I'm being told that as a constitutional monarch, King Charles has no choice but to go where they send him — but my premise remains that no country should be sending its representatives to meet with Donny
Lawrence had some clips of the speech on his show last night. I thought it was hilarious when Charles got a standing ovation after describing the need for checks & balances on executive power, and Vance and Holy Mike had to join in.
It was Keir Starmer's unrelenting campaign to suck up to Trump that forced Charles and Camilla to endure to endure Donny 'WeDon'tNeedNoPro-to-col Uh-huh' and his stone faced rent-a-wife.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
"Breaking: On 6-3 Party Line Vote, Supreme Court Drastically Weakens Voting Rights Act in Callais Case to Make It Much Harder for Minority Plaintiffs to Get Fair Representation in Redistricting"
Has anybody thought that the new building Bunker ballroom is going to be Trump’s control room for the 2026 midterm elections perhaps they’re making it super secret and super fortified for a reason. Since he doesn’t plan on leaving, but they know that there will be riots in the streets if he takes over the elections, he’s going to need a secure bunker. Call the underground White House to continue to manage the affairs of the nation, speak and play propaganda from all state run media. Maybe I have too much time on my hands? lol
I thought they got rid of that and the Lord’s Prayer in Texas schools in 1965 when the parents in my high school in Houston (which was over 50% Jewish) sued to stop it.
I think they need more lawsuits to insist on Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist , and Hindu prayers are also posted.
And we must not forget Cherokee, Apache, Comanche, and other truly Native American prayers!
OR. . .teach every child American and World History, English, several foreign languages, Math and Science and Civics Leave the prayers to religious leaders after school time and in a building for particular religions or just under the clear blue sky. Keep it out of the schools,
Especially since American schools are not considered the best. But we dont really want to raise smart thinking adults do we? If that were true, Trump wouldn't have been elected.
When they tried that in my high school decades ago, they had to stop after a few months ... Because they discovered that the students would just fall asleep at their desks!
After seeing Graham’s desperation, I thought perhaps it’s a bomb shelter so trump can use those nukes he thinks there’s no reason to have if he can’t play with them.
Maybe the bunker after the midterms and fall of democracy. They will militarize DC and that will be the underground White House. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! lol
Iran already knows that there are holes in the security. That bunker is probably not going to be up to standards either if we see the work Donnie is used to commissioning.
I threw this out the other day and my husband looked at me like I was nuts. Of course, I did add that the trump family planned never to leave. ‘How will they get provisions?’ dear husband asked ☹️ Such a know-it-all.
Scary scenario right there. Scary for the assholes burying themselves there. They don't seem to know that they may not emerge to anything they recognize.
Hands up✋🏼 if in lieu of a journalist taking up the "Tiedrich Challenge" you would have loved to have had Charles spill the beans on all he knows about EPSTEIN, live, right in front of our entire CONGRESS!
Sure would be nice to know what finally drove him to oust his own brother! I mean, it's not like this is the 1500s or whatever, and Andrew was going to challenge him to the throne!
Um, given the interesting history of the British monarchy, Andrew got away with his head still attached to his neck, so there is that. I think Charles had just had enough of his awful younger brother--who was, bafflingly, his mummy's favorite, along with her treasonous uncle.
Andrew’s former wife, Sarah Ferguson, took her daughters to have lunch with Epstein after he was released from prison. She was looking for him to help strengthen her brand, apparently.
Todd Blanche has joined the cast of Trump's "magic reality" show at the White House. In what paranoid world is posting a picture of 86-47 in sea shells a crime? Certainly not in America, a country ruled by laws not men. But if you step into Trump's paranoid, magical world, you can believe America is a country ruled by just one man and everything is GREAT. Unfortunately for Trump and his loyalist clinging to power, Americans are abandoning that world and coming back to s country of laws.
The case should not only be summarily dismissed with prejudice (meaning it can't be brought again), but the lawyers who signed onto it should be investigated by their state's board of bar overseers for abuse of process.
And since when is joking about a leader's demise against the law? Its not like you're making plans. If that were true, anyone who ever told an Ex "Drop dead" would be in jail.
The charges against Andrew potentially involve treason -- providing secret government info to non-allies. Virginia Giuffre's battering/rape by Andrew did not get his titles removed.
The Epstein files contain much, much more than the raping of young girls and, possibly, murder. There is a huge confluence of spy wear and money laundering. That is the real story they want to keep hidden.
ugh was not exactly my reaction. Pissed off and angry is more like it. I'm hoping the hardship and decline of the standard of living for 'white America' will produce the kind of shellacking the republican traitors deserve in November's midterm election. And in the future, the SC needs to be cleaned up...the stench is getting worse and worse as time goes by.
