MAGA Michigan state House member Neil Friske’s campaign on Thursday posted on Facebook in response to reports that he was in jail pending arraignment following his arrest the previous night for having chased a stripper with a gun at 2:45 AM in Lansing the previous night: “This morning, it was brought to our attention that Representative Friske was arrested and being held in jail.”

“As many of us know, Rep Friske is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right. We do not have any details, besides what has the media sourced, oddly before anyone of us knew anything. It is highly suspect considering the timing of this situation: Right before absentee ballots are released. [A] Day after an unknown phone number conducted polling on the [Michigan state House District] 107 race between Rep Friske and our opponent with deep-state ties. We ask everyone for prayers and to stay tuned from updates directly from this campaign or Representative Friske himself. Thank you for the outpouring of concern and unwavering support we have received this morning. Clearly, Rep Friske is over the target in this race – Team Friske.” This one’s a keeper. Never change, MAGA.

“Bill Maher, the highly overrated ‘Star’ of the ratings challenged show with the Fake, Loud and Obnoxious laughter pouring out of your set every few seconds, even when nothing was said that was funny (which is most of the time!), suffers from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. Republicans should stop using him as a reference point, his show is dead!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Saturday, correctly pointing out Maher’s terminal case of smug self-cocksuckery. Of course this probably means that Maher was right about something too and had mocked the fat bastard pointedly enough to trigger him.

• A man with 34 financial fraud felonies had a record fundraising day for his GOP presidential campaign on the day of his conviction, and that’s all you need to know about the state of the Republican Party.
• I move to impeach Clarence Thomas now.  His corruption is clear, as is his disdain for professional ethics.  I know it will never get out of a committee–hell, it won’t even get a hearing–but it will make news, which is what Democrats need this election season.  Do it on a Friday and make it the focus of the weekend talk show cycle.  Highlight the corruption on the court, and make Clarence and Ginni Thomas the faces of it. 
• It’s true:  the law applies to everyone.  Just look at what they’re doing to Justin Timberlake.  Or… wait…  Is he a victim of the criminal Marxist Deep State?  I’m so confused.
• Republicans know Trump isn’t capable of beating Biden in a one-on-one policy debate; it’s why they’re already propagating the “Joe on Juice” shit.  Assuming the moderators cut mics like they say they can, Biden wins on discussing policy every day.  And Trump will get none of his sought-after feedback from an empty studio.
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“So I think that Joe Biden needed a nanny to arrange this debate, for him to be able to function to do it because he’s afraid of Donald Trump and everyone else who dares to ask him a question,” a Fox shouting face shouts.

Joe Biden challenged Donald Trump to two debates; Trump accepted Biden’s challenge.  So to this person, Biden was so scared of Trump that he challenged him to debate.  Is that how this conspiracy theory goes?

Sean O’Brien, the president of the Teamsters union, secured an invitation to speak at  Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July, Politico reports, in a booking that will likely not go as swimmingly as convention organizers hope.  The Teamsters have not made a formal endorsement for president yet.

O’Brien also wants to speak at the Democratic National Convention in August, but the Biden campaign has not yet extended an offer.  “This is truly unprecedented since it will be the very first time a Teamsters General President has addressed the RNC. Our 1.3 million members represent every political background, and their message needs to be heard by as wide an audience as possible, and that includes all political candidates running for elected office,” a Teamsters spokesperson said without noting if O’Brien will engage in a highly-desired cage match with Oklahoma Senator and general douche Marcwayne Mullin, who challenged O’Brien to a fight during a Congressional hearing last year.

Carpetbagging Colorado Republican Congresswoman and Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s little bitch Lauren Boebert is taking on the important work of the people of Colorado by demanding–demanding–that the United States Postal Service create new ZIP codes for 31 communities around the country, Newsweek reports.

Yes, as she campaigns in the district next to the one she represents, and while her son faces trial for dozens of felonies and misdemeanors, Boebert boasted she’s fighting for the ZIP code-deprived places, only three of which are in Colorado, saying, “These municipalities deserve consistent mail service, their fair share of tax revenue, and the other economic benefits associated with having their own ZIP code. My bill will solve a host of ‘real world’ problems for these cities and towns by finally providing them with a definitive, representative and accurate ZIP code.”

After a Republican member of Congress called the advertising company to demand its removal, a PAC’s ad comparing adjudicated rapist Donald Trump to Fidel Castro will take to the streets in Miami on a rolling billboard along with an ad comparing Trump to Fidel Castro, the Miami Herald reports.

