Joe Biden is old, and he looks and acts his age. There is no getting around that fact. Americans believe it, and so, I am sure, does his handlers. He jumbles his words at times, and his memory is not what it should be. Donald trump is also old. And contrary to what MAGA world believes (and his gold mirror tells him) he looks and acts his age as well. Maybe even more so than Joe Biden. But, the American media being what it is, a narrative must be spun, and that narrative is that Joe Biden is the older, less capable, and more senile of the two men.
The thing is, though, no matter how old and senile Joe Biden is, we know that his head and heart is in the right place when it comes to what's best for America. We can look back on the past three years of his administration and marvel at their accomplishments. Bringing us out of the dark chapter of our history known as the time of COVID-19, could not have been easy. And now, looks at us, we are almost back to "normal". Almost.
The other guy, on the other hand, does not have his heart in the right place. He does not care about what's best for America. He only cares about himself. He is a declared authoritarian and fascist who will govern like one, and he has vowed to get revenge on his perceived enemies. The presidency is a get out of jail free card for him, and he will do whatever it takes to get it. The scary thing is, with the help and complicity of the corporate American media machine, he is well on his way to getting his wish. The old guy who has done a masterful public relations job of not seeming to be old, might very well beat the old guy who is not quite as adept and not making public perception his reality.
Joe Biden held a press conference this past week where he angrily denounced the latest Special Counsel report which exonerated him but added some Comeyesque editorializing for cheap political points. During that press conference he made a mistake by mixing up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt. It was a never ending story in both right and left wing media for days. (CNN might be still running it as their lead story as I type this.) The other guy mumbles and bumbles his way through endless seemingly adderall induced speeches, and I don't think that they are mentioned even once in the main stream media.
Sadly, this is the new normal for the American press: They are riding the horse that makes them the most money. In this case that horse is the one with the jockey wearing the bright red MAGA silks.
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Well said, Field. And I will add that Joe Biden is good at surrounding himself with highly moral, competent and capable people who understand good governance and the importance of a well-behaved United States in the World Order.
We knew Fergus would get billions of dollars worth of friendly media, just like the last two times. If we can all just vote, like we did last time, we will beat him. Speaking of which, I got my ballots for the primary in the mail yesterday.
I will fill them out later today and mail them in on Tuesday when we go to town for groceries. I'll probably vote for Katie Porter for senate, for various reasons, but mostly because she would have the hardest time getting her old seat in congress back. Any of the three Democrats running would be an excellent senator. It will be hard to vote against Barbara Lee. She was my congresswoman for thirty five years and getting to vote for her every other year was one of the better perks of living in the East Bay.
The goddamn Republicans are running a baseball player, because why the fuck not? A first baseman would do fine in the senate, right?
I'm just waiting for Fergus to fuck up and call him Marcus.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
While it’s not ideal that Biden is 81 years old, and he does sometimes mix up names when speaking publicly, pretty much all honest, reputable people that have spent any time with him attest that he’s not some doddering, demented zombie. This characterization of him is 100% a Republican smear.
It’s shocking the double standard here, where the media fixates on every slip Biden makes, while ignoring the massive stream of absolute gibberish constantly emitted by the also-elderly Trump, who is damn near retarded at this point.
In a contest between a man who is old, and another man who is old AND EVIL, how is the former the one considered to be at a disadvantage? The only answer I can see is that there has, to date, been minimal pushback against dishonest Republican propaganda.
I doubt that Fergus has ever even heard of Eldridge Cleaver.
He might call the ball player Steve Harvey.
I will say it again:
How crazy will it be if American democracy dies because late-night comedians couldn’t restrain themselves from telling lame “Biden is old” jokes.
Chicago shootings: At least 18 shot, 1 killed in weekend gun violence across city, police say
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-violence-police/14411815/
TRUMP 2024!!
Man on parole for 2 murder cases tried to kill ex-girlfriend’s beau with a machete: prosecutors
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/home-invasion-machete-attack-on-parole-for-two-murders-chicago.html
Every now and then I visit the shallow end of the Internet gene pool and I am never disappointed by the vacuousness of the denizens.
The accomplishments of, and I quote, "Joe Biden....we know that his head and heart is in the right place when it comes to what's best for America."
-> The highest inflation rate in over 40 years
-> The only President ever to be held in contempt by the British Parliament
-> Billions and billions of dollars of military hardware given over to the Taliban
-> The largest land war in Europe since WWII
-> Open warfare in the Middle East
-> Houthis attacking shipping in the Red Sea
-> Communist China openly planning for the invasion of Taiwan
-> Communist China casually flying spy balloons (for days) over some of the most sensitive military installations in the United States
-> Transferring billions and billions of dollars to the Iranian mullahs who openly call for the destruction of the United States
-> Forgiveness of monies borrowed by "students" but, in reality, just transferring the cost to the taxpayers
-> Millions of invaders, criminals, and welfare colonists, as well as an untold number of terrorists, crossing, unimpeded, the southern and northern borders of the United States
I could continue the list, but for the uninformed and fundamentally stupid who author the articles on this blog (and for those who agree with the opinions expressed in these articles)....well being uneducated and dumb as a bag of hammers appears to be how you choose to live your life.
