Yes, all of them, those who bow down to Emperor Trump are simply advocating one man rule even if it is an illiterate man who has to cheat at golf to claim he won. If there was a MAGA comic book, they would elevate the Penguin to hero status because he was such a good crook.
It's very clear that Maga is showing its fangs as an eliminationist cult. How else are we to understand a message like (to paraphrase) "no unity with the Left is possible"? Well, you don't really need warm-and-fuzzy "unity," you just need an agreement from both sides not to try to eliminate the other. Apparently, Vice President "JB Mandel" isn't interested in that kind of agreement.
“‘Sissy’ football is bad for America!! MAGA tough guys deserve to watch REAL football when they aren’t busy living in constant, paralyzing fear of cities, seed oils, Rosie O’Donnell, books, immigrants, antifa, atheists, condoms in schools, vaccines, tampons, Muslims, public transportation, masks, and married women in movies!!”
Wow, JD is even dumber than I thought. He could literally be taking the reins of the presidency at any moment and it would behoove him to act like it, but he goes on a loser maga podcast? His billionaire Owner should take him in for remedial president training, because trying to be a Trump is not going to work for him.
IANAL, but sweet Jeebus, it sure seems to me that litany of whiny crybaby meritless grievances in Trump's $15B lawsuit against the NYT should land his lawyers some sanctions for egregiously wasting the court's time. The NYT didn't give him enough credit for the success of America's gateway to destruction, The Apprentice? Sweet Jeebus.
Apparently, neither the Orange Canklesaurus nor his crack legal team have ever read (or maybe even heard of) a little SCOTUS decision called Times v. Sullivan 1964. A minor civil functionary in Alabama by the name of Sullivan sued the New York Times for defamation, claiming the paper ran an ad that somehow defamed him by calling him a racist--which he was.
It was litigated all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ruled that as a public figure, the bar for defamation was set very high and that the truth is an absolute defense. This case also established the standard for 'absolute malice' and 'reckless disregard for the truth'.
The NYT and its subsidiaries printed the truth about our Orange Leader and he doesn't like it. Tant pis! Endorsing Kamala Harris for President doesn't constitute election interference.
I find all of this hilarious. He was able to extort money from ABC and CBS because they are cowards and because the feds have controls over both networks. CBS especially because they were in the midst of a buyout for which they needed FCC approval.
But the NYT doesn't hold any government licenses and doesn't get any money from the feds. The paper has the 1st Amendment. They've been down this road before.
Maybe. But I don't think he's that smart. Neither he nor his legal team.
The only one on SCOTUS who seemingly has expressed any appetite for overturning Sullivan is Thomas.
While the current Court is clearly no respecter of precedent (Roe, cough, cough) even RBG felt that there were better grounds for that decision.
So, who knows?
This will be interesting. Orange has threatened to sue the Times before. Famous letter from David McCraw (Times' legal counsel) to Marc Kaseowitz. It's a classic and worth looking for.
Maybe quibbling with semantics is just more deck-chair arranging in the current era, but I am so goddamn sick of them stripping words of meaning by using them to mean Everything I Don't Like. Sneaking fentanyl into Tylenol would be terrorism. Packing it in bags labeled "sugar" on the shelf at Safeway would be terrorism. Dropping it into the HVAC system of a hospital would be terrorism. Transporting it to the US to supply consumer demand is criminal, to be sure, but it isn't terrorism.
They have to use the “terror” word because it justifies the illegal droning murders- the problem with this is the “Law of the Seas” doesn’t recognize our definitions and makes this an International Crime.
Charlie Kirk: Whited sepulchre. Still should not have been murdered.
I'm sorry the WaPo decided again to kiss the toes of the short-fingered vulgarian, and fire someone for quoting exact words. But I expect nothing more from them, than this - not any more. If they do produce/allow truth these days, I look at it as the broken clock.
As I’ve said likely a thousand times before in some iteration or another - when Confederates are involved, it’s a propaganda war, not a policy war
And if you doubt it — which at this point you really shouldn’t, after 400 years of this — ask yourself how they can be so sure it’s a suicide when not only were there two of these lynchings, but when they’re not willing to conduct any investigation at all
I learned the extent to which national parks and memorials are already basically apologies to the Confederacy when I visited Gettysburg, a bucket list desire of mine. The museum literally barely mentions slavery (I looked because it seemed so odd) and half the displays are paeans to Confederate soldiers and officers including a loving display of a confederate uniform and glamour photos of Confederate officers. The park/battleground is FULL of monuments to Confederate companies (as in army, not commerce), but speaking of commerce the shop is at least 50% confederate merch. I was SHOCKED. You walk in to a /sea/ of Confederate flags. Appalling. I had no idea. (At the time the shop was run by the federal government/park service, so not some third party with a purely commercial motive.)
I've said before how one of the most profound things my mother ever taught me was that even though we were a family of 20th century immigrants, the history of America, ALL of it, including the bad parts, were now our legacy and our history.