Mad Dog PAC purchased advertising on a billboard in South Florida aimed at the region’s Cuban population saying “No a los dictadores. No a Trump” [“No to dictators.  No to Trump.”]  Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar called Lamar Advertising demanding the company remove the ad, which she said the company’s regional vice president and general manager said would be done “promptly.”

“The truth forces them to adopt this measure. I am glad that they are doing the right thing and showing solidarity with the pain and suffering of the Cuban community in exile,” said Salazar.  An official for Mad Dog PAC said the ad would be moved to a privately-owned rolling billboard; the digital billboard ad will be replaced with another from the PAC highlighting Trump’s 34 criminal convictions, which is the truth.

Fox’s first runner-up bro, after Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters has spent weeks claiming President Joe Biden is on the decline, and as is typical with Fox “News,” much of the evidence is manipulated or simply fabricated.  Watters loves featuring clips he claims shows Biden wandering away from a group (he wasn’t) or forgetting people’s names (he didn’t).  But this isn’t doctored:  Watters calls Kayleigh McEnany “Katie,” to which the supplicant McEnany replies, “I’ll take it!”

Faith Rittenhouse, the sister of Kenosha killer Kyle, set up a crowdfunding effort seeking $3,000 to pay rent for herself and their mother saying her “brother’s unwillingness to provide support or contribute to our family, we’ve been left to navigate this journey on our own,” Newsweek reports.  The site shows the fundraiser, set up at the end of May, exceeded its goal.

Noting that she’s faced many health difficulties herself, Faith says that her brother’s actions in November 2021 that left two people dead had a detrimental effect on the entire family, but only Kyle has benefited.  “In the wake of this tragedy, my family, among many other families, has faced countless challenges. We’ve had difficulty obtaining and maintaining employment due to the fact many people still believe my mother drove Kyle or was somehow involved in his decision to go to Kenosha. We’ve struggled emotionally, mentally, and financially to piece our lives back together.”

Kyle Rittenhouse has made a cottage industry of appearing at conservative functions around the country to be lauded for shooting and killing two men and getting away with it.  He’s known for provoking gun control advocates, including various speaking engagements that were canceled due to negative community reactions.

While Democrats look to abortion rights as a way to incite liberal voters to the polls and win swing states, voters in Montana will not likely swing the state to Joe Biden, but thanks to pro-choice advocates in the state, Montana voters will decide whether Montanans’ abortion rights in a ballot measure in November, NBC News reports.

Planned Parenthood of Montana, leading a group called Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights, collected more than 117,000 signatures–far more than the 63,000 signatures required by state law–to get a state constitutional amendment on the ballot that would allow people in the state to “make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.”

While having the measure on the ballot is unlikely to make traditionally deep-red Montana swing to Joe Biden, it will help Democratic incumbent Montana Senator Jon Tester, who faces a close race against self-shooting Republican Tim Sheehy.

A Nevada judge on Friday tossed the charges against the six fake Trump 2020 electors, citing a lack of jurisdiction for the state AG’s office in the matter, the Nevada Independent reports.

At issue was that the charges were filed in Clark County – the heavily blue bailiwick surrounding Las Vegas – and not the state capital, Carson City, in the state’s redder northwestern area. The defendants had argued was the proper venue as the crimes largely occurred there rather than Clark.

From a press release by MAGA Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey repackaged as a Fox News article titled “Missouri AG to sue New York over ‘unconstitutional lawfare’ against Trump,” annotated:

“Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he is filing a lawsuit against the state of New York for what he called ‘their direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump.’ On Thursday, Bailey said on his podcast, ‘The Bailey Wire,’ [Lol at this asshole having a podcast and at Fox News for plugging it] that his office would be taking steps to combat illicit prosecutions against the former president. Bailey said it’s time to restore the rule of law. ‘Radical progressives in New York are trying to rig the 2024 election. We have to stand up and fight back,’ he exclusively told Fox News Digital [The ‘exclusively’ is the tell here].”

“Bailey said the state’s actions against Trump sabotage Missourians’ right to a free and fair election [They’ll still be free to vote for Trump if he’s in prison. Also that was Ken Paxton’s argument for standing when he sued the swing states after the 2020 election. Didn’t work]. ‘We have to fight back against a rogue prosecutor who is trying to take a presidential candidate off the campaign trail,’ Bailey wrote on X. Bailey’s office noted that the lawsuit will go straight to the US Supreme Court because it is a state versus state action [What a great way to get all the MAGA trolls upset at the court when they reject this]. His office said it will be titled ‘Missouri vs New York’ [Whoa, did Bailey come up with that title himself? It sounds so monumental and historically significant].”

White nationalist alcoholic Steve Bannon on Friday filed an emergency petition with the US Supreme Court to halt his four month federal prison sentence set to begin on July 1st.

