They have to pay retired cop Larry Bushart $835,000 for sharing a post disparaging Donald Trump after Charlie Kirk's assassination, which it turns out is not illegal.
And of course, when these assholes wild out and violate Constitutional rights, it's the taxpayers that foot the bill. The people doing the shit don't actually get held accountable.
The articles I've read about this do not clarify whether the financial award included attorney's fees or not. I hope it doesn't, but I suspect it does, since no article says "plus attorney's fees". I wonder how much his attorneys got for defending him. So far mine have received $200,000.
So I was just thinking, this morning as I joggled my middle-aged ass down the rail trail, that the November mid-terms are really our last chance to save this country during our lifetime. IF we win bigly and if the Dems can win both houses with a Fetterman-proof majority and IF they don't flub it and IF they don't listen to the Schumer-Jeffries types and settle in for some mealy-mouthed blue-ribbon panels and old-fashioned bipartisan comity and moderation, then maybe we've got a shot at pulling back from the brink. Assuming AssMouth isn't successful in torpedoing the elections out from under us.
But WHAT IF the Dems blow it, or more specifically what if the American Voters don't show up and don't vote the way we all think they should?
For real. We're roughly the same age EyeQueue, barring the unforeseen we've got thirty or so years left on this planet. How are we going to survive without losing whatever shreds of sanity we've got left in a gold-plated Christo-fascist Trump-branded autocracy?
Yep. All of this. I am trying to remain hopeful for the midterms and hope that people will wake up and we can take shit back.
But I'm also with you on that last paragraph. If we lose.....Yeah. I can't live with this every day for 30 more years potentially. I just can't.
Well, at least it likely woudln't be 30 more years, b/c I will probably have a heart attack or stroke out before them b/c of the daily stress. :(
I would hope people would get up off their asses before then and physically fight, but I'm not at all sanguine about that, either. People seem to already have given up.
It really is a shame that the defendants aren't personally liable for this. That removal of accountability enables bad actors and perpetuates shitty outcomes.
Is it too much to ask a single "journalist" to put the Fraternal Order Of Police on the spot asking them if they are all in with Trump's Slush Fund paying out millions to thugs who beat police officers?
I was in Manhattan once in the middle of the day. I was having a snack at the train station. There were three cops seated not far from me.
Two of them seemed to be sober. The third one was hammered off his ass. They had to pick up the third man by his shoulders to help him get out of there.
The right of the KKK, Proud boys, 3%ers, Oath Keepers and "christian" militiamen to harass people of color, LGBTQ+, Muslims, Hindus, Jews shall not be infringed...
So who in the IRS signed off on Trump’s Slush Fund????
Frank Bisignano, who is working in the newly created role of chief executive of the I.R.S., signed the agreement with the Justice Department to create the $1.8 billion dollar slush fund controlled by Donald Trump which may be used to pay taxpayer dollars to those convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers on the President’s behalf.
Mr. Bisignano was not confirmed by the Senate to that I.R.S. job, and he is splitting his duties there with his job as the commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
NOTE--WHEN I WORKED AT SOCIAL SECURITY NOBODY IN A PRESIDENTIALLY APPOINTED POSITION COULD EXERCISE THEIR AUTHORITY UNTIL THE SENATE FORMALLY CONFIRMED THEM...of course that changed when President Fartass kept putting people in as "Acting" whatever position...
"In his dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949, George Orwell wrote about a fictional country, Oceania, where truth and reality are distorted, where “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” But Orwell got two things wrong in the novel, the year and the location. The novel should have been titled 2026 and the place should probably have been Florida.
"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been fighting with College Board, the organization that writes and administers Advanced Placement exams and accredits high school AP classes because he believes the United States history program is too “WOKE” and unpatriotic and too infused with discussions of the impact of race, class, and gender on American society. Florida will now have its own accelerated history classes with a pro-America spin known as FACT (Florida Advanced Courses and Tests).
"Starting this fall, Florida students will learn that because the Founding Fathers were Protestant, Christianity shaped the history of the United States, that the United States is a product of Western Civilization, and that despite the existence of 4 million enslaved Africans at the time of the Civil War, the U.S. Constitution was an anti-slavery document. The recommended textbook for this new Florida course of study is Land of Hope, written by a professor at Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian liberal arts college in Michigan.
"The new Florida Framework credits the Judeo-Christian Bible for ideas about liberty and equality and recommends that students in the United States history class read religious texts.
Yeah: those ideas were violent, greedy, selfish, misogynistic, and racist. Pick any page of the so-called "Old Testament" in the language of your choice.
