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A longtime Eastern European leader with ties to major figures in Washington is raising the alarms over what he sees as a culture of “political persecution” metastasizing in the United States.

“As for the prosecution of Trump… for us, what is happening in today’s conditions, in my opinion, is good, because it shows how rotten the American political system is …All that’s happening with Trump is political persecution of a political rival,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin during a speech at a major annual economic conference held in Moscow. “Everything that is happening with Trump is persecution for political reasons, exposing internal problems in the US,” Mr Putin added.

Mr Putin’s comments, first reported by Sputnik, spell potential trouble for Joe Biden as he heads into his reelection campaign given the weight of Mr Putin’s influence in the global community. The five-term Russian president enjoys wide popular support within the country as most of his rivals have been imprisoned for crimes or died inexplicably. Mr Putin enjoyed a healthy working relationship with the Trump Administration, so it’s no surprise he wishes to see the 45th president return to power.

Former President Trump is facing four different criminal cases and 91 felony counts, many of which concern allegations that he harassed a Georgia elections official in a phone call and may have had other involvement in improper attempts overturn the 2020 election. The case in Manhattan concerns allegations he may have had an affair with an adult performer and allegedly paid her to maintain her silence during the 2016 election. In Florida, Trump is accused of improperly handling classified government documents and allegedly showing them to at least one unauthorized person.

Congressman Rapey McForehead on Tuesday had a less than stellar review for his titular boss Kevin McCarthy’s announcement of a not really real impeachment inquiry from earlier, complaining of, among other grievances, that the House GOP hasn’t even subpoenaed Hunter Biden yet while at this point four years ago the Democrats had already gotten Donald Trump Jr in “three times” in 2019 (not sure if that’s actually accurate but we’re not going to throw a flag here). Funny as this talk is, it seems to be just that and Gaetz is not going to actually move to vacate against McCarthy yet.

“Unfortunately, you have given no clear indication as to how your impeachment inquiry will proceed including whether key historical precedents or basic standards of due process will be observed. In addition, the swiftness and recklessness with which you have proceeded has already resulted in committee chairs attempting to limit minority participation in scheduled interviews, calling into question the integrity of such an inquiry. Below are several questions to which I request a public response before the House of Representatives moves forward: Do you intend to hold a vote of the full House authorizing your impeachment inquiry? [A bunch of other stupid questions] By answering ‘no’ to any of the above, you would be acting in direct contradiction to all modern impeachment inquiries of a sitting president. By answering ‘no’ to any of the above, you would be denying the President the bare minimum rights granted to his predecessors. By answering ‘no’ to any of the above, you would create a process completely devoid of any merit or legitimacy” – Then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a letter to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on October 3, 2019.

“To open an impeachment inquiry is a serious matter, and House Republicans would not take it lightly or use it for political purposes. The American people deserve to be heard on this matter through their elected representatives. That’s why, if we move forward with an impeachment inquiry, it would occur through a vote on the floor of the People’s House and not through a declaration by one person” – House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a Breitbart interview on September 1, 2023.

“I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Over the past several months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct—a culture of corruption” – House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Twitter, September 12, 2023. No mention of a floor vote to formally launch the inquiry.

Yeah, we might be overselling it in the headline. We don’t know if titular Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is actually going to answer questions from reporters since the video feed from his YouTube account bills it as “Speaker McCarthy Makes a Statement,” not “press conference” or whatever. But if we got that part right then we sure as shit will have nailed the “defensive and upset” as he’s almost certain to get snappy at least once as the fourth estate needles him on why he thinks it’s a good idea to try to impeach President Biden, if he actually believes can even make it happen, Matt Gaetz breaking his balls, Marjorie Taylor Greene gripping his balls, et cetera. Should be fun.

UPDATE 9/12/2023 11:19 AM EDT: McCarthy will announce he’s just going to open an impeachment inquiry without even holding a vote, Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports on the bitch move.

A liberal group in Minnesota called “Free Speech for People” on Tuesday and a lone California voter on Monday filed lawsuits challenging disgraced former President Trump’s eligibility for the ballot under the proscriptions of Article III of the 14th Amendment in their respective states, joining CREW’s effort in Colorado and no doubt many more states in the coming weeks and months.

Impeachment-skeptic Freedom Caucasian Ken Buck is in the primary challenge crosshairs of white nationalist hell witch Marjorie Taylor Greene after mocking her “expertise” on filing dead-end articles against Joe Biden, CNN reports on the friction as the House GOP gears up to try to take down the 46th president over who the fuck knows what they’re even going to try to use as a pretext.

“This is the same guy that wrote a book called ‘Drain the Swamp,’ who is now arguing against an impeachment inquiry,” Greene screeched to CNN. “I really don’t see how we can have a member on Judiciary that is flat out refusing to impeach… It seems like, can he even be trusted to do his job at this point? I don’t know how we can have a whip (team member) that continues to vote against our conference bills. That’s completely wrong.” CNN’s Melania Zanona followed up later on the story in a tweet, saying Majority Leader Steve Scalise arranged for Buck to sit for “a briefing from House Oversight Committee staff this week on where their Biden investigations stand.”

