In a complete dickpunch to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Washington Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis will announce Wednesday that he will not be moving the NHL and NBA franchises out of DC and into a new arena in Northern Virginia, WAMU’s Tom Sherwood reports.
Didn’t help that Virginia Dems had last week blocked Youngkin’s plans to use public funds for the new arena, probably making the Vest Guy regret his proposed 15-week abortion ban even more now.
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) March 27, 2024
The headline was rhetorical. From the “Council on Criminal Justice” cited in the graphic: “The US homicide rate peaked in 1980 at 10.2 per 100,000 people. After falling then rising to another peak in 1991, the rate dropped to a low in 2014 similar to levels in the mid-1960s. An upward trend began in 2015, however, and homicide increased by 30% from 2019 to 2020, the largest single-year increase since 1960. After a small increase in 2021, the rate decreased 9% in 2022 to 6.3 per 100,000 people.”
That was their December 2023 report. So the spike really happened under Trump and receded partially since Biden took office. Not much of a “crime crisis” with a lower homicide rate.
A new Quinnipiac University survey finds 10 percent of would-be Trump 2024 voters saying they’ll supposedly be less likely to support the fat fuck if he’s convicted in Manhattan on the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up his hush money payouts to pornstar Stormy Daniels. Might’ve helped if QU would’ve printed the percentages among undecided voters.
President Biden leads Trump 48 to 45 percent in a head-to-head, outrunning his 37 percent approval rating by 11 points. Trump’s “favorability rating” is higher at 41 percent.
Really sticking it to the libs on Wednesday, the New York Post reported “internet sleuths” had found that Daily Show Monday night host Jon Stewart is a total hypocrite because he “overvalued” his condo in 2014 and then ten years later explained to the audience why Trump doing the same when lying to banks was not a victimless crime as Donald and his minions have kept insisting.
Thing is that Stewart didn’t “overvalue” his condo so much as just sell it for $17.5 million, significantly higher than the “market-value” of only $1.882 million. The $17.5 million was what financier Parag Pande was willing to pay for it, and he did. Stewart did not just make up a number in order to use it as collateral to obtain loans from a bank, which was what Trump did.
After last week's news that convicted felon Paul Manafort may rejoin Donald Trump's campaign, I'm asking the DNI to declassify details about Manafort's connections to Russian operatives from a Senate Intel report on Russian interference in the 2016 election to benefit Trump. https://t.co/Qjm9KTCOr0
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) March 27, 2024
Quite refreshing to see amid the asymmetry of a Republican majority House constantly stirring up bullshit to help their guy in the election while the Democratic Senate just twiddle their thumbs, but this is just an idea now… Let’s see if it actually ends up happening at some point.
House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer on Wednesday told Fox News he will not be opening an investigation into Jared Kushner’s ongoing influence peddling scams, claiming they’re “legitimate,” but Hunter Biden’s were not and that Democrat Ranking Member Jamie Raskin’s request that the committee look into Kush was only meant to “shield President Biden from oversight.” Pussy.
Separately this week Comer told some MAGA podcaster that his impeachment effort failed because US Attorney General Merrick Garland is “working with the deep state, who’s working with the liberal mainstream media to try to indoctrinate into people’s minds that there’s no evidence.”
“US District Judge Brian J Davis has sentenced Samuel Arthur Thompson (53, St Augustine) to 220 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing, receiving, and possessing child sex abuse material, producing CSAM while required to register as a sex offender, violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, sending unauthorized damaging commands to a protected computer, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Thompson to forfeit computers and a firearm that were used in the offenses. Thompson was convicted by a federal jury on November 17, 2023,” says a Justice Department press release.
It’s not clear why the judge tacked on the lifetime of supervised release to a convict who is never going to be released. Maybe it was just a little extra “fuck you” to the scumbag.
