Joe Biden shows what a president can do when he’s not glued to Fox propaganda and addicted to getting upvotes on Twitter.
Trump asking the DOJ, “What can I do to reduce the heat?” is a threat, pure and simple. He’s saying, “Do what I want and I won’t tell my cult to set the country literally on fire.”
Seriously, Trump’s a minor-league Mob boss, making very unsubtle threats. He’s doing the same thing by threatening to release the closed circuit video of the search of Mar-a-Lago to dox the FBI agents: he wants every law enforcement agent in the country to know that he’ll set his mob on them if they don’t protect him.
Ron DeSantis wants to ban a Black kid in Jacksonville from learning about the horrors of slavery so a white kid in Destin doesn’t feel bad.
I’ve noticed at virtually every press briefing DeSantis has (where he doesn’t take questions), he has an armed, uniformed police officer–or eleven–behind him. It’s very fascistic imagery. It was ridiculous at the announcement of a program to recruit teachers. He literally had fourteen cops and sheriffs behind him… and only one teacher.
A really good measure for politicians is how hard they fight to not testify about what happened when a group of them tried to undermine the Constitution and the will of the voters. That measure: if you fight at all, you are unsuitable for office. Testify about what you did, Lindsey et al.
At only one company in the US would the company rehire the CFO after that CFO pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraud for filling out multiple financial statements with false information. That company is the Trump Org, and Wiesselberg will have his job back the day he gets out of prison. How can I be so sure? The Trumps held a birthday party for Weisselberg at Trump Tower after he entered his guilty plea Wednesday.
A journalist needs to ask Herschel Walker, on camera, how a piece of proposed legislation becomes law. Ask him what a filibuster is. See if he can answer how long a term in the Senate lasts. Find out how much he knows about the job he wants, and expose how little he understands.
They don’t exist. They weren’t his. They were planted. They were his personal stuff. He had the authority to have them. He declassified them. They were just as secure as they would be at the National Archives. In fact, they were MORE secure. Really, what’s the big deal? If the papers were important, why did they wait, so it’s really Garland’s fault. BUT WHAT ABOUT HUNTER?
The people claiming Trump’s Constitutional rights were violated clearly have surely never read the Constitution and cannot name the right they claim were violated.
Congress should pass a law revoking Secret Service protections, pension, ability to use the title “president” and various other things for any former president convicted of crimes relating to national security. Oh, and make it explicitly legal to prosecute a former president.
This is the first time that my two favorite baseball teams are above .500 this late in the season for many, many years, and it just feels weird.
Fox wants us to believe that after working ten hours at the Oval Office, Donald Trump would take reams of documents to the White House residence every night to prep for the next day as he ran on his treadmill before enjoying a large salad (not from Wendy’s) for dinner and helping Barron with his homework. That’s the picture they have in their mind of Trump’s schedule.
No matter what your playlist on Pandora, it will eventually play something by Bob Marley. You could have a channel expressly devoted to Tibetan chants, and one day, you’ll hear “oooohhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm…. No woman, no cry….”
The Queen/David Bowie collaboration “Under Pressure” is a Top 25 song of the rock/pop era. Fight me.
Perm-it is a piece of paper or a license. Purr-mit means to allow.
Baking is calming for me. My favorite categories of things to bake: Muffins, cookies, banana bread. I don’t do icings. I also like baking bread, but that’s not relaxing to me; it’s nerve-wracking. (I become Christ-like: “Rise, dammit!”) But my all-time favorite thing to bake: homemade dog biscuits, ‘cause I know each one will be enjoyed like it’s the best thing ever.
Don’t get me wrong. I love icing. It’s just whenever I try to ice something, it looks like I used a trowel to decorate a cake or the faces on my gingerbread men look alien. I’ll still eat it, though.
I’m not shocked Trump can’t find lawyers to represent him. He won’t listen to them and he won’t pay them. And even though the lawyers Trump would attract don’t care about representing an explosive, traitorous client, they do care about getting paid.