1.3 million dead US citizens.
Fewer jobs at the end of his term than the beginning, and slower job growth in the non-covid years.
Weakened NATO alliances and now the damn fool has encouraged Russia to start world war three. (Previously, the dumbest sentence ever uttered was W saying "Bring it on" but that idiocy has now been unseated).
91 felony counts. I could list them but what's the point? He crimed his fat ass off and is promising to take the criming to another level if given the chance.
Please get buggered to death by a sheep, you miserable pine cone.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"And I will add that Joe Biden is good at surrounding himself with highly moral, competent and capable people who understand good governance and the importance of a well-behaved United States in the World Order."
Democrats usually appoint competent people.
Doug, pine cones are inanimate.
Lest we forget. The queen of England was old. And isn't age discrimination unlawful? And does not wisdom come with age? No one says at what age though. LOL.
Be well.
Pine cones are the reproductive organs of pine trees.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
House Republicans:
We won’t pass a bill containing Israel/Ukraine military aid and border control measures because the border control measures aren’t necessary.
Senate Democrats:
Okay, we took the border control measures out. Here’s a bill with just Israel/Ukraine military aid.
House Republicans:
No, we won’t pass that. There’s no border control measures.
(I wish this was all just a joke, but it is completely real. The actual joke is the Republican Party itself.)
And now they’ve impeached Alejandro Mayorkas. Because pretending to be very upset about “chaos at the border” is so much more fun than doing anything about it.
Suozzi won.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Anon @7:01 pm, this is 2024, not 2019.
The Redskins! Marxist skinheads singing Northern Soul - the world needs to hear more of this.
From Neither Washington Nor Moscow the greatest album ever by a white group not called Steely Dan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BVe49rn2g
Thoughts and prayers to the people of Kansas City.
Hey, turns out that one of the "witnesses" that was called upon to support Republicans' fantastical claims about Hunter Biden's (and, by implication, his dad's) alleged corruption ... is a big, fat liar.
Who could possibly have guessed?
Former FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ role in Ukraine business, undercutting GOP impeachment inquiry
Bluesky has gone fully live now. It’s no longer invite-only; anyone can open an account.
Many prominent journalists have already made the move. Hopefully, some major organizations and big celebrity names will soon start to migrate over there, officially kicking off the process of destroying Twitter.
I read a news story today that said Nitter was officially dead, but using Twiiit, I was just able to read almost all my usual feeds, although only 13 instances were online leading to more rate limiting than usual.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“I read a news story today that said Nitter was officially dead, but using Twiiit, I was just able to read almost all my usual feeds, although only 13 instances were online leading to more rate limiting than usual.”
Nitter’s not dead, but it’s in the process of dying.
It operated using a loophole of acquiring loads of these anonymous weird “guest” Twitter accounts and then letting Nitter users temporarily “borrow” them.
But Elon has apparently put an end to the issuing of new guest accounts, and the existing guest accounts are gradually expiring, so Nitter is becoming less functional with each passing day. Eventually, it will shut down completely.
Fergus owes $364 million.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"Fergus owes $364 million.
-Doug in Sugar Pine"
The judge decided that the Trump Organization is deeply crooked, and Trump and sons are banned from running it anymore, plus forcing them to pony up a huge pile of cash in fines.
Immense amounts of food will be thrown at the wall in Mar-A-Lago today.
As I've said before, when you're up to your eyeballs in shady business dealings, attracting a spotlight to yourself by running for president is an incredibly dumb idea.
Trump could've just spent his old age being just another obnoxious rich dude in Palm Beach, cheating his buddies at golf and trading racist stories with other terrible people. But his ego wouldn't let him do that.
Excuse me, I fucked up: $354 million, not $364 million.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So Fergus has endorsed a 16 week abortion ban. That's how we will beat him.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Oops, turns out I was right the first time, sort of:
$355 million from Donald Trump
$4 million from Eric Trump
$4 million from Donald Trump, Jr.
$1 million from Allen Weisselberg
TOTAL: $364 million
That's counting Ewick, Weaselburg and the cocaine guy, but even without them I was off by a million, which remains a fuckton of money.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Oops, there's interest:
What Trump Really Owes
February 16, 2024 at 6:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 722 Comments
The civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump today was for $354.9 million, but there’s been $98.6 million of pre-judgment interest that has accrued, according to NBC News.
As of today, the actual total Trump owes for this case is $453.5 million.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
OK, America, youll get just what you asked for. After you vote for "you know who " not only will you no longer be a democratic country...but your new VP will also have the initials V.P.
Everyone is missing the point completely. It doesn' make a damn difference when Fani and Nate started fucking. When they stopped fucking. Whether Fani paid Nate in cash. Whether she paid at all. None of this shit makes a damn bit of difference. All that matters is if he legitimately earned what he was paid. If that is the case and no one is disputing that then if he wants to give her every penny in which case he is working for free then that is no crime. Why no one gets this is nothing short of mind boggling.
