Every time Orange Foolius writes about or talks about E. Jean Carroll, Roberta Kaplan should file a lawsuit. Obviously, the $83.5 million dollar verdict has done nothing to shut his pie hole or stop his fingers.
Robbie Kaplan said that the last time the idiot said something about E. Jean too. At some point, she has to document all of the examples and just file a lawsuit. Enough with the table talk, Ms. Kaplan.
"Trump just walked back into court, accompanied by his entourage. His son Donald Trump Jr. lingered near one of the sketch artists and nodded approvingly at her work before moving on.
Donald Trump Jr. is an appreciator of the sketch artists. At Trump’s civil fraud trial, where he testified, he told one of them to 'make me look sexy.' " - NYTimes
One of zillions of reasons not to vote for RFK Junior “There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves and, you know, I just, I just have a visceral reaction against destroying history. I don’t like it. I think we should celebrate who we are.” Uh, it was the Confederate Daughters who destroyed history by whitewashing (literally and figuratively) the history of the war and its causes. Even if some Confederate soldiers thought they were just defending their homes, they still sided with slavery - they should have overthrown the slaveowning oligarchs who dragged the South into war purely out of greed.
And he's clearly on President Klan Robe's team; all his agitprop is against Biden, including that stupid-ass pledge he wants Biden to sign for dropping out.
He is so ignorant. If you were a small landowner, the plantation owners would lease you a slave just to make you complicit. It was nearly universal across the South.
I didn’t know that - I assumed that small landowners and other whites who weren’t wealthy favored slavery because they didn’t want to be at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
"You know, how we always make a point to have those Patriotic Germans who were just doing what they though was best for their country when they volunteered to fight in WWII, you remember those difficult, conflicted characters? In all the movies with Nazi's?... The good Nazi's?"
There’s a good video Beau of the 5th column did where he reads all of the confederate States declarations for leaving the Union. Spoiler, they ALL said it was “to preserve the institution known as slavery”.
There was no question what the civil war was about. Not it their time and Scholars are NOT confused about this now. The only people who are confused are racists.
Go back far enough and EVERYONE has ancestors who did terrible things. I don't get why people get all defensive about that... I'm not my ancestors, I can both reject the terrible things they did, AND acknowledge that I have benefited from those things. Its not like I was ever given a choice about those things!
Amen to that. Some of my ancestors owned slaves. I've seen the plantation houses and the slave cabins. But I'm not them and I think differently from them. I abhor slavery but it happened and there is no excuse for covering it up. And I can't pick my ancestors, any more than I could have picked my parents. But I can choose what values I believe in and who I associate with.
I suspect that white Americans who believe that slaveowning guilt is inheritable are the same ones who believe that modern Jews somehow bear the guilt for Jesus being crucified.
I don't like being descended from slave owners, but how could I change it? The "sins of the father" thing is illogical to me, but some people believe in it.
Yeah I do actually, it's called working with your allies and getting people into negotiating position. And also recognizing that when you're dealing with sovereign nations there's complicated negotiations to do. But you work with your *team* not people who want to burn everything down. Because I *guarantee* you when everything burns down, the people who started the trouble or benefit from it most won't be hurt.
Positive change is slow. It takes a lot of time if you do it right. But organizing *constructively* is the way. Let the opposition be the assholes.
There were people who thought violent direct action was the way in the 1960s to help the cause of Black folk. All it got us was more redlining, greater reprisals, and then a vacuum for illegal drugs to be funneled into our communities and wreck them further. We still have suffering from that to this day even as our wealth cratered through many Republican administrations (the Democrats actually built up Black income in the past 30 years).
Accordingly the 10/7 attack was STUPID STUPID STUPID. If you do some out-of-line shit like those attacks under the banner of a people who are already oppressed and then not only that, you kill people who were your allies in those attacks (like at the music festival). Now *they* look like assholes for supporting you, you look like assholes because you mainly targeted civilians. And then on top of this bad actors can hijack your protests and broadcast common cause with assholes. So then the chaos agents can have your goal of stopping the famine and reprisal against innocent Palestinians subsumed to their "River to the sea" shit, or just "Israel is Bad!"
If, say, 10/7 was just attacks on a military base? That wouldn't have looked so bad.
Like, can you imagine if—right after 9/11—a large number of campus protestors decided to say "Al Qaeda was right" in the United States and lay out Al Qaeda's grievances. Nobody would listen and it would just steel the resolve of the USA. Indeed the USA steeled its resolve and reelected Dumbya.
Then again 10/7 isn't so stupid if you want to cause chaos in the West, since Israel is a sovereign nation, and this is also useful to get a good friend of authoritarians into office in the USA too. I mean it's stupid if you want the actual goal of Palestinian freedom. It's actually great if you want to cause chaos and ensure even more reprisals for the foreseeable future.
We’re not going to un-Ally ourselves with Israel. That’s just not going to happen. But it’s clear that Gaza has a much better chance of Biden talking Israel down than Team Trump.
My imaginary summary of closing arguments in Manhattan.