More than 10,000 people are missing and 3,000 confirmed dead after catastrophic flooding in the Libyan city of Derna where heavy rains caused two dams to fail last weekend, the Guardian reports.

“Bodies are lying everywhere – in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings,” Civil Aviation Minister Hichem Chkiouat said after surveying the devastation from above. “I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed.” A local man said the dams bursted with incredible force owing to the massive volume of water collected. “The depths of some of the valleys in which water collects reach about 400 metres. Therefore, when the dam collapsed, the water was released like an atomic bomb, and eight bridges and residential buildings collapsed completely,” Hudhayfah al-Hasadi told US government-owned Arabic TV station Al-Hurra.

The Guardian’s report makes mention of the weather system “Storm Daniel,” which we guess is some meteorological service or media outlet’s moniker, kind of like how the Weather Channel unilaterally tags snowstorms with stupid names like “Winter Storm Izzy” and “Orlena” in a bullshit way to make them “feel” more like hurricanes. Which would mean we’d be total assholes for making that very obvious joke about “Storm Daniel” amid such widespread suffering for regular folks.

In a statement posted to the website of fat former President Trump’s “MAGA PAC,” but not the Trump Campaign’s own site, titled “Judge Tanya Chutkan Must Recuse Herself” some wiener “junior communications aide” or something writes various smears of the Obama-appointed (but Republican approved) federal jurist overseeing the post-2020 election coup attempt case against Donald, calling her the daughter of “a family of Jamaican communist revolutionaries,” and quoting demented little gnome Mark Levin’s Sunday meltdown precipitating Trump’s motion demanding she recuse.

However it’s the part where they quote Chutkan from the transcript of a October 4, 2021 sentencing hearing for Capitol rioter Matthew Mazzocco, who had pleaded his non-violent felonies down to a misdemeanor parading charge, while bitching about getting treated unfairly compared to Black Lives Matter and Antifa protestors that you can see why Trump farmed this out to a PAC.

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— The Hill (@thehill) September 12, 2023

A new piece by the Washington Post’s Ben Terris on Senator Tim Scott’s weird excuses for not sharing just maybe a little bit more details about his supposed “girlfriend” to allay the far more demented “concerns” from GOP donors includes this gem of a quote from closeted, rapey CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp from early 2022, before Schalpp’s own proclivities became widely known:

“You think [Trump] picks a gay vice president?” Schlapp asked Terris in response to a question about reports that fat Donald was eyeing Scott as a potential running mate in 2024. Terris doesn’t elaborate further and, again, this was about a year before the first allegations of dick grabbing against Schlapp so Terris had no reason at the time to have asked if maybe Schlapp knows something we don’t. For his part however Terris doesn’t seem to be under that impression, writing that the GOP’s “rumor mill is lazy, and the ‘joke’ about the senator’s sexuality still gets repeated.”

Still, Terris correctly assesses how freaking weird all this girlfriend situation is in this day and age of politicians’ partners and families being so closely linked with their brands – particularly with conservatives – writing Scott “wouldn’t tell me her name, and the campaign declined to make her available to chat, even off the record. Technically I can’t verify that she exists, except to note that for a presidential campaign to essentially reverse-catfish America would be insane.”

Working hard to make it look like he has any choice in the matter with disgraced former President Trump and his fanatic cultists driving the effort, and that it wouldn’t be happening anyway if he ate bad shrooms and was in a coma in a rural Appalachian hospital while the House reconvened this week, titular House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will on Thursday publicly announce his support for the House Republican majority to impeach Biden for Hunter something, Punchbowl News reports.

McCarthy for whatever stupid reason believes the inquiry will be legally allowed to obtain the bank records and other documents Republicans think will then convince the whole House GOP caucus to actually support the impeachment effort enough to reach 218 votes. It’s not clear why his dipshit lieutenants James Comer and Jim Jordan haven’t simply subpoenaed the records, but McCarthy’s going to try to sell the caucus on the idea that what they have so far is enough to justify the vote.

Probably because, again, McCarthy promised his Orange Master he would impeach Biden a few months ago thinking “Oh Comer and Jordan will DEFINITELY have so much evidence by September. It’s in the bag. Mr President is going to be so happy with me and he’ll love me again. I’m his Kevin.”

Officials in the Southern Chinese city of Maoming are telling locals everything’s cool, they think, but maybe they might just want to stay in their homes for a bit after at least 75 crocodiles escaped from a nearby farm when heavy flooding overflowed their pens, the Associated Press reports.

No one’s been injured yet, supposedly. The flooding however has killed at least seven people in a series of landslide in the city of Yulin further west. Another three were reported missing.

