There are some good American brands, not named “Chicken of the Sea.” We buy the Wild Planet tuna. Pricey, but more reasonable if you get a case of it from Costco or Amazon.
Someone in her circle told her that TFG is so far off the rails that giving him additional time to prepare would not result in him actually being more prepared, and this is how she spun it.
"That focal point was a 62-year-old Black woman named Ruby Freeman. And, according to the 98-page indictment now on file in the Fulton County Superior Court, the astonishing lengths Trump and his associates went to frame her show just how critical to the attempted coup she actually was. Along the way, Trump and his enablers’ tactics, carried out under the color of governmental action, provide a terrifying taste of what a second Trump administration would do to ordinary Americans if it were ever allowed to occupy a position of power in this country again.
That story is utterly horrific. That poor woman. I don't know how either of them got the strength to get through what had to have been sheer hell, but they are amazing people.
Peter Navarro decision coming Wednesday, per @KyleAlexStewart. Government cross exam was short.
Judge Mehta said presenting Navarro’s impressions about his convo with Trump — not even presenting evidence of Trump’s actual words — was ““pretty weak sauce.”
"WASHINGTON -- Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro will stand trial in September on contempt of Congress charges filed after he refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta set a Sept. 5 trial date during a court appearance on Tuesday in Washington."
It's not a huge deal, and those voters are probably not switching to Biden, but it's nice to see. And I've seen a lot more of this than backup to the article that keeps getting past around claiming his poll numbers are going up with each indictment.
"The poll found that 27 percent of voters felt entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy won the debate last week, but it did not immediately translate to an increase in his support, which dropped from 10 percent to 9 percent in the Emerson poll."
In large parts of the country this summer it was just too fucking hot to leave the house, even for an angry white nationalist or incel bent on violence.
I don’t know if he was the first, but he most certainly did say them in an op ed piece he wrote a few days after a mass shooting in California in 2004.
Random Reporter: Many people are saying President Biden should spend less time touting his economic accomplishments and more time commiserating with the folk in red states who aren't benefiting as much. Does Biden lack empathy?
I'm usually one for following what the right is doing, because it's important to be aware of these things, but this is one time I'd have happily made an exception.
Doocy: It's my understanding that Biden has spent more time in Delaware than any other president since Rutherford B. Hayes. Is the President hiding from the American people?
Karine: Peter, Presidents Biden and Hayes are the only two from Delaware. Where did you expect him to be?
"President Trump has visited or stayed at one or more of his properties on 394 separate days since becoming president. That figure amounts to almost one third of his time in office at one of his properties, or well over a year of his presidency."
I don't actually care about it either way. All modern Presidents have staff with them wherever they go, so they're doing the job to the best of their ability no matter where they physically are at the time. It just seems a useful follow up to Doocy's idiocy.
HS, elementary schools and library evacuated YET FUCKING AGAIN in my town just now for yet another goddamned bomb threat from these thin-skinned fucking right wing animals.
circa 1957 or 1958 I recall standing around outside of my junior HS due to a bomb threat.
The worst part of that was getting a tent caterpillar put on my back by a boy I knew, which I just realized was due to him just wanting to get my attention, rather than the death threats he did get from me. Missed my chance at a jr high romance.
These days, when it's students making these threats, or even comments they didn't entirely intend as threats but were seen anyway, if we find them on social media the law gets involved, so it's not fun for them. Of course, the situation here is different, and who knows if they'll ever track down where the threats are coming from.
At the school where I taught, most bomb threats were ignored since the clerks could ID the voices and knew who was trying to avoid taking a major test..
We had four such threats here, in the Spring, at one high school. Turned out it was a couple of students. I'm guessing the FO part wasn't as funny as the FA part.
I hope they catch whoever is doing those in your space.
Yep. All of this. This is no joke, it's not students doing it on a lark. It's terrorism from right wing fuckos who can't behave in a civilized manner but instead act like wild fucking animals.