Defense: "I'm just an Unfrozen Caveman lawyer. Sometimes the honking horns of your Manhattan traffic make me want to get out of my BMW ... and run off into the hills, or wherever."
Prosecution: "Defendant had his hands in the cookie jar, and we have photographic evidence, and eye witness testimony from scads of people. Also, tire tracks, spy sat imagery, all on 8x10 glossies with a paragraph on the back. Don't listen to this sloped forehead defense attorney. He's a knuckle dragger."
Ta, Evan. Missed it as usual.
Reek is asking an incredibly stupid question.
Reek is present. Hold on to your popcorn.
Well, we got two Hamas guys among all the dead kids. So it's all good.
FULL DISCLOSURE. The bane of CEOs.
Karine opens with comments on all the weather disaster in the lower midwest.
Geeze. We've got a countdown clock to the press briefing. Is this provided so Reek knows when he has to leave the booth to head to the press room?
Guess Who Else Flew That Treasonous Flag?
If you answered Leonard Leo the Fascist Puppetmaster of the Federalist Society You're right!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/appeal-to-heaven-flag-flew-leonard-leo-house-1235026491/
They're all part of a club!!!!!!
"The He-Man Woman Haters"!!!!
Observe an overwhelming absence of shock or surprise exhibited by anyone paying attention.
"Leonard Leo Thinks He’s Above the Law, Too
The Senate has subpoenaed him over his lavish gifts to justices. So far, he hasn’t complied."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/leonard-leo-ignoring-senate-subpoena.html
Leo needs to be chucked into Obama's time machine and sent to the dark ages, where he belongs.
(insert Fry shocked gif here)
Every time Orange Foolius writes about or talks about E. Jean Carroll, Roberta Kaplan should file a lawsuit. Obviously, the $83.5 million dollar verdict has done nothing to shut his pie hole or stop his fingers.
https://meidasnews.com/news/e-jean-carrolls-lawyer-considers-new-lawsuit-after-trumps-memorial-day-attack
She says a new suit is on the table.
Robbie Kaplan said that the last time the idiot said something about E. Jean too. At some point, she has to document all of the examples and just file a lawsuit. Enough with the table talk, Ms. Kaplan.
"Trump is shaking his head slightly as Joshua Steinglass says that Trump, up until now, has escaped justice."
This is the insightful commentary we have come to expect from the NYT and Maggie Haberman.
I pity the poor birbs that have to read that at the bottom of their cages.
At least the fisches are mercifully dead.
"Trump just walked back into court, accompanied by his entourage. His son Donald Trump Jr. lingered near one of the sketch artists and nodded approvingly at her work before moving on.
Donald Trump Jr. is an appreciator of the sketch artists. At Trump’s civil fraud trial, where he testified, he told one of them to 'make me look sexy.' " - NYTimes
Oh I just threw up in my mouth.
Talk about impossibly hard targets to hit.
*shudder*
Am I going to find out if VP will be cussing again? And why does this WH hate America?
Be a cussin', yes Ma'am!
Make an old Master Chief blush like a teenage girl!
One of zillions of reasons not to vote for RFK Junior “There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves and, you know, I just, I just have a visceral reaction against destroying history. I don’t like it. I think we should celebrate who we are.” Uh, it was the Confederate Daughters who destroyed history by whitewashing (literally and figuratively) the history of the war and its causes. Even if some Confederate soldiers thought they were just defending their homes, they still sided with slavery - they should have overthrown the slaveowning oligarchs who dragged the South into war purely out of greed.
Oh my fucking god FUCK THIS GUY.
And he's clearly on President Klan Robe's team; all his agitprop is against Biden, including that stupid-ass pledge he wants Biden to sign for dropping out.
The entire point of all those Confederate monuments was to keep the uppity Negroes in line.
Keep blabbering, ya sociopathic POS! Siphon off every PAB vote you can!
He is so ignorant. If you were a small landowner, the plantation owners would lease you a slave just to make you complicit. It was nearly universal across the South.
I didn’t know that - I assumed that small landowners and other whites who weren’t wealthy favored slavery because they didn’t want to be at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
That was their thinking, too, but a lot of them had a slave or two supplied by the larger landowners.
We should have more statues of George III to celebrate who we are.
And Ho Chi Minh.
Leonard Leo's ideal of a great American.
This a$$hole needs to hide from his father in the afterlife.
Seriously. Forget the election, I'm mad for the ghost of RFK at this point.
RFK is spinning so fast in his grave he's probably generating a few MW.
His father probably has to apologize to the clan every moment for this kid.
"You know, how we always make a point to have those Patriotic Germans who were just doing what they though was best for their country when they volunteered to fight in WWII, you remember those difficult, conflicted characters? In all the movies with Nazi's?... The good Nazi's?"
"Anyone?"
There’s a good video Beau of the 5th column did where he reads all of the confederate States declarations for leaving the Union. Spoiler, they ALL said it was “to preserve the institution known as slavery”.
There was no question what the civil war was about. Not it their time and Scholars are NOT confused about this now. The only people who are confused are racists.
Endless upfists for this comment.
Nikki Haley and the Republicans sure are though....
If only their political leaders had ever spoken about slavery. Like they always did.
