As promised the Lady Chase the Egg game from last night. The Canuckistani captain (the big No. 4) is arguably the best player in the world, male or female.
Yes and no. As you know, the law is a double-edged sword. If you commit bribery of a public official to get your pardon, that’s a new crime you can be prosecuted for.
And rightly so, but I don't like the idea of wiping someone's slate clean and then starting over with just a bribery charge, which probably doesn't carry the kind of sentencing weight the initial charges did, couple of months in Club Fed or whatever.
In 1929 (on Black Friday!), Interior Secretary Albert Fall was convicted of accepting a $385,000 bribe, which would be about $7.5 million today. That Teapot Dome Scandal was known as the worst federal government scandal from then until Watergate.
The Trumpers probably grift that much every minute.
Yes! No kid gloves when these fuckers get voted or thrown out. They need to be perp walked and thrown in jail!
I really do wish somebody would bring me the head of Merrick Garland that I might perfromatively display my anger with him for not having done so when he had the chance and it was his duty!
I retired from federal service about seven - eight years ago just to avoid having to look at the pix of donnie hung up in the lobby.
If a newly reconstituted DOJ ever needs help with butterfly nets, fishing tackle or tranquilzer darts to bring in some of these assholes I can easily be persuaded to skip retirement and help the Republic once again.
But I do draw the line against me setting bear traps or neck snares out which are baited with child porn or snuff films. I will NOT have anything to do with such kinds of bait!
I read Project 2025. I knew what Trump and Vought were going to do. That's why I retired from Social Security in July 2024. And they have enacted a whole chunk of that Nazi project across the board. Thanks to Trump, Vought, Sleazy E and his Peter Pan Posse they have FUBARed Social Security.
>> According to Salon, Trump hired Habba because he saw her on TV (Fox News, of course) ...
A minor point in the grand scheme of things but if you check back, you'll see that this is how she first came to his attention: "she apparently caught the president’s eye after she joined his golf club in Bedminster". It was only after that that she started appearing on Fox. I have found some old pix of her, and I am fairly well convinced that she did all of that plastic surgery right before joining the golf club.
“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth
Hey Barry, I like you. But no fuckin' thanks for Tom Homan. WTF were you thinking, giving him a Presidential award? Go get your boy, before the rest of us do.
Imagine a miserable world where everything is transactional. That's where the 33-37% of Trump supporters live. And that is the world they want. For evangelicals, that's what God wants. Fuck kind Jesus, God's got to get his bag.
Great point. And is it any wonder those people live in fear of getting ripped off, and in fact get ripped off all the time?
By contrast. I've long noticed that when I've about had it, the world and people seem to go out of their way to help me. The Almighty puts odd little jokes in my way, and helps me notice them. If I let others go first and smile, I get through faster somehow.
And just now, the kid at the hardware store gave me back an extra $5 in change, which I got to be the good guy and give back to her.
That's a much more pleasant world to live in. And I get to decide that's where I am.
It's a wonderous day; government officials are abusing their power in stupidly obvious ways, but it is still indeed a wonderful day. We will have all winter to sort those fuckers out, go enjoy a wonderful day.
Someone put stickers on the parking boxes around my neighborhood that said something along the lines of “REPORT TRAITORS AND INVADERS! And had a tip-line and ICE.gov. I removed one and spied the remains of another that someone else removed; we don’t put up with that nonsense here.
I haven't seen those stickers around Minneapolis. Though around 6:30 am, while having coffee on our balcony, I heard lots of car horns and whistles from a ways off.
Those fuckers are back.
They never left, but they seem to have been told to try to start trouble right before the midterms.
They're back in CA in full fascist form again. They violently assaulted a student with disabilities, a US citizen, for one recently-reported example. https://apple.news/ADTMlCEsTRj2Q0D7XGLPzdg
As promised the Lady Chase the Egg game from last night. The Canuckistani captain (the big No. 4) is arguably the best player in the world, male or female.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bXTc5sgDRlc&ra=m
"go back and un-pardon them so that they can be re-convicted!"
Is that a thing? I thought you got immunity with a pardon.
Yes and no. As you know, the law is a double-edged sword. If you commit bribery of a public official to get your pardon, that’s a new crime you can be prosecuted for.
And rightly so, but I don't like the idea of wiping someone's slate clean and then starting over with just a bribery charge, which probably doesn't carry the kind of sentencing weight the initial charges did, couple of months in Club Fed or whatever.
But when did what I like ever matter?
It’s also obstruction. I’d rather take a hit for theft than obstruction any day.
At least I know how to commit theft.
I wouldn't know where to start going about committing obstruction of justice.
In 1929 (on Black Friday!), Interior Secretary Albert Fall was convicted of accepting a $385,000 bribe, which would be about $7.5 million today. That Teapot Dome Scandal was known as the worst federal government scandal from then until Watergate.
The Trumpers probably grift that much every minute.
Yes! No kid gloves when these fuckers get voted or thrown out. They need to be perp walked and thrown in jail!
I really do wish somebody would bring me the head of Merrick Garland that I might perfromatively display my anger with him for not having done so when he had the chance and it was his duty!
I retired from federal service about seven - eight years ago just to avoid having to look at the pix of donnie hung up in the lobby.