Roberts has his own serious ethical issues. His wife took payments from companies in industries whose cases were heard by the SC. Roberts never reported the sources of income -- an "oversight." All the conservative justices are shady and compromised.
Why are we waiting for an election that can be tampered with by these desperate criminals. Unfortunately, our military goons are willing to obey illegal orders.
That's what I keep asking my dog! What the fuck are they waiting for? We keep thinking it can't get any worse and then it gets SO MUCH WORSE! Get him and his entire cabinet out of there.
The Republicans have turned things upside down -- remember when it was neo-Confederates and other racist white people who were constantly yelling "States' rights! States' rights!" Now that the White House and much of Congress are in anti-democratic hands, it's liberals and progressives pushing hard against federal government overreach. My state's attorney general, Andrea Campbell, is among the many Democratic AGs fighting back against the Trump administration. (I'm in MA.)
Roberts has been on a mission to kill the VRA since his days working for Reagan when he was tasked with looking for loopholes that Republicans could exploit to cheat.
The 5th Circuit -- can we call it a 5th Column yet? -- has OKed Texas's anti-constitutional requirement to post the 10 Commandments in classrooms. Can't wait to see how SCOTUS majority handles this one. Will they 86 the First Amendment and declare the U.S. a Christian nation? It'll have to be a *Protestant* Christian nation, of course, since they're not big fans of Pope Leo these days.
Was thinking the same thing, but I'd for sure add Thomas and probably Kavanaugh and Barrett to the list. As I just noted elsewhere, Gorsuch was raised Catholic but is now an Episcopalian.
This doesn't follow. I expect that Sotomayor is a fan, and probably Jackson (nondenominational Protestant) and Kagan (Jewish) admire him. Last I looked, 3 of the 9 weren't Catholic. Gorsuch was raised Catholic but is now Episcopalian. High-church Episcopalianism can look a lot like Catholicism in ritual, but Episcopalians aren't guided by the pope in Rome. JD Vance, btw, a recent convert to Catholicism, said earlier this month that "it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." Which many of us greeted with "WTF??"
I didn’t say the minority were in that camp. The important thing is the Catholic justices, JD Vance are tight with Leonard Leo, who is Opus Dei, a right-Catholic lay organization that didn’t like Pope Francis and most likely don’t like Pope Leo.
Of course Episcopalians don’t follow the pope because the roots are Church of England, Henry the VIII’s creation so he could dictate when someone can get divorced instead of the pope having that authority.
My father was a Presbyterian minister and we knew a few Episcopalian rectors, one of whom was my dad’s best friend.
It looked like a Botox grimace. I am noticing these things because my daughter always points out things like Plastic surgery, Botox and AI in everything these days. So, now I am more noticing the Botox. It looked like it was hard for her to arrange the smile on her face because she had to stretch frozen skin. Whatever the reason, she looked quite frightening. If I were Trump I would make sure I had security around me when I went to sleep.
Perhaps. I just now that her face looked like it was hard to crack a smile when she remembered too, and it looked like the most frightening smile in a horror movie.
I know Democrats would have to win a veto proof majority for this to work, but there’s no reason there should not be a code of ethics for SCOTUS instituted.
A high bar type code of ethics. John Roberts could resign or his wife could quit her job.
Clarence Thomas could resign or Ginny Thomas could cut out her shenanigans, all of them. I know Donald Trump will still be president, but as Mitch McConnell taught us, we don’t have to put confirmation up for a vote.
All of that just requires applying the rules and laws around lower court judges to the top court too. As for who would hear the cases, I suggest requiring Congressional impeachment procedures.
Many of the lower courts have ethics rules, SCOTUS does not. I’m all for impeachment for justices which the constitution allows, but which? How many do we pick?
Gorsuch shouldn’t be there, Kavanaugh should never have survived confirmation, McConnell violated his own rules&stretched ethics to get Coney Barrett confirmed after presidential voting had started. Clarence&Ginny Thomas are, in my opinion, the most corrupt. Alito is so mired in ideology it dampens his intellect.
I choose Roberts. His wife’s job is a $20million ethics question
John Roberts and the other members of the “Sacred Six” religiously ideological justices forming the right-wing of that court persist in their perspective that only white Christian’s men are worthy of fully participating in our democratic republic.
