Funny, but I remember that a few hours before haaley’s Oscar winning roadrunner performance, he was raising his fist outside the Capitol in support of those who would later become the J6 hostages 🤬
Terms like corruption matter. We must be careful how we define them. I’m so glad to have people like Eric Lipton and Mike Johnson are available to let us know that we can’t believe what we see with our own eyes nor what we hear with our own ears.
The billion dollar flying bordello is not even a masquerading as a gift to The United States, as it won’t be ready for tRump’s use until 2027 or 2028. And then in 2029, with tRump presumably out of office, he gets to jet around the world in it until he dies, and then it will sit in the Trump Library forever, presumably as the perfect Monument To Greed And Excess.
There are many examples of Donny requesting (and often, audibly spelling out) an improper quid pro quo (as he did with Zelenskyy), and as played out publicly with Elon Musk. To think Qatar would “gift” a $400MM plane and expect to receive absolutely nothing in return from a quintessentially greedy, corrupt transactionalist is LUDICROUS
Right on. Speaking of Musk, the media hasn't mentioned his taxpayer-funded presence on the trip. And that video of Musk sitting directly behind MBS with uncomfortably pursed lips and rolling eyes while Trump unctuously gushed and farted out his adoration of him was priceless.
Little Mikey Johnson is a small bag of Louisiana swamp slime and alligator shit. And he knows EXACTLY what corruption is and that he's looking at it--he comes from the state where the Big Easy is located, for crying out loud.
I thought that he was done. "How could anyone survive that politically?" Yet he was reelected. As was Cancun Ted Cruz. MAGATs would vote for a boll weevil if it had an R after its name.
Haven't you ever heard about a yellow dog Democrat? Back in the old days in Texas people used to say. “I'm gonna vote for the Democrats if they nominate a yellow dog.”
1. I guess Running Man Hawley has never played Monopoly. 🙄
2. I get it now. The Orange Fuckwit doesn’t word salad, he speaks in code and you need his gold plated decoder kit to understand it. Only $49.99 on sale!
Bennie told Krusti, Sec. of Inhumane Security, where she's at and what she stands for with her endless costume and makeup changes. In the meantime, Felonious 47 keeps cutting deals like he rips farts in a courtroom. That airplane he received probably has more bugs in it than a RFK Jr's favorite swimming hole. But Donnie keeps on crimin' since these corrupt assholes are paid to look the other way and just don't give two shits.
The last photo I saw of her responding snippily to a democratic lawmaker, I wondered how she could talk with that HUGE lower lip she's sprouted seemingly overnight. My god, that thing has been 'plumped' to a level 'never before seen'. Do these women imagine that's 'sexy' or 'attractive' in a face where it clearly doesn't belong? I ask the men here: do YOU like those fake-azz 'injected/plumped-up' lips? Especially knowing they can't feel anything (imagine trying to drink hot coffee and having it pour down one's 'designer outfit'? (only the 'best' for cecotbarbie). I do and find myself giggling at the thought. Perhaps they serve one purpose: helping them keep their weight in check since they can't get food past that huge 'blockade?
Hi Jeff, just love all the talk about bribing Donald with a golden plane, I’m wondering how Donald will reciprocate. This very subject was brought up Tuesday in “Golf with MAGAS”. While in the middle of the round with the 2 most dedicated red hat folks I was told Donald was making deals in the Middle East, I asked if the new hotel and golf course in Damascus was part of US diplomacy? I could tell they were attempting to get into my head… At lunch MAGAS were so impressed that Donald was receiving this jet as a bribe..I pointed out that the government giving Donald the plane was also major financial backers of Hamas and Hezbolah… silence… then was asked why did our country accept the Statue of Liberty it’s the same.. nope it’s not… any gift to our administration must be voted on by Congress, Statue of Liberty or a elephant tusk gifted to President Lincoln… I stated its spelled out in our Constitution, at that point pulling out my pocket Constitution…. Should I read this to you guys? Silence… welp… that’s all for that day…..Best to All.
