I thought we could use a little good news after this morning’s nightmarish rulings.
“Lock him up! Lock him up!” — Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene are trying to hold a news conference right now and it’s not going well pic.twitter.com/5AvgXGcqxM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2024
Just something to brighten your day…
Open thread
Yutsano
Aww. Steve Bannon got his Find Out moment.
And now I don’t care.
Except is there a reason why the Navy hasn’t done a court martial on him? Or is he too long out for that?
EDIT: FRIST!!!
Skippy-san
May he never leave the prison.
Skippy-san
@Yutsano: As a midshipman, I did my 3rd class cruise on the USS Paul Foster, his ship. He was a terrible officer.
He grew into a terrible human being.
RandomMonster
I hope that greasy sack of meat sweat and transfats is forced to drink toilet wine to keep the DTs from killing him.
West of the Rockies
Nah, nah, nah, nah…
Nah, nah, nah, nah…
Hey-eyyy-ey, goodbye!
(To Bannon’s fat, pimpled and pocked ass.)
TBone
@West of the Rockies: 💙😆
SiubhanDuinne
@West of the Rockies:
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye.
SW
Can’t possibly be harsh enough. On the immunity thing. It is being widely interpreted as a get out of jail free card for Trump particularly concerning the Jan 6 insurrection. But since when is overturning the results of an election an official presidential duty?
CaseyL
@SW: Presidents have no official duties regarding elections at all. Elections are specifically and explicitly NOT within the domain of the Executive.
Just another established law SCOTUS has thrown out.
IOW, an “official action” is whatever SCOTUS says it is.
hueyplong
This is proof that Bannon is a small fry. Only capos get to avoid jail.
Pretty sure I could get an amen from some J6 scum.
Ohio Mom
It was hard to hear what Bannon was saying over the (righteously correct) din but what I was able to gather, he was comparing himself to someone who got sent to the same prison in the 1940s by the House UnAmerican Committe.
You can add stolen value to his list of sins.
rikyrah
Rita Powell
@Rizabellepow
The NYT’s sent a Black woman to defend their ageist opinion, and she couldn’t defend why they didn’t ask Trump to drop out after 34 convictions.
https://x.com/Rizabellepow/status/1807724201584792055
Suzanne
Fuck. This is so great.
I wonder if he’ll get treatment for his greyscale while in the slammer.
raven
@Skippy-san: Dang, I didn’t realize you were a Naval Officer!
rikyrah
Tim (@trouble_man90) posted at 6:13 PM on Sun, Jun 30, 2024:
I would maybe, MAYBE take this conversation seriously if we were hearing “We need Kamala now”. The fact that aren’t just highlights their backstabbing intent.
(https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/1807553057238175828?t=dmJapV3fdckW2Pk8-0o1CA&s=03)
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
Salome Strangelove (@salstrange) posted at 5:37 AM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
Crying about having no leaks or access for four years, but *now* they miraculously have secret access to private family insight.
Lying to our faces. https://t.co/AxnqgpAERD
(https://x.com/salstrange/status/1807725085182058676?t=d0upbLzq0VNIZsIA5T1MIA&s=03)
Trivia Man
@SW: clearly you aren’t a big brain heritage lawyer. He talked to someone about it while was president, therefore its official. And the majority opinion says you aren’t allowed to ask anyone if he really talked about it so case closed.
The Thin Black Duke
@rikyrah: (mic drop)
Villago Delenda Est
Both of them are enemies of the Constitution of the United States, therefore MY sworn enemies.
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: POLITICO: flaming dog poo on a porch. They’re making this shit up, just like their hero, the convicted felon.
Again I call on Darth Sidious: “Wipe them out, all of them.”
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah: Do you have the video of that?
I loved Crockett’s appearance with Ali Velshi.
Villago Delenda Est
@Yutsano: Unless you’re retired (which means you’re still subject to the UCMJ) the Navy can’t touch him, he’s been discharged.
Chris
@SW:
A commenter at LGM (yeah, I know) just made a good point about that.
“The President cannot be held accountable for acts performed in his official presidential duties” is a tautology. If the President is doing something that the constitution empowers him to do, then obviously it isn’t illegal and he shouldn’t be found guilty of anything, but that’s always been true.
Bringing this up in the context of the President inciting a coup against the government is meant to massively expand the definition of “official presidential duties,” but also keep it hazy as fuck, which effectively means that the courts (ultimately meaning the Supreme Court) get to decide whether or not a President is currently acting within his official presidential duties.