The hat/lamp is a winner! Elmer Fudd wins also! Kudos to the King (Charles, that is) for pointing out to Congress what is in the Constitution (basically). I’m sure it all went right over maggot heads.
Our nation is in such disarray that it takes Charles, a monarch from the nation we seceded from 250 years ago for more individual rights and personal liberty, to come here and remind us of how precious freedom is. And it's a certainty that although in the past Charles has been derided as not being the sharpest tool in the royal family shed, nearly every admonishment of his went right over the fat orange empty head of the leader of this formerly sane nation. trump makes Charles look like the most intelligent, articulate, and rational leader around.
Trump spooged out yet another demented nocturnal emission at 4 am this morning and we just accept it. The media (and we) should be asking about the 25th amendment every fucking day.
Pushing for the 25th Amendment is a start, but there must be consequences for Trump and his minion’s destruction of our democracy. Impeachment would be a better course, but that would require the MAGA controlled Congress to act in the nation’s interest, not their own.
On every No Kings Day, the MAGA cult loses their shit, and screeches all over social media about how Donny doesn’t think he’s a king. That “two kings” photo will be my standard reply until the end of time.
I miss Jill, I miss Michelle, I miss Barbara Bush, I miss Lady Bird . . . I was still a kid during JFK's presidency, but I miss Jackie too, especially when I see DJT's name added to the Kennedy Center. Swine before pearls . . .
"Married to that tumor." That's why Melanoma always looks like she's competing in a breath holding contest. She's keeps getting the waft of a dying man walking.
I see King Charles' visit very differently. In fact, his speech made to the joint session of Congress yesterday was nothing short of inspiring and, even better, hit Trump in his ample gut gracefully but pointedly. BOTH sides of Congress clapped and stood up several times in agreement with the points made in the King's speech. Clearly the King was sent to smooth some of the orange asshole's ruffled feathers; indeed he was the perfect Trojan horse. In the end, if nothing else, it just felt so damn good to hear an intelligent speech delivered smartly and sincerely with no personal opinions, stupid comments, threats or worse, non-sensical stories that have nothing to do with the purpose of the speech. Our ties to the U.K. are more important than the pig that's currently grubbing up the oval office. Our ties to the rest of our allies are, too, for that matter. So, if King Charles had to do some kissing up in person, so what. He did none of that in his eloquent soeech. At this point everyone just wants the piece of shit not to, literally, go nuclear! Me, included.
My sense is that any smoothing over and/or kissing up was de rigeur and done by rote. The real purpose of the visit was to deliver that dagger of a speech, which Charles did, may I say, to the hilt.
It was blistering in content and delivered with immaculate, deft accuracy.... "And, Mr. Speaker........"
Well said! "Kissing up in person" is part of what diplomacy is about, after all -- not that anyone in the current administration understands that, of course.
Right. I get that it's particularly falling because everyone hates Trump, but it still has to happen. No matter what, we'll get rid of Trump one way or another. After all, he's helping us every time he opens his stupid mouth or writes another Truth Social missive filled with threats!
Yeah--Tapper asked a British journalist the other day about why Charles didn't just meet with the survivors (in a tone that suggested Charles was being nefarious); the British guy explained, at length, the complication such a meeting would cause, endangering the case in England, because Pervy Andrew is Charles' brother and the case is under the purview of the throne. Tapper/his staff didn't bother to do an actual bit of independent research to find this out ahead of time.....
And, in a close contender for 'what the fuck is wrong with you?', the British journalist then observed that Howard Liar Lutnick was attending whatever to-do Charles and Camilla were inflicted with at the White House and noted he'd like to discuss the inclusion of such a person on the invitation list with Tapper.
In a retreat that approached light speed, Tapper instantly changed the subject.
Actual journalist would've researched why Charles would not meet with the Epstein-Trump survivors and then, if the topic was going to be broached, would've framed it as 'verify that this is the reason why,' rather than framing it as a kind of 'gotcha.' The lack of basic effort in his job made Tapper look like a fool.
Some good news, Arizona doesn't have to hand over their voter rolls (for now anyway). Another Trump defeat.
I'm still flabergasted that a Grand Jury would indict Comey over a picture of beach art. WTF I know they only hear one side of the story but really? Comey didn't even make the damn thing. The old saying, "you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich" totally applies here.
Also thank god that 86 doesn't mean to kill someone, otherwise there would be a lot more dead people in this country.
I'm thinking the press should be asking every GOP congressperson "what the fuck is wrong with you?" daily from now on. They seem to be under a spell of some kind the way they defend the lying shitter in chief.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
Sorry, I saw my cue so...
