IMO, Trump and Friends are on distraction hyperdrive. That is, "Distract today from what you Distracted from yesterday". And those were just distractions from the day before and the day before that and so it spins round and round to make Americans dizzy and nauseous.
Trump must have hundreds of loyalists in and around the White House working on his constatant malevolence, trying to make America and the World believe Trump is Omnipotent. He's not Omnipotent!!
He a sinking stone of moldy crud.. Think of the witches in MacBeth. Trump is another reptile slowly boiling in the witches' caldron.
Be ready to protect the vote in November so the caldron does its job
I assume they have the audacity to do this because of the protection of Murc’s Law and a captive rightwing media human centipede (that also has MSM segments.)
and he's certainly not 'potent' never mind 'omnipotent'! BUT certain magats (those who haven't already deserted the sinking ship) still fall for the flim flam man's grift. He TOLD us AND them that he's that reptile - a snake. 'Oh foolish woman, I TOLD YOU I was a snake when you took me in' - the end line of that stupid-azz story he drools over the telling of at his fuckwit rallies. He's talking to everyone who fell for his utterly stupid bullshit and even those of us who never did - thinks he's put one over on all of us. Something clicked for me today - his demand for $152 Million (or was it Billion)? I can't remember TO bring back Alcatraz to 'its former glory AS a prison INCLUDING IMMIGRANTS!'. The description of it (to tourists who provide the bulk of the money keeping it 'alive' describes the handful of prisoners who tried to escape and their fates. 3 were caught, 5 (or less) disappeared. It's surrounded by shark-infested water. THAT's likely where fuck-brain came up with his shark/motorboat/electro'shush'on choice. I believe I'd choose him to meet up with a great white pissed off by his orange sludge sliming up HER water.
But but but.....I thought we owned the skies over Iran now?????? Iran's defeated, right????
Chris Jansing on MS-NOW asked Leon Panetta what he thought the current conversation in the Pentagon was, over this event. I can tell her: "Does this foundation flatter my skin tone? Anybody got some more Brycream I can use? Oh--fire that general: he's too competent!"
'Defeated, decimated, they no longer have an air force, blabbity, blah blah' I believe was the description of the Iranians' military capabilities. The stupid, it BURNS! I'd add one more to your pissant pete's blather: 'get me another bottle and if you DARE tell anyone it's alcohol you're fired!
No, that's something from Stephen Colbert as a nickname for the shambling goon that is currently occupying the White House. Though lately I am starting to transition to referring to him as America's Pilonidal Cyst.
a 'pretend ruff-tuff' one at that. He's a pissant drunk who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag and I daresay even I could probably flatten him with a well-placed kick (a/la the skateboard) - and I've never raised my hand to another human in my entire life. For him, orange piggy - and the most punchable jesse watters I might just make an exception given the slightest opportunity. There are several more but they stand out. ;)
my FIRST question to your first post was going to be: 'did it crash OR was it shot down'? Which you've just answered. How would it 'just crash'? Aren't our fighter pilots 'the best in the world'? They couldn't 'just crash', could they? WHICH means, who exactly is conducting the ground search for the missing crew? AND will the dumbfuck pantload just leave them there to die OR pay a ransom if they're somehow found alive BY Iranian soldiers OR civilians? Let's assume that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the crew and would only lament the loss of an expensive F-15, think he'd pay to get IT back?
Iran put a bounty for the other missing crew member. THIS is what frump has wrought. What IF Iranian civilians find that person and turn him or her in for money - will he keep blaming our NATO Allies for his own incredible fuck-up? What IF they treated a captive American pilot AS badly as ice has treated people here in frump's amurrica? What leg do we have to stand on?
None of them are a loss but we are guaranteed that their replacements will be as bad if not worse, that's why i don't celebrate too much. There's a whole cesspool out there to choose from.
Saves us the work of ousting them ourselves—so I guess that’s good?
Let’s not forget the absolutely bonkers whistleblower complaint that was “locked in a safe” by Tulsi Gabbard. A complaint so rattling to national security that it “couldn’t be shared.”
That story was only like 2 months ago ffs!!
For anyone who forgot:
“WASHINGTON-A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.
The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower's lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard's office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.
A cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré novel is swirling around the complaint, which is said to be locked in a safe. Disclosure of its contents could cause "grave damage to national security," one official said. It also implicates another federal agency beyond Gabbard's, and raises potential claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House, officials said.
The complaint was filed last May with the intelligence community's inspector general, according to a November letter that the whistleblower's lawyer addressed to Gabbard. The letter, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, accused Gabbard's office of hindering the dissemination of the complaint to lawmakers by failing to provide necessary security guidance on how to do so.”
Well, some members of have been vocal about going after them for hearings and accountability (contempt of Congress or lying to congress etc) even if out of the position.
Don't they have the guts? Are they getting a huge payout? Does he have actual dirt on all of them? Aren't some things so big and important that they eclipse your own bullshit?
In one recent media encounter he blamed Leavitt for his low poll numbers ("Bad PR") and asked "Should I keep her?" So she's hyping his superior literacy out of raw desperation to survive. He can't even read his teleprompters.
And I cannot wrap my mind around "wanting" to do that creatures bidding to the point that you lie constantly. You no longer recognize the basic truth. That is scary.
I can believe that he's getting rid of anyone who MIGHT support the 25th Ammendment, and of course, his MEN would never turn on him - whereas women have often betrayed him. *he doesn't sexually abuse his male compatriots, except to denigrate their 'manliness' when they display any type of compassion for others, or worse - they say something less than flattering about him.
I don't think either opinion is "wrong" since the issue has never come up, isn't clearly resolved by the text of the amendment, and would probably give judges the heebie-jeebies.
My money is on Pete getting the axe next. Donny is really going to need a scapegoat on this one. You did catch that AWAC that got totaled on the ground right? Those things run half a billion, and losing one is actually a bigger deal than losing a fighter.