When it’s a Republican, they’ll find that he was. When it’s a Democrat, they’ll find that he wasn’t.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
As I said in an earlier thread, I hope they put him in a cell with a really opinionated and really vocal Democrat. Extra points if said Dem is big and muscular.
Heh heh, nice.
Betsy
Oh god, what now?
Guess I’d better read the post.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@rikyrah: She used to work for Bloomberg when he was Mare
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@rikyrah: yeah, the pundits and others doing the Biden must Step Down followed by Oh My WHO ,WHO can we get to take his place ??? Are just showing their whole ass..
Jackie
MTG loves stinky smelly men: Dirty diaper Donald and Three shirts, unshowered Bannon.🤮
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
Try this:
https://youtu.be/jxVeMCpVgkM
Leto
OT: the amount of diving and flopping in this Portugal v Slovenia game is embarrassing. It’s at a point that UEFA needs to require that all teams are SAG card carrying members, like the WWE. Christ.
Geminid
@Jackie: Rep. Greene and Bannon may have been on opposite sides of the VA05 primary between Bob Good and John McGuire, but that did not keep her from standing by Bannon in his hour of need. Awww!
Raven
@Leto: I have been waiting for someone who knows soccer to say that. It’s pretty disgusting but I’m sure they are coached to do it. I’m talking about all of these soccer players.
Baud
@Geminid:
Is the recount still going on?
Leto
@Geminid:
Stand by your maaaaaannn…
Even when he does not shower…
Even as he chants “White power”…
Stand by your maaaaa-hhhhhh-n!
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks. Thanks, Mika!!! That NYT woman is so full of shit.
Chris
@rikyrah:
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yeah, a lot of pushback against media bullshit is framed as “this doesn’t mean what they say it means or are implying it means,” and correctly so. But I suspect a lot of the time, they are just brazenly making shit up.
The ur-example of this is the “Biden’s saying he won’t serve more than four years” stories that we’ve been hearing since 2019. All of these stories go back to the same one Politico article, which in turn rests completely on four anonymous sources (at once, mind you: they’re not listed as four separate people saying similar things). In five years, none of the many, many articles on the topic have ever come out and said that the only reference ever made for this is the one Politico article, or that no one has actually said that on record. (Some articles even reference the same Politico article multiple times, using hyperlinks to make it look like they’re not).
Considering the contrast between how thin the source material is and how incredibly far and wide its thesis was propagated, it’s very hard to think that the original story wasn’t just completely made up. The media had the story they wanted to tell, one of them made the jump of writing a pure baloney article based on a source they made up because they knew it could never be checked, thus giving the green light to everyone else to knock themselves out.
Eyeroller
@zhena gogolia: I finally canceled my subscription today!
Chris
@Leto:
“Irina! Take a hike!”
Leto
@Raven: yeah, they’re coached to draw fouls. It’s similar to the NBA, but here it’s just so much more blatant and over the top. There’s the rare times that the ref will call, and card the flopper (that’s what’s supposed to happen), but most of the time it doesn’t happen. This guy is ignoring more of it, but flopping occurs more when the side isn’t as good and needs the extra “help”. And yes, Portugal isn’t that good despite the fact they made the 16.
Baud
@Eyeroller:
Yay! Good for you.
karen marie
@Ohio Mom: I thing MTG must be deaf. She asked “where are the Democrats” when they were all around her banging drums and jeering.
Redshift
@Baud:
As far as I can tell, it hasn’t started yet. It’s not close enough for the state to pay for the recount, so Good still has to decide if he’ll pay for it or just whine “rigged!” like TCFG.
zhena gogolia
@Eyeroller: Good for you!
Raven
@Leto: What’s with the dude laying down on the direct kick?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Chris:
I’m a little confused about what you’re saying here. Wasn’t it always the case that the SCOTUS could decide that? IOW, what exactly has changed?
I want to understand in case I have to explain this to someone who doesn’t follow this stuff very closely. The layman probably thinks the SCOTUS has always done this
Raven
@Leto: I guess I’m more bothered by this phony writhing on the deck constantly.
Redshift
I’m starting to see news stories about “Biden campaign in damage control mode.” I take that as a positive sign, since that’s a thing it’s actually reasonable to expect them to do, unlike, ya know, the dumb thing we’ve been hearing way too much about.
rikyrah
chris evans
@notcapnamerica
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill that would’ve allowed ex-cons to become barbers or cosmetologists.