“Judge Juan Merchan, who is suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (whose daughter represents Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, and other Radical Liberals, has just posted a picture of me behind bars, her obvious goal, and makes it completely impossible for me to get a fair trial) has now issued another illegal, un-American, unConstitutional ‘order,’ as he continues to try and take away my Rights. This Judge, by issuing a vicious ‘Gag Order,’ is wrongfully attempting to deprive me of my First Amendment Right to speak out against the Weaponization of Law Enforcement, including the fact that Crooked Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and their Hacks and Thugs are tracking and following me all across the Country, obsessively trying to persecute me, while everyone knows I have done nothing wrong!”
“So, let me get this straight, the Judge’s daughter is allowed to post pictures of her ‘dream’ of putting me in jail, the Manhattan DA is able to say whatever lies about me he wants, the Judge can violate our Laws and Constitution at every turn, but I am not allowed to talk about the attacks against me, and the Lunatics trying to destroy my life, and prevent me from winning the 2024 Presidential Election, which I am dominating? Maybe the Judge is such a hater because his daughter makes money by working to ‘Get Trump,’ and when he rules against me over and over again, he is making her company, and her, richer and richer. How can this be allowed?”
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Sorry for getting to this late, but former Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen is taking the stand in a DC Bar misconduct hearing against Trump toady Jeffrey Clark, the former Acting Associate Attorney General who the fat bastard tried to install to run the Justice Department in hopes of creating a pretext to overturn his humiliating defeat to now-President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
“This lawsuit, brought by twenty-six Pennsylvania State Representatives and one Pennsylvania Senator, challenges certain executive actions regarding voter registration taken by both United States President Joseph R Biden and various federal officials and Pennsylvania Governor Joshua Shapiro and various state officials on the ground that these executive actions violate both the Electors and Elections Clauses of the United States Constitution. Before the court are the motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim and lack of jurisdiction filed by the Federal and State Defendants.”
“The motions to dismiss will be granted because this court does not have subject matter jurisdiction due to Plaintiffs’ lack of standing to raise the claims at issue,” wrote US District Judge Jennifer P Wilson – a Trump appointee – tossing a lawsuit the Orange Allah demanded last year.
🚨 @GOPoversight has worked expeditiously to expose the Biden Administration’s radical environmental policies and unchecked regulations that have jeopardized economic opportunities & raised energy costs.
Americans deserve to hear directly from DOE @SecGranholm.👇 https://t.co/eTy6BhnvkP
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) March 27, 2024
Former RNC chair and more recently former NBC “talent” Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel is considering taking her more recent former employer to court over not just the $600,000 for the two-year contract, but with defamation claims against her former colleagues, Politico Playbook reports.
“The part that pisses me off most about this is not necessarily that they folded, it’s they allowed their talent to drag Ronna through the mud and make it seem like they were innocent bystanders,” a person close to Not-Romney said, the “mud” meaning all the stolen election shit she talked.
Fair is fair on the contract. NBC News promised Ronna $300,000 a year for two years and she should get it in full, as disgusting and shameful this whole fucking thing has been. It’s the defamation part that’s going to be interesting, to say the least, should she want to pursue it. The old “JUST WAIT FOR DISCOVERY” very much applies here, so if she wants to litigate everything she’s said publicly since the 2020 election to try to prove malice on the part of the actual NBC on-air talent who shit-talked her on live television the last few days, well… Please, please do it Ronna.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals late Tuesday froze Texas Governor Low Energy Greg Abbott’s law allowing local law enforcement to detain suspected undocumented immigrants, the AP reports.
February 2024 – White House puts out Executive Order to boost cybersecurity at US shipping ports
March 2024 – giant ship loses power twice, aims directly at bridge, destroys bridge, and closes down 10th busiest US port for months
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence https://t.co/Lv4cgaPfUo
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 27, 2024
On Tuesday this assclown – real name Rogan O’Handley – retweeted a report from The Floridian that said he’s interested in a primary bid against Sunshine State Congresswoman Laurel Lee, who fat former President Trump recently singled out for punishment for the crime of having endorsed Ron DeSantis in the primary… before she switched to Trump after Tiny D dropped out.