“OK, America, youll get just what you asked for. After you vote for ‘you know who’ not only will you no longer be a democratic country...but your new VP will also have the initials V.P.”
Other way around. Vladimir Putin doesn’t work for Trump. Trump works for Vladimir Putin.
Speaking of which,
RIP Alexei Navalny
Cause of death: Criticizing Putin.
John Oliver just offered Clarence Thomas a million dollars a year and a new luxury motor coach to resign from the supreme court.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Today is a good day for democracy.
Democrats are successfully un-rigging the state of Wisconsin, which Republicans had rigged in their favor for the last decade-and-a-half or so. The formerly red state will return to being a purple state, reflecting the actual views of its voters.
Wisconsin’s Democratic governor signs his new legislative maps into law after Republicans pass them
Found on what's left of Twitter:
JRR Jokien
@joshcarlosjosh
Feb 15
But they're BOTH so OLD! Gandalf can barely remember his passwords and even forgot that people called him Gandalf (yikes), while Saruman betrayed the Free Peoples of middle-earth and led an insurrection that stormed Helm's Deep. You can see how they're equally bad choices.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
drumpf is a pathological fucking liar and career criminal who will never change and never accept responsibility for his crimes.
Glad to be back among the living. Spent thirty nine consecutive days in hospitals getting anti biotics for gangrenous diabetc foot ulcer and had little toe and meta-tarsal bone removed to finish cleaning wound channel the doctor could stick his index finger in.
Should heal up eventually. Having to learn to walk with a walker and taking insullin for first time in my nearly 71 years. Gooid to finally be back. mfi
Senate magATS DEMANDED BORDER CONTROL BILL AND WORKED WIT dEMS TO GET A DEAL. tHEN DRUMPF PRESENTED HIS FAT ASS FOR ALL TO KISS THEY PRETENDED THeY NEVER HEaRD OF THE BORDER.
drumpf compared his slimy fat ass to Navalny's martyr status today.
drumpf- 2024 years for each of 91 felonies to be served consecutively. No parole ever.
Welcome back Mike. Hope your foot gets better. I know what it's like to have to learn how to function again after an illness, still working on it after fifteen years.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Trump insists that his being forced to pay civil fraud damages is just like the political persecution and death of Navalny.
You know, except for the mountain of evidence that Trump is a fraudster and the total lack of evidence that Navalny did anything wrong. And the fact that Trump is, unfortunately, still breathing and Navalny is dead.
But other than that, it’s exactly the same.
Also, Putin can’t be too happy that his BFF Trump has implied that Navalny’s death is a bad thing and Putin is responsible.
Trump may be off the Kremlin Christmas card list next year.
Thanks, Doug.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-embryos-ivf-00142338
Aladamnbama Suckpreme Court rules frozen embryos are children.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but it is hard for me to believe that even in Alabama, there won’t be major political backlash if Republicans outlaw fertility treatments and birth control.
I guess we’ll see.
I read someone this morning asking if firefighters would rush into a burning building to save a dish of frozen embryos...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
It looks like it is already happening.
Alabama university pauses IVF care after frozen embryos deemed ‘children’
Nikki Haley says embryos are babies. Her reward for co-signing this nonsense will be … drum roll, please … still not getting to be the Republican nominee for president.
LOL. The MyPillow buffoon, Mike Lindell, presented a file of purported voting data to the public, which he claimed was evidence that China had somehow rigged the 2020 election against Trump.
He launched the “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge, daring anyone to prove that the data was fake. A software engineer took him up on it. Now a judge has decided that the engineer, in fact, did “prove Mike wrong,” and now Mike owes him $5 million.
Team MAGA’s constant lying is becoming increasingly expensive.
great Post! You're singing to the choir in my case and I'm always hoping when the choir grows louder and larger.
Fetterman never got his million for the prosecuted example of voter fraud, either.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Perhaps if she bleeds them dry and the senate races are underfunded, we can hold that chamber (h/t: Steve Benen):
* Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, is gearing up for a possible leadership role at the Republican National Committee, and she told reporters this week that she believes rank-and-file party voters would be on board with the RNC paying her father-in-law’s legal bills.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Red soled drumpf sneakers invite new lawsuit against drumph. For trademark. Infringement
Above anonat 10;21 is mfi
“Red soled drumpf sneakers invite new lawsuit against drumph. For trademark. Infringement”
If this happens, for once I would be on the Trump side of a lawsuit against him. It is ridiculous that the courts decided that nobody else can make shoes with red soles, because Louboutin now “owns” that.
Trademarks should be limited to things like names, logos, and slogans. Corporations should not be able to own a color or anything as broad as that.
As just one example of similar crazy corporate hubris, Harley Davidson tried to trademark the engine noise coming out of their motorcycles’ tailpipes. I’m completely serious.
Harley's trademark attempt failed because flatulence is common in multiple species.
