A juror who self-dismissed from the selection process in fat former President Trump’s 2016 election interference/porn star hush money trial told NBC on Thursday that the twice-impeached, four-times indicted loser looks “less orange, definitely like more yellowish, like yellow,” in person.
The woman added “He doesn’t look angry or – I think he looks bored, like he wants this to finish.”
DISGUSTING: Biden Aides Have a Risible Nickname For Donald Trump and (Shock) It Involves Adolf Hitler via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/u44iYF3q7u
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) April 18, 2024
“Satanic pedophile” Jim Hoft’s site is DISGUSTED that staffers for the president that they’ve variously called a “dictator,” “Crooked Joe,” “China Joe,” his administration the “Biden Regime,” and so on and so forth have been calling Trump “Hitler pig,” per a report in Politico Playbook.
Problem is that “Hitler pig” isn’t really that funny or incisive… Couldn’t they keep their powder dry for a report that says Biden’s military appointees nicknamed Donald “The Orange Herpes Sore” or “Mr MAGA McMushroom Stem” or “Premature Ejaculator-in-Chief” or something else really vulgar?
Trump Media and Technology Group’s investor site FAQ page now includes a section on “How do I prevent my shares from being loaned for a short interest position? 🎯” in a plainly desperate attempt to stop $DJT’s bleeding, which is down 63 percent (even after a minor bounce) from its debut on the NASDAQ just over three weeks ago, per CNBC, who report that the “FAQ” was added Wednesday.
“Brokerage firms may facilitate short selling in DJT’s shares by lending DJT’s shareholders’ shares held in margin accounts. Through this practice, brokerage firms earn an alternative source of revenue by ‘lending’ shares to sophisticated and institutional investors who are betting that the price of the particular stock will decrease over a period of time. If the price of the stock in fact decreases, then the brokerage firm and the sophisticated and institutional investors will have made a profit, while the ultimate retail investor has not,” which is the whole goddamned point of shorting it, lol.
They even go through all the tips like moving shares to “Odyssey Transfer and Trust Company, the Company’s transfer agent,” which we’re sure is on the up and up and not connected to the Kremlin at all, or writing a form letter reading include a form letter to a brokerage reading, “Dear Sir or Madam: Please accept this written instruction to make sure that the following securities are held in my cash account only and accordingly are not available for any stock loan activities. I hereby expressly opt-out of any securities lending programs and instruct you to not loan out any of my shares. Securities: [Number] shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (DJT) and any DJT shares subsequently acquired. Please confirm receipt and compliance with this request.”
Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Thursday did not act immediately on disgraced former President Trump’s Wednesday night Truth Social post quoting dipshit Fox News host as saying “They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury,” but instead added prosecutors’ “show cause” order on contempt to the still-growing pile of gag order violations to be addressed at the hearing set for Tuesday morning, MSNBC’s Katie Phang reports.
“This is a court order. It’s not a proposal. You can’t violate a court order,” Merchan told Trump’s asshole lawyers as they squirmed and tried to say this is a “political” and not a legal issue.
In related news, a juror who was already seated was dismissed after saying she was worried she could be doxxed, bringing the count from seven of 18 (12 jurors, six alts) on the panel down to six.
Should we vacate the chair? https://t.co/4rJg4EUnS4
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 18, 2024
There’s a very Manchester United/Los Angeles Lakers/New York Yankees “megafan” vibe to this tweet by demented MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec. Like it’d be foolish to bet large against him ever running for Congress and winning a seat in the House, or to operate as if he currently has zero clout whatsoever to exert “grassroots” pressure on sitting members. Still, there’s just something so fucking lame and pretentious for a guy not on the team to say “we” should vacate the chair when he is currently not at all a guy with any power to make that happen and that very, very, very few outside the House Republican conference can. Really hard to think of any besides Donald Trump who could drop the hammer on Mike Johnson. Posobiec could drop a plastic spoon.
Dem former Wisconsin Congressman Pete Barca will jump into the race to challenge potentially vulnerable Republican Bryan Steil in the state’s 1st District, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
If Barca’s name doesn’t ring a bell that’s because he didn’t serve all that recently. It wasn’t in the last few Congresses. Or the current millennium. Barca lost reelection in 1995, having served just one term beforehand. Still, the Journal-Sentinel writes Barca’s entry is “likely to re-energize Democrats’ chances of competing for a seat that on paper is one of the state’s closest battlegrounds.” So… Yay?
