I think there’s an issue with the judge calling it rape but could not enter it and ended up with a lesser charge? My brain is fuzzy on that (and other things)
Rape is a criminal charge. E. Jean Carroll's two lawsuits were civil suits. But the judge stated officially that the jury determined that by finding against Orange Furor they concluded that OF had committed rape.
It’s okay-we all AGREE with you on every word!!!!!!!!! What the hell has happened to journalism….(I know..the rich jerks are buying it up.) Hope some nice country helps us all soon! Take care everyone. The BS they pulled on Aaron Parnas being a friend to the shooter is disgusting!
Celeste, yes. We need to unite with every country willing and remove the unlawful and reclaim our democracy and build back all that they have destroyed.
We had a lot of Dems on our positions at the time of the insurrection who were compromised.
We need to reclaim our Constitution and rebuild all the damage that has been inflicted.
I also need to address something deeply concerning that unfolded overnight. I woke up to a flood of messages and videos asking about a claim that the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting was a former employee of mine. That is completely untrue. These claims appear to be driven by AI-generated content that originated on Facebook and is now spreading across platforms by bad actors. This is not just misinformation. It is dangerous, and if the wrong person believes it, it could lead to serious threats to me and my family. Aaron
I’m right there with you, Uncle Jeff. I’m can no longer be pissed off at what Trump does and says, because we’ve always known who he is. I’m just furious with the people who normalize and apologize for Trump, and instead of calling his behavior what it is—pure sociopathy—they blame the left. I need to go find that interview with Jamie Raskin, because he’s one of the few people I’d expect to have had a good comeback.
I still can't get over the fact that Pammy Bondi had the gall to call Raskin a "washed up lawyer." Hey — he's still in Congress and where's Pammy? Oh right—she's "washed up."
She's just jealous. Raskin is a Constitutional scholar who spends his free time teaching it to any student who is interested in learning what is in our Constitution. For free. The class is also available on YouTube and I highly recommend it, his style is accessible and concise. I have him amongst the top 5 of my list of Trusted and Effective Politicians. It's a short list, and hasn't changed much in the last 5 to 10 years. Spam Blondi wouldn't recognize the Constitution without its name at the top of the page.
I heard him speak here in Cleveland when my congresswoman brought him in for a forum on fair elections. He was so knowledgeable and easily crushed the Republican tool on the panel (some guy from Illinois whose name I've forgotten who was shilling for increasingly onerous ID requirements). My list of trusted and effective politicians is actually kind of long, starting with my own congresswoman Shontel Brown, and including folks such as Melanie Stansbury (tireless Epstein attack dog), Maxwell Frost, Robert Garcia, Jasmine Crockett, Summer Lee, Ayanna Pressley, Lauren Underwood, Becca Balint, Chris Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, and the amazing Joe Neguse, who is so good at skewering GOP nonsense like their resolutions praising themselves for what a great job they're doing (NOT!) Not including my two senators, Bernie Moron-o and Jon Useless.
When he is interviewed, I stop and listen. Every time.
And I love when he's in a committee hearing and some Rethuglican commits yet another stupid and Raskin, on the spot, begins citing the relevant section and subsection of the Constitution--and, if then challenged, he proceeds to quote the passage verbatim. It makes the little Rethuglicans very, very angry.
It seems like the Trump apologists are in one of three main categories. First you have the violent foot soldiers and their backers that people who support them probably 15 to 20% of what they called Maga then there’s the right wing extreme but primarily religious and they believe he is from god. Then and perhaps the largest group at least in Washington anyway are the grifters some straight up grifter some Shapeshifter drifters then you have a combination of AB and C at various levels but I think that pretty much covers it.
What really fucking pisses me off is that everyone fails to mention the shooter was on a completely different floor. No one was killed or injured. Thank God. But this incident gave Trump a chance to say they need a fucking ballroom. I'm so pissed off at this spoiled, whiney brat I could scream!
I agree. Listening to CNN on a constant reporting about Preznits attempted assignation and how traumatized everyone was. Needing counselling etc. etc. Imagine all the students, church goers and other shooting victims that saw their friends shot right in front of them. All the blood, locked in classrooms. Saturday was just a little interruption in comparison.
YES! "incident happened on a floor above where the dinner was actually taking place. Not in the room. Not near the room. Up a flight of stairs, past multiple security layers, in a part of the hotel that was open to the general public because the Secret Service only secured the specific areas of the WHCA event — not the entire building. Law enforcement officials confirmed this. The suspect never breached the secured zone. The president, vice president, cabinet officials, and guests were nowhere close to this."
Yep--and an Irish journalist, in an interview, discussed how, as a guest staying in the hotel, he was never stopped from coming and going from the hotel--no security checks when he returned. He was only checked when it was time to go into the ballroom and had to show his ticket. He was also holding his friend's ticket: she texted him that he needn't try to find her--all she needed was for him to send her a photo of her ticket and she'd be allowed in.
If this were a real attempt on Donnie Demento's life, every single Secret Service agent involved in this massive security lapse would be fired--this is actual, real cause for a committee hearing and dismissals.
However, since it was all Let's Pretend so that Demento could shill for his Epstein Memorial Dance Hall and Airplane Hangar...............
Also, all the attendees who were hiding under the table crying in fear. A photo of Stephen Miller holding on to his pregnant wife's boobs while he pushes her towards the door ahead of himself, though protected all the way out by government agents!.
Gee, I'm glad none of these very important people never have to cower in silence in a school classroom, while a disturbed young man roams the hallways with an assault rifle. Our daughter teaches 9th and 10th grade English in Port Lucie County, FL, and a few weeks ago she and all her students had to spend 5 hours locked in their classrooms, not saying a word until the All Clear was given, because some screwed up young adult male had shot his father, and might be hiding in the vicinity.