So it's not just Hunter's hog she's after:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands Judge Be ‘Disrobed’
February 23, 2024 at 5:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard 128 Comments
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went after New York Judge Arthur Engoron, demanding he be “disrobed” for his $355 million business fraud verdict against Donald Trump last week, The Hill reports.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So Wayne Loppy-air has to pay back the rest of the five million dollars they caught him grifting from the rotting corpse of the NRA.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
A Harvard professor whose research went against the preferred, politically correct narrative of rogue cops gunning down minorities in the streets was forced to hire armed security guards when he went out in public, Fox News reports.
In an interview with Bari Weiss of The Free Press, Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics professor, discussed the public outrage he experienced after he published a study about racial bias among Houston, Texas, police officers.
That study confirmed what most in law enforcement already knew–that police officers are, in fact, less likely to use deadly physical force on blacks and Hispanics. While the study did confirm that police were more than twice as likely to use some type of physical force on those minority groups, they were 23.8 percent less likely to shoot black suspects and 8.5 percent less likely to shoot Hispanic suspects than they were to shoot at white suspects.
Harvard professor whose research found no racial bias in police shootings forced to hire armed security after radical blowback
by: Pat Droney 2024-02-17 Source: Law Enforcement Today Editorial
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/harvard-professor-whose-research-found-no-racial-bias-in-police-shootings-was-forced-to-hire-armed-security-after-radical-blowback
Harvard professor says ‘all hell broke loose’ when his study found no racial bias in police shootings
Roland Fryer said he lived under police protection during the fallout of his study
https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-professor-all-hell-broke-loose-study-found-no-racial-bias-police-shootings
Trump wins South Carolina primary, as he closes in on the Republican nomination
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/24/politics/donald-trump-south-carolina-primary/index.html
Trump scores easy knockout of Nikki Haley in South Carolina
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/24/trump-wins-south-carolina-00143160
Trump wins SC primary moments after polls close, deals Haley crushing blow in her own state: ‘Bigger win than we expected’
By Social Links for Diana Glebova
Published Feb. 24, 2024
https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/us-news/donald-trump-wins-south-carolina-primary-defeating-nikki-haley-in-her-own-state/
TRUMP 2024!!
As Black Voters Drift to Trump, Biden’s Allies Say They Have Work to Do
New York Times/Siena College polling painted a worrisome picture of the president’s standing with a crucial constituency. Democratic strategists warned that the erosion could threaten his re-election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/us/politics/biden-trump-black-voters-poll-democrats.html
Black men drifted from Democrats toward Trump in record numbers, polls show
Mara Ostfeld and Michelle Garcia
Updated November 4, 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/exit-poll-black-men-drifted-204522278.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADmQrKe1KB_hoCY98XCQ1_i6EREtLeFNNWfchPq2EVaxVYQ-eVf4KInEWN_6-CawEmWfMjOj0zxXm2SNB33Asy6RrKLGL_WVF1QAUmdlJByy62KJSEj0nPiczUFxmM4JNklunoKUQCr6awHnqMVjqFuiopQ8dUVsweX3sXB7nKda
Black voters’ support for Trump and his racially exclusionary philosophy defies explanation: Marvin A. McMickle
Published: Jan. 14, 2024, 5:35 a.m.
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2024/01/black-voters-support-for-trump-and-his-racially-exclusionary-philosophy-defies-explanation-marvin-a-mcmickle.html
Black Voices For Trump
https://www.facebook.com/BlackVoicesforTrump20/
Blacks For Trump: Notable African Americans Unwavering In Their Support Of All Things MAGA
https://newsone.com/playlist/blacks-for-trump-african-american-supporters/
Fergus is losing 40% of the vote of his own base. To a candidate that everyone agrees has no chance of winning. Those are not, in fact, the kind of numbers that can win the general election when his base is already not a majority.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Hungary has officially approved Sweden’s membership of NATO.
Drumpf claims he will personally shut down the gubmint if he doesn't get his way.
Why is this fucking danger to America not locked away permanently?
are you guys enjoying your theocracy yet?
McConnell is giving up his leadership position. Your turn Magic Maga Mike.
Boebert’s teenage son arrested and hit with 22 charges for "recent string of vehicle trespass and property thefts."
Her family drama is off the charts.
“are you guys enjoying your theocracy yet?”
No. However, I am enjoying Republicans scrambling to hide their support for theocracy, after discovering that it isn’t popular with voters.
Democrats should introduce federal bills guaranteeing a nationwide right to IVF and contraception, over and over, 357 times in a row, like Republicans did with their efforts to repeal Obamacare, and force Republicans to keep voting them down and inventing pathetic, implausible excuses for why they are doing so.
(Tammy Duckworth has an IVF bill already. Democrats should go all-in on this strategy.)
Stella on Boebert: The father, the son and the holy skank:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i6WjarBZIo
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So the court stolen by the turtle man is honoring him by moving ever so slowly in the bogus immunity case. Best case scenario would have the trial finishing in October, and best case scenario will not happen as it includes these fucks issuing a sane ruling right away after their "week of April 22" date to hear the case.
