They seem to have learned the American lesson, " nothing ventured, nothing gained!" As DeSantis learned last election, he intimidated people, prevented Justice Department election watchers from doing their jobs, and did anything happen to him for this? NO IT DID NOT!
He's going nowhere though. He pissed off all the equally evil Florida republicans, shaking them down for huge bribes for his campaign, that proved just how unelectable he was. They'll put up with a bully that is a winner, but not one that is a loser. He's out in '26 termed out, and no one is inclined to extend that, or change the rules so he can run again.
Yes. However Donny has been indicted and convicted, and is awaiting sentencing. Nothing has happened to the members of Congress who participated in January 6. Or DeSantis, who obstructed voting, or Abbott, who illegally is taking over control of immigration at his border.
Once De Santis gets a look at that photo of himself he will finally recognize himself and know who he really is and everyone better take cover and lay low. He’s perfect as the commandant enforcer, nicht?
this communist nonsense has got to stop. If the Democrats don't get a grapple on this fascist behavior then the party of democracy will have no meaning. The main problem is that these thugs don't look at their despicable behavior as fascism...they think they can do whatever they want because, you know, it's a white country or something....its so disgusting and frustrating that nothing is in place to punish these out of control criminals
James, we do have laws against many of the things these dolts do but they aren’t being applied! If there is such a worry about MAGA violence, call out the National Guard, guns drawn, and have them greet the seditionists the correct way this time!
It's always been fairly hard to get the police to enforce those laws against themselves. And I have a poor opinion of most Internal Affairs offices and officers.
yeah I think most of the national guard are Magas, but they must follow orders... the ones at the top need to grown some brain cells and lead with ration and common sense or nothing will be resolved....it's a real mess
What I'm noticing that's gotten exponentially bad is the idea that the POTUS is the reason everything "sucks" - such as the economy, gas prices, housing prices, etc. - and think the POTUS should be able to fix all that, and when he doesn't he's a sucky POTUS.
They WANT a dictator, who controls prices and gives free IVF and WTF ever's the "help the poor downtrodden working man" issue du jour, just like a "communist" (socialist, derp), so long as it's THEIR dictator.
The founders belief was that governors behaving badly is best resolved by not re-electing them. I know some states can recall their statewide officials. Don't know about Floriduh. The founders never thought that, especially in a large and diverse population, that there would be a de-facto political majority impervious to correction or numb to bad acts.
Abbott, Paxton and Dan Patrick have a tight grapple on the election results...especially for Harris country (Houston). They have been fixing election results for almost 20 years and nothing is being done about it because no one in Texas, other than powerless democrats has an issue with it. it is a real problem that needs to be fixed and the democrats need to clean house.
I live in Florida and fucking DeSatan has ruined the state I grew up in. I'm so glad he got laughed right out of running for President. And I'm still wondering how DonOld got to vote here considering he's a convicted felon. I had to jump through hoops to be able to vote again and this fucker just walks in an votes? DeSatan has people arrested by his Election Police that had already been cleared to vote. I'm so sick of all these fuckers
Isn’t the voter intimidation by Florida and Texas illegal in any way? If it’s the DOJ that has to step in and protect the citizens good luck! I doubt the DOJ and FBI are functioning. This has to stop immediately but who can help?
Yeah, I've been cutting Merrick Garland and Chris Wray a lot of slack in an attempt to remain patient and thoughtful about how long the process takes to charge criminal behavior, and so I howled loudly and profanely to nobody in particular this morning that the assholes who fired on Biden's campaign bus fucking years ago are now just starting to go through the legal process. WTF!!!
Too bad for all of us that the wicked itch mcdonald destroyed Garland's opportunity to serve on the Supreme Court. I always viewed that as far more suitable to his temperament.
Obama picked him because he was conservative enough, in a sane world that he could have been approved. People never seemed to understand Garland was never very liberal.
Exactly, from what I understand Chuck Grassley, who was head of the Senate Judiciary Committee at that time told Obama that he thought Garland would be able to be confirmed. Obama had already skipped over Garland twice. Garland was considered a centrist, and to me and other liberals at the time, the fact that he was a member of the Federalist Society should have been disqualifying. But, I suppose he really thought that Garland would be the only one he could get confirmed. There were those who compared Garland to a Justice Souter-type appointment, which in retrospect would have been a real asset!
I would like to share a very interesting article about Garland and why it took him so long to investigate J6. Things are not always what they seem. You will see why.
Well after reading this, I feel much better about Garland. I wondered if he had been derailed by Barr and I thought that Barr probably left the DOJ in a mess since he was so corrupt. I now wonder how many more of Donny’s enablers are still in the DOJ & FBI. I haven’t trusted Chris Wray since J6 because I felt like he did little to prevent something he knew was going to happen
Bill Barr should be prosecuted for obstructing justice in the Mueller investigation & for ordering Lafayette Park peaceful protestors cleared with flash bangs & teargas
Those Nazi bastards should be under arrest right now for Federal Civil rights violations how dare they do that fascist bullshit in this country! VOTE BLUE !! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I can't help but feel in my gut that Judge Merchan's decision to delay Trump's sentencing on the fraud case until after the election was influenced by the threat of violence against the jurors and himself by Trump's rabble. In any case, Trump may only get hit with another inconsequential fine and zero jail time. Grim.