The "Two KIngs" post by the WH is so wild since I spent all day yesterday on Threads, wading through morons shouting, "Hey libs, where's yer No Kings protest now!" accompanied by photos of democrats being welcoming to a king. Of another country. That is not ours.
I'm being told that as a constitutional monarch, King Charles has no choice but to go where they send him — but my premise remains that no country should be sending its representatives to meet with Donny
Steve Schmidt over at The Warning agrees, but he had a good take on Chuck's Congressional address. https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-optics-were-disgraceful-but-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ubvcb
It's so crazy that Charles got a standing o for mentioning all the things Congress is refusing to acknowledge or do anything about.
I was screaming at the TV!
WTAF??!!
Yeah I thought the same thing. Very weird
Lawrence had some clips of the speech on his show last night. I thought it was hilarious when Charles got a standing ovation after describing the need for checks & balances on executive power, and Vance and Holy Mike had to join in.
😁😂
It was Keir Starmer's unrelenting campaign to suck up to Trump that forced Charles and Camilla to endure to endure Donny 'WeDon'tNeedNoPro-to-col Uh-huh' and his stone faced rent-a-wife.
Starmer's getting desperate because of the Mandelson situation and may be booted out of his job.
Yeah, the Mandelson thing is taking its toll. As it should, IMO. Starmer was warned about him and hired him into his cabinet anyway.
So Charles couldn't just do this?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rwhEDUKl8kw
In all fairness ing Charles is the Head of State, not the head of government. His role is to represent British history and culture.
While Trump was raised by a sleazy slumlord from Queens, to be a greedy, lying schiester.
Did you mean "shyster," which refers to a sleazy lawyer, or were trying to coin a new word?
Agree100%. Do NOT legitimize the regime
Ain’t no truer words Jeff!
Moist tarts passing out cutlery is sounding like a better and better system of government all the time.
Amounts to "Cruel and Most Unusual Punishment", if you ask me.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
"Breaking: On 6-3 Party Line Vote, Supreme Court Drastically Weakens Voting Rights Act in Callais Case to Make It Much Harder for Minority Plaintiffs to Get Fair Representation in Redistricting"
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=155728
ugh
‘Race-neutral’ in a racially structured system just means the bias gets baked in and protected. Calling that fairness is… convenient.
I know, right?
What do words actually mean, anyway?
Has anybody thought that the new building Bunker ballroom is going to be Trump’s control room for the 2026 midterm elections perhaps they’re making it super secret and super fortified for a reason. Since he doesn’t plan on leaving, but they know that there will be riots in the streets if he takes over the elections, he’s going to need a secure bunker. Call the underground White House to continue to manage the affairs of the nation, speak and play propaganda from all state run media. Maybe I have too much time on my hands? lol
I thought they got rid of that and the Lord’s Prayer in Texas schools in 1965 when the parents in my high school in Houston (which was over 50% Jewish) sued to stop it.
I think they need more lawsuits to insist on Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist , and Hindu prayers are also posted.
And we must not forget Cherokee, Apache, Comanche, and other truly Native American prayers!
OR. . .teach every child American and World History, English, several foreign languages, Math and Science and Civics Leave the prayers to religious leaders after school time and in a building for particular religions or just under the clear blue sky. Keep it out of the schools,
YES!
Especially since American schools are not considered the best. But we dont really want to raise smart thinking adults do we? If that were true, Trump wouldn't have been elected.
How about a moment of silence? Everyone can say their own prayer inside their own head.
When they tried that in my high school decades ago, they had to stop after a few months ... Because they discovered that the students would just fall asleep at their desks!
I agree. If parents want their kids pray school, send them to private or parochial school.
Yes!
After seeing Graham’s desperation, I thought perhaps it’s a bomb shelter so trump can use those nukes he thinks there’s no reason to have if he can’t play with them.
Maybe the bunker after the midterms and fall of democracy. They will militarize DC and that will be the underground White House. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! lol
Having him hold up in a bunker under the east wing may work in our favour, could we not just barricade the door from the outside and call it his tomb?
I would lend a hand in that effort!
A great idea!!!
Iran already knows that there are holes in the security. That bunker is probably not going to be up to standards either if we see the work Donnie is used to commissioning.
This is what Iran thinks of Trump and us. https://youtu.be/2R7xUxtd5Bk?si=ECh3EhxzyQDo09L6
No...you do not have too much time on your hands Mike.