The saddest part about this is that when our daughter called to tell us about the event, She said she was surprised how calm she was for the whole 5 hours - she guessed because She's so used to all the practice lockdowns.
just as Jeff always says, we're living in stupid times, and we're struck stupid leaders.
How many people were in attendance at the Correspondents' Dinner? I am unable to find that information anywhere. It's relevant because he wants his bloated ballroom to seat 1,000. That number seems insanely excessive and downright dangerous.
The thing not being mentioned is that the Washington Hilton Ballroom is about 5-10 times larger than the largest figure being proposed for the White House ballroom. Apart from the fact that it would be a travesty for the White House Correspondents to hold its event there, demonstrating that it was totally controlled by the president.
Wow. You made my point better than I did. I've been at charity events and annual banquets at the Washington Hilton, but in rooms (possibly divided) that accommodated fewer guests—maybe 500-650 or so.
We do not want to fall to the depths of Nazi Germany before we act.
You may avoid the worst but those more delicious for them to oppress will suffer more than you have most likely imagined.
They already have done that. The two murders. Liam and his dad. Do you think Liam will ever be the same again ? No he will carry this with him for his entire life. He will suffer from fear black evil dreams and feelings, and inner sufferings. He will never feel safe, always on guard never trusting.
These repugs all of them, are mentally sick.
We need to look at the resources to remove out of office. Drunks, sycophants, incompetent.
I think of those that have been captured and brutalized. Lives destroyed. They will never be the same. Their terror and horror will haunt them. It will uncontrollably be passed to their young.
The horror lives on and on. It is terrifically difficult for their children to shed and live a happy life.
Do we want to be still any longer? Listen to what they said after this incident!!
These are mean and destructive people. They always will be. They will destroy all that is good. They are mentally sick. You can’t reason with that.
Look how horrid Germany got before people rose up. Total destruction.
We must use our laws to get them out of positions of authority. They will never change.
The MSM’s sane washing of Donnycon and blaming the left when anything happens though we all know right wing terrorists are far more prevalent is infuriating!
Jeff, do still think the shooting wasn’t a PR stunt to drum up sympathy for dump and his Epstein ballroom?
Uncle Jeff, there is more than adequate reason to be be fucking angry these days....every fucking day there is something else from this fuckin asshole...every. fucking. day.
Now they are going after Aaron Parnas! "I also need to address something deeply concerning that unfolded overnight. I woke up to a flood of messages and videos asking about a claim that the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting was a former employee of mine. That is completely untrue. These claims appear to be driven by AI-generated content that originated on Facebook and is now spreading across platforms by bad actors. This is not just misinformation. It is dangerous, and if the wrong person believes it, it could lead to serious threats to me and my family." Aaron
If pissed off Jeff could gif the shit out of the smug look he gave Melonoma when shit went down that oule be awesome! He was not the LEAST bit surprised.
It feels like it may have been staged. I’m really worried about that. is it a push toward those outrageous detention centers for Democrats? I bet dollars to donuts that guy was a democrat.
Dana Bash understands the assignment. CNN is owned by Larry Ellison. Or David Ellison. One of the billionaire douchebags who supports fascism in all its forms. Props to Norah O'Donnell who set the Lyndon Johnson trap - not everyone believes that Trump has done what he's accused of, but she made him deny it.
It’s worse than that. The Ellisons don’t own CNN yet. But Bash got ahead of that by adopting the GOP talking point. “You meany Democrats called Dear Leader ‘bad for the country’ and it’s your fault people with guns have decided to attack him. Shame on you for your dastardly scheme!”
I’ll ask the question I asked yesterday: How will we tell this CNN from the Ellison CNN?
Jeff is so right on about the MSM MAGA bias, the delicate "feelings" of the MAGA mobster bloggers and who incites partisan divisions and violence.
Remember when Hillary called the earlier version of MAGites "Deplorables"? Wow, the MSM thought the Democrats had become belligerent antagonists.
When DJT attacks the Democrats as "unhinged Socialist/Communist Lunatics" (about everyday) it's just "Trump using colorful language or it's Trump being Trump".
When Trump pardons the J6 Rioters as patriots, it's "Oh my gosh! Look what happened in America (the lawless) today".
Or killing unindicted civilians in the Caribbean and Iran in the name of national security? WOW. That's really "Trump being Trump" ( a wanton murderer).
The MINIMUM we should expect from the press is so good old "What-aboutism".
And for sure condemnation of political violence on both sides.
She was already well on the way, when she and Tapper "moderated" the CNN "debate" in 2016. Maybe she'll age out when Ellison takes complete control. Probably a little too fair and balanced for him.
I don't know, I think she needs to resign, loudly stating as she does that she's being forbidden to report the news as she knows she should, which is truthfully. Surely she's at an age where she can retire in comfort and stop selling her soul to devils like Ellison and trump.
And WSJ, the Dumb Antichrist didn't "stand tall" on Saturday, he tripped over his own feet and made the Secret Service try to hoist the big sack of lard from the floor.
The pedo criminal elect and his feckless GOP co-conspirators, apologists, and supporters are hate-speech flame throwers. But what do I know, I'm just an antifa radical left scum domestic terrorist.
Here's an idea:
Instead of a massive Epstein/Trump Ballroom, why doesn’t the pedo criminal elect just get a bulletproof backpack, practice active shooter drills, and rely on, you know -thoughts and prayers?
It’s the same GOP-led plan that is good enough for school children.
And for him to say he didn't fall is such an obvious lie. They told him to get down on the ground? It's that why they immediately helped his fat ass up and walked him out? Always the lie is what comes out of his ugly mouth first.
This is an excellent thought. The same standards should apply across our populations! Thoughts and prayers all around. Such an effective gun control method after all.
