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- At this point, the GOP are the old, rich, white men on the Titanic trying to use buckets to stave off the inevitable disaster.
- Remember all those MAGA personalities screeching about how the Fulton County charges were nothing? “What’s a county prosecutor know?” Well, two lawyers thought the cases brought by that county prosecutor were severe enough to motivate a plea deal.
- As Joe Biden was on a historic trip to Israel where he negotiated the delivery of aid to civilians in Gaza, Donald Trump was sitting at the defense table in a Manhattan courtroom. How that juxtaposition doesn’t decide the GOP nomination, if not the entire election, is beyond my understanding.
- Republicans seem upset that the violent threats that the far-right faction of the Party regularly uses against Democrats are now targeting them, and they find that shocking. They fostered it when it was used to their advantage, but it’s completely unwarranted against them. The Brownshirts thought the same thing in 1934.
- I’m put off by MSNBC having many Israeli military officers asserting the dishonesty of Hamas statements. I’m savvy enough to understand all statements in a war are one form of propaganda or another; I don’t need Israeli officers denigrating the statements, nor do I need to hear their propaganda. It also seemed unprofessionally pro-Israeli to an extreme extent.
- Jim Jordan perpetually looks like the salesman trying really hard to get you into that 2002 Toyota Celica because he’s desperate to meet his monthly quota.
- I’m pretty sure that Matt Gaetz’s high school guidance counselor told somebody, “I don’t know what that kid’s gonna do one day, but I know it’s gonna be a train wreck.”
- My most schadenfreude in the entire Trump saga goes to Jenna Ellis, who was literally a nobody/lawyer in Colorado who greedily hitched her wagon to Rudy Giuliani and his Trump cult–after vociferously advocating against his suitability for office in 2016 and saying his supporters were “ridiculously illogical, inconsistent, and blatantly stupid.” Then she tries to milk them for money when things turn south. And when DeSantis seemed to be the rising star, she jumped ship for him. Now she’s on another sinking ship, abandoned, and indicted. And that makes me smile.
- The 1960s were the pinnacle of television theme songs. Yes, you had the catchy ones by Sherwood Schwartz like Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, but you also had musically solid pieces like Mannix, Mission Impossible and arguably the best theme song of all time: the original Hawaii Five-0.
- Courts should bar Trump from holding press gaggles in the courthouse. It’s a public degradation of the criminal justice system. Make him do it on the courthouse steps, in Manhattan, where he would have to face the public instead of hide in the courthouse building’s underground garage.
- Little understood aspect of the Chese & Kraken plea deals: In admitting their actions with Trump were criminal, the two lawyers give prosecutors the opening to void attorney-client privilege in each conversation with Trump in which they participated, including those where Powell was with Giuliani, Eastman and other lawyers because, arguably, they were planning a criminal act with her, not providing legal advice. Trump’s remaining privilege claims just got more tenuous. This could lead to an avalanche of incriminating information.
- My mother used to say her parenting style involved the judicious use of bribes and threats. It’s apparently the way one becomes Speaker in the GOP conference, too.
- Oh, another way to void attorney-client privilege (though somewhat more limited): a client’s claim of ineffectiveness of counsel, which is one potential Trump defense reportedly being discussed. To prove that, Trump has to release his communications with his attorneys to prove his point, and in doing so, may release evidence that they told him what he was doing was illegal.
- I grew up in a 200+ year old home with the original brick smokehouse on the property. The crisp autumn air hitting now reminds me of the persistent smoky aroma that arose when it got chilly in that structure, still charred even though it’d been used for yard tool storage for more than half a century.
- For a generation, whenever you discuss a solar eclipse, one photo of a president will be used to illustrate what not to do.
- Chowders > chilis > stews, generally. Watching football games, chilis take the lead. After attending football games, chowders and stews are more satisfying choices.
- It’s truly a dysfunctional party when a $19,000 lectern isn’t its biggest embarrassment of the month.