October, by the DOJ's procedures, is too close to the election for criminal actions. By the goddamn court, though, and the retiring from leadership repugnant tortoise, twenty days before the election is just dandy (see also: Barrett, Amy Coney).
I am generally not a vindictive person, as I see no real advantage in being that way, but I do admit to a small amount of mirth at seeing Mitch the fuck McConnell having to watch the results of his own actions destroy the party he served his whole life.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Merrick Chickenshit Garland bears full responsibility for this shit. Drop dead and burn in hell Merrick you chickenshit bastard.
Rachel Maddow said something about it that I found interesting: The whole idea that the goddamn supremes have to weigh in on the issue of immunity for former presidents is bullshit, or else why did Ford need to pardon Nixon?
Also, none of this will matter as long as we beat Fergus at the ballot box in November: he isn't president this time and can't get the DOJ or the VP to try and install him. Then the wheels of justice can grind as slowly as they like.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I believe sinate magats blocked IVF bill.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-try-pass-bill-protecting-vitro-fertilization-2024-02-28/
Key witness against ani Willis had a deeper, sinister role to play in her inquisition.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/politics/terrence-bradley-texts-fani-willis/index.html
Delay of grift:
Trump Media Co-Founders Sue Company
February 29, 2024 at 10:37 am EST By Taegan Goddard 85 Comments
“The co-founders of former president Donald Trump’s media company filed a lawsuit Wednesday, claiming that Trump and other leaders had schemed to deprive them of a stake in the company that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars,” the Washington Post reports.
“The case could complicate a long-delayed bid by Trump Media & Technology Group, owner of the social network Truth Social, to merge with a special purpose acquisition company called Digital World Acquisition and become a publicly traded company.”
“That merger deal, which could value Trump’s stake in the company at more than $3 billion, would offer the former president a financial lifeline at a time when he is facing more than $454 million in penalties from a civil fraud judgment this month in New York.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So Trump is about to be screwed over by delaying tactics in the courtroom?
How ironic.
Not only that, but the two guys bringing the lawsuit were formerly on the Apprentice where they were fired by Fergus.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Boobalert's recently married son has moar problems, it being alleged he made sex tape with minor girl who was also arrested during his crime wave.
https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-son-sex-tape-tyler-1874680
Kevin Monahan got 25 to life for murdering Kaylin Gillis after the car she was riding in pulled into his driveway to turn around. The judge admonished him for his lack of remorse and said he sincerely believed that he could do the same thing again and was thus liable for the harshest punishment allowed.
If you own a firearm you must be aware of what you can and can't shoot with it, things I learned as a small child.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Got covid. Briana brought it up from the East Bay, and as we live in a small room together and it's snowing outside, I got it.
Thankfully I'm boosted and it's no worse than a bad head cold.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Unlike alleged convicted killers asking for SC relief and being given a cold shoulder, magats on the court are coddling drumpf's every whim. Why? Because they are not independent jurors, they are right wing ideologues with an agenda to put drumpf in the WH again and force their brand of kristianity on all of us.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/29/trump-special-treatment-supreme-court-00144138
iowa's ancient and petrified sinator Grassley, who claimed Biden took bribes knowing there was no corroborating evidence, now claims he is the hero for exposing the lies of FBI informant he canonized last year.
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/03/02/chuck-grassley-rewrites-history-of-his-role-in-smearing-joe-biden/
Thomas and Alito are nakedly trying to get Fergus elected because they don't want to die on the court and won't retire when a Democrat is in the white house.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Nikki Haley won the DC primary.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Getting better I hope, Doug?
Blogger dinthebeast said...
Got covid. Briana brought it up from the East Bay, and as we live in a small room together and it's snowing outside, I got it.
Thankfully I'm boosted and it's no worse than a bad head cold.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
4:40 PM
make sure you keep up those booster shots!!
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Announcement of opinions for Monday, March 4 (complete)
By SCOTUSblog
on Mar 4, 2024 at 12:00 am
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On Monday, March 4, we were live as the court released its opinion in one case.
Trump v. Anderson: The court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot on the grounds that he participated in insurrection. “Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse.”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/03/announcement-of-opinions-for-monday-march-4/
TRUMP 2024!!
Trump wins Colorado ballot disqualification case at US Supreme Court
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel
March 4, 202411:57 AM CSTUpdated 2 hours ago
https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-wins-colorado-ballot-disqualification-case-us-supreme-court-2024-03-04/
Supreme Court rules states can't kick Trump off the ballot
The decision swiftly ended the legal fight over whether states can bar Trump from their ballots based on the Constitution's 14th Amendment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-trump-cannot-kicked-colorado-ballot-rcna132291
Playbook PM: SCOTUS delivers Trump another victory
By GARRETT ROSS 03/04/2024 01:08 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2024/03/04/scotus-delivers-trump-another-victory-00132333
Mike: Yeah, getting better. When I catch myself bitching about feeling lousy, I just remind myself about the millions of folks who died from it and thank my vaccine status that I'm not in the hospital on a fucking ventilator.
