A Los Angeles federal judge on Wednesday postponed Hunter Biden’s tax fraud trial from June 23rd to September 5th, Bloomberg reports on election interference or something by his lawyers.

Republicans just banned me from speaking on the House Floor for the rest of the day because I listed Trump's trials.

I didn't say he was guilty, I just stated the fact that they exist—and for that I was silenced.

Apparently, Republicans are allowed to say that Trump's trial is… https://t.co/ajpmtxAze1

— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) May 22, 2024

A new Quinnipiac University national survey finds President Biden leading fat former President Trump 41 to 38 percent in a full field, with Robert F Kennedy Jr pulling 14 percent and other Russian assets Jill Stein and Cornel West at 2 percent each. Biden leads Trump at a much tighter 48 to 47 percent head-to-head. Brainworm fans listed Trump as their second choice 51 to 37 percent.

Other findings: Biden’s approval rating still sucks at 39 percent. Only 6 percent of Trump voters say a conviction will make them less likely to support him – one might speculate that since this sample was taken during the middle of Michael Cohen’s testimony a conviction became less of an abstraction, prompting the fanboys to dig in deeper, as 24 percent of Trump voters said they’re more likely to support him if convicted (as if they’ll switch to voting for Biden if the fat fuck is acquitted, lol). Next month’s debate may see YUGE ratings as 72 percent of respondents overall say they “likely” to watch – 81 percent of Republicans, 77 percent of Dems, and 66 percent of indies.

“Target Corporation announced today it will lower everyday regular prices on approximately 5,000 frequently shopped items across its assortment. The retailer has just reduced prices on about 1,500 items, with thousands more price cuts planned to take effect over the course of the summer.”

“Consumers will enjoy savings on everyday items such as milk, meat, bread, soda, fresh fruit and vegetables, snacks, yogurt, peanut butter, coffee, diapers, paper towels, pet food and more. These price reductions will collectively save consumers millions of dollars this summer,” says a new press release from woke national retailer Target, announcing they’re going to interfere in the 2024 election by lowering prices on items Americans have been overcharged for ever since the 2020 election was stolen by state legislatures who illegally changed their laws to make it easier to vote by mail.

First the transgender swimsuits and Pride rainbow shirts for toddlers and now this blatant attempt to tip the scales in Joe Biden’s favor. Who the fuck do they think they are trying to make everyday necessities more affordable for Americans who have been suffering from the Biden Regime’s war on low prices? These socialist cunts are playing games with the very future of our Republic by taking the edge off a major focus of President Trump’s winning message of blaming Crooked Joe for the rising cost of paper towels and boxes of Betty Crocker Marvel Spider-Man Fruit Snacks 10 count 8 oz pouches. This is illegal election interference and people are seeing right through it.

GOP lawmakers are considering recommending criminal charges against former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci's senior adviser. Read more: https://t.co/zWRtXnMlvP pic.twitter.com/f2zkqDhwtO

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) May 22, 2024

The Biden Administration and Texas Governor Low Energy Greg Abbott will battle over who has control of the Southern Border in front of the full bench of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced that his Conservative Party is about as ready as they ever will be to face the wrath of voters and set the next general election for July 4th, a date thought by many to hold some sort of significance in British political history.

Responding to a reporter asking if, as “a deeply religious man, a moral man. Does Trump allegedly paying off a porn start to keep this affair quiet concern” him, Jesus dork House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said he’s “not gonna to comment on that” – “that” meaning what a man who pays $15.99 a month for Covenant Eyes porn-blocking software thinks from a Christian perspective about how his party’s leader got himself into this legal mess by having two minutes of unprotected and arguably coerced sex with a performer within hours of meeting her. Johnson did however have plenty to say as a Republican politician, much of it a slightly better articulated version of the “all the legal experts are saying” type bullshit Trump has repeated ad nauseum since his criminal trial began.

A private meeting of about 40 Michigan Arab-American leaders with fat former President Trump’s “shadow Secretary of State” Dick Grenell at a Troy restaurant on Tuesday night went poorly, attendees tell NOTUS.org about the effort to capitalize on Biden’s weaknesses with the community over his support for Israel’s destructive, borderline genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.

One participant said the fucking idiot “repeated Jared Kushner’s statement about beachfront property, which I think floated like a lead balloon in the room,” referring to Kush’s punchline from February about clearing Gaza to build Mediterranean resorts. “This is either too naive or too stupid of him to say something like this. Even the Israeli press made fun of Kushner when he said that,” said another, who also mocked Grenell for repeatedly acting like the largely meaningless “Abraham Accords” were a sign of Trump’s “brilliance” on the maddeningly complex matters of foreign policy.

