(Meanwhile, over in the Egypt-Conquered-The-World Dimension, Pharaoh Joe Biden-Ho-Tep sits on his ceremonial Throne at the foot of The Great Obama Obelisk with his Divine Queen Consort Jill. Today they must celebrate Pharaoh Joe's Jubilee where he proves his fitness to rule the entire Egyptian World by accomplishing Festivus style feats of strength. A high Priest has been chanting a three hour long opening invocation hymn and Pharaoh Joe decides to interrupt him)
Pharaoh Joe Biden-Ho-Tep: Can we just cut the crap and get on with the tests to prove my fitness?
High Priest: Let it be as Divine Pharaoh commands! Your first test will be to run down the King's Road to mile marker seven. There you will find a large jar of Nile river water. You must drink that water. You will also find a very nice cake box with a very nice cake inside. You must hoist that cake box over your head and run all the way back here. You must not allow a single crumb of that cake to touch the ground nor should the icing be damaged! So it is written! So must it be!
Pharaoh Joe Biden-Ho-Tep: (reaches down to side of his throne and lifts up a cake box) Is this the box I need to retrieve?
High Priest: It Is! But how...
Pharaoh Joe Biden-Ho-Tep: I got bored during the opening hymn so I went ahead and made the cake run. How about we just cut the rest of the malarkey and let's cut into this delicious cake?
High Priest: Let it be as Divine Pharaoh commands!
Jack spells out an utterly reasonable timeline in the DC case, culminating in a Jan 2nd trial date. His team is really magnificent in shutting off TFG's arguments before they even begin.
Also too, the docket says TFG added 2 more lawyers today, and Blanche's pro hac vice motion is screwed up and oh hai, the Court will show you how to do it properly.
Asa Hutchinson in a Morning Joe clip yammering about Inflation and interest rates (then run for the FEDERAL RESERVE, dumbass, because that's their job) and also channeling his inner Sarah Palin (basically saying drill, baby drill).
Sort of on topic. I am *stunned* by this reporting of The Deseret News on the guy killed by the FBI who threatened Biden. All these interviews with neighbors who thought he was such a great guy who was just spouting off on social media. Are people now so normalized to violent extremist rhetoric online that they are blind to violent extremists in their midst? Meet MAGAs next big martyr:
According to CNN, "FBI SWAT agents were giving commands to the man when he pointed a gun at them, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the incident." But details are pretty scarce.
AND, I can just hear the second amendment rights and WHY we have to have guns to protect against the Deep State.
Yeah. Except for this part, “There were white onlookers, and riverboat passengers, who could have joined the defense of Pickett. Nobody was stopping them, but they declined to help. As happens so often in this society, Black people had to defend each other because nobody else will.”
This after acknowledging earlier in the article that a white person did actually join to help, “The 16-year-old white kid who ferried Pickett to the dock tries to intervene, and he is punched.”
Writing in absolutes when you have already falsified the hypothesis that white people didn’t help by mentioning the one who did…. I’m not sure why that annoys me so much; I guess it’s because that young white man deserves more credit.
I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to call what was essentially a mini race riot “joyful,” but I took a lot of joy from watching the fracas. To understand why, you have to be at least more knowledgeable about the history of white violence against Black people in this country than a person currently being educated in Florida. The white people who attack us in broad daylight always think they’ll get away with it. Usually, they’re right. This time, however, they were wrong. And privileged white racists learning they are wrong in real time is a joy to behold.
Because my kid went off the rails I don’t know how he’s doing in terms of filing before the deadline. He has terrible respiratory issues stemming from his time in the military. Add that to his PTSD and knees that look like those of an 80yo man on X-ray. But my efforts to help him get help were a trigger in his going no-contact with his family. I really doubt he’s followed through on his own.
And I also really doubt he’s the only veteran who will miss the deadline.
The retroactive application date is now the 14th, I've read, so get going! (The following from a VA newsletter on the subject) VA extends deadline through Monday for Veterans and survivors to apply for PACT Act benefits backdated to August 10, 2022
He also went full Joe Rogan Bro. His mental illness made him susceptible to some pretty bad influences that preyed on guys like him. I haven’t seen him for nearly a year. His siblings haven’t heard from him, either. It hurts.