Of course it's terrorism. And that's why we get nefarious nonsense weasel-word terms like "Domestic Terrorism," as if it's somehow not regular terrorism. Or maybe it's housebroken terrorism, or terrorism wearing a French maid outfit.
When, what it really is, is right-wing white people terrorism. Which is also why Law Enforcement doesn't act on it unless it personally threatens their personal boss.
Sadly, Joe the Plumber has Passed.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/joe-the-plumber-who-questioned-obamas-tax-policies-during-the-2008-campaign-has-died-at-49.html
Did not attend service but willing to send a polite note approving of it
ah, jeez.......just when I was thinking of maybe replacing my toilet gaskets!
RIP, you astro-turf POS!
Imagine being at the receiving end of this evil plot. Those poor women (Ruby Freeman and her daughter) were investigated for like 2 fucking years.
https://twitter.com/tburages/status/1692025260466438343?
Tami Burages@tburages
This video of Trevian Kutti trying to intimidate Ruby Freeman is astonishing.
"I cannot say what specifically will take place. I just know that it will disrupt your freedom."
"You are a loose end for a party that needs to tidy up."
Team Kanye
OT: bought a flat of REALLY sweet and ripe blackberries and now I am feasting on blackberries like a black bear.
Careful. Blackberries are a gateway drug to cocaine.
There are some good American brands, not named “Chicken of the Sea.” We buy the Wild Planet tuna. Pricey, but more reasonable if you get a case of it from Costco or Amazon.
Habba continues to impress everyone with her intelligence or lack thereof.
Habba: Trump Doesn't Need to Prep for Trial Because He's Not a "Normal Person"
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1696123850982125720?s=20
Someone in her circle told her that TFG is so far off the rails that giving him additional time to prepare would not result in him actually being more prepared, and this is how she spun it.
While that's a profound understatement I don't believe it really has the flex that Habba seems to believe that it does.
Well, with his trial now set for March, he has his wish; a nice, speedy trial.
I'm sure Trump's new lawyer is ready to strangle her.
Calling Putin right now to see if he's got a window he could spare.
Take a number.
She's half right.
I'd have a hard time committing felonies in four different blocks.
Most criminals don't have the reach to commit that many crimes in that many places so close together.
Good read on how the fascist coup was supposed to work.
"Framing Ruby Freeman was a key strategy of Trump's coup attempt, and thankfully, it failed
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/28/2189887/-Framing-Ruby-Freeman-was-a-key-strategy-of-Trump-s-coup-attempt-and-thankfully-it-failed
"That focal point was a 62-year-old Black woman named Ruby Freeman. And, according to the 98-page indictment now on file in the Fulton County Superior Court, the astonishing lengths Trump and his associates went to frame her show just how critical to the attempted coup she actually was. Along the way, Trump and his enablers’ tactics, carried out under the color of governmental action, provide a terrifying taste of what a second Trump administration would do to ordinary Americans if it were ever allowed to occupy a position of power in this country again.
That story is utterly horrific. That poor woman. I don't know how either of them got the strength to get through what had to have been sheer hell, but they are amazing people.
I feel like rereading Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem again. lots of evil, lots of banality.
That woman deserves a billion dollars, just for what she's had to endure.
"Office of the Public Engagement"? Is The Public getting married?
Public Engagement is when someone asks the other when they're someplace like ballgame. Those partnerships often involve martymachlia.
Peter Navarro decision coming Wednesday, per @KyleAlexStewart. Government cross exam was short.
Judge Mehta said presenting Navarro’s impressions about his convo with Trump — not even presenting evidence of Trump’s actual words — was ““pretty weak sauce.”
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1696220949308145775?s=20
I'd forgotten about this guy. Anyone care to fill in on what's going on?
A quick google:
"WASHINGTON -- Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro will stand trial in September on contempt of Congress charges filed after he refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta set a Sept. 5 trial date during a court appearance on Tuesday in Washington."
Thank you. My google-fu could use some work.
PAB support among GOP voters down 6 points. So much winning:https://news.yahoo.com/trump-drops-6-points-post-134808936.html
I need him to lock the nomination.
He's free to crater after that.
