Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Come on, man.

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

The willow is too close to the house.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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Supreme Court denies Trump’s request to block his hush money sentencing Friday

The U.S. Supreme Court has narrowly denied Donald Trump’s request to delay his criminal hush money sentencing, Friday in New York.

Trump’s last hope to halt Friday’s sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case had rested with U.S. Supreme Court, after the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, on Thursday denied his request to block the sentencing.

Trump on Wednesday launched an eleventh-hour request to New York’s highest court to pause the hush money case, on the same day that he also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block his sentencing.

In a brief filed to the Supreme Court late Thursday, Trump’s lawyers reiterated their position that Trump is entitled to immunity as president-elect.

You get three guesses as to who the 4 justices are, and the first two don’t count.

I predict a tantrum from the soon to be president, and I don’t care.  I would not mind seeing someone punch any of Trump’s attorneys in their smug little faces.

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    1. 1.

      KatKapCC

      I knew without a doubt Thomas and Alito would be on his side, and probably Kavanaugh. Guess I thought maybe Gorsuch had a shred of sense in him that he doesn’t. But still, glad that two of the wingnuts decided not to completely suck today.

      Reply
    6. 6.

      NotMax

      Open thread? FYI.

      How to delete your Facebook account.

      A multi-step procedure. Take special notice:

      Meta notes that it delays termination for a few days after the request has gone through. The deletion will be canceled if you log back in during that period. So don’t sign on, or you’ll be forced to start the process over again.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      WaterGirl

      As for celebrating victories, it’s my firm belief that if we would be unhappy, upset, or outraged if something went the other way away, that we need to be equally relieved and jubilant if that thing goes our way.

      Otherwise, we are just setting ourselves up for apathy and despair.

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    9. 9.

      Lyrebird

      @Baud: YES, love the title, WG!

      And good to have a bit of good news.

      ETA:  also YES!!!

      @WaterGirl:

      As for celebrating victories, it’s my firm belief that if we would be unhappy, upset, or outraged if something went the other way away, that we need to be equally relieved and jubilant if that thing goes our way.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      WaterGirl

      @Raoul Paste:

      I think you can count on that tantrum.

      I’ll be happy just assuming that it will be there.  I would hate to interrupt throwing sand in the gears of their efforts to do bad shit just to watch a pathetic man make a spectacle of himself.

      Reply
    15. 15.

      David T Rickard

      Don’t Roberts and Barrett remember that they granted the President the right to have his enemies assassinated?

      Reply
    16. 16.

      sixthdoctor

      (Merchan stares at Trump in courtroom)

      ”Ah, fuck it. Twenty years. You figure it out.”

      (flips bird and walks out)

      Reply
    17. 17.

      WaterGirl

      @David T Rickard:

      They may come to regret that decision.

      But what this court giveth, it can also take away.  I mean, once you don’t need standing to get a case before the Supreme Court, they can take anything up any time they want.

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    18. 18.

      cmorenc

      My guess who the two RW justices who voted against staying the sentencing:

      – Barrett

      – Roberts, because as indicated by his admonition to Trump against defiance of court orders might, just might, be having a few second thoughts about the amount of leeway and support their pre-elections gave to Trump.  Like the big corporate business community Roberts is largely in tune with, he didn’t believe Trump would really be as crazy and unhinged as he is turning out to be .  Roberts is a Federalist RW ideologue, not MAGA, and while both are repulsive to progressives, they are not the same.

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    20. 20.

      Ruckus

      @NotMax:

      Did mine years ago. Seemed like it was getting to be an absolute waste of time.

      Haven’t missed it one bit. Not even one teeny tiny bit.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      NotMax

      @WaterGirl

      Nuthin’ happy about it. It’s a somber happening, one we can rightly appreciate and applaud as an application of justice but not dance for joy over.

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    23. 23.

      waspuppet

      @sixthdoctor: No, really. Donald Trump knew he was on trial while he was running for president. If he can’t do the job of president because of his 34 felony convictions, he can resign.

      Yeah, I know, I know. But seriously, sometimes I have to point these things out because after a certain point, going “LOL nothing matters” is a form of obeying in advance.

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    24. 24.

      scav

      @cmorenc: Roberts keeping his powder dry for the real wing-dings coming down the pipes — and His Once and Future Orangeness having to cope with being a lame duck and expendable even before he takes office.  Sounds entirely plausible.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      SiubhanDuinne

      @sixthdoctor:

      (Merchan stares at Trump in courtroom)

      ”Ah, fuck it. Twenty years. You figure it out.”

      (flips bird and walks out)

      “Oh please, oh please, oh please” — Cat Fud Dog

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    26. 26.

      TBone

      Spocko said:

      Today, 1-9-2025, Rudy said he is too sick to travel to New York for an in person contempt hearing on Jan 16th. So the judge said, “Well if you are that sick, you can’t travel to the Inauguration either…” Then he said, “Well I’m not THAT sick, but also Iran is trying to kill me…” As of today, he will be at the contempt hearing in NY on Jan, 16, 2025.but I expect more shenanigans between now and then.