When I saw someone reposting loony loomer's RANT against his 'da plane, da plane' I found myself laughing out loud as 'another one bites the dust' played in my head. Might be a bit premature, but...
Fastball's 'doing the Lord's work' - in many areas of this country you simply can't escape the MAGA majority (a 2:1 ratio of MAGA to non-MAGA). Just be your normal self and stick to your principles; they'll at least be aware that their self-selected echo chamber isn't universal. Thanks, Fredo!
I appreciate your support, your analysis is correct, I am unable to escape the MAGA influence in my golf group. I do not attend parties or overnight golf outings..why? MAGAS control themselves to a certain degree on the course, however, once they start drinking alcohol the real bitterness comes out. Better for my psych to avoid these events.
Impressed with your restraint. I'd be very tempted to pull a club out of my golf bag and take some wild swings at some MAGA heads. I've lost any bit of patience I might have had.
I'm quieter about it since I'm basically non-violent (but they shouldn't test me) - and use my voice instead of a golf club to take those 'wild swings' - especially on Instagram where I found myself by accident not so long ago. I've made TONS of magat enemies so have let loose. :)
I carry mine around as well - especially lately. I've read more than one Amendment to my FORMER 'friend' magat neighbour. Her eyes glaze over. 'I told you I don't want to talk politics'! Me: this is the Constitution under which we BOTH live, y'know? How is this 'politics'? (as she disappears into her house, slamming the door). MY copy and the gorgeous flag pin I occasionally (and quite deliberately) wear on my lapel to cause confusion - were given to me when I swore MY Oath as a newly minted American Citizen back in 1987. I took and still take that Oath seriously. Same one everyone takes: to protect and defend...against ALL enemies from without AND WITHIN! I'd put money on every single one of us who took that Oath as a new Citizen MEANT it** as much as our military does, entirely unlike the unfit moron currently occupying our Oval Office who wants to rip apart this Constitution and our Country.
**As I fought back tears taking that Oath, I looked around the room on that rainy Long Island day noticing every. single. person. there of all nationalities and colours ALSO leaking tears and immediately felt better, so let them flow as we all turned to each other with huge smiles and even hugs in our sister and brotherhood. The JOY felt like sunshine. 'I' need to find and feel THAT sunshine again.
Elizabeth, it’s an honor and a privilege to have u comment. I too took the same oath when hired by the feds. for a long career helping my fellow Americans.
In many instances, naturalized citizens like yourself appreciate and cherish what our nation and our Constitution represent more than those of us who were born into it and have nothing to compare our situation to. This is a sad state of affairs. So many Americans feel entitlement rather than gratitude and fidelity to our creed. This renders them susceptible to the divisive, hateful, manipulative rhetoric that has enabled this awful, unsuitable, crooked, ignorant, malevolent, vindictive, demented idiot to grab power. We are glad to have you with us. Too bad more do not share your fealty to our solemn ideals.
Thank you BOTH (Fastball Fredo as well) so much for your comments back - and welcoming me. I do identify as Scots or even a 'Brit' occasionally, but my heart is here: I'm a New Yorker through and through, albeit with a wee bit of an accent I still can't lose. It DOES seem as though more of us 'outsiders' (and military/LEO's of all kinds) are the ones who appreciate what this Country truly does offer AND the promise of that brilliant Statue in our Harbour. Magats are now attacking HER as having been a 'personal gift' to Grover Cleveland who 'willingly accepted it', entirely missing that France gifted her to the newly minted UNITED States of America, not to an individual greedy man. How on earth did these people get through grade school?
Yes, we are happy to have you and your fellow "new" Americans here with us. Too bad the entire MAGA movement, and to an extent the right wing in general, are voraciously anti-knowledge, so they seek to subvert history for their own purposes. This of course is tremendously self serving and a deleterious to our nation. That they gleefully harm our union selfishly says everything about them.
