I just watched the Meidas Touch on Judge Cannon. She's talking about moving the March (or May) trial dates, because she's messed things up so much, but she doesn't want to move them too far back, and in fact is not moving them anywhere yet because she knows if she moves, Fani Willis will swoop in and grab the May dates. How soon can Jack Smith ask the 11th Circuit to kick her off the trial completely??
Given that Trump said on Lying Ass Social that he will nominate her for a SCOTUS seat if he is back in the WH, that idiot should have to recuse herself.
Another unspeakably stupid question. Al Qaeda is a totally different animal than Hamas. For one thing, Al Qaeda doesn't control territory populated by millions of people.
Half of the population of Gaza is children. Israel knows EXACTLY what it's doing. They're creating more terrorists. Because Likud NEEDS terrorists to exist.
It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for them both and how they keep any other voices sidelined. On the Palestinian side, questions about actually having elections, statehood, running water become academic when bombs are raining down on their heads. On the Israeli side, clamping their hand ever harder on the tiger's tail simply increases the fear of ordinary Israelis over what will happen if they ever let go with Hamas' actions serving as a prime example.
And anyone who says that violence isn't the solution is a namby-pamby liberal at best, a traitor at worst.
That's what makes it so hard to figure out, isn't it. Yes, they need each other. Bibi to stay out of prison, Hamas to stay in power; even if their individual leadership and membership all die.
"Actual agenda" is the hard part to savvy. All we can know is what we see. Everything we hear is calculated to motivate us one direction or the other, not to inform us.
Hmm, so PAB wants to make Cannon a SCOTUS justice, eh?
18 U.S. Code § 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses
(b)Whoever—(1)directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official . . . , with intent—
(A)to influence any official act;
shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
My freaking dawg. Douchey is suggesting that we're somehow in support of Hamas by working to allow humanitarian aide and advocating Israel consider a pause in their offensive.
That fucking shitsack festers fetidly far beneath contempt.
Because other news organizations cry, cry, crrrrryyyyyyy whenever this openly partisan propaganda network that works hand-in-hand with Republicans gets excluded for being exactly what it is.
So far as I can tell, this is literally the only criterion under which news orgs will go to bat for each other.
The orange fucking moron kept certain news outlets out. Biden reinstated everyone. Why they put up with his shit is crazy making and Fux does it on purpose.
Legal eagles last night were talking about this. Judge Chutkan isn't delaying the 1/6 trial unless PAB is dead. Her trial will be relatively short and in no way will buck up against Cannon's June date. And in fact, it would be common practice for Cannon to call Chutkan and ask for an idea on how long the 1/6 case will go. Conclusions were mostly this: If Cannon kicks it down more than a week or two, fine; any longer than that, and it's manipulated bullshit on behalf of team Trump.
While paul retired after 23 years in the Army as a high ranking NCO I do have a grasp of just how crippling Traitorswill's malign manipulations of officer promotions has actually been. And it has been damned deleterious to say the least.
An NCO with 23 years' service is probably a Sergeant Major. Generally speaking, someone at that rank would be a Colonel's right-hand man or woman, and assisting with running a battalion or brigade. And yeah, technically speaking, a lieutenant outranks them, but in reality if you're a lieutenant and trying to pull rank on a sergeant major then you're not going to last long in the army.
Trump is on an Adderall (generic) fueled rage and tweet storm.
But he may have kicked himself in the balls.
He celebrated Judge Cannon likely delaying the date of his trial on mishandling of documents to Oct. 24 and promised to nominate her for the Supreme Court when he becomes President. That's akin to bribing a judge as well as grounds for her to be forced to recuse herself, or possibly by Jack Smith.
Trump pisses me off on many, many levels, but somehow one of the things that makes me maddest is how easily (and presumably without a prescription) he gets Adderall whereas I have to go hugely out of my way to get enough to professionally function. And that pill abusers like him are part of the reason why it's so hard for me to get them in the first place.
Thank you! I finally managed to get back on (generic) Concerta. In order to get there I have to regularly see a psychiatrist (who, admittedly, is pretty awesome) who can renew my prescription every week to get the dosage right, sign a form at the pharmacy acknowledging it's a controlled substance, show my photo ID, and carry a Torah scroll's length of receipt back to my car. Assuming that they're in stock to begin with. All the while, due to the fact that I'm recovering from crystal meth abuse, undergo additional scrutiny by said (awesome) psychiatrist, my psychologist, and my primary care provider. Ironically enough, due to my SOC, I have zero interest in popping pills. Moreover, while crystal meth is notoriously difficult to kick, ironically enough, ADD meds are the one of the only medical interventions that show any kind of promise with regard to this substance.