I said long ago when Pete was confirmed that putting a Major in charge of generals was the stupidest of the things congress allowed, and lord knows there was a lot of competition in that regard.
Cue the photo of the entire top brass of the US military sitting absolutely stonefaced, because all of them were flown in from all over the world, just to sit in some room and listen to Kegsbreath and the Orange FuckTrumpet [copyright 2016 by an astute and sadly anonymous British observer] insultingly bloviate ad nauseum about Manliness and No Fat Generals and Warfighters and Subtext I'm Manlier and Have a Bigger Dick Than All of You! And Furthermore, I'm in Fucking Charge, Dammit! and other stupefyingly moronic topics.
Reading uk papers saying plane was shot at pilot ejected and on the run....if so count them as dead and Thank President Nobody and his Drunk Head of war. for it.
Of course it was. He doesn't give one flying fuck about the 'toy soldiers' going into battle. They're all replaceable, y'know. He just gets a new set to play with from mummy and daddy and tosses his old set in the trash, calling them 'losers' and 'suckers'. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
They probably crashed due to confusion about the mission, one thinking they were blowing shit up and one thinking the war was over and they were heading home. Let's hope they are found quickly and returned home to rest, recover and wait for a lucid, sentient Commander-in-Chief.
Update: it appears the two airmen have been captured by Iranians and there is no clear evidence of whether they are alive or not. At this moment, there is no one I would want less than Trump as Commander-in-chief. Every action he takes, every decision he makes, will be driven by what is best for Trump: he simply cares not about the lives of courageous American servicemen and servicewomen. My heart aches for those waiting at home for news of their loved ones and wish they had a more rational, empathetic DoD to work for their release.
According to Iran War Dispatch with Tim Mak Substack,
A US General "KELLOGG SUGGESTS NEW DEFENSE ALLIANCE: In his interview on Fox News on Thursday, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg called NATO ineffective in the Middle East war, and suggested that the U.S. create a new defense alliance.
Among possible members, he named Japan, Australia, and some European countries, such as Poland, Germany, and Ukraine, given its experience on the battlefield."
Why is Germany getting this honor? Is it because Germany seems willing to participate in War crimes? What is up with that?
General Kellogg is blowing smoke up his own ass. The U.S. and Israel have been committing war crimes all over Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon. Not even the loser members of the "Board of Peace" want to join our club.
Our Dear Leader has just insulted Japan, cost Australia a whole growing season, and threatened Ukraine, again, while Germany is denouncing him. All except maybe Poland would be glad to join an alliance to force regime change in the United States.
Let's hope the Iranians are planning to ignore our Secretary of Defense, (I mean War), mandate to show the enemy "no quarter". Let them show the world that it is the U.S. that is barbaric, not Iran.
Pete Hegsmith will probably get 100 service members killed trying to rescue those 2 pilots by shooting from the hip. They'll be the first boots on the ground.
by the way, here are a couple of good posts I wrote about Todd Blanche back during Donny's business fraud trial. he really is a terrible courtroom lawyer
As we all know, Jabba the dump hires his lawyers and all minions for loyalty to him, not for ability or, heaven forbid, fealty to country and Constitution
“He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and low-grade paranoia.”
I posted somewhere yesterday that getting rid of Bondi and moving Blanche to the AG spot is like firing a hyena and replacing it with a baboon. What a fucking joke.
If that fucking imbecile Blanche chased ambulances, he would run under the back tires and crush himself. Law schools have less pride than these fucking cement heads to whom they give JD (Jackoff Designation) degrees.
But being a terrible courtroom attorney is the ultimate qualifier for just about everything Dumb Donnie could want in a flunky for any or every position for that matter.
Reports of deceptive practices and fraud by Donald J. Trump and his Trump University business unit had been piling up for several years in states across the nation, including in Florida.
The Florida attorney general’s office, which Pam Bondi had taken over in 2011, handled it differently.
She publicly acknowledged that her office was examining complaints about Trump University, but it decided against a formal investigation.
The decision came soon after Mr. Trump, through his family foundation, sent a check for $25,000 to a political action committee associated with Ms. Bondi, who was running for a second term.
Florida’s was not the only state attorney general’s office to decide against taking up the Trump University matter.
Thank you George. The DOJ was supposed to administer justice for the American people. Instead it was turned into the personal legal firm of Don the Con, with his former personal attorneys at the helm. Karma is coming for Pam Bondi's law license. I'm old enough to remember what happened to John Mitchell, Nixon's former AG. May she go to jail for the injustice she inflicted on the Epstein survivors and the injustice on the American people who paid her salary. Boo fucking hoo Spammy Jo.
True Jane. Hoping the next President and AG will be committed to justice instead of crime, corruption, pardons, and self-dealing. Also, if Minnesota were to find her guilty of obstruction of justice- then the criminal elect couldn’t pardon her.
speaking of - today I donated to the reelection campaign for Attorney General for the State of New York: the Honourable Letitia James! We NEED her, the only person to convict the treasonous felon POS and get THIRTY-FOUR CONVICTIONS against the orange rat bastid.
Thank you Elizabeth! A good reminder that while the criminal elect, his criminally corrupt Cabinet, and the feckless GOP-controlled Congress continue to diminish the quality of life of all (except the 1%), some AG’s have not abdicated their responsibility to justice.