People who’ve done their time and are trying to rebuild their life by learning a trade are blocked from doing so.
https://x.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1807820638624555032
brantl
@Yutsano: That f’er was in the Navy? I thought the Navy had some standards……
rikyrah
Don’t forget..
as soon as Bannon is released, he’s going on trial for charges, if found guilty, will bring SERIOUS time :)
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Chris:
Some things are eternal:
IOKIYAR
rikyrah
Jen “we will not be ruled by a king ” Rubin
@JRubinBlogger
Snappy summary of the day: 1. The Supreme Court is thoroughly corrupt and has given a green light to a criminal running for president to commit more crimes in office. 2. This is the constitutional crisis of our time. 3. Biden should run nearly exclusively on this. On the crimes Trump did and would commit. 4. No one would be safe because he literally could order anyone’s execution as “commander in chief” 5. Run on “We will not be ruled by a king.” 6. On July 4 rededicate ourselves to independence from a monarch (trump) and his court jesters. 7. Rally the base and independents.
11:56 AM · Jul 1, 2024
https://x.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1807820638624555032
Leto
@Raven: it’s a tactic to help block the kick; the wall of players will typically jump when the player kicks the ball, to try to help block/deflect the kick. That then leaves the space under them for the ball to pass. So 1 player will lay down to help block that as well. This “tactic” is a relatively new wrinkle. it def wasn’t a thing when I playing, which isn’t that long ago…
And yeah, the writhing on the ground like you’ve just stepped on a land mine is… irritating, to say the least.
raven
@Leto: Thanks!
Baud
@rikyrah:
I’ve heard libertarians complain for years that blue states had too many licensing requirements for professions like hair and beauty care.
Leto
@raven: I mean, if we want to watch flopping there’s always this.
Yutsano
@Baud: Maybe I’m just picky, but I would like to know that someone who handles blades, razors, and potentially dangerous chemicals, has met some basic education requirement & had some documentation to show such. But again, maybe I’m just picky.
AWOL
@Jackie: She had many a sexual tryst with John McAfee.
Mousebumples
Long bsky thread. I’m not aware of a threadreader type thing for bsky yet, and I think you need to be logged in to view. I’ll try to get it all, but apologies in advance for the length…
Continued in another comment since I have more links coming…
Mousebumples
@Mousebumples:
I don’t know what will happen. But this makes sense to me (and I agree on the Wisconsin piece, anyhow).
I’m going to do the work. Who’s with me?
trollhattan
Lord bless the folks taking time to shout down that treasonous bastard. And Bannon.
Gretchen
@Skippy-san: in what way was he a terrible officer? There are so many possibilities…..
trollhattan
@brantl: Not according to the Army. :-)
JPL
@Jackie: ha Recently she disavowed an affair with a Cox family heir. Of course since he converted to Islam, that might be a reason. google Fergie Chambers. She was having affairs with two different people at the same time, while preaching about the lord.
Ella in New Mexico
@SW: That’s supposed to be decided by the lower courts now.
Even so, now there is NOTHING to stop Joe Biden from immediately adding three justices to the Supreme Court by Executive order now, amirite?
Splitting Image
@Redshift:
I’m thinking some of the “news” media will pivot to this now that the Supreme Court decisions are over. Maybe I’m getting too cynical, but the meltdown over the debate seems to have neatly allowed two disastrous court decisions to come down under the radar. That job done, perhaps some of them will go back to just keeping their thumbs on the scale for the felon.
Timill
@JPL: The Lord loves everyone, and she was just doing her best…
narya
@Mousebumples: I’m gonna write postcards. It’s what I can do.
JPL
@Timill: She is in good shape so I guess the lord works in mysterious ways.
Raven
@Leto: whoa!
Josie
@Mousebumples:
I will be working along side you. Thanks for this.
Mousebumples
@narya: me too. Glad to have you on Team Postcards.
@Josie: you’re welcome!
Avalune
@Leto: That was amazing.
moonbat
@Mousebumples: Thank you for this.
And, yes, I’m ALL in.
Regulon
@Raven:
The wall hops on the kick, guy lying down blocks the low ball.
ETA: Leto beat me to it.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The problem I see is the opinion says a president has immunity for official acts. Sotomayor points outs pardons can now be sold for direct bribes with impunity, as pardons are official acts.
This goes beyond what Dump even asked for. His lawyers argued that a prosecution could occur, but only after being impeached and convicted in the senate. Here the court says that doesn’t matter, you can be convicted in the senate and still escape legal process.