SOC = substance of choice. Recovery folks also use DOC (drug of choice), but my understanding is that SOC emerged due to alcohol is rarely being thought of as a drug due to its ubiquity.
I'm still kind of astonished that man was cleared to be the personal physician of two presidents. Forget having a screw loose, I don't think he has any screws in place.
I wish more people would become more aware of how much the wealthy control everything and everyone. NONE of these policies ever touch them but ALWAYS kick the shit out of us.
He thought running for 2024 would stunt or stop all investigations. As we can all see he's throwing that at the wall every day. His narcissistic sociopathy will not let him go into obscurity. He demands to be front and center at all cost.
I hope it costs him everything. I wish he'd end up in a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere but that's magical thinking. The only way he will ever go away is to die.
I've never seen anything like it in my life, and I dealt with a narcissistic sociopath for over 10 years in an organization I used to volunteer for. I thought he was the worst it could get.
And then Trump came around. They are almost exactly the same. Same turns of phrases, same "like no one has ever seen/best ever of all time" type language. Just disgusting.
Sorry you had to deal with that. I was married to a narcissist and his family dynamic gave way to sociopaths. They were wealthy and fubar.
The wealthier they are the worse they are. They don't have people around them to tell them no. This carries over into everything. The power and control that money provides is obscene.
It was horrible, and I now have no friends in town b/c of it. My and my family's entire social support network and friends gone overnight and they haven't come back even 7 years later (sadly, that place was our life and we spent almost every waking hour with that organization outside of work. Big fucking mistake).
Because their kid getting roles in community theater shows and not being given the stink eye by this sociopath and his disgusting wife were more important than their (in some cases) 10-year friendship with me and my family.
My daughter's mental health plunged after that, too, and hasn't recovered. I'm enraged at him, but also beyond enraged/disappointed/bitter that my supposed "friends" all bailed.
This guy and his disgusting wife didn't have $$$, but they had power, or at least a localized version of it. They were/are the founders/owners/board leaders of a local 501c3, so I guess it's the same kind of thing as $$$$.
I'm just beyond disappointed at how many truly educated, seemingly decent people kowtow to him and metaphorically suck his dick every day knowing how he and his wife treat people (including violent shit).
Then if you'll look back these were never your friends. Friends don't treat you like that.
They have been corrupted by their power and control. Not all bullies are wealthy but the have a lot of control by fear and domination.
Move on and find others who are more like minded. It's not easy and it still hurts but you're better to alienate the sociopaths. Nothing good ever comes from them.
Pffft. That requires knowledge of something. Our press corps is more along the lines of "What is the administration's position on iced tea? Sweet or motherfucking?"
Hadn't thought about the iced tea controversy. I'm not a fan of sweet drinks so I like iced tea unsweetened. Incidentally, I had dinner with a Brit this past weekend. She had never had iced tea. I was shocked.
Iced tea isn't really our thing at all. Never drink it myself, don't know anyone who does. When we say 'a nice cuppa tea', many Brits like it brewed so strongly you can stand a spoon in it (also fondly referred to as 'Builder's Tea').
LOL. I just read George Orwell's "A Nice Cup of Tea" for advice on how to make proper tea. Six heaping teaspoons per quart (yow!), piping hot, with just a tiny splash of milk, and no sugar. Quoth the man himself, "Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter."
I'm actually not surprised that your Brit friend had never had iced tea. They probably think what we do with tea in the South is an abomination. And to your point, I can only drink sweet tea in small amounts, given that most sweet tea is just diabetes in a glass.
Though an intelligent man, and one who travelled, my FiL could never figure out that in the CO/NM areas he couldn't just order sweet tea without getting some quizzical looks.
I just watched the Meidas Touch on Judge Cannon. She's talking about moving the March (or May) trial dates, because she's messed things up so much, but she doesn't want to move them too far back, and in fact is not moving them anywhere yet because she knows if she moves, Fani Willis will swoop in and grab the May dates. How soon can Jack Smith ask the 11th Circuit to kick her off the trial completely??