Josh Hawley: “well, listen. I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for.” So if rich people don't need more money why is the GOP stumbling all over themselves to spray tax-breaks all over them?
That statement was an 11. What did anybody hear when it was head or posted? I just don’t get what he was going for. Coins for sale, get your ever so special coins pay cash is accepted at the Oval. Why would he want money, the answer is he never had any for too long at anytime in his life, it was lost so scamming is all he knew to do.
the lifelong conman grifter literally LIVED ON Banks' money for the entirety of his wastrel life once he'd blown his daddy's gift of millions. His daughter thought she was praising him when recounting him pointing to a homeless man and telling HER that the man had more money than they did. She said at the time she shook her head and laughed because it was preposterous. IN fact, for once he was probably telling the truth (only because little vanky was his beeyootiful 11yr old baby girl, y'know). He never actually WORKED. Other people built, HE took the credit and stuck his gaudy name on it. Other people designed, he took the credit. He stiffed EVERY Contractor and small businessman and kept the difference. He BORROWED money from banks and handed out 'some' of it, lived on the rest. It's always been a fucking shell game! Now, thanks to Musk he actually HAS the billions he LIED ABOUT HAVING, so is desperate to hang onto - even if it means moving to Qatar or Saudi Arabia...he surely loves all that gold shit. AND we can't extradite him from there. A win-win in this lifelong conman's toad eyes.
And here again is why the rightwing media human centipede exists, to cover for these clowns and keep the cultists and anyone looking for an excuse to give Republicans a pass justification. So whatever the pricktator is doing will be fine. And there's always the captive justices to put a fine bow on it and just magically conjure some extra special permission slip.
The "official immunity" gift is the best of all. It's a gift for Republican criminal Presidents only.
And of course yet again we see plenty of useless Villagers and social media influencers that also have Congressional seats getting in on the propaganda action. Just like in 2024 they got plenty of clout and clicks playing in our faces, and telling us "oh you're mistaken, everything is going to be okay," and "You're overreacting." It's a winning strategy and of course helps keep the sadopopulism rolling. The electorate really has to upgrade here in the USA.
Josh Hawley is concerned that the tax cuts for the already über wealthy that will be paid for by huge cuts to SNAP and other safety net programs will hurt them in the midterms.
Except the Supreme Aholes declared it's not a bribe if it's a gratuity. So I wonder, What's Donny already done for them? He backed off the Houthis for one.
On "it's only corruption if you hide it"--when I ran for a tiny, stupid, minor office I had to set up all kinds of backstops so I wouldn't know who donated tiny amounts of money to me, because otherwise there would be the appearance of a conflict. Even $20 from a friend from out of state--I just handed that over to the treasurer and ignored it because that's what you do, even if it's never going to come up.
Also, I think trump LIKES to get these bribes out in the open. If not, how will anyone know how feared/beloved he is? It's mind-blowing that he is so damaged that he has to not only get two scoops of ice cream, he has to let the world KNOW he got two scoops, more than anyone else at dinner, because PEOPLE LOVE ME BEST!
Excellent point about financial disclosure -- but keep in mind that Don "out in the open" Trump has never disclosed his tax returns or other financial info.
Ctizens United is all about Dark money going to the right wing 'legitimately' isn't it?? How did Kavanaugh pay off his mortgage? The right wing has HUNDREDS of orgs & think tanks that shuffle money around invisibly....
We all need to remember who owns the media. It is safe to assume that the NYT, WaPo and every other oligarch owned multimedia conglomerate will continue to obfuscate the truth and set records for misleading the public. They are part of the oligarchy machine. Ignore, boycott and never look back. The 4th Estate is nothing but a jumbled mishmash of disinformation.
Correct, Walt. We all need to remember, Judith Miller, Judith Miller, Judith Miller...and I just don't remember the Sixties, but I did read the media, and listen to the media after the Eighties. Before that it was only Scoop Nisker, et al, on KSAN. Remember the judge in the Chicago Eight Trial trying to arrest Bobby Seale's birthday cake?