Sharon, I think Judge Merchan had more than one reason for ruling the way he did. My take: He would rather sentence Trump as a citizen than Trump as a candidate. When Trump loses the election it will help calm everyone down and he can proceed in a less fraught environment. Also the pressure will be off for scheduling Trumps other trials and appeals. Justice can then simply deal with the elderly golfer who has been charged and found guilty of crimes.
yes it is illegal...our DOJ sucks...especially our worthless do-nothing Ag, Merrick garland who to this day, Biden still wont replace or fire....there needs to be some major changes that need to be made by the Harris / Walz administration should they win (and they will) or else these issues will never ever get resolved in meaningful ways...
Just as an explanation: Florida voting law honors the law of the state where the crime was committed and the person/sleazebag was convicted. NY, in all its liberal glory, allows felons to vote if they're not in jail, and Dumpy isn't (unfortunately) in jail. Therefore, he's allowed to vote in Florida. If he were convicted in FL, it would be totally different. (Except that DuhSantis would probably find a loophole for him.)
I'm not criticizing NY state's voting laws regarding felons except in this case, because Dumpy's a Very Special Boy who ought to be in jail.
Yes, it should be front page news, but there is very little "true" journalism left here...it is all about the money and the sensationalism. That is not going to protect our rights or give us a chance to see what is really happening.
Well, we are all going to become completely paranoid by uniforms and intimidation or we are going to continue to stand up and understand our rights, because Constitution. Vote.
I'm going to assume you are white. I am too. But brown people who try to stand up and assert their rights with some white guy in uniform? In Texas or Florida or any red state? You can't vote if you're dead or in prison. Sadly the threat is real. It scares me. This crap will escalate as we approach November.
You are right, it will get worse. So we, as white women, have to stand up even though there are many times I'm scared to death. I keep tweeting on Xitter, and I'm scared to death that if Donnie Dipshit gets in, even though I live in CA, Elmo the Nazi will be able to track me down. I daily talk myself off a ledge!🤯
Are many Floridians actually Floridiots? All the crap that DeSantis has pulled (and this latest might be the worst) and he still won re-election by double digits? WTF Florida?
Both DeSantis and Abbott are nothing but SS-like thugs. The amount of ruthless shit these two Nazi-like assholes continue to get away with is unconscionable. One of the many reasons my wife and I will gladly continue to live on the left coast.
No shit why don’t the asshole traitors just cut the bullshit and re-form the 🔥Nazi American Bundt’s of the30s & 40s ……it’s their obvious goal to 🔥 over throw our Democracy! 🔥🇷🇺Mad Vlad can be their opening speaker and defacto leader !🇷🇺🤯🔥
I think FL is a gathering place for people from all over. Large immigrant population, massive number of retirees, part-time residents, and lots oligarch-types from everywhere with deep pockets who support the worst people. The economy relies on low-income service jobs for Florida tourism and agricultural industries. For as long as I can remember, Florida has elected terrible Governors, and each one is worse than the one before, backed by big money. Jeb Bush, Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis....not just awful for Florida but for the country at large. It has been happening everywhere but Florida is particularly vulnerable because of their varied populations. Just my opinion, but it's something I have thought about since Al Gore got his presidency stolen by Florida. My daughter lives there and she is not an idiot but seems to be surrounded by them.
Yes, lots of South Americans, and midwestern retrires. At one point everyone I met was from Michegan. The wealthy midwesterners retire here, as well as many NY'ers after the Orange Orc made it home, other than the tradition Jewish retirees, to Miami that were so prevalent when I was younger..
We fielded two horrible candidates against DeSatan; the first a coke head closeted gay black Mayor of Tallahassee who approved questionable contracts for an old college chum and the most recent a RepubliCON retread loser who Nobody on either side wanted.
So glad that Herr DeShithead will be term lilmited out next election. Or the fools in this state would Vite him in yet again. Along with Marquito and mega Medicare fraudster Ric Scott as our two Senators then throw in various dingbats such as Congress critters Gaetz and Brian Mast and you begin to wonder if there’s something in the water.
I just realized that Homer Simpson was MAGA before there was MAGA. His brain just can't handle reality. And then Dear Leader came along to tell him he would never have to think again. Sigh of relief!
Hate to get philosophical on you, but I simply think our Fascist manipulators are stirring up tendencies that preexist in human nature. You can amplify ignorance, fear, and hate but the potential was already there.
Agree! But there are also many tried and tested, effective and reliable ways to make people do what you want them to do. The propaganda techniques used to lure people into cults and cult like behavior are based on human behavior, scientific research.
If you haven't watched this latest movie, #UNTRUTH: The psychology of Trumpism, you should watch it and pass it on. It explains all of this. It is streaming on Hulu, you can also rent it on Apple TV , Vudu and YouTube, coming soon to Amazon and Tubi. Here is the link to YouTube. It is $4.99 to rent. It is really good.
Sadly, he still appeals to Floriduh man, but the republican reps. themself, want him out because at this point he is embarrassing. He just tried to make a deal to put hotels ,and golf courses, in 9 of our rural state parks. The map maker they hired was an environmentalist, who leaked the illegal plans, and got fired for it. Fortunately the good, grateful, citizens sent him enough on a GFM that he is going to start his own business. floridaphoenix.com/2024/09/02/desantis-shirks-blame-but-hes-the-problem-in-florida-government/
Let's not forget the fuckery of the new NYT's polls showing the treason weasel leading. The cross tabs show them STILL over sampling republicans, conservatives, and moderates; while under sampling young voters between 18-44 (yes, 44 is still young). Nate Cohn get's a special fuck you from me for trying to dismiss what he calls "lesser value polls," because, you know, the Times is the best and brightest!