Given that Trump said on Lying Ass Social that he will nominate her for a SCOTUS seat if he is back in the WH, that idiot should have to recuse herself.
Well yeah, but I think that is coming.
"No hate sees the light of day". Karine, luv, to do this, the PAB must be permanently gagged.
Another unspeakably stupid question. Al Qaeda is a totally different animal than Hamas. For one thing, Al Qaeda doesn't control territory populated by millions of people.
Yeah, like Dark Brandon has Hezbollah on a short leash. Geeze. These incompetent stenographers do not live in the real fucking world.
Half of the population of Gaza is children. Israel knows EXACTLY what it's doing. They're creating more terrorists. Because Likud NEEDS terrorists to exist.
Likud is doing exactly what Hamas knew they would do.
I'm no strategist, but it's my understanding that it's generally bad to do exactly what your enemy wants you to do.
It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for them both and how they keep any other voices sidelined. On the Palestinian side, questions about actually having elections, statehood, running water become academic when bombs are raining down on their heads. On the Israeli side, clamping their hand ever harder on the tiger's tail simply increases the fear of ordinary Israelis over what will happen if they ever let go with Hamas' actions serving as a prime example.
And anyone who says that violence isn't the solution is a namby-pamby liberal at best, a traitor at worst.
Depends a lot on what your actual agenda is. Hamas and Bibi need each other to stay in power.
That's what makes it so hard to figure out, isn't it. Yes, they need each other. Bibi to stay out of prison, Hamas to stay in power; even if their individual leadership and membership all die.
"Actual agenda" is the hard part to savvy. All we can know is what we see. Everything we hear is calculated to motivate us one direction or the other, not to inform us.
The MSM ignores this reality, as well as MEGO shit such as water rights in the Jordan Valley. Because pew pew pew makes for much higher ratings.
The members of the fourth estate do understand that they will be out of jobs and possibly imprisoned if Trump is elected, right?
That's what Two Scoops was snarling in their faces in 2016. So they went to the office and wrote stacks of "but her emails".
No, they do not know that. They think their ownership, and their innate virtue, will protect them.
They really do think that.
Won't they be surprised, should that happen.
Hmm, so PAB wants to make Cannon a SCOTUS justice, eh?
18 U.S. Code § 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses
(b)Whoever—(1)directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official . . . , with intent—
(A)to influence any official act;
shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
So no President Favre?
All right! Fine him three SCOTUS judges!
More superseding indictments!
My freaking dawg. Douchey is suggesting that we're somehow in support of Hamas by working to allow humanitarian aide and advocating Israel consider a pause in their offensive.
That fucking shitsack festers fetidly far beneath contempt.
I surely do appreciate the restraint Admiral Kirby shows in not leaping over the podium and throttling Reek for stupid.
The man's sure and steady self-control is to be commended.
Reek's life is without any worth.
His only worth is as a mindless Murdoch puppet, working to damage the Biden administration.
He's a fucking malevolent cartoon character.
Oh, someone came up with it long ago during the Psaki administration, and it was not mine. But I carry the standard proudly.
I remember it being first applied to Mittens when he went groveling to TFG to be *something* ...
oh lord! someone left the playpen open again.
Middle school students could do better than Head Start dropout Reek.
Fuck you, Peter.
Why is fake ass Fox news even allowed in there? Jesus Christ.
Because other news organizations cry, cry, crrrrryyyyyyy whenever this openly partisan propaganda network that works hand-in-hand with Republicans gets excluded for being exactly what it is.
So far as I can tell, this is literally the only criterion under which news orgs will go to bat for each other.
But Fox could send some other dummy in.
The orange fucking moron kept certain news outlets out. Biden reinstated everyone. Why they put up with his shit is crazy making and Fux does it on purpose.
I'd say "Thank you for your question, Peter. I'll provide you with a written answer at a later date." Then move on. Why waist everyone's time?
Exactly. Why even pretend he's a legit journalist?
He's an absolute vile piece of shit.
Reek asks a stupid question, right on schedule.
It's the Fux plan.
DOJ Warns Judge Cannon That Trump Is Trying To ‘Manipulate’ Her In Documents Case To Delay Trials
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/11/02/doj-warns-judge-cannon-trump-is-trying-to-manipulate-her-in-documents-case-as-ex-president-asks-to-delay-trials/?sh=7993b9dc5e30
The PAB moved to postpone the documents case because of of the upcoming 1/6 trial, and then moved to postpone the 1/6 trial.