He will, it's not like everyone is going to flock to Human Dynamo Mike Pence
Mike needs to turn down the animal magnetism a bit during the primary season so he can ratchet it back up in the general.
They have nobody around whom they could POSSIBLY coalesce. It is going to be hilarious either way.
Slight decrease? If it were a dem they'd say his support had cratered after it burned down and exploded.
And dems in disarray
It's not a huge deal, and those voters are probably not switching to Biden, but it's nice to see. And I've seen a lot more of this than backup to the article that keeps getting past around claiming his poll numbers are going up with each indictment.
If they sit it out, or write Zombie Reagan, I'll take it
"The poll found that 27 percent of voters felt entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy won the debate last week, but it did not immediately translate to an increase in his support, which dropped from 10 percent to 9 percent in the Emerson poll."
lololol
Only a Libertarian could win a debate and be just as hated afterwards.
the problem with libertarians really kicks into high gear when they open their mouths and start talking.
Gosh, I can't see why "All your money belongs to me" doesn't resonate with voters.
"More hated"
Well there is that whole “brown” thing that Vivek is going to find difficult to overcome with Republican voters.
"The more I hear him talk, the more I hate the guy".
"Hey! That's my schtick!"
~DeSantis
Excellent. Maybe his YUGE win in his own golf tournament will turn things around.
I think he's already locked up the Golf Cheat Demogrpahic
Cheats hate each other, because they hate being cheated more than anything in the world.
Generally speaking, yes, but the MAGA crowd admires his cheating.
They all wish they had cheated on three wives and barely-penetrated a pron star because sincerely-believed Peeping Tomism.
WTF – are we having a "Back To School" mass shooting festival or something?
These are occurring so often that there is barely any reporting on them
True, but your first sentence is creepy. True and creepy.
Shooting on UNC campus. I guess it’s “Shell week”?
Ok. I’ll be in the corner feeling bad about myself now…
In large parts of the country this summer it was just too fucking hot to leave the house, even for an angry white nationalist or incel bent on violence.
Doocy: "Karine, if Biden and Trump played a round of golf, how badly would Trump beat him?"
TFG does everything badly.
Don't you dare give that insipid git any ideas...
Awwwwww Joe the Plumber died.
Fortunately, his corpse doesn’t trump my Constitutional right to mock his dead ass.
I poured out some Drano for him.
Add one to the Obama Death Count, per the rwnj's probably.
I have never wished harm upon a man, but I have read many an obituary with great satisfaction.
No matter how much we keep shouting KISSINGER!, the Universe is indifferent.
He was mostly harmless.
Except when he said “your dead kids don’t trump my constitutional rights.”
Was he the one who said that? I thought it was some other narrow minded numpty.
Shit. I need score cards to keep these loons straight at this point in time.
I don’t know if he was the first, but he most certainly did say them in an op ed piece he wrote a few days after a mass shooting in California in 2004.
"he wrote"
Not a plumber, also not an op-ed writer.
I thought it was after Sandy Hook.
No, that was Earth.
Joe was just a jerk.
The poor guy was just another expendable pawn to these callous, manipulative, entirely self-serving Rethuglicons.
My condolences to the man's family.
Random Reporter: Many people are saying President Biden should spend less time touting his economic accomplishments and more time commiserating with the folk in red states who aren't benefiting as much. Does Biden lack empathy?
Many people are saying he should stop doing things to help him get re-elected!
Many stupid, evil people.
Roseanne Barr and Michael Flynn are a thing was not on my bingo card.
Just two old geezers swapping gravy in a Vegas hotel while calculating how to destroy the country.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1696212302695944196?s=20
Welp, there goes my sex drive for the week.
Or forever……
Normally I'd say "Girl, you can do better than him" but in her case, she can't.
They deserve each other (and Flynn deserves to be in jail)
Roseanne Barr is that stabbing hemorrhoid pain in your rectum that you forgot all about until it flares up again.
Unless they're slapping each other with pig bladders while suspended over a pit of alligators ain't gonna click that
I'm usually one for following what the right is doing, because it's important to be aware of these things, but this is one time I'd have happily made an exception.