To be fair, it’s not like Barca just worked at a 7-Eleven or sold Hondas in the intervening decades, as he served in the state Assembly from 2009 to 2019 – and the chamber’s Dem minority leader between 2011 and 2017 – and then joined Gov Tony Evers’ cabinet as secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue until last month, so whatever enthusiasm exists may in fact be sincere.
“If the presidential election were held today, President Biden would outperform former President Trump among both registered (50 percent Biden, 37 percent Trump) and likely young voters under 30 (56 percent Biden, 37 percent Trump). When there is no voter screen (ie, all young adults 18-29), the race narrows to single digits, 45 percent for President Biden, 37 percent for former President Trump, with 16 percent undecided,” says a Harvard Kennedy survey of young voters.
Harvard pollster John Della Volpe tells Politico that “For a Democrat to comfortably win the Electoral College, he or she needs to win 60 percent of the youth vote. Biden and Obama, 2012 and 2020, won 60 percent. Obama got 66 percent in 2008. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton got 55 percent. Biden is in the mid-50s. Can you improve that to get to 60 percent? It’s within reach”
A new report from the Nevada Secretary of State’s office states that, out of hundreds of reports of possible voter fraud received since the 2020 election, just 14 were referred for criminal investigation, representing 0.0001 percent of the 1,023,617 votes cast in the 2022 election.
Which means, sur-fucking-prise, that the entire rationale for claiming voter fraud and creating fake electoral college votes and all that other bullshit is not supported by actual reality.
“RINO” soon-to-be-former-Wisconsin 8th District Congressman Mike Gallagher told media this week that death threats and a swatting incident were the last straws for his time in the House, prompting him to announce his retirement and then resign late enough to leave the seat empty, Fox 11 reports.
“This is more just me wanting to prioritize being with my family,” Gallagher said ” I signed up for the death threats and the late night swatting, but they did not. And for a young family, I would say this job is really hard,” he continued, without elaborating on the swatting call. Fox 11 did was able to confirm with the Brown County Sheriff’s Office that a case was opened last year about a swatting call at Gallagher’s home in the county and later handed to the FBI for investigation.
This was well before Gallagher started really catching a lot of shit from the MAGA assholes for voting against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, so it’s not clear what he had done to piss them off. Maybe it was some crazy libtard calling in the threats. Who knows.
Newly released documents from Donald Trump’s election interference hush money case in Manhattan show the periodic napper and criminal defendant attempted to serve a subpoena to mycophile Stormy Daniels by throwing the document at the porn star’s feet as she walked into a Brooklyn nightclub last month, the Associated Press reports. Daniels and her lawyers claim she never got the notice.
The Groping Grapefruit’s legal team claims the toss constitutes the process “being served,” and they’re asking Judge Juan Merchan to force Daniels to turn over documents related to her documentary “Stormy,” which was being debuted at the club. Trump’s lawyers likely intend to use the information to try to undermine the testimony of the woman who laughed when she was asked to describe Trump’s penis, an embarrassment he had previously paid $130,000 to avoid.
Under Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Britain’s House of Commons passed a new law that will ultimately lead to banning cigarette sales–and possible tobacco smoking–throughout the country, Politico reports.
While the liberal Labour Party members supported the move, enough members of Sunak’s conservative coalition jumped ship to pass the legislation. “What’s his legacy going to be? Banning smoking?” a disgruntled Tory grumbled. “Is that really how he wants to be remembered?”
Not an outright ban, the new law would make it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after January 1st, 2009–a date that will not change each year, but would bar anyone currently under the age of 15 from ever buying cigarettes. Roughly one in eight people in the UK smoke, a slightly higher rate than in the United States.
This isn’t a joke. She may be, but this is an actual amendment brought by Georgia Republican Congresswoman and wannabe reality television personality Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s just gone into total troll mode. If you’re ever asked why you think Republicans aren’t serious people or they can’t govern, just refer to this.
Israel has some of the best unmanned defense systems in the world.
I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense.
America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses. pic.twitter.com/oDeDqTXvQQ
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 18, 2024
Having put her budding Autotune-driven pop star dreams of being the conservative Taylor Swift on hold to help run the family business, Lara Trump is really upset that her father-in-law has to spend his days in court as he faces criminal charges for an accounting error! … ‘cept it’s not an accounting error when Donald used company money to reimburse outside parties to ensure a woman he had an affair with kept quiet. Twice. He did that twice, Lara. That’s not an error; that’s a pattern.