Oh dear, Jeff. I knew it was bad but you are bringing me even more horror. While I thank you very much for being so well-informed, I’m now worried sick about friends and relatives in Florida and Texas. We must have a completely blue tidal wave everywhere up and down the ballot in November!
My brother and his husband are debating whether they will need to leave their home in Ft. Lauderdale if the Orange lunatic gets in. They worked really hard, putting in a lot of hours and sweat equity into that place, and they wanted to make it their retirement home. I can’t believe this is happening in America. Will this nightmare ever be over?
“Voter fraud”, the euphemism for “We don’t want you to vote”. Countless investigations have turned up very little fraud and what has been found is usually the GOP.
Wtf is going on in this country - full blown in-front-of-us attempt to go full "agolf shitler" (coined by Jeff in his previous article). I am going to turn my anger into another 100 letters today.
Let me take just a few minutes to explain why I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote for you......
Let me begin by saying that you are a blatant serial liar, you are the ultimate con, you are a fraud, you are a grifter, you are a total bull-shitter, and you are a scumbag. In my humble opinion, you are a racist, a misogynist and a total fucking asshole. And, a Hitler-adoring fascist as well. Almost every time you open your rotten, nasty mouth, you lie about something. You are a totally disgusting person.
And, you are Putin’s Puppet; Putin helped you squeak out a win in 2016, but his attempt to help you get re-elected in 2020, thank God, failed miserably. Putin is trying to get you elected for a second term; he knows that you will hand Ukraine to him on a silver platter and that you will pull the USA out of the NATO Alliance. In my mind, you are a traitor! A god damn fucking traitor!
And, you are a terrible businessperson. Every intelligent person in America knows that had you simply invested in the stock market every penny your KKK- racist father left you, you would, today, be a REAL billionaire many times over. The fact that you are not really a billionaire means that you aren’t a successful businessperson. The only two things that generated whatever wealth you do have today stemmed from two things. The Fake/Fraud/Con Apprentice reality TV show and the hundreds of millions of dollars Putin-directed Russian Oligarchs and Russian Mafia laundered through your condo projects.
Continue to demean women, asswipe. Continue your racist ways, asswipe. You will find out in November that the vast majority of Americans believe, like I do, that you were America’s Presidential Accident and that you are America’s Disgrace.
1100 S Ocean Blvd
Palm Beach, FL 33480
I hope you rot in hell, scumbag. Perhaps today would be a good day for you to go grab some woman by her pussy. Or shoot someone on 5th Avenue. Or call someone the “n-word” like you did during a planning session for an Apprentice episode. Or reflect on your memories of playing with your former buddy pedophile sex-abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Or invite a fellow racist and a fellow anti- Semite over for drinks and dinner. Or, join a march with your torch-carrying “fine-people” Neo-Nazi’s. Or, work on our next rambling, idiotic, nonsensical, hate-filled, divisive, dumbass rally speech. (I do enjoy listening to you make a fool out of yourself.)
It pisses me off that newspapers and news websites, all across America, don’t have the balls to call you out for the blatant liar you are. The title of the article: “Donald J Trump is a Liar, a Con and a Fraud”. You put up a post on TruthSocial that said, “I know nothing about Project 2025”. You fucking liar. After you said that, someone posted, in the Internet, a photo of you sitting next to Scum, Piece-of-Shit, Fascist Kevin Roberts (President of the Heritage Foundation) on a private jet on your way with Roberts to a Heritage Foundation conference, and you were a speaker at that conference. “Trump told the audience that the Heritage Foundation was ‘going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly whatourmovementwilldo.’" Yougoddamnfuckingliar.
Unfortunately for you (but, fortunately for Americans) your next “term” will be a prison term. I’ve reached out to Honorable Judge Juan Merchan to ask him to start your prison sentence on President Kamala Harris’ Inauguration Day!
Disrespectfully yours,
Joel
p.s., for intelligence/intellectually-challenged MAGAts (rhymes with maggots), President Kamala Harris’ first name is pronounced “, LA”. That said, you can address Kamala Harris as “MADAM PRESIDENT”!
p.p.s, the size of the crowd that gathers to cheer your entry into prison will most definitely be one of the largest crowds ever on Planet Earth!
The crowd that gathers to witness (and cheer) Fraud Trump's perp-walk into prison will be a LOT larger than the crowd that witnessed Trump's Jan 2017 inauguration.
I’m surprised Jeff left off our old pal Kev at the Heritage Foundation warning us all there doesn’t HAVE to be bloodshed when they activate the Project 2025 robo dogs or whatever fuckery they’ve imagined in their fear-centered brains.
As for me, I got a tattoo of Bernie (and for the gazillionth time I voted for Hilary & Joe so spare me the alt left lecture) back in ‘22 because I want it to be crystal clear which side I’m on. ✌🏼
Folks, I live in FL & I’m confirming this state is Project 2025 in action. DeSantis succeeded in adding an amendment to the lawfully obtained abortion ballot, stating that it would cost the state money if it passed, and there would be fewer live births. He has sent his taxpayer funded gestapo, first to deny former nonviolent felons their right to vote, despite the law passing they could do so years ago in the state. Now he is intimidating people who signed the petition to get abortion on the ballot. And he is using taxpayer money for his Nazi tactics.
Rest assured, if the abortion bill passes with a supermajority of 60%, he will do everything in his power to overturn the will of the people, just like he will do with the recreational marijuana petition that is lawfully on the ballot.
As an aside, I was at my very liberal Unitarian Universalist service yesterday, where the topic was abortion. We received credible threats of a protest and some violent threats. This necessitated the church hiring a police officer during the service, & let me tell you that police officer did not look too friendly to the Liberal people attending.