Definitely building it to hide from the masses (us).
I threw this out the other day and my husband looked at me like I was nuts. Of course, I did add that the trump family planned never to leave. ‘How will they get provisions?’ dear husband asked ☹️ Such a know-it-all.
They will just put that McDonald delivery lady to task
If he opens the door to retrieve the greasy burgers and fries, he will be captured and put into a straight jacket.
It's actually "straitjacket," as in Trump's "Straitjacket of Hormuz."
That was my first thought - golden arch included with indentured servants.
😂
This is exactly it. He saw how easy it was for a bunch of fat yahoos to take over the Capitol without even firing a shot.
Scary scenario right there. Scary for the assholes burying themselves there. They don't seem to know that they may not emerge to anything they recognize.
They don't seem to realize they may not be allowed to emerge!
😆
I cant imagine it will be finished by then, unless they build the bunker first before there even is a building.
Hands up✋🏼 if in lieu of a journalist taking up the "Tiedrich Challenge" you would have loved to have had Charles spill the beans on all he knows about EPSTEIN, live, right in front of our entire CONGRESS!
Sure would be nice to know what finally drove him to oust his own brother! I mean, it's not like this is the 1500s or whatever, and Andrew was going to challenge him to the throne!
Um, given the interesting history of the British monarchy, Andrew got away with his head still attached to his neck, so there is that. I think Charles had just had enough of his awful younger brother--who was, bafflingly, his mummy's favorite, along with her treasonous uncle.
Andrew’s former wife, Sarah Ferguson, took her daughters to have lunch with Epstein after he was released from prison. She was looking for him to help strengthen her brand, apparently.
I believe that she was desperate for Epstein to give her more money. It is documented that he had supported her generously with "loans".
Todd Blanche has joined the cast of Trump's "magic reality" show at the White House. In what paranoid world is posting a picture of 86-47 in sea shells a crime? Certainly not in America, a country ruled by laws not men. But if you step into Trump's paranoid, magical world, you can believe America is a country ruled by just one man and everything is GREAT. Unfortunately for Trump and his loyalist clinging to power, Americans are abandoning that world and coming back to s country of laws.
It's a f'n photograph, for God's sake. We can get ten years in prison for taking a photo? It's just a distraction from the Epstein files.
The case should not only be summarily dismissed with prejudice (meaning it can't be brought again), but the lawyers who signed onto it should be investigated by their state's board of bar overseers for abuse of process.
Todd Blanche was gone from being a decent lawyer at SDNY to a sock puppet
And since when is joking about a leader's demise against the law? Its not like you're making plans. If that were true, anyone who ever told an Ex "Drop dead" would be in jail.
My understanding is that he needs to protect himself and keep from them digging deeper. So, Epstein is probably not a topic he wants to cover.
The charges against Andrew potentially involve treason -- providing secret government info to non-allies. Virginia Giuffre's battering/rape by Andrew did not get his titles removed.
The Epstein files contain much, much more than the raping of young girls and, possibly, murder. There is a huge confluence of spy wear and money laundering. That is the real story they want to keep hidden.
I know. The murder to me is the biggest issue though, and that could get Trump the death penalty in Florida.
Thanks for the reminder Sharon. The treason charges are not what has stuck in my mind.
🤲
Literally jfc
John Roberts won’t be satisfied until the entire voting rights act is destroyed.
That’s been John Roberts’ mission for most of his adult life. It’s no secret.
ugh was not exactly my reaction. Pissed off and angry is more like it. I'm hoping the hardship and decline of the standard of living for 'white America' will produce the kind of shellacking the republican traitors deserve in November's midterm election. And in the future, the SC needs to be cleaned up...the stench is getting worse and worse as time goes by.
Roberts has his own serious ethical issues. His wife took payments from companies in industries whose cases were heard by the SC. Roberts never reported the sources of income -- an "oversight." All the conservative justices are shady and compromised.
Why are we waiting for an election that can be tampered with by these desperate criminals. Unfortunately, our military goons are willing to obey illegal orders.
That's what I keep asking my dog! What the fuck are they waiting for? We keep thinking it can't get any worse and then it gets SO MUCH WORSE! Get him and his entire cabinet out of there.
Well, what is the dog's opinion? Enquiring minds want to know.
Great. Short of a coup d'etat how do you propose doing it?
Remember when the extreme right used to complain about activist judges re-writing legislation and the Constitution?
LOLOLOLOL forever. I do and it was BS then. The activist judges making shit up have always been conservatives.