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    29. 29.

      Kirk

      I think I want to share a nightmare that’s at least adjacent to this thread in the hopes it can be dismissed.

      In that nightmare, Trump decided that to win more of his cases he will expand the supreme court. 11 seats, maybe 13. Doesn’t matter, it’s only necessary enough are added that it makes the occasional objections of Roberts, Barret, and Kavenaugh (2 of three at a time) immaterial.

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    30. 30.

      Geminid

      @TBone: Rudy needs to hire George Santos to protect him. Those Persians know they can’t get past Santos. They’ve tried before and failed.

      They call him “The Fox.”

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Jackie

      @WaterGirl: Here’s a hint from The Times:

      New York Times: “The court’s show of independence in the New York case — less than two weeks before the inauguration — capped the former and future president’s frenzied campaign to stave off the embarrassing spectacle of a sentencing. After months of delay, the sentencing will now formalize Mr. Trump’s conviction, cementing his status as the first felon to occupy the Oval Office.”

      I didn’t click the link – it’s paywalled, anyway, but I did enjoy the tease ;D

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Chacal Charles Calthrop

      This would actually have been a big deal as a legal matter had Trump gotten his way.

      To the extent we still have a federal system, a state court sits as the highest and best authority as to that state’s law.  Trump’s criminal conviction was matter of state law.  If a Federal court — any Federal court — was in position to overrule state criminal law, every single criminal case could be appealed into the Federal system — and if it could be, it would be.

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    34. 34.

      Jackie

      @NotMax:

      but not dance for joy over.

      Too late!  I’ll take joyful dancing whenever possible the next four years! I assume there won’t be many opportunities.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      Another Scott

      Meanwhile, over in the House…

      Fritschner:

      Aaron Fritschner@Fritschner

      14m

      Republicans’ timeline for passing a budget resolution to set up reconciliation as described by Mike Johnson six days ago, four days ago, and today: [ WARNING – Politico ] politico.com/news/2025/01/09…

      [ 3 screen captures ]

      Jan 10, 2025 · 12:58 AM UTC

      Yes, Early January!  I mean Early February!  Of course I said the End of February!  You need to listen better…

      🤡

      Best wishes,
      Scott.

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    37. 37.

      lowtechcyclist

      @Jackie: ​
       
      From your quote:

      After months of delay, the sentencing will now formalize Mr. Trump’s conviction, cementing his status as the first felon to occupy the Oval Office.”

      The “First Felon” – I think I’ll start referring to him that way.

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    43. 43.

      lowtechcyclist

      @Jackie:

      Too late! I’ll take joyful dancing whenever possible the next four years! I assume there won’t be many opportunities.

      If you need a dance partner, I’m dancing too!

      Reply
    46. 46.

      Old School

      In Facebook news:

      It gave the following examples of posts that do not violate its policies:

      Non-violating: “Boys are weird.”
      Non-violating: “Trans people aren’t real. They’re mentally ill.”
      Non-violating: “Gays are not normal.”
      Non-violating: “Women are crazy.”
      Non-violating: “Trans people are freaks.”

      And in a follow-up questions about whether denying that a protected class violates the hateful content policy, Meta also answers no. It gave these as examples of posts that are now allowed on Facebook and Instagram:

      “There’s no such thing as trans children.”
      “God created two genders, ‘transgender’ people are not a real thing.”
      “This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don’t exist, they’re just in need of some therapy.”
      “A trans woman isn’t a woman, it’s a pathetic confused man.”
      “A trans person isn’t a he or she, it’s an it.”

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    49. 49.

      jimmiraybob

      Is it too late for Biden to have him arrested and imprisoned as a national security threat – high crimes and misdemeanors? I understand that Gitmo is still operational.  Or, as I’ve said before, turn Mar a Lago into the official presidential penitentiary.
      You know, as an official Constitutional act?​

      Reply
    51. 51.

      KatKapCC

      @Old School: I want to ask what WON’T be allowed, but I don’t think I want to know just how repugnant and violent it has to get for Meta to say “Gee maybe not that”.

      Reply
    53. 53.

      HeleninEire

      So here is where I am. I am so tired. I am a single person who lives in NYC. I have paid soooo much in taxes. And that’s OK. I truly believe that I should pay for those who can’t. But guess what?? I am done, cuz those idiots don’t get it. I am thinking about becoming one of those assholes who doesn’t know who their Congressional representative is.

      I am 62 years old. I have only so may years left on earth. I just don’t want any more stress

      Reply
    59. 59.

      WaterGirl

      @HeleninEire: I feel you.  It’s exhausting, and disheartening, and disgusting that this creature will be the First Felon of the United States.