If you have friends living in Florida, please employ them to register to vote Democrat. We need to get rid of Rick Scott, as he has machinations to replace turtle McConnell!
I am sorry that you have boots-are-made-for-walking-and-stomping-people-to-submission-little man as your governor. When is his sorry ass up for reelection, gawwwd forbid??
He’s supposedly out Nov. 2026. It’s his 2nd miserable term so he can’t run again. But who knows? If we become a fascist country in November he may just dig his go go boots in & never leave.
He's too greedy, all the republicans (who will speak off the record) say they want him out. They put up with his greedy-bloodsucking ways when they thought the rest of America was as stupid and venal as they are. But once it became clear nobody would vote for him because of his weirdness, they want to oust him, so more of them can get their nose in the public trough.
This BS is becoming so tiresome, full stop.. It is the very definition of an authoritarian state, harassment of citizens doing their civic duty, harassment of citizens who vote, harassment of citizens who are opposed to MAGA and everything it stands for… I am tired, so very tired of this attack on our democracy for the last 10 years..
Somewhere in olden times — like, early in the Biden administration — states like Texas got sued for violating people’s civil rights, including their voting rights. The person in charge of that is long gone, and apparently Fed Soc-adjacent or -curious (not sure which doing multiple workshops and speeches qualifies him to be) Garland hasn’t seen a need to replace her. Or maybe he found someone as scared of appearing political as he seems to be.
When I took my Citizenship exam in 1967, thhe Examiner asked if " I ever took part in the HITLER JUGEND. I was aghast .I wanted to slap him in the face. My Country of Birth is not Germany . My area was taken over and occupied by the Nazis. They marched up & down the streets, threw people into the River. I remember my parents being very afraid. No one left thhe house. We got bombed on in addition to the NAZI PRESENCE. That question from that man still ring in my head.
When I see FASCHISM REARING ITS UGLY HEAD..I SHUDDER. IT MUST BE DEFEATED
Biden has a propensity for tremendous misjudgement (see Clarence Thomas 1991) but Garland, IMHO, has been the worst choice & one who has damaged our republic forever.
Rhonda's nothing if not consistent in his small-minded, petty, vindictive, teeny-tiny-dick syndrome. The neo-NAZI party has only one way of winning - choose their voters. You know, angry white guys. And yeah fuck them. Long and hard. And these dipshit stories -"MAGA voter unhappy with Harris' stance on..." - yeah no shit Sherlock. Pulitzer in your future:-) And don't get me started on the polls.
tRump uses Meatball Ron like a tool, treats him like shit and expects him to perform like a trained monkey.
The Triumvirate of Evil in Texas - Paxton, Abbott and Cruz - have successfully prevented any type of help for working Texans for almost a decade. <sigh>
Brown shirts. Plainclothes. Fucking governors actively fascisting as if somehow the world they live in permits this kind of crap. Too angry to write.
They seem to have learned the American lesson, " nothing ventured, nothing gained!" As DeSantis learned last election, he intimidated people, prevented Justice Department election watchers from doing their jobs, and did anything happen to him for this? NO IT DID NOT!
He's going nowhere though. He pissed off all the equally evil Florida republicans, shaking them down for huge bribes for his campaign, that proved just how unelectable he was. They'll put up with a bully that is a winner, but not one that is a loser. He's out in '26 termed out, and no one is inclined to extend that, or change the rules so he can run again.
Don't count on the term limits. He'll pull the same shit on his fellow Republicans.
Wouldn’t be surprised at all.
They are watching how nothing has happened to Donny & figure, “ why not”?
Yes. However Donny has been indicted and convicted, and is awaiting sentencing. Nothing has happened to the members of Congress who participated in January 6. Or DeSantis, who obstructed voting, or Abbott, who illegally is taking over control of immigration at his border.
Nothing has happened to Donny yet either. Conviction isn’t prison
True dat Linda!!
and don't forget unmarked vans that Portland protestors were corralled into and whisked away by unnamed federal 'security forces' in camo gear in 2020
In my State! That was scary times for protestors.
tRump's goons. I saw them too
Bill Barr’s goons
And the unbadged goons in/around Lafayette Square. Posted by Star Trek's Brent Spiner, with the comment "who are these people?"
Ah, the good old *shrug* days.
Apparently it is permitted here in FloriDuh. At least I have not read of any repercussions from this hamhanded intimidation attempt.
I’m wondering how long before DeShithead starts issuing jackboots for his petition checkers.
This is what happens when you vote RepubliCONS into office. As they have done for the last 30 years here
Once De Santis gets a look at that photo of himself he will finally recognize himself and know who he really is and everyone better take cover and lay low. He’s perfect as the commandant enforcer, nicht?
How long? Not long!
Is the ACLU on vacation?
Definitely not. Just very busy.
apparent-lee
Too many crimes at address at one time
this communist nonsense has got to stop. If the Democrats don't get a grapple on this fascist behavior then the party of democracy will have no meaning. The main problem is that these thugs don't look at their despicable behavior as fascism...they think they can do whatever they want because, you know, it's a white country or something....its so disgusting and frustrating that nothing is in place to punish these out of control criminals
James, we do have laws against many of the things these dolts do but they aren’t being applied! If there is such a worry about MAGA violence, call out the National Guard, guns drawn, and have them greet the seditionists the correct way this time!