The preznit is an old dude and needs time to stand and then get his balance before moving, as like a LOT of old dudes. Without it they stumble and fall, as he did when they hustled him out. Then his staff struggled to lift his fat ass up. Speed is not an option for him anymore.
Excellent post. And no, I have no evidence to prove it, but damn it...everything about this "attempt" seems so off. I'm leaning to the Team Fake side. I feel the same way about Butler. And I have just stopped reading ANY corporate media cause it's all bullshit.
Our two party system is such a failure. It creates an 'us versus them' mentality. Nothing of substance is getting done...and the amount of money we're pissing away is heartbreaking when it could actually help people.
If I were queen, then first thing I would do is end Citizens United.
It is odd that I don't think he has attended this dinner in years. I could be wrong but I thought he was against it? Didn't he go to one years ago as a guest before he was ever President and Obama (maybe others?) kind of roasted him and he refused to ever go back? Please note I am getting old and my memory may not be totally accurate. But then the one time he shows up this happens?? A little (lot) suspicious to me.
Why is that suspicious? I mean, I really don't understand this line of thinking It's a public event that was known about, in a hotel. The guy wrote a manifesto and clearly had a plan. He had an opportunity and used it. Too bad he failed, even with the Ketstone Kops shitty security.
The NY Times is giving hourly updates. We know who did it, why he did it, where he lived, etc. The only murk clouding the facts are the speculation, assumptions, and ouright lies.
Like Irascible, I find the manifesto quite relatable and genuine. But I am also not going to be critical of anyone who finds the whole thing hinky and suspicious. We live in a post-certainty world where reality is hard to ascertain.
Not if you've studied critical thinking and what GOOD questions to ask. I cut my teeth years ago debunking my sisters many ridiculous beliefs, as well as studying the whole 9/11 was an inside job nonsense and how the lies and bullshit claims were picked apart and proven wrong.
Exactly how we feel too- sympathy votes with Butler - and the whole “ I’m so honored “ baloney” … I don’t trust any of his administration at all…kinda weird to learn about the Usha connection..‼️
I don't trust them either, but I also don't believe they're smart enough to pull off a staged assassination attempt, especially one that got two people killed and damn near succeeded, and not ONE credible person has spilled the beans. Highly unlikely. HIGHLY.
My thoughts precisely. I'm not usually one to jump to conspiracy theories, but this is highly suspicious, for all the reasons mentioned. You know, timing is everything.
What timing? Should people who wanted to kill the POTUS be storming the Hilton when he's NOT there? Distraction? No one needs such theatrics for that with this admin.
This was the first time Donnie Demento attended the WHC dinner as president--never went in his first term. He was too mad at Obama and, of course, journalists.
Altho I don't believe either event was staged, this one is more likely between the two. If not for one inch of a head turn at the exact millisecond, that bullet fired by Crooks would have got him just behind the ear. That's a kill shot. No way was that staged; the margin for error was zero, with far too many moving parts. That was sheer luck, despite the bumbling security at that event as well.
Considering the rapidity with which his ear "healed," it's unlikely to have been caused by a bullet, even if the attempt was real. As many have suggested, it's more plausible that his injury came from a flying piece of debris, possibly from the shattered teleprompter.
Many have suggested that and been proven wrong. The teleprompters were intact, there are several photos showing this. The only part of his ear that was hit was the very outer edge, which is a thin curl of skin. His ear didn't heal in any unusually rapid way. Tiny nicks in flesh such as the ears, eyes, and mouth heal rapidly, and all photos showing him the next day without the ear diaper have been proven taken prior to the rally. The amount of blood present is perfectly normal for a blood-rich area such as the outer ear, especially when the person is taking large amounts of aspirin, which he has admitted to.
If NPR has to peddle their own conciliatory crap to remain on the air, they can take their "shweaty balls" commentators and turn off the lights. Adios.
On another note, Brick Shithouse Fetterman jumped within minutes after the WHCD to post "Give Trump his ballroom!" The MAGA bots are out in full force to resurrect Fetterman as a great, conscientious politician of enormous common sense. But everything he says and does shouts Trump's yes-man.
He doesn’t need the ballroom per se, he NEEDS the bunker built underneath so when his term is over (IF he’s alive and lives that long) he’ll have a place to hide and will not leave…
Really I knowww- the military wants it too u know.. law enforcement… instead will have lots a guns in this country … but we will have a golden ballroom bigger than the WH‼️
Cannot believe you led off w/Bash. I saw that yesterday and have been furious ever since… (takes a lot to breakthrough my furious-threshold these days). TY JEFF ‼️
I read where Susie Wiles was responsible for the security detail at the WHCD and now she's on a short leash. They should have held this event at Ford's Theater for a better outcome.
In the last 10 years, Trump has attacked, demeaned and threatened nearly every prominent leader of the pro-democracy movement. He routinely attacks his perceived enemies but saves his harshest tactics for his political opponents.
Yet, time and time again, the legacy media insist on asking those of us who stand up to him to tone down our rhetoric. It is as if those of us who insist on the rule of law and call out Trump's authoritarianism are the problem.
The suggestion is that perhaps, if we were just nicer to Trump, things in this country would be better.
Just yesterday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Rep. Jamie Raskin if Democrats thought twice about their rhetoric against the president. The congressman quickly pointed out that any rhetoric against the president is directed at his authoritarian policies.
Most rhetoric doesn’t cause people to commit mayhem and murder. Donny’s rhetoric actually encourages it - does anyone not remember “you better fight like hell or you won’t have a country anymore”?
That whole day was awful 😢 I cried - stuck in front of the TV - like through President Kennedy’s funeral on black and white TV- both instances were just numbing‼️
Okay, Coma Comer, let's see you haul somebody from the regime with security responsibilities for this clusterfuck and grill them for 11 hours like your projection party did to Hilary Clinton after Benghazi, knowing full well that the Secretary of State does not make specific decisions about the security of every consulate and embassy herself. There is a hierarchy for that, dumbshits. Posturing, gaslighting pedophile protectors gonna lie and deflect, always.