"President Joe Biden let Fox News’ Peter Doocy know what he thought of his journalism skills in a sharp exchange on Wednesday.)
Doocy asked the president about his son Hunter Biden’s questionable business dealings ― a constant right-wing echo in what has been a fruitless effort to link the president to them.
“There’s this testimony now where one of your son’s former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business,” Doocy challenged at an event in Belen, New Mexico.
“I never talked business with anybody,” Biden growled. “And I knew you’d have a lousy question.”
Now we have to hear all the people who didn't say anything about Trump's never ending talk of FAKE MEDIA and ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE talk about Biden's lack of decorum.
Well, he was a long-hair, hung out with prostitutes, tax collectors, fishermen, said pay your taxes, defended children, defended an adulteress, and hated hypocrites. So very woke.
That new Siena poll found more Republicans think Trump is godlier than the very Catholic DeSantis and not by a small number. They’re really showing their ass.
The New Republic and Slate have run articles recently about DeSantis downplaying his Catholicism in his campaign to try and reach out to Evangelicals. It's funny to see what he'll sell out.
I saw clip recently where some interviewer asked him about his Catholicism and did he still practice like when younger and he seemed to avoid the question and started talking about how theirs was a Christ-Centered household and about how his kids come home from (apparently private) school talking about stories like Jonah & the Whale. Could have been another Old T bible story but no Jesus and didn't say a word about Catholics.
"The speech veered into territory that made many of those in attendance uncomfortable and left others appalled, emails and others messages show. Sokol [one of the wealthy benefactors], who has written extensively about American exceptionalism and the virtues of free enterprise, minimized slavery and systemic racism, some felt. He then criticized President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, arguing Biden had overstepped the government’s authority, according to a recording of the speech obtained by ProPublica.
“It’s going to get overturned by the Supreme Court,” Sokol predicted, echoing a common legal commentary.
He was right. This summer, the court struck down Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. Thomas voted in the majority."
Finally got around to reading this story. Two things I learned that are not central to the story but interesting.
Thomas is a member of this Horatio Alger Society that supposedly gives scholarships but is made of rich self made men. "The organization, named after the 19th-century novelist who popularized rags-to-riches folklore, gives millions in college scholarships each year and also brings together some of the country’s wealthiest, self-made business tycoons for opulent events. (In real life, Alger was a minister on Cape Cod who resigned from his parish after he was credibly accused of molesting boys.)"
The other thing concerned The Floridian, a swanky exclusive golf club owned by Wayne Huezinga, one of the rich guys in the story. Clarence had basically an open invitation to go there. But the fact that made me laugh is that Trump once asked to be a member but Huezinga "spurned" him.
(Meanwhile, over in the Egypt-Conquered-The-World Dimension, Pharaoh Joe Biden-Ho-Tep sits on his ceremonial Throne at the foot of The Great Obama Obelisk with his Divine Queen Consort Jill. Today they must celebrate Pharaoh Joe's Jubilee where he proves his fitness to rule the entire Egyptian World by accomplishing Festivus style feats of strength. A high Priest has been chanting a three hour long opening invocation hymn and Pharaoh Joe decides to interrupt him)
Pharaoh Joe Biden-Ho-Tep: Can we just cut the crap and get on with the tests to prove my fitness?
High Priest: Let it be as Divine Pharaoh commands! Your first test will be to run down the King's Road to mile marker seven. There you will find a large jar of Nile river water. You must drink that water. You will also find a very nice cake box with a very nice cake inside. You must hoist that cake box over your head and run all the way back here. You must not allow a single crumb of that cake to touch the ground nor should the icing be damaged! So it is written! So must it be!
Pharaoh Joe Biden-Ho-Tep: (reaches down to side of his throne and lifts up a cake box) Is this the box I need to retrieve?
High Priest: It Is! But how...
Pharaoh Joe Biden-Ho-Tep: I got bored during the opening hymn so I went ahead and made the cake run. How about we just cut the rest of the malarkey and let's cut into this delicious cake?
High Priest: Let it be as Divine Pharaoh commands!
(for further info please see https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78244/why-pharaohs-were-made-run-around-their-palaces-every-3-years)
I want to live in that timeline, but I have one question: Is the cake the cakes we like?