“Frankly, the guy – I don’t want to say bad stuff – is clueless on the Middle East,” the source continued (not clear if “the guy” is Grenell or Trump), saying “typical Republican” things and “Fox News stuff” about the conflict. Attendees had a number of conditions for supporting Trump: Support for an immediate ceasefire, which isn’t happening, funding for UNRWA, also not happening, and a ban on supporting militaries that violate human rights, and you guessed it. All Grenell, described as “unsympathetic to the Palestinians,” could offer was an empty promise to not try again for a Muslim ban the way Trump did immediately upon being inaugurated in 2017. “Grenell also seemed more concerned about how Arab American leaders in Michigan could help the Trump campaign rather than how the Trump campaign could help them,” NOTUS writes in summary about the meeting.

“As you witnessed this past Winter with the non-sanctuary status of so many localities across our great state, the Colorado GOP has made major progress in pushing local policy and laying the groundwork for local communities and boards to protect Coloradoans from the ultra progressive Democrats in the Colorado legislature. Our next policy aims to save Colorado children from progressive Democrats who want to turn more kids trans by requiring teachers to use ‘pronouns’ that do not make any sense and cause gender confusion. Colorado Kids should be able to attend public schools, receive a quality education, and be free from indoctrination, but that is far from reality. In reality, all Colorado parents should be aiming to remove their kids from public education.”

“Sadly, with Democrats in the super majority in Denver, Non-Legal Name Changes- House Bill 24-1039, passed and was signed into law by Governor Polis. The bill, sponsored by four far-left progressives, two of whom do not know their own genders and do not have children, requires teachers in public schools to use ‘pronouns’ for kids with gender confusion that do not align with their actual scientific gender, without parental consent. If your child decides he identifies as a girl because he is angry with you, or all of his friends are doing it, the Colorado government will actively encourage his new fetish by allowing him to identify as ‘she,’ ‘they,’ or whatever nonsensical terms your son’s teachers and peers may dream up…all without notifying you of your child’s disturbing behavior, which should be treated rather then encouraged,” writes the Colorado Republican Party in an email to members ordering them to start paying tuition at Christian private schools.

Maybe Staten Island Republican Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis should try for a little more subtlety if she wants to tell us she’s preemptively trying to delegitimize a guilty verdict against her Orange God Emperor without telling us she’s preemptively trying to delegitimize a guilty verdict against her Orange God Emperor. If not then she should’ve at least been a little more honest about how Trump failed pre-trial bid for a venue change to her district so they could’ve reaped the economic boost from a swarm of media finally visiting the forgotten fifth borough.

On a related note, on Tuesday election law expert Rick Hasen wrote he’s still largely skeptical about the charges if maybe a little less so now that the cases have been rested. Hasen says the offenses have been proven but his issue is whether they rose to felonies rather than the misdemeanors that some similar cases have been charged under. In his piece however there’s one interesting point Hasen makes about Trump’s appellate options that he might have fucked himself out of. “There are also issues of federal preemption and supremacy. Some of these were ruled on by a federal judge when Trump tried to remove the case to federal court and Trump did not appeal. This raises the question of whether he’s waived his right to keep fighting those issues. In essence, the question is whether you can take a federal campaign finance violation and make it a crime (or an enhancement of a crime) in state court,” Hasen writes (emphasis ours) and holy shit that’ll be so funny if true.

Even better: It’s possible Trump’s lawyers triaged that appeal – that asserted he had been an “officer of the United States” – so they could argue the opposite when he got hit with the 14th Amendment complaints, which they did. That ended up being moot anyway because that specific question about the Section III of the 14th Amendment’s wording never came up in the Supreme Court’s eventual decision to save his fat ass from disqualification. Meaning he may’ve screwed himself for nothing.

“Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today introduced a resolution of censure against US Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito. By flying an inverted flag in front of his home during the period between the January 6, 2021, insurrection and President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Justice Alito publicly engaged in political activity and demonstrated his bias, a breach of judicial ethics. The upside-down American flag is a widely understood symbol of the ‘Stop the Steal’ effort, which falsely claimed that Donald Trump was the true winner of the 2020 election. The resolution specifically censures Justice Alito ‘for knowingly violating the federal recusal statute and binding ethics standards and calling the impartiality of the Supreme Court into question by continuing to participate in cases in which his prior public conduct could be reasonably interpreted to demonstrate bias.’ It also demands that he recuse himself from all litigation related to the 2020 election or the January 6 insurrection” – says a statement from Dem Congressman Steve Cohen’s office on a something more than the nothing Senate Dems are doing.

British climber Daniel Paul Paterson, 40, and his Sherpa guide Pas Tenji Sherpa, 23, are “confirmed to be missing” after a large chunk of ice fell on them and swept them off the trail in the “Death Zone” area of Mount Everest, the Everest Chronicle reports in a story whose wording for some reason sounds just a little bit reminiscent of that “hard landing” in northeastern Iran a few days ago.