Legal eagles last night were talking about this. Judge Chutkan isn't delaying the 1/6 trial unless PAB is dead. Her trial will be relatively short and in no way will buck up against Cannon's June date. And in fact, it would be common practice for Cannon to call Chutkan and ask for an idea on how long the 1/6 case will go. Conclusions were mostly this: If Cannon kicks it down more than a week or two, fine; any longer than that, and it's manipulated bullshit on behalf of team Trump.
Well fucking duh.
Well yeah but what if she WANTS to be manipulated? Checkmate, libs.
She's totally open to being manipulated by her cult leader.
"I grab them by gavel. You can do that when you're a celebrity."
He gave her the job now its time to suck his ass every time he demands it.
I'm sure the damned dolt already knows this and is right on board with the plan.
She's a fascist fluffer, pure and simple.
And now he's also offered to bribe her by appointing her to the Supreme Court.
Which justice is he going to have iced to get that chair.
While paul retired after 23 years in the Army as a high ranking NCO I do have a grasp of just how crippling Traitorswill's malign manipulations of officer promotions has actually been. And it has been damned deleterious to say the least.
An NCO with 23 years' service is probably a Sergeant Major. Generally speaking, someone at that rank would be a Colonel's right-hand man or woman, and assisting with running a battalion or brigade. And yeah, technically speaking, a lieutenant outranks them, but in reality if you're a lieutenant and trying to pull rank on a sergeant major then you're not going to last long in the army.
That's rough. I was in for 4 years and never saw that happen.
Trump is on an Adderall (generic) fueled rage and tweet storm.
But he may have kicked himself in the balls.
He celebrated Judge Cannon likely delaying the date of his trial on mishandling of documents to Oct. 24 and promised to nominate her for the Supreme Court when he becomes President. That's akin to bribing a judge as well as grounds for her to be forced to recuse herself, or possibly by Jack Smith.
Can someone send out for more popcorn?
He did that? He posted that he'd nominate her for SCOTUS??
Maybe Jack needs to make a trip to the 11th Circuit.
"Maybe Jack needs to make YET ANOTHER trip to the 11th Circuit.
FTFY
All I know is that someone put my coworker on one of those Trump grifting text lists and she is royally pissed off.
"I am a conservative, but I can't stand that man and can't understand how he's allowed to run again" she keeps saying. Life is a purple state is wild.
He'd have to take out one of the justices to get that done or Rs can decide to expand the court and fuck Ds for all time.
Objection: balls not in evidence.
Trump pisses me off on many, many levels, but somehow one of the things that makes me maddest is how easily (and presumably without a prescription) he gets Adderall whereas I have to go hugely out of my way to get enough to professionally function. And that pill abusers like him are part of the reason why it's so hard for me to get them in the first place.
Thank you! I finally managed to get back on (generic) Concerta. In order to get there I have to regularly see a psychiatrist (who, admittedly, is pretty awesome) who can renew my prescription every week to get the dosage right, sign a form at the pharmacy acknowledging it's a controlled substance, show my photo ID, and carry a Torah scroll's length of receipt back to my car. Assuming that they're in stock to begin with. All the while, due to the fact that I'm recovering from crystal meth abuse, undergo additional scrutiny by said (awesome) psychiatrist, my psychologist, and my primary care provider. Ironically enough, due to my SOC, I have zero interest in popping pills. Moreover, while crystal meth is notoriously difficult to kick, ironically enough, ADD meds are the one of the only medical interventions that show any kind of promise with regard to this substance.
What is SOC?
SOC = substance of choice. Recovery folks also use DOC (drug of choice), but my understanding is that SOC emerged due to alcohol is rarely being thought of as a drug due to its ubiquity.
Ok.
Remember his Doctor Feelgood (Ronny Jackson)?
Who now sits in congress.
I'm still kind of astonished that man was cleared to be the personal physician of two presidents. Forget having a screw loose, I don't think he has any screws in place.
I wish more people would become more aware of how much the wealthy control everything and everyone. NONE of these policies ever touch them but ALWAYS kick the shit out of us.
so much this.
I wish we could just once and for all be done with that miserable, runny, rotten piece of shit.