      Take a little down time and get your energy back; we need you with us in this fight.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      Sister Golden Bear

      @Old School: I’ll note that the whole “trans people aren’t real, they’re mentally ill confused normal* people” is a major justification for denying trans people healthcare and legal rights, and forcing trans kids into conversion therapy.

      It’ll also be justification for disabusing us of our “delusions” by force, including confining us to mental hospitals for our own good, as well as prohibiting any mention that we exist.

      And why yes, any resemblance to the sorts of things Anita Bryant advocated doing to gays is entirely intentional. LGB folks will be next, they’ve openly talked about it.

      *Because the haters absolutely won’t use cis people.

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    64. 64.

      Sister Golden Bear

      @Sister Golden Bear: Also too, I’ll note that the UK TERFs have also moved into gender policing any woman who doesn’t fit their cramped ideas about what True Womanhood ™ should look like. The vast majority of women who’ve been confronted about being in the “wrong bathroom” were/are cisgender women.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      Bill Arnold

      @Old School:
      I’ve been refraining from commenting on that new Facebook policy, because it is so grotesque.
      This spin is surreal:

      Alex Schultz, the company’s[Facebook’s] chief marketing officer and highest-ranking gay executive, suggested in an internal post that people seeing their queer friends and family members abused on Facebook and Instagram could lead to increased support for LGBTQ rights.

      Reply
    67. 67.

      hitchhiker

      @HeleninEire: I feel ya. The current thing that’s making me want to put my head on my desk is any mention of an election coming up, in which I’ll be asked to donate, write postcards, pay attention.

      Yes, Virginia, I’m looking at you. I’m glad the voters there showed up to make sure their legislature didn’t go bad. I want Spanberger to become their governor.

      But I can’t do the election-enthusiasm thing again right now. If there was voting to do in my state, I’d find the juice for it, I know — but there isn’t, and like you, I’m fucking tired.

      I don’t want to watch the thug act like the thug he is and be proud of it. I don’t want to watch the courts and the voters shrug it all off.

      And I really don’t want to watch them gloat, which is what he was doing today in the National Cathedral. It’s nauseating.

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    70. 70.

      zhena gogolia

      @hitchhiker: I decided I couldn’t watch the funeral because of that.

      But remember — he’s a miserable, shriveled little man whom everyone hates and he knows it.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      HeleninEire

      @hitchhiker: Yeah he was gloating.  And because Obama laughed with him all the right wing assholes said Obama was “kissing the ring”

      Obama was being a gentleman.

      We need to change the entire message. But like I said I am done. I am 14 months away from retirement.  I have a decent amount of $ saved and I have Irish citizenship.

      I am currently caring for my 90 year old dad. When he passes I am probably gone.

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Bill Arnold

      Just looked through a transcript of Mr. Trump’s “Gulf of America” press conference (January 7, 2025, morning).
      This guy will control a large thermonuclear arsenal. (Emphasis mine.)

      I don’t know what it is with electric. This guy loves electric. We’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly, by the way. This guy loves electric. And we don’t have enough electricity. And then we have AI, where we need more, and he wants to get — he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater. Gas heater is much less expensive. The heat is much better. It’s a much better heat. As the expression goes, you don’t itch. Does anybody have a heater where you go and you’re scratching and — that’s what they want you to have. They don’t want you to have gas where you don’t have the problems of the electric.

      Also,

      …Likewise, washing machines — they want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine.
      So when you wash your clothing, you have to wash it four times instead of once. You end up using more water. We’re a party of common sense. And things that I’m telling you now is really all about common sense.

      Also,

      And January 20th, we’ll turn the economy around very quickly, because right now we are — when I think of our economy, I think about inflation. That’s what we have. We have inflation, I believe, at a level that we never had before. There’s never been anything like it.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      oldgold

      I will take the Supreme win, BUT realize it means if Trump asserted the sun rises in the west, he has 4 sure votes.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      hitchhiker

      @Bill Arnold: That’s very standard thug-speak, isn’t it? It will always be shocking to me that anyone with an IQ over 100 can listen to that and come away thinking this person is qualified to hold *any* position that involves critical thinking skills.

      Always. Shocking.

      Reply
    80. 80.

      Ruckus

      @lowtechcyclist:

      It does have a ring to it.

      And he likes being first – so shouldn’t he approve?????

      Yeah and I’d like to find a few million lying around.

      Oh well I’m used to at least a regular slight bit of disappointment……

      Reply
    81. 81.

      Ruckus

      @Baud:

      I’m not so sure they will.

      I mean sure they might like to but he’s down to one and done (which I don’t expect to see him get to the end of, btw)

      And he seems to be aging out rather rapidly – and badly, so he might not make it the full term. Such a shame – that he might last past the first day – or even get that far……

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Kosh III

      He was convicted but walks with no punishment.  Proof again there are two systems of Justice.  Had I been convicted of 1 or 2 felonies, I’d be in jail; when you are rich and powerful you can get away with anything with no consequences.  The judge was a coward who just fucked Lady Justice.  Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

      Reply

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