Anyway, sorry for the wall of text and FUCK these guys for removing the few nods to our shared patrimony (sorry don't know the gender-neutral word for that) which actually exist.
And they will erase history to substitute their own. We've been fairly lucky up to now, in this country, in knowing our history, even if it was never taught thoroughly enough in schools. But now? Hell, they've been trying to turn MLK Jr., into a conservative white Republican, for a couple of decades, now. This regime will rewrite history in a way to equal and surpass Henry VIII.
Yer lion eyes in today’s hed gif. Info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/araali-and-her-rambunctious-quadruplets
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/b4bb2d27-e48c-4e02-a3e0-718644325251?utm_source=share
Mr. Hooper, your best parental soporific.I'll cover the tab for Mama Lion.
Those are not Tabs. Those are comments, which are not allowed.
Is she thinking, "now, which one's Tab, again?"...
Mommy lion very patient with her rambunctious children....
Kittens are kittens!
The mom has a look like "where is your father??" LOL
You're lyin! No, YOU'RE lyin! MOM!!! He said I was lyin!!!
For humans one kid at a time
Can sometimes be quite tryin'
If I said having four was easy
I'd probably be lion.
My family had two sets of twins... mass production
5-year-old Araali sure does sport that “mamma needs wine”, "I'll be in the tub" vibe...
I love how she gives a quick "Fourth wall? What fourth wall?" look at the camera.
Nice kittens Martini.
Mommy kitty's eyes say "Stay the hell away from my cubs! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
She didn’t birth a litter of adorable cubs, she birthed a mosh pit.
Weed mom is the new wine mom.
I bought a LOBO vaporizer recently and feel like I'm in the 20th century now.
It's the future! Noncombustive is the way to go...
I've tried vaping. It's far more complicated than just stuffing a bowl with ganga, then lighting it up.
I've made it kind of a ritual, kind of mixing a drink vs taking a pull off the bottle...
I'm typically resistant to change and this is one situation where I feel like a complete fool because of my stubborness.
I am familiar with that situation...
It turns out that when I read "Lobo", I think of Tor Johnson.
I can relate to the Mama lion!
Yes, all of them, those who bow down to Emperor Trump are simply advocating one man rule even if it is an illiterate man who has to cheat at golf to claim he won. If there was a MAGA comic book, they would elevate the Penguin to hero status because he was such a good crook.
It's very clear that Maga is showing its fangs as an eliminationist cult. How else are we to understand a message like (to paraphrase) "no unity with the Left is possible"? Well, you don't really need warm-and-fuzzy "unity," you just need an agreement from both sides not to try to eliminate the other. Apparently, Vice President "JB Mandel" isn't interested in that kind of agreement.
"It looks like he'll."
Cringe. I always thought the Data can use contractions thing was stupid, but this is so much worse than that.
Ugh! We need to have a Kirk Conspiracy Theory thread for all the random stuff coming out.
Now they're saying Kirk was killed because of his stance against the conflict in the middle east.
“‘Sissy’ football is bad for America!! MAGA tough guys deserve to watch REAL football when they aren’t busy living in constant, paralyzing fear of cities, seed oils, Rosie O’Donnell, books, immigrants, antifa, atheists, condoms in schools, vaccines, tampons, Muslims, public transportation, masks, and married women in movies!!”
Like Aussie Rules? Or Rugby (either variant)
*heal
Donnie Dbag gets 192 "likes" on his own personal fake Xitter platform? That seems . . . encouraging.
Wow, JD is even dumber than I thought. He could literally be taking the reins of the presidency at any moment and it would behoove him to act like it, but he goes on a loser maga podcast? His billionaire Owner should take him in for remedial president training, because trying to be a Trump is not going to work for him.
The Office of the Presidency ain't what it used to be.
IANAL, but sweet Jeebus, it sure seems to me that litany of whiny crybaby meritless grievances in Trump's $15B lawsuit against the NYT should land his lawyers some sanctions for egregiously wasting the court's time. The NYT didn't give him enough credit for the success of America's gateway to destruction, The Apprentice? Sweet Jeebus.
Oh, here's the thing.
Apparently, neither the Orange Canklesaurus nor his crack legal team have ever read (or maybe even heard of) a little SCOTUS decision called Times v. Sullivan 1964. A minor civil functionary in Alabama by the name of Sullivan sued the New York Times for defamation, claiming the paper ran an ad that somehow defamed him by calling him a racist--which he was.
It was litigated all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ruled that as a public figure, the bar for defamation was set very high and that the truth is an absolute defense. This case also established the standard for 'absolute malice' and 'reckless disregard for the truth'.
The NYT and its subsidiaries printed the truth about our Orange Leader and he doesn't like it. Tant pis! Endorsing Kamala Harris for President doesn't constitute election interference.
I find all of this hilarious. He was able to extort money from ABC and CBS because they are cowards and because the feds have controls over both networks. CBS especially because they were in the midst of a buyout for which they needed FCC approval.