I've met people who justify their ancestors as non-slave owners. They want to imagine their peeps made Noble Sacrifices.
I suppose many NAZIs were brave, too.
Go back far enough and EVERYONE has ancestors who did terrible things. I don't get why people get all defensive about that... I'm not my ancestors, I can both reject the terrible things they did, AND acknowledge that I have benefited from those things. Its not like I was ever given a choice about those things!
Exactly. Guilt isn’t inheritable like a genetic trait.
In fact, I seem to remember a war that was basically all about that.
And the people who lost never shut up about it, or learn the damn lesson.
Amen to that. Some of my ancestors owned slaves. I've seen the plantation houses and the slave cabins. But I'm not them and I think differently from them. I abhor slavery but it happened and there is no excuse for covering it up. And I can't pick my ancestors, any more than I could have picked my parents. But I can choose what values I believe in and who I associate with.
I suspect that white Americans who believe that slaveowning guilt is inheritable are the same ones who believe that modern Jews somehow bear the guilt for Jesus being crucified.
I don't like being descended from slave owners, but how could I change it? The "sins of the father" thing is illogical to me, but some people believe in it.
Right? There's no call to own someone else's actions.
Well, I was going to vote for Joe, but now I have no choice but to vote for *checks notes*...
The baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells?
I think I have the wrong script.
All those wells he could have just thrown them down, and STILL he eats them. What a douche!
Tell me again how there’s no difference between the parties.
‘Finish Them!’ Nikki Haley Autographs Bomb in Israel to Be Dropped On Gaza
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/finish-them-nikki-haley-autographs-bomb-in-israel-to-be-dropped-on-gaza/
What a horrible thing to do. A Republican sort of thing.
But Rashida Tlaib thinks a protest vote is a great idea.
Yeah I do actually, it's called working with your allies and getting people into negotiating position. And also recognizing that when you're dealing with sovereign nations there's complicated negotiations to do. But you work with your *team* not people who want to burn everything down. Because I *guarantee* you when everything burns down, the people who started the trouble or benefit from it most won't be hurt.
Positive change is slow. It takes a lot of time if you do it right. But organizing *constructively* is the way. Let the opposition be the assholes.
There were people who thought violent direct action was the way in the 1960s to help the cause of Black folk. All it got us was more redlining, greater reprisals, and then a vacuum for illegal drugs to be funneled into our communities and wreck them further. We still have suffering from that to this day even as our wealth cratered through many Republican administrations (the Democrats actually built up Black income in the past 30 years).
Accordingly the 10/7 attack was STUPID STUPID STUPID. If you do some out-of-line shit like those attacks under the banner of a people who are already oppressed and then not only that, you kill people who were your allies in those attacks (like at the music festival). Now *they* look like assholes for supporting you, you look like assholes because you mainly targeted civilians. And then on top of this bad actors can hijack your protests and broadcast common cause with assholes. So then the chaos agents can have your goal of stopping the famine and reprisal against innocent Palestinians subsumed to their "River to the sea" shit, or just "Israel is Bad!"
If, say, 10/7 was just attacks on a military base? That wouldn't have looked so bad.
Like, can you imagine if—right after 9/11—a large number of campus protestors decided to say "Al Qaeda was right" in the United States and lay out Al Qaeda's grievances. Nobody would listen and it would just steel the resolve of the USA. Indeed the USA steeled its resolve and reelected Dumbya.
Then again 10/7 isn't so stupid if you want to cause chaos in the West, since Israel is a sovereign nation, and this is also useful to get a good friend of authoritarians into office in the USA too. I mean it's stupid if you want the actual goal of Palestinian freedom. It's actually great if you want to cause chaos and ensure even more reprisals for the foreseeable future.
Who do you think gave Israel that bomb in the first place?
We’re not going to un-Ally ourselves with Israel. That’s just not going to happen. But it’s clear that Gaza has a much better chance of Biden talking Israel down than Team Trump.
I agree with you that it’s not going to happen.
However it leaves the problem that they are committing genocide and we are helping them do it.
Jesus Christ.
I want to hear the yoots explain how they prefer this over Biden.
My imaginary summary of closing arguments in Manhattan.
Defense: "I'm just an Unfrozen Caveman lawyer. Sometimes the honking horns of your Manhattan traffic make me want to get out of my BMW ... and run off into the hills, or wherever."
Prosecution: "Defendant had his hands in the cookie jar, and we have photographic evidence, and eye witness testimony from scads of people. Also, tire tracks, spy sat imagery, all on 8x10 glossies with a paragraph on the back. Don't listen to this sloped forehead defense attorney. He's a knuckle dragger."
"Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, this . . . is Chewbacca."
TOO SOON!
Meanwhile . . . Nikki Haley was in Israel signing bombs to be dropped on Palestinians. Yeah.
They’re back. Prosecution is refocusing the argument. Trump is staring down the jury. Prick.
Cause juries love that shit.
That's always helpful to one's defense.
DA is systematically shooting down the bullshit. It’s like watching duck hunting.
I bet that makes him look sympathetic and innocent.
snerk