Well, I believe it was a Friday afternoon, I was in the middle of a mescaline trip (about an hour past the peak), we were lying on the floor about 5:30 listening to KSAN, pretty much the only radio station in SF, and Scoop came on to do the news in his inimitable way (news, clips, relatable music clips) and when he got to the story on the Chicago Eight trial, there was a clip from the trial, the demonstrators came into the courtroom holding the cake up and singing Happy Birthday to Bobby, and Judge Hoffman starting screaming "Arrest that cake!" Pandemonium ensued. The clip cut off and we were left lying on the floor wondering if we had really heard that, if it had really happened, etc. etc. Anyway, it's still one of my stronger memories from the Sixties. Pandemonium is a good word to characterize the Sixties.
Don't laugh, Bob, I was living in Venice, LA, during the Sharon Tate and LaBianca murders. Oops, that was 1968, not 1969. But those years were crammed with action. No real good stories about Altamont, since I kind of grew up on Telegraph Avenue, it didn't surprise me.
No, it was real. When I think back about it, we were celebrating the end of finals (fall quarter.) One week after Altamont. Berkeley, the center of the world in 1969.
The horrible truth of all of this has fallen together with this trip overseas. As Heather Cox Richardson said last night, Trump is not alone. We haven’t seen it in photos but Musk is there, Sam Altman, ChatGP guy is there, all the biggest tech people are there.
This crap about Doge getting rid of fraud and abuse was an excuse to get into our private information and gather it for their AI development. The Saudis want to diversify from oil into AI. We have all been rubes and our private information is gone. This is not just Trump’s greed but also for investment money from the Middle East for AI development.
While our heads have been spinning, we have been taken over by corporate tech, a racist fascist, and a Christian Nationalist heading the OBM, Russel Vought, who practically wrote Project 2025. This is happening FAST.
When I see Josh Hawley run, I start singing, “Brave, brave Sir Hawley!"
“So bravely ran away…
When danger reared up its nasty head,
He bravely turned tail and fled!
How brave was Sir Hawley!”
🤣🤣🤣
Funny, but I remember that a few hours before haaley’s Oscar winning roadrunner performance, he was raising his fist outside the Capitol in support of those who would later become the J6 hostages 🤬
Thanks for knowing the words! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥇🥇🥇🥇
Who gets to unplug his bowels?
When I want some tea, I can open a box of Lipton’s.
When Donny wants to be teabagged, he can call Eric Lipton.
Terms like corruption matter. We must be careful how we define them. I’m so glad to have people like Eric Lipton and Mike Johnson are available to let us know that we can’t believe what we see with our own eyes nor what we hear with our own ears.
Yes. And - Where to begin?
The billion dollar flying bordello is not even a masquerading as a gift to The United States, as it won’t be ready for tRump’s use until 2027 or 2028. And then in 2029, with tRump presumably out of office, he gets to jet around the world in it until he dies, and then it will sit in the Trump Library forever, presumably as the perfect Monument To Greed And Excess.
There are many examples of Donny requesting (and often, audibly spelling out) an improper quid pro quo (as he did with Zelenskyy), and as played out publicly with Elon Musk. To think Qatar would “gift” a $400MM plane and expect to receive absolutely nothing in return from a quintessentially greedy, corrupt transactionalist is LUDICROUS
Right on. Speaking of Musk, the media hasn't mentioned his taxpayer-funded presence on the trip. And that video of Musk sitting directly behind MBS with uncomfortably pursed lips and rolling eyes while Trump unctuously gushed and farted out his adoration of him was priceless.
I noticed Musk didn't look happy!! Poor boy! The grifters keep grifting, and Congress - Repubs and Mike Johnson keep their blinders on.
where can I enjoy that clip?