Also, Republicans had cut security for foreign embassies/consulates. And they originally planned to use Benghaaaaaazi to undermine Obama's reelection, but after the election, they shifted to Hillary anticipating that she would run in 2016. It was those hearings that alerted the whole country to the existence of our own (Ohio's) sexual predator protector Gymmie Jordan, and not in a good way. I mean, I kept getting asked, "Who is that asshole from Ohio?"
All of the others are faceless backbenchers. I call them Bob "Who?" Latta, Dave "Who?" Joyce, Michael "Who?" Rulli etc. All good little soldiers for Trump. The only Ohio congress people with any profile at all are Democrats and Max Miller (Oh-07), known for his messy divorce from Sen. Bernie Moron-o's daughter, whom he married at Trump's Bedminster Golf Club, his affair with a female bodybuilding, and his road rage incident. And stuff like this: "In 2011, he was charged with "operating a vehicle without reasonable control' and operating a vehicle impaired (OVI) after crashing his Jeep Grand Cherokee, and told officers that he had had 'two to three beers and several shots' the night before and 'woke up in urine-soaked pants.'"
Only the best for Ohio! Luckily, Oh-07 is kind of swingy so we might be able to get rid of him.
Trump had to read and weave the speech he gave later. Any 3rd grader could have been given "talking points" and delivered them in a cogent manner without reading a script.
yeah, Angry Jeff shoved Funny Jeff into the locker again
IF ONLY Norah had taken the opportunity to take up the Tiedrich challenge!!
I believe she was 🤏this close. Maybe next time!
"Oh, you think he was referring to you?" Classic retort that we should use ad infinitum
The shoe fit!
Or at least followed up that denial with the fact that he WAS convicted of rape.
He would have exploded! I actually would have liked to see that.
Every day, I hope for such a headline. That's my heated rhetoric for the day.
Real question: when he actually strikes a reporter during an interview, will THAT lead to any consequences?
I think there’s an issue with the judge calling it rape but could not enter it and ended up with a lesser charge? My brain is fuzzy on that (and other things)
Rape is a criminal charge. E. Jean Carroll's two lawsuits were civil suits. But the judge stated officially that the jury determined that by finding against Orange Furor they concluded that OF had committed rape.
The judge said it was "rape" within the standard English usage of the term, though not within the statutory definition of the criminal charge.
I think she actually said it but in so many different words - hell yeah !
It’s okay-we all AGREE with you on every word!!!!!!!!! What the hell has happened to journalism….(I know..the rich jerks are buying it up.) Hope some nice country helps us all soon! Take care everyone. The BS they pulled on Aaron Parnas being a friend to the shooter is disgusting!
Hope he’s taking extra safety precautions.
The rest of the world really does need to lend us a hand in fighting against trump, the American traitor and enemy of Democracy.
Celeste, yes. We need to unite with every country willing and remove the unlawful and reclaim our democracy and build back all that they have destroyed.
We had a lot of Dems on our positions at the time of the insurrection who were compromised.
We need to reclaim our Constitution and rebuild all the damage that has been inflicted.
The Germans will land on the shores of Mar-a-Lago on T-Tag
They did?? Where was that?
Check out Aaron’s substack
I also need to address something deeply concerning that unfolded overnight. I woke up to a flood of messages and videos asking about a claim that the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting was a former employee of mine. That is completely untrue. These claims appear to be driven by AI-generated content that originated on Facebook and is now spreading across platforms by bad actors. This is not just misinformation. It is dangerous, and if the wrong person believes it, it could lead to serious threats to me and my family. Aaron
I’m right there with you, Uncle Jeff. I’m can no longer be pissed off at what Trump does and says, because we’ve always known who he is. I’m just furious with the people who normalize and apologize for Trump, and instead of calling his behavior what it is—pure sociopathy—they blame the left. I need to go find that interview with Jamie Raskin, because he’s one of the few people I’d expect to have had a good comeback.
I still can't get over the fact that Pammy Bondi had the gall to call Raskin a "washed up lawyer." Hey — he's still in Congress and where's Pammy? Oh right—she's "washed up."
She's just jealous. Raskin is a Constitutional scholar who spends his free time teaching it to any student who is interested in learning what is in our Constitution. For free. The class is also available on YouTube and I highly recommend it, his style is accessible and concise. I have him amongst the top 5 of my list of Trusted and Effective Politicians. It's a short list, and hasn't changed much in the last 5 to 10 years. Spam Blondi wouldn't recognize the Constitution without its name at the top of the page.
Might still be too big a word for Pamnesia Blondi to sound out.....
I heard him speak here in Cleveland when my congresswoman brought him in for a forum on fair elections. He was so knowledgeable and easily crushed the Republican tool on the panel (some guy from Illinois whose name I've forgotten who was shilling for increasingly onerous ID requirements). My list of trusted and effective politicians is actually kind of long, starting with my own congresswoman Shontel Brown, and including folks such as Melanie Stansbury (tireless Epstein attack dog), Maxwell Frost, Robert Garcia, Jasmine Crockett, Summer Lee, Ayanna Pressley, Lauren Underwood, Becca Balint, Chris Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, and the amazing Joe Neguse, who is so good at skewering GOP nonsense like their resolutions praising themselves for what a great job they're doing (NOT!) Not including my two senators, Bernie Moron-o and Jon Useless.
Also Garcia recently publicly called Stephen Miller "the biggest piece of shit in America" on TV so that's kind of heroic.
Love Raskin
When he is interviewed, I stop and listen. Every time.