The Chronicle kind of breaks the euphemistic “missing” kayfabe a little bit further down in a paragraph that says, emphasis ours, “The number of fatalities could rise as officials and agencies work to determine the exact count. They will wait until this evening for climbers to descend. The full number of those unaccounted for won’t be known until everyone reaches the lower camp.”

Now MAYBE the Chronicle has a lengthy record of reportage in which a solid minority of “missing” ended up later making it down the mountain and back home more or less intact, like they simply got separated from their expedition tour groups or whatever. Buuuuuut… You know. It’s kind of dangerous up there and if a large chunk of ice falls on someone and sweeps them over the edge of a precipice in a place the Chronicle themselves already call the “Death Zone.” If anything they’re most likely going to stay “missing” for however long it takes add “presumed dead” to that status.

“The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter,” said the FBI in a Tuesday night statement responding to the fucking freakout from MAGA over standard language included in one of the bureau’s internal planning documents about the August 8, 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago.

And it is, without a doubt, standard language. A verbatim Google search of the string “Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force only when necessary, that is, when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses” – seen in the pre-raid “coordinating instructions” document that started this right wing shitshow on Tuesday – returns a number of results long pre-dating the August 2022 raid, like a 1996 FBI field training manual. Then there’s also a 2006 DOJ inspector general report on the shooting death of Puerto Rican separatist Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Another is a 2021 KFOX article about El Paso, Texas-area ATF agents receiving use of force training. Clearly none of it was anything new or unique to Trump and Mar-a-Lago.

What was specific however was the instruction says agents on scene should coordinate with the Secret Service “and other LE Agencies deemed necessary MAL Security and Staff (execution occurs during off-season date range).” Which should tell you that they knew Trump wasn’t going to be there and they were not “locked and loaded” to “assassinate” him as the lying, histrionic cunts in the MAGA propaganda-industrial complex and the orange-est one of them all have claimed.

President Joe Biden personally called Republican former Georgia Lt Governor Geoff Duncan to thank him for the endorsement this month, the AP reports in a story otherwise largely about Nikki Haley.

Duncan hasn’t ruled out an appearance at the Democratic National Convention this summer. Asked about Haley, Duncan told the AP he hopes the “Birdbrain” doesn’t submit to the Orange Warlord and endorse him after continuing to hold out for months. “I feel like that would be a short-term sugar high to just gain favor inside the Republican Party, She has the right to do what she wants to do. Obviously everybody’s playing the political calculus. But at some point, where do we draw the line?”

Snakes force COVID vaccination centre in Wales to close

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— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 22, 2024

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to force Republicans on the record on reproductive rights, eyeing votes on protecting access to in-vitro fertilization and contraception, Axios reports.

The “blitz,” as Axios describes it, will coincide with the second anniversary of the Dobbs decision next month and it’s not like the other details are necessary here. You already get it.

Diplomatic leaders in Norway, Ireland, and Spain on Wednesday announced they would recognize and independent Palestinian state formally on May 28th, the AP reports on a historic shift underway.

“There cannot be peace in the Middle East if there is no recognition,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a statement, adding “Norway supports the Arab peace plan [and regards] Palestine as an independent state with all the rights and obligations that entails.”

The final day of testimony ended with the final defense witness Robert Costello offering nothing exciting, enlightening or even memorable to denigrate Michael Cohen’s testimony–and may have harmed Donald Trump’s defense in the process.  Later, lawyers did lawyering, arguing about what will go into the jury instructions.

• The C-list menu on Tuesday:  Don Trump, Jr.; former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker; former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi; Missouri Senator  Eric Schmitt; Congress members. Daniel Webster (FL), Dan Meuser (PA), drunkard Ronny Jackson (TX),  Troy Nehls (TX), Dale Strong (AL), and Maria Salazar (FL); creep show voiceover artist Sebastian Gorka; former Hell’s Angels New York Chapter president Chuck Zito; has-been Joe Piscopo and election denier Bill White.
• Back on the stand, wannabe Cohen lawyer Robert Costello’s testimony continued to go downhill. 
  Read More ▶ “With the defense resting, Trump doesn’t take stand”

Conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer and future NFL Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers told reporters he chose to return to his job as a quarterback with the New York Jets instead of becoming Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s running mate, according to the Washington Post.

“I love Bobby,” Rodgers said during a team off-season training event at the team facility in New Jersey.  “We had a couple of really nice conversations, but there were really two options:  it was retire and be his VP, or keep playing, and I want to keep playing.”

Rodgers reportedly was on a “short list” that included former professional wrestler/Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura; former Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii and perpetual Fox network auditioner Tulsi Gabbard; and annoying motivational speaker Tony Robbins.  Kennedy eventually chose tech lawyer Nicole Shanahan.