It is AOT;K
Oh! It's St. Lawrence Day. Throw another Saint on the Barbie. https://www.st-lawrencesprimary.co.uk/the-story-of-st-lawrence/#:~:text=The%20saint%20was%20tied%20on,spread%20all%20over%20the%20world.
I dig his river
Jack spells out an utterly reasonable timeline in the DC case, culminating in a Jan 2nd trial date. His team is really magnificent in shutting off TFG's arguments before they even begin.
Also too, the docket says TFG added 2 more lawyers today, and Blanche's pro hac vice motion is screwed up and oh hai, the Court will show you how to do it properly.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.23.0_5.pdf
The 2 new lawyers appear to be from Lauro's Florida firm. Maybe they are giving him a quantity discount on fees.
Pro hack is about right for one of TFG's lawyers.
Oh, barf.
Asa Hutchinson in a Morning Joe clip yammering about Inflation and interest rates (then run for the FEDERAL RESERVE, dumbass, because that's their job) and also channeling his inner Sarah Palin (basically saying drill, baby drill).
Memo to Mr Hutchinson:
You had a nice little career
Take the gold watch and get the fuck out
And take Andrea Mitchell with you.
Maybe both of you could enjoy afternoon “tea” 😉 with Peggy Noonan
OT: Joe Manchin thinking of leaving the Democratic Party that he's not really a part of
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4147292-manchin-thinking-seriously-about-leaving-democratic-party/
“No Labels”? There is a label for them, but (paraphrasing Joan Crawford) it’s not used in polite society outside of a bordello
no
please
dont go
insert willie wonka .jpg
Joe Manchin and his entire parasite family can fuck off and, well, you know...
Move into a home next to Rand Paul's hero neighbor?
Eat coal dust?
Breathe coal smoke.
That reminds me to change my bong water
"I change this water every two months whether it needs or not. Wanna hit?"
In my yute I would use Scope/mouthwash.
Would enjoy the reactions from the unsuspecting
If he runs at No Labels we need to work to take everything from him and his spawn. Man is up to his neck in flagrant corruption, to be honest.
Time to bring up the daughter again. She's an epic sleaze.
You can bet on all the dark money that will be going to a third party candidate.
That’s the oligarchs’ best strategy for the upcoming election.
Sling as much shit at OHJB and claim it’s “disaffected Democrats” concerned about age/competence/Hunter Biden’s Magnificent Cock.
The monied interests aren’t going to fund the PAB campaign because they don’t want to pay for the PAB’s graft.
That’s what the drooling MAGA chuds are for.
No labels, for the unprincipled politician that only wants to funnel money into their pockets.
Now, now, just because he's a coal robber baron is no reason to be down on the good fellow!
i wish No Labels supporters would look past the glib name and learn who these fuckers are
No labels is a label.
A bunch of rich Republicans are bankrolling it.
Billionaire parasites at work protecting their ill-gotten gains.
for those who dont tweet I have put Elie's Nation article in my notes - it is a 2 parter. WEll worth the few minutes it takes to read it
Sort of on topic. I am *stunned* by this reporting of The Deseret News on the guy killed by the FBI who threatened Biden. All these interviews with neighbors who thought he was such a great guy who was just spouting off on social media. Are people now so normalized to violent extremist rhetoric online that they are blind to violent extremists in their midst? Meet MAGAs next big martyr:
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/8/9/23826196/fbi-shooting-provo-utah-one-dead
But he was nice to -US-!
Dudes say that about predatory other dudes. He couldn't have! We did bong hits together! I don't think he's creepy!
According to CNN, "FBI SWAT agents were giving commands to the man when he pointed a gun at them, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the incident." But details are pretty scarce.
AND, I can just hear the second amendment rights and WHY we have to have guns to protect against the Deep State.
IIRC, neighbors didn’t notice anything hinky about the freak who shot up Las Vegas concert, either.
If this guy was Islamic fanatic instead of LDS, the neighbors would be pinning medals on the FBI agents
Right? Or Antifa
A guy talks about *trigger warning for violence*
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shooting Alvin Bragg in the head and then watching the blood come out of the wound and they think he’s just a misunderstood nice guy?!
Fuck them, too.
At least we don’t have to watch him give speeches at CPAC.
