It was at 3:14 PM EDT he posted this, approximately 14 minutes after Judge Engoron dropped a $354 million anvil on his head. Shouldn’t be much longer before the orange volcano fully erupts.

In a 90+ page ruling, New York Judge Arthur Engoron levied fines and renumeration in excess of $364 million against Donald Trump, his two adult sons, the Trump Organization and other corporate officers for falsifying financial statements.

It is not a death sentence for the Trump Organization, however, as Engoron had previously ordered court-appointed oversight for the company through independent monitors and compliance officers, which will continue as long as the company operates in New York. Donald Trump, Allen Weisselberg, and Jeffrey McConney have been barred from operating as an officer in any New York corporation for three years.  Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr. are barred for two years from similar positions.

Should Trump choose to appeal the ruling, he will have to front at least some significant portion of the assessment.  Trump was personally ordered to pay $354 million, with fines of $4 million to each Junior and Eric and $1 million to Weisselberg.  Trump’s total real estate holdings in New York City were estimated at a total value of around $600 million, with only Trump Tower, valued at $160 million, the only property totally owned by Trump.

The US Supreme Court on Friday posted its April argument schedule which Politico’s Josh Gerstein noticed lists the Capitol riot obstruction charge case brought by a MAGA insurrectionist slated for the 16th and a major abortion case out of Idaho on the 24th, but nothing for disgraced former President Trump’s petition for immunity from the DC coup attempt conspiracy case.

“Big [question]: Is that it for the year or will justices add a late breaking Trump criminal immunity argument?” Gerstein writes and, considering this is the guy who broke the story about the Dobbs decision, we would tend to believe he knows what the hell he’s talking about here. So if he’s noting US v Trump’s absence from the schedule then it could mean something not good for Donald.

Former top Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson plainly waited until he was outside of Russia and headed home from a stopover in Dubai to respond to the news of the murder of dissident Alexei Navalny at the hands of dictator Vladimir Putin – who Tuck of course interviewed last week.

“It’s horrifying what happened to Navalny. The whole thing is barbaric and awful. No decent person would defend it. I didn’t even know it happened till I saw the Daily Mail story,” Tucker told the Daily Mail, plugging their coverage for some fucking reason. The response comes just days after Tucker excused his love for Vladdy Daddy by saying “every leader kills people, leadership requires killing people” during a forum interview at a summit in Dubai, not mention the video of him walking around Moscow saying the town is “so much cleaner, and safer and prettier, aesthetically” than he thought, and “Its architecture, food, and services than in any city in the US. And this is not ideological.”

“I think you could even venture to wonder if Alexei Navalny would have died – been treated like he was – if there was a different president in office today,” said Carley Shimkus, naturally skipping over the fact that Trump was still in office when Navalny was poisoned in August 2020 and when he was imprisoned in January 2021 (though to be fair Putin knew it was over for his Donald then).

A Houston judge on Friday told Picasso-faced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tough shit, deal with it, rejecting the impeached scumbag’s motion to dismiss the nearly decade-old securities fraud case against him and sticking to the trial start date of April 15, the Associated Press reports.

Paxton faces up to 99 years in prison if convicted and that would be so freaking awesome if that sick son of a bitch really did go down for that long… except Greg Abbott would probably pardon him.

“As President Trump has stated, he would sit down with both sides and negotiate a deal that everyone will be happy with. President Trump appointed strong Constitutionalist federal judges and Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade and sent the decision back to the states, which others have tried to do for over 50 years. Joe Biden and virtually every Democrat in Congress is on the record supporting radical on-demand abortion up until the moment of birth, and after birth, as well as using American tax dollars to fund the killing of the most vulnerable,” says dipshit Trump campaign spokesworm Caroline Leavitt in a statement headlined “Trump Campaign Statement on Fake News New York Times Article.” The statement itself of course does not actually deny the reporting and also contains the fake assertion that Dems support newborn babies being murdered.

Sources tell the New York Times that disgraced former President Trump is waiting for the end of the primaries to push for a national 16-week abortion ban, thinking that he would alienate Evangelicals if he’s seen as too “liberal” on the issue, but nailing himself down on a general election vulnerability.