But the NYT doesn't hold any government licenses and doesn't get any money from the feds. The paper has the 1st Amendment. They've been down this road before.
Let him go. Discovery will be oodles of fun.
He has no case.
He wants to give the Supremes a chance to overturn Times v Sullivan
Maybe. But I don't think he's that smart. Neither he nor his legal team.
The only one on SCOTUS who seemingly has expressed any appetite for overturning Sullivan is Thomas.
While the current Court is clearly no respecter of precedent (Roe, cough, cough) even RBG felt that there were better grounds for that decision.
So, who knows?
This will be interesting. Orange has threatened to sue the Times before. Famous letter from David McCraw (Times' legal counsel) to Marc Kaseowitz. It's a classic and worth looking for.
Maybe quibbling with semantics is just more deck-chair arranging in the current era, but I am so goddamn sick of them stripping words of meaning by using them to mean Everything I Don't Like. Sneaking fentanyl into Tylenol would be terrorism. Packing it in bags labeled "sugar" on the shelf at Safeway would be terrorism. Dropping it into the HVAC system of a hospital would be terrorism. Transporting it to the US to supply consumer demand is criminal, to be sure, but it isn't terrorism.
They have to use the “terror” word because it justifies the illegal droning murders- the problem with this is the “Law of the Seas” doesn’t recognize our definitions and makes this an International Crime.
"Laws" are not a problem for Donnie anymore.
a certain person who was recently tragically murdered.
Can we refer to him as having been 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 murdered? Is JD going to get mad at how I file Greek theatre?
Some of us might take exception to a literal lynching being referred to as "comically murdered"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HrYc6oGBmiA
Maybe a little less attention to what JV Dunce believes
>>He sounded like Hitler McFaceHair<<
Ein Haus, Ein Couch, Ein Ficker!
Ein spoogenstain
Thank you for the flamenco!
Charlie Kirk: Whited sepulchre. Still should not have been murdered.
I'm sorry the WaPo decided again to kiss the toes of the short-fingered vulgarian, and fire someone for quoting exact words. But I expect nothing more from them, than this - not any more. If they do produce/allow truth these days, I look at it as the broken clock.
Canceled my sub a while back, when Bezos started muzzling the cartoonists, and I have not regretted it for a moment.
A student NOT named Charles Kirk was lynched in Mississippi
That's also "been murdered"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HrYc6oGBmiA
Murder? The police are calling it suicide.
He must have been really unhappy with his life to go through all that trouble with broken arms and legs.
The police, in this case, are liars
As I’ve said likely a thousand times before in some iteration or another - when Confederates are involved, it’s a propaganda war, not a policy war
And if you doubt it — which at this point you really shouldn’t, after 400 years of this — ask yourself how they can be so sure it’s a suicide when not only were there two of these lynchings, but when they’re not willing to conduct any investigation at all
Yes. I heard about that. It was a terrible crime. Murder is wrong. Period.
There have been two of them now - in the same state - if we’re talking about the lynchings
And as for that OTHER murder
— this is Katie Phang talking about the journalist and writer who worte the book about Donald building a paramilitary force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cYxuMzHUqM
High-conflict personality-disordered people are immune to facts and logic
It's way past time those of us who still value logic & facts started treating these people like that
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/the-fantasy-of-a-white-mlk-why-charlie
I learned the extent to which national parks and memorials are already basically apologies to the Confederacy when I visited Gettysburg, a bucket list desire of mine. The museum literally barely mentions slavery (I looked because it seemed so odd) and half the displays are paeans to Confederate soldiers and officers including a loving display of a confederate uniform and glamour photos of Confederate officers. The park/battleground is FULL of monuments to Confederate companies (as in army, not commerce), but speaking of commerce the shop is at least 50% confederate merch. I was SHOCKED. You walk in to a /sea/ of Confederate flags. Appalling. I had no idea. (At the time the shop was run by the federal government/park service, so not some third party with a purely commercial motive.)
I've said before how one of the most profound things my mother ever taught me was that even though we were a family of 20th century immigrants, the history of America, ALL of it, including the bad parts, were now our legacy and our history.
Anyway, sorry for the wall of text and FUCK these guys for removing the few nods to our shared patrimony (sorry don't know the gender-neutral word for that) which actually exist.
The current regime prefers traitors to patriots.
And they will erase history to substitute their own. We've been fairly lucky up to now, in this country, in knowing our history, even if it was never taught thoroughly enough in schools. But now? Hell, they've been trying to turn MLK Jr., into a conservative white Republican, for a couple of decades, now. This regime will rewrite history in a way to equal and surpass Henry VIII.
I mean the King monument in DC /literally/ made him white. (I guess they couldn't find any black stone)
We'll get to rewrite it back once the MAGA plague runs its course.
I won't be around, but I hope those who are, win.
It's going to take a generation. I really believe this.
Important photo of baby grass. Can you spot the difference?
https://substack.com/@birbgeneral/note/c-156567754