“We’ll approve it, but first you have to rename the continent ‘Africa of America’.”

(edit, I should probably put this here) /s

He is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His job is to determine if something is lawful or not, that’s the whole point of his job.

“Likely unlawful?” Isn’t it literally your job to have the final say on whether it’s unlawful? If you found it unlawful, then say so!

Each day when it (infortunately once again) opens its pig-like eyes, its first thought is, “what is the most filthy, disgusting thing I can do today?”

For at least the last 45 years, Republicans have cast every Democrat politician as a Socialist or extreme leftist. No matter how left, center, or middle they are, Republicans always say they’re far left. So why the hell would you move to the right just because you’re afraid they’re going to call you names? Everyone knows that no matter how far to the right you move, they’re still going to scream that you’re the most extreme liberal who has ever run for office?

What I found irritating was that the interviewer started off by falsely claiming that Nixon had campaigned with Piker, and Nixon had to point out that she hadn’t, before saying she’s heard of him but doesn’t know much about him personally.

So get ready folks. Piker is the new Pelosi–the poster child that the magats and magat-supported media will do everything they can to portray as a boogeyman villain, and tie all Democratic candidates to, regardless of where they are on the spectrum of Dem political views.

IMO this is where all the cries of “Socialist! communist! Left-wing extremist!” that repubs have hurled at Dems over so many years is backfiring on them. No one believes them any more. So now even actual socialists can run and repubs screaming that stuff doesn’t have much effect.

The only problem with that idea is that no one goes trick or treating any more.

edit: so are you all who get a lot of them in densely populated urban areas, or more suburban or rural? Just curious.

So many examples of getting away with crimes I can’t begin to keep track of it all. I hope someone is keeping track of all the crimes, and all and broken things that will need to be fixed. Just in case we ever get a chance to.

DJT: “I thought ‘the buck stops here’ means I get to keep all the money.”

We are so far past all the “but he can’t do that!”, “that would be illegal” bullshit now. This is a fascist regime. The rule of law no longer applies.

I hope we all realize by now that Dump doesn’t give a shit whether something is legal or whether he has the legal authority to do it. He just does it. He doesn’t care if one day in the future some court will say, “Oh you shouldn’t have done that.” By the time courts can do anything, it’s far too late–the damage was already done. He has the support of the Congress which is controlled by repubs. The courts either go along with his corruption or he just ignores them. I read yesterday that they’re going to carve his name directly into the marble facade of the Kennedy Center, ignoring the courts. ICE and his concentration camps violate all kinds of laws every day and nothing is done to stop it. He’s put billions of our taxpayer dollars into his own and his cronies personal pockets.

So can we please stop with the “don’t worry, he doesn’t have the authority to do that” stuff?

He’s been saying out loud that he’ll declare a state of emergency, which lets him do whatever the hell he wants. But people will still be surprised because most people just can’t conceive of it. I don’t expect armed guards while voting is going on (though wouldn’t be surprised) as much as I expect the state of emergency declaration, and armed teams of Fed agents will sweep into selected polling places (dem-heavy precincts) and confiscate the ballots and/or voting machines.

So unless states have taken measures to physically protect their ballots with force against Feds (exceedingly unlikely), this will be very easy for them to do. They’ll allow ballots in repub-heavy precincts to be counted and/or let the election be declared invalid or whatever, it won’t matter as long as they disrupted the ability to count all the votes.

And that $2.2B is just what he reported on his taxes–i.e. the technically legal income.

All candidates are not the same and candidate quality is very important, as much as policy positions. Some great DSA and DSA-aligned candidates have won their primaries, endorsed by Bernie and AOC. But in their judgement they both decided not to endorse Hong.

So that means they must have thought Iran would shoot his plane down. I guess they considered the poor suckers flying on the Air Force One expendable. I wonder if anyone told them about it.

edit: Oh, per the article the answer is No, of course they didn’t:

On this occasion, the journalists who thought they were traveling with Trump on the older Air Force One reported being advised to keep their window shades in the press cabin closed. The Post said aside from ‌reporters, some White House staff also believed the president was on board.

When asked later by reporters why they had to keep their shades shut during the flight, Trump said it was because they were “probably on ​a dangerous flight”. He went onto say: “But if I go, you go. Right?”

They can afford to lose one GOP vote and still get this sleazeball confirmed. (or 2 if Fetterman pulls a Fetterman). Or maybe it’s 2 they can lose, but either way:

Because Collins’ Senate seat is the most in jeopardy, she is the one chosen to be allowed to vote against him. It’s all planned in advance. If they couldn’t afford to lose her vote, she would definitely vote for him.

Murkowski is putting on a show of thinking about voting No (as usual), but you can be sure she’ll vote ultimately yes (as usual).

Likewise the 2 repubs who had been holding him up in committee, Cornyn and Tillis, were always going to vote for him. They just wanted to put on a little show to pretend like maybe, just maybe, they wouldn’t. Blanche’s “agreement” not to do the slush fund will only last about 5 minutes after his confirmation.

God I hate all this shit.

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and the poor homey sitting right behind Don Snoreleone can’t believe he just got presidentially crop dusted.

In that linked video, it’s so fitting that just as the guy manages to keep himself from puking, the speaker says, “But he stayed the course.” 😂

Democialist Party

It seems to me from the Democrats’ point of view, that NOT having a special election is better for them, since right now, McConnell can’t vote so Repubs are down a senator and they have less chance of passing partisan legislation without him. The sooner there’s a special election, the sooner Repubs have another vote back for their side (in a special election he would definitely be replaced by a repub).

If the governor (a Dem) could appoint someone (he can’t according to a KY law), then I see how it would make sense for repubs to keep the illusion going that McConnell will return. But as it stands, I don’t see why covering up his condition is doing repubs any good, in terms of the magic Aug. 3rd date or a special election.

So my biggest concern is the possibility that McConnell really is going to recover and return to the Senate. That would be a damn shame. But he’s retiring after this the term anyway, so I dunno-- maybe all this cover-up is just so they can say he finished out his term.

He certainly checks the AntiChrist boxes, including how he’s fooled all the “christians” to believe he was sent by God. I don’t know if he’s specifically denied God but he did say he didn’t need to ask God for forgiveness because he hasn’t made any mistakes.