Avalune
@Raven: I’m kind of surprised he didn’t link the soccer player touched by the ref who turned and saw it was the ref who touched him and flopped down like he was assaulted. It was fantastic.
Annual reminder you don’t see women’s teams flailing about like Peter fuckin Griffin everytime someone touches them.
BlueGuitarist
@Mousebumples:
With you on doing the work!
Looks like there’s a reasonable chance to gain 2 US house seats in WI (Wi-1 and 3). Kristin Lyerly seems like an excellent candidate but wi-8 seems too Republican. Do you have a sense of the down-ballot candidates in that area?
(from afar it looks like Senate district 30 and assembly districts 88 and 89 are flippable with good candidates.)
Mousebumples
@moonbat: glad to help. It’s a long read, but it helped me make more sense of things. It’s process. How things go. Doesn’t guarantee a win – but if the NYT wants Trump to win (clicks!)… Ofc they’re going to call for Biden to drop out to help Trump have a shot.
wjca
The US Constitution, Article 2, Section 3, mandates that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Trump has demonstrated that he will NOT faithfully execute the laws if he becomes President.
Therefore President Biden has a duty, a Constitutionally imposed duty, to take care that Trump not become President. It is his official duty — which, per the latest from the Supreme Court, means he must do so by any means available. It’s not a choice. It’s a minimum job requirement.
BlueGuitarist
@Mousebumples:
I like the barn stamps for postcards and stumbled across foreverstanpsshop.com where I got 100 for $34 instead of $53 (1 week for shipping). Seemed like a good deal, I’m not generally a savvy consumer.
Mousebumples
@BlueGuitarist: I posted this on bsky the other day –
Wisconsin leg primaries aren’t until August, so we’ll see who the GOP nominates in WI-08. But I’ve mostly heard of white men from the WI leg running. They don’t know how to campaign. They’ve been gerrymandered into electoral atrophy. And I trust Ben Wikler.
Glad to have your help too! (also haven’t looked into downballot too much, but I’ll keep an eye and ear out)
Mousebumples
@BlueGuitarist: good to know! I think stamp prices are going up later this month, so I’ll need to stock up…
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison for soliciting a bribe to perform an official act. This court says that’s okay if you’re a republican.
Leto
@Raven: @Avalune: Avalune preaches the truth; she knows I l prefer the women’s game because 1) they’re more focused on the fundamentals and 2) while they play hard, they’re not out there acting as if they’ve just been shot by a nail gun to the face. Or re-enacting our fire safety drills.
Leto
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: no, the problem was he took the bribe before he delivered. That’s illegal. If he had done the deed, then taken the payout, well that was simply their way of saying, “thank you for lacking in morales and ethics, to our benefit!”
Chris Johnson
@Mousebumples: I think that sums things up really well. Naturally the media trying to create a disaster for Dems are not mentioning this, but I remember hearing about a lot of that as it was happening.
All those RNC campaigns going bust. And Trump is NOT going to be giving them money…
Belafon
@Yutsano: I sure this blocks them even if they have training. I know in some areas, like handling money, a felony conviction can prevent you from getting a job like that. This bill might have created some exemptions, so that those who have served their time can make a living.
Mousebumples
@Chris Johnson: yes, exactly! All things I’d heard but had forgotten about or lost track of.
Chris Johnson
@Mousebumples: Here’s the thing: they’re gonna HAVE to get Biden to drop out, or Trump does NOT have a shot, and then so much for their Russian paymasters, and they’re all in deep shit. After recent events they’ll end up with only Russian paymasters after everyone else nopes out of there. I was amazed to see how many people here still had NYT subscriptions to cancel. I sure didn’t, I knew better.
Fascists fight amongst themselves. This is a good time to call for Nikki Haley to step up and save the nation. Clearly she’d wreck the sleepy Biden, yes?
rikyrah
Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
There’s a lot of misunderstanding of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the presidential immunity #January6th case.
We created this infographic
@just_security
to explain:
– the pathways open to Jack Smith
– the scope of immunity from prosecution for all future presidents
https://x.com/rgoodlaw/status/1807862611167293554
Mike E
@zhena gogolia: three minute uninterrupted run of galloping gishness, clearly the nyt has nuclear weapons or they would’ve cut across that stream of weak propaganda.