The Republicans have turned things upside down -- remember when it was neo-Confederates and other racist white people who were constantly yelling "States' rights! States' rights!" Now that the White House and much of Congress are in anti-democratic hands, it's liberals and progressives pushing hard against federal government overreach. My state's attorney general, Andrea Campbell, is among the many Democratic AGs fighting back against the Trump administration. (I'm in MA.)
She was not my choice four years ago. I am enthusiastically supporting her for re-election.
Roberts has been on a mission to kill the VRA since his days working for Reagan when he was tasked with looking for loopholes that Republicans could exploit to cheat.
The 5th Circuit -- can we call it a 5th Column yet? -- has OKed Texas's anti-constitutional requirement to post the 10 Commandments in classrooms. Can't wait to see how SCOTUS majority handles this one. Will they 86 the First Amendment and declare the U.S. a Christian nation? It'll have to be a *Protestant* Christian nation, of course, since they're not big fans of Pope Leo these days.
SCOTUS is a big fan of Pope Leo. Only 2 are not Catholic!
That doesn't mean a whole lot. Look at how much of catholic teaching the conservatives are willing to ignore.
I doubt Alito, who is Opus Dei, likes Leo one bit. Nor Roberts or Gorsuch.
Was thinking the same thing, but I'd for sure add Thomas and probably Kavanaugh and Barrett to the list. As I just noted elsewhere, Gorsuch was raised Catholic but is now an Episcopalian.
Barrett is some stripe of evangelical. Episcopalian, ie, Church of England, ie, Catholicism with divorce and less guilt.
This doesn't follow. I expect that Sotomayor is a fan, and probably Jackson (nondenominational Protestant) and Kagan (Jewish) admire him. Last I looked, 3 of the 9 weren't Catholic. Gorsuch was raised Catholic but is now Episcopalian. High-church Episcopalianism can look a lot like Catholicism in ritual, but Episcopalians aren't guided by the pope in Rome. JD Vance, btw, a recent convert to Catholicism, said earlier this month that "it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." Which many of us greeted with "WTF??"
I didn’t say the minority were in that camp. The important thing is the Catholic justices, JD Vance are tight with Leonard Leo, who is Opus Dei, a right-Catholic lay organization that didn’t like Pope Francis and most likely don’t like Pope Leo.
Of course Episcopalians don’t follow the pope because the roots are Church of England, Henry the VIII’s creation so he could dictate when someone can get divorced instead of the pope having that authority.
My father was a Presbyterian minister and we knew a few Episcopalian rectors, one of whom was my dad’s best friend.
Is the 5th circuit run by an asshole whose last name is Kazmaryk?
The most corrupt court in history
I vote for your LAMP! When Melania remembered to smile, it was botoxed looking and frightening.
It seemed more like a grimace.
It looked like a Botox grimace. I am noticing these things because my daughter always points out things like Plastic surgery, Botox and AI in everything these days. So, now I am more noticing the Botox. It looked like it was hard for her to arrange the smile on her face because she had to stretch frozen skin. Whatever the reason, she looked quite frightening. If I were Trump I would make sure I had security around me when I went to sleep.
Those little half smiles were very weird. Maybe she had gas?
Perhaps. I just now that her face looked like it was hard to crack a smile when she remembered too, and it looked like the most frightening smile in a horror movie.
I know Democrats would have to win a veto proof majority for this to work, but there’s no reason there should not be a code of ethics for SCOTUS instituted.
A high bar type code of ethics. John Roberts could resign or his wife could quit her job.
Clarence Thomas could resign or Ginny Thomas could cut out her shenanigans, all of them. I know Donald Trump will still be president, but as Mitch McConnell taught us, we don’t have to put confirmation up for a vote.
All of that just requires applying the rules and laws around lower court judges to the top court too. As for who would hear the cases, I suggest requiring Congressional impeachment procedures.
Many of the lower courts have ethics rules, SCOTUS does not. I’m all for impeachment for justices which the constitution allows, but which? How many do we pick?
Gorsuch shouldn’t be there, Kavanaugh should never have survived confirmation, McConnell violated his own rules&stretched ethics to get Coney Barrett confirmed after presidential voting had started. Clarence&Ginny Thomas are, in my opinion, the most corrupt. Alito is so mired in ideology it dampens his intellect.
I choose Roberts. His wife’s job is a $20million ethics question
John Roberts and the other members of the “Sacred Six” religiously ideological justices forming the right-wing of that court persist in their perspective that only white Christian’s men are worthy of fully participating in our democratic republic.