Thank you - so of course beCAUSE she goes after criminals no matter if they're in the 1% or not, Letitia has been targeted as the orange bastid's 'enemy', yet THREE Grand Juries have 'failed to indict' her on the trumped-up charges brought by his fucked-up doj. Jeannine Pirro is foaming at the mouth to replace blondi bondi just so SHE can go after Letitia. She imagines that she'll be 'the one' able to 'indict a ham sandwich' by narrowing the jury pool to magats only. For my part, I think Pirro is so toxic and so despised by most New Yorkers her results would be even more dismal than the three tried so far. The deepest irony of it all is that they're trying for 'mortgage fraud' - saying that Letitia somehow 'lied' about getting a 2nd mortgage on a vacation home to claim it as her primary residence, I believe in Florida? MOST of those I know (even family members) did the same thing - no one lied. The 2nd place was always for vacations, allowing their friends to use and their kids to use for Spring Break, etc. I think we are the only ones who didn't do this, preferring to spend our rare vacations in Arizona and elsewhere. Her attorneys have proven that her paperwork is all in order. The constant attempts to indict her is PURELY to go after the only woman (and a black woman at that) to CONVICT HIM - and of course to force her into bankruptcy by this abuse of the Courts - something he's ALWAYS done. For that reason alone I'll donate as much as I can spare. She's stand-up. PS: years ago the LIAR-in-cheat bought first one then another adjoining properties (courtesy of cooperative Fla. banks) close to his Motel a lago, claiming they'd be HIS 'primary residence' for tax, mortgage and VOTING purposes. He never lived in either one and I believe they were eventually sold (unless he still owns them?) Because HE'S a cheat, fraud and grifter, he assumes everyone else must be? NO! We have a fucking CRIMINAL in our White House and he needs to be deep in the bowels of Sing Sing instead.
Thank you Elizabeth. The criminal elect and those who orbit around him do all they can to please him -whether it’s Blanche, “Bribe Me” Bondi, Pirro, Carr, Jordan, or Comer “Pyle”. I will continue to write, speak, and drive infrastructure through https://civ.works to countervail this entire criminal organization that was once a political party.
IMO, Trump and Friends are on distraction hyperdrive. That is, "Distract today from what you Distracted from yesterday". And those were just distractions from the day before and the day before that and so it spins round and round to make Americans dizzy and nauseous. Trump must have hundreds of loyalists in and around the White House working on his constatant malevolence, trying to make America and the World believe Trump is Omnipotent. He's not Omnipotent!! He a sinking stone of moldy crud.. Think of the witches in MacBeth. Trump is another reptile slowly boiling in the witches' caldron. Be ready to protect the vote in November so the caldron does its job
Leavitt is going to go on maternity leave and find her true trad wife calling and decide to stay home with her children, because it used to be illegal to fire a woman for being pregnant, back when we had those pesky civil rights.
Yet they’ll all make more money with made-up job titles. Their firings accomplish absolutely nothing. Another trump-chaos ploy…Hey everyone, look at the headlines, not the subpoenas being avoided!
A friend just posted that she had watched a video released by Aaron Parnas from the Epstein stash showing a large man sitting on the chest of a young female, beating and strangling her. Killing her. So they made snuff films too of their "predilections." I have no doubt Shitler enjoyed these.
Donnie on TS last night.. we are in Iran to “take their oil and make loads of cash”. None of these ideas about regime change or helping the people of Iran… as if we didn’t already know… smash and grab operation that we, as taxpayers, get to foot the bill..Best to All Fellow Travelers.
Trump is exhaustingly predictable because all he cares about, wants, or thinks important in the entire global endeavor is $$$$. Sad for him; devastating for the rest of us.
Well aren’t you the clever individual… and what is the purpose of your comment? Do you have anything of substance to offer or are you just in it for insults for particular individuals u don’t care for? And Ole, historical references seem to be proper, if people do not understand the reference cause they are too young, well Sport, they have the ability to look up anything these days… as you do……such as who is Hunter Thompson? But I admire your determination to expose yourself.
And just how do you "take" their oil? We cant even take the Straight of Hormuz. And are we going to start by taking over oil extracting infrastructure? What if they blow it up? Then what? Rebuild while the world's oil supply crashes? Does he even think these things thru before he opens his mouth?
I worked at Mount Vernon in the '70s, and I met a lot of celebrities. Fess Parker, who played Daniel Boone, was one of the nicest, most respectful of men towards a young girl who sold the MV guidebook for "50 cents plus two cents tax."
He was a beautiful human being and so tall and impressive that it immediately brought forth the idea of how George Washington related to those around him.
You'd think by now all the Trumpy Toadies would learn that no matter how many heinous acts they commit in his name, it will never win them safety.
And speaking of firing people Hegseth needs to be next for firing the Sec. Joint Chiefs and head of the Army, Navy, and Airforce and replacing them with christo-fascist loyalist, one presumes.
Bondi has always been crooked and greedy. She worked as a lobbyist, representing Qatar (making $115,000 per month) and a private prison company accused of inadequate care of prisoners, after serving as the Florida AG, where she dropped investigating Trump University after Drump Foundation donated $25,000 to her.
I wonder if she was one of the folks making bundles off the market-manipulation funds?
Bondi ignored the Epstein/Maxwell/Trump survivors, instead hiding the proof, ridiculing Congress, and engaging in illegal activity by watching what the House investigative members were searching through on one of the four computers they were allowed to access for a very limited time. I hope Bondi, like Nixon's AG, Mitchell, is found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and, of course, perjury.
What was once one of our proudest achievements, an unbiased DoJ, has become an international disgrace.
Blanche, the Maxwell tamer, will be a further erosion. Gotta wonder how far down the hole the "drill baby drill" will descend to protect the GoldenGolem.
Fun fact: The USAG doesn't need to be a lawyer, or even to have attended law school. If Biden has appointed a pit bull Malcolm Nance as AG instead of Merrick Garland, we wouldn't be in this current mess.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit —
U.S. fighter jet crashes in Iran; search launched for 2 crew members
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/03/f-15-crash-iran-missing/
so, the war seems to be going just swimmingly
the BBC is reporting it was shot down by Iran. I don't have a link for it
But the felon assured us that Iran's military capability was obliterated. Did he LIE?!
Were his lips moving?
👏👏🤭🤭
Surely not.
Hard to believe trump would lie! Shock of the week! 🙄
I don't often get to this stage. The I can't even stage. But today I CAN'T EVEN . . .
Clutches pearls
What!!!Him lie!!!!Preposterous!!!!!!You lie!!!!!!!!
Current MO. Just make it upas you go.
Its possible he doesn't know and just made it up.
Don't be so kind to him.
So they still have an air force, apparently. The pricktator wouldn't lie...would he?