Here's a link: https://youtu.be/kp9dhMStWlQ?si=urbfCyJRozgqcSbh
The first lesson in Orwell’s
‘1984’ was to not believe what you saw or heard.
Little Mikey Johnson is a small bag of Louisiana swamp slime and alligator shit. And he knows EXACTLY what corruption is and that he's looking at it--he comes from the state where the Big Easy is located, for crying out loud.
I think of They Call him the Streak by Ray Stevens.
Boogity-boogity.
Don't look Ethel! But it was too late.
of course they do . . .
just check his underwear!
True dat Phil, Donny leaves more than just a streak in his diaper though!!
Do we assume Hawley doesn’t answer the keeper of the bridge of deaths questions first?
Blue! No, red! Aaaarghhhh!
we would hope thats how trump would answer the questions 3.
I thought that he was done. "How could anyone survive that politically?" Yet he was reelected. As was Cancun Ted Cruz. MAGATs would vote for a boll weevil if it had an R after its name.
Haven't you ever heard about a yellow dog Democrat? Back in the old days in Texas people used to say. “I'm gonna vote for the Democrats if they nominate a yellow dog.”
"He was quite afraid, you know/To be primed in nasty ways."
Could you possibly post an audio Kathleen?
"Run away, run away!"
1. I guess Running Man Hawley has never played Monopoly. 🙄
2. I get it now. The Orange Fuckwit doesn’t word salad, he speaks in code and you need his gold plated decoder kit to understand it. Only $49.99 on sale!
3. Bennie Thompson for the win.
Pritzker added a comment about hiding your dogs when she was in Illinois.
That was funny and well deserved.
Bennie told Krusti, Sec. of Inhumane Security, where she's at and what she stands for with her endless costume and makeup changes. In the meantime, Felonious 47 keeps cutting deals like he rips farts in a courtroom. That airplane he received probably has more bugs in it than a RFK Jr's favorite swimming hole. But Donnie keeps on crimin' since these corrupt assholes are paid to look the other way and just don't give two shits.
🎯
🎯
Bennie is too much of a gentleman to include all the Botox and lip injections and cheek implants (and that's just above the neck).
The last photo I saw of her responding snippily to a democratic lawmaker, I wondered how she could talk with that HUGE lower lip she's sprouted seemingly overnight. My god, that thing has been 'plumped' to a level 'never before seen'. Do these women imagine that's 'sexy' or 'attractive' in a face where it clearly doesn't belong? I ask the men here: do YOU like those fake-azz 'injected/plumped-up' lips? Especially knowing they can't feel anything (imagine trying to drink hot coffee and having it pour down one's 'designer outfit'? (only the 'best' for cecotbarbie). I do and find myself giggling at the thought. Perhaps they serve one purpose: helping them keep their weight in check since they can't get food past that huge 'blockade?
Maestro level points Kay-EI!!
Lol running man. Nicely done.
I think he named it “the weave.”
Hi Jeff, just love all the talk about bribing Donald with a golden plane, I’m wondering how Donald will reciprocate. This very subject was brought up Tuesday in “Golf with MAGAS”. While in the middle of the round with the 2 most dedicated red hat folks I was told Donald was making deals in the Middle East, I asked if the new hotel and golf course in Damascus was part of US diplomacy? I could tell they were attempting to get into my head… At lunch MAGAS were so impressed that Donald was receiving this jet as a bribe..I pointed out that the government giving Donald the plane was also major financial backers of Hamas and Hezbolah… silence… then was asked why did our country accept the Statue of Liberty it’s the same.. nope it’s not… any gift to our administration must be voted on by Congress, Statue of Liberty or a elephant tusk gifted to President Lincoln… I stated its spelled out in our Constitution, at that point pulling out my pocket Constitution…. Should I read this to you guys? Silence… welp… that’s all for that day…..Best to All.
Tell 'em that even Loony Loomer is against orange crook accepting the plane from Qatar. Of course, she's a vicious anti-Muslim bigot, but still
When I saw someone reposting loony loomer's RANT against his 'da plane, da plane' I found myself laughing out loud as 'another one bites the dust' played in my head. Might be a bit premature, but...