And I love when he's in a committee hearing and some Rethuglican commits yet another stupid and Raskin, on the spot, begins citing the relevant section and subsection of the Constitution--and, if then challenged, he proceeds to quote the passage verbatim. It makes the little Rethuglicans very, very angry.
It seems like the Trump apologists are in one of three main categories. First you have the violent foot soldiers and their backers that people who support them probably 15 to 20% of what they called Maga then there’s the right wing extreme but primarily religious and they believe he is from god. Then and perhaps the largest group at least in Washington anyway are the grifters some straight up grifter some Shapeshifter drifters then you have a combination of AB and C at various levels but I think that pretty much covers it.
Agreed. The Enablers can stop the bull shit. The Enablers are worse than the Perpetrator!
What really fucking pisses me off is that everyone fails to mention the shooter was on a completely different floor. No one was killed or injured. Thank God. But this incident gave Trump a chance to say they need a fucking ballroom. I'm so pissed off at this spoiled, whiney brat I could scream!
I agree. Listening to CNN on a constant reporting about Preznits attempted assignation and how traumatized everyone was. Needing counselling etc. etc. Imagine all the students, church goers and other shooting victims that saw their friends shot right in front of them. All the blood, locked in classrooms. Saturday was just a little interruption in comparison.
Exactly! And those reporters wouldn’t even have attended this year’s dinner if they had a modicum of self respect.
Norm Eisen of the Contrarian was going so he could stand up, turn his back and walk out when the felon started to speak.
"Preznits attempted assignation": uhh, "assignation" means something a little different, although if Preznit attempted that it would also fail.
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YES! "incident happened on a floor above where the dinner was actually taking place. Not in the room. Not near the room. Up a flight of stairs, past multiple security layers, in a part of the hotel that was open to the general public because the Secret Service only secured the specific areas of the WHCA event — not the entire building. Law enforcement officials confirmed this. The suspect never breached the secured zone. The president, vice president, cabinet officials, and guests were nowhere close to this."
It was totally publicity stunt.
I absolutely agree. Now we have to convince Jeff!
But Trump was so strong and brave and presidential about something he barely knew was happening. Sheesh. The media ...
Thanks Abby!
Yep--and an Irish journalist, in an interview, discussed how, as a guest staying in the hotel, he was never stopped from coming and going from the hotel--no security checks when he returned. He was only checked when it was time to go into the ballroom and had to show his ticket. He was also holding his friend's ticket: she texted him that he needn't try to find her--all she needed was for him to send her a photo of her ticket and she'd be allowed in.
If this were a real attempt on Donnie Demento's life, every single Secret Service agent involved in this massive security lapse would be fired--this is actual, real cause for a committee hearing and dismissals.
However, since it was all Let's Pretend so that Demento could shill for his Epstein Memorial Dance Hall and Airplane Hangar...............
Also, all the attendees who were hiding under the table crying in fear. A photo of Stephen Miller holding on to his pregnant wife's boobs while he pushes her towards the door ahead of himself, though protected all the way out by government agents!.
Gee, I'm glad none of these very important people never have to cower in silence in a school classroom, while a disturbed young man roams the hallways with an assault rifle. Our daughter teaches 9th and 10th grade English in Port Lucie County, FL, and a few weeks ago she and all her students had to spend 5 hours locked in their classrooms, not saying a word until the All Clear was given, because some screwed up young adult male had shot his father, and might be hiding in the vicinity.
The saddest part about this is that when our daughter called to tell us about the event, She said she was surprised how calm she was for the whole 5 hours - she guessed because She's so used to all the practice lockdowns.
just as Jeff always says, we're living in stupid times, and we're struck stupid leaders.
How many people were in attendance at the Correspondents' Dinner? I am unable to find that information anywhere. It's relevant because he wants his bloated ballroom to seat 1,000. That number seems insanely excessive and downright dangerous.
About 2,000 attendees, according to the prep report.
Thank you!
The thing not being mentioned is that the Washington Hilton Ballroom is about 5-10 times larger than the largest figure being proposed for the White House ballroom. Apart from the fact that it would be a travesty for the White House Correspondents to hold its event there, demonstrating that it was totally controlled by the president.
Wow. You made my point better than I did. I've been at charity events and annual banquets at the Washington Hilton, but in rooms (possibly divided) that accommodated fewer guests—maybe 500-650 or so.
And he didn't stand tall... he stood up and fell over.
And it was a lovely sight to see.
He is pretty much shown seated now. He is frail and his sense of balance is awful.
Which gave him no chance to appear "presidential" even if he was capable of it.
Your faithful followers love all the Jeffs. We are all incredibly angry.
We love Angry Jeff, we love Funny Jeff, we love Mourning Jeff, we hope someday soon we can spend some time with Joyful Jeff.
We need anger. We Americans MUST STAND UP. WE NEED TO SAY WHAT NEEDS SAYING.
LOOK at what TRUMP AND PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO OUR WORLD.
AND WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE ADMONISHMENTS TRUMP HANDS OUT???
YEA FOR US FINDING OUR VOICE.
WHY IN THE FUCK WOULD WE BE SILENT?
WE HAVE TAKEN SO MUCH SHIT FOR SO LONG ..,..
IT IS BOILING OVER.
BEING NICE GETS YOU NOTHING BUT MORE OPPRESSION.
YOU KNOW SPEAKING OUT YOU WILL BE LABELED WITH EVERY NEGATIVE WORD THEY KNOW.
LOOK AT HISTORY. LET’S START WITH THE OPPRESSION TACTICS ON WOMEN.
WAKE UP AMERICA. IT WILL NOT BE A PRETTY FIGHT.
YOU DON’T FIGHT IT …….. YOU WILL HAVE THE LIFE OF THOSE WHO LIVED BEFORE YOU. WOMEN BLACKS CHILDREN IMMIGRANTS……
I HAVE LIVED IT.