The goddamn supremes are a political body and we should start treating them as such.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Back to Rikers with ye, Weaselberg (h/t: Steve Benen):
* The Trump Organization’s CFO: “Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury Monday in connection with testimony he gave during former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
The tweaker in chief:
Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’
March 3, 2024 at 10:31 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 154 Comments
“If you ever looked at the actions of the Trump White House and wondered, ‘Are they on drugs?’ — the answer was, in some cases, yes. Absolutely, yes,” Rolling Stone reports.
“In January, the Defense Department’s inspector general released a report detailing how the White House Medical Unit during the Trump administration distributed controlled substances with scant oversight and even sloppier record keeping. Investigators repeatedly noted that the unit had ordered thousands and thousands of doses of the stimulant modafinil, which has been used by military pilots for decades to stay alert during long missions.”
“The report didn’t say why so many of those pills had been given out. But for many who served in the Trump White House, the investigation highlighted an open secret. According to interviews with four former senior administration officials and others with knowledge of the matter, the stimulant was routinely given to staffers who needed an energy boost after a late night, or just a pick-me-up to handle another day at a uniquely stressful job. As one of the former officials tells Rolling Stone, the White House at that time was ‘awash in speed.’”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I can see why you’d need to take drugs in order to cope with the awful reality of Trump being your boss.
Blogger dinthebeast said...
Got covid. Briana brought it up from the East Bay, and as we live in a small room together and it's snowing outside, I got it.
Thankfully I'm boosted and it's no worse than a bad head cold.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
4:40 PM
It is important to vaxx and boost. Don't miss a shot!
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4508893-toobin-trump-supreme-court-win-some-pissed-off-justices/
3 Libs and A C B wrote the magats on the court went too far with their decision and have protected drumpf from future problems.
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“3 Libs and A C B wrote the magats on the court went too far with their decision and have protected drumpf from future problems.”
Between refusing to expedite the hearing and dismissal of Trump’s absurd immunity claims, and thereby dragging out his insurrection trial, and then ruling that Congress has to pass a special law in order for the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause to take effect, the wingnut justices have put their thumbs on the scale in a big way.
Turns out Trump was kind of right. The fix is in — just FOR him, not AGAINST him.
Arizona's blue mutt SinatorSenema is not running for re-election.
magt scotus is literally legislating from the bench, like McCTurtlefuckface declared was the reason he stacked the courts in magat favor and blocked so mANY OF oBAMA'S CHOICES.
"It is important to vaxx and boost. Don't miss a shot!"
I won't. I'm up and functioning after three days that weren't really that bad, and not 1) dead, like the more than a million US citizens or 2) in a hospital in Fresno on a fucking ventilator, both likely outcomes of not taking covid seriously.
Remember when Fergus suggested geezing bleach or shining UV light up your butt?
That's part of how those million people died of it. Not taking a mortal threat seriously.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Arizona's blue mutt SinatorSenema is not running for re-election.”
A rare bit of good political news. The Democrats now have a decent chance of taking the seat, especially if the Republicans decide to nominate that froot loop Kari Lake.
Lawrence Lessig has implied that the SCOTUS ruling was that the official enforcement mechanism of the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause is the already existing federal criminal statute on insurrection, 18 U.S.C. §2383.
But this ignores the historical precedent of people in the past who were disqualified from holding public office for insurrection without ever being convicted of a federal crime. (Including loads of Confederate officials.)
The idea that federal judges cannot make this determination on their own seems to be new.
"especially if the Republicans decide to nominate that froot loop Kari Lake."
It's still Arizona and trump can still pull support so I wouldn't count that chicken.
Katie Porter didn't make it through the primary. Adam Schiff will make a fine senator, but we'll be the poorer for not having Katie in congress. Also, this will be the first time in 31 years we haven't had a woman senator here in California.
Don't know what Barbara Lee's plans are, but I hope to see more of her.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“It's still Arizona and trump can still pull support so I wouldn't count that chicken.”
Nothing is guaranteed, but Kari Lake is pretty darn off-putting. Arizona isn’t Alabama, and her screeching about being cheated out of her alleged rightful victory in the Arizona governor’s race two years ago probably won’t have improved her prospects for another run at statewide office.
On balance, I think she will be an easier opponent to beat than a less MAGA-flavored Republican would be.
Blogger mike from iowa said...
Can you over-vaccinate for covid?
No, you must keep up with the boosters.
Blogger dinthebeast said...
"It is important to vaxx and boost. Don't miss a shot!"
I won't. I'm up and functioning after three days that weren't really that bad, and not 1) dead, like the more than a million US citizens or 2) in a hospital in Fresno on a fucking ventilator, both likely outcomes of not taking covid seriously.
Remember when Fergus suggested geezing bleach or shining UV light up your butt?
That's part of how those million people died of it. Not taking a mortal threat seriously.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
4:01 PM
Why won't you keep up on your shots?? Are you not endangering others??
“Why won't you keep up on your shots?? Are you not endangering others??”