OK, I love that The Orange Felon's face is blurred in the meme pic. I think that should be done everywhere so we don't have to see that mug ever again.
And of course, when these assholes wild out and violate Constitutional rights, it's the taxpayers that foot the bill. The people doing the shit don't actually get held accountable.
They call it "free speech" but viciously trying to suppress people from speaking freely is gunna cost ya. Big.
Kirk was a troll and you get what you give. Good luck canonizing the guy.
The articles I've read about this do not clarify whether the financial award included attorney's fees or not. I hope it doesn't, but I suspect it does, since no article says "plus attorney's fees". I wonder how much his attorneys got for defending him. So far mine have received $200,000.
Even as anxieties grow under Trump, these swing voters aren't ready to back Democrats
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5828924/north-carolina-swing-voter-focus-group
"12 voters who went from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024"
Dear Penthouse......................
Focus groups are focused on how fucking stooopitt the people in the focus groups are. It's excessively tedious from day one.
Swing voters that don’t swing? If they won’t abandon Trump no matter how bad he is, they’re NOT “swing voters”.
Thank you!!
typo. was supposed to read 'swinger voters'
CAN SOMEONE EVER JUST FUCKING CALL HIM WITH THIS STRAIGHT UP LIES AND RIDICULOSITY! THERE HAS TO BE A GODDAMNED BREAKIGN POINT SOON!
So I was just thinking, this morning as I joggled my middle-aged ass down the rail trail, that the November mid-terms are really our last chance to save this country during our lifetime. IF we win bigly and if the Dems can win both houses with a Fetterman-proof majority and IF they don't flub it and IF they don't listen to the Schumer-Jeffries types and settle in for some mealy-mouthed blue-ribbon panels and old-fashioned bipartisan comity and moderation, then maybe we've got a shot at pulling back from the brink. Assuming AssMouth isn't successful in torpedoing the elections out from under us.
But WHAT IF the Dems blow it, or more specifically what if the American Voters don't show up and don't vote the way we all think they should?
For real. We're roughly the same age EyeQueue, barring the unforeseen we've got thirty or so years left on this planet. How are we going to survive without losing whatever shreds of sanity we've got left in a gold-plated Christo-fascist Trump-branded autocracy?
'cause it's a distinct possibility.
Yep. All of this. I am trying to remain hopeful for the midterms and hope that people will wake up and we can take shit back.
But I'm also with you on that last paragraph. If we lose.....Yeah. I can't live with this every day for 30 more years potentially. I just can't.
Well, at least it likely woudln't be 30 more years, b/c I will probably have a heart attack or stroke out before them b/c of the daily stress. :(
I would hope people would get up off their asses before then and physically fight, but I'm not at all sanguine about that, either. People seem to already have given up.
OMG THESE PULING FUCKING GROCERY STORE OWNERS! IT HAS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are like ten stories BELOW Idiocracy now.
Where can I see it and believe it?
It's his current EPA press conference.
I see what you mean.
It was just mind-boggling.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
grocery store owners? did I blink and miss something?
His EPA thing that is maybe wrapping up right now. Just lie after lie after f ucking lie.
Sorry, I've been out mogging looksmaxxers the last hour or so. I'm not hep to the current jive.
That is the lord's work right now, so you are excused. XD XD XD XD
carry on.
It really is a shame that the defendants aren't personally liable for this. That removal of accountability enables bad actors and perpetuates shitty outcomes.
We need to remember this on the back end. And go after them.
Is it too much to ask a single "journalist" to put the Fraternal Order Of Police on the spot asking them if they are all in with Trump's Slush Fund paying out millions to thugs who beat police officers?
We have no journalists. Only obsequious scribes.
The FOP is literally a frat. Day drinking, obesity, and goofing off are what they stand for. Woo Hoo!
I was in Manhattan once in the middle of the day. I was having a snack at the train station. There were three cops seated not far from me.
Two of them seemed to be sober. The third one was hammered off his ass. They had to pick up the third man by his shoulders to help him get out of there.
IT's too much to ask any of these shitting journalists to ask anything of substance.
It's beyond ridiculous and I hope people remember what they did to us on the back end of all of this.
I'm sure "ratings" are tanking because "regular" people are disgusted and MAGA wasn't listening to anything less extreme than FOX
OT: Oh, now these whiteskins care about "food deserts?"
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. Every single one of these grocery owners at his shindig right now are hee haw fucking hicks with thick Confederate accents.