If a newly reconstituted DOJ ever needs help with butterfly nets, fishing tackle or tranquilzer darts to bring in some of these assholes I can easily be persuaded to skip retirement and help the Republic once again.
But I do draw the line against me setting bear traps or neck snares out which are baited with child porn or snuff films. I will NOT have anything to do with such kinds of bait!
I read Project 2025. I knew what Trump and Vought were going to do. That's why I retired from Social Security in July 2024. And they have enacted a whole chunk of that Nazi project across the board. Thanks to Trump, Vought, Sleazy E and his Peter Pan Posse they have FUBARed Social Security.
Just get some brown paper bags and scrawl 'children here' on it with a sharpie. You don't need to actually have that shit in the bags.
Problem solved!
>> According to Salon, Trump hired Habba because he saw her on TV (Fox News, of course) ...
A minor point in the grand scheme of things but if you check back, you'll see that this is how she first came to his attention: "she apparently caught the president’s eye after she joined his golf club in Bedminster". It was only after that that she started appearing on Fox. I have found some old pix of her, and I am fairly well convinced that she did all of that plastic surgery right before joining the golf club.
Before and after pix here: https://bsky.app/profile/bjkeefe.bsky.social/post/3loyig5irws26
This is how she came to his attention. (note: AI slop still)
https://substack.com/profile/157157166-phried/note/c-369369509?r=2lkf8u&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
“All I know is, I want my people to be honest. And if they’re not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted,” Trump told reporters....
https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff
>his message is: as long as you admit to your fraud, you're fine.
No. He’s saying agree with his warped take on reality or rot in prison.
Obama points out that while we may be struck with Trump for two more years, we are not stuck with a spineless Congress
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mynfzkwclu2g
We've been having the most ineffective congress in modern times.
No.
We have a Nazi Republican Congress hell bent on turning the US into a christian nationalist theocracy where Jim Crow is resurrected.
THIS
“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mynfeqjso62u
“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mynfkodf442p
Obama points out that he tightened border enforcement without sending masked goons into American cities
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mynfjauu4y2t
Hey Barry, I like you. But no fuckin' thanks for Tom Homan. WTF were you thinking, giving him a Presidential award? Go get your boy, before the rest of us do.
He was thinking "This will shut up the Repubilca- oh, fuck, it didn't work."
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest rancid dickfuck of them all?"
And deported more people. Trump’s penis shrunk three sizes today.
So it’s literally an innie not an outie at this point
Imagine a miserable world where everything is transactional. That's where the 33-37% of Trump supporters live. And that is the world they want. For evangelicals, that's what God wants. Fuck kind Jesus, God's got to get his bag.
Great point. And is it any wonder those people live in fear of getting ripped off, and in fact get ripped off all the time?
By contrast. I've long noticed that when I've about had it, the world and people seem to go out of their way to help me. The Almighty puts odd little jokes in my way, and helps me notice them. If I let others go first and smile, I get through faster somehow.
And just now, the kid at the hardware store gave me back an extra $5 in change, which I got to be the good guy and give back to her.
That's a much more pleasant world to live in. And I get to decide that's where I am.
It's a wonderous day; government officials are abusing their power in stupidly obvious ways, but it is still indeed a wonderful day. We will have all winter to sort those fuckers out, go enjoy a wonderful day.
"Pardons cannot be used to obstruct justice or as part of a BRIBERY SCHEME."
Well there you have it. Toss all his pardons on the pile of all his other offenses!
beg pardon?
begging's not gonna get you one
$50,000,000; same as downtown.
Wow! Prices have really gone up since I lived in DC!
"like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory"
President Obama just now speaking in Cleveland about Trump's decorating in the White House.
Obama isn't just baking Trump to a delicate crunch...
He's deep frying him to a crackly crunch!
That's awesome!
I’ve eaten Puerto Rican rice that was less extra crispy.
RROLLFF!!
Obamacare won’t cover that sick burn.
Unguentine stock futures are up ten points.
Gallbladder must be so excited.
So this is what all those geologists from the 70s were warning everyone about, Continental Grift . . .
Someone put stickers on the parking boxes around my neighborhood that said something along the lines of “REPORT TRAITORS AND INVADERS! And had a tip-line and ICE.gov. I removed one and spied the remains of another that someone else removed; we don’t put up with that nonsense here.
I haven't seen those stickers around Minneapolis. Though around 6:30 am, while having coffee on our balcony, I heard lots of car horns and whistles from a ways off.
Those fuckers are back.
They never left, but they seem to have been told to try to start trouble right before the midterms.
They're back in CA in full fascist form again. They violently assaulted a student with disabilities, a US citizen, for one recently-reported example. https://apple.news/ADTMlCEsTRj2Q0D7XGLPzdg
ABOLISH ICE stickers (or phone # to report ICE sightings stickers) to paper over those would be nice.
🎶Hello, Don
Let's get it on
The wind is shiftin'
We haven't got much more
Time to be a'griftin'
I know folks that'll
Pay lot for a pardon
And all of that dirty cash
Gives you a hard on.
Jumbled lies and
All the I don't knows
That you can spout
Son of a gun,
Gonna have good fun.
On the buyout!🎶