He thought running for 2024 would stunt or stop all investigations. As we can all see he's throwing that at the wall every day. His narcissistic sociopathy will not let him go into obscurity. He demands to be front and center at all cost.
I hope it costs him everything. I wish he'd end up in a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere but that's magical thinking. The only way he will ever go away is to die.
Everything in the universe is about Donald.
It's what sociopaths do and it will stay that way until he's 6 ft under.
I've never seen anything like it in my life, and I dealt with a narcissistic sociopath for over 10 years in an organization I used to volunteer for. I thought he was the worst it could get.
And then Trump came around. They are almost exactly the same. Same turns of phrases, same "like no one has ever seen/best ever of all time" type language. Just disgusting.
Sorry you had to deal with that. I was married to a narcissist and his family dynamic gave way to sociopaths. They were wealthy and fubar.
The wealthier they are the worse they are. They don't have people around them to tell them no. This carries over into everything. The power and control that money provides is obscene.
It was horrible, and I now have no friends in town b/c of it. My and my family's entire social support network and friends gone overnight and they haven't come back even 7 years later (sadly, that place was our life and we spent almost every waking hour with that organization outside of work. Big fucking mistake).
Because their kid getting roles in community theater shows and not being given the stink eye by this sociopath and his disgusting wife were more important than their (in some cases) 10-year friendship with me and my family.
My daughter's mental health plunged after that, too, and hasn't recovered. I'm enraged at him, but also beyond enraged/disappointed/bitter that my supposed "friends" all bailed.
This guy and his disgusting wife didn't have $$$, but they had power, or at least a localized version of it. They were/are the founders/owners/board leaders of a local 501c3, so I guess it's the same kind of thing as $$$$.
I'm just beyond disappointed at how many truly educated, seemingly decent people kowtow to him and metaphorically suck his dick every day knowing how he and his wife treat people (including violent shit).
Then if you'll look back these were never your friends. Friends don't treat you like that.
They have been corrupted by their power and control. Not all bullies are wealthy but the have a lot of control by fear and domination.
Move on and find others who are more like minded. It's not easy and it still hurts but you're better to alienate the sociopaths. Nothing good ever comes from them.
maybe *someone's* testimony will do it? let's go, Vanky!
If no one is above the law then this ought to be pretty cut and dried, thus short and sweet.
But there's no profits to be made doing anything sensibly, so here we are.
equality under the law has always been an illusion.
I can't believe that you see law type person after law type person just throwing their hands up and say "uncharted territory."
fucking chart it then already like it's your damn job.
I so naively thought once Biden was elected, that miserable fucking creature would just shut the fuck up and go away.
It seems like we hear from him/about him almost as much or more than we did when he was President.
Didn't everyone demand Hillary Clinton "sit down and shut up?" Where are the calls for Trump to do the same?
Right?
People either like/support him or like watching the spectacle.
Perverse incentives are going to roundly fuck this country into oblivion, I think. Or at least into unrecognizability.
he'll prance and preen until the last breath.
Why won't the press ask tough questions like; "What is the administration's position on India vs Sri Lanka in the cricket world cup?"
Pffft. That requires knowledge of something. Our press corps is more along the lines of "What is the administration's position on iced tea? Sweet or motherfucking?"
I literally gasped when I heard that O’Reilly story way back when. What a sweet summer child I was.
Hadn't thought about the iced tea controversy. I'm not a fan of sweet drinks so I like iced tea unsweetened. Incidentally, I had dinner with a Brit this past weekend. She had never had iced tea. I was shocked.
Iced tea isn't really our thing at all. Never drink it myself, don't know anyone who does. When we say 'a nice cuppa tea', many Brits like it brewed so strongly you can stand a spoon in it (also fondly referred to as 'Builder's Tea').
LOL. I just read George Orwell's "A Nice Cup of Tea" for advice on how to make proper tea. Six heaping teaspoons per quart (yow!), piping hot, with just a tiny splash of milk, and no sugar. Quoth the man himself, "Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter."
I'm actually not surprised that your Brit friend had never had iced tea. They probably think what we do with tea in the South is an abomination. And to your point, I can only drink sweet tea in small amounts, given that most sweet tea is just diabetes in a glass.
Though an intelligent man, and one who travelled, my FiL could never figure out that in the CO/NM areas he couldn't just order sweet tea without getting some quizzical looks.
Proper sweet tea is one sugar molecule away from becoming rock candy.