It's always been fairly hard to get the police to enforce those laws against themselves. And I have a poor opinion of most Internal Affairs offices and officers.
yeah I think most of the national guard are Magas, but they must follow orders... the ones at the top need to grown some brain cells and lead with ration and common sense or nothing will be resolved....it's a real mess
What I'm noticing that's gotten exponentially bad is the idea that the POTUS is the reason everything "sucks" - such as the economy, gas prices, housing prices, etc. - and think the POTUS should be able to fix all that, and when he doesn't he's a sucky POTUS.
They WANT a dictator, who controls prices and gives free IVF and WTF ever's the "help the poor downtrodden working man" issue du jour, just like a "communist" (socialist, derp), so long as it's THEIR dictator.
The founders belief was that governors behaving badly is best resolved by not re-electing them. I know some states can recall their statewide officials. Don't know about Floriduh. The founders never thought that, especially in a large and diverse population, that there would be a de-facto political majority impervious to correction or numb to bad acts.
Abbott, Paxton and Dan Patrick have a tight grapple on the election results...especially for Harris country (Houston). They have been fixing election results for almost 20 years and nothing is being done about it because no one in Texas, other than powerless democrats has an issue with it. it is a real problem that needs to be fixed and the democrats need to clean house.
Texans seem to want fascism as they have reelected Abbott & the felon, Paxton. It’s sad. They could have had so much better
Virtual hug, Neal. I’ve Bern having a moment this past weekend. I’m angry too.
I live in Florida and fucking DeSatan has ruined the state I grew up in. I'm so glad he got laughed right out of running for President. And I'm still wondering how DonOld got to vote here considering he's a convicted felon. I had to jump through hoops to be able to vote again and this fucker just walks in an votes? DeSatan has people arrested by his Election Police that had already been cleared to vote. I'm so sick of all these fuckers
Isn’t the voter intimidation by Florida and Texas illegal in any way? If it’s the DOJ that has to step in and protect the citizens good luck! I doubt the DOJ and FBI are functioning. This has to stop immediately but who can help?
Garland is a failure. So is Wray. I hope Harris dismisses both on Day One.
Yeah, I've been cutting Merrick Garland and Chris Wray a lot of slack in an attempt to remain patient and thoughtful about how long the process takes to charge criminal behavior, and so I howled loudly and profanely to nobody in particular this morning that the assholes who fired on Biden's campaign bus fucking years ago are now just starting to go through the legal process. WTF!!!
Too bad for all of us that the wicked itch mcdonald destroyed Garland's opportunity to serve on the Supreme Court. I always viewed that as far more suitable to his temperament.
Obama picked him because he was conservative enough, in a sane world that he could have been approved. People never seemed to understand Garland was never very liberal.
Exactly, from what I understand Chuck Grassley, who was head of the Senate Judiciary Committee at that time told Obama that he thought Garland would be able to be confirmed. Obama had already skipped over Garland twice. Garland was considered a centrist, and to me and other liberals at the time, the fact that he was a member of the Federalist Society should have been disqualifying. But, I suppose he really thought that Garland would be the only one he could get confirmed. There were those who compared Garland to a Justice Souter-type appointment, which in retrospect would have been a real asset!
He apparently has ties to the federalist society. Enough said.
Sorry, they weren't fired up on, just attempts made to run them off the road and terrorize them by many Trump psychos.
I would like to share a very interesting article about Garland and why it took him so long to investigate J6. Things are not always what they seem. You will see why.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-facts-about-merrick-garland?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Well after reading this, I feel much better about Garland. I wondered if he had been derailed by Barr and I thought that Barr probably left the DOJ in a mess since he was so corrupt. I now wonder how many more of Donny’s enablers are still in the DOJ & FBI. I haven’t trusted Chris Wray since J6 because I felt like he did little to prevent something he knew was going to happen
Bill Barr should be prosecuted for obstructing justice in the Mueller investigation & for ordering Lafayette Park peaceful protestors cleared with flash bangs & teargas
Marlene, thanks for this link...
Thank you so much for this information. Most is new to me. I really appreciate it!
Hear hear! No more timid fucks afraid to look partisan. Garland may have made a good SC justice, but man... get with the times my dude. DO SOMETHING.
Ditto, can’t understand why Biden didn’t!
Those Nazi bastards should be under arrest right now for Federal Civil rights violations how dare they do that fascist bullshit in this country! VOTE BLUE !! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I can't help but feel in my gut that Judge Merchan's decision to delay Trump's sentencing on the fraud case until after the election was influenced by the threat of violence against the jurors and himself by Trump's rabble. In any case, Trump may only get hit with another inconsequential fine and zero jail time. Grim.
Sharon, I think Judge Merchan had more than one reason for ruling the way he did. My take: He would rather sentence Trump as a citizen than Trump as a candidate. When Trump loses the election it will help calm everyone down and he can proceed in a less fraught environment. Also the pressure will be off for scheduling Trumps other trials and appeals. Justice can then simply deal with the elderly golfer who has been charged and found guilty of crimes.
yes it is illegal...our DOJ sucks...especially our worthless do-nothing Ag, Merrick garland who to this day, Biden still wont replace or fire....there needs to be some major changes that need to be made by the Harris / Walz administration should they win (and they will) or else these issues will never ever get resolved in meaningful ways...
We the PEOPLE. WHAT IS LEFT?
I’ve got a crowbar and a bull horn. It’s what I plan to fight back with because I’m not a gun owner and I never will be.
I am in!!
When has something being against the law stopped these extremists?
Didn’t SCOTUS rule against Abbott about the barbed wire, etc on federal waterways? Did it stop him?
What has Garland done to stop Abbott? Has he indicted him?