They’ll probably reanimate him using CGI to host CPAC
Unlike, say, Kyle Rittenhouse, Drumpfenjugend Unterscharfuhrer.
I read that as Untershartführer and I'm sticking with it.
He’s just a big old teddy bear! With a sniper rifle! Lord knows sweet and cuddly people all have sniper rifles
Great article by Elie on the Montgomery Brawl
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1689664329212215296
Yeah. Except for this part, “There were white onlookers, and riverboat passengers, who could have joined the defense of Pickett. Nobody was stopping them, but they declined to help. As happens so often in this society, Black people had to defend each other because nobody else will.”
This after acknowledging earlier in the article that a white person did actually join to help, “The 16-year-old white kid who ferried Pickett to the dock tries to intervene, and he is punched.”
Writing in absolutes when you have already falsified the hypothesis that white people didn’t help by mentioning the one who did…. I’m not sure why that annoys me so much; I guess it’s because that young white man deserves more credit.
Not gonna fault anyone for not wading into a brawl.
You can get hurt doing that.
I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to call what was essentially a mini race riot “joyful,” but I took a lot of joy from watching the fracas. To understand why, you have to be at least more knowledgeable about the history of white violence against Black people in this country than a person currently being educated in Florida. The white people who attack us in broad daylight always think they’ll get away with it. Usually, they’re right. This time, however, they were wrong. And privileged white racists learning they are wrong in real time is a joy to behold.
Watching clips of Biden on the TeeVee in a Japanese joint. Man is more Clint Eastwood than Clint Eastwood with that squint.
"Do ya feel lucky, GOP?"
OK, let's run with this. Is he even more like Marty McFly?
"More Eastwood than East-wood!"
What can I say? The man has style.
Smith is proposing Jan 2nd as the start of the trial in DC https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1689696118441967616?s=20
Happy motherfuckin holidays PAB. Christmas will be ackward.
It always is in PAB's house. I mean, how many expired McDonald's coupons does Barron actually need?
Because my kid went off the rails I don’t know how he’s doing in terms of filing before the deadline. He has terrible respiratory issues stemming from his time in the military. Add that to his PTSD and knees that look like those of an 80yo man on X-ray. But my efforts to help him get help were a trigger in his going no-contact with his family. I really doubt he’s followed through on his own.
And I also really doubt he’s the only veteran who will miss the deadline.
liked the comment but really hard to like the concept.
The retroactive application date is now the 14th, I've read, so get going! (The following from a VA newsletter on the subject) VA extends deadline through Monday for Veterans and survivors to apply for PACT Act benefits backdated to August 10, 2022
He’s no contact with his family. I’ve reached out. But no response.
Send a reminder anyway.
He may see it but not be responding.
I've missed tax day several times because depression.
I'm sorry, Cookie :(
He also went full Joe Rogan Bro. His mental illness made him susceptible to some pretty bad influences that preyed on guys like him. I haven’t seen him for nearly a year. His siblings haven’t heard from him, either. It hurts.
Very sorry. Going full Joe Rogan bro is very bad indeed, you're fed a constant menu of pure bullshit.
The misogyny. You can imagine how he responded to me trying to persuade him into getting help. Emotionally I felt like I’d been flayed.
Christ. If Joe Rogan is more important to you than your mom, you have officially lost the plot.
He’s mentally ill. So. Yes.
OMG, Maui!
Heard about this yesterday, but my heart is still breaking.
I've never been and likely never will, but it breaks my heart, too. Living in the Sierra, I've seen some Paradise Lost.
Reported on HuffPo:
"President Joe Biden let Fox News’ Peter Doocy know what he thought of his journalism skills in a sharp exchange on Wednesday.)
Doocy asked the president about his son Hunter Biden’s questionable business dealings ― a constant right-wing echo in what has been a fruitless effort to link the president to them.
“There’s this testimony now where one of your son’s former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business,” Doocy challenged at an event in Belen, New Mexico.
“I never talked business with anybody,” Biden growled. “And I knew you’d have a lousy question.”
“What makes it a lousy question? Doocy asked.
“Because it’s not true,” Biden replied."
Didn't Dark Brandon call him a "stupid sob" on a hot mic?
I laughed and laughed...