That’s a big ‘wow’😱
wtf is the matter with these doofus idiots you hang out with? They think every thing Donny Two-Dolls does is “good”?
The deal with Syria is obviously illegal;
The Satan Jet from KissMyAss Qatar is illegal; the Mcdonald’s garbage truck
is illegal- man, stop golfing with these
putzes- they just cult figures now-you cant get through to them!
Fastball's 'doing the Lord's work' - in many areas of this country you simply can't escape the MAGA majority (a 2:1 ratio of MAGA to non-MAGA). Just be your normal self and stick to your principles; they'll at least be aware that their self-selected echo chamber isn't universal. Thanks, Fredo!
I appreciate your support, your analysis is correct, I am unable to escape the MAGA influence in my golf group. I do not attend parties or overnight golf outings..why? MAGAS control themselves to a certain degree on the course, however, once they start drinking alcohol the real bitterness comes out. Better for my psych to avoid these events.
Impressed with your restraint. I'd be very tempted to pull a club out of my golf bag and take some wild swings at some MAGA heads. I've lost any bit of patience I might have had.
I'm quieter about it since I'm basically non-violent (but they shouldn't test me) - and use my voice instead of a golf club to take those 'wild swings' - especially on Instagram where I found myself by accident not so long ago. I've made TONS of magat enemies so have let loose. :)
I carry mine around as well - especially lately. I've read more than one Amendment to my FORMER 'friend' magat neighbour. Her eyes glaze over. 'I told you I don't want to talk politics'! Me: this is the Constitution under which we BOTH live, y'know? How is this 'politics'? (as she disappears into her house, slamming the door). MY copy and the gorgeous flag pin I occasionally (and quite deliberately) wear on my lapel to cause confusion - were given to me when I swore MY Oath as a newly minted American Citizen back in 1987. I took and still take that Oath seriously. Same one everyone takes: to protect and defend...against ALL enemies from without AND WITHIN! I'd put money on every single one of us who took that Oath as a new Citizen MEANT it** as much as our military does, entirely unlike the unfit moron currently occupying our Oval Office who wants to rip apart this Constitution and our Country.
**As I fought back tears taking that Oath, I looked around the room on that rainy Long Island day noticing every. single. person. there of all nationalities and colours ALSO leaking tears and immediately felt better, so let them flow as we all turned to each other with huge smiles and even hugs in our sister and brotherhood. The JOY felt like sunshine. 'I' need to find and feel THAT sunshine again.
Elizabeth, it’s an honor and a privilege to have u comment. I too took the same oath when hired by the feds. for a long career helping my fellow Americans.
In many instances, naturalized citizens like yourself appreciate and cherish what our nation and our Constitution represent more than those of us who were born into it and have nothing to compare our situation to. This is a sad state of affairs. So many Americans feel entitlement rather than gratitude and fidelity to our creed. This renders them susceptible to the divisive, hateful, manipulative rhetoric that has enabled this awful, unsuitable, crooked, ignorant, malevolent, vindictive, demented idiot to grab power. We are glad to have you with us. Too bad more do not share your fealty to our solemn ideals.
Thank you BOTH (Fastball Fredo as well) so much for your comments back - and welcoming me. I do identify as Scots or even a 'Brit' occasionally, but my heart is here: I'm a New Yorker through and through, albeit with a wee bit of an accent I still can't lose. It DOES seem as though more of us 'outsiders' (and military/LEO's of all kinds) are the ones who appreciate what this Country truly does offer AND the promise of that brilliant Statue in our Harbour. Magats are now attacking HER as having been a 'personal gift' to Grover Cleveland who 'willingly accepted it', entirely missing that France gifted her to the newly minted UNITED States of America, not to an individual greedy man. How on earth did these people get through grade school?