“Know what I like about 16? It’s even. It’s four months,” Trump said, according a minion granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. This is exactly the kind of thing that’s supposed to piss off his extremist Christian base but it’s not like they’re not going to vote for him.

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin will on Friday end the speculation about whether he’s running president and announce that he is not running for president, CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere reports.

Claiming that the potential that Maine and Colorado could keep Donald Trump off the ballot after disqualifying himself per the 14th Amendment, a Republican in Arizona seeks to disenfranchise all the voters in the entire state by automatically assigning all eleven of the state’s Electoral College electors to the GOP candidate, saying conversely the move was “the only way to protect the people’s presidential vote in 2024.”

Introduced by first-term Republican state rep Rachel Jones in committee, per the Arizona Daily Star, the bill cites a string of Supreme Court rulings that highlight the state’s power to assign delegates, but it completely ignores the fact that by assigning the state’s delegates to (presumably) Donald Trump, Jones’s bill would negate every vote in her state.

In the legislation, Jones claims “the last two elections have been riddled with controversy 26 and lawsuits with rules, forms and procedures of the election broken that has led to low public confidence in how elections are run; and public distrust in our elections has been steadily declining and no significant change in election security has been implemented since 2020 to protect the people’s presidential vote in 2024; and the only way to protect the people’s presidential vote in 2024 is to control the manner of its election.”

Republican Ohio Congressman Brad Wenstrup on Friday was cranky after Alex Smirnov, the pro-Russian Ukrainian asshole who lied to the FBI about Joe and Hunter Biden taking $5 million each in bribes was slapped with an indictment, severely undermining the House GOP’s already moribund impeachment efforts, telling Fox News idiot Maria Bartiromo “This is certainly something that needs further investigation..we have just seen this two tiered justice system… the truth needs to be brought out,” adding Smirnov should be given some kind of whistleblower protection so he could come testify like the House GOP didn’t have 13 fucking months to call him in before he was indicted.

“You certainly can’t argue about what Joe Biden said when he was vice president, when it came to the prosecutor ready to prosecute Burisma, where he said, I’m not giving him the aid if they don’t get rid of that prosecutor. He bragged about it. That’s unbelievable,” Wenstrup continued, rehashing shit that was debunked now almost five years ago from before Trump got impeached for the first time.

As the world reflects on the murder of Alexei Navalny at the hands of Putin, it’s worth remembering that Democrats are actively doing Biden’s bidding as they also try to imprison his chief political opponent, Donald Trump, remove him from the ballot, and ensure he dies in prison. https://t.co/FdLJUR9w4u

— Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) February 16, 2024

A whistleblower’s report sent to Congress on Friday alleges that the Border Patrol’s chief medical officer Dr Alex Eastman tried to order fentanyl lollipops to bring to the UN General Assembly in Manhattan last September because for some fucking reason he thought – or at least claimed – they would be necessary to alleviate pain from wounds caused by a terrorist attack while he was accompanying agents to serve on the security detail for the annual summit, NBC News reports.

“Eastman spent copious hours of his and Office of the Chief Medical Officer staff time directing the OCMO staff to urgently help him procure fentanyl lollipops, a Schedule II narcotic, so that he could bring them on the CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter on which he would be a passenger in New York,” the whistleblowers wrote in the report. “Eastman claims that his possession of fentanyl lollipops was necessary in case a CBP operator might be injured, or in case the CBP Air and Marine Operations team encountered a patient in need.” Eastman never ended up acquiring the candy.

It’s obvious Eastman was full of shit but his actual motive beyond that is unclear. Worth asking is if maybe he wanted to somehow pretend he found them in his kids’ Halloween candy the next month and then go on Fox News to claim that whole bullshit panic fodder had been vindicated.

A long Friday read in the Washington Post details the steady deterioration of the relationship between disgraced former President Trump and his now-disfavored supplicant, the soon-to-be-former RNC chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel, over the last year, though his private complaints about the woman who literally changed her name to please him began festering after his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Best to just go with the lowlights linearly:

“People are really mad at you. They’re mad at you,” Trump warned Ronna during a number of phone calls in which he pressured her to cancel the primary debates, effectively declaring him the winner before the first votes had even been cast. Ronna’s defense was the debates were actually helping him, which isn’t that hard to argue with judging by the way they went, but sources say it was a major factor in Trump’s decision to replace her. Then of course there was all the money the RNC doesn’t have because Trump’s operation is sucking it up, him blaming her for defeats in 2022 and 2023 that were unquestionably much more his fault, and complaining from donors and allies.