Good. And do it every time he gets a stupid-ass question from any of these mouth-breathers.
“Because it’s not true,” Biden replied."
You shouldn’t have held back, OHJB. Tell him what you REALLY think
“Because it’s a bunch of malarkey!”
You gotta take off the gloves with these jerkoffs
Jerkoffs?
Watch your language.
Scallawags!
Agent Five, escort this dipshit out the gate.
I wish Joe would do like the Iraqi did to GWB Jr.: throw a shoe at doocy. Sure, it's not very statesmanish but it is a real-life FAFO event.
Now we have to hear all the people who didn't say anything about Trump's never ending talk of FAKE MEDIA and ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE talk about Biden's lack of decorum.
OT, CNN: SE Cupp: Is Jesus too woke for Trump evangelicals?
Is this a trick question?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/opinions/2023/08/10/se-cupp-unfiltered-trump-woke-christianity-evangelical-vpx.cnn
When fucking Sippy Cupp is semi-reasonable, the shit has gotten way too weird.
Well, he was a long-hair, hung out with prostitutes, tax collectors, fishermen, said pay your taxes, defended children, defended an adulteress, and hated hypocrites. So very woke.
File this one under "no duh"
Jesus was a Capricorn
He ate organic food
He believed in love and peace
And never wore no shoes
-Kirs Kristoferson
That new Siena poll found more Republicans think Trump is godlier than the very Catholic DeSantis and not by a small number. They’re really showing their ass.
Plumber's crack is a chronic condition among MAGAts
Crack addicts libelz!
The New Republic and Slate have run articles recently about DeSantis downplaying his Catholicism in his campaign to try and reach out to Evangelicals. It's funny to see what he'll sell out.
I saw clip recently where some interviewer asked him about his Catholicism and did he still practice like when younger and he seemed to avoid the question and started talking about how theirs was a Christ-Centered household and about how his kids come home from (apparently private) school talking about stories like Jonah & the Whale. Could have been another Old T bible story but no Jesus and didn't say a word about Catholics.
Yeah, that's the interview the Slate article made reference to. He's really trying hard to win over Evangelicals, but it's clearly affected.
Kind of the Marco Rubio approach. If I remember right, Marco was a Catholic, a Baptist and a Mormon?
I think DeSantis is syncretist- he's willing to take whichever parts of whatever faith allow him to bully minorities.
OT: Judicial prostitute, Clarence Thomas, has more $ugar daddie$ than a Kappa Alpha Theta...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝘂𝘅𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁
https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-undisclosed-luxury-vacations-cost-millions-scotus-ethics-2023-8
I'd call him a skanky ho but it seems like a libel to sex workers.
It would be. They at least work for a living.
I'm in the process of reading this in the Globe.
HO-LEE-SHIT!
Flagrant and shameless misconduct in the most corrupt Supreme Court in U.S. history.
"The speech veered into territory that made many of those in attendance uncomfortable and left others appalled, emails and others messages show. Sokol [one of the wealthy benefactors], who has written extensively about American exceptionalism and the virtues of free enterprise, minimized slavery and systemic racism, some felt. He then criticized President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, arguing Biden had overstepped the government’s authority, according to a recording of the speech obtained by ProPublica.
“It’s going to get overturned by the Supreme Court,” Sokol predicted, echoing a common legal commentary.
He was right. This summer, the court struck down Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. Thomas voted in the majority."
"At least, as long as I own the $urpreme Court, it will."
I AM SHOCKED AT THIS DEVELOPMENT!(no, not really)
Like, how many PTO days does he have?
Finally got around to reading this story. Two things I learned that are not central to the story but interesting.
Thomas is a member of this Horatio Alger Society that supposedly gives scholarships but is made of rich self made men. "The organization, named after the 19th-century novelist who popularized rags-to-riches folklore, gives millions in college scholarships each year and also brings together some of the country’s wealthiest, self-made business tycoons for opulent events. (In real life, Alger was a minister on Cape Cod who resigned from his parish after he was credibly accused of molesting boys.)"
The other thing concerned The Floridian, a swanky exclusive golf club owned by Wayne Huezinga, one of the rich guys in the story. Clarence had basically an open invitation to go there. But the fact that made me laugh is that Trump once asked to be a member but Huezinga "spurned" him.