IMO, Trump and Friends are on distraction hyperdrive. That is, "Distract today from what you Distracted from yesterday". And those were just distractions from the day before and the day before that and so it spins round and round to make Americans dizzy and nauseous.
Trump must have hundreds of loyalists in and around the White House working on his constatant malevolence, trying to make America and the World believe Trump is Omnipotent. He's not Omnipotent!!
He a sinking stone of moldy crud.. Think of the witches in MacBeth. Trump is another reptile slowly boiling in the witches' caldron.
Be ready to protect the vote in November so the caldron does its job
I assume they have the audacity to do this because of the protection of Murc’s Law and a captive rightwing media human centipede (that also has MSM segments.)
and he's certainly not 'potent' never mind 'omnipotent'! BUT certain magats (those who haven't already deserted the sinking ship) still fall for the flim flam man's grift. He TOLD us AND them that he's that reptile - a snake. 'Oh foolish woman, I TOLD YOU I was a snake when you took me in' - the end line of that stupid-azz story he drools over the telling of at his fuckwit rallies. He's talking to everyone who fell for his utterly stupid bullshit and even those of us who never did - thinks he's put one over on all of us. Something clicked for me today - his demand for $152 Million (or was it Billion)? I can't remember TO bring back Alcatraz to 'its former glory AS a prison INCLUDING IMMIGRANTS!'. The description of it (to tourists who provide the bulk of the money keeping it 'alive' describes the handful of prisoners who tried to escape and their fates. 3 were caught, 5 (or less) disappeared. It's surrounded by shark-infested water. THAT's likely where fuck-brain came up with his shark/motorboat/electro'shush'on choice. I believe I'd choose him to meet up with a great white pissed off by his orange sludge sliming up HER water.
Iran possibly fired off a missile from the ground. It's an ongoing investigation, but who knows...
But but but.....I thought we owned the skies over Iran now?????? Iran's defeated, right????
Chris Jansing on MS-NOW asked Leon Panetta what he thought the current conversation in the Pentagon was, over this event. I can tell her: "Does this foundation flatter my skin tone? Anybody got some more Brycream I can use? Oh--fire that general: he's too competent!"
'Defeated, decimated, they no longer have an air force, blabbity, blah blah' I believe was the description of the Iranians' military capabilities. The stupid, it BURNS! I'd add one more to your pissant pete's blather: 'get me another bottle and if you DARE tell anyone it's alcohol you're fired!
That’s what magats in Illinois call JB Pritzker. Is that antisemitism?
No, that's something from Stephen Colbert as a nickname for the shambling goon that is currently occupying the White House. Though lately I am starting to transition to referring to him as America's Pilonidal Cyst.
Excellent description!!
Adam Kinzinger has a sober account up. Too bad he's not SecDef instead of the tin soldier strutting around yelling, "No quarter!"
https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/one-of-ours-is-down-in-iran-heres
Kegsbreath is a MARTINET. A strutting , bloviating Ruff Tuff Cream Puff.
a 'pretend ruff-tuff' one at that. He's a pissant drunk who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag and I daresay even I could probably flatten him with a well-placed kick (a/la the skateboard) - and I've never raised my hand to another human in my entire life. For him, orange piggy - and the most punchable jesse watters I might just make an exception given the slightest opportunity. There are several more but they stand out. ;)
He doesn't have a clue.
Thanks for posting Adam K's column. It was terrific to hear from a true patriot who knows more than a thing or two.
Here's a link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/us-fighter-jet-confirmed-shot-down-over-iran
Thank you
my FIRST question to your first post was going to be: 'did it crash OR was it shot down'? Which you've just answered. How would it 'just crash'? Aren't our fighter pilots 'the best in the world'? They couldn't 'just crash', could they? WHICH means, who exactly is conducting the ground search for the missing crew? AND will the dumbfuck pantload just leave them there to die OR pay a ransom if they're somehow found alive BY Iranian soldiers OR civilians? Let's assume that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the crew and would only lament the loss of an expensive F-15, think he'd pay to get IT back?
I read just now that one crew member was recovered.
Iran put a bounty for the other missing crew member. THIS is what frump has wrought. What IF Iranian civilians find that person and turn him or her in for money - will he keep blaming our NATO Allies for his own incredible fuck-up? What IF they treated a captive American pilot AS badly as ice has treated people here in frump's amurrica? What leg do we have to stand on?
Are they going to call off SAR operations because having SAR operations is bad optics?
NYT also says Iran was responsible.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/world/iran-war-trump-oil?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260403&instance_id=173550&nl=breaking-news®i_id=30487577&segment_id=217703&user_id=65965616042713057d320ac3ae5f5c2f
And another 80 million goes circling down the drain…. Why can’t that blood clot do its damn job already!
There was a sign at my local "No Kings" on Saturday that said just that! And I totally agree - WTAF Blood Clot!!
🤣🤣🤣✊
That blood clot only had ONE job to do, ffs!
And the KC 135 crash and six crew-members killed, plus five more damaged at a saudi airbase and an E Sentry spy plane…
What a waste. So sad for those guys and their families.
It turns out spending a billion per day on this war is a low-balled figure, an untruth. The real cost might just be over 2 billion per day.
And now Aaron Parnas has reported this insanity. It’s this and so much other shit that makes you want to commit your own version of batshit crazy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/o41dWXAKyhE?si=NAfc923mvmM9kjDD
I've been praying for a brain stem stroke followed by locked-in syndrome for actual YEARS now. No luck so far, but that's not stopping me.
He’s too hateful for blood clots to take over.
He's a genius for taking the "big aspirin" and keeping his blood nice and thin. /s
could have sworn the liar-in-chief said we had totally destroyed their military infrastructure... so how did they bring down a plane? hmmmmm
Gabbard will be next - she's female and a friend of Joe Kent.
One blog I read said he's getting rid of anyone who might support 25th amendment'ing him....
That's no a real loss. Tulsi probably is a true Russian asset, much like her boss.
none of them would be a loss....