Taney Court 2.0 wilding out!
We knew the corrupt 6 won’t stop until voting rights are completely abolished
Teach Donald Trump situational awareness? I'd rather try teaching my cat calculus...
With better results
Indubitably.
Your cat’s math skills are better than Trump’s.
My cat's too. No feline has ever promised to lower the price of pharmaceuticals or indeed any consumer item by "500, 600, 1200%"
And the cat could spray his cankles. My dog would 💩 on his shoes.
Those cankles could be mistaken for scratching posts.
Ackkkktually... ever seen cats engaged in gravity experimentation? The little white lab coats and clip boards give it away.
Excellent point.
Perfect!
Or my dog, cute as she is, astrophysics.
the cat would catch on faster.
It took a king from the UK
To come here and say
To conservative fucks
That fascism sucks
It's not something to obey
😂😂😂😂😂😂
👏👏👏👏
🙌
Beyond simple and perfect! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The hat/lamp is a winner! Elmer Fudd wins also! Kudos to the King (Charles, that is) for pointing out to Congress what is in the Constitution (basically). I’m sure it all went right over maggot heads.
The lamp is brighter than Melania, even when unplugged.
😂😂😂
Our nation is in such disarray that it takes Charles, a monarch from the nation we seceded from 250 years ago for more individual rights and personal liberty, to come here and remind us of how precious freedom is. And it's a certainty that although in the past Charles has been derided as not being the sharpest tool in the royal family shed, nearly every admonishment of his went right over the fat orange empty head of the leader of this formerly sane nation. trump makes Charles look like the most intelligent, articulate, and rational leader around.
And the need for checks on executive power.
I too loved that direct comment that King Charles probably knew the orange felon wouldn’t understand it was a slap tothe felon’s face!
Trump spooged out yet another demented nocturnal emission at 4 am this morning and we just accept it. The media (and we) should be asking about the 25th amendment every fucking day.
Every. Day.
Pushing for the 25th Amendment is a start, but there must be consequences for Trump and his minion’s destruction of our democracy. Impeachment would be a better course, but that would require the MAGA controlled Congress to act in the nation’s interest, not their own.
What if millions and millions of people posted “86 47” anywhere and everywhere?
Lot’s of folks are posting here on Substack, some have used the shell theme to post other messages.
I thought the same thing. Maybe it should be on No Kings Day.
Then too!! All the time anywhere. Even seashells at the seashore.
Done.
I’m bringing that as my sign to the May 1 rally.
Bring bail money!
I hate this fucking timeline.
8647!!
On every No Kings Day, the MAGA cult loses their shit, and screeches all over social media about how Donny doesn’t think he’s a king. That “two kings” photo will be my standard reply until the end of time.
He just screamed at Norah O'Donnell that he's not a king. If there were a hypocrisy award, he'd finally win something he deserves.
Melanie needs a new stylist. That lavender dress is fugly. I miss Michelle!
I miss Jill, I miss Michelle, I miss Barbara Bush, I miss Lady Bird . . . I was still a kid during JFK's presidency, but I miss Jackie too, especially when I see DJT's name added to the Kennedy Center. Swine before pearls . . .
Don't forget Betty Ford.
Yes yes yes! Allow me to add Rosalynn Carter to that list of notable first ladies. All missed, every day. ♥️
I treated myself to the gorgeous book “The Look” which is about Michelle Obama’s beautiful style. Great stories too.
Michelle Obama has such a natural, easy style. She seems happy in her skin, unlike the grimacing, botoxed, forced style of the first concubine.
Mary, thanks for the tip! ♥️ I adore Michelle and must get that book!!!
It’s very ugly
Mel's hips appear to be quite wide in that dress.
Fuck SCOTUS!
"They tried to kill me so build me my room
Or else I'll find children to groom
I do it for real
With tons of great zeal
I'm an orange-faced yellow baboon."
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Here's the story
Of an alleged lady
Who scratched and clawed and maybe slept her way
To a life of privilege and mahnee
Where she's found today
She's the object of disdain
Did she ride on Epstein's plane
She denies it to everyone around
Was it there that
Dahnold first schtupped her
Or was it on the ground
She's now married to that tumor
But she has no sense of humor
When comedians like Kimmel crack a joke
That she can't wait
To be a rich widow
When someday soon he'll croak
Well, this is brilliant! Is this to the tune of The Brady Bunch?
Yes. My apologies to Sherwood Schwartz
I'm super glad you two talents use your skills for good.