Yes, we are happy to have you and your fellow "new" Americans here with us. Too bad the entire MAGA movement, and to an extent the right wing in general, are voraciously anti-knowledge, so they seek to subvert history for their own purposes. This of course is tremendously self serving and a deleterious to our nation. That they gleefully harm our union selfishly says everything about them.
Josh Hawley: “well, listen. I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for.” So if rich people don't need more money why is the GOP stumbling all over themselves to spray tax-breaks all over them?
So, based on that statement, you'll be voting 'No' for the Give Tax Breaks to Rich Fuckers Bill there, senator?
That statement was an 11. What did anybody hear when it was head or posted? I just don’t get what he was going for. Coins for sale, get your ever so special coins pay cash is accepted at the Oval. Why would he want money, the answer is he never had any for too long at anytime in his life, it was lost so scamming is all he knew to do.
the lifelong conman grifter literally LIVED ON Banks' money for the entirety of his wastrel life once he'd blown his daddy's gift of millions. His daughter thought she was praising him when recounting him pointing to a homeless man and telling HER that the man had more money than they did. She said at the time she shook her head and laughed because it was preposterous. IN fact, for once he was probably telling the truth (only because little vanky was his beeyootiful 11yr old baby girl, y'know). He never actually WORKED. Other people built, HE took the credit and stuck his gaudy name on it. Other people designed, he took the credit. He stiffed EVERY Contractor and small businessman and kept the difference. He BORROWED money from banks and handed out 'some' of it, lived on the rest. It's always been a fucking shell game! Now, thanks to Musk he actually HAS the billions he LIED ABOUT HAVING, so is desperate to hang onto - even if it means moving to Qatar or Saudi Arabia...he surely loves all that gold shit. AND we can't extradite him from there. A win-win in this lifelong conman's toad eyes.
BINGO!!!
Good point 🤓
And here again is why the rightwing media human centipede exists, to cover for these clowns and keep the cultists and anyone looking for an excuse to give Republicans a pass justification. So whatever the pricktator is doing will be fine. And there's always the captive justices to put a fine bow on it and just magically conjure some extra special permission slip.
The "official immunity" gift is the best of all. It's a gift for Republican criminal Presidents only.
And of course yet again we see plenty of useless Villagers and social media influencers that also have Congressional seats getting in on the propaganda action. Just like in 2024 they got plenty of clout and clicks playing in our faces, and telling us "oh you're mistaken, everything is going to be okay," and "You're overreacting." It's a winning strategy and of course helps keep the sadopopulism rolling. The electorate really has to upgrade here in the USA.
The "official immunity" gift is the gift that keeps on giving because himself keeps on committing outrages.
Love that term "sadopopulism". Sadism is the name of the game. Although I love this word - "sadogreed". Best of both worlds.
And/or the strategically siloed media… 😒
Seth: I missed 'pricktator' my first read-through. That's gold. I'd love to borrow it if you don't mind?
I got it from Stephen Colbert! Pass it around!
Josh Hawley is concerned that the tax cuts for the already über wealthy that will be paid for by huge cuts to SNAP and other safety net programs will hurt them in the midterms.
NOT THAT IT IS MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE!!! 🤮🤮🤮
What the hell is that NYT “reporter” talking about? Quid pro quid corruption?
A bribe is corruption. Don’t sanewash this stuff.
Yah, that Lipton idiot should be fired for such ridiculous bullshit
Except the Supreme Aholes declared it's not a bribe if it's a gratuity. So I wonder, What's Donny already done for them? He backed off the Houthis for one.
I saw a great meme of the plane Orange Hitler's getting from the Terrorist Backers. It was a giant purple plane with Qatar's Bitch on the fuselage.
I think you mean 2001....
On "it's only corruption if you hide it"--when I ran for a tiny, stupid, minor office I had to set up all kinds of backstops so I wouldn't know who donated tiny amounts of money to me, because otherwise there would be the appearance of a conflict. Even $20 from a friend from out of state--I just handed that over to the treasurer and ignored it because that's what you do, even if it's never going to come up.