Breaking the law and skating away without accountability is common place for today’s Republicans.
They are desperate and dangerous.
No, they see there are no consequences
Just as an explanation: Florida voting law honors the law of the state where the crime was committed and the person/sleazebag was convicted. NY, in all its liberal glory, allows felons to vote if they're not in jail, and Dumpy isn't (unfortunately) in jail. Therefore, he's allowed to vote in Florida. If he were convicted in FL, it would be totally different. (Except that DuhSantis would probably find a loophole for him.)
I'm not criticizing NY state's voting laws regarding felons except in this case, because Dumpy's a Very Special Boy who ought to be in jail.
I’m in Florida too I feel what you’re saying, by the way can a convicted felon vote???
As long as you've successfully completed probation and paid all of your costs in full
IIRC, if the conviction is in another state (New York in this case) Florida has no problem with those convicts voting in Florida.
Might want to d/c that; Florida is not my State.
Also there's some language about having been sentenced or not yet sentenced making a difference (?)
This pisses me off to no end, especially the elderly Mexican American woman who was harassed. This should be front page news every damn day
Yes, it should be front page news, but there is very little "true" journalism left here...it is all about the money and the sensationalism. That is not going to protect our rights or give us a chance to see what is really happening.
Always follow the money
It really should be but WaPo,and the gray lady, are too busy trying to make the Orange douche sound sane.
The only place I even read about it was on Xitter, and Elmo the Nazi managed to quell the uproar pretty quickly...at least wherever I was looking!🤬
Well, we are all going to become completely paranoid by uniforms and intimidation or we are going to continue to stand up and understand our rights, because Constitution. Vote.
I'm going to assume you are white. I am too. But brown people who try to stand up and assert their rights with some white guy in uniform? In Texas or Florida or any red state? You can't vote if you're dead or in prison. Sadly the threat is real. It scares me. This crap will escalate as we approach November.
I understand your point. Many of us are guilty of remaining silent and polite in our whiteness comfort.
Not me, dammit.
That's a good way to put it: "our Whiteness comfort." I'll remember that.
The brown person who stands up for their rights is shot.
You are right, it will get worse. So we, as white women, have to stand up even though there are many times I'm scared to death. I keep tweeting on Xitter, and I'm scared to death that if Donnie Dipshit gets in, even though I live in CA, Elmo the Nazi will be able to track me down. I daily talk myself off a ledge!🤯
Yes, they will arrest them, and keep them in jail, until they lose their jobs.
This crap will continue as long as there are NO CONSEQUENCES
Yup, like there's no tomorrow!
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Are many Floridians actually Floridiots? All the crap that DeSantis has pulled (and this latest might be the worst) and he still won re-election by double digits? WTF Florida?
Both DeSantis and Abbott are nothing but SS-like thugs. The amount of ruthless shit these two Nazi-like assholes continue to get away with is unconscionable. One of the many reasons my wife and I will gladly continue to live on the left coast.
No shit why don’t the asshole traitors just cut the bullshit and re-form the 🔥Nazi American Bundt’s of the30s & 40s ……it’s their obvious goal to 🔥 over throw our Democracy! 🔥🇷🇺Mad Vlad can be their opening speaker and defacto leader !🇷🇺🤯🔥
In some ways, they already have and it's scary as hell.
I think FL is a gathering place for people from all over. Large immigrant population, massive number of retirees, part-time residents, and lots oligarch-types from everywhere with deep pockets who support the worst people. The economy relies on low-income service jobs for Florida tourism and agricultural industries. For as long as I can remember, Florida has elected terrible Governors, and each one is worse than the one before, backed by big money. Jeb Bush, Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis....not just awful for Florida but for the country at large. It has been happening everywhere but Florida is particularly vulnerable because of their varied populations. Just my opinion, but it's something I have thought about since Al Gore got his presidency stolen by Florida. My daughter lives there and she is not an idiot but seems to be surrounded by them.
Yes, lots of South Americans, and midwestern retrires. At one point everyone I met was from Michegan. The wealthy midwesterners retire here, as well as many NY'ers after the Orange Orc made it home, other than the tradition Jewish retirees, to Miami that were so prevalent when I was younger..
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We fielded two horrible candidates against DeSatan; the first a coke head closeted gay black Mayor of Tallahassee who approved questionable contracts for an old college chum and the most recent a RepubliCON retread loser who Nobody on either side wanted.
So glad that Herr DeShithead will be term lilmited out next election. Or the fools in this state would Vite him in yet again. Along with Marquito and mega Medicare fraudster Ric Scott as our two Senators then throw in various dingbats such as Congress critters Gaetz and Brian Mast and you begin to wonder if there’s something in the water.
Actually, it was meth
I think they inhabit the left side of the information curve.
I just realized that Homer Simpson was MAGA before there was MAGA. His brain just can't handle reality. And then Dear Leader came along to tell him he would never have to think again. Sigh of relief!
What they don’t realize is that they’ve been scientifically engineered to be ignorant, fearful, hateful. Bad news all the way around.
Hate to get philosophical on you, but I simply think our Fascist manipulators are stirring up tendencies that preexist in human nature. You can amplify ignorance, fear, and hate but the potential was already there.
Agree! But there are also many tried and tested, effective and reliable ways to make people do what you want them to do. The propaganda techniques used to lure people into cults and cult like behavior are based on human behavior, scientific research.
If you haven't watched this latest movie, #UNTRUTH: The psychology of Trumpism, you should watch it and pass it on. It explains all of this. It is streaming on Hulu, you can also rent it on Apple TV , Vudu and YouTube, coming soon to Amazon and Tubi. Here is the link to YouTube. It is $4.99 to rent. It is really good.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=%23Untruth%3A+The+rise+of+trumpis+
A great caricature, like Archie Bunker
But better.