Never one to present serious solutions, Republicans and their hired media morons will celebrate the massive own Georgia Republican Congresswoman and Lucy’s close relative Marjorie Taylor Greene added amendments to Ukraine aid bills that would require every member of Congress who voted for the aid to serve in the Ukrainian military.
“Any Member of Congress who votes in favor of this Act shall be required to conscript in the Ukrainian military,” the one-sentence addendum from the temperamental toddler will be defeated before it ever comes close to inclusion.
If nothing else, this fucked-up story demonstrates how fucked-up our society has become. An 81-year-old Ohio man is charged with murder after shooting an Uber courier driver who arrived at his home to pick up a package for delivery–which is fucked-up enough, but the man had apparently been primed to become paranoid that someone was coming to kill him, and someone sent the Uber driver to his home as he was at peak paranoid.
The story from the Associated Press is a good summary, but there are other details from various sources that paint a really dark picture. William Brock, a white man, had received anonymous ominous phone calls; some sources report that the caller told Brock he needed to turn over $25,000 or a gang would kill him and/or his family because of some fictional drug deal gone bad that a family member was involved in. Then the Uber driver, Loletha Hall, a Black woman showed up unexpected at his door.
Dashboard cam from Hall’s call shows Brock pointing a handgun at her. Having called 9-1-1 after shooting her, Brock said Hall attempted to rob him and told police he repeatedly questioned Hall about who sent her and what they wanted, but she didn’t know what he was talking about.
“What he’s doing is, is he’s– We’re seeing in real-time a living martyr,” George Murdoch, a former Snoop Dog bodyguard who is now a political pundit by the name of Tyrus, prophetizes adding a little resurrection imagery, “because he’s dead in the courtroom, but his trial’s in the public and he’s winning in public.”
Murdoch went on to lament that “it’s designed for him to lose because no one is being charged with that,” which technically is true: no other person is being charged with using their private corporation’s money to influence a presidential election they’re running in by paying a porn star hush money to keep quiet about a sexual liaison the candidate had weeks after the birth of his youngest son. He got us: nobody else is getting charged for that. (There have been, however, more than a dozen convictions by Alvin Bragg’s office for the financial fraud crimes comparable to what Trump is charged with.)
“Though the Orange Leviathan threaten to slay me, yet will I hope in Him. I will defend my ways before His wrath,” professed true believer Michael to the Jew scribe-herald who hath queried if he quakes before the capriciousness of the foul, bloated one whose visage is smeared with vile ochre.
“As we all know, dollars raised online will play a pivotal role in helping Republicans win this cycle. With the RNC now joining President Trump’s campaign in a joint fundraising committee, we’re issuing new guidelines for candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness in fundraising solicitations. Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5 percent of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC,” write disgraced former President Trump’s minions in a shakedown letter to vendors for downballot 2024 GOP candidates.
It gets better. “This includes but is not limited to sending to the house file, prospecting vendors, and advertising. Any split that is higher than 5 percent will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations,” lol, emphasis ours on “favorably,” an implicit yet specific threat as you’ll see.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS HAS BEEN COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY EXONERATED ON WHITE NATIONALIST CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE‘S HOAX IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES! The Senate just rejected the sham impeachment! ACQUITTED, EXONERATED, STILL YOUR DHS SECRETARY MAGATARDS! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! MAYORKAS HAS DEFEATED YOUR BORDER, BORDER, BORDER HOAX! And yes we’re repeating the same joke from when Greene’s articles first failed back in November. Too good not to dredge up the shitposting from the MAGA kids after Trump got acquitted the first time back in February 2020. What actually happened Wednesday is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer offered up a point of order to find the first article of impeachment unconstitutional and it passed 51 to 48 on party lines (“RINO” Lisa Murkowski voted “present”).
Schumer is working on the same motion on the second article, meaning it’s all over but the crying, and damn Mike Lee sure is crying right now. Fuck him. Alejandro Mayorkas has been “exonerated.”
Trump operative Charlie Kirk: We are struggling right now, we can’t compete with Biden’s field offices. Biden has 450 people on staff in key states, we do not believe Trump has a single field office in any of those states. Biden is a formidable opponent pic.twitter.com/BKEi6aRrtq
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 17, 2024
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