Chugging along at a sluggish average speed of 31 miles per hour–perhaps because it was a heavy load–the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s personal locomotive finally made it the 350 miles from Pyongyang to Khahan, the checkpoint at the Russian border, the BBC reports.

To get to Vladivostok for the planned meeting with polonium enthusiast Vladimir Putin, Kim’s train had to change wheels at Khahan to ride on Russia’s wider rails before taking on the final five hours.  Kim and Putin are believed to be discussing additional arms sales from North Korea to arm Russian fighters in Ukraine.

Mother Nature hates us.  The death toll from the Friday earthquake that struck Morocco rose to 2,864, the New York Times reports, and the number is expected to continue to rise as rescue teams start to reach some of the most remote villages in the region.  Some survivors reported seeing “earthquake lights,” shown above, a documented phenomenon that still baffles scientists.

Elsewhere in Africa, as many 2,000 people are believed dead, according to the spokesperson for the local militia, as floods swept through the Libyan city of Derna after rainfall from storm Daniel caused a dam outside town to fail, pushing a wave of water through the town and wiping out entire neighborhoods.  The local Red Crescent group puts the number of dead more in the 250-350 range.

Always looking for the easiest path, disgraced former president Donald Trump has added his name to three separate motions of dismissal filed by his alleged co-conspirators calling for all the Fulton County, Georgia RICO charges to be dismissed, CNN reports.

Latching on to a motion by suspended lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Trump claims that the case should be dismissed due to “deficiencies” in the charges and that the indictment creates “double jeopardy” for Giuliani because of how it’s structured.  Giuliani called the charges “a conspiratorial bouillabaisse consisting of purported criminal acts, daily activities, and constitutionally protected speech.”  Kenneth Chesebro’s motion calls for the dismissal along the same lines, those with fewer culinary references, arguing the indictment “fails to sufficiently set out the charge or any violation of the law.”

After Florida told America who won the 2000 presidential election, nasty Arab men infected by the woke mind virus and scared of strong Republican leadership conspired under the Clinton Administration to launch an attack with no warning signs on the United States.  Evil people, the Clintons hate America because Bill was impeached for being a sexual degenerate.  The people put in charge of Afghanistan by Bill Clinton, the Taliban, helped Osama bin Laden work with Democrat Party spies to launch the attack.  (Hillary Clinton then erased the emails showing the coordination from her server using bleach.)

The mainstream media portrayed the attack as one carried on by a small group of Muslim extremists who infiltrated the United States, but citizen journalists identified key parts of a plot that began in the dark corners of the federal Deep State, which knew about the plan and, some people say, assisted the destruction of the World Trade Center by planting explosives at the bases of the buildings to maximize the damage.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the upgraded version of the Gates nanobot coronavirus vaccine, another step in the formal process to get the vaccine out during the Fall flu season when people get other vaccinations, CBS News reports.

Sure to signal a round in the winter of stories about how “he was perfectly healthy before he suddenly keeled over dead; it must be The Jab, not the fact that he was overweight and shoveling snow,” the new vaccine is updated to cover the major variants currently spreading.  The next step will be a review by a CDC panel of independent outside vaccine advisors, which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday.

Telling Trump advisor and show hostess Laura Ingraham that he’ll campaign in the Southside of Chicago, in Los Angeles, in Boston and in Hartford–to demonstrate that he’ll got to Democratic (read:  Black) neighborhoods to attract voters, Florida Republican Governor and guy who’s poll numbers are falling faster than a Jenga tower at a 7-year-old’s birthday party Ron DeSantis said he’s going to try to eek out votes.

“We have no choice as Republicans, Laura, if every urban area goes 90-10 Democrat, then we have this high-wire act to squeeze out enough voters.  You’re not going to win this urban areas, but if you just improve, that is a huge, huge possibility.”

“President Donald J Trump, through undersigned counsel, respectfully moves to recuse and disqualify the Honorable Tanya S Chutkan pursuant to 28 USC § 455(a). Fairness and impartiality are the central tenets of our criminal justice system. Both a defendant and the public are entitled to a full hearing, on all relevant issues, by a Court that has not prejudged the guilt of the defendant, and whose neutrality cannot be reasonably questioned. Judge Chutkan has, in connection with other cases, suggested that President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned. Such statements, made before this case began and without due process, are inherently disqualifying.”

“Although Judge Chutkan may genuinely intend to give President Trump a fair trial and may believe that she can do so her public statements unavoidably taint these proceedings, regardless of outcome. The public will reasonably and understandably question whether Judge Chutkan arrived at all of her decisions in this matter impartially, or in fulfillment of her prior negative statements regarding President Trump. Under these circumstances, the law and the overwhelming public interest in the integrity of this historic proceeding require recusal,” write Team Orange in a motion.

Yeah this is definitely how to get on a judge’s good side, asking her to voluntarily remove herself from a case just because she said some mean things about you while sentencing the white trash assholes who you sent to go sack the Capitol. Really brilliant 12D chess move there, champ.