In an 8-1 decision with only extremist Clarence Thomas dissenting, the US Supreme Court on Friday ruled that it is constitutional to deny domestic abusers the right to possess a firearm.

“Rodolfo Maldonado-Bustos, also known as Don Jose, and Euclides Camacho-Goicochea, also known as El Quilles, who occupy leadership roles in the La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, were charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin and conspiracy to import heroin into the United States. Earlier today, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced financial sanctions against Camacho-Goicochea and Maldonado-Bustos, who are fugitives believed to be residing in Mexico.”

“According to the indictments and other information presented in court, in September 2016, agents of the DEA and the IRS-CI initiated an investigation into Mexico-based La Nueva Familia Michoacana cartel members allegedly importing heroin, cocaine, and marijuana into the United States, including to the Northern District of Georgia. As part of the investigation, agents identified Maldonado-Bustos as a high-level cartel member who allegedly coordinated the manufacturing of large quantities of heroin in Mexico. In particular, the investigation revealed that Maldonado-Bustos allegedly directed the harvesting of gum from opium fields, procured chemicals to process the gum into heroin, and supplied Camacho-Goicochea and other conspirators in Mexico with the heroin to import into cities in the United States, including Atlanta, and Houston. The investigation further revealed that Camacho-Goicochea allegedly coordinated the collection and return of drug proceeds from the United States back to Mexico. In early 2017, agents seized over $580,000 in drug proceeds from vehicles and homes in the Atlanta area, which were ultimately destined for the cartel in Mexico.”

In the grand scheme of things, this topic isn't even worth a tweet.

Biden wins you don't even have a country. Trump wins, you have a shot to debate and discuss things like the above.

In the meantime, the only thing that matters is saving America. That's it.

— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) June 21, 2024

Here’s “MAGA life coach” and “Meme War General” cocksucker Brendan Dilley trying to square his reflexive hatred of immigrants with convicted felon former President Trump’s ill-advised Wednesday night remarks to that David Sacks chode about automatically granting green cards to foreign students who graduate from American institutions. The off-the-cuff policy pronouncement has been the source of much angst across the MAGAverse, with Luciferase lady Emerald Robinson declaring “Team Trump is making serious mistakes before the election: this is a terrible idea.” Even the fat fuck’s campaign themselves were forced to backtrack, with spokesclown Karoline Leavitt doing damage control by telling Reuters such a plan would only apply to those who have been “vetted.”

Dilley’s coping strategy however is the smarter one though: Even if their Orange Allah is compromising on their “principles” and “selling them out,” it’s still better than “losing their country.”

Bored from decade after decade of staring each other down across a militarized frontier, North and South Korean troops have started playing a fun game with each other: The commies sneak across the border and then scramble back home when the capitalists see them and fire warning shots.

It’s kind of like Red Rover or Red Light-Green Light 123. Bloomberg’s reporting makes it sound all scary with words like “increasing tensions” and “risks for a small incident to escalate quickly” and so on. We see it differently, preferring to think of it as a cheerful way to pass the doldrums of careers in military service being spent just staring at rows of razor wire waiting for the other guys to come through with columns of tanks and a volley of missiles. Their governments should get them some Nerf guns so they can play Cowboys and Indians with each other after lunchtime too.

A swarm of kamikaze drones launched from Ukraine hit four major Russian oil refineries on Friday in yet another escalation of Kyiv’s offensive against Putin’s precious black gold, Reuters reports.

Ukrainian military command wrote on Telegram that drones had “attacked the Afipsky, Ilsky, Krasnodar, and Astrakhan oil refineries,” with a source in Kyiv telling Reuters that those facilities were targeted for their role in supplying fuel for Russia’s Black Sea fleet. “The damage of these refineries will significantly complicate the logistics of fuel oil supply, making it more expensive and time-consuming, as it will have to be delivered from other refineries,” the source said.

We have receipts. If this writer wants to play the recording game, he’ll be embarrassed by the things he said in these interviews. https://t.co/jwSX12s94Q

— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) June 20, 2024

This is an example of totally normal political campaign messaging to voters. Every candidate’s team does this, calling a journalist who conducted at least six multi-hour interviews with their principal “full of shit” and threatening to release more audio recorded on their side in response to other audio strongly indicates that the candidate is rapidly deteriorating mentally. Lots of campaign communications professionals put “pro wrestling historian” in their social media profiles too.

Really it’s just regular, every day stuff in American politics. This is how you appeal to voters outside your base and maintain loyalty among those already in it. It’s a well-worn playbook and we could probably keep going with these platitudes for a while but the point’s already been made.