None of them are a loss but we are guaranteed that their replacements will be as bad if not worse, that's why i don't celebrate too much. There's a whole cesspool out there to choose from.
yeah. We need this whole administration to be removed.... (through peaceful measures, of course)
Excellent point.
Arne, my wife and I have thought she was a Putin asset when she was representing Hawaii
I think I remember Hillary calling her a Putin asset back when she was in the Dem presidential primary.
Brian Schatz would know.
Yes she is.
Saves us the work of ousting them ourselves—so I guess that’s good?
Let’s not forget the absolutely bonkers whistleblower complaint that was “locked in a safe” by Tulsi Gabbard. A complaint so rattling to national security that it “couldn’t be shared.”
That story was only like 2 months ago ffs!!
For anyone who forgot:
“WASHINGTON-A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.
The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower's lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard's office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.
A cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré novel is swirling around the complaint, which is said to be locked in a safe. Disclosure of its contents could cause "grave damage to national security," one official said. It also implicates another federal agency beyond Gabbard's, and raises potential claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House, officials said.
The complaint was filed last May with the intelligence community's inspector general, according to a November letter that the whistleblower's lawyer addressed to Gabbard. The letter, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, accused Gabbard's office of hindering the dissemination of the complaint to lawmakers by failing to provide necessary security guidance on how to do so.”
What's going to happen to that if Gabbard is fired?
And WTF was it anyway???
Well, some members of have been vocal about going after them for hearings and accountability (contempt of Congress or lying to congress etc) even if out of the position.
But Congress needs the feckless majority to go.
Amen.
Re:25th - Not likely. The majority of his bootlickers in the Cabinet wouldn't have the guts to do it.
Only when Dems get both the House & Senate.
If the blue tsunami hits, then impeachment is back on the table, but not the 25th.
Why?
Don't they have the guts? Are they getting a huge payout? Does he have actual dirt on all of them? Aren't some things so big and important that they eclipse your own bullshit?
Not *this* Cabinet.
Or anyone that is female apparently. But good on him, they are all just unqualified sycophants.
In one recent media encounter he blamed Leavitt for his low poll numbers ("Bad PR") and asked "Should I keep her?" So she's hyping his superior literacy out of raw desperation to survive. He can't even read his teleprompters.
And I cannot wrap my mind around "wanting" to do that creatures bidding to the point that you lie constantly. You no longer recognize the basic truth. That is scary.
I can believe that he's getting rid of anyone who MIGHT support the 25th Ammendment, and of course, his MEN would never turn on him - whereas women have often betrayed him. *he doesn't sexually abuse his male compatriots, except to denigrate their 'manliness' when they display any type of compassion for others, or worse - they say something less than flattering about him.
I read that too! Plus, temporary Acting Secretaries like Todd Blanche can’t vote for the 25th Amendment (because they weren’t approved by Congress).
actually, from a quick search - acting secretaries are allowed to vote. but maybe that could be tied up in the courts.
https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk15026/files/media/documents/54-online-Krishnamurthi_Salib1.pdf
Thanks, Anne! Then the other Substack post I read earlier was wrong.
well, we'll see what ACTUALLY happens if anyone actually has the guts to invoke the 25th...
I don't think either opinion is "wrong" since the issue has never come up, isn't clearly resolved by the text of the amendment, and would probably give judges the heebie-jeebies.
also Uncle Jeff, republiKKKans want to slash health care to pay for more war mongering...ya know, because they care so much about the American people
My money is on Pete getting the axe next. Donny is really going to need a scapegoat on this one. You did catch that AWAC that got totaled on the ground right? Those things run half a billion, and losing one is actually a bigger deal than losing a fighter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-war-attack-us-base-saudi-arabia-sentry-jet-destroyed-strike-rcna265764
I said long ago when Pete was confirmed that putting a Major in charge of generals was the stupidest of the things congress allowed, and lord knows there was a lot of competition in that regard.
a fox news clown major at that.....most unqualified in our history
Cue the photo of the entire top brass of the US military sitting absolutely stonefaced, because all of them were flown in from all over the world, just to sit in some room and listen to Kegsbreath and the Orange FuckTrumpet [copyright 2016 by an astute and sadly anonymous British observer] insultingly bloviate ad nauseum about Manliness and No Fat Generals and Warfighters and Subtext I'm Manlier and Have a Bigger Dick Than All of You! And Furthermore, I'm in Fucking Charge, Dammit! and other stupefyingly moronic topics.
Oh, SO this. You put into better words my exact thoughts. Thanks - my fellow(sister?) Elizabeth. ;)
Reading uk papers saying plane was shot at pilot ejected and on the run....if so count them as dead and Thank President Nobody and his Drunk Head of war. for it.
OMG! That poor pilot. When caught they will be tortured and displayed to all the world. So sad and so unnecessary.
Somebody’s kid, uncle, husband, wife, mother or dad. 😩🥺😢
On CNN, some talking head actually said, "Here's a good jobs report released today, and what are we talking about instead? Downed pilots in Iran...."
I had to change the channel before I shattered my TV--I can't afford a new one. Jesus Fucking Christ.
Was it Scott Jennings? Because that sounds like Scott Jennings.
I didn't recognize the jerk--I don't think it was Jennings.
In the meantime, Donnie Demento's reaction post was a one-liner about oil.
Of course it was. He doesn't give one flying fuck about the 'toy soldiers' going into battle. They're all replaceable, y'know. He just gets a new set to play with from mummy and daddy and tosses his old set in the trash, calling them 'losers' and 'suckers'. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
They probably crashed due to confusion about the mission, one thinking they were blowing shit up and one thinking the war was over and they were heading home. Let's hope they are found quickly and returned home to rest, recover and wait for a lucid, sentient Commander-in-Chief.