Mustachioed 2020 election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell’s pillow company is facing eviction from a Minnesota warehouse whose landlord on Tuesday told a judge they’re owed $217,000 in rent after the former crackhead’s empire continues to crumble, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports.
“MyPillow has more or less vacated but we’d like to do this by the book. At this point there’s a representation that no further payment is going to be made under this lease, so we’d like to go ahead with finding a new tenant,” said First Industrial LP attorney Sara Filo in a hearing in Scott County eviction court Tuesday. Chief Judge Caroline Lennon said it’s just a matter of paperwork and she’ll sign off soon. Hopefully Dominion Voting Systems is in need of new facilities.
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday gave disgraced and indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro a deadline of Wednesday to explain why the fuck he spent two nights at Hungary’s embassy in Brasilia last month – right after his passport had been seized – in what looked like a bid to claim asylum in his buddy dictator Viktor Orban’s country, Reuters reports. It’s not clear what will happen if Bolsonaro confesses or fails to come up with a satisfying enough explanation to what was otherwise pretty goddamned obvious – which is to say we don’t know if he gets tossed in jail immediately.
Bolsonaro hadn’t been indicted yet at the time so we don’t know what Brazilian law says about retroactively detaining someone for attempting to flee when they were merely a flight risk.
“If I knew Ronna was going to troubled MSNBC, I would have advised her to change her name back to Romney, she would have had a better chance!” wrote fat former President Trump after midnight Wednesdat after a long, stupid rant, admitting he ordered Ronna to change her name years ago.
Later the Orange Slob congratulated himself on his rigged golf games again, posting “Such a tremendous honor to receive the Club Championship Trophy at Trump International Golf Club from the great Jack Nicklaus, a fantastic man and champion. It was a wonderful evening for all!”
Weeks after he stated Donald Trump displayed brilliant political savvy for marketing a pair of sneakers to attract Black voters “because they love sneakers,” Fox’s flamboyant faithful family man Raymond Arroyo has been missing from his typical slots on Laura Ingraham’s shots, the Daily Beast reports.
Appearing on Fox’s overestimated The Big Weekend Show after Trump debuted his gaudy gold sneakers in mid-Febuary (at a SneakerCon in Philadelphia after appearing in a New York courtroom because he’s the kind of person the GOP thinks should be president), Arroyo, who is as white as cream cheese spread, was very excited about how it would impact Trump’s political prospects: “This is connecting with Black America because they love sneakers! They’re into sneakers… this is a big deal, certainly in the inner city. So when you have Trump roll out his sneaker line, they’re like, ‘Wait a minute, this is cool!’
Prospective employees of the Republican National Committee–now under the control of Donald Trump’s handpicked team including his wannabe pop star daughter-in-law–are being asked in interviews if they feel the 2020 election was stolen from the former president, the Washington Post reports, because there can be no dissent in the ranks.
“Candidates who worked on the front line in battleground states or are currently in states where fraud allegations have been prevalent were asked about their work experience,” RNC and Trump spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez said in a statement. “We want experienced staff with meaningful views on how elections are won and lost and real experience-based opinions about what happens in the trenches.”
Most of the interviews are done online because the prospective employees are located in states targeted by the campaign, and a number of the interviewees have been members of GOP campaigns–including previous Trump campaigns. “But if you say the election wasn’t stolen, do you really think you’re going to get hired?” one former RNC employee commented.
An Alabama Democrat who made reproductive rights the focus of her campaign in a state where the state supreme court earlier this year ruled that fetuses have personhood under law won the special election for state house seat, CNN reports.
The election was seen as a test ground for the campaigns’ messaging, with Democrat Marilyn Lands focusing on access to safe reproductive care including abortion and birth control, as well as a stance on fetal personhood that would not ban IVF treatment. Her Republican opponent in the 10th District race, middle-aged white man Madison City Councilman Teddy Powell, stressed his connections to the community and commitment to local projects. He brought a spoon to a civil rights fight.
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