First and foremost however the central grievance of the entire universe of Republican politics, the 2020 election. Before election day it was that she was sending too much money to downballot Republican candidates and not Trump’s campaign. After election day it was you already guessed it.

“She’s not good on election integrity,” Trump has told his minions regularly since, bitter over Ronna having largely backing out of the fight after the Rudy hair melt press conference at the party’s headquarters in late November 2020. A factor in Donald’s decision to select North Carolina GOP chair Mike Whatley to replace her was that “they” didn’t find boxes of ballots to swing the Tar Heel State to swing it to Biden late on election night. Ronna’s from Michigan and you know the rest.

Navalny=Trump. The plan of the Biden regime and the Democrats is to ensure their leading political opponent dies in prison. There’s no real difference between the two cases

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 16, 2024

Never too early in a news cycle to make yourself look like a complete fucking asshole who acts as if the entire world revolves around their petty bullshit problems. Bonus if you can also situationally contradict a core tenet of your movement’s belief system and cast an ally as a villain.

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has died at the age of 47, the BBC reports citing state media and gulag officials. Navalny voluntarily surrendered himself to the Putin Regime in January 2021 after he narrowly survived a poisoning attempt during a commercial domestic flight and spent the next several months hospitalized in Germany. Navalny spent the next three years being shuffled around the gulag system, with his final stop at a remote hellhole well north of the Arctic Circle.

“They’re talking about the Georgia ‘Fani Scandal’ all over the World. In fact, by far, it is trending #1. I can’t believe the Georgia State Judiciary, or the Governor, can be happy about this humiliating embarrassment. It was a FAKE CASE from the start, and now everybody sees it for what it is, a MAJOR LEAGUE SCANDAL! The legal pundits, experts, and scholars are all screaming that this Witch Hunt, which has hurt so many fine people and patriots, should be immediately terminated and permanently erased from everyone’s memory. The stench of what has happened should shame Georgia no longer. It should get back to GREATNESS, and FAST!!!” posted fat former President Trump early Friday, still acting as if Thursday ended well for Team Orange and that his own lawyer Steve Sadow didn’t very nearly lose his shit against Willis during direct examination.

Willis’s testimony continues Friday, with her dad expected among several follow-up witnesses. Barring a major contradiction from someone else – the disgruntled former friend whatever her name is seemed not terribly reliable – it would seem Willis’s performance and her solid corroboration of the shakier testimony from ex-guyfriend/special prosecutor Nathan Wade will have sunk the bid to disqualify her from the case. Wade is a bit more of a question mark, however.

MAGA fan-con CPAC’s organizers on Wednesday announced they’re diversifying their star power for next weekend’s cosplay event in the form of addresses by Argentinian fascist President Javier Milei and El Salvadoran autocrat President Nayib Bukele, the Washington Examiner reports.

“We are immensely gratified that President Javier Milei of Argentina will address the activists at CPAC. Mercy [Schlapp] and I had the honor of meeting President Milei at CPAC Mexico as he was beginning his historic campaign, and we believe he has captured the spirit of those who see the treachery of globalist elites. American patriots are rooting for him to succeed, and we also like the chainsaw,” said credibly accused serial male sexual assaulter and CPAC chief Matt Schlapp.

CPAC 2024 kicks off on Wednesday at the appropriately named Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. We’re probably going to have to run a live feed of the coverage.

Republican Tennessee state Senator Paul Rose and Representative Ron Gant are advancing a bill to ban the sale of cold beer at stores, reasoning that drivers are less likely to crack them open behind the wheel if booze is sold warm, WREG reports. “We see the evidence in many accidents where alcohol is found in the car, beer cans, and beer bottles. And we see it on the side of the road in many of our roads across the state and every county, you see the many beer bottles, beer cans that litter our highways,” Gant told the Memphis-area CBS affiliate about the bill.