Update: it appears the two airmen have been captured by Iranians and there is no clear evidence of whether they are alive or not. At this moment, there is no one I would want less than Trump as Commander-in-chief. Every action he takes, every decision he makes, will be driven by what is best for Trump: he simply cares not about the lives of courageous American servicemen and servicewomen. My heart aches for those waiting at home for news of their loved ones and wish they had a more rational, empathetic DoD to work for their release.
Yeah, but only for two more weeks 🤦🏻.
Just like the health care plan , 6 years ago? 😂
Seriously, seriously baaaaad news.
Hegseth is an affirmative action for "stupid, white, Christian Nationalist, men" hire.
Malcolm Nance discussed this jet attack on his daily war coverage today.
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/us-iran-warcast-day-36-live-wmalcolm?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
He said as much.
According to Iran War Dispatch with Tim Mak Substack,
A US General "KELLOGG SUGGESTS NEW DEFENSE ALLIANCE: In his interview on Fox News on Thursday, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg called NATO ineffective in the Middle East war, and suggested that the U.S. create a new defense alliance.
Among possible members, he named Japan, Australia, and some European countries, such as Poland, Germany, and Ukraine, given its experience on the battlefield."
Why is Germany getting this honor? Is it because Germany seems willing to participate in War crimes? What is up with that?
General Kellogg is blowing smoke up his own ass. The U.S. and Israel have been committing war crimes all over Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon. Not even the loser members of the "Board of Peace" want to join our club.
Our Dear Leader has just insulted Japan, cost Australia a whole growing season, and threatened Ukraine, again, while Germany is denouncing him. All except maybe Poland would be glad to join an alliance to force regime change in the United States.
Let's hope the Iranians are planning to ignore our Secretary of Defense, (I mean War), mandate to show the enemy "no quarter". Let them show the world that it is the U.S. that is barbaric, not Iran.
Pete Hegsmith will probably get 100 service members killed trying to rescue those 2 pilots by shooting from the hip. They'll be the first boots on the ground.
Again, can't like this. AARRGH
It's like Black Hawk Down and the Hostage Crisis COMBINED! Ratings gold, people.
Oh great. American hostages now. Well, the clowns will handle that well.
by the way, here are a couple of good posts I wrote about Todd Blanche back during Donny's business fraud trial. he really is a terrible courtroom lawyer
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/donald-von-shitzinpantz-hates-his
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/trump-lawyer-todd-blanche-fucks-up
As we all know, Jabba the dump hires his lawyers and all minions for loyalty to him, not for ability or, heaven forbid, fealty to country and Constitution
“He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and low-grade paranoia.”
Sir Terry Pratchett, ‘Guards! Guards!’
Excellent reference.
Decent lawyers who are knowledgeable wouldn't take him on as a client.
does he even pay them?
Why would he pay them? They have the honor of representing him.
I posted somewhere yesterday that getting rid of Bondi and moving Blanche to the AG spot is like firing a hyena and replacing it with a baboon. What a fucking joke.
Von Shitzinpants for the win! Michael Cohen... what a disappointment he turned out to be.
Wasn't it Blanche who was unable to keep the lid on the Epstein thing to start with?
We expect nothing but the worst trash to be selected by the Seditionist/Fascist/Pedo Dicktator
If that fucking imbecile Blanche chased ambulances, he would run under the back tires and crush himself. Law schools have less pride than these fucking cement heads to whom they give JD (Jackoff Designation) degrees.
Which, in its own way, is kind of a silver lining. Trump keeps screaming at people to fix that terrible odor but he's the one sitting in his own shit.
But being a terrible courtroom attorney is the ultimate qualifier for just about everything Dumb Donnie could want in a flunky for any or every position for that matter.
Hey thanks for the reminder about that
Hey JT, thanks for the memories! You’ve been on a been on a very long roll, and much more to come!
Thank you Jeff.
Bondi should be disbarred.
Every day the Epstein/Trump/Maxwell files were not released was another day Bondi willfully broke the law.
Every malicious prosecution, every dismissal of career justice department prosecutors, every immoral and unethical action should be addressed.
Firing should only be step one for her and every member of the criminally corrupt Trump Administration.
I read that the Florida bar assoc. is investigating her.
Oh, YAY!! Gotta love the smell of ripe investigations in the morning!
Much better than smelling Daddy's ripe diaper.
Thank you Ann. The truth is out there: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/politics/pam-bondi-trump-university.html
Paywall.
Reports of deceptive practices and fraud by Donald J. Trump and his Trump University business unit had been piling up for several years in states across the nation, including in Florida.
The state attorney general in New York moved in, filing a https://cases.justia.com/new-york/other-courts/2014-2014-ny-slip-op-32685-u.pdf?ts=1413837035 in 2013 that https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/258cff96368329e1/ba8f54c4-full.pdf Mr. Trump and his for-profit trade school of “engaging in persistent fraudulent, illegal and deceptive conduct,” even though by that point Trump University was already out of business.
The Florida attorney general’s office, which Pam Bondi had taken over in 2011, handled it differently.
She publicly acknowledged that her office was examining complaints about Trump University, but it decided against a formal investigation.
The decision came soon after Mr. Trump, through his family foundation, sent a check for $25,000 to a political action committee associated with Ms. Bondi, who was running for a second term.
Florida’s was not the only state attorney general’s office to decide against taking up the Trump University matter.
Here ya go! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/politics/pam-bondi-trump-university.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.5Ywq.0wlADWN5IDlW&smid=url-share
Does the Florida Bar Association certify bartenders for drink-making ability?
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Thank you George. The DOJ was supposed to administer justice for the American people. Instead it was turned into the personal legal firm of Don the Con, with his former personal attorneys at the helm. Karma is coming for Pam Bondi's law license. I'm old enough to remember what happened to John Mitchell, Nixon's former AG. May she go to jail for the injustice she inflicted on the Epstein survivors and the injustice on the American people who paid her salary. Boo fucking hoo Spammy Jo.
Yes. Hope she follows John Mitchell’s footsteps into a lengthy prison term.
Actually, I'm with Theresa. That would do all of us more good than locking her up.
But then could Trump pardon her?