UncleEbeneezer
@Mousebumples: It’s important to remember that:
1.) The GOP
2.) SCOTUS
3.) Russia/China/Iran, their agents and bots
4.) The Media and the Billionaire owners
5.) Nazis, Incels, TERFs, Trolls etc.
6.) The World’s Richest Man, owner of Twitter (also fits in #4/5)
7.) Burn-It-All-Down Leftists
8.) Centrist Assholes like Manchin
Are all doing their best to try to create division in our coalition to help Trump. They may have different reasons, but they are all working in concert, towards the same goal.
It’s going to be an ugly shit-storm from now until November, but it is going to be so, because all these groups are aware that a big Dem win will set THEIR sides back in a major way and Dobbs makes that very possible. They are scared shitless for good reason.
The biggest blow we can land on these evil fucks is staying strong, resilient and united. #StrongerTogether
O. Felix Culpa
@BlueGuitarist: Thanks for the heads-up. I just ordered 200 postcard stamps at a nice discount.
Mousebumples
@Chris Johnson: very true! Why do they want Biden to drop out? Hint, it’s not because they’re being honest or straightforward at all…
Mousebumples
@UncleEbeneezer: yes, thank you!
rikyrah
Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) posted at 3:59 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
A convicted liar today received permission from the U.S. Supreme Court to make good on his promise to become Dictator-In-Chief on Day 1. No one is coming to rescue America. It’s on us. We’ve done it before, and we must do it again at the ballot box. See you there.
(https://x.com/staceyabrams/status/1807881644772413644?t=syh_k0NG6vlyBt7K3uQT9A&s=03)
rikyrah
Badlydone Emma is voting for Joe (@chemimommy) posted at 2:25 PM on Sat, Jun 29, 2024:
What white people like Tim Miller don’t understand about people of color, is that we do not panic and scatter based on one single event.
For us, elections are existential.
We aren’t going to risk our families and livelihoods because Biden stuttered while telling the truth.
(https://x.com/chemimommy/status/1807133396751057122?t=tnAUf6GBkzGvTOm1jQmcqg&s=03)
Warren Senders
@BlueGuitarist: typo in the URL, should be “foreverstampsshop.com” — once corrected, what a great site! Thank you more than I can say!
I just ordered 800 stamps (500 postcard, 300 for letters to swing states to be mailed in Oct.). Gonna use this site from now on. I do twenty postcards a day, every day — which means I burn through those stamps PDQ.
UncleEbeneezer
@Mousebumples: Thanks for sharing the Bsky thread. It helps put things in perspective. I hope someone will make it a FP post because I think it can help calm a lot of our nerves.
TBone
@rikyrah: ❤️💙❤️
rikyrah
Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) posted at 11:07 AM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
Don’t panic on Trump immunity case. Jack Smith will argue Trump’s actions were not “official acts.” There’s precedent on this from a J6 civil case *that I know a thing or two about* that was unanimously upheld by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. This is not a Trump victory.
(https://x.com/RepSwalwell/status/1807808244263579789?t=2v50Gx_L2OSit7xyuHjwVQ&s=03)
TBone
@wjca: I like it.
TBone
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: he was a Democrat. He is no longer. (I’m just being sassy today.)
TBone
@rikyrah: 💙 someone earlier said Dems would freeze like a deer in the headlights. I said GTFOH – I DISSENT! It’s nice to see Swalwell urging us onward!
Dave
@rikyrah: bottom line-can the DC case proceed since the indictment states the crime was not related to official duties. Any questions can be addressed on appeal
Captain C
@Jackie: She’s got some weird turn-in’s and hangups. If only she wouldn’t inflict them on the rest of us.
Quinerly
@Warren Senders:
Be careful.
https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/counterfeit-stamps
Quinerly
@BlueGuitarist:
Be careful.
I think all the discounted forever stamps are scams and counterfeit. Google and get info on who you are buying from.
https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/counterfeit-stamps
Quinerly
@O. Felix Culpa:
Be careful.
https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/counterfeit-stamps
Mousebumples
@UncleEbeneezer: me too. I’ve sent it to WaterGirl. 😊 We’ll see what she (or other FPers) think.
lowtechcyclist
@Quinerly: Thanks for the heads-up – I was just thinking of buying some!
Like the saying goes, if it seems too good to be true, it usually is.
Quinerly
@lowtechcyclist: I had a friend who bought some I think from this site. Learned the hard way.
https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/foreverstampsshop.com
Manyakitty
@rikyrah: I can’t see the tweet, but I saw Mara Gay defending that garbage this morning and it was just gross from every angle.