Haha, ya mean the low side. Yah-hah.
Sadly, he still appeals to Floriduh man, but the republican reps. themself, want him out because at this point he is embarrassing. He just tried to make a deal to put hotels ,and golf courses, in 9 of our rural state parks. The map maker they hired was an environmentalist, who leaked the illegal plans, and got fired for it. Fortunately the good, grateful, citizens sent him enough on a GFM that he is going to start his own business. floridaphoenix.com/2024/09/02/desantis-shirks-blame-but-hes-the-problem-in-florida-government/
Lots of geriatric senile northern carpet baggers poisoning the voting pool !?AKA SNOWTURDS !😉
Let's not forget the fuckery of the new NYT's polls showing the treason weasel leading. The cross tabs show them STILL over sampling republicans, conservatives, and moderates; while under sampling young voters between 18-44 (yes, 44 is still young). Nate Cohn get's a special fuck you from me for trying to dismiss what he calls "lesser value polls," because, you know, the Times is the best and brightest!
Treason Weasel 😂
Nate got fired from his own site, when Disney did not renew his contract.
Welcome to the New GOP/Fourth Reich
Oh dear, Jeff. I knew it was bad but you are bringing me even more horror. While I thank you very much for being so well-informed, I’m now worried sick about friends and relatives in Florida and Texas. We must have a completely blue tidal wave everywhere up and down the ballot in November!
don't despair! these people can all be defeated
Thank you, Jeff.💙
Please have them check their voter registration. And keep checking every week.
My brother and his husband are debating whether they will need to leave their home in Ft. Lauderdale if the Orange lunatic gets in. They worked really hard, putting in a lot of hours and sweat equity into that place, and they wanted to make it their retirement home. I can’t believe this is happening in America. Will this nightmare ever be over?
“Voter fraud”, the euphemism for “We don’t want you to vote”. Countless investigations have turned up very little fraud and what has been found is usually the GOP.
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Shocking! (Not) lol!
Wtf is going on in this country - full blown in-front-of-us attempt to go full "agolf shitler" (coined by Jeff in his previous article). I am going to turn my anger into another 100 letters today.
I sent this as a 30” x 96” poster to Trump
Feel free to use it for YOUR letter to Trump
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August 17, 2024 Donald J Trump
Mar-A-Lago
Dear Piece-of-Shit Donald,
Let me take just a few minutes to explain why I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote for you......
Let me begin by saying that you are a blatant serial liar, you are the ultimate con, you are a fraud, you are a grifter, you are a total bull-shitter, and you are a scumbag. In my humble opinion, you are a racist, a misogynist and a total fucking asshole. And, a Hitler-adoring fascist as well. Almost every time you open your rotten, nasty mouth, you lie about something. You are a totally disgusting person.
And, you are Putin’s Puppet; Putin helped you squeak out a win in 2016, but his attempt to help you get re-elected in 2020, thank God, failed miserably. Putin is trying to get you elected for a second term; he knows that you will hand Ukraine to him on a silver platter and that you will pull the USA out of the NATO Alliance. In my mind, you are a traitor! A god damn fucking traitor!
And, you are a terrible businessperson. Every intelligent person in America knows that had you simply invested in the stock market every penny your KKK- racist father left you, you would, today, be a REAL billionaire many times over. The fact that you are not really a billionaire means that you aren’t a successful businessperson. The only two things that generated whatever wealth you do have today stemmed from two things. The Fake/Fraud/Con Apprentice reality TV show and the hundreds of millions of dollars Putin-directed Russian Oligarchs and Russian Mafia laundered through your condo projects.
Continue to demean women, asswipe. Continue your racist ways, asswipe. You will find out in November that the vast majority of Americans believe, like I do, that you were America’s Presidential Accident and that you are America’s Disgrace.
1100 S Ocean Blvd
Palm Beach, FL 33480
I hope you rot in hell, scumbag. Perhaps today would be a good day for you to go grab some woman by her pussy. Or shoot someone on 5th Avenue. Or call someone the “n-word” like you did during a planning session for an Apprentice episode. Or reflect on your memories of playing with your former buddy pedophile sex-abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Or invite a fellow racist and a fellow anti- Semite over for drinks and dinner. Or, join a march with your torch-carrying “fine-people” Neo-Nazi’s. Or, work on our next rambling, idiotic, nonsensical, hate-filled, divisive, dumbass rally speech. (I do enjoy listening to you make a fool out of yourself.)
It pisses me off that newspapers and news websites, all across America, don’t have the balls to call you out for the blatant liar you are. The title of the article: “Donald J Trump is a Liar, a Con and a Fraud”. You put up a post on TruthSocial that said, “I know nothing about Project 2025”. You fucking liar. After you said that, someone posted, in the Internet, a photo of you sitting next to Scum, Piece-of-Shit, Fascist Kevin Roberts (President of the Heritage Foundation) on a private jet on your way with Roberts to a Heritage Foundation conference, and you were a speaker at that conference. “Trump told the audience that the Heritage Foundation was ‘going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly whatourmovementwilldo.’" Yougoddamnfuckingliar.
Unfortunately for you (but, fortunately for Americans) your next “term” will be a prison term. I’ve reached out to Honorable Judge Juan Merchan to ask him to start your prison sentence on President Kamala Harris’ Inauguration Day!