He is keeping up with his shots. Is English your first language?
Nikki Haley threw in the towel. As expected, the Evil One is the Republican nominee.
This dude really kept up with his shots.
This Man Got 217 Covid-19 Shots, Is Completely Fine
We hadn't heard of this when it passed in California last year, but now that it's taking effect, look at the democrats running away from it - billing you for electricity costs based on your W-2:
Many of California’s legislative Democrats are running from their idea to partly base electricity bills on the income of ratepayers. Yes, the idea has its challenges. But the status quo many Democrats seem to prefer is to continue sticking it lower-income Californians rather than making energy bills more equitable.
Climate change has created a property insurance crisis, an electricity crisis, and an overall public financing crisis. None of these crises are close to resolution while rates for Pacific Gas and Electric customers have doubled in just five years, largely driven by costs to fix and expand the grid.
So all the rich people who installed solar panels and windmills to cut down on their electric bills? Yeah, you're still paying double what you did a few years back to fund the poor who can't afford the skyrocketing electric costs of America's failed state.
Not keeping up with Covid boosters or not wearing a mask can make you a super spreader. Be responsible.
“So all the rich people who installed solar panels and windmills to cut down on their electric bills? Yeah, you're still paying double what you did a few years back to fund the poor who can't afford the skyrocketing electric costs of America's failed state.”
Obviously, this is nonsense. Even if utility rates per kilowatt-hr go up for you, as rich person, it shouldn’t matter that much for you because you shouldn’t be using very many kilowatt-hrs if you really did invest in windmills or solar panels.
Regardless, I am not terribly sympathetic to rich people whining about having to foot the bill to transition to green power. Either rich people can get socked hard to pay for that, or they can get socked even harder to pay for the damage done by climate change if we do nothing.
Those are the only fair options on the table.
Our PG&E bill was $280 this month, highest it's ever been here.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Turtle man endorses rapist for presidency.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Turtle man endorses rapist for presidency.”
Extra-disgraceful, since McConnell’s quitting as Senate GOP leader and presumably not running for election again, so he doesn’t really need to keep the MAGA morons happy anymore. I guess once you get into the habit of groveling to Trump, it’s hard to stop.
Philadelphia mass shooting: 8 students shot at SEPTA bus stop; 3 shooters, driver sought
https://www.ktvu.com/news/philadelphia-shooting-multiple-hurt-cottman-rising-sun
8 teens were shot waiting for a bus after school in Northeast Philadelphia, police say, as they hunt for negro suspects who fled:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/us/philadelphia-mass-shooting-transit-bus-stop/index.html
Mass shooting at Philadelphia bus stop wounds 8 teens, 1 critically
Police said there have been four shootings involving Philadelphia SEPTA buses in the past week, three of them fatal.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mass-shooting-philadelphia-bus-stop-wounds-8-teens-1-critically-rcna142155
Black Gunmen shoot 8 teens near SEPTA bus, police say they found car involved
Eight teens were shot outside a SEPTA bus in Northeast Philly. On Thursday, police said they had recovered the car believed to be involved
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/mass-shooting-drive-by-northeast-philadelphia/3795603/
Fani Willis accuses others of lying and inappropriate behavior: Oh, the irony
By Social Links forJonathan Turley
Published March 6, 2024, 1:04 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/opinion/fani-willis-accusing-others-of-lying-and-inappropriate-behavior-is-ironic/
Key witness in Fani Willis case testifies he may have lied in texts about friends' affair
Brianna Herlihy
Updated February 28, 2024·5 min read
https://news.yahoo.com/key-witness-fani-willis-case-231927765.html
‘Time to Indict and Disbar’: Fani Willis cellphone data report met with fury
By
Jenny Goldsberry
February 25, 2024 3:59 pm
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2884425/time-to-indict-and-disbar-fani-willis-cell-phone-data-report-met-with-fury
drumpf will toss McCturtlefuckface and anyone else
under the bus if they don't either kiss his ass regularly or suck his dick while wearing drumpf kneepads.
It’s been announced that Biden has decided to have our military build an actual port in Gaza so that food can be shipped in and its residents don’t all starve to death.
While I get what he is trying to do here, this is deeply frustrating.
Firstly, because Biden is doing this in order to try to shore up votes among left-wingers who are angry at so many Palestinian deaths. The problem here is that it creates a real risk that Hamas could attack and kill American service people while they are attempting to build this port. Which would then cause a bunch of other people to NOT want to vote for Biden. This good deed could backfire badly.
Secondly, because it is totally unnecessary. Why go to all this trouble? Just threaten to cut off all armaments to Israel if they don’t let supplies through their blockade of Gaza. It’s crazy that we have to, in essence, work to make up for Israeli wrongdoing instead of just forcing the Israelis to do the right thing in the first place.
Mark Robinson thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote because he's a motherfucking Republican, and Republicans want to own women.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Trump owes another ~$400K after filing an unsuccessful, frivolous lawsuit in the UK over the Steele dossier.