THEIR POISON POURS OVER EVERYTHING. UNTIL EVEN THE VICTIMS THINK THEY DESERVE IT FOR HAVING BEEN BORN.
WE NEED ACTION NOW IN ALL OUR LEGAL AVENUES BEFORE THEY ARE GONE.
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I am joyful to see the likes on my post.
We do not want to fall to the depths of Nazi Germany before we act.
You may avoid the worst but those more delicious for them to oppress will suffer more than you have most likely imagined.
They already have done that. The two murders. Liam and his dad. Do you think Liam will ever be the same again ? No he will carry this with him for his entire life. He will suffer from fear black evil dreams and feelings, and inner sufferings. He will never feel safe, always on guard never trusting.
These repugs all of them, are mentally sick.
We need to look at the resources to remove out of office. Drunks, sycophants, incompetent.
I think of those that have been captured and brutalized. Lives destroyed. They will never be the same. Their terror and horror will haunt them. It will uncontrollably be passed to their young.
The horror lives on and on. It is terrifically difficult for their children to shed and live a happy life.
Do we want to be still any longer? Listen to what they said after this incident!!
These are mean and destructive people. They always will be. They will destroy all that is good. They are mentally sick. You can’t reason with that.
Look how horrid Germany got before people rose up. Total destruction.
We must use our laws to get them out of positions of authority. They will never change.
Those who break laws need to be stopped.
The MSM’s sane washing of Donnycon and blaming the left when anything happens though we all know right wing terrorists are far more prevalent is infuriating!
Jeff, do still think the shooting wasn’t a PR stunt to drum up sympathy for dump and his Epstein ballroom?
The manifesto reads as completely genuine to me.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-another-failed-false-flag-assassination-attempt
That's my secret, Jeff. I'm always angry.
Absolutely appropriately, though. ❤️
It’s ok. We all feel that way
Uncle Jeff, there is more than adequate reason to be be fucking angry these days....every fucking day there is something else from this fuckin asshole...every. fucking. day.
Now they are going after Aaron Parnas! "I also need to address something deeply concerning that unfolded overnight. I woke up to a flood of messages and videos asking about a claim that the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting was a former employee of mine. That is completely untrue. These claims appear to be driven by AI-generated content that originated on Facebook and is now spreading across platforms by bad actors. This is not just misinformation. It is dangerous, and if the wrong person believes it, it could lead to serious threats to me and my family." Aaron
Watch you back Jeff. The bastards are using AI !
If pissed off Jeff could gif the shit out of the smug look he gave Melonoma when shit went down that oule be awesome! He was not the LEAST bit surprised.
It feels like it may have been staged. I’m really worried about that. is it a push toward those outrageous detention centers for Democrats? I bet dollars to donuts that guy was a democrat.
I read he is no party affiliation but he did give $25 to Kamala, so I guess that's enough for a terrorism charge?
😆
We are our own saviors, no joke.
Dana Bash understands the assignment. CNN is owned by Larry Ellison. Or David Ellison. One of the billionaire douchebags who supports fascism in all its forms. Props to Norah O'Donnell who set the Lyndon Johnson trap - not everyone believes that Trump has done what he's accused of, but she made him deny it.
Has it happened to you, Dana Bash
Has your brain been turned to hash?
I guess the Ellison Kool Aid
Has managed to pervade
CNN, trading fact for cash
💥‼️Awesome as always Doc
😂😂😂😂😂
To be fair, her brains turned to hash long before now.
It’s worse than that. The Ellisons don’t own CNN yet. But Bash got ahead of that by adopting the GOP talking point. “You meany Democrats called Dear Leader ‘bad for the country’ and it’s your fault people with guns have decided to attack him. Shame on you for your dastardly scheme!”
I’ll ask the question I asked yesterday: How will we tell this CNN from the Ellison CNN?
Ah, I thought the sale was a done deal, but I think you're right. Bash won't be on the list of layoffs when whichever Ellison trims the fat.
Warner shareholders OK’d the deal, the feds haven’t *officially* signed off, but Brendan Carr can’t wait to put his stamp on it.
She may think that--but she's a woman, and older (a felony on corporate news), and Jewish.
Jeff is so right on about the MSM MAGA bias, the delicate "feelings" of the MAGA mobster bloggers and who incites partisan divisions and violence.
Remember when Hillary called the earlier version of MAGites "Deplorables"? Wow, the MSM thought the Democrats had become belligerent antagonists.
When DJT attacks the Democrats as "unhinged Socialist/Communist Lunatics" (about everyday) it's just "Trump using colorful language or it's Trump being Trump".
When Trump pardons the J6 Rioters as patriots, it's "Oh my gosh! Look what happened in America (the lawless) today".
Or killing unindicted civilians in the Caribbean and Iran in the name of national security? WOW. That's really "Trump being Trump" ( a wanton murderer).
The MINIMUM we should expect from the press is so good old "What-aboutism".
And for sure condemnation of political violence on both sides.
She was already well on the way, when she and Tapper "moderated" the CNN "debate" in 2016. Maybe she'll age out when Ellison takes complete control. Probably a little too fair and balanced for him.
I don't know, I think she needs to resign, loudly stating as she does that she's being forbidden to report the news as she knows she should, which is truthfully. Surely she's at an age where she can retire in comfort and stop selling her soul to devils like Ellison and trump.
And WSJ, the Dumb Antichrist didn't "stand tall" on Saturday, he tripped over his own feet and made the Secret Service try to hoist the big sack of lard from the floor.
Thanks Jeff -
The pedo criminal elect and his feckless GOP co-conspirators, apologists, and supporters are hate-speech flame throwers. But what do I know, I'm just an antifa radical left scum domestic terrorist.