Ewwwwww
Pardon me; it's necessary to excuse myself for a moment in order to abscond to the bathroom where I may become violently ill.
Jaysum crimony.
Doocy: It's my understanding that Biden has spent more time in Delaware than any other president since Rutherford B. Hayes. Is the President hiding from the American people?
Karine: Peter, Presidents Biden and Hayes are the only two from Delaware. Where did you expect him to be?
Did she really say that? I need to look for that clip.
Hayes is from Ohio.
PS. I am not a crank.
Wikipedia has him born in Delaware and later living in Ohio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes
"When President Biden reaches 500 trips to his own properties like his predecessor, ask me that question again."
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-500-visits-trump-properties/
"President Trump has visited or stayed at one or more of his properties on 394 separate days since becoming president. That figure amounts to almost one third of his time in office at one of his properties, or well over a year of his presidency."
Has he spent more time in Delaware than W did in Texas?
W was clearing brush on his property! Jeez! /s
He was just a very busy regular guy!
I don't actually care about it either way. All modern Presidents have staff with them wherever they go, so they're doing the job to the best of their ability no matter where they physically are at the time. It just seems a useful follow up to Doocy's idiocy.
Or Drumpfenfuehrer at Morgue-O-Lardo?
Imagine - if you will, a Republican party so totally void of ethics and morals...
https://substack.com/profile/157156238-1d041d0f262a/note/c-39201000?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lkej2
That's effectively the only Rethuglicon party I've ever known.
If anyone thought different anytime in at least the last 50 years, it's only because the Republicans were lying better about who they were.
OT:
HS, elementary schools and library evacuated YET FUCKING AGAIN in my town just now for yet another goddamned bomb threat from these thin-skinned fucking right wing animals.
I'm so tired of it.
This is threat #3 since last Sunday.
I hate domestic terrorists.
Me, too. And it's high time the Moms for Liberty gets added to that list.
Bomb threats weren't out of the ordinary at my suburban high school in the early 70s. Had to be a pain for teachers, but students didn't mind much.
circa 1957 or 1958 I recall standing around outside of my junior HS due to a bomb threat.
The worst part of that was getting a tent caterpillar put on my back by a boy I knew, which I just realized was due to him just wanting to get my attention, rather than the death threats he did get from me. Missed my chance at a jr high romance.
These days, when it's students making these threats, or even comments they didn't entirely intend as threats but were seen anyway, if we find them on social media the law gets involved, so it's not fun for them. Of course, the situation here is different, and who knows if they'll ever track down where the threats are coming from.
At the school where I taught, most bomb threats were ignored since the clerks could ID the voices and knew who was trying to avoid taking a major test..
It was a simpler time.
This is very ugly stuff directed against transgender people.
And given the recent murder in SoCal b/c of a pride flag, the community is worried.
We had four such threats here, in the Spring, at one high school. Turned out it was a couple of students. I'm guessing the FO part wasn't as funny as the FA part.
I hope they catch whoever is doing those in your space.
These are right wing extremists calling this shit into Fox News and the NY Times b/c a librarian shut down a Moms for Liberty HateFest last week.
Feds need to start applying those terrorism "enhancements" to charges against MAGAts (er, because that's what it is).
Yep. All of this. This is no joke, it's not students doing it on a lark. It's terrorism from right wing fuckos who can't behave in a civilized manner but instead act like wild fucking animals.
Of course it's terrorism. And that's why we get nefarious nonsense weasel-word terms like "Domestic Terrorism," as if it's somehow not regular terrorism. Or maybe it's housebroken terrorism, or terrorism wearing a French maid outfit.
When, what it really is, is right-wing white people terrorism. Which is also why Law Enforcement doesn't act on it unless it personally threatens their personal boss.
The people responsible need to be arrested for terrorism, charged, and convicted.
Yep. It's terrorizing our community and LGBTQ+ people are afraid to be out and open around town now.
Fuck these fuckos. I'm so goddamned sick of their indecency.