True Jane. Hoping the next President and AG will be committed to justice instead of crime, corruption, pardons, and self-dealing. Also, if Minnesota were to find her guilty of obstruction of justice- then the criminal elect couldn’t pardon her.
She should do a DEAL and spill her guts !
True. Although she might fight Aileen Cannon for the criminal elect’s post-Melania pre-nuptial.
speaking of - today I donated to the reelection campaign for Attorney General for the State of New York: the Honourable Letitia James! We NEED her, the only person to convict the treasonous felon POS and get THIRTY-FOUR CONVICTIONS against the orange rat bastid.
Thank you Elizabeth! A good reminder that while the criminal elect, his criminally corrupt Cabinet, and the feckless GOP-controlled Congress continue to diminish the quality of life of all (except the 1%), some AG’s have not abdicated their responsibility to justice.
Thank you - so of course beCAUSE she goes after criminals no matter if they're in the 1% or not, Letitia has been targeted as the orange bastid's 'enemy', yet THREE Grand Juries have 'failed to indict' her on the trumped-up charges brought by his fucked-up doj. Jeannine Pirro is foaming at the mouth to replace blondi bondi just so SHE can go after Letitia. She imagines that she'll be 'the one' able to 'indict a ham sandwich' by narrowing the jury pool to magats only. For my part, I think Pirro is so toxic and so despised by most New Yorkers her results would be even more dismal than the three tried so far. The deepest irony of it all is that they're trying for 'mortgage fraud' - saying that Letitia somehow 'lied' about getting a 2nd mortgage on a vacation home to claim it as her primary residence, I believe in Florida? MOST of those I know (even family members) did the same thing - no one lied. The 2nd place was always for vacations, allowing their friends to use and their kids to use for Spring Break, etc. I think we are the only ones who didn't do this, preferring to spend our rare vacations in Arizona and elsewhere. Her attorneys have proven that her paperwork is all in order. The constant attempts to indict her is PURELY to go after the only woman (and a black woman at that) to CONVICT HIM - and of course to force her into bankruptcy by this abuse of the Courts - something he's ALWAYS done. For that reason alone I'll donate as much as I can spare. She's stand-up. PS: years ago the LIAR-in-cheat bought first one then another adjoining properties (courtesy of cooperative Fla. banks) close to his Motel a lago, claiming they'd be HIS 'primary residence' for tax, mortgage and VOTING purposes. He never lived in either one and I believe they were eventually sold (unless he still owns them?) Because HE'S a cheat, fraud and grifter, he assumes everyone else must be? NO! We have a fucking CRIMINAL in our White House and he needs to be deep in the bowels of Sing Sing instead.
Thank you Elizabeth. The criminal elect and those who orbit around him do all they can to please him -whether it’s Blanche, “Bribe Me” Bondi, Pirro, Carr, Jordan, or Comer “Pyle”. I will continue to write, speak, and drive infrastructure through https://civ.works to countervail this entire criminal organization that was once a political party.
Pam Bondi will be released into the wilds of Florida where she will revert to her natural feral state.
Leavitt will inject more filler into her lips, but it won't save her job.
Tulsi is booking a flight to anywhere without an extradition treaty.
Poor Florida already has a snake problem.
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More filler in her lips will improve blowjobs for the Methuselah to whom she is married, and Orange Hitler
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IMO, Trump and Friends are on distraction hyperdrive. That is, "Distract today from what you Distracted from yesterday". And those were just distractions from the day before and the day before that and so it spins round and round to make Americans dizzy and nauseous. Trump must have hundreds of loyalists in and around the White House working on his constatant malevolence, trying to make America and the World believe Trump is Omnipotent. He's not Omnipotent!! He a sinking stone of moldy crud.. Think of the witches in MacBeth. Trump is another reptile slowly boiling in the witches' caldron. Be ready to protect the vote in November so the caldron does its job
Love it!!
Leavitt is going to go on maternity leave and find her true trad wife calling and decide to stay home with her children, because it used to be illegal to fire a woman for being pregnant, back when we had those pesky civil rights.
Rick Wilson said this morning she probably has already booked a flight to Moscow like a modern day Kim Philby.
Russia
Brilliant Ann!! Love your post!!
You'll soon see Pammy Jo waiting tables at a Cracker Barrel near I-95.
Evil Bitch.
I'm quite sure that she became very wealthy under her boss. She won't have to work again, unless the coming lawsuits bankrupt her. Hope so.
Same here. 🤞
Yeah she was definitely under her boss.. 🙄 I think I’m going to vomit 🤮
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Oh- gag me with a spoon, please!
Evil bitch absolutely sums up Pamela Jo.
“Waiting tables at a Cracker Barrel” — 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the laugh, Susan!
Waiting tables would be too good for her. Besides being a waitress is honest work. That's something Pammy Jo doesn't know how to do.
Or jumping in and out of sleeper cabs at the truck stop.😂😂😂
LOL!!!
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Midnight-6am shift, too.
THE DRUMPFY FAMILY
Based on The Addams Family theme song...
They’re greedy and they’re dummies
Drumpf’s face looks like a mummy’s
The opposite of yummy
The Drumpfy Family
Don Junior loves his cocaine
And Eric is a no-brain
They’re syphillitic, insane
The Drumpfy Family
Chum
Numb
And dumb
So hide beneath the covers
And find yourself a lover
Don’t be a MAGA sucker
The Drumpfy Family!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfawtDT945o for the original
And good riddance to that viper of empty, shallow, sycophantic loserdumb, Pam Bondi
The execrable cruel former ICE witch deserves another poem:
What are you now, Kristi
Feeling angry, embarrassed, but not misty
From Bryon’s bad luck
You already made him a cuck
Your morality is sure twisty
Excellent -- morality seems to be a relative term for this group of soulless cretins.
Stupid, incoherent and cruel. A trifecta.
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One of your best yet!
Thank you, Barb!
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So Noem, Bondi with Tulsi on the chopping block. Nothing like a misogynistic pedophile.