Disrespectfully yours,
Joel
p.s., for intelligence/intellectually-challenged MAGAts (rhymes with maggots), President Kamala Harris’ first name is pronounced “, LA”. That said, you can address Kamala Harris as “MADAM PRESIDENT”!
p.p.s, the size of the crowd that gathers to cheer your entry into prison will most definitely be one of the largest crowds ever on Planet Earth!
I’m impressed and actually think you read my mind. Thanks for posting this!
Ha, ha, he'll finally get the large crowd that he craves. My it be so. Your summation is absolutely brilliant.
The crowd that gathers to witness (and cheer) Fraud Trump's perp-walk into prison will be a LOT larger than the crowd that witnessed Trump's Jan 2017 inauguration.
At his funeral, to make sure the orange odoriferous one is really dead?
A righteous rant!
awesome. I am going to add this to my letter writing as well!
WTG JOEL!
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Well done, Joel!!!💙
I’m surprised Jeff left off our old pal Kev at the Heritage Foundation warning us all there doesn’t HAVE to be bloodshed when they activate the Project 2025 robo dogs or whatever fuckery they’ve imagined in their fear-centered brains.
As for me, I got a tattoo of Bernie (and for the gazillionth time I voted for Hilary & Joe so spare me the alt left lecture) back in ‘22 because I want it to be crystal clear which side I’m on. ✌🏼
FFF — fuck fascism forever
that's a good point, and yeah, I def should have included it
How wonderful to know that there doesn't have to be bloodshed if we just lie still and pretend we like it.
Seriously. More like the theater owner in Inglorious Basterds — round them up & burn them to the ground.
I adored that in the movie!!
If you don’t scream I won’t hurt you meme.
Sounds familiar "and think of England?"
It's your fault if I have to hit you.
Folks, I live in FL & I’m confirming this state is Project 2025 in action. DeSantis succeeded in adding an amendment to the lawfully obtained abortion ballot, stating that it would cost the state money if it passed, and there would be fewer live births. He has sent his taxpayer funded gestapo, first to deny former nonviolent felons their right to vote, despite the law passing they could do so years ago in the state. Now he is intimidating people who signed the petition to get abortion on the ballot. And he is using taxpayer money for his Nazi tactics.
Rest assured, if the abortion bill passes with a supermajority of 60%, he will do everything in his power to overturn the will of the people, just like he will do with the recreational marijuana petition that is lawfully on the ballot.
As an aside, I was at my very liberal Unitarian Universalist service yesterday, where the topic was abortion. We received credible threats of a protest and some violent threats. This necessitated the church hiring a police officer during the service, & let me tell you that police officer did not look too friendly to the Liberal people attending.
If you have friends living in Florida, please employ them to register to vote Democrat. We need to get rid of Rick Scott, as he has machinations to replace turtle McConnell!
I am sorry that you have boots-are-made-for-walking-and-stomping-people-to-submission-little man as your governor. When is his sorry ass up for reelection, gawwwd forbid??
He’s supposedly out Nov. 2026. It’s his 2nd miserable term so he can’t run again. But who knows? If we become a fascist country in November he may just dig his go go boots in & never leave.
He's too greedy, all the republicans (who will speak off the record) say they want him out. They put up with his greedy-bloodsucking ways when they thought the rest of America was as stupid and venal as they are. But once it became clear nobody would vote for him because of his weirdness, they want to oust him, so more of them can get their nose in the public trough.
This BS is becoming so tiresome, full stop.. It is the very definition of an authoritarian state, harassment of citizens doing their civic duty, harassment of citizens who vote, harassment of citizens who are opposed to MAGA and everything it stands for… I am tired, so very tired of this attack on our democracy for the last 10 years..
Somewhere in olden times — like, early in the Biden administration — states like Texas got sued for violating people’s civil rights, including their voting rights. The person in charge of that is long gone, and apparently Fed Soc-adjacent or -curious (not sure which doing multiple workshops and speeches qualifies him to be) Garland hasn’t seen a need to replace her. Or maybe he found someone as scared of appearing political as he seems to be.
God, how I hope that Kamala accepts Garland's "resignation". New blood is desperately needed.
Dear Arne,
Ingrid Robertsaw here
When I took my Citizenship exam in 1967, thhe Examiner asked if " I ever took part in the HITLER JUGEND. I was aghast .I wanted to slap him in the face. My Country of Birth is not Germany . My area was taken over and occupied by the Nazis. They marched up & down the streets, threw people into the River. I remember my parents being very afraid. No one left thhe house. We got bombed on in addition to the NAZI PRESENCE. That question from that man still ring in my head.
When I see FASCHISM REARING ITS UGLY HEAD..I SHUDDER. IT MUST BE DEFEATED
Biden has a propensity for tremendous misjudgement (see Clarence Thomas 1991) but Garland, IMHO, has been the worst choice & one who has damaged our republic forever.
F!!! This makes me so angry. 😡
Rhonda's nothing if not consistent in his small-minded, petty, vindictive, teeny-tiny-dick syndrome. The neo-NAZI party has only one way of winning - choose their voters. You know, angry white guys. And yeah fuck them. Long and hard. And these dipshit stories -"MAGA voter unhappy with Harris' stance on..." - yeah no shit Sherlock. Pulitzer in your future:-) And don't get me started on the polls.
tRump uses Meatball Ron like a tool, treats him like shit and expects him to perform like a trained monkey.
The Triumvirate of Evil in Texas - Paxton, Abbott and Cruz - have successfully prevented any type of help for working Texans for almost a decade. <sigh>
Yet TX keep voting for them.