Also, I think trump LIKES to get these bribes out in the open. If not, how will anyone know how feared/beloved he is? It's mind-blowing that he is so damaged that he has to not only get two scoops of ice cream, he has to let the world KNOW he got two scoops, more than anyone else at dinner, because PEOPLE LOVE ME BEST!
Excellent point about financial disclosure -- but keep in mind that Don "out in the open" Trump has never disclosed his tax returns or other financial info.
Ctizens United is all about Dark money going to the right wing 'legitimately' isn't it?? How did Kavanaugh pay off his mortgage? The right wing has HUNDREDS of orgs & think tanks that shuffle money around invisibly....
You're too ethical to be in elective office
We all need to remember who owns the media. It is safe to assume that the NYT, WaPo and every other oligarch owned multimedia conglomerate will continue to obfuscate the truth and set records for misleading the public. They are part of the oligarchy machine. Ignore, boycott and never look back. The 4th Estate is nothing but a jumbled mishmash of disinformation.
Correct, Walt. We all need to remember, Judith Miller, Judith Miller, Judith Miller...and I just don't remember the Sixties, but I did read the media, and listen to the media after the Eighties. Before that it was only Scoop Nisker, et al, on KSAN. Remember the judge in the Chicago Eight Trial trying to arrest Bobby Seale's birthday cake?
I do not recall that felonious birthday cake, LTBW. But, I bet it’s a good story!
Well, I believe it was a Friday afternoon, I was in the middle of a mescaline trip (about an hour past the peak), we were lying on the floor about 5:30 listening to KSAN, pretty much the only radio station in SF, and Scoop came on to do the news in his inimitable way (news, clips, relatable music clips) and when he got to the story on the Chicago Eight trial, there was a clip from the trial, the demonstrators came into the courtroom holding the cake up and singing Happy Birthday to Bobby, and Judge Hoffman starting screaming "Arrest that cake!" Pandemonium ensued. The clip cut off and we were left lying on the floor wondering if we had really heard that, if it had really happened, etc. etc. Anyway, it's still one of my stronger memories from the Sixties. Pandemonium is a good word to characterize the Sixties.
Crazy as that period was, there was never a movement to elect Charlie Manson as President.
Don't laugh, Bob, I was living in Venice, LA, during the Sharon Tate and LaBianca murders. Oops, that was 1968, not 1969. But those years were crammed with action. No real good stories about Altamont, since I kind of grew up on Telegraph Avenue, it didn't surprise me.
That is one strange trip, LTBW. Must have been the purple mescaline. 😂
No, it was real. When I think back about it, we were celebrating the end of finals (fall quarter.) One week after Altamont. Berkeley, the center of the world in 1969.
Go Bennie!
Bennie Thompson hit a home run!
The horrible truth of all of this has fallen together with this trip overseas. As Heather Cox Richardson said last night, Trump is not alone. We haven’t seen it in photos but Musk is there, Sam Altman, ChatGP guy is there, all the biggest tech people are there.
This crap about Doge getting rid of fraud and abuse was an excuse to get into our private information and gather it for their AI development. The Saudis want to diversify from oil into AI. We have all been rubes and our private information is gone. This is not just Trump’s greed but also for investment money from the Middle East for AI development.
While our heads have been spinning, we have been taken over by corporate tech, a racist fascist, and a Christian Nationalist heading the OBM, Russel Vought, who practically wrote Project 2025. This is happening FAST.
As well, to stop any and all investigations into Musk and his people.
His sons and son-in-law are there too! Grifters gonna grift.
I saw Musk there.
Corruption isn't Corruption unless it comes from the Corrupt region of France.... otherwise it's just Sparkling Unethicality.
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When is that aneurysm in his head going to explode like a steam rolled ketchup pack?
Johnson ----holy porn watch wearing fundamentalist shitstain.