Just Making America Great Again, guys. Are we great yet?
Trump-backed former congressional candidate arrested for murder
LOL! Only the Republicans could find a fucking Black nazi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC1QTsK1psY
"Mark Robinson thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote because he's a motherfucking Republican, and Republicans want to own women."
You mean the guy who wants Black folks to pay reparations to white people because they lost their slaves?
“You mean the guy who wants Black folks to pay reparations to white people because they lost their slaves?”
North Carolina already elected this maniac as lieutenant governor. Not that state’s proudest moment.
Robinson threatens to eclipse Trump and MTG as the GOP’s top sayer of insane things.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/03/07/lawmaker-who-claims-to-be-a-retired-Rear-admiral-was-actually-demoted/
Former WH doc for drumpf claimed he retired as a rear admiral but was actually demoted to Captain before retirement.
Bet he admires drumpf's rear. He seems to enjoy locking lips with fat ass.
This carpet bagger wants back in Congress. Apparently he thrives on lies and humiliation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/07/george-santos-announces-bid-to-return-to-congress-00145966
Biden’s efforts to compensate for the vengefulness and cruelty of the Israeli government, instead of forcing them to allow adequate food aid into Gaza, are already having bad consequences.
One of the humanitarian food parcels that was being airdropped into Gaza had its parachute fail to open. It crushed a civilian home, killing 5 people and wounding 10.
Once again, wouldn’t it be easier to just force the Israelis to stop starving Gaza? I can at least understand Israel’s drive to destroy or at least degrade Hamas, which inevitably will result in civilian casualties. But I don’t get why we are letting Netanyahu get away with inflicting additional punishment on the civilian population by denying food and medical supplies. That’s both morally wrong and bad politics.
“This carpet bagger wants back in Congress. Apparently he thrives on lies and humiliation.”
I hope the election authorities triple-check his petitions for getting on the primary ballot. All the signatures will probably turn out to be George Santos!
Moar kristian-drumpf like behavior from Liberty Uni....
https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-university-fined-sexual-assault-safety
Women who get raped and report get punished but not their assailants. Sounds like drumpf's dream world.
"Once again, wouldn’t it be easier to just force the Israelis to stop starving Gaza?"
Nope. Netanyahu and his band of right wing freaks are so far gone that it's easier to try and build a pier in the ocean for freight without setting foot onshore than it is to get that imbecile to open a gate in the wall five miles away.
So the little punk boy couldn't be bothered to stand up even once until the mention of John Lewis. Either that or he got an alert on his phone that his son was pounding his pork...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Nope. Netanyahu and his band of right wing freaks are so far gone that it's easier to try and build a pier in the ocean for freight without setting foot onshore than it is to get that imbecile to open a gate in the wall five miles away.”
I don’t believe that.
While it is definitely true that politely asking Netanyahu to stop starving civilians and appealing to his nonexistent conscience will get you nowhere, if you take away his bombs, his war on Hamas grinds to a halt. Not to mention that at some point, Israel won’t even be able to defend itself against its neighbors, including the hated Iran.
If the US turns off the tap of weaponry because of the food & medicine blockade of Gaza, Israelis will absolutely lose their minds with fear and Netanyahu will be forced out of office if he doesn’t do an immediate U-turn to get the US back onside.
There would, of course, be a backlash in this country to cutting Israel off (and possibly no longer defending it at the UN, either), but there is already mounting backlash to Gazan deaths, which is not likely to be mollified by airdrops and this temporary seaport Biden plans to build.
If famine and disease take hold, and Gazans start dying, not by the tens of thousands, but the hundreds of thousands, that is going to be very bad for Biden’s re-election chances. He should be more conscious of that.
Netanjackass is a menace to polite society and should be dealt with as such. No matter how many Palestinians are murdered or victims of war crimes, Hamas will never be wiped out.
This whole shithole mess is dumbass dubya's bastard child. He was warned not to take out Saddam Hussein b ecause it would leave Iran as the dominant power in the M E and that chicken has come home to roost.
BTW, where is the dumbass hiding out? No one seems to bother to consult him on foreign policy or anything else for that matter.
Biden should crack down on Israel's mass murdering war criminal but magats will never go along with him.
Israel is perfectly capable of building its own weapons, thank you very much.
Those fucks even have nukes. We don't have nearly as much sway over them with our defense assistance as some would imagine. Would they be utterly fucked in the long run if we stopped giving them weapons? Sure. Their hostile neighbors would soon enough get sick of their hostile ranting and fuck them up but good.
But maybe not like some folks imagine. Historically, they are good at fighting when they are outmatched. And even their Orthodox extremists are rethinking their distance from the military. And the Gaza situation is not a long run problem. Long run they are all dead, the way Israel is behaving.
I'm not worried about them getting overrun, I'm worried about them turning into a worse right wing theocratic state than they are already and shoving our wingnuts even farther in that direction than they already are.
The Palestinians have been their apartheid chattel for their entire existence as a country, expecting them to all of the sudden start treating them like human beings is fucking delusional.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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