz8yYg&s=03)
rikyrah
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 11:51 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
“Mike Johnson’s offhand mention that he’s already aware of the justices’ feelings about a case and his breezy reassurance that the Supreme Court will rescue Trump from himself should be a five-alarm fire.” https://t.co/2WnyQlH8jU
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1797672568603971692?t=jjwe5zaLxGcj6CfsbHsBPw&s=03)
rikyrah
Roscoe Smith IV (@LoneStarLegendX) posted at 9:24 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
Why does race, sex, or sexual orientation matter that much when voting?
Unless you’re racist, sexist, and “phobic” of others…
Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) posted at 9:34 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
Because white Republicans have shown us for years they’ll only vote for unqualified white male conservatives and their Black, brown and women familiars as opposed to qualified diverse candidates especially if they’re not obedient Republicans.
(https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1797637981211402339?t=kn8sJFSwUpGYn8UeK1WceA&s=03)
rikyrah
Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) posted at 11:36 AM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
Starting w/ George Conway, @GregTSargent has unconvered that CNN stops calling commentators who espouse criticism of Trump on air. After Sargent’s podcast went live, other commentators have come forward. Scandalous media manipulation. https://t.co/p440j8oJUm
(https://x.com/magi_jay/status/1797668699790569717?t=qIZluSrWixpyesLbgSBrPw&s=03)
Geminid
@Spanky: Thank you for the correction. I had it right in my notes, but could not execute.
The Barn at Poor House is an estate off of Rt. 460, near the the town of Rice in Prince Edward County between Farmville and Lynchburg. I’m hoping for a big thunderstorm.
TBone
@rikyrah: I saw no evidence of that on MSNBC today but I don’t watch the Andrea Greenspan portions.
Bostondreams
@Baud: oh good to hear!
Geminid
Among other media sites,the Times of Israel reports that a date has been set for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress: June 13, Thursday of next week.
Ruckus
@J. Arthur Crank:
How could he get tired of being a small pathetic little man?
That’s been his entire life?
A little nothing – that has been his entire life.
karen marie
@rikyrah: I’m still trying to figure out how MSNBC has the balls to have Katy Tur commenting about anything to do with Individual-1.
Manyakitty
@rikyrah: Katy Turd can follow Andrea Mitchell right out the door.
Miss Bianca
@Geminid: why the FUCK is Schumer going along with this?? >:<
Soprano2
@Scout211: Yes, I did see that. Thanks, I feel less crazy now. Maybe I’ll try next week.
lowtechcyclist
@Miss Bianca:
Damned good question. Maybe the Israelis have to put up with Bibi for the time being, but we sure don’t.
Dan B
@Tony G: The Washington State GPP just had the convention for the “Mainstream Republicans”. It’s less nuts but still full of fakers and drifters. The leading candidate for Governor is an ex sheriff who claims he caught the notorious serial killer the Green River Killer. Someone else did. And the list goes on.
Geminid
@Miss Bianca: Good question. Jeffries is going along too.
I don’t like it; I’m just glad they’re gonna get the speech over with next week. Maybe people will get past it by July 4.
Kay
@Ksmiami:
Im not in the “never criticize Democrats” camp. In 30 years as a Democrat I never have been and I don’t intend to start now.
Sister Golden Bear
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Oppositional defiance disorder. Nobody tells them what to do. Especially libs.
Kay
@Ksmiami:
You’re probably not in the “never criticize Democrats” camp either – you just approve of the Democrats I/P policy. If I approved of it I wouldn’t oppose it either.