The right of loudmouthed white slobs to call other people n*****, f**, or r***** shall not be infringed.
The right of the KKK, Proud boys, 3%ers, Oath Keepers and "christian" militiamen to harass people of color, LGBTQ+, Muslims, Hindus, Jews shall not be infringed...
Legions and legions of marching Bubba The Hutts.
And also too, when people call them intolerant for doing that, that is very intolerant of them.
If I'm willing to spend a night in jail, I can' knock the shit out of them.
So apparently it'd be cool if these people were aggressively discriminated against?
Laurel Davila
@laureldavilacpa.bsky.social
“The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees.”
Even though the leader of a white group in SA specifically said they don't want to be refugees in another country. They want to stay in South Africa.
Let's put Trump under oath and ask him what he thinks about the end of apartheid rule.
Go on, just ask him.
As if he even knows what apartheid means.
So who in the IRS signed off on Trump’s Slush Fund????
Frank Bisignano, who is working in the newly created role of chief executive of the I.R.S., signed the agreement with the Justice Department to create the $1.8 billion dollar slush fund controlled by Donald Trump which may be used to pay taxpayer dollars to those convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers on the President’s behalf.
Mr. Bisignano was not confirmed by the Senate to that I.R.S. job, and he is splitting his duties there with his job as the commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
NOTE--WHEN I WORKED AT SOCIAL SECURITY NOBODY IN A PRESIDENTIALLY APPOINTED POSITION COULD EXERCISE THEIR AUTHORITY UNTIL THE SENATE FORMALLY CONFIRMED THEM...of course that changed when President Fartass kept putting people in as "Acting" whatever position...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/admin/irs-trump-lawsuit-deal.html
This is aiding and abetting embezzlement.
But rest assured that Frankenstein gladly did this knowing full well Trump will pardon him…
https://archive.ph/HPbkK
Not a Constitutional office. Whatever.
America's best are coming out of the woodwork, apparently
"Florida Rewrites U.S. History
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/20/800042067/community/florida-rewrites-u-s-history/
"In his dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949, George Orwell wrote about a fictional country, Oceania, where truth and reality are distorted, where “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” But Orwell got two things wrong in the novel, the year and the location. The novel should have been titled 2026 and the place should probably have been Florida.
"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been fighting with College Board, the organization that writes and administers Advanced Placement exams and accredits high school AP classes because he believes the United States history program is too “WOKE” and unpatriotic and too infused with discussions of the impact of race, class, and gender on American society. Florida will now have its own accelerated history classes with a pro-America spin known as FACT (Florida Advanced Courses and Tests).
"Starting this fall, Florida students will learn that because the Founding Fathers were Protestant, Christianity shaped the history of the United States, that the United States is a product of Western Civilization, and that despite the existence of 4 million enslaved Africans at the time of the Civil War, the U.S. Constitution was an anti-slavery document. The recommended textbook for this new Florida course of study is Land of Hope, written by a professor at Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian liberal arts college in Michigan.
"The new Florida Framework credits the Judeo-Christian Bible for ideas about liberty and equality and recommends that students in the United States history class read religious texts.
>> a conservative Christian liberal arts college in Michigan<<
Point of fact: there is NO SUCH THING as a "Conservative Christian LIBERAL ARTS college."
"John Wayne is America's daddy and if you say he isn't we'll burn down the country."
He does realize that Florida was discovered and colonized by the Spanish, right? I mean, the name of the fucking state means "flower" IN SPANISH.
The only consolation is that Florida's K-12 system is so garbage that the students likely won't retain any of the propaganda they're being fed.
"Ignorance doesn't grow on trees." . . .
"Education creates liberals." - Rick Santorum, R-Penn.
"A-1 helps students at all levels" - Linda McMahon, Trump Secretary of Education
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑜-𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦
That is, apparently, NOT the currently active Bible for these assholes.
Yeah: those ideas were violent, greedy, selfish, misogynistic, and racist. Pick any page of the so-called "Old Testament" in the language of your choice.
3/5ths wrong is still wrong.
AAARRRGH!!!
But, having been raised Catholic, one learns that totalitarians are totalitarians.
Ron’s too stupid to grasp that he’s already dead and buried.
Enbalmed in pudding.
Vanilla pudding, if that isn’t too spicy for him.
Plus, it matches his go-go boots.
Damn, that's $22.5k a day! Not quite Bezos money, but I'd take it.
OK, I love that The Orange Felon's face is blurred in the meme pic. I think that should be done everywhere so we don't have to see that mug ever again.