Yeah that is weird! Though I guess technically Bovino got quit-fired or something. But it is mostly women that take the fall in Maladministration 2.0!
but the pocket-Nazi was not fired by Donny
Yup. I noticed that, too. The whole lot of them need to be fired. Starting with the Bomber of School Children in Chief.
Use his proper title: Secretary of War Crimes.
Ahhh yeah that is a big difference. So it’s all ladies pretty much!
I think former national security advisor Mike Waltz was the first to be ... reassigned? After SignalGate?
Oh yeah that's right!
Yet they’ll all make more money with made-up job titles. Their firings accomplish absolutely nothing. Another trump-chaos ploy…Hey everyone, look at the headlines, not the subpoenas being avoided!
A friend just posted that she had watched a video released by Aaron Parnas from the Epstein stash showing a large man sitting on the chest of a young female, beating and strangling her. Killing her. So they made snuff films too of their "predilections." I have no doubt Shitler enjoyed these.
Hmmm. How about a large man sitting on the busty chest of Mr Kristi Noem. I tend to think that video would really pop.
I believe that pedophile and misogynist go hand in hand. He has to be a misogynist to rape little girls.
Kegstand needs to go too!
Donnie on TS last night.. we are in Iran to “take their oil and make loads of cash”. None of these ideas about regime change or helping the people of Iran… as if we didn’t already know… smash and grab operation that we, as taxpayers, get to foot the bill..Best to All Fellow Travelers.
Trump is exhaustingly predictable because all he cares about, wants, or thinks important in the entire global endeavor is $$$$. Sad for him; devastating for the rest of us.
Because Darth Cheney’s idea of using Iraq’s oil revenue to pay for the war worked so well.
Like Mexico paid for the wall.
Venezuela 2.0
Still with the Commie salutation, Slowball.
Most here are too young to get it but I see what you’re doing there.
Well aren’t you the clever individual… and what is the purpose of your comment? Do you have anything of substance to offer or are you just in it for insults for particular individuals u don’t care for? And Ole, historical references seem to be proper, if people do not understand the reference cause they are too young, well Sport, they have the ability to look up anything these days… as you do……such as who is Hunter Thompson? But I admire your determination to expose yourself.
I took Hunter Thompson sailing on my boat many years ago. I surely don’t have to look him up.
And I feel very clever indeed after reading one of your puerile offerings.
Fellow Traveler, indeed. I think that’s you, Chief
Thank you for your attention to this matter..Ole..
I thought the primary aim of the "military operation" was to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon???
And just how do you "take" their oil? We cant even take the Straight of Hormuz. And are we going to start by taking over oil extracting infrastructure? What if they blow it up? Then what? Rebuild while the world's oil supply crashes? Does he even think these things thru before he opens his mouth?
Don’t fret, Jeff. Handy Oakley misquoted Pam Bondi. The Dow didn’t fall below 50,000. It fell below “$50,000”!
I worked at Mount Vernon in the '70s, and I met a lot of celebrities. Fess Parker, who played Daniel Boone, was one of the nicest, most respectful of men towards a young girl who sold the MV guidebook for "50 cents plus two cents tax."
Glad he's not alive to see his image used like that.
ummm...Daniel Boone is not Davy Crockett.
Fess Parker was Davy Crockett in the 50s, with that coonskin cap, and Daniel Boone in the 60s.
I had a major crush on him as a child.
He was a beautiful human being and so tall and impressive that it immediately brought forth the idea of how George Washington related to those around him.
True, but Fess Parker played both characters.
I did not get his joke about Davy Crockett related to Jasmine Crockett. Is that supposed to be an insult?
Apparently. But nobody else gets it either.
You'd think by now all the Trumpy Toadies would learn that no matter how many heinous acts they commit in his name, it will never win them safety.
And speaking of firing people Hegseth needs to be next for firing the Sec. Joint Chiefs and head of the Army, Navy, and Airforce and replacing them with christo-fascist loyalist, one presumes.
Fingers crossed, but will Trump/Miller fire a male cabinet secretary while there are still women left to be canned?
Doubtful. Karoline had better watch her back.
How do we escape the drumpf curse?
I’m hoping for a golden hearse
Bondi got the axe
But we cannot relax
Blanche will be even worse
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I have so much joy over Pam Bondi getting shitcanned. As Donnie’s fixer it was always the inevitable end.
And I look forward to all the accountability that is about to come crashing down on her. May it come down hard and fast—just like her beloved DOW.
Bondi has always been crooked and greedy. She worked as a lobbyist, representing Qatar (making $115,000 per month) and a private prison company accused of inadequate care of prisoners, after serving as the Florida AG, where she dropped investigating Trump University after Drump Foundation donated $25,000 to her.
I wonder if she was one of the folks making bundles off the market-manipulation funds?
Bondi ignored the Epstein/Maxwell/Trump survivors, instead hiding the proof, ridiculing Congress, and engaging in illegal activity by watching what the House investigative members were searching through on one of the four computers they were allowed to access for a very limited time. I hope Bondi, like Nixon's AG, Mitchell, is found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and, of course, perjury.
What was once one of our proudest achievements, an unbiased DoJ, has become an international disgrace.
Blanche, the Maxwell tamer, will be a further erosion. Gotta wonder how far down the hole the "drill baby drill" will descend to protect the GoldenGolem.
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My reaction to the "Crockett" saga. No fucking clue.
Ditto. Is Trump dissing Davy or elevating Jasmine? Or is it totally a matter of "sounds like . . ."?
As Jeff might say, squirrels in Donny's brain must have chewed through the wrong wires, again!
Precisely!
I think trump doesn't know Crockett is a Democrat.
In that case, he's even more far gone than I thought. Crockett is almost as notorious in Trumpian circles as AOC.
I think he IS far gone!!
Me neither. What's the joke.
Fun fact: The USAG doesn't need to be a lawyer, or even to have attended law school. If Biden has appointed a pit bull Malcolm Nance as AG instead of Merrick Garland, we wouldn't be in this current mess.