"Married to that tumor." That's why Melanoma always looks like she's competing in a breath holding contest. She's keeps getting the waft of a dying man walking.
Where's that glow of a soon-to-be widow?
I bet, every morning she gets up and sees him eating breakfast, she gags.
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Brilliant and catchy ear worm 😅
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One King and a Joker
Does that make Lindsay the queen of hearts 🤭
Lady Lindsay, the Dutchess of Downlow, by God. And that is how you will address her henceforth.
Oh for sure😆
The Queen of tarts
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I see King Charles' visit very differently. In fact, his speech made to the joint session of Congress yesterday was nothing short of inspiring and, even better, hit Trump in his ample gut gracefully but pointedly. BOTH sides of Congress clapped and stood up several times in agreement with the points made in the King's speech. Clearly the King was sent to smooth some of the orange asshole's ruffled feathers; indeed he was the perfect Trojan horse. In the end, if nothing else, it just felt so damn good to hear an intelligent speech delivered smartly and sincerely with no personal opinions, stupid comments, threats or worse, non-sensical stories that have nothing to do with the purpose of the speech. Our ties to the U.K. are more important than the pig that's currently grubbing up the oval office. Our ties to the rest of our allies are, too, for that matter. So, if King Charles had to do some kissing up in person, so what. He did none of that in his eloquent soeech. At this point everyone just wants the piece of shit not to, literally, go nuclear! Me, included.
My sense is that any smoothing over and/or kissing up was de rigeur and done by rote. The real purpose of the visit was to deliver that dagger of a speech, which Charles did, may I say, to the hilt.
It was blistering in content and delivered with immaculate, deft accuracy.... "And, Mr. Speaker........"
Well said! "Kissing up in person" is part of what diplomacy is about, after all -- not that anyone in the current administration understands that, of course.
Right. I get that it's particularly falling because everyone hates Trump, but it still has to happen. No matter what, we'll get rid of Trump one way or another. After all, he's helping us every time he opens his stupid mouth or writes another Truth Social missive filled with threats!
Welp his supportive comment about Ukr forced JD to have to STAND UP AND CLAP (weakly)… so there WAS that…
This was a thing of beauty in a speech full of perfectly executed and delivered shade.
But it was like talking trash to golden retrievers.
Refused to meet the Epstein survivors, (ongoing investigations), hm
Yeah--Tapper asked a British journalist the other day about why Charles didn't just meet with the survivors (in a tone that suggested Charles was being nefarious); the British guy explained, at length, the complication such a meeting would cause, endangering the case in England, because Pervy Andrew is Charles' brother and the case is under the purview of the throne. Tapper/his staff didn't bother to do an actual bit of independent research to find this out ahead of time.....
And, in a close contender for 'what the fuck is wrong with you?', the British journalist then observed that Howard Liar Lutnick was attending whatever to-do Charles and Camilla were inflicted with at the White House and noted he'd like to discuss the inclusion of such a person on the invitation list with Tapper.
In a retreat that approached light speed, Tapper instantly changed the subject.
Legacy media VERY comfortable operating on ‘tone’ and ‘vibes’… how far it’s fallen - just sayin
THX!
Actual journalist would've researched why Charles would not meet with the Epstein-Trump survivors and then, if the topic was going to be broached, would've framed it as 'verify that this is the reason why,' rather than framing it as a kind of 'gotcha.' The lack of basic effort in his job made Tapper look like a fool.
Some good news, Arizona doesn't have to hand over their voter rolls (for now anyway). Another Trump defeat.
I'm still flabergasted that a Grand Jury would indict Comey over a picture of beach art. WTF I know they only hear one side of the story but really? Comey didn't even make the damn thing. The old saying, "you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich" totally applies here.
Also thank god that 86 doesn't mean to kill someone, otherwise there would be a lot more dead people in this country.
I'm thinking the press should be asking every GOP congressperson "what the fuck is wrong with you?" daily from now on. They seem to be under a spell of some kind the way they defend the lying shitter in chief.
8647 before he kills US all
Ask if they know what 86 originally meant in its true original use? After all, UnSCOTUS says original language is what defines everything thereafter!
True. Someone posted the origination of 86 yesterday. Interesting
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
Sorry, I saw my cue so...
The "Two KIngs" post by the WH is so wild since I spent all day yesterday on Threads, wading through morons shouting, "Hey libs, where's yer No Kings protest now!" accompanied by photos of democrats being welcoming to a king. Of another country. That is not ours.
The stupid is getting out of hand.