Here's an idea:
Instead of a massive Epstein/Trump Ballroom, why doesn’t the pedo criminal elect just get a bulletproof backpack, practice active shooter drills, and rely on, you know -thoughts and prayers?
It’s the same GOP-led plan that is good enough for school children.
Um, perhaps because he stumbles when trying to run away?
Clearly he needs some Josh Hawley running away lessons.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/24/josh-hawley-republican-senator-ran-running-capitol-attack-kansas-city-star
And for him to say he didn't fall is such an obvious lie. They told him to get down on the ground? It's that why they immediately helped his fat ass up and walked him out? Always the lie is what comes out of his ugly mouth first.
Arne, did you notice how JD’s security team got him off the stage before Trump’s team got HIM off? Then, they couldn’t prevent HIM from falling!
I'd like that to be made into a GIF...watch it over and over like the skateboard antics.
This is an excellent thought. The same standards should apply across our populations! Thoughts and prayers all around. Such an effective gun control method after all.
The preznit is an old dude and needs time to stand and then get his balance before moving, as like a LOT of old dudes. Without it they stumble and fall, as he did when they hustled him out. Then his staff struggled to lift his fat ass up. Speed is not an option for him anymore.
Very true Bethie and probably with a full diaper.
Although I must say I wistfully remember a 3:40 marathon time I turned in when in my late 20’s (sometime in the paleolithic era).
Hurrah! 3:54:57, waaaaay back in the 19’s 🤣
Just finishing is bragging rights for life. But sub-4 hour! Awesomesauce!!!
Excellent post. And no, I have no evidence to prove it, but damn it...everything about this "attempt" seems so off. I'm leaning to the Team Fake side. I feel the same way about Butler. And I have just stopped reading ANY corporate media cause it's all bullshit.
Our two party system is such a failure. It creates an 'us versus them' mentality. Nothing of substance is getting done...and the amount of money we're pissing away is heartbreaking when it could actually help people.
If I were queen, then first thing I would do is end Citizens United.
Then I'd make it a felony to litter.
That is all.
It is odd that I don't think he has attended this dinner in years. I could be wrong but I thought he was against it? Didn't he go to one years ago as a guest before he was ever President and Obama (maybe others?) kind of roasted him and he refused to ever go back? Please note I am getting old and my memory may not be totally accurate. But then the one time he shows up this happens?? A little (lot) suspicious to me.
Why is that suspicious? I mean, I really don't understand this line of thinking It's a public event that was known about, in a hotel. The guy wrote a manifesto and clearly had a plan. He had an opportunity and used it. Too bad he failed, even with the Ketstone Kops shitty security.
Actually, nothing is "clear" at all at this point.
The NY Times is giving hourly updates. We know who did it, why he did it, where he lived, etc. The only murk clouding the facts are the speculation, assumptions, and ouright lies.
Like Irascible, I find the manifesto quite relatable and genuine. But I am also not going to be critical of anyone who finds the whole thing hinky and suspicious. We live in a post-certainty world where reality is hard to ascertain.
Not if you've studied critical thinking and what GOOD questions to ask. I cut my teeth years ago debunking my sisters many ridiculous beliefs, as well as studying the whole 9/11 was an inside job nonsense and how the lies and bullshit claims were picked apart and proven wrong.
Exactly how we feel too- sympathy votes with Butler - and the whole “ I’m so honored “ baloney” … I don’t trust any of his administration at all…kinda weird to learn about the Usha connection..‼️
I don't trust them either, but I also don't believe they're smart enough to pull off a staged assassination attempt, especially one that got two people killed and damn near succeeded, and not ONE credible person has spilled the beans. Highly unlikely. HIGHLY.
Yes.
My thoughts precisely. I'm not usually one to jump to conspiracy theories, but this is highly suspicious, for all the reasons mentioned. You know, timing is everything.
What timing? Should people who wanted to kill the POTUS be storming the Hilton when he's NOT there? Distraction? No one needs such theatrics for that with this admin.
This was the first time Donnie Demento attended the WHC dinner as president--never went in his first term. He was too mad at Obama and, of course, journalists.
What about the folks that do not return their shopping buggies to the cart corrals? 🛒
How could I have forgotten that one? 🤦♀️😆
WhatAboutism at its finest!
Here’s your 👸
You’ve got my vote for Queen, Susan!
All it took was a decade for Citizens United to allow billionaires to buy our government, just as intended
Thank you for the 'felony to litter' mention. My biggest pet peeve. I want to force every litterer out onto our highways to pick it up. All of it.
Altho I don't believe either event was staged, this one is more likely between the two. If not for one inch of a head turn at the exact millisecond, that bullet fired by Crooks would have got him just behind the ear. That's a kill shot. No way was that staged; the margin for error was zero, with far too many moving parts. That was sheer luck, despite the bumbling security at that event as well.
Considering the rapidity with which his ear "healed," it's unlikely to have been caused by a bullet, even if the attempt was real. As many have suggested, it's more plausible that his injury came from a flying piece of debris, possibly from the shattered teleprompter.
Many have suggested that and been proven wrong. The teleprompters were intact, there are several photos showing this. The only part of his ear that was hit was the very outer edge, which is a thin curl of skin. His ear didn't heal in any unusually rapid way. Tiny nicks in flesh such as the ears, eyes, and mouth heal rapidly, and all photos showing him the next day without the ear diaper have been proven taken prior to the rally. The amount of blood present is perfectly normal for a blood-rich area such as the outer ear, especially when the person is taking large amounts of aspirin, which he has admitted to.
I missed the part where he was conciliatory and subdued. All I heard about was how he immediately pivoted to "this is why I need a giant ballroom".
If NPR has to peddle their own conciliatory crap to remain on the air, they can take their "shweaty balls" commentators and turn off the lights. Adios.
On another note, Brick Shithouse Fetterman jumped within minutes after the WHCD to post "Give Trump his ballroom!" The MAGA bots are out in full force to resurrect Fetterman as a great, conscientious politician of enormous common sense. But everything he says and does shouts Trump's yes-man.
NRP/PBS has always been a bastion of bothsidesism, which is why I wrote them off more than 15 years ago.
Fetterman is out of his mind.
He doesn’t need the ballroom per se, he NEEDS the bunker built underneath so when his term is over (IF he’s alive and lives that long) he’ll have a place to hide and will not leave…
Think the show “Paradise”
THIS. My question wold be why do you need a ballroom for security? Are you going to WEAR it?
And then we could pour concrete over the entrance to his bunker and that would take care of that problem.
Oh my… that’s nightmare material‼️
That was the whole point of staging the event
Really I knowww- the military wants it too u know.. law enforcement… instead will have lots a guns in this country … but we will have a golden ballroom bigger than the WH‼️
He was quaking in his shoes, and he wasn't "conciliatory" for one split second.
Monday. Just another day of waking up and not seeing the great anticipated obituary.
So funny, it's the first thing I check upon waking. Sigh, maybe tomorrow!
Those prayers just aren’t working
He does look like shit, though. Hope springs eternal.
Not only that, but he's so off balance (thick) that he can't even get up and out of his own way. major edema going on in that skanky body.
Dang it.
Before the chaos it looked like he was gonna snooze! 💤
Cannot believe you led off w/Bash. I saw that yesterday and have been furious ever since… (takes a lot to breakthrough my furious-threshold these days). TY JEFF ‼️
It’s like the newscaster in a made for tv movie script
Yeah, she pisses me off, too!!
I read where Susie Wiles was responsible for the security detail at the WHCD and now she's on a short leash. They should have held this event at Ford's Theater for a better outcome.
And another one (woman) bites the dust…
Bill, good one!!
Revised since yesterday's post:
When the shots rang out, the Millers
Fled as they ducked and scurried
But those two racist MAGA pillars
Need not have even worried
While they gamboled like headless pullets
Those weren't vampire-killing bullets
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Did you see the photo of S. Miller hiding behind his wife? Cowardly. He should have moved in front of her.
He forgot that he's undead
In the last 10 years, Trump has attacked, demeaned and threatened nearly every prominent leader of the pro-democracy movement. He routinely attacks his perceived enemies but saves his harshest tactics for his political opponents.
Yet, time and time again, the legacy media insist on asking those of us who stand up to him to tone down our rhetoric. It is as if those of us who insist on the rule of law and call out Trump's authoritarianism are the problem.
The suggestion is that perhaps, if we were just nicer to Trump, things in this country would be better.
Just yesterday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Rep. Jamie Raskin if Democrats thought twice about their rhetoric against the president. The congressman quickly pointed out that any rhetoric against the president is directed at his authoritarian policies.
- Marc Elias
I'm still waiting for media meltdown about his threat to wipe out an entire civilization. Talk about over-the-top rhetoric!
Most rhetoric doesn’t cause people to commit mayhem and murder. Donny’s rhetoric actually encourages it - does anyone not remember “you better fight like hell or you won’t have a country anymore”?
That whole day was awful 😢 I cried - stuck in front of the TV - like through President Kennedy’s funeral on black and white TV- both instances were just numbing‼️
Okay, Coma Comer, let's see you haul somebody from the regime with security responsibilities for this clusterfuck and grill them for 11 hours like your projection party did to Hilary Clinton after Benghazi, knowing full well that the Secretary of State does not make specific decisions about the security of every consulate and embassy herself. There is a hierarchy for that, dumbshits. Posturing, gaslighting pedophile protectors gonna lie and deflect, always.
Also, Republicans had cut security for foreign embassies/consulates. And they originally planned to use Benghaaaaaazi to undermine Obama's reelection, but after the election, they shifted to Hillary anticipating that she would run in 2016. It was those hearings that alerted the whole country to the existence of our own (Ohio's) sexual predator protector Gymmie Jordan, and not in a good way. I mean, I kept getting asked, "Who is that asshole from Ohio?"
Do you respond “Which one?”
All of the others are faceless backbenchers. I call them Bob "Who?" Latta, Dave "Who?" Joyce, Michael "Who?" Rulli etc. All good little soldiers for Trump. The only Ohio congress people with any profile at all are Democrats and Max Miller (Oh-07), known for his messy divorce from Sen. Bernie Moron-o's daughter, whom he married at Trump's Bedminster Golf Club, his affair with a female bodybuilding, and his road rage incident. And stuff like this: "In 2011, he was charged with "operating a vehicle without reasonable control' and operating a vehicle impaired (OVI) after crashing his Jeep Grand Cherokee, and told officers that he had had 'two to three beers and several shots' the night before and 'woke up in urine-soaked pants.'"
Only the best for Ohio! Luckily, Oh-07 is kind of swingy so we might be able to get rid of him.
The douche is a monster indeed,
He'd be better off smokin' some weed
To blame the wrong side
Keeps fear in his stride
Faux News has now buried the lede.
He's been spoutin' 'bout killing for years
And blown up Iran with no tears
That l'il girls school
Makes him more of a fool
Kick him straight right out on his rear.
Awesome 👏
Thank you!
Lincoln? Lincoln?! Keep tweaking his button mushroom you supine media pigs. How can they live with themselves???
WSJ can really spot 'em
Ain't that right, myopic Faith Bottum?
Do you know what's essential
To be presidential?
This lying crook definitely ain't got 'em
The ass kissing is disgusting!!
It’s not being “somberly contemplative” to not remember what your next line is or where you are.
Trump had to read and weave the speech he gave later. Any 3rd grader could have been given "talking points" and delivered them in a cogent manner without reading a script.
Did you mean Melissa